Waupaca cold case suspect pleads guilty to rape
By: Erin Davisson
Updated: March 8, 2013
According to the Criminal Complaint, on the evening of
November 5, 1990, the suspect, while wearing a mask, forcefully took a
20-year-old woman to Taylor Field Park in the Village of Iola, where he had
sexual contact with her, against her will, and threatened her.
Gouker
said to the victim, according to the complaint, "I'm just doing my job; I got
paid to do this." A September 2011 report from the Wisconsin State
Crime Lab on DNA analysis of evidence re-submitted to the Lab from the sexual
assault evidence collection kit indicates Gouker as a contributor to DNA found
in the kit.
Gouker, who's currently incarcerated in Oklahoma and awaiting trial there, was earlier charged in Waupaca County with one count of First Degree Sexual Assault -- Concealing Identity, a felony.
Sentencing will be set for a later date.
