A 49-year-old man who previously talked publicly about being an activist was sentenced to over 46 years in prison for raping two Seattle women while they were incapacitated and filming them, as well as putting a camera in his bathroom to capture houseguests showering.
Redwolf Pope was convicted by a King County jury in September of raping a woman four times in 2016 and 2017 and raping another woman in 2017 while they were incapacitated and could not consent. Videos of the rapes, including a montage" set to music, were evidence in the trial. He was previously convicted in New Mexico of criminal sexual penetration (comparable to second-degree rape) of a third Washington woman.
In addition to guilty verdicts on five counts of second-degree rape, Pope was also found guilty of four counts of first-degree voyeurism. On Wednesday, victims spoke in court about the impact the crimes had on their lives over the last decade. At trial and sentencing, Pope, who was representing himself, contended he did not commit the crimes and that the videos of him raping unconscious women were "deepfakes."
"He is a violent, manipulative individual who abused his position of trust with his friends to perpetrate his crimes," Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jocelyn Cooney said. At some points, the footage captured women "so unconscious and unresponsive at times" that they snored while being raped, Cooney said.
Several victims stated at the sentencing hearing that they believe there are additional victims whose cases prosecutors were not able to charge.
"You probably cannot even remember all the women that you hurt, because we were never human to you, just objects to be used," one survivor told the court.
The investigation began in 2018, when a houseguest and Pope's roommate found cameras in the bathroom and bedroom of his Seattle apartment and took the SD cards. One of the witnesses was his business partner and the pair traveled to and from Santa Fe, N.M., where he had another residence. In his Santa Fe apartment, they located his iPad and more cameras.
On the devices, the pair found videos of Pope assaulting women who appeared to be unconscious and unresponsive. Three of the videos captured the interior of his apartment in Seattle, according to court documents.
During the sentencing, Pope claimed the business partner who found the camera was the person who made the videos, editing his face onto the body of the person captured raping women. "There's a different possibility for what is really going on here," he said.
Pope was convicted of assaulting a woman in Santa Fe after she identified herself in the video turned over to law enforcement, according to probable cause documents. Another woman reached out to a Seattle detective after Pope was arrested, saying she remembered waking up in his bed with no memory of how she got there.
"She felt it strange at the time; but considering what good friends they were did not believe anything sexual had happened," charging documents stated.
She identified herself from a still captured from one of the videos taken in the Seattle apartment, beginning to "wail and cry" for several minutes when a detective showed her the photo.
The woman told police that he had picked her up and offered her a drink in his car. The next thing she remembered was waking up the next morning in his bed, clothed and under the covers. When she woke up, he told her that she had "professed her love for him."
Multiple videos were found of another victim being raped. The victim told police Pope, who had been a friend for years, appeared to have unreciprocated feelings for her and was sometimes "possessive and jealous," according to charging documents.
"At 35 weeks pregnant, I should be at home, preparing for my baby and focusing on my health," one of the women said. "But again, I am here, face-to-face with my rapist."
She said the prolonged trial, and having to be questioned by Pope since he was representing himself, was retraumatizing and a "shadow" over the victims. At one point during the trial, she said, he winked at her.
"He is, and should be considered by this court to be a serial rapist, a serial sex offender and predator, one that our community needs indefinite protection from," she said. "The sad truth is that this person drugged and raped me more times than I know about and more times than the prosecutor's office was able to charge him with."
Pope also served a prison sentence in New Mexico for voyeurism and criminal sexual penetration. At the time he was arrested, Pope was known as a Native American activist and entrepreneur. He has since been disenrolled as a tribal member.
Pope appeared as a spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” to discuss Native American perspectives on Thanksgiving. He later gave a TEDx Talk in Seattle about oil-pipeline protests at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota — one of the survivors said Wednesday that he "stole" her story and Lakota teachings when they met at Standing Rock, spinning it into that talk.
Patricia Allen-Dick, a Tlingit and Haida tribal member and former tribal council member, knew Pope for years. Allen-Dick said she, as well as friends and family, repeatedly visited the apartment where he recorded people and raped women. She said he abused the trust of the tribal community.
"The amount of harm and trauma and disorientation that he's caused will never be reflected in even the charges, let alone the sentencing, because there's just so many people who have been impacted, Allen-Dick said.
Second-degree rape carries an indeterminate sentence, so Pope will go before an indeterminate sentencing review board upon the completion of his prison sentence to determine if he should be released. If released, he is subject to lifetime community custody and no-contact orders for his victims.
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