"Long-sought rapist is returned to Mass." by Evan Allen and Travis Andersen | Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, April 02, 2013
PORTLAND — He went to his son’s high school football games, paid taxes, and performed jury duty. In more than three decades, Gary Alan Irving was apparently in trouble just once: He got a speeding ticket. When police showed up last week at his suburban home in Gorham, Maine, after a 34-year manhunt, Irving was baking an eclair cake for one of his wife’s co-workers.
But Irving, 52, had a dark secret: In summer 1978, he kidnapped and raped three young women, stood convicted, but then fled before he could be sentenced. He wound up in Maine, where he had camped as a child, and raised a family using his brother’s name.
On Monday morning, that family huddled together in a Portland courtroom and watched as Irving, handcuffed and dressed in yellow prison garb, told a judge he would not challenge extradition.
A few hours later, he appeared in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, where Judge Kenneth Fishman ordered him held without bail pending a status hearing on April 12.
In Portland, family members left court without speaking to reporters and did not appear to attend proceedings in Dedham.
“The person they thought of as a husband and father for 30-plus years is somebody else, and a lot of people have a completely different version of this person,” Irving’s lawyer in Maine, Christopher Leddy, said after the morning hearing. “That’s a surreal event. . . . They’re just still in shock.”
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