LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — More than three decades after a Hardin County sexual assault went unsolved, Kentucky State Police said DNA evidence led to the arrest of Alberto Campirano, 66, of Texas.
Campirano is accused of breaking into a Hardin County home in 1990 and sexually assaulting a woman who was alone with her children.
The case sat unsolved for decades before investigators reopened it in 2022 through Kentucky State Police's Sexual Assault Initiative team, which reviews cold cases using modern forensic testing.
Authorities said the breakthrough came after DNA from a separate Texas case involving Campirano was matched to evidence collected in the 36-year-old Hardin County case.
A Hardin County grand jury indicted Campirano June 11 on charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and first-degree burglary.
Campriano is awaiting extradition to Kentucky.
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