'I am not a rapist': Jury hears from Florida man accused of raping NC woman in 1996

The woman's rape kit sat untested on the evidence shelf of the Wilmington Police Department for more than 20 years.

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Then, three years ago, state lawmakers approved funding to test old rape kits. The victim reached out to the police department and asked for them to test her kit.

When authorities did, there was a hit -- the semen in her kit matched the DNA of Wayne Soller, 61, from Deltona, Florida.

“I am not a rapist,” Soller told the Wilmington Police Department during his interrogation.

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Soller claims he was never in the woman's apartment, and that he is a married father of five. He claims the sex between he and the victim was consensual.