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OSBI agents have arrested a Guthrie man for sexually assaulting and beating an 85-year-old woman December 25, 1997. David Jerome Stephens, II, (d.o.b. 9-8-1979) was arrested Wednesday evening at his home located at 11775 Red Cedar Road in Guthrie. Wednesday, an OSBI DNA analyst alerted the OSBI case agent of a DNA hit on the case from the Combined DNA Index System. Days before the statute of limitations would have run out, that agent filed a John Doe warrant based off a DNA profile collected from the rape victim. The warrant allowed the case to legally remain active.

Moena House was beaten with a pipe and sexually assaulted Christmas morning inside her Guthrie home after giving in to her attacker’s demands for money. House died in 2008.

DNA was collected from Stephens for a 2013 conviction of possession of a controlled dangerous drug within 1000 feet of a school/park/child. Stephens has a lengthy arrest record starting in 1997.