Now a rapist even has his own webpage. East coast police forces have stepped up the search for the individual known as the east coast rapist:
-866-411-TIPS
A brazen, cold-blooded rapist has terrorized five communities across the East Coast for 14 years. Police need your help to find him.
A neighborhood stalker who won’t stop until he’s caught, this man has violently attacked 17 women in:
- Prince Georges County, Maryland (1997, 1998, 2001)
- Fairfax County, Virginia (1998, 2000, 2001)
- Leesburg, Virginia (2001)
- Cranston, Rhode Island (2006)
- New Haven, Connecticut (2007)
- Prince William County, Virginia (2009)
These attacks have been linked through DNA. Police have looked at and cleared over 700 suspects. Call police if YOU have information; with DNA it’s easy to rule out innocent people. Your tips are vital and may be the information police need.
There are several police sketches that you can look at on the website.
According to the Washington Post:
Highway drivers from Virginia to Rhode Island on Monday will begin to see electronic billboards with larger-than-life police sketches of an unidentified man who has been attacking women for more than a decade – images that detectives hope will spark the tip they need to catch an elusive predator they call the East Coast Rapist.
The billboards are the latest effort by law enforcement to identify the man who has sexually assaulted at least 12 women since the late 1990s. His last known rape was in Prince William County on Halloween in 2009, a brazen attack on three teenage girls headed home from a night of trick-or-treating. DNA evidence links the rapes.
Detectives in four states and FBI agents have been searching for the rapist, but they have not been able to name him. They say he is black and about 6 feet tall, and once had a badly chipped tooth. He often wore a ski mask or hat during attacks. He has used a knife, gun, screwdriver and broken bottle to overpower victims.
Reminder from Moon:
Keep your doors locked when you are at home in your house. Too many of us protect our homes from invasion but not ourselves.
This situation is actually very scary. There is a monster out there and he has been to our area.