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The man who became known as the “South Hill Rapist” is being released Thursday and is reportedly headed for an adult family home in Federal Way, Wash. As reported previously, Kevin Coe was accused of committing dozens of sexual assaults from the late 1970s to early 1980s in the Spokane area, crimes that terrorized the community for many years. Several convictions were thrown out due to inadmissible evidence, including victims being hypnotized to recall alleged rapes, such that Coe only ended up serving time for one rape conviction. He was sent to McNeil Island after civil proceedings in 2006, when...

Kevin Coe spent the past 25 years in prison after being convicted in Spokane's South Hill rapist case. Today, he faces a hearing that could lead to him being declared a sexually violent predator and locked up for the rest of his life at McNeil Island. The hearing before Spokane County Superior Court Judge Kathleen O'Connor is the first step toward a civil trial that will determine whether Coe — formerly inmate No. 279538 at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla — changes his permanent address to the state's Special Commitment Center. Coe's case became the basis for a...