OLYMPIA, Wash. — Two months after the controversial release of the late Kevin Coe , known as the South Hill Rapist, state Senator Mark Schoesler has filed a bill that would make it harder for state agencies to release serial rapists.

“Kevin Coe was one of the most dangerous and infamous criminals in our state’s history,” said Schoesler.

Coe was suspected of violently raping as many as 40 women and girls as young as 14 before being arrested in 1981 and ultimately found guilty of first-degree rape.

“It’s still shocking and unbelievable that the state released him this year,” said Schoesler, who was a college student in Spokane in the late 1970s when Coe was suspected of having committed the rapes. “During his years in confinement, Kevin Coe refused treatment and he never apologized or s

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