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Fayetteville man pleads guilty to 1990 rapes
A Fayetteville man will spend 25 years in prison for raping two women 30 years ago, police said.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A Fayetteville man will spend 25 years in prison for raping two women 30 years ago, police said.
Timothy Keller, 62, pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts each of first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree sex offense. He was already in prison in Florida, and police said he will be transferred back to the Florida Department of Corrections to serve the sentence in the Fayetteville cases.
A woman was walking to her vehicle in the parking lot of Bordeaux Shopping Center on Owen Drive on Jan. 5, 1990, when Keller forced her at gunpoint to the rear of the shopping center, where he raped her, police said.
Another woman was at an ATM machine on Hope Mills Road on April 25, 1990, when Keller kidnapped her at gunpoint, drove her to an isolated location and raped her, police said.
Both cases were investigated but went unsolved until a rape kit from one of the cases was sent for DNA testing.
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