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   Tyrone Bester. Photo: Brown County Jail(WBAY)   
      
   A Green Bay woman is getting justice more than a decade after she was   
   kidnapped and sexually assaulted.   
      
   Brown County prosecutors have charged a man they say is responsible for the   
   attack. The clock had been ticking on this case. The statute of limitations   
   was about to run out.   
      
   A First Alert Investigation uncovered how new evidence surfaced in the nick of   
   time.   
      
   THE CRIME   
   It was Oct. 24, 2009. A Green Bay woman got into a fight with her ex-boyfriend   
   and left her west side home in the middle of the night. She told police she   
   was walking on Clinton Street when she was grabbed from behind by a man. He   
   covered her eyes and    
   forced her into a car.   
      
   Court records show the victim described how the man sat on her legs and held   
   her arms down. Another person drove them to a building the victim didn't   
   recognize.   
      
   The woman is carried into the building and sexually assaulted for two hours   
   while she yells for the man to stop.   
      
   The man was wearing a mask and gloves and concealing his identity.   
      
   After the the hours-long assault, the man put the victim back into the car.   
   They drove around for a few minutes before he dropped her off along East Mason   
   Street.   
      
   The victim walked home and immediately called police.   
      
   THE INVESTIGATION   
   "It's one of the more serious types of assaults that I've encountered," says   
   Det. Dave Graf, Green Bay Police Dept.   
      
   Det. Dave Graf didn't work the case in 2009, but he did the follow up with   
   another detective. The investigators only had vague descriptions and no known   
   location of the assault.   
      
   "She made a report about this happening. Evidence was collected right then,"   
   says Graf.   
      
   Graf says a rape kit was collected. That preserved any DNA left by the suspect   
   on the victim.   
      
   The kit sat on the shelves of the Green Bay Police Department for more than   
   seven years.   
      
   "As to why the kit was not sent, these things fall through the cracks   
   sometimes," says Graf. "It does happen, and I think that's kind of been   
   realized, so I think that's why we're doing this initiative they're doing now."   
      
   The Sexual Assault Kit Initiative was launched in 2017 by former Wisconsin   
   Attorney General Brad Schimel. This effort required any untested rape kit in   
   the state to be sent to the Wisconsin State Crime Lab.   
      
   The Green Bay unsolved sexual assault case was among them.   
      
   Thousands of untested cases caused a backlog of the system. On Oct. 19,   
   2018--five days short of nine years after the assault--police received a match.   
      
   "We got a notice back that there was a hit from a profile that was developed   
   on the SANE [Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner] kit in this case to a subject   
   offender here in Wisconsin," says Graf.   
      
   THE SUSPECT   
   The DNA hit led Det. Graf to 51-year-old Tyrone Bester.   
      
   "Being able to finally put a name to a suspect is satisfying," says Graf.   
      
   Det. Graf took over the case and tracked down Tyrone Bester. He didn't have to   
   look far. Bester was in the Brown County Jail on a 2015 arrest for Attempted   
   Homicide.   
      
   Bester asked for a lawyer in that case and that prevented Det. Graf from   
   talking to him about the sexual assault.   
      
   In July of 2018, Bester took a plea deal in the Attempted Homicide case. He   
   was convicted on a lesser charge of 1st Degree Reckless Injury and sentenced   
   to 10 years in state prison.   
      
      
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