FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) – A 55-year-old Roanoke man’s arrest in April led to his DNA connecting him to a 2008 rape at a Fort Wayne motel, newly filed court records say.
Brad A. Battershell, 55, was formally charged Monday with three counts of criminal deviate conduct, one count of rape, one count of sexual battery, and one count of criminal confinement.
On July 21, 2008, the victim was moving in and out of rooms at a motel to clean them when she left one and returned to find her attacker exposed, according to court records obtained by 21Investigates. When she attempted to leave, the man blocked her and sexually assaulted her…