Kevin Coe had been free for just 62 days when he died on an early December morning.
After four decades of criminal and civil incarceration, Coe — accused of a slew of rapes in Spokane in the late 1970s and early ’80s — was feeble, often immobile and in poor health.
He had spent his final days largely bed-bound when he sat up that last morning, his bedsheets soiled, and slid to the floor. Neither a caretaker nor first responders were able to resuscitate him…