By LAURA ITALIANO
June 18, 2008
As a Columbia University student lay in critical condition hours after her rape and torture ordeal, she bravely drew for cops the distinctive scar she saw on her attacker's body.
The second-degree burns the fiend inflicted were agonizing.
Still, even after 19 hours of rape and torture, the brave 23-year- old was determined to help catch the man who'd nearly killed her.
Grabbing a pencil out of the hand of Detective Kenneth Fiol, the top investigator on the case, she demanded to draw the scar in the cop's own notes.
The victim's drawing - made available to reporters yesterday - would within the week aid in the capture of Robert Williams, the 31-year-old violent ex-con whose trial is wrapping up in Manhattan.
She'd memorized the unusual mark - a small, bisected oval on the fiend's right abdomen - as he raped her after pushing his way inside her Hamilton Heights apartment in April 2007.
A week would pass before Williams, 31, was busted in Queens in an unrelated robbery. An eagle-eyed cop noticed the odd oval scar along with other distinctive markings - a gold tooth, a scar on the back of his head - committed to memory by the victim.
