Man Convicted of Kidnapping in 1984 Sexual Assaults of 4 Women

Michael Sharpe had flown under police radar until DNA connected him in 2020

In the summer of 1984, four women lived their worst nightmare.

Starting June 3, 1984, a twenty-five-year-old woman identified as Jane Doe number one in Bloomfield, Connecticut, woke up to a man standing over her bed. He had entered through a screen door to her apartment. He put a gun to her head and told her he would shoot her and her roommate, who was sleeping in another…