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A serial rapist who has been terrorizing the East Coast since 1997 arrived in time on Halloween to attack and rape 3 teenage girls who were out trick or treating in Dale City. This rapist has been on the loose and has attacked in 4 states: Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland and Virginia.
A video update has been added to the end of this post. It is a multi-jurisdictional police press conference containing critical information for the public.
His DNA connects him to the following crimes:
- Feb. 12, 1997 – 6800 block of Marlboro Pike in Forestville, Md.
- Aug. 20, 1997 – 4600 block of Silver Hill Road in Suitland, Md.
- July 3, 1998 – 2900 block of 31st Avenue in Temple Hills, Md.
- June 19, 1999 – Richmond Highway/Memorial Street in Alexandria, Va.
- Jan. 13, 2000 – 7300 block of Fordson Road in Alexandria, Va.
- July 8, 2000 – 1900 block of Beechwood Road in Hyattsville, Md.
- Nov. 20, 2000 – Timber Forest Drive/Edsall Road in Alexandria, Va.
- May 24, 2001 – Plaza Street in Leesburg, Va.
- Aug. 16, 2001 – 4500 block of 23rd Parkway in Temple Hills, Md.
- Dec. 28, 2001 – 3700 block of Rolling Hills Avenue in Alexandria, Va.
- Nov. 28, 2006 – Valley View Drive in Cranston, RI
- Jan. 10, 2007 – Smith Avenue in New Haven, Conn.
- Oct. 31, 2009 – 4300 block of Dale Boulevard in Woodbridge
The rapist seems to take a break if you notice the hiatus in the crimes. This could mean something in his life has changed during that time frame or that there are crimes not being reported.
According to WTOP:
In most cases, the victims were walking and were approached by the suspect, who often threatened them with a knife or gun. In several cases, the suspect approached two women walking together and raped both of them.
Two incidents – one on Plaza Street in Leesburg and one in New Haven – involved the suspect breaking into the victims’ homes and raping them.
In the most recent attack, the suspect raped a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl at gunpoint as they were walking home from a night of trick-or-treating near Glendale Plaza.
Authorities believe the suspect lived in or spent a considerable amount of time in the areas of the attacks.
The suspect is still at large and potentially poses a risk to the community, police say. He is described as a black man in his 30s or 40s with a medium build.
Police are urging people to consider whether they know someone who fits the description, or know someone who may have lived in the areas or is known to spend time in the areas.
Authorities also say people who know the suspect may not think he’s capable of committing the crimes. However, they welcome any information that may be helpful in identifying or eliminating potential suspects.
WTOP credited with all facts for this post. This information is too critical for me to sort through and pick and chose what *I* think is important. Consider it a community service. It should come as no surprise that I think rapists should be killed. A crime profiler was featured on WTOP Channel 9 news at 11:00 last night. There was also a PWC police press conference.
UPDATE from insidenova.com:
The video contains critical information that multi-jurisdictional law enforcement wants the public to know.
Let’s see, this isn’t much of a law and order crowd. We have a serial rapist on the loose and almost 40 arrested for selling drugs to young people. Almost NO comments.
Is Prince William getting to be a high crime area? Didn’t we just avoid a school massacre?
Thanks for putting this together. I was interested in knowing but didn’t have the time to do the research.
I hope people are reading these crime threads even if they aren’t commenting. It is vital to public safety that this information be broadcast. This creep is still on the loose. The profiler said last night it is probably someone that no one would think capable of being a rapist. They are hoping someone links the places rapes have taken place to places he has been.
I hope also everyone saw our new permanent page up top that has links to print media and the TV stations. The tab is called News Sources and provides links to daily print periodicals from local, state and national. To its left is a link to political online stuff.
You can find both of these features right under the black Anti banner. Think of it as us delivering your newspapers. 🙂
I’m in a neighborhood watch Google group for our 12-street area in the City. We post the police press releases or links to the news stories so everyone is fully informed, but rarely does anyone make a comment. If they know anything, they tell the police. Thanks for keeping us informed, Moon. The more the information is spread in a variety of forms, the better. I’m sorry for the crime victims.
Thanks for pointing out your news source links. Some of them lead to errors — the News & Messenger and the Washington Post.
So am I. I just find it very interesting that we have a serial rapist, nearly 40 people feeding poison to our teenagers and a near miss with a campus massacre and people don’t seem to raise an eyebrow.
I am going to not ignore the 800 pound gorilla in the room. If this perp had been hispanic there are certain places there would have been 50 comments already. Same with Operation Medicine Man–the drug sting. None of the names were Hispanic. The shooter at NVCC was a white boy. Again. Dead silence.
Moon-howler, you are doing a real service by posting this type of thing. Being in Loudoun County, this one escaped me until now, but the presence of Leesburg in the timeline sure did make me sit up. You can be a particularly vital link in all this by spreading the facts through your postings. People cannot always register everything by watching a brief video, so it would help much if you could also post any recent police artist sketches of the alleged perpetrator, along with any recent details involving uniqueness of clothing and possibly even suspicions regarding a particular vehicle. As the principal street patrol for our Neighborhood Watch, I carry this type of thing with me all the time. I usually get it from the Sheriff’s Office or other police blotters, but finding such data here in a download mode would be helpful, especially if the perp is outside my area but could possibly wind up here. Good show.
Fox News is also talking about it and posting information. I saw something this afternoon before the great nap monster grabbed me. The bad thing is they were saying Prince William was in Maryland. They were getting their Williams and Georges confused.
There is a dedicated tipline out there somewhere that I cannot find to post.
Thanks Woverine.
This guy really likes to hang out in the nice areas, doesn’t he?
snicker. Shame on you Slowpoke. I wish his next ‘victim’ would be packing heat and simply shoot him…right in the family jewels.
Thanks Cindy. I think it is fixed. Oddly enough, when I typed in the url, it caused the broken link message. When I typed in the same words and actually went to the site, then cut and pasted it worked. Go figure. Let me know if you have further difficulty.