The [1978 rape and murder] case laid dormant for 23 years, but in May 2001 Tempe Police Department Detective Tom Magazzeni picked up the case and was able to match the DNA evidence to Clarence Wayne Dixon, a man serving a life sentence in prison for a 1986 sexual assault. Dixon had lived across the street from Deana Bowdoin at the time of the murder.
Other women assaulted:
Dixon was released on parole in March 1985, and it didn't take him long after that to return to a life of crime; on April 2, he grabbed a woman in the parking lot at Northern Arizona University, holding a knife to her throat.
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On June 10 [1985] he struck again grabbing a female jogger on the road near NAU. While holding her at knife point, he walked her to the woods where he tied her hands and sexually assaulted the woman.
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It sounds like he is a serial rapist and killer (well, maybe only one murder victim THAT WE KNOW OF) but others have been assaulted at knifepoint.
He should've been executed following his first conviction in the 1980s.
Rot in Hell, Dixon!!