{"id":210,"date":"2008-12-18T14:11:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/dev\/wordpress\/?p=210"},"modified":"2008-12-23T20:35:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T05:05:46","slug":"dna-links-soldier-to-unsolved-sex-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"DNA links soldier to unsolved sex assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Schofield soldier Mark Heath was arrested in 2007 for allegedly breaking into a UH dorm and stealing an iPod and panties from a female student. \u00a0 Investigators suspected him of committing an earlier rape.\u00a0 See the Star Bulletin story from 2007: http:\/\/starbulletin.com\/2007\/11\/28\/news\/story05.html<\/a> Now the DNA confirms he was the rapist.\u00a0 Here’s the story from the Honolulu Star Bulletin:<\/p>\n

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Case grows against sex assailant<\/p>\n

DNA links Mark Heath to an unsolved crime that occurred in 2007<\/p>\n

By Gene Park<\/p>\n

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 18, 2008<\/p>\n

A man who has already pleaded guilty to burglary and sexual assault at the University of Hawaii at Manoa pleaded no contest yesterday to another sexual assault case.<\/p>\n

After Mark Heath, 21, pleaded guilty on April 30 to breaking into University of Hawaii dormitories and taking underwear and other objects, his DNA sample was taken.<\/p>\n

That DNA was linked to an unsolved 2007 sexual assault case. Heath has been in custody on a $1 million bail.<\/p>\n

Deputy Prosecutor Thalia Murphy said she hopes to get a maximum of 60 years total for Heath’s crimes, including the university incidents.<\/p>\n

“He’s a predator and he’s indiscriminate,” Murphy said. “This defendant knows no bounds. And yet if you were to look at him, he looks like someone you’d want your daughter to marry.”<\/p>\n

In April 2007, Heath followed a woman unknown to him to her Ala Wai Boulevard apartment. The woman shut the door on him and went to sleep.<\/p>\n

She awoke to find Heath raping her, chased him out but could not catch up to him.<\/p>\n

Heath’s DNA was linked to that case. Yesterday he pleaded no contest to first-degree burglary and second-degree sexual assault.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 19, 2007, Heath tried to cut off the panties of a female student at the Hale Mokihana dormitory on the Manoa campus. He also was accused of stealing women’s underwear and an iPod in November 2007.<\/p>\n

Heath’s sentencing is scheduled for March 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schofield soldier Mark Heath was arrested in 2007 for allegedly breaking into a UH dorm and stealing an iPod and panties from a female student. \u00a0 Investigators suspected him of committing an earlier rape.\u00a0 See the Star Bulletin story from 2007: http:\/\/starbulletin.com\/2007\/11\/28\/news\/story05.html Now the DNA confirms he was the rapist.\u00a0 Here’s the story from the … <\/p>\n

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