In June 2008, Hopper, of Burlington, Ky., pleaded guilty in Warren County Common Pleas Court to two counts of rape, four counts of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of aggravated robbery, possession of criminal tools and gross sexual imposition for the February 2006 assault. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Hopper attacked the two women at gunpoint in a Franklin Twp. model home in February 2006. He took their clothes and two rings. Police caught up with him after he pawned the rings in Newport, Ky.
Following that arrest, DNA tests identified him as a suspect in a March 2004 of a woman at a cellular phone store near the Dayton Mall.
DNA also linked Hopper to the “blue-eyed rapist” crimes throughout the region that dated back to 1992.
In February 2008, Hopper was sentenced to 20 more years in prison for raping a Dry Ridge, Ky., store clerk at gunpoint in 1994. In November, he was sentenced to 32 years in prison on federal gun crime charges. He also has received a 22-year sentence in Campbell County, Ky., which, along with the February sentence, would be served concurrently to the federal prison term, authorities said.