Tenn. DA drops charges in alleged abduction-rape
Tennessee prosecutors have dropped charges against a Snellville man who was accused of kidnapping and raping an Atlanta stripper. On Thursday the Sevier County, Tenn., district attorneys' office dismissed the charges against 46-year-old David Joseph Jansen. On May 26, Violet Esteppe, 24, told deputies she was kidnapped by Jansen while jogging in her Morningside neighborhood. She claimed Jansen tied her up and drove her to a cabin in the Smoky Mountains, where he drugged and raped her, according to a Sevier County Sheriff's Office report.
