ATLANTA — A man that was living a double life is now behind bars after being convicted of raping two women and has been accused of a third.
Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne obtained video of DeQuon Norman as he was sitting in the police interrogation room, talking to himself after he was arrested.
“Boy, so stupid. Why would you go out there again, risk it all?” Norman said to himself.
Deputy Fulton County District Attorney Julianna Peterson Eley said Norman the two rapes of which he was recently convicted along with other charges weren’t about money but power.
“Mr. Norman was really a monster in disguise living amongst the community. He was a college graduate, he was an accountant with a wife and two toddlers at the time he was arrested in 2021,” Petersen Eley said. “What he wanted was their fear and their terror. He enjoyed that he was taking this away from them at the end of a gun.”
“It’s a man that’s living a double life. He brutally victimized these three women,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said.
Now, he is in jail sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 65 years in prison.
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Peterson Eley said the third rape alleged against Norman from 2004 wasn’t tried but the case was used in court to show a pattern.
She said the victim was willing to testify but died last year, 20 years after the incident.
“Everyone who finds themselves a victim of any type of crime in Fulton County is worthy of justice,” Fulton County Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney Tarrance Miller said.
Milled told Winne that Norman was convicted of rapes he committed in 2004 and 2020, with the latter involving a 16-year-old girl.
Miller said Norman admitted sex with sex workers but denied rape or using a gun.
Defense attorney Chris Toles said Norman did lead a double life paying money for sex dozens of times but is innocent of rape.
“He pays women to have sex. It wasn’t, you know, it was this dark, dirty, dark secret. But he was not a rapist,” Toles said. “If these cases were so good and they were so valuable, the district attorney’s office knew as early as 2008 who Mr. Norman was.”
Toles said Norman will appeal and maintains in the 2004 case in which Norman was convicted the lead detective didn’t believe the victim. He said in the 2020 case, the 16-year-old victim changed several major elements of her story.
“The jury going to like, you know, you got all this smoke, there must be fire,” Toles said.
Winne was told that the case was handled by the district attorney’s federally funded SAKI Unit, which stands for the sexual assault kit initiative.
“Thousands of cases from the 80s, 90s even early 2000s were just left on the shelf. And they were not investigated. We have been able to investigate those cases,” Willis said.
“Law enforcement and the community will stand with you regardless of what type of life you’ve engaged in if you find yourself a victim in this county,” Miller said.
Peterson Eley said the alleged victim who died had turned over a new leaf and was helping other victims.
She said Norman was actually held in jail for a few days years ago on that case, but it did not move forward to trial. And by the time of this recent trial, his speedy trial rights mandated a dismissal. Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney
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