An 18-year-old rape case in San Jose has come to a close after officials said a man from Indiana pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n
In 2008, James Whisenand broke into an elderly woman’s apartment in the Willow Glen neighborhood, punched her in the face and raped her, according to police.<\/p>\n
Investigators didn’t have a suspect until 2024, when a crime lab matched DNA from the case to another sexual assault case in Indiana, prompting Whisenand’s arrest.<\/p>\n
The victim died of natural causes in 2011.<\/p>\n
“Years and distance do not matter,” Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. “This Office will never stop seeking justice for the people who have been hurt in our community. I just wish I could have told her that we got him. I wish she was here with us today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old rape case in San Jose has come to a close after officials said a man from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-504203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}