Blind Woman Uses Smell to Identify Rape Suspect
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CHICAGO — A legally blind woman was able to identify a 14-year-old as the youth who raped her by smelling his cologne and feeling his hands, authorities said Sunday.
The 24-year-old woman, whose eyesight is so poor she can distinguish only between light and dark, was raped in the laundry room of her North Side apartment building Saturday night, police Lt. Lee Hamilton said.
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