ST. LOUIS DNA has linked a convicted murderer to a 1992 rape in the Central West End, according to charges filed Monday.

Authorities say Derrick Cobb, 54, of Bowling Green, struck a woman in the head with a beer bottle then raped herat the 4700 block of McPherson Avenue on April 19, 1992.

The crime went unsolved until a recent DNA match identified Cobb as the culprit. He has been charged in St. Louis Circuit Court with a count each of rape and sodomy.

Cobb is 17 years into a 30-year prison sentence forsecond-degree murder in the killing of a Jennings deliveryman and father of twoin September 1992.

James Crimi, 31, was returning tohis home in the 7000 block of Garesche Avenue from visiting a relative when Cobb, who was homeless at the time, fatally struck him in the side of the head then stole his car.Cobb sold the parts to buy crack cocaine, then attempted to rob three students on the St. Louis University campus about an hour later, authorities said at the time.

A campussecurity officer identified Crimi's car as the one involved in the attempted robbery. Detectives then linked Cobb to the murder.

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DNA matches convicted murderer to 1992 Central West End rape