SPOKANE, Wash. — According to the Federal Way Mayor's Office, with information from the Federal Way Police Department, the South Hill Rapist, Kevin Coe, died on Wednesday morning.

In October, Coe was moved from Washington’s Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island to an adult family home in Federal Way.

Coe is believed to have committed around 40 rapes and sexual assaults in Spokane in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During his first trial, Coe was convicted on four counts of rape. Just three years later, the state supreme court overturned those convictions because some victims were hypnotized during the police investigation.

In the second trial in 1985, Coe was found guilty on three rape charges. Again, many of those were overturned on the hypnosis issue. Coe's single rape convicti

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