A 39-year-old Decatur man who was convicted in a string of cold-case rapes in DeKalb County has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to crimes that date back to 2006.
Court records show that Dionte Mapp pleaded guilty to three counts of kidnapping, rape, two counts of Aggravated Sodomy, and Aggravated Assualt against four women.
A 17-year-old girl told police in June 2006 that a man, later identified as Mapp, met her near her South Dekalb home and
Almost two years later following the previous attack, a third woman who was also 23 years old was walking along Candler Road near Rainbow Drive in March 2013. The 23-year-old woman was catching a bus that morning to get to work when On Jun. 3, 2015, a fourth victim came forward to tell police that The detectives who are investigating the June 2015 incident state they recognized similarities between the new assault case and the previous unsolved sexual assaults. When the latest evidence was processed, Mapp’s DNA which had already been in the system for a previous 2007 felony conviction, was a positive match to the three sexual assaults from 2006, 2013, and March 2015.
