A Chilton County man with a lengthy criminal record has been convicted in the rape and beating of a woman.

A jury this week convicted 41-year-old Corey Oliver of first-degree rape, 19th Judicial Circuit District Attorney CJ Robinson announced Friday.

Oliver is still facing unrelated rape and incest charges set for trial later this year.

Robinson said the crime happened in 2018 but was disclosed to district attorney investigators in 2024, at which time he was indicted.

Oliver had been in a dating relationship with the victim when he strangled, beat and raped her at knifepoint.

The Thorsby man has more than 10 prior felony convictions, he said, and about 40 arrests that began with drugs and property crimes and escalated to sexual crimes of violence.

“For my entire career, nearly 20 years, I have seen his name over and over and over on dockets,” Robinson said. “Corey Oliver was a direct beneficiary of the hug-a-thug policies of prison reform that plagued Alabama citizens for nearly 10 years.”

“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,” he said.

Robinson said Oliver “slithered” his way out of several previous charges where authorities suspected he intimidated victims as they routinely refused to follow through with charges or changed their statements during legal proceedings.

In this case, he said, investigators discovered the victim while working a separate investigation of sexual assault on a different victim.

District attorney investigators and the Chilton County Sheriff’s Office connected her with resources.

“Our Victim Service Officer and our Assistant DAs did an amazing job fighting to ensure Corey Oliver’s path of destruction is finally over,” Robinson said.

Oliver is set to be sentenced on Aug. 6. His other trial is set for October.