Douglas Laverdure was convicted Oct. 31 on two felony counts of rape, three felony counts of sexual assault and a felony count of incest.

The case included incidents spanning three decades and a multi-day jury trial this week.

In recent years, a Cascade County Sheriff’s Office deputy, while investigating a different case, found allegations of rape, incest and sexual assault from 2007 and with a Cascade County attorney, essentially reopened the case to file charges and prosecute Laverdure, according to Cascade County Attorney Josh Racki.

In September 2007, a woman reported to CCSO that her common-law husband, Laverdure, born in May 1963, had fondled their son, born in June 2006, who was 14 months at the time, according to court documents.

A CCSO detective spoke to the woman, who said she’d seen Laverdure and their baby in the bathtub the previous night when he dipped the child in the bathwater, reached under his legs and fondled his testicles, according to court documents. The woman said she immediately grabbed the child from Laverdure and didn’t say anything to him out of fear, according to the charging documents.

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The morning after the bathtub incident in 2007, the woman said she talked to the other children in the home at the time who were born in 1997, 1999 and 2004, according to court documents.

She told the detective that her daughter, born in 1997, had become upset and said that Laverdure had put “his privates in [her] privates” when the woman was gone. Her son, born in 1999 and is now deceased, said that Laverdure had touched him but wouldn’t go into detail, according to court documents.

A detective conducted a forensic interview with the girl who was 10-years-old at the time and she said that her stepfather had been abusing her for the last three years and abusing her since she was four, according to court documents. 

In December 2007, a CCSO detective spoke with another of the woman’s children, who was born in 1992, and hadn’t been living in the home at the time she reported Laverdure.

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The boy was 15 at the time of the interview and eventually disclosed that when he lived in the same house as Laverdure that Laverdure had beat him from his 11th birthday until he was almost 13 and had been out of the house for about two years by the time of the interview, according to court documents.

The boy also told investigators that Laverdure had pulled a shotgun on him and his mother at Christmas. The boy also told investigators that Laverdure had raped and sexually assaulted him.

In 2022, Racki said that one of the victims from the 2007 charges was a witness in an unrelated case.

It’s common practice for the county attorney or sheriff’s office to run checks to ensure witnesses haven’t made false reports in the past.

While checking that, CCSO Det. Jacob Tri came across the 2007 investigation and asked Racki if those charges could be prosecuted.

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Racki told The Electric that he’d told Tri at the time it was a possibility if the victims were willing to testify since the county attorney’s office had declined to prosecute the case in 2007 for reasons unbeknownst to Racki.

Racki assigned Stephanie Fuller, a prosecutor in his office to the case. Fuller and Tri began contacting victims and witnesses and gathering whatever evidence remained from the 2007 case. 

In October 2023, unrelated to their ongoing investigation, a CCSO deputy was dispatched to take a report of a sexual assault that had occurred about a decade prior.

The deputy met with a woman and her daughter, born in August 2007, and was 16 at the time of the interview, according to court documents.

The teen told the detective that around the time she was six or seven years old, her uncle, Laverdure, had touched her thigh and vaginal region.

Charges were filed against Laverdure in December 2023 and he was arrested that month and held in the Adult Detention Center since. 

Racki said that sentencing was set for December 2024.