Arrest made in 1987 rapes

SUMMERVILLE — One woman was kidnapped at knifepoint outside a fast-food restaurant. One was abducted from a nightclub. Two others were targeted as they sat in a friend's disabled car.

They were all raped between March and September 1987, so long ago that at least one of the women has since died, but "justice has no time limit," 1st Circuit Solicitor David Pascoe said Wednesday.

Pascoe made the comment after Summerville police and Dorchester County sheriff's investigators announced that they have filed four charges of kidnapping and four charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct against Herman Sammie Rigby Jr., 50, in the 1987 cases.

Rigby has been in prison since 2002 on a robbery conviction out of Georgetown, but affidavits said he was living in the Summerville area at the time of the 1987 crimes.

In addition to the charges against Rigby, Sheriff Ray Nash said investigators have identified and will be filing charges against another suspect in unsolved rapes during the late 1980s. That suspect also is in prison, but Nash wouldn't release any other details. There is no connection between Rigby and the second suspect, he said.

Read more in Thursday's edition of The Post and Courier.