Her rape conviction in the criminal prosecution of Kevin Coe was later overturned on appeal because she was hypnotized by Spokane police in their efforts to get an identification of her assailant.

Now a middle-aged optician who lives in Idaho, the woman testified about her ordeal this morning in Coe's civil commitment trial. She did not want to be identified by name.

Her attacker wore oven mitts and shoved one of them into her mouth when she tried to scream, the woman recalled.

"I was bleeding from my nose into the oven mitts," she said.

He raped her under a large tree in a neighbor's yard while asking her crude questions about her sex life and threatening to harm her if she went to the police.

"You don't want a guy with a knife following you all over," she said he warned her.

In other testimony today in the continuation of the state's effort to show Coe fits a pattern as a violent sexual predator, another woman recalled a frightening confrontation with a man she later identified as Coe.

On the morning of Jan. 2, 1981, the woman, then 31, was waiting near her house for the bus that would take her to work at the YMCA. It was dark, just before 7 a.m., when she saw a man in jogging clothes walk toward her, then pretend to stagger, she said.

As he recovered from his crouch, he waved a large fake penis at her from between his legs.

"He said, ¡¥Do you want to touch it?'ƒ|" she recalled.

She swung a racquet at him that she carried in her duffel bag. He jumped back and ran down the hill, then turned and started running back toward her in a crouch, his arms outstretched.

She ran home, telling her husband what happened.

"I got a very good look at his face ¡V I was watching it all the time," she said.

On cross-examination by Coe's lawyer Marla Polin, the woman said she reported the incident to police but didn't tell them the crude question he asked her while he was holding the dildo.

"I didn't want to repeat it," she said.

She later identified Coe in a police photo lineup.

The state introduced a segment of a videotaped deposition of Coe taken earlier this year in which he admitted having a dildo in his car but said it wasn't his and probably belonged to his former girlfriend.

Also testifying Wednesday morning was a former neighbor of Coe's who recalled Coe wearing gloves when Coe returned to his house from early morning jogs.

Thomas F. Dolan, now a Sunnyside high school welding teacher, said he notices the kinds of gloves people wear because he owns dozens of pairs as a welder.

The wearing of gloves and the forcing of his hand down the throats of victims are "signature" elements the state is presenting as typical of Coe's behavior.

In videotaped testimony taken by state attorneys earlier this year and played for the jury, Coe said he'd never worn gloves because he didn't like the way they felt.

The state also introduced the testimony of Dr. Robert A. Wetzler, a deceased psychiatrist who testified in the second of Coe's criminal trials in 1985 that Coe confessed raping the woman with the year-old son who testified early Wednesday.

Wetzler said Coe told him in August 1981 he was jealous of the South Hill rapist and tried to copy his methods, leading to him raping the one woman.

Coe told Wetzler that 90 percent of what he was telling the psychiatrist was true, according to Wetzler's testimony read into the record.

At the time, Coe's defense attorneys were trying to get him committed to a state mental hospital, which required him to admit he'd been involved in a rape. He instead was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the October 1980 rape of Julie Harmia, the one count that withstood a series of appeals.