District man gets 43 years for rape of intern

A Washington man was sentenced to 43 years in prison for the 2003 kidnapping and sexual assault of a law student near Union Station.

Shepardson Ray Blair, 48, was tied to the crime seven years after the rape through DNA evidence collected after the woman was taken to a hospital.

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