In North Jersey, three days before Halloween and 9 days before the elections in 1977, James Comey and his younger brother Peter had a run in with a criminal that had raped young teens in Bergen County.

A man dubbed “the Ramsey rapist” held 15-year-old Comey and his younger brother at gunpoint after breaking into their Allendale home on an October day in 1977, one of a string of break-ins that included the rape of two area baby sitters. The Comey brothers, locked in a bathroom while the intruder searched the home, escaped through a window, only to encounter the man again on their lawn. The brothers ran back inside the house, locked the doors and called police, setting off a massive manhunt.

Comey has said [that episode] taught him important lessons about crime’s psychological toll on victims. He said it affected him for years, though he did not say exactly how.

Source: http://archive.northjersey.com/news/fbi-nominee-comey-was-held-captive-as-a-bergen-teen-1.589446?page=all

Comey has seen all those emails. What happened to that important lesson?

One of the Comey brothers (unnamed), identified the rapist in a line up, but the police did not pursue**any **charges. In fact, the bail for the guy they had in custody was lowered and the police chief put up his own house as bond (ethics, conflict of interest). A grand jury in 1978 returned no indictments.

No one was ever charged for the home invasion or the rapes.

Sources:

http://archive.northjersey.com/news/fbi-nominee-comey-was-held-captive-as-a-bergen-teen-1.589446?page=all

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/07/the-gunman-the-rapist-the-woodsman-and-young-jim-comey

How many holes can you find in this story? e.g. How did two teenagers just run back into the house "to call police" when they were confronted outside by a guy with gun?