DNA ties Michigan businessman, 'avid golfer' to decades-old fairway rapes

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DNA on a coffee cup has linked a Michigan businessman to a pair of decades-old rapes on golf courses – including one on the Penn State University campus, authorities announced.

Kurt Alan Rillema, 51, of West Bloomfield, is charged with sexually assaulting a woman at the Twin Lakes Golf Club in 1999 in Oakland Charter Township and a jogger on a Penn State University golf course in 2000.

In the first incident, Rillema allegedly attacked a woman working at a food stand on the course.

"An unknown man came through the back employer door, demanded she take off her clothes and then sexually assaulted her," according to a press release from Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard.

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Kurt Alan Rillema was charged last week in a pair of decades-old rapes on two golf courses in separate states – including Penn State University, right. (Oakland County Sheriff's Office | Google)

Nine months later, on July 27, Rillema allegedly struck again, asking a 19-year-old woman who was jogging near the 18th hole of the Blue Course at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, for a Band-Aid and whether she knew the way to the clubhouse.

When she tried to leave, he allegedly held a knife to her throat and dragged her into the woods, punched her in the stomach and raped her, according to court papers cited by Law&Crime.

Authorities obtained DNA evidence from both rapes, which were uploaded to the Combined DNA Index System, but there was no hit to a suspect.

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