WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts jury has returned guilty verdicts against a 38-year-old rape suspect who was captured in Oregon after his case was featured on “America’s Most Wanted.”
Michael Bresnahan of Winchendon was accused of breaking into a 61-year-old retired school teacher’s home in August 2007, binding her hands behind her back, cutting the telephone lines and repeatedly raping her at knifepoint.
A Worcester Superior Court jury deliberated for four hours Monday before returning guilty verdicts on 18 charges, including home invasion, kidnapping, assault and multiple aggravated rape.
Bresnahan was arrested in August 2008 in Cottage Grove, Ore., two days after his case was featured on the television show.
