Denver detectives recently connected a Missouri man to a 2004 sexual assault in Denver by secretly swooping in after the suspect's meal and gathering his utensils for DNA testing.

Using a successful match between material on the utensils and two-decade-old evidence collected from the assault, 52-year-old Jason Groshart was sentenced last week to 32 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections. Groshart avoided trial by pleading guilty in July to one count each of felony kidnapping and sexual assault.

The details of the attack are chilling. On March 30, 2004, the female victim left her job early with a migraine headache and fell asleep at home on her bed. She was awakened by her dog's barking. Her attacker, later identified as Groshart, was already in her bedroom, according to a case d

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