<center><font size="1" color="#ff0000">LAST EDITED ON Jun-25-02 AT 09:10 AM (EST)</font></center><p>DNA links man to 3 rapes<P> Lafayette man convicted of child molestation<P> By Christine Reid, Camera Staff Writer<BR> June 25, 2002<P> A preliminary DNA match has linked a convicted child molester to three unsolved<BR> rapes from the 1990s in Boulder and Lafayette. <P> A judge has ordered additional blood and saliva samples from Keith Aaron<BR> Schwinaman, 37, to verify the match before an arrest warrant is issued. The<BR> Lafayette man is in prison in Caon City for violating parole. <P> "We're not forgetting about these cases," said Boulder Police Cmdr. Joe Pelle. <P> Detectives have been resubmitting DNA evidence from sexual assault cases dating<BR> back to 1990 for the technologically advanced testing. <P> "This is a result of that effort, and we're going to hopefully continue to see more fruit<BR> of that effort," Pelle said. <P> Police learned last month that Schwinaman's DNA profile matches that connected with<BR> three unsolved cases, the first on July 3, 1993. A woman living in the 3000 block of<BR> 29th Street in Boulder said a man jumped on her as she slept, tied her hands behind<BR> her back and raped her at knifepoint. He also stole money from her purse, police said. <P> The second attack happened Sept. 24, 1993, in the 4900 block of Thunderbird Drive in<BR> Boulder. The victim told police she was awakened in the middle of the night by a man<BR> covering her mouth. He tied her hands behind her back with a black cord and raped<BR> her, according to police reports. He then rifled through her backpack and stole $19. <P> On July 18, 1996, a woman called police to say a man had broken into her Lafayette<BR> home in the 1300 block of Alexandria Street and raped her. She said the man crawled<BR> into her bed and placed his hand over her mouth, saying: "Don't move. Don't scream. If<BR> you make a noise I'll kill you and your kid," according to police reports. He then taped<BR> her hands together, performed oral sex on her, raped her and then ordered her to<BR> perform oral sex on him. "Now I'll get what I came for," police reported he said before<BR> stealing her cellular phone and cash from her purse. <P> Investigators tied all three cases together by matching the DNA from the unknown<BR> assailant in April 1999. <P> The suspect "hit" came as a result of state law ordering all incarcerated sexual<BR> assault perpetrators to log their genetic material into a database. However, a Boulder<BR> court case questioning whether that evidence could be used in trial held up the match<BR> until just recently. <P> The Colorado Supreme Court last year ruled a relatively new technique used to match<BR> DNA evidence drawn from Michael Eugene Shreck was scientifically reliable and<BR> could be used before Colorado juries. Shreck, 41, was found guilty and sentenced to<BR> life in prison earlier this year for the rape of a University of Colorado student in 1990. <P> Schwinaman's blood was originally drawn in June 2000 for the database. But<BR> because the Shreck case was pending, three cases that had been tested in the same<BR> manner as the case in question were taken out of the database until the issue was<BR> resolved. <P> Schwinaman was convicted of sex assault on a child in Boulder in 1995. In May 2000,<BR> Schwinaman violated his probation and was sentenced to 21/2 years in prison.<BR> Paroled in March, he registered as a sex offender in Lafayette — listing 1306 Vesta<BR> Circle as his address — until he was again taken into custody for parole violation. <P> Schwinaman has an extensive criminal record in Colorado dating back to 1984,<BR> according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. <P> Police said they hope to get the additional DNA test results back later this week or<BR> early next week. <P><a href="http://www1.dailycamera.com/bdc/lafayette_news/article/0";>http://www1.dailycamera.com/bdc/lafayette_news/article/0<;/a>,1713,BDC_2425_1228828,00.html<P><BR><b> I hope they check the DNA....<P>

<a href="http://sor.state.co.us/off2/offender.detail.asp?offset=120&ID=65";>http://sor.state.co.us/off2/offender.detail.asp?offset=120&ID=65<;/a><P>Sexual assault on a child (1995); Sexual assault on a child(2000).<P><img src="http://sor.state.co.us/off2/pics/keith.a.schwinaman.jpg";>

has sexually assaulted grown women and a child....has a history of burglary.

I never thought all these weirdos and whackos that are out there are the ones we should be looking at.<P>Oh sure, I think a thorough investigation should always cover the known perverts and recent parolees. Ofcourse. Thats SOP.<P>But I mean in this case with such intense focus on the Ramseys, I don't think we are dealing with some neighborhood weirdo.<P>Ofcourse its possible that some low-life such Thomas Aquinas who while passing through the alley on his way to the Aquinas Youth Ministry Hall became attracted to JonBenet could have committed the crime particularly if he also somehow became very angry at the parents for some reason, but I just don't see this crime as the work of the neighborhood playground prowler.<BR>

high profile the month of December, as was JBR....and the Ramseys had a publically listed phone number and address.<P>Cruising the paper for victims is not unusual.....the Access article could have been the trigger, if a perp unknown to the family. What was his occupation? (besides burglary?) <P>This guy also didn't have a problem entering occupied homes/apts.

Is it just me or does this guy seem to look happy to have his picture taken?