This season of the cold podcast includes descriptions of rape, sexual assault, murder, and domestic violence.
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Weber county attorney Reed Richards believed he had the Ogden City rapist in his sights.
He had charged Kerry Hartman with felony crimes for a string of home invasion sexual assaults that had occurred across the city.
We had one of the victims who had gone to a bar one night and heard over the loudspeaker somebody announcing and recognizing the voice of the person that had broken into her home.
That turned out to be Carrie Hartman.
Carrie faced charges in four separate cases.
Police suspected him and several more, but all were short on evidence.
We didn't have DNA back then.
Now we might have approached it a little differently.
If you could get DNA samples from each of the women and tie it to him, that would be different.
We didn't have that.
Only one of the women had picked Carrie's picture out of a photo lineup.
And that's not really unusual because he came in in the dark.
He didn't let them see his face.
Another of the women, a person I'm calling Caroline, had told police she didn't want to look at a picture lineup.
She wanted the real thing.
Reed didn't have much time to make a lineup happen.
The court had scheduled a preliminary hearing.
Each of the four women were going to testify.