Prior to being convicted in that rape that he was later found not guilty of he ran a deputies wife off the road with a gun and backed off after he said he saw her kid in the backseat.
The fact he was in jail 18 years for that rape was a good thing.
Those 18 years limited the damage, awful as it was, to one victim.
Even though it was a wrong conviction, there was a strange sort of justice in it.