Marion Pearson. Photo courtesy MCSAO.
A North Carolina man was sentenced Thursday to serve 17 years in prison for two sexual assaults that happened decades ago in Wheaton, according to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office (MCSAO).
Marion Pearson, 67, pleaded guilty in October to one count of second-degree rape and one count of second-degree sexual offense.
The separate attacks on two female victims happened in April and June of 1981. Pearson will have to register as a sex offender for life.
According to MCSAO, in 2022 county police cold case detectives identified an open rape case from April 1981 and submitted evidence to the “Combined DNA Index System” (CODIS) for more testing. A search of the FBI’s national DNA system connected DNA to Pearson.
He used to live in Prince George’s County and was arrested multiple times during the 80s and 90s for assault, indecent exposure, and peeping-tom offenses, according to MCSAO. In 2020 he was released from a North Carolina prison after serving 22 years for a series of first-degree rapes.
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