Kevin Coe - Confinement History

Confinement History

He was not released at the completion of his sentence because the State of Washington has been seeking to keep him confined indefinitely under a "civil commitment" statute which provides for indefinite confinement of a sex offender beyond the completion of their prison sentence provided they have been judicially declared a "sexually violent predator".

Upon the completion of his prison sentence, the State transferred Coe to the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island, the facility to which it hopes to have him permanently committed. On Dec. 22, 2007, a judge postponed the trial until September, 2008. Coe has been diagnosed with personality disorder not otherwise specified with narcissistic and antisocial traits.

On October 15, 2008, the prosecution and defense rested their case in Coe's civil commitment trial and handed over the decision to the jurors. The next day on October 16, 2008 after several hours of deliberation, the jury decided that the prosecution has proven beyond reasonable doubt that Coe is a violent sexual predator. He was committed to McNeil Island indefinitely.

As of March 24, 2011, as reported in the Spokesman-Review, Kevin Coe's appeal of the trial proceeding to be civilly committed as a sexual predator was denied. "...23 victims identified Coe as their attacker in crimes that occurred during the decade leading up to Coe’s 1981 arrest.She (psychologist Dr. Amy Phenix) also listed another 30 sex crimes in which the victims could not identify their attacker, but said she believed Coe was the perpetrator because of similarities to the other attacks."

Coe served the entire 25 years of the prison sentence for the remaining conviction. Although he became eligible to apply for parole in 1992, he never appeared at any parole hearings. He completed his prison sentence on Sept. 8, 2006.