Sunday, December 23, 2007

RSO charged in rape, kidnapping of 18 year old woman

Eric Houk, 23, of Bedford, Iowa, was arrested and charged with a variety of crimes, including arson and sexual assault, the the alleged kidnapping and sexual assault of a 18 year old woman.

According to the SW Iowa News:

Family members reported the woman missing to the Taylor County Sheriff's Office at 10:38 p.m. Saturday. She last was seen leaving her job around 9 p.m. Saturday [December 15].

Bedford police found her car on fire in a parking lot behind a Bedford cafe just before 11 p.m.
She was found early Sunday at Houk's home after a county-wide search that included volunteers and officers from the Bedford police, the Sheriff's Office, the State Division of Criminal Investigation and the State Fire Marshal's Office.


Houk was being held in the Adams County Jail on $5 million bail.

Houk was previously convicted in 2003 of lascivious acts with a child and 3rd degree sexual abuse.

1 comment:

blasfemme said...

I went to school with him... He was one class higher than I was.
I'm not saying this because of what he did, but being honest.... He always gave me the creeps. I remember feeling that way about him even when we were in grade school... something was just wrong with him...