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showed it to three of the victims, all of whom identified him as their rapist, and he was arrested on
January 24, 1986. He was again interrogated, but still insisted his innocence. Despite being originally suspected in the seven murders, police found no evidence connecting McKnight to them, so he was only charged with the rapes and attempted murders. He did not plead guilty.
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eligible. McKnight pled not guilty to all charges, but the prosecution cited the overwhelming DNA evidence that tied him to the crime scenes. After almost two months, the jury of seven women and five men found McKnight guilty of the murders, and he was sentenced to death on
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December 1985, McKnight had carried out two more similar attacks, in one case inflicting 10 stab wounds on the victim, and stabbing the other in the face, but both survived and subsequently gave law enforcement officers a description of the offender, saying that he was a black man, early 30s and
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with a beard and mustache. One of them also gave a description of his vehicle and part of the license plate. In
January 1986, McKnight carried out another attack, during which he raped the victim, attempted to strangle her, and then dumped her in Oakland's industrial area. She survived the ordeal.
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October when he stabbed a girl in the neck and chest, then raped her and left her unconscious on the outskirts of one of the western districts of Oakland, where she was found and taken to a hospital. A few days later, he raped and beat up another girl at one of the
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Oakland. Also in 1982, McKnight was arrested by Oakland police while attempting to rape a girl who refused to have sex with him. He was not convicted and got off with a fine, but his information was entered in a sex offender database and his fingerprints entered in the
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In 1983 he got married, and had a child. McKnight was known as a lively and friendly man, making him popular in the area, with his many friends describing him very positively, unaware that he was a sex offender.
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showed his blood matched that of the rapist. On August 24, 1987, McKnight was found guilty of several cases of kidnapping, assault, rape and attempted murder, receiving 63 years imprisonment.
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Monique Davis. She was killed by several blows to the head with a blunt object on December 9, 1985.
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24-year-old Beverly Bryant. She was beaten to death on December 25, 1985.
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