A former Columbia resident who has been convicted of the 1984 abduction, rape and throat-slashing of a former Hickman student will learn his fate Friday afternoon.
A Boone County jury is recommending life in prison for 61-year-old James Wilson on both counts: forcible rape and first degree assault.
Boone County assistant prosecutor Susan Boresi says the female victim was abducted while walking to work near Providence and Wilkes in 1984. 939 the Eagle News was in court when the woman testified in February. The victim testifies she was a 17-year-old Hickman student who was walking to her job at Naugles on an early-evening in March 1984. She testifies she was walking near Providence when a heavyset man began walking toward her, grabbed her from behind, put a knife in her side and forced her into his two-door green vehicle.
The victim testifies she was driven to northeast Columbia’s Wellington drive, and that the suspect raped her before slashing her throat in a creek. The woman, who survived, was able to walk one mile away to a house to knock on a door, while breathing through her neck. She testified she spent ten days in University Hospital for her injuries. She now lives in another state.
