After 34 years, authorities were finally able to identify a woman's rapist. But Ohio's statute of limitations for the crime had long since run out, and a 2015 update to the state’s statute didn’t revive the case. ↧ Police knew who her rapist was. The law kept them from prosecuting ... After a certain point in some states, there’s no way to hold a perpetrator accountable for the most serious sexual assaults.