Cold case investigators used the burgeoning field of forensic genealogy to narrow in on the prime suspect in a series of violent central Connecticut sexual assaults and kidnappings dating back to the 1984, arresting the disgraced former Jumoke Academy charter organization CEO, Michael Sharpe, this week with the crimes that had long been classified as cold cases.
Michael M. Sharpe, 69, who resigned from the group that ran a Hartford school amid claims he lied about academic credentials and hid a decadesold forgery conviction, faces four counts of first-degree kidnapping with a firearm.
The cases he was charged with were the sexual assaults of a 25-year-old woman in Bloomfield, a 30-year-old woman in Middletown, a 24-year-old woman in Windsor and a 24-year-old woman in Rocky Hill.