Clearfield • Detectives found the man they suspect as a serial rapist by first using DNA to locate the defendant’s half brother, a Utah police chief said Thursday.
Finding that family pointed police to Mark Douglas Burns, the 69-year-old man arrested Wednesday in Ogden. Clearfield Police Chief Kelly Bennett said Burns was “calm” and asked why he was being arrested.
For now, Burns is charged in two rape cases in Clearfield, but investigators say Burns, a truck driver, is suspected of rapes in Layton and Ogden as well as in cities in Wyoming from 1991 to 2001.