KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 31-year-old man has been convicted in the 2012 rape of a woman in Kansas City after DNA linked him to the crime.
Prosecutors say that on Thursday a Jackson County jury found Justin Simon guilty of rape, sodomy and second-degree robbery in the June 2012 attack.
Authorities say Simon and another man offered to give the woman a ride home after she left a bar. The men walked the woman to an apartment building, where Simon punched her and took her into an apartment unit. Authorities say both men sexually ...