David Hopper, 44, the "Blue Eyed Rapist" suspected in an many as 9 attacks on Cincinnati area women between 1992 and 2006, was sentenced to 40 more years in prison by Judge James Flannery. The Burlington, OH man was offered numerous plea deals on the pending charges, including deals to life sentences, which he turned down. He finally accepted a plea deal to a dozen counts regarding the latest victims for 40 years in prison. The victims in this case were raped at a model home showing in 2006.
"Forty years in prison will either cause you to die in prison, or you will be so old you will be harmless at that time you are released. I think society will be adequately protected."
The February 2006 attack on the two model-home attendants in a subdivision near Springboro led to Hopper's arrest in nine attacks since 1992 in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.
He pawned two rings he took from one of the women at a Northern Kentucky pawnshop. Hopper was videotaped on security camera. He gave his name, address and Social Security number.
Police charged him in nine attacks on women, many of them store clerks working alone. DNA evidence linked the attacks to Hopper in five cases, authorities said.
That woman decided at Hopper's sentencing that she didn't want to be known as his victim anymore.
"After today, I want to be referred to as the woman who brought the blue-eyed rapist to justice. He has taken enough from me. I was just doing my job that day, and since then, my life has been turned upside down."
In the Warren County attack, prosecutors said Hopper walked into the model home in the Greycliff subdivision with a silver-colored handgun and demanded the women's purses and jewelry.
He forced them into the basement, removed their clothing, sexually assaulted one of them and made the women have sex. He bound and gagged them and barricaded them in the basement, leaving with their clothes and an ATM card.
They squeezed through a basement window and ran naked to a neighbor's house for help.
Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel said about the attacks that "This is about as horrible a crime as you can commit without murdering somebody." His latest 40 year sentence will be added to a 34 year sentence for federal gun charges and state charges related to his Kentucky attacks. The first 32 years of his sentence will be spent at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, KY (FMC Lexington). Hopper faces more charges in Ohio and Indiana.
(Update 1-27-10) A week ago, on January 19, Hopper was sentenced by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Pat Sheeran to serve another 23 years in the rape of a suburban Cincinnati GNC clerk which occurred on November 28, 2003. The victim, who attended his sentencing January 19, 2010, said that "I'm the one who has control now. I'm the one with all the freedom while you sit in jail."
Ohio prison sentences are served without chance of parole, and Hopper faces additional trials in Hamilton County, OH and Indiana.
(Update 1-17-11) Last month on December 14, 2010, Hopper was sentenced to 70 additional years imprisonment for the rape of a woman at a shoe store in 2004. The rape occured in Aurora, IN , and Hopper's guilty plea and sentence were handed down in Dearborn County (IN), with Judge James Humphrey presiding. Hopper's official charges he plead guilty to were criminal deviate conduct with a deadly weapon, robbery with a deadly weapon, and criminal confinement with a deadly weapon.
The criminal deviate conduct with a deadly weapon netted Hopper 50 years, and the robbery and criminal confinement counts added 20 more years to Hopper's sentence.
"Forty years in prison will either cause you to die in prison, or you will be so old you will be harmless at that time you are released. I think society will be adequately protected."
The February 2006 attack on the two model-home attendants in a subdivision near Springboro led to Hopper's arrest in nine attacks since 1992 in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.
He pawned two rings he took from one of the women at a Northern Kentucky pawnshop. Hopper was videotaped on security camera. He gave his name, address and Social Security number.
Police charged him in nine attacks on women, many of them store clerks working alone. DNA evidence linked the attacks to Hopper in five cases, authorities said.
That woman decided at Hopper's sentencing that she didn't want to be known as his victim anymore.
"After today, I want to be referred to as the woman who brought the blue-eyed rapist to justice. He has taken enough from me. I was just doing my job that day, and since then, my life has been turned upside down."
In the Warren County attack, prosecutors said Hopper walked into the model home in the Greycliff subdivision with a silver-colored handgun and demanded the women's purses and jewelry.
He forced them into the basement, removed their clothing, sexually assaulted one of them and made the women have sex. He bound and gagged them and barricaded them in the basement, leaving with their clothes and an ATM card.
They squeezed through a basement window and ran naked to a neighbor's house for help.
Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel said about the attacks that "This is about as horrible a crime as you can commit without murdering somebody." His latest 40 year sentence will be added to a 34 year sentence for federal gun charges and state charges related to his Kentucky attacks. The first 32 years of his sentence will be spent at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, KY (FMC Lexington). Hopper faces more charges in Ohio and Indiana.
(Update 1-27-10) A week ago, on January 19, Hopper was sentenced by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Pat Sheeran to serve another 23 years in the rape of a suburban Cincinnati GNC clerk which occurred on November 28, 2003. The victim, who attended his sentencing January 19, 2010, said that "I'm the one who has control now. I'm the one with all the freedom while you sit in jail."
Ohio prison sentences are served without chance of parole, and Hopper faces additional trials in Hamilton County, OH and Indiana.
(Update 1-17-11) Last month on December 14, 2010, Hopper was sentenced to 70 additional years imprisonment for the rape of a woman at a shoe store in 2004. The rape occured in Aurora, IN , and Hopper's guilty plea and sentence were handed down in Dearborn County (IN), with Judge James Humphrey presiding. Hopper's official charges he plead guilty to were criminal deviate conduct with a deadly weapon, robbery with a deadly weapon, and criminal confinement with a deadly weapon.
The criminal deviate conduct with a deadly weapon netted Hopper 50 years, and the robbery and criminal confinement counts added 20 more years to Hopper's sentence.
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this man is completley discusting. i know one of those women in that model home that day. the one whose life has been turned upside down. I have no sympathy for this man or his Family. I saw what came from his wives mouth! that she thinks he had a disease. almost like he is an alcholoic. and she dosent belive he should be punished for that! his wife should be out away to if she can actually sit there and say that. It dicusts me! NONE of these women deserved what they've got! But ill say this. those women have courage! I have never seen anyone more brave. that man doesn't need 40 years in prison he needs the darn death sentence!
I don't even know where to begin, but I do know that first I want to address the person who wrote this specific article! It is enough that these two ladies have to feel & deal with the emotions & scars that this "sick & perverted animal" left them with, when he commited such disgusting & unhumanly acts against these to strong & brave survivors, but for you to include the disgusting & perverted actions in detail of what took place in the model home that day is just uncalled for & disrespectful to both ladies including their families! I can't help but to believe(and am positive many others feel the same as I do)that only a heartless, perverted & cruel coward would include such private & personal information in ANY article & wonder myself if you're not some kind of perverted jerk yourself! So do I believe that you will do the right thing & apologize for your actions? NO! Should you make the right respectful decision & apologize for your actions? YES!
Just to type the name David Hopper just makes me ill enough, but any & every chance I may get to speak my opinion about this animal, I will always take! What this devilish pervert did is just evil & the works that only a servant of the devil himself could perform, and I myself believe that he may apologize, ask for forgiveness, (and let me just add that he has not even given just a simple "I'm sorry" to not one of his victims)& tell his family or even the whole world that he is " a changed man" there is just no place for animals like you in Heaven! His wife is a coward & a sick person herself. David does not have a "disease" he knew exactly what he was doing every time he planned one of his attacks! And you cannot tell me that her husband can rape & rob women for 12 years & she not know or even suspect nothing! She is a liar & that makes her just as disgusting as him! I am the sister of one of those women in that model home! I am the sister of that brave woman who fought, hit, kicked, punched & bit this disgusting pervert! I am the sister of the women who you stole from! I am the sister of the women who spoke out & has become a public icon to women & men all over this world! I am the sister of a loving mother, a devoted wife, a caring daughter, a special sister & the sweetest aunt to her neice & nephews! I AM THE SISTER OF A SURVIVOR! A SURVIVOR who will have the blessing of growing old with her husband. A SURVIVOR who has the blessing of watching her children grow to become adults, get married & begin their own families, and a SURVIVOR who will get to hold her new born grandchildren when they are born & have the joy and happiness in her life that a grandchild brings to their grandparents! And most importantly I am the sister of a SURVIVOR who not only has Christ in her heart & lives in Him everyday, but she will one day when her time comes get to spend eternity with our Heavenly Father in her Heavenly Home that He has provided for her! WOW, what a blessed future she has in store for her. David Hopper DID NOT break my sister & David Hopper DID NOT WIN! You want to know why he did none of these things to my sister?! It is because during "the attack" God was right there with her through it all, whispering to her and giving her the peace that she so needed, as she was wondering at the time if she were ever going to see her family and hold her babies again, that it was all going to be okay, God loves her, His own child so much that He spoke peace to her, and God loves her so much, that everyday He blesses her with the peace, love, strength and wisdom that MAKES HER THE SURVIVOR THAT SHE IS & WILL ALWAYS BE!
I don't even know where to begin, but I do know that first I want to address the person who wrote this specific article! It is enough that these two ladies have to feel & deal with the emotions & scars that this "sick & perverted animal" left them with, when he commited such disgusting & unhumanly acts against these to strong & brave survivors, but for you to include the disgusting & perverted actions in detail of what took place in the model home that day is just uncalled for & disrespectful to both ladies including their families! I can't help but to believe(and am positive many others feel the same as I do)that only a heartless, perverted & cruel coward would include such private & personal information in ANY article & wonder myself if you're not some kind of perverted jerk yourself! So do I believe that you will do the right thing & apologize for your actions? NO! Should you make the right respectful decision & apologize for your actions? YES!
Just to type the name David Hopper just makes me ill enough, but any & every chance I may get to speak my opinion about this animal, I will always take! What this devilish pervert did is just evil & the works that only a servant of the devil himself could perform, and I myself believe that he may apologize, ask for forgiveness, (and let me just add that he has not even given just a simple "I'm sorry" to not one of his victims)& tell his family or even the whole world that he is " a changed man" there is just no place for animals like you in Heaven! His wife is a coward & a sick person herself. David does not have a "disease" he knew exactly what he was doing every time he planned one of his attacks! And you cannot tell me that her husband can rape & rob women for 12 years & she not know or even suspect nothing! She is a liar & that makes her just as disgusting as him! I am the sister of one of those women in that model home! I am the sister of that brave woman who fought, hit, kicked, punched & bit this disgusting pervert! I am the sister of the women who you stole from! I am the sister of the women who spoke out & has become a public icon to women & men all over this world! I am the sister of a loving mother, a devoted wife, a caring daughter, a special sister & the sweetest aunt to her neice & nephews! I AM THE SISTER OF A SURVIVOR! A SURVIVOR who will have the blessing of growing old with her husband. A SURVIVOR who has the blessing of watching her children grow to become adults, get married & begin their own families, and a SURVIVOR who will get to hold her new born grandchildren when they are born & have the joy and happiness in her life that a grandchild brings to their grandparents! And most importantly I am the sister of a SURVIVOR who not only has Christ in her heart & lives in Him everyday, but she will one day when her time comes get to spend eternity with our Heavenly Father in her Heavenly Home that He has provided for her! WOW, what a blessed future she has in store for her. David Hopper DID NOT break my sister & David Hopper DID NOT WIN! You want to know why he did none of these things to my sister?! It is because during "the attack" God was right there with her through it all, whispering to her and giving her the peace that she so needed, as she was wondering at the time if she were ever going to see her family and hold her babies again, that it was all going to be okay, God loves her, His own child so much that He spoke peace to her, and God loves her so much, that everyday He blesses her with the peace, love, strength and wisdom that MAKES HER THE SURVIVOR THAT SHE IS & WILL ALWAYS BE!
I'm very sorry for every person that David assalted. My empathy goes deep. When I was 15 years old, (1980) David was my neighbor. We attended the same high school, rode the same school bus, and we were neghbors. However, I was a freshman and he was a senior. I looked up to him. One summer day, I took to laying in the sun. I was layin' there, and David came from behind my house. He did things to me that I care not to mention. He was 17 years old, his daddy was, (from my understanding) a retired chief of police in Cincinnati. My daddy was a Boone co. deputy. I was hysterical, to say the least, but I lied about who did this to me. David was popular in school, I was a freshman. I didn't want him mad at me. So, back in about 2007 I was visiting Ky., and saw his picture on the news...The blue eyed rapist. I can't even begin to explain how responcible and guilty I felt. I'm sorry ladies. If I only knew then.
Well, of course the 1st thing I did, was to call Boone co. Sheriff's dept. I was some-what consoled by a female detective. Unfortunately, this scar goes very deep. Ya' see, I never did tell my daddy, (until he was 3 years and 2000 miles from David)I lost my verginity to this animal, was beat black and blue and then ended up protecting him. History does repeat itself. I would love to turn back time, I would have tagged him.
In 1980 he assaulted me, I knew exactly who it was, but I lied. I said some random person drove up and did that to me. Took my virinity. I was 15 years old, the date, (if I'm not mistaken) was Friday, the 13th, of June)I'm not sure why I didn't tell...I called my best friend in Hebron, she and her mother were at my house in minutes. Her mom calle my daddy and told him. With-in seconds ALL of the airport police, airport fire dept., and a hand full of other law enforcement was there. I couldn't, wouldn't tell who. Maybe if I had, someone would have watched him a little closer.
I think I need to tell now, for therepeutic reasons.
I was visisting Ky. in about 2007, and saw David's face on the news. They referred to him as the blue eyed rapist. First I got sick, then I cried. I cried for the womem he had attacked over the years. Then I called Boone co. Sheriffs dept. They confirmed that yes, indeed, the same man.
I can only hope that someone tells him that I, Cindylou Fisk, hereby confirms that he is just "bad people". I can't go back on the charges, and wouldn't expect to, (considering I lied), just know now David, you more than likely got away with more than is credited to you. But, there was a handful of folks that did know that it was you.
David Hooper is one of many sick individuals that live among us in secret !! He and his family lived right up the street from me and they were what everyday people call a normal family. There was never anything out of the normal. People like this live two separate lives .. One in there own head.. And one for the public to see!! For those who say his wife must have known about these incidents must realize that these 7 attacks happened over the span of 14 years!! Also, to the women who is a sister of one of the victims.. I'm sure your family has went through such a hard time since the incident, however it is important to recognize all the victims within the situation ... Do not bash his family b/c they are victims as well.. I watched hundreds of kids a day say harsh remarks to his teenage son which furthermore caused him to drop out of school .. The only Monster in this case is David Hooper.. He is the only one to hate!! He must face what he has done with God when that day comes!!
I was also a victim of his. It will be 8 years in Jan. I just got the courage to finally write something. when I read what you wrote about your sister I broke down. We ARE survivors. He is a terrible person that will rot in jail for the rest of his miserable life. You are absolutely right about God being there. He was by my side the moment that monster walked through the doors. The only thing, I only blame him not his family. I cannot imagine what it would be like to live with this monster. we cannot judge his wife, she is a victim as well. He is the one to blame. My heart goes out to each and every one of his victims. never again can he hurt us or another. We are STRONG women... nobody can imagine the pain and horror we experienced, but we survived.
This sick fuck used to be my little league baseball coach. And he was a prick. Look at u now bitch.
The penalty for this rapist is ridiculous. This guy should be getting 5-7 years for his non-violent rapes, not life. The white population will be a minority in less than 5 years in the US and it is no surprise when they jail any white male that shows any real enjoyment out of having sex and breeding. RIP the white race
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