Jury delivers verdict in Tulane student rape case that went cold for 50 years

Nearly 50 years after a man raped Jennifer Brush in her Uptown apartment, a jury delivered a conviction in the case Thursday, ending Brush’s decades-long quest for closure and justice.

Ronald Craig, 69, is guilty of first-degree rape and aggravated kidnapping. He faces life in prison.

Brush was a 19-year-old Tulane University student living in a Magazine Street apartment when two men, their faces covered by bandanas, entered the apartment and held her at gunpoint…

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