Fullerton Cold Case Solved: Clown accused of raping 12-year-old

By EUGENE W. FIELDS FULLERTON – A 41-year-old professional clown was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of raping a 12-year-old girl in 2002.

Fullerton police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich said Jose Guadalupe Jimenez of Anaheim works as a clown under the name "El Tin Laurin," a play on the name of a popular Mexican cookie.

Goodrich said the rape took place on Jan. 19, 2002. Police believe Jimenez, dressed as a clown, grabbed the girl at the corner of Lemon Street and Commonwealth Avenue, drove her to a nearby school parking lot and raped her.

Police allege that Jimenez then took the girl to a motel on Harbor Boulevard and raped her again. Goodrich said the girl escaped when Jimenez left the car to contact the motel clerk.

"The only description we had in 2002 was that he was dressed as a clown," Goodrich said. "We had DNA from the sexual assault and we put it in the system."

Goodrich said Jimenez was linked to the rape after Jimenez was arrested for another crime in Anaheim in 2010 and his DNA was taken.

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