Q: What happened to the so-called Doorbell Rapists from the early 1980s? - Anonymous, Sacramento
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A: The three men were paroled from prison sentences received in 1984 for raping a woman, according to police and prison records.
One of the men, Waco Williams (photo left), now 50, was arrested last year by the Sacramento Police Department for a 1980 murder, following a cold-case investigation.
The other two men - Marc Williams, now 48, and Craig Lamont Hinton, now 50, are free, records indicate.
Waco Williams is accused of the murder of Norman Crawford, 19, on the night of Oct. 21, 1980 in the area of Eighth Avenue and 45th Street.
In the sexual-assault case, Williams and Marc Williams, who is identified as his cousin, along with Hinton went to a woman's 43rd Avenue apartment at about 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 31, 1983, according to Bee reports.
The men tried to convince her to let them in, but when she refused, they broke in. The woman, who was in the apartment with her 17-month-old child, was sexually assaulted by each of the men, The Bee reported.
A neighbor who saw the men force their way inside the apartment called Sacramento County sheriff's deputies.
When deputies arrived, they knocked on the door. After waiting for a response, the deputies kicked in the door and discovered Marc Williams and Hinton robbing the woman, deputies said.
The men were suspected but not prosecuted in several other sexual assaults. The men would ring the doorbell and when a woman answered, they would force their way in and assault her, according to media coverage from that time.
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