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   Eleven years after the attack, a 52-year-old man was arrested for the   
   kidnapping and repeated rape of a 14-year-old girl he allegedly abducted in   
   the Beacon Hill neighborhood of South Seattle.   
      
   The victim's rape kit, stored among more than 1,000 in a well-known backlog of   
   untested sets of evidence, was finally examined and yielded a DNA match for   
   Darin Bolar in December 2017.   
      
   Police arrested Bolar Sept. 26 and prosecutors charged him Monday with   
   first-degree kidnapping and two counts of second-degree rape for the October   
   2007 attack.   
      
   RELATED: Seattle PD to test all rape kits in storage   
      
   Then-Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole announced an initiative in 2015 to   
   test each of the backlogged kits. At the time, of the 1,641 rape kits   
   administered in the previous 10 years, only 365 had been tested by the State   
   Patrol crime lab.   
      
   Cases had to meet certain criteria to be sent to the state crime lab for   
   testing, but O'Toole's announcement prompted Seattle police to send each kit   
   along for examination.   
      
   Bolar was already a Level III sex offender and had been convicted in 1993 of   
   third-degree child rape for assaulting a 14-year-old girl at the Wild Waves   
   amusement park.   
      
   The 14-year-old girl in the Seattle case was walking on a street in Beacon   
   Hill Oct. 24, 2007 looking for a pay phone to call her boyfriend when she   
   noticed a man walking behind her, according to a police report.   
      
   RELATED: Rape kit backlog testing yields charge for 2007 Seattle rape,   
   kidnapping   
      
   The man grabbed her, pulled her into a yard with tall bushes and raped her. He   
   allegedly used a garden hose attached to the house and forced it in the girl's   
   vagina to clean the evidence of the assault.   
      
   The attacker then took her to a nearby vehicle and threatened to kill her if   
   she tried to find help. They reportedly drove to a McDonald's and headed back   
   to the man's residence somewhere off Martin Luther King, Jr. Way South. The   
   man told the teen that    
   she was not allowed to leave and he would find and kill her if she did,   
   according to court documents.   
      
   He raped and beat the girl and forced her to clean his house throughout the   
   next two days, police said. The girl would later claim that the man raped her   
   at least seven or eight times. Every time she tried to leave, he beat or raped   
   her again.   
      
   RELATED: Charges: Man rapes, holds woman captive for 2 days in Kent   
      
   The teen escaped while the attacker was at work and another man inside the   
   house was asleep on the couch. She ran out the front door and contacted a   
   friend who called police.   
      
   Staff at Harborview Medical Center collected forensic evidence from the girl   
   for her rape kit. The kit was not tested until Dec. 28, 2017, when the crime   
   lab found a DNA profile that matched Bolar's in their database.   
      
   Bolar was 42 at the time of the girl's assaults.   
      
   The state Attorney General's office won a $3 million U.S. Department of   
   Justice grant last year to test and investigate the 6,460 rape kits stored and   
   untested at law enforcement agencies throughout Washington. The oldest dates   
   back to 1982, the office    
   said.   
      
   The Attorney General's office has only received 25 percent of the award to   
   perform an inventory of the state's backlog, but announced Wednesday it would   
   request the remainder of the money to so the kits can be tested and   
   investigated.   
      
   SeattlePI reporter Lynsi Burton can be reached at 206-448-8381 or   
   lynsiburton@seattlepi.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LynsiBurton_PI. Find more   
   from Lynsi here.   
      
      
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