But about five years ago, the Harris County Sheriff s Department entered a DNA profile found at an unsolved burglary/rape that had actually been committed months BEFORE the killings of Cheryl and Andy.
The result: The DNA evidence from the two different crimes
seemed to be from the same person.
Even better? The previous rape victim saw her attacker and survived.
In her first-ever interview, this rape victim revealed the details of her attack to the KHOU 11 News I-Team.
It was probably 2:30am and I walked upstairs and this guy was up in my bedroom, said the victim. He was wearing a blue uniform of some type.
The woman, who had just returned home from her job at Gigi s nightclub, said her attacker was asking for her boyfriend and said he owed him money.
Meanwhile, her rapist put her hands behind her back and wrapped them with duct tape. He placed a bag over her head and put a gun to her throat.
He kept pulling the trigger. He cocked it. He d uncock it and then *advertiser censored* it, she said. He had a black fishnet thing over his head. He was probably six foot two, 200 pounds, olive complexion and black hair.
Eventually, the woman s attacker took $250 from her home and left.
The victim said she s always thought it could be connected to her moving company. She said one of her movers had recently threatened her life.
I think it had to do with this moving company I had an altercation with, she said.
That theory has never been proven by police.
However, there is one interesting fact that may just be an amazing coincidence: The rape victim says that she once worked for one of the murder victim s fathers, the dad of Andy Atkinson.