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   From: february2025@jail.time   
      
   A Georgia police department searched for years for a serial rapist.   
      
   Then they found their suspect among their own past police recruits.   
      
   Kenneth Thomas Bowen III, 24, was connected through DNA evidence to seven   
   rapes and one sexual battery of women in Jonesboro, about 17 miles south of   
   Atlanta, Clayton County Police Department Chief Kevin Roberts said Wednesday   
   at a news conference.   
      
   All of the assaults occurred in an area that has a two-mile radius and is   
   where Bowen lives.   
      
   Investigators believe he could be responsible for other similar sexual attacks   
   in the same area but have not forensically linked him to those crimes,   
   according to police.   
      
   Since 2015, "our agency has been investigating a series of sexual assaults and   
   rapes that have been a cloud over our community," Roberts said. "Today it’s   
   my pleasure to remove that cloud."   
      
   Bowen joined the Clayton County Police Academy in June 2018 and was fired in   
   September of that year. Roberts said he fired the recruit because he showed up   
   hours late for training one day and lied about his whereabouts. "Upon   
   arriving, he gave multiple    
   statements that differed as to where he was and who he was with. And I found   
   that to be untruthful and a reason to remove him from our academy," Roberts   
   said.   
      
   The police chief said none of the assaults Bowen is charged with occurred   
   during the nearly three months he was in the academy.   
      
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   Twenty-four year old Kenneth Thomas Bowen III is currently in custody and   
   charged in at least eight sexual assault cases.Clayton County Police Department   
      
   Lt. Thomas Reimers of the Clayton County Police Criminal Investigation   
   Division said that some of the information Bowen provided when he applied for   
   the academy was used to identify him as the suspected serial rapist.   
      
   "In actuality, had he not attempted to join the ranks of the Clayton County   
   Police Department, it’s questionable as to when we would have apprehended   
   him," Roberts said.   
      
   Investigators also relied on accounts and descriptions from witnesses and   
   victims as they tried to track Bowen down. At least three sketches based on   
   those descriptions matched with Bowen's appearance, Reimers said.   
      
   The victims were "true survivors," Reimers said. "Without them coming forward   
   to the police department to provide details of the assaults in intimate detail   
   ... we would not have been able to get a sketch of this individual or sketches   
   of this individual.   
   "   
      
   Investigators also sifted through old 911 calls to try to connect a suspect to   
   the areas where the sexual assaults had happened. That's when they kept coming   
   across Bowen's name, which led them to examine cellphone tower records to   
   further nail down his    
   whereabouts. They also perused Bowen's social media profiles, which led them   
   to determine he was related to someone else who used to work for the Clayton   
   County Police Department.   
      
   Along with police, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office, Georgia Bureau of   
   Investigation crime lab and the Clayton County District Attorney’s Office   
   had identified seven other suspects over the years, but ruled them out based   
   on DNA evidence.   
      
   "We have a team that has been working very hard over the past several years to   
   solve this case," Reimers said.   
      
   A warrant for Bowen's DNA was obtained last week, and it matched the eight   
   assaults Tuesday. He was arrested by U.S. Marshals at his job on the same day.   
      
      
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