ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A 78-year-old man recently acquitted of killing a blind woman in 1972 has been hit with a federal charge that he failed to register as a sex offender.
Willie James Kimble was arraigned Tuesday and ordered held until a bail hearing in April. He did not enter a plea and will be assigned a lawyer. If convicted, he could get 10 years in prison.
Kimble was cleared March 10 of bludgeoning to death Annie Mae Cray at her Rochester home in October 1972. It was one of the nation's oldest cold-case murders to come to trial.
In 2009, police obtained a DNA match from a semen-stained blanket kept in police storage for almost 38 years. Kimble skipped town while the murder was being re-examined and was tracked down in Florida last year.
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