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'Blue-eyed rapist' pleads guilty, agrees to 46 years in prison

File photo David Hopper, the so-called “blue-eyed rapist," pleaded guilty Tuesday, June 16, 2009, to several charges.

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By Lou Grieco, Staff Writer Updated 10:16 PM Tuesday, June 16, 2009

DAYTON — David Hopper, the so-called “blue-eyed rapist,” pleaded guilty Tuesday, June 16, to several charges stemming from the 2004 assault of a woman at cellular phone store.

Hopper, 45, appeared before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Frances McGee and pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and one count each of aggravated robbery and kidnapping. All charges carry gun specifications, which require additional prison time be served.

The charges stem from the March 5, 2004 assault of a woman at a cellular phone store near the Dayton Mall.

The victim was alone at the store and was preparing to close it for the evening. Hopper, armed with a gun, entered the store and assaulted and robbed the victim, according to the prosecutor’s office

Following Hopper’s arrest in February 2006 for the rape and robbery of two women in Warren County, DNA tests identified him as a suspect in the March 2004 assault.

DNA also linked Hopper to the “blue-eyed rapist” crimes throughout the region that dated back to 1992.

McGee will formally sentence Hopper in two weeks. As part of the plea agreement, Hopper agreed to serve 46 years in prison, 40 of which is concurrent with the sentence issued in Warren County and six of which will be serve consecutively with the other sentences.

In June 2008, Hopper, of Burlington, Ky., pleaded guilty in Warren County Common Pleas Court to two counts of rape, four counts of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of aggravated robbery, possession of criminal tools and gross sexual imposition for the February 2006 assault.

Hopper attacked the two women at gunpoint in a Franklin Twp. model home in February 2006. He took their clothes and two rings. Police caught up with him after he pawned the rings in Newport, Ky.

In February 2008, Hopper was sentenced to 20 more years in prison for raping a Dry Ridge, Ky., store clerk at gunpoint in 1994. In November, he was sentenced to 32 years in prison on federal gun crime charges. He also has received a 22-year sentence in Campbell County, Ky., which, along with the February sentence, would be served concurrently to the federal prison term, authorities said.

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