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.

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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