Video: 'Detective remembers putting Kevin Coe in jail'

(Tuesday, March 10, 1981, 6:50 p.m. PST) — Kevin Coe (born Frederick Harlan Coe), 34, a serial rapist from Spokane, Washington, often referred to in the news media as the “South Hill Rapist,” was charged tonight with the first degree rape of a 51-year-old woman who was raped Feb. 5, 1981, at Hart Field, a South Hill jogging track.

Coe was charged with five counts of first-degree rape and one count of second-degree rape.

23 victims identified Coe as their attacker in crimes that occurred during the decade leading up to his 1981 arrest.

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Psychologist Amy Phenix enumerated another 30 sex crimes in which the victims could not identify their attacker, but said she believed Coe was the perpetrator because of similarities to the other attacks.

Coe’s mother Ruth would be convicted for hiring a hitman against the judge and the prosecutor at her son’s trial following his conviction of four rapes.

On July 31, 1982, Coe legally changed his first name to Kevin.