Chilton County man convicted of rape

A Chilton County man has been convicted of rape in the first degree.

According to District Attorney CJ Robinson, 41-year-old Corey Oliver of Thorsby was found guilty this week, following his indictment in March 2024.

Robinson said Oliver had been in a dating relationship with his victim when he strangled, beat and raped her at knife point.

“Corey Oliver is a menace,” Robinson said in a statement. “He has more than 10 prior felony convictions and approximately 40 total arrests that began with drugs and property crimes and escalated to sexual crimes of violence.

“For my entire career (nearly twenty years) I have seen his name over and over and over on dockets. Corey Oliver was a direct
beneficiary of the hug-a-thug policies of prison reform that plagued Alabama citizens for nearly ten years. Thank God we have come to our senses recently and started empowering our law enforcement, DA’s, and judges to protect the public.

“In his previous cases, the prosecutors, the judges, the probation officers… everyone did their job according to the law and the end result was an evil person, who should have been in prison, was free to keep committing crimes and victimizing women and children.”

Robinson said, “Oliver slithered his way out of several previous charges when we suspected he intimidated victims as they routinely refused to follow-through with charges or changed their statement(s) during legal proceedings. Here, in the course of a separate investigation of sexual assault on a different victim, District Attorney Investigators (working alongside the Chilton County Sheriff’s Office) identified the victim in this case and connected her with other DA Office personnel like our Victim Service Officer and our Assistant DA’s who did an amazing job fighting to ensure Corey’s Oliver’s path of destruction is finally over.”

Oliver is set to be sentenced by Circuit Judge Joy Booth on August 6.