LAKE COUNTY ? On Aug. 1, a 25 year old Hidden Valley Lake woman reported she was raped after having drinks with friends and family members at the Twin Pine Casino in Middletown on the previous night. The suspect, 25 year old John Wesley Dunn, was arrested however the Sheriff”s Major Crimes Unit is seeking help from anyone who may have been in the casino parking lot and observed the suspect and victim leave on the night of July 31.
According to a press release from Capt. James Bauman, public information officer for the Lake County Sheriff”s Office (LCSO), when the suspect and victim left the main entrance of the casino on the night of July 31, their exit was recorded by a casino surveillance camera. Casino surveillance also recorded images of three other female patrons who walked out of the casino immediately after the suspect and victim did.
The unidentified women captured in these surveillance photos are not connected to the crime LCSO is investigating. However, the Sheriff”s Major Crimes Unit is very interested in talking to them, as well as any other casino patrons, who may have been in the parking lot at or about the time the suspect and victim left the business shortly after midnight on July 31.
The three women who exited the casino immediately after the victim and suspect are pictured arm-in-arm with each other and appear to all be middle-aged with dark hair and medium builds. Two of the women were wearing “capris” type pants with patterned low-neck tops and the third was wearing regular denim pants with a purple shirt.
The victim would have been a 25 year old white female, approximately 5 feet 2 inches tall, 125 pounds, brown hair and eyes and wearing a black dress. The suspect would have been a 25 year old white male, approx. 5 feet 11 inches tall, 265 pounds with very short red hair, brown eyes and wearing an orange pull-over shirt. The vehicle the two got in is described as a black, late 90s Ford Mustang.
LCSO would rather not publish the image of the three women leaving the casino but instead, hopes that they may come forward, identify themselves and share any observations they might remember having of victim and suspect from the time they exited the casino to the time they got into the suspect”s vehicle that night.
Anyone, including the three unidentified women who exited the casino right behind the victim and suspect, who may have been in the casino parking lot shortly after midnight on the night of July 31 who thinks they may have seen the suspect and victim leave the business and get into the black mustang is encouraged to call either Detective John Drewrey or Detective Mike Curran at 262-4200 as soon as possible.
