DNA Helps Convict Man in 1997 Rape, Robbery
Darryl Joseph Tavie, the first Riverside County defendant to stand trial after being identified through DNA tests in the state Department of Justice’s so-called Cold Hit program, was convicted Monday of rape, robbery, and kidnapping to commit rape and robbery for his role in a 1997 incident in Riverside.
A physical examination that followed a 17-year-old girl’s rape in an alley provided police DNA that matched that of Tavie, who was convicted of raping two women in the 1980s and released from prison in the months before the girl was attacked.
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