‘South Hill Rapist’ Coe released, living in Auburn

SPOKANE — Kevin Coe, the man known as the “South Hill Rapist,” will live in an adult care home in an Auburn neighborhood.

Coe is registered as a Level 3 sex offender, the highest designation in the state of Washington. He is listed at 6-foot-2 and 150 pounds. According to the registry, Coe will reside on Auburn’s west hill, approximately a half-mile from the Muckleshoot Casino.

Coe terrorized Spokane from 1977 to 1981 by raping dozens of teen girls and women on Spokane’s South Hill. Authorities believe he is responsible for the rapes of as many as 40 people, according to court documents and previous reporting from The Spokesman-Review.

Now 77 years old, Coe was released from confinement last week — more than four decades after his conviction — because he is in poor health and no longer