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Rock Hill SC Sept 272012 A former Rock Hill mayoral candidate arrested last month as a fugitivewhen DNA implicated him in the unsolved 1986 rape of a woman in Miami, Fla.,faces life in prison if prosecutors can prove he indeed committed the crime.
State prosecutors have filed formal charges against BaxterTisdale, 50, who has been in a Miami jail sincehe was extradited from Rock Hill,accused of raping a woman at knife-point on Feb. 18, 1986.
For more than 25 years, Miami investigators say, the rape remainedunsolved until they began combing through cold case files and compared DNAsamples against the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s DNA database. Tisdale’sDNA turned up a match for the unsolved sexual assault, police say, and he wasarrested at his Walnut Streethome on Aug. 14.
Officials charged Tisdale with two counts of armed sexualbattery, burglary with an assault and battery while armed, and armed robberywith a weapon, said Terry Chavez, spokeswoman for the Miami-Dade County officeof the state attorney.
All four charges are felonies, Chavez said, and carrypossible life sentences.
According to detectives and a court affidavit, Tisdale isalleged to have broken into a woman's home and raped her while her infant sonslept in the same bedroom. During the assault, records allege, he covered the21-year-old woman's eyes and placed a knife to her throat, then took money fromher purse.
The affidavit alleges Tisdale placed a pillow over thewoman’s head before he assaulted her twice.
“Every time he did something to her, we charged it as aseparate incident in the same case,” Chavez said.
Tisdale’s trial is set for Oct. 22, Chavez said, “unless bysome miracle he pleads guilty.” That date could change, she said, given Miami’s high number ofcases.
In May 2009, officials arrested Tisdale after his DNAmatched swabs collected from an April 30, 1986, rape in the same Miami, Fla.neighborhood as the February rape.
Police spoke with the victim and allowed her to view aphotograph of Tisdale, said Miami Detective William Nadramia, who investigatedthe case. She identified him as someone she knew from her neighborhood.Officials charged Tisdale with sexual battery and burglary.
Tisdale remained in a Miamijail for almost two years until the case against him was dismissed, Nadramiasaid, when the victim "didn't follow through with the state attorney'soffice for prosecution."
A month after his release, Tisdale sued the Miami-DadePolice Department, two prosecutors, Miami-Dade County and Nadramia, whom heaccused of coercing the victim into identifying him in a photo lineup.
Tisdale's lawsuit demanded $50 million in punitive damages;$5 million for false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, mentalanguish and defamation; and $44,100 for lost wages.
The suit was dismissed in June 2011 when Tisdale failed toserve the complaint in compliance with federal regulations.
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