Police find 500 videotapes in home of suspected serial rapist

[7962]

Source: NBC News

Michigan police found nearly 500 videotapes in the home of a rape suspect and now have to modernize them in order to see if he is responsible for assaults going back decades, officials said.

Authorities found the tapes when they arrested Gilbert Conway in July on charges he raped six women between 2009 and 2018, authorities said. He's pleaded not guilty to 77 criminal counts, which include first-degree criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping.

Lawmakers in Genesee County, Michigan, on Monday signed off on spending $15,000 to $20,000 to help investigators convert Hi8 videotapes, belonging to Conway into a modern digital format.

Hi8 tapes were typically used in 1990s camcorders.
Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton said police could find “a whole lot more victims” of the 60-year-old Flint resident.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-find-500-videotapes-home-suspected-serial-rapist-n918176

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Terrible. There are such evil ones among us.

[iluvtennis]

1. Kept "trophies" of his rape...what a sick bastard.

[SunSeeker]

2. Sickening.

[Kablooie]

3. Whoever is going to digitize the videotapes...

Maybe pretty messed up by the time they are done.

[7962]

6. Yeah. never thought of that.

[Mopar151]

7. Medically induced blackout for the video man n/t

[uncle ray]

4. they have no idea currently if "any" rapes are on those tapes.

i have not researched this case otherwise. i'm not defending a rapist. it sounds like they simply have not yet viewed the contents for fear of risk of destroying evidence should a tape get damaged during initial playback.

[hurple]

5. Kavanaugh's House?

[yurbud]

9. beat me to it.

[heliarc]

10. Tobin's house

... unfortunately half of them are homoerotic workout videos they're in denial about. (sarcasm)

[Leith]

8. Jeeeeeeze....

It would be so nice if there could be some good news out of my hometown. Just once.