Posted on 11/22/2012 2:26:12 PM PST by NYer
.- The arrest of a prominent Denver relator who allegedly assaulted a senior citizen collecting signatures for a pro-life petition has lead to new developments in three unsolved rape cases.
“Were it not for Mr. Costello’s arrest at the grocery store in July, there would have been no new leads, and there would have been no charges filed in connection with these three unsolved sexual assaults,” Lynn Kimbrough of the Denver District Attorney’s Office told CNA Nov. 21.
The man now identified as William Costello, a prominent Denver-based realtor, was asked by Everett Stadig if he had signed a petition in support of the Personhood Amendment, a bill designed to extend the protection of the law to “all human beings at any stage of development.”
“I didn’t want to confront him,” Everett Stadig, the 69-year-old resident of Aurora, Colo. told CNA Nov. 21. Stadig was assaulted in July while collecting signatures for the Personhood Amendment at the King Soopers grocery store on Quebec St. and East 28th Ave. in Denver.
Stadig is a self-described “Lincoln look-alike” who is often seen around Denver holding signs in protest of abortion.
When he approached Costello and asked him to sign the petition, Stadig received a response in “an angry tone” and “swearing.” Costello declared that he was pro-choice and that he would not sign the petition.
At that point, Costello walked away and Stadig “thought he was done with him.” But moments later Costello returned to tell the elderly man that he “didn’t have a right to be here.”
While standing with “the bike in one hand and the Personhood petition in the other,” Stadig said Costello grabbed him by both shoulders and “shoved” him to the ground. A witness observed the assault and took down Costello’s license plate number before he fled the scene, according to the affidavit.
Stadig sustained a broken hip and had to have surgery to repair it. Costello was charged with second-degree assault of an at-risk adult.
Due to “Katie’s Law,” a Colorado state law requiring DNA testing of anyone arrested for assault, Costello has now been linked to three unsolved rapes cases from 2008, 2010 and 2011.
“Praise the Lord that it happened that way and now the victims are going to get compensated and not just me,” Stadig said.
The Denver Police Department was notified Oct. 30 that Costello’s DNA matched that filed with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in March 2008, a 22-year-old woman in August 2010 and a 49-year-old woman in September 2011.
Costello is now being charged with two counts of kidnapping, two counts of sexual assault on a child, three counts of sexual assault and two counts of impersonating a police officer.
In one case, the perpetrator had a two year-old boy in his car while he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl who was running away from the Denver Children’s home.
In two cases, Costello used force and told victims he was a police officer.
At the time he was arrested on Nov. 5, Costello was dropping yard signs off at a political campaign office in Durango, Colo. and driving a car belonging to the Democratic political consultant Mike Stratton, the Denver Post reported.
Guess he couldn't find a 100 year old victim in 2012...
I can't understand why.
This is indeed a heartwarming story. However, don’t celebrate too soon. There are plenty of leftist jurists who would love to spring this insect.
1. They do not show his picture so that others can come forward, because you just know there are many other victims;
2. This story is only in the local media. If it were the other way around, say, he broke a man's hip who had a “give free condoms to children” sign, and worked for Republican politicians, it would be in the news until Benghazi and Gaza became cities of dust.
A little clarity, the Denver P.D. has not released a picture or mugshot of the alleged Democrat, elder-abuser, serial rapist William Costello, because they are hoping for a police line up identification by his alleged former victims.
And now for the math:
“The state of Colorado categorizes kidnapping into six types: first and second degree, false imprisonment... and child enticement. First degree kidnapping is a Class 1 or 2 felony. It is punishable by life in prison without parole or a death penalty (Class 1) or 8 to 24 years in prison with a mandatory 5-year parole term upon release (Class 2). Second degree kidnapping is a Class 2, Class 3 or 4 felony depending on the nature of the crime, punishable with 8 to 24 years in prison with a mandatory 5-year parole term upon release; 4 to 12 years in jail with a mandatory 5-year parole term following release; or 2 to 6 years in jail, respectively.”
Sexual assault. Sex crimes include such offenses as sexual assault, sexual assault on a child... With few exceptions, sex crimes are felonies ranging from Class 2 to Class 4.
Impersonating a police officer. Class 6 felony.
1. They do not show his picture so that others can come forward, because you just know there are many other victims...
Not only that, the web has been scrubbed of his photographs, being a Realtor he had a bunch on there.
He was employed at Unique Properties Llc, and I can still find pics of everybody else there.
Thanks for the information.. I was about to express these observations..
that Costello fellow must have a little of every protected minority in him.. or simply he's a Democrat so no pictures, no descriptions, no record . . . .
The Denver Police Department had nothing that I could find -- they had this note "[you cannot have] information for which release would not be in the public interest." Like something that further exposes 'Rats and not Republicans?
The Department did link to public records showing Costello, [omitted] and William B. concerning some real estate matter, it appeared. That William may be Democrat rat. Maybe not.
Thanks again.
What’s a “Relator”?
The libs use it and we need to beat them at it.
If you can get just a few people to read a buried news report and if some of them pass it on it isn't buried anymore.
Is that SOP in a rape case? Or in any other case for that matter?
Is that SOP in a rape case? Or in any other case for that matter?
It seems to me that it is SOP whenever the obviously guilty degenerate pedophile serial rapist (or similar) perp is an easily identifiable closely connected DemoRat party bigshot, as this one was.
It is not weird, if you understand that the DemoRat socialists and the DemoRat MSM are evil and of one mind.
They will automatically cover up, suppress, and destroy information connecting depraved criminals to the socialist Rat party.
Now, in America, you are a saint or a criminal based upon your political affiliation, not your actions, thus my tagline...
The arrest of a prominent Denver relator who allegedly assaulted a senior citizen collecting signatures for a pro-life petition has lead to new developments in three unsolved rape cases... Stadig sustained a broken hip and had to have surgery to repair it. Costello was charged with second-degree assault of an at-risk adult. Due to "Katie's Law," a Colorado state law requiring DNA testing of anyone arrested for assault, Costello has now been linked to three unsolved rapes cases from 2008, 2010 and 2011.Media and NGO condemnation of the elderly victim in 5, 4, 3...
Not so farfetched. None of the media so far has published a photo of the perpetrator, who happens to be a Democrat Party operative. Additionally, photos of the perpetrator have been deleted from several real estate websites he used to promote his business.
Sorry, I missed that important bit of info.
The real estate site photo removal is understandable.
I found it in a different article while looking for the perp’s picture.
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