Rapist who recorded assaults in Capitol Hill apartment sentenced to 46 years

More than eight years after the assaults, an activist and entrepreneur who used Seattle University as his home base for establishing himself as a media pundit and expert on Native American issues has been sentenced to 46 years in jail for the rapes of unconscious women he videotaped inside his Boylston Ave Capitol Hill apartment.

His victims say Redwolf Pope drugged them and assaulted them without their knowledge.

Videos of the attacks revealed the crimes.

In September, a jury convicted Pope of five counts of rape and four counts of voyeurism for the assaults beginning in 2016.

The long path to justice in the case included time for Pope to finish a sentence in New Mexico. In July 2018, Pope was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a Seattle woman in a Santa Fe, New Mexico hotel room.

A month later, the King County Prosecutor charged Pope with rape after two of his business associates discovered video recordings of Pope with unconscious women in his Capitol Hill apartment. Another video showed the Santa Fe assault.

After Pope’s jail time in New Mexico was complete, his King County prosecution began as prosecutors said more video evidence had been identified in the years since the initial charges.

His victims were associates, each women around 28 to 33 years of age.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee speaks with Redwolf Pope at a gathering at Seattle University in 2013 (Image: Governor Jay Inslee/Facebook)

An activist and entrepreneur at one time embraced by Seattle University where he received his law degree, police allege one Pope victim was given a sweetened beverage before she blacked out.

Police said Pope made secretly recorded videos into a movie complete with a soundtrack. “The defendant was so proud of his repulsive behavior that spliced together the three known rape videos and compiled a montage set to music,” prosecutors write.

CHS spoke with another woman who said she was a victim of Pope as she attended Seattle U and criticized the Jesuit university for shielding Pope and not doing more to protect students from his actions.

“I’m not getting back my opportunity to be a law student or an academic,” Priscilla Moreno told CHS in 2020. “I’m not getting back the time I was abused and stalked and harassed. I’m not going to get back the network that he went out of his way to destroy. I’m not going to get back the career or income that I don’t have from being an attorney with my fairly useless license. I don’t know what justice actually looks like at this point. I just want to be heard.”

Now, Pope, 49, could spend most if not all of the rest of his life in jail.

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