The son of a prosperous Connecticut family, Alexander A. Kelly was accused of rape, then in 1987 fled the country to escape punishment. Presumably supported by his family, he lived in Europe until 1995, when he gave himself up to Swiss authorities.
Kelly was convicted of a rape he had committed in 1986. At his 1997 trial for the first of two rapes, a mistrial was declared. He entered a no contest plea to the second rape, however, and got 16 years.
Eight years later, in 2005, Kelly, then 30, was freed after having served half that sentence, and he remains on probation.
Among the many rapes committed in the United States, his stood out and got heavy media coverage because of his family's prominence and his status as a wrestler in his high school years. Kelly was 18 when he was charged with rape.
Kelly claimed that rather than rape, the act had been consensual, but the young woman's testimony that he had kept one hand on her throat swayed the jury.
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