REOPENED: Innocence Stolen

Summary

Cold Case Files: REOPENED - Innocence Stolen

Introduction and Case Overview

In the February 27, 2025 episode of Cold Case Files, host Brooke Giddings, alongside investigator Bill Curtis, delves into a harrowing series of unsolved sexual assaults in Rochester, New York. Titled "REOPENED: Innocence Stolen," the episode explores how advancements in forensic technology and relentless investigative efforts brought closure to victims whose cases had remained dormant for over a decade.

Initial Assaults and Impact on Victims

The case centers around Crystal Seiler, a 13-year-old girl who was brutally assaulted while waiting for her school bus in November 1995. Crystal recounts her traumatic experience:

“The person came up from behind me and he told me not to say anything and covered my mouth.” [00:02:06]

Crystal's assault was not an isolated incident. Within a short period, a series of teenage girls faced similar attacks, instilling fear and uncertainty within their community. The assailant remained free for ten years, allowing him to continue his predatory behavior.

Investigation Challenges

Sergeant Mark Mariano led the initial investigation, facing the daunting task of identifying a perpetrator who left little evidence. Crystal provided a vague description of her attacker—“a black male, probably about 5, 6, 5-7, medium build” wearing “puffy clothes and a dark jacket” [00:02:45]. Despite heightened patrols and numerous stops targeting potential suspects, investigators received hundreds of leads that ultimately led nowhere.

As the attacks continued, pressure mounted on the police force. Detectives Dan Gleason and Mariano intensified their efforts, saturating neighborhoods with patrols during early morning hours. However, the distinctive modus operandi (MO) of the attacker made it difficult to pinpoint his identity without concrete evidence.

“We would stop anybody who fit the general description in hopes of finding out why they might be passing through the neighborhood.” [00:08:51]

Despite these efforts, the serial rapist case went cold when the attacks abruptly ceased. It wasn't until two years later, in 1999, that investigators revisited old case files, hoping for a breakthrough.

Breakthrough via DNA Evidence

A pivotal moment in the case occurred when DNA analysis connected the rapist to a previous assault from 1993. Allison Eastman at the New York State Crime Lab discovered that the DNA profiles from all four attacks matched the same individual, yet yielded no matches in existing databases [00:11:50]. This revelation prompted a search for any prior offenses that could be linked to the DNA.

Sergeant Mariano and his team unearthed a 1993 rape case involving a 15-year-old girl, which shared similarities with the Rochester assaults. Although the statute of limitations had expired for the 1993 incident, the DNA match provided a crucial lead.

“The identification came not from a name but from a DNA profile.” - Assistant District Attorney Mike Green [00:14:08]

With the DNA evidence in hand, the prosecution team faced the challenge of indicting a suspect without a name. They employed a "John Doe indictment," leveraging the unique DNA profile to effectively "name" the perpetrator legally, thereby freezing the statute of limitations.

Arrest and Trial of Keith Lamar Laster

The DNA profile led investigators to Keith Lamar Laster, a small-time criminal residing in Eufaula, Alabama. Detective Richard Peterson orchestrated a lineup that allowed one of the victims, Erica Penn, to identify Laster confidently:

“I pointed him out right then I was like, that's him.” [00:19:42]

Upon his arrest, Laster was brought back to Rochester for questioning. Despite overwhelming DNA evidence, Laster claimed that his encounters with the victims were consensual, a stance that deeply conflicted with the accounts of the victims.

“In our opinion, nobody would buy that.” - Detective [00:22:48]

The prosecution relied heavily on DNA evidence to build their case, as Laster remained uncooperative and denied any wrongdoing.

Aftermath and Resolution

In June 2005, Keith Lamar Laster was convicted on all four counts of rape and sentenced to over 85 years in prison. This conviction marked a significant closure for the victims, who had endured years of fear and trauma.

“He can't give me back what he did to me. He can't give any of the other females anything.” - Crystal Seiler [00:24:50]

While the legal victory was a relief, the emotional scars endured by the victims remained profound. They grappled with understanding why these atrocities occurred and sought personal closure beyond the court's judgment.

In 2012, Laster attempted to challenge his conviction by filing a writ of habeas corpus pro se, arguing that his detention was wrongful. However, his petition was denied, solidifying his status as a convicted felon serving his sentence in New York State, with parole eligibility set for 2030.

“These girls don't have to look over their shoulders anymore.” - Officer Dan Gleason [00:24:17]

Conclusion

"Innocence Stolen" serves as a testament to the power of forensic science in resolving cold cases and delivering justice to survivors of heinous crimes. Through meticulous DNA analysis and persistent investigative work, Cold Case Files highlights how advancements in technology can transform despair into resolution, offering a semblance of peace to those affected by long-unsolved crimes.

Transcript

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[Bill Curtis]

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[Bill Curtis]

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[Brooke Giddings]

This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Use your best judgment. Only 20% of rape victims are strangers to their attackers. And only 15% of rape victims are between the ages of 12 and 17. Tragically, Crystal Seiler, a 13 year old from Rochester, New York defied the odds. While waiting for the school bus, standing just 70ft from her front door, a stranger grabbed her and assaulted her. Within a short time period, the rapist assaulted a series of teenage girls. The normal stressors of being a teenager coupled with being assaulted would be difficult enough to overcome. But in this case, the sexual assault survivors also had to live with the knowledge that their rapist was free. He could walk freely around their neighborhoods. And he did for the next 10 years. From a and E, this is Cold Case Files. I'm Brooke and here's Bill Curtis with a classic case. Innocent stolen.

[Bill Curtis]

In November of 1995, Sergeant Mark Mariano investigates the rape of a 13 year old schoolgirl.

[Crystal Seiler]

The person came up from behind me and he told me not to say anything and covered my mouth.

[Bill Curtis]

Crystal Sealer is in the seventh grade when she finds herself alone in the dark waiting for the bus to school.

[Crystal Seiler]

He took me across the street to a boat that was in a yard that was diagonally from my bus stop. And from there he made me take down my pants and he touched me, told me not to say anything, that he knew where I lived and he'd hurt me and my family.

[Bill Curtis]

Crystal is sexually assaulted by a man she never got a good look at, just 70 yards from her home.

[Crystal Seiler]

I had screamed out in pain because it hurt and he told me to be quiet. I had opened my eyes one time and I seen my bus driver. So it was just like that person was right there. I could have cried for help, but you know, I was paralyzed.

[Detective]

She could only provide that it was a black male. She felt that he was probably about 5, 6, 5 7, medium build. She knew he had on puffy clothes and a dark jacket.

[Bill Curtis]

A rape kit is taken. Meantime, the detective must comfort a vulnerable 13 year old.

[Detective]

She asked me, she said, if you were a guy and you wanted to marry me, hypothetically, would you still marry me because I'm no longer a virgin?

[Crystal Seiler]

He took my childhood away. I was only 13. I was innocent, just going to school.

[Detective]

My answer, the best I could come up with was that she still was a virgin. That the only way that she would not be a virgin is that she had met someone, fallen in love and given herself to him in that way. And that anybody who didn't understand that was not worthy to be her husband. And then that was the first time I ever saw her smile.

[Bill Curtis]

Patrols are heightened in Crystal's neighborhood, but within 48 hours, another girl finds her journey to school cut short just three miles away.

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[Lamonda Beaman]

It was dark because I pretty much was up early because my bus would come like around 6, 45, 7 o'clock and it was still dark around that time.

[Bill Curtis]

Lamonda Beaman is 17 years old and on her way to the school bus stop when someone grabs her from behind.

[Lamonda Beaman]

He had a gun, you know, he demanded me to take my clothes off. Shut up. You know, basically I followed what he said because at that point in time I did think and feel that, you know, he had a gun. At the time I was gonna die. Only thing that was going through my mind that morning, I wanted to go to school. I was going to school and here it is. I have a gun to my head and I'm being forced to have intercourse with a person that I don't know.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

Right now we're at the Scene of the second attack that occurred on November 30, 1995.

[Bill Curtis]

Officer Dan Gleason responds to the call and quickly realizes this is an MO he's seen before based on attack.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

We had 48 hours prior to this that we might be dealing with the same offender who is now mobile because we are three miles away from the site of the first attack. But the description, the MO was the same. High risk offense, limited window of opportunity and schoolgirl blitz from behind.

[Bill Curtis]

Gleason and Mariano team up and saturate the neighborhoods with patrols during the early morning hours.

[Detective]

We would stop any and all people that were out at that time of the day who fit the general description in hopes of finding out why they might be passing through the neighborhood, if they lived here, if they worked here, if they were making deliveries. So we pretty much would stop anybody.

[Bill Curtis]

The stops generate hundreds of leads, none of which pan out.

[Detective]

I became very concerned and very alarmed and knew that we had a huge task ahead of us if this suspect couldn't be immediately caught.

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Three teenage high school girls were sexually.

[Detective]

Assaulted during the early morning hours.

[Advertiser]

The latest occurred right before Christmas when a 12 year old was attacked on Maple Street.

[Bill Curtis]

A third schoolgirl attack two weeks later brings out the local media in force. Obviously there was a great deal of concern once it came out that police thought they had a serial rapist perhaps at work on the city's west side. Dave McKinley covers this story, one that quickly pits parents against police. The outrage occurred because while the rapes started happening and, and police quickly suspected that it might be the work of one person and they might have a serial rapist on their hands. They kept it under wraps, they didn't say anything. And in the view of some parents in the city, they basically thought that the police were using their daughters as bait.

[Crystal Seiler]

You gotta be concerned about your child, you know?

[Bill Curtis]

Cause I don't want nothing to happen to my daughter.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

We do have a duty to protect the public and to let them know when a crime like this violence has occurred. But on the other hand, there's a fine line. How much do you reveal without tipping your hand? And we didn't want this guy to go underground on us.

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And there will continue to be concern.

[Bill Curtis]

And uneasy fear among parents and students.

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Until this stalker is caught.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

We saturate the areas with uniformed and non uniformed officers. And now the media is out there as well. They are saturating the area. They are filming us. They are filming the kids going to school. If the guy wasn't going underground before, he was definitely going to not surface.

[Bill Curtis]

At this point, Gleason's prediction is right. Just as quickly as the attacks started, they stop. And the schoolgirl rapist case runs cold.

[Detective]

Two years later, he struck again, right in the heart of the target area.

[Bill Curtis]

Another early morning rape. Another schoolgirl, and another reason for investigators to work overtime.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

This composite was done from the Ambrose street job. His face looks pretty.

[Detective]

We both felt pretty strongly that absent definitive scientific proof that that was probably.

[Bill Curtis]

The same guy, it became a priority case. And I think it was at the top of all the cases that I was working on. Rape kits from all four attacks are examined at the New York State Crime Lab by Allison Eastman. What I found was that it was the same DNA type developed from all the evidence. That is that the donor of the seminal fluid for each of these cases had the same DNA type. Eastman checks the profile against other DNA databases. It came back with no matches. So no one else had seen this profile.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

That whole manhunt was kicked into high gear all over again. We start going over old crime reports right and left. Did we miss something again? And let's look.

[Brooke Giddings]

Four teenage girls were raped in the early morning before school and none of them were able to identify the attacker. When the evidence from the rape kits were sent to the crime lab for DNA profiles, all four assaults were shown to be linked. Unfortunately, when the rapist's DNA profile was entered into the DNA database, the investigators were unable to find a match. The investigators needed to find a suspect for DNA comparison so they could take a deeper look into the evidence.

[Bill Curtis]

Major Crime Sergeant Mariano Investigators find one attack, a 15 year old in 1993 that bears the Schoolgirl Rapist's M.O. and provides a DNA match.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

This incident happened October of 1993. We don't discover it until 1999. The statute of limitations in New York State is five years. We had run out already. We knew we had to come up with a suspect before the statute of limitations runs out for the 1995 cases. So we are under a little bit of a gun here to try to find out who this guy is.

[Bill Curtis]

Cops have to make an arrest or figure out some way to freeze the.

[Assistant District Attorney Mike Green]

Statutes in this situation. We argued that the identification came not from a name but from a DNA profile.

[Bill Curtis]

Assistant District Attorney Mike Green issues what is called a John Doe indictment with the suspect's DNA used in place of a name.

[Assistant District Attorney Mike Green]

Our argument was that that DNA profile identifies the person better than any name could. You know if you run Mike Green through a national database, you come up with hundreds or thousands of Mike Greens. You run my DNA profile and you're not going to come up with anyone else with that same profile.

[Bill Curtis]

The judge allows the indictment to issue.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

It freezes the clock. It freezes the statute of limitation.

[Detective]

It gave us a chance to take a deep breath and reinvestigate again everything we had done and review everything we had done and hope that in a short time that John Doe was going to come up as a name somewhere in the United States.

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[Erica Penn]

I turn and look this way and I see a figure standing in my doorway to my bedroom. So I said, what the hell are you doing in my house?

[Bill Curtis]

Erica Penn is 22 years old, alone in her bedroom, and about to fight for her life.

[Erica Penn]

He was choking me and then he told me if I didn't shut up, he was going to kill me. So only thing I could do was be quiet and cooperate. But I was scared at that point. When he said that and I was choking, I could not breathe. I was scared to death. I thought I was going to die. And he started pulling my clothes off. He asked me for a condom and I told him, I don't have any. I had a purse full of them. They're all over my room. But I just said, no, I didn't have one.

[Bill Curtis]

Erica knows what her attacker may leave behind could be valuable evidence.

[Erica Penn]

Situations like this and you can't fight the person off of you. The only thing you can do is cooperate and hopefully they'll slip up or something. I couldn't beat him with strength. I had to beat him with my brain.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

We're now at the Pecan Ridge apartment complex where the crime actually took place.

[Bill Curtis]

Clayton police investigator Richard Peterson responds to the call a little after 4am and finds that his victim recognized her attacker. She stated that the individual actually turned on the light before he left, so she got an opportunity to actually look at his face.

[Erica Penn]

My eyes were swollen because I had been crying the whole time. My eyes were so swollen, but they were not swollen enough to close. And I could. They were about that low. And I looked at him and I got. I was like, okay, this is who I thought it was.

[Bill Curtis]

Erica doesn't know her attacker's name, but claims he hangs with locals in the nightclub circuit.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

The name that kept popping up was Keith Laster.

[Bill Curtis]

Keith Lester is a small time criminal living in Eufaula, Alabama. Peterson pulls up a mug shot. Once I got the face to go along with the name, then everything started to fall in place.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

I was able to put together a.

[Bill Curtis]

Lineup for the victim to actually look at.

[Erica Penn]

I didn't think twice. I pointed him out right then I was like, that's him.

[Bill Curtis]

Peterson tracks Lester to Eufaula, Alabama, arrests him, and obtains a DNA sample.

[Advertiser]

This is the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, Montgomery Regional Laboratory. And this is where all of the DNA analyses would begin.

[Bill Curtis]

In February of 2005, Holly Spires begins examining evidence from Erica Penn's sexual assault case.

[Advertiser]

It was a very cut and dry case. We looked at the kit, it was positive for semen. So from there, after we made that determination, we would perform DNA analyses on that kit. And the results were that across the 16 areas of DNA that we look at, it matched Keith Lamar Laster.

[Bill Curtis]

Laster's profile is then uploaded into codis, and the computer spits back a surprise.

[Advertiser]

The hit is made, as we call it.

[Bill Curtis]

Keith Lester's DNA matches that of the schoolgirl rapist, a man police believe responsible for a series of rapes in Rochester, New York, eight years earlier.

[Assistant District Attorney Mike Green]

We meet that afternoon.

[Detective]

We met that afternoon and started formulating a plan about when we would go to Alabama and what our strategies would be.

[Bill Curtis]

Legally, a warrant had been issued for the schoolgirl rapist's DNA four years ago. Now New York investigators have a name to match that profile and prepare for a face to face with Keith Lamar Lester.

[Detective]

In my heart, I believe that the moment I said who I was and where I was from, that he had to have. His world had to start crumbling down inside.

[Bill Curtis]

On June 22, Rochester surgeon Mark Mariano and investigator Dan Gleason sit down with, with Lester.

[Detective]

We brought him into an interview room which was end of a little cell block.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

Well, I told him we wanted to talk to him about some things that happened in Rochester while he was in Rochester. He was very agreeable to that. And we told him, you know, it had to do with sex and some women he might have had sex with up there.

[Detective]

We showed him pictures of the girls, and he initially denied that he had recognized or ever seen or had any, any contact whatsoever with any of them.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

We have the trump card, the DNA in our pocket. We know we're talking to the right guy.

[Bill Curtis]

Laster eventually recalls having sex with three of the five girls he is believed to have raped. Lester, however, remembers all three encounters as consensual.

[Detective]

He really believed these were sexual encounters that just were happenstance that young girls saw him. And in spite of the fact it was snowing, in some instances cold, they were virgins. They had never had sexual intercourse. They were young that they saw him. They decided they were going to give themselves to him right then and there. And that in his mind, this is how this all went down.

[Bill Curtis]

Detectives eventually present Lester with the DNA evidence against him. Laster doesn't budge from his accounts. But detectives aren't worried.

[Detective]

You know, you're going to have several young women come before a jury and say they were all forcibly raped. In our opinion, nobody would buy that. Maybe one decided she wanted to in an odd world, but not three, four or five.

[Bill Curtis]

Lester is arrested for the schoolgirl rapes and awaits his day in court.

[Assistant District Attorney Mike Green]

Now, the fact that we were able to bring the case this far indicates the power of the DNA evidence.

[Angel Reese]

DNA brought cases Keith Lamar Laster back to Rochester to answer to four counts of rape.

[Bill Curtis]

DNA provides the evidence needed to convict Keith Lester. Four schoolgirls, now all grown up, provide the emotion.

[Crystal Seiler]

It's kind of like I was 13 again and I was there doing it all over again, reliving every word I said and everything that happened.

[Lamonda Beaman]

I wanted him to look me in my face through the whole time because I wanted him to know what I went through and I wanted him to have my face burned in his mind because I went through 10 years of this, of a nightmare.

[Bill Curtis]

Keith Lester is found guilty on all counts and sentenced to more than 85 years. For investigators who watch their victims grow up, the conviction brings a long awaited resolution.

[Officer Dan Gleason]

These girls don't have to look over their shoulders anymore. They know that the guy who raped them is in jail and he's not out there anymore and they know who he is and they can move on, hopefully.

[Bill Curtis]

For Lester's victims, however, moving on is easier said than done.

[Lamonda Beaman]

The only thing that I want, personally, I want an explanation of why. I want to know why. Because I didn't deserve this. No one deserves this. And yeah, I'm mad as hell right about now.

[Crystal Seiler]

He can't give me back what he did to me. He can't give any of the other females. There's not a big enough punishment, pretty much. But he'll have a lot of time to think and most important, he won't be able to do it again, hopefully.

[Brooke Giddings]

In 2012, Laster filed a writ of habeas corpus pro se. Pro se means he did it on his own, without an attorney. A writ of habeas corpus is a document that argues that a person is being detained wrongfully and would like to present the reasons in front of a court. The writ was denied. Keith laster is now 50 years old and serving out his sentence in the state of New York. He'll be eligible for parole in the year 2030. Cold case files. The podcast is hosted by Brooke giddings, produced by McKamey Lynn and Steve Delamater. Our associate producer is Julie McGruder. Our executive producer is Ted Butler. Our music was created by Blake Maples. This podcast is distributed by Podcast one. The Cold Case Files TV series was produced by Curtis Productions and is hosted by Bill Curtis. You can find me brookegiddings on Twitter and rookthepodcaster on Instagram. I'm also active in the Facebook group Podcast for Justice. Check out more Cold case [e-mail] or learn more about cases like this one by visiting the A and E Real crime [e-mail] realcrime@pluto tv we're celebrating black.

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