Terrance Devonte Cobb, a 22-year-old with 15 prior adult felony convictions, has been sentenced to 198 years in prison for the kidnapping and rape of a 68-year-old woman.
It was New Year’s Eve 2018 when the victim attended a funeral in south Alabama. She picked up her daughter in Montgomery and drove to Opp, dropping her daughter back off when the funeral was over.
After driving for about two miles, a vehicle driving erratically came up beside her and sideswiped her van before crashing out.
The victim called her husband and told him she had been involved in a wreck.
“She said, ‘I’m going to make sure they’re OK,’’' Robinson said. “She got out of the car and he (a man later identified as Cobb) comes running toward her car.”
The woman tried to get back into her vehicle and he tried to force his way in as well. She was yelling for him to stop.
“He gets mad, goes back to his car, comes back to a car with a gun in his hand and shoots the window out,’' Robinson said. “She’s covered in glass, with cuts and stuff.”
Cobb then got into the woman’s van, put a gun to her head, and forced him to drive him around for the next couple of hours. They ended up in a remote, wooded area in Macon County, where authorities say he forced her to perform oral sex on him and then raped her.
Cobb, authorities would later find out, is HIV positive. The victim would later go through three months of preventative treatment and never tested positive for the virus that can lead to AIDS.
The victim was on the phone with her husband when the initial attack happened. The husband heard the gunshot but then the line went dead. Her family was panicked, not knowing what happened.
The husband called Alexander City police, who then called authorities in Macon County and eventually Tallassee police where investigators “pinged” her phone and were able to quickly identify the last two numbers that had been dialed from her device. They ran the number through their database and learned that the number was a match to one of the department’s confidential informants.
A narcotics detective called the informant, who told the officer he had been expecting their call. The informant told police that his cousin – Cobb- had called him and reported that he had “wrecked and taken a white woman hostage.”
Cobb said publicly in the courtroom, “I should have just killed that white bitch.” Again, he was kicked out of the courtroom and future hearings were held via Zoom.
Additionally, Robinson said, Cobb sexually assaulted two male inmates while in the Elmore County Jail awaiting trial. “He’s threatened to kill me, he’s threatened to kill Judge (Bill) Lewis,’' Robinson said. He also confessed to the attack on the woman to a fellow inmate at the county lockup.
Alabama man gets 198 years in prison in brutal rape, abduction that spanned 3 counties
The prosecutor called this the worst case he’s even seen in which a victim survived.
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