WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A Forsyth County jury on Monday found 50-year-old David Eric Mills guilty of first-degree sexual assault and first-degree kidnapping for a crime that occurred 25 years ago, according to the Forsyth County District Attorney's Office.

Evidence presented at trial showed that on April 3, 2000, a 21-year-old Wake Forest University student was studying at her off-campus residence when a masked man broke in, bound her hands, blindfolded her, threatened her with a knife, and sexually assaulted her.

The case remained unsolved for more than two decades until DNA evidence linked Mills to the crime. In 2009, forensic testing of the victim’s sexual assault kit identified an unknown male’s DNA. A CODIS database match in 2022 connected the DNA to Mills, whose sample subsequently

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