A convicted DeKalb County serial rapist was sentenced to 375 years in prison.
Gary Wendale Mincey, 36, won’t be eligible for parole and will die in prison for raping or attempting to rape five women during a six-week period in 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.”
Last month, a DeKalb County jury found Mincey guilty of all 17 charges against him – rape, sodomy, sexual battery, false imprisonment and armed robbery.
On Tuesday morning, a DeKalb County Superior Court judge handed Mincey the maximum possible sentence of eight life sentences, plus 135 years.
Between Oct. 16 and Nov. 29, Mincey stalked five women, lying in wait at the Publix supermarket on Flakes Mill Road, from Echelon Bar and Bistro in Stone Mountain and from Tanqueray Lounge in Decatur before following them and confronting them as they tried to enter their homes, even forcing himself into the homes of two women.
He seemed to pick his victims at random, their ages ranging from ages 22 to 53. And 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, either through dogged determination or the luck of a timely encounter that spooked their attacker, according to testimony in the four-day trial.
Three others were raped, although rape kit samples collected from only two of the remaining 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 that permeated throughout DeKalb County.
But after the final attack, 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.
Mincey will be moved to a prison in the Georgia State Department of Corrections system, but it is not clear when and to which facility he will be transferred.
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