Redwolf Pope is scheduled to face trial later this month in King County Superior Court four years after he was charged with the rape of two unconscious women in a Boylston Ave apartment where police said they found proof the sexual assaults occurred after the discovery of secret cameras, and a stash of incriminating recordings.
The local court proceedings come after Pope completed his prison sentence in New Mexico for raping a woman there in 2017.
In July 2018, Pope was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a Seattle woman in a Santa Fe, New Mexico hotel room. A month later, the King County Prosecutor charged Pope with two counts of second-degree rape after two of his business associates discovered video recordings of Pope with two unconscious women in his Capitol Hill apartment. Another video showed the Santa Fe assault.
With his New Mexico sentence now complete, Pope, 45, was booked into King County Jail in May and remains held on $500,000 bail.
Prosecutors say more video evidence has been identified in the years since the initial charges. Pope now faces three charges of second degree rape and three first degree voyeurism charges. His victims were associates, each women around 28 to 33 years of age.
An activist and entrepreneur at one time embraced by Seattle University where he received his law degree, police allege one Pope victim was given a sweetened beverage before she blacked out. Police said Pope made secretly recorded videos into a movie complete with a soundtrack. “The defendant was so proud of his repulsive behavior that spliced together the three known rape videos and compiled a montage set to music,” prosecutors write.
CHS spoke with another woman who said she was a victim of Pope as she attended Seattle U and criticized the Jesuit university for shielding Pope and not doing more to protect students like her from his actions. “I’m not getting back my opportunity to be a law student or an academic,” Priscilla Moreno told CHS in 2020. “I’m not getting back the time I was abused and stalked and harassed. I’m not going to get back the network that he went out of his way to destroy. I’m not going to get back the career or income that I don’t have from being an attorney with my fairly useless license. I don’t know what justice actually looks like at this point. I just want to be heard.”
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