Crime & Safety

Suspect Indicted In 25-Year-Old Smyrna Rape Case

Walter Waitus Bullard has been arrested in connection with an assault that happened in February 1994.

Walter Waitus Bullard has been arrested in connection with an assault that happened in February 1994.
Walter Waitus Bullard has been arrested in connection with an assault that happened in February 1994. (Cobb County Jail)

MARIETTA, GA -- A grand jury has indicted a man arrested earlier this year in connection with a 25-year-old rape case. On Feb. 7, 2019, a Smyrna police detective assigned to the department's Crimes against Women and Children Unit secured an arrest warrant for Walter Waitus Bullard of Smyrna. Bullard is charged with rape; armed robbery; kidnapping; false imprisonment; and aggravated sodomy, all felonies.

The attack happened in February 1994.

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Police said the detective assigned to the case recently received a CODIS match from the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, which led to Bullard's arrest.

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