After 35 years, Staten Island man cleared in ‘Morning Rapist’ case by new DNA evidence

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — More than 35 years ago, a Staten Island man swore he was not the “Morning Rapist.”

As it turns out, he was right.

Ronnell Sheffield, now 64, was charged in 1989 with robbing and raping two women at knifepoint on the borough’s North Shore, as the women were walking to the St. George Ferry Terminal. The incidents occurred days apart…

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