A woman was raped in her Wichita, Kansas, home late in the evening of November 13, 2007. The perpetrator remained unknown for nearly sixteen years until his DNA was matched to that which he had voluntarily submitted to a genealogy website.

Fifty-two-year-old Ted Foy of Augusta, twenty miles east of Wichita, was charged with the attack in May 2023. In September 2024, he was given a three-hundred-ten month (nearly twenty-six year) sentence after pleading guilty to rape, attempted rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, and aggravated sexual battery.

Wearing all black clothes and a black mask, Foy said he sexually assaulted the woman after breaking into her apartment through a downstairs window. Her husband was serving in the military and was not home at the time.

The attack occurred in the southeast section of Wichita, less than five miles from McConnell Air Force Base, and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Cold Case Team assisted Wichita police in the investigation. The victim’s identity has not been released.

Ted Foy

Ted Foy is incarcerated at the medium-security Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Hutchinson, Kansas. His earliest possible release date is April 16, 2045, when he will be seventy-four-years-old.

Locked Up For A While

The use of genetic genealogy platforms to identify the assailants of violent crimes is becoming increasingly popular across America and abroad. In this instance, the verification of Ted Foy as the rapist marked the first successful such use of a genetic database by Wichita police.

A First For The Department

SOURCES:

• Forensics Magazine
• KAKE TV Channel 10 Wichita ABC Affiliate
• KSN TV Channel 3 Wichita NBC Affiliate
• KWCH TV Channel 12 Wichita CBS Affiliate
• Wichita Eagle