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Man Accused Of Murder To Be Tried In 14-Year-Old's Rape

Nanny Murder Suspect Accused Of Two Rapes

POSTED: Tuesday, March 29, 2005

A man who police say murdered a South Florida nanny will be in court Wednesday to face charges that he raped a Coral Springs teenager.

Investigators said that Jerry Wiggins raped the 14-year-old girl months before he kidnapped, raped and murdered nanny Monica Rivera-Veldizen.

Wiggins was arrested in January in the rape of a Charlotte, N.C., woman. The woman picked Wiggins, whom she knew as "Jay," out of a lineup.

Investigators said DNA from the Charlotte rape matched DNA in the murder of Rivera-Veldizen. She disappeared from a Boca Raton Publix supermarket on West Palmetto Park Road Jan. 2, 2004. Her body was found Jan. 5 in bushes a short distance from the home where she was living and working.

Slideshow: The Nanny Murder Investigation

The DNA from the North Carolina rape also matched DNA in the rape of the Coral Springs girl.

Wednesday at 8 a.m., Wiggins will appear before Judge Michael Kaplan on sexual battery and lewd and lascivious behavior charges.

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