William Clark of Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States was recently arrested for a crime he allegedly committed more than three decades ago. To commit the crime, he allegedly pretended to be Michael L. Sorce a radio host known as Don Geronimo.
In March 2024, Clark turned 61. On September 18, 2024, Geronimo turned 66.
In March 1985, Geronimo started hosting the WAVA-FM (105.1) talk show “Morning Zoo” with Mike O’Meara. Pretending to be Geronimo, Clark phoned a woman and told her she needed to listen to his radio station to be eligible for a trip to Hawaii, USA and a $1,000 prize.
To proceed with the award, the woman needed to give personal information, Clark told her, so she provided her home phone number and address. When he called the number, it was her teenage daughter, then 14, who answered.
Unfortunately, the teenager believed that she was really talking to a radio host and was convinced to go to a radio station in Fairfax City, Virginia. Clark picked her up from there on March 6, 1987.
Driving a late model silver 4-door compact car with gray cloth bucket seats, automatic shifter on console between seats and a black dash with AM-FM stereo, Clark drove the teenager to a dirt road off the highway just west of the city limits and implied he had a gun. After raping her in a wooden area, he drove off.
On the same day, the teenager reported the assault to police. According to her, the rapist was 6’0″ tall, weighed around 215-225 pounds, was in his early to mid-20s, had pockmarks in his lower face and cheek, had straight collar-length sandy blonde hair and had no facial hair.
The rapist was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with zipper and two horizontal red and blue stripes on the left sleeve, jeans and white high-top tennis shoes, according to the teenager. He was also wearing brown framed glasses, she said.
On March 7, 1987, Geronimo dedicated much of his four-hour show to discussing the crime. He said he was horrified to even be remotely involved in a rape case and have his name used by the perpetrator.
In February 2022, police obtained a deoxyribonucleic sample from Clark. On April 14, 2022, police learned that it matched the DNA preserved in the crime he allegedly committed on March 6, 1987.
On April 18, 2022, Clark was arrested and booked into the Fairfax County Detention Center in Fairfax, Fairfax County without bond. He was charged with rape, abduction with the intention to defile and attempted forcible sodomy.
In July 2023, Geronimo was terminated by WBIG-FM. This was after he referred to WUSA-TV sports anchor Sharla McBride as “Barbie girl” and “that chick” in an episode of “The Don Geronimo Show”.
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