Comatose ex-con Suspect in Midtown Tulsa Sexual Assualts

[RidgeHunter]

I don't think I've even seen a thread on these attacks on OSA. I apologize if I missed it. I'm hearing a lot of armchair questioning about this new suspect. Some things seem fishy to me as well, but hopefully more will come out in coming days. I guess the big decider will be if the attacks continue.

This was pretty creepy and hit a little bit close to home for me, moreso a couple of my friends.

TULSA, Oklahoma -

Ahead of a Thursday scheduled news conference, police sources told News On 6 they have identified a suspect in the recent series of sexual assaults in Tulsa.

The source said a previous News On 6 story helped police track down the alleged predator, who put Tulsa women on edge for weeks.

A TPD source said DNA evidence found in one of the assaults matches that of Desmond Campbell, 30, an ex-convict who is comatose in a Tulsa hospital. Campbell is considered a suspect in seven attacks that have taken place across midtown over the last month.
6/29/2014 Related Story: Driver Slams Into Exit Sign On Interstate 44 In Tulsa

Campbell crashed his vehicle on Interstate 44 on Sunday morning and has been in the hospital ever since, the source said.

News On 6 covered the wreck, in which Campbell hit an I-44 and 41st Street exit sign head on with a Honda Civic just before 6 a.m. on Sunday.

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper said he thought the cause of the crash was due to Campbell being sleepy. Campbell was taken by EMSA to a Tulsa hospital in critical condition and has been in a coma.

A woman at 11th Street and Memorial Road was attacked about 4 miles from the crash site just a few minutes earlier, according to previous reports.

"OHP thought they just had an accident and that was it," Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said. "It was worked as an accident. When we got info back from OSBI and we got his name, that's when we tracked down he was in that wreck."

7/3/2014 Related Story: Records Show Tulsa Sexual Assault Suspect No Stranger To Crimes Against Women

Court records show Campbell was released from prison in late April after serving time for attempted kidnapping (2002) and attempted robbery (2006) in Oklahoma County. Both crimes involved women who were alone late at night, and court documents obtained by News On 6 show one of the women said she would have been raped if she hadn't fought off Campbell and screamed.

A woman who was raped on June 27 in midtown near Fourth and Pittsburg helped police make a facial composite of her attacker, based on her memory.

Most of the victims were older women or senior citizens who live alone. Even though some victims' descriptions of their assailant differed from each other, police said the attacks are connected because of similar comments the man made to each of his victims. At least two of the women were raped, others said the predator rubbed himself on them.

Police have said the difference in the descriptions is not surprising given the traumatic events the women had been through coupled with the low lighting in overnight hours. Some described the assaulter as white, American Indian or Hispanic and as a light-skinned black man. In some of the attacks, victims said the man had his face covered.

Here are the dates and addresses for eight assaults in Tulsa since June 5. The June 6 assault, Jordan said on Thursday, is not believed to be related to the others as previously thought. The victim was much younger and farther south than the others.

June 29, 2014 - 11th and Memorial
June 27, 2014 - 4th and Pittsburg
June 20, 2014 – 45th Place and Peoria
June 19, 2014 – 11th and Yale
June 11, 2014 – 15th and Denver
June 9, 2014 – 42nd and Detroit
*June 6, 2014 - 71st and Yale *police now are ruling this one out as being linked.
June 5, 2014 - 45th Place and Peoria

http://www.newson6.com/story/25936822/sources-say-police-have-suspect-in-tulsa-serial-sexual-assaults

 

[The German]

karma!

 

[Profreedomokie]

Karma would be that he recovers ,gets convicted, and get life in a cell with the hillbilly from " Deliverance ".

 

[Perplexed]

I was wondering about this case - last I heard, the suspect was still in a coma, with a poor chance of recovery. That brought up a question I had; let's say the doctors confirm the suspect is brain dead and will not come out of his coma. What happens to the life support issue? Is the state required to keep him on life support indefinitely if no one comes forward as a family member or guardian who can take on the responsibility of pulling the plug or keeping him alive? In addition, if the state takes it upon itself to pull the plug, can they harvest his organs for donations - again, assuming no one comes forward to claim the body?

Not trolling. Just wondered about what I consider to be valid issues.

 

[JD8]

I get that his record came up when they were identifying him, but I'm still curious as to how they initially linked him. Did they just on a hunch after the OSBI record came up, test his DNA?

 

[Volmarr]

News has said they found items in his car linking him to the crime.