A Savannah man already facing charges in two rape cases was indicted Wednesday on murder, rape and robbery charges in the January slaying of a Port Wentworth woman as part of what prosecutors consider a serial-rape scenario.
The Chatham County grand jury also indicted Torrey Scott, 38, on rape, kidnapping and armed robbery charges in connection with the February abduction of a woman from the Candler Hospital parking lot off DeRenne Avenue. Scott was re-indicted at the same time in the initial two cases involving Savannah State University students.
“We take the rape of just one person seriously,” District Attorney Meg Heap said Wednesday. “Two or more we would consider a serial rapist because you did it more than once.”
In the Port Wentworth case, the grand jury accused Scott of strangling Lisa Marie Pynn, 33, on Jan. 18 at her home in the 100 block of Fox Glenn Court. Scott also was charged with robbery by force and aggravated assault in Pynn’s death.
She was found dead in her residence just after 8 a.m. after a neighbor reported she was unresponsive. Police said her 6-year-old child found Pynn in her bedroom and alerted the neighbor.
The indictment also charges Scott with theft by taking of four firearms belonging to Pynn’s husband who was serving overseas on military deployment.
Port Wentworth police announced Pynn’s death was a homicide three days after her death, following the results of an autopsy at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab. Until Wednesday’s indictment, police had not publicly released a cause of death in the case.
The indictment was the third against Scott, adding the murder case to the charges he already faced.
In the Candler parking lot incident, a Savannah-Chatham police detective testified in April that the victim identified Scott from a photo lineup as the man who abducted her at gunpoint from the parking lot and raped her in an area off of Germain Drive close to a Food Lion.
Scott was re-indicted on other charges, including the rape and assault on two female Savannah State University students Dec. 5 at their college housing.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Scott was a suspect in that case in March. A campus police incident report said the assailant had a firearm during the attacks and stole video games, a gaming device and a tablet computer.
An attorney for the two Savannah State students has sued the university and related defendants in Chatham County State Court. The lawsuit charges they ignored a pattern of criminal conduct at the university and failed to provide a safe environment for the victims.
Scott remains in custody at the Chatham County jail without bond.