An assistant district attorney said Wednesday that the state will not prosecute a nearly 40-year-old Wilson County rape case against an imprisoned convicted rapist because the victim has died.
DNA evidence linked Robert Alan Lillie, 63, to a 1984 rape in Lucama. Lillie is currently serving a life sentence in Franklin Correctional Center in Franklin County after being convicted of first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree sexual offense in a different case on March 24, 1988, in Alamance County.
In October 2013, nearly 30 years after no arrests had been made in the Wilson County case, the victim contacted Sheriff Calvin L. Woodard about the cold case, and the sheriff reopened the investigation…