A convicted DeKalb County serial rapist was handed eight life sentences, plus 135 years, on Tuesday.
Gary Wendale Mincey, 36, was convicted of raping or attempting to rape five women during a six-week period in of the fall of 2011.
“These women’s lives have forever been changed by the heinous acts of a serial rapist,” said DeKalb County Chief Assistant District Attorney Nicole Marchand Golden. “We hope this guilty verdict and sentence will bring some form of relief to each one of our victims and (their) loved ones. There is a monster who no longer roams the streets of DeKalb County.”
Between Oct. 16 and Nov. 29, Mincey stalked five women, following them from various locations — the Publix supermarket on Flakes Mill Road, Echelon Bar and Bistro in Stone Mountain and Tanqueray Lounge in Decatur — to their homes.
He seemed to pick his victims at random, their ages ranging from ages 22 to 53. Each woman described a man dressed in black threatening to kill them before robbing them of jewelry, cell phones and money, and ultimately forcing himself on them, prosecutors said.
Two women were able to fend off actual rape; three others were raped. Rape kit samples collected from only two of the women helped to match DNA to Mincey when police eventually caught up to him.
Police investigating the case initially arrested a different man. But the attacks continued after the man was in custody, ramping up the fear throughout DeKalb County.
Police were able to track Mincey by calling the iPhone he took from his victim. They found him driving an SUV – described by victims and witnesses in each attack – and in possession of items that belonged to the last victim.
On Tuesday morning, a DeKalb County Superior Court judge gave Mincey the maximum sentence possible.
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