DNA key in solving 1995 Woodbridge rape

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A Spotsylvania man was convicted of rape on Monday after DNA evidence linked him to a crime he committed more than a decade ago.

Kenneth Ray Bedard was already serving a five-year sentence for beating his wife with a hammer when forensic researchers last year made a discovery that connected him to the rape of a 27-year-old real estate saleswoman on August 20, 1995.

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