Police say recent assault similar to 1992 slaying at On the Beat in the Bluegrass

Police say recent assault similar to 1992 slaying

Published

on September 4, 2008

. Tags: attempted murder, Aug. 25, Breckinridge County, burglary, Elena Sanchez Hawkins, Elizabethtown, Ernest Pine, Kentucky State Police, rape, slit her throat, sodomy, Steve Pavey, unsolved murder.

Herald-Leader staff report

Kentucky State Police are investigating whether the man arrested in a brutal attack in Breckinridge County last month was involved in the unsolved murder of an Elizabethtown woman in 1992.

Ernest Pine, 58, of Breckinridge County, has been charged with rape, sodomy, burglary and attempted murder. State police said he attacked a woman on Aug. 25 and slit her throat.

Before she was flown to University Hospital in Louisville in critical condition, the woman told police that Pine attacked her, trooper Steve Pavey said.

State police said there are similarities between the attack and the 1992 murder of Elena Sanchez Hawkins, 29, who was found dead by her husband at their home on Jan. 8, 1992.

Her wrists had been bound, she had been sexually assaulted and her throat had been cut, according to the state police Web site. She died from blood loss.

The Herald-Leader does not name people who allege sexual assault.

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Ashlee Clark is the Richmond bureau reporter for the Herald-Leader. She has covered general assignments in Madison, Clark, Estill, Powell and Montgomery counties since she joined the newspaper in September 2007. Ashlee, a Louisville native, is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she received degrees in journalism and sociology.

Shawntaye Hopkins is the Herald-Leader’s police reporter, covering local law enforcement, fire and EMS and breaking news. She joined the staff in September 2006 as the newspaper’s night police reporter. Shawntaye, a Louisville native, graduated from Western Kentucky University where she studied journalism and criminology. Shawntaye resides in Lexington.

Delano Massey is the Herald-Leader’s Regional Editor. He works closely with the paper’s bureau reporters and police and courts reporters to plan coverage, pursue breaking news and seek out enterprise stories. A Northeast Ohio native, Delano started his journalism career as a night cops reporter at the Belleville News-Democrat. In 2003, he made the trek to Lexington to take the reins as the newspaper’s daytime cops reporter. Delano, a graduate of the University of Akron, has won numerous awards for breaking news, spot news and investigative journalism.

Brandon Ortiz has covered courts, criminal justice and judicial politics for the Herald-Leader since April 2005. Ortiz was a leading contributor to the paper’s coverage of the investigation of the Comair Flight 5191 crash. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Ortiz has a journalism degree from Texas Christian University. He started at the Herald-Leader in September 2004.

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