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[Music] this series deals with horrific sexual assault offenses and there's a lot of
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them we feel it's a very important story to cover but it won't be suitable for all listeners so please use your
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discretion if you decide to keep listening we will be releasing a map with each episode to help as you go
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along or for you to refer to afterwards you'll find a link to the map in the show notes on our website all you should
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be able to access the link from the show notes in your app part three began with
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an emergency press conference in mid 1977 a composite sketch as well as a physical and psychological profile of
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the East Area rapist was released the public were warned to be vigilant police received thousands of tips and there
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were countless sightings of the rapist unfortunately these sightings weren't always reported at the time many persons
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of interest made the suspect list some even look like prime suspects due to many similarities but these turned out
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to be nothing more than strange coincidences and most were eliminated from the investigation the east area
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rapist enjoyed communicating with police the press and survivors in August 77 the
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Sacramento County Sheriff's Office received a letter known as the afraid letter from someone claiming to know the
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east area rapist was the letter writer requested to be contacted through the press if the police wanted further
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information the police did what the letter writer asked but they never heard from the person again the rapist started
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calling survivors ranging from hang-up calls to obscene calls and threats to kill a local TV station received a poem
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called excitement's crave claiming to be from the east area rapist after a dentist went public and added more to
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the reward offer for the east area rapist Capshaw he attacked the survivor who lived close to the dentist's office
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in South Sacramento the further south he had attacked up to that point police had another close call when they
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set up a covert operation in a Rancho Cordova 7-eleven store this backfired when the suspicious mail they were
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waiting for called the store and asked to speak to the officers Brian and Katie Maggiore was shot dead in Rancho Cordova
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in February 1978 with the exception of one further attack in South Sacramento after the shooting the attacks moved
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outwards to Stockton Modesto and Davis Sacramento was not hit again [Music] in Sacramento the fear was immense after
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the shooting murders of brian and de katie Maggiore people wondered if the east area rapist had now escalated to
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murder although the murder wasn't officially linked with the attacks moving out of sacramento after the
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shooting police considered that the east area rapist may have moved because it was now on murder suspect surveillance
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in the city was at an all time high helicopters were now in use the California Highway Patrol used their
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patrol helicopters to scour the streets every night pilots would swoop if they got a call of possible East Area rapist
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activity in an area when no calls came in they cruised the air over East and South Sacramento shining their
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floodlights below hoping to catch him when the helicopters flew overhead homes below were filled with floodlights the
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dull constant drone of the helicopters would become a sound that many would associate with the east area rapist for
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years to come people remembered lying in their beds in total fear as soon as night fell many would leave all their
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lights on radios and televisions would also be left on to make homes seem busy before going to bed people would check
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all the locks on their doors and windows some many times over as people climbed into bed the fear of the long night
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setting many tide wind chimes to curtain rods on the inside of their windows this
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way if he broke into their house they may get a warning any gust of wind or noise outside sent people into a panic
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rumors were circulating that the exterior rapist broke into homes prior to attacks and unloaded guns
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so people rechecked to their guns under their beds or kilos every night to make sure that was still loaded
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people slept in shifts so that someone in the house was awake at all times and ready to take action constant rumors
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into the need for police to withhold many details of the attacks caused widespread confusion of the facts what
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color were his eyes his hair did he walk with a strange gait or was he putting it
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on did he really have a stutter the fact that the a stereo rapist seemed to be using different vehicles for
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almost every crime added to the confusion of people for what to look out for was at the station wagon a Chevy a
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Fiat a Mustang a Volkswagen a van a bike was at primed resprayed whatever it was
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he seemed to have access to many different vehicles none of them showed up as stolen as far as it's known so
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it's possible that he had unquestioned access to them maybe through a job another theory was that he broke into
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car body shops and borrowed vehicles only to return them before anyone suspected whenever he was doing it
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didn't seem suspicious to anyone else anyone who would report him anyway none of the items stolen from the survivors
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homes had been located the Asteria rapist likely kept them as mementos a way to relive each attack many of the
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items were of more sentimental value to the survivors than financial meaning they could be easily identified if found
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homemade coin earrings other costume jewelry cufflinks that were a family heirloom with the letter n engraved on
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them and many more items that could be easily identified including photos of survivors the last five attacks we
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covered in part three whether to in Modesto and three in Davis attacks 33 to 37 June 5th to July 6 1978 sergeant Jim
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Evans Lieutenant ray route and to the rest of the Sacramento Sheriff's Task Force came to the conclusion that these
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attacks were not just random attacks outside of Sacramento they felt this new cluster of attacks
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running between Modesto and Davis were planned and targeted in the same way he targeted those in Sacramento they
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strongly believed he was on the move and they had to work out where his next strike was going to be there was always
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the chance he would continue to prowl and strike in Sacramento but after weighing it all up the task force
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determined the most logical place for the east area rapist to strike next was Contra Costa County they believed he
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could be headed south to Los Angeles and Contra Costa County was an ideal next target that was on the way the primarily
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middle-class suburban area of Contra Costa County is located east of San Francisco the name is Spanish for
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opposite coasts which refers to its location on the other side of the bay from San Francisco to the northeast of
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Contra Costa County lies the border of Sacramento County but unlike its neighbors Contra Costa County had no
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experience in serial rapists certainly not of this caliber sergeant Jim Evans and Lieutenant Ray route prepared to
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hold a briefing with their counterparts in Contra Costa County and they were expecting some pushback the City of
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Concord in Contra Costa County is just over an hour southwest of Sacramento and an hour directly west of Stockton in
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1978 it had a population of around 100,000 people on the morning of August 14th 1978 chief criminalist Dewayne
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Gillan held the weekly meeting with his crime lab at the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department in Martinez just
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west of Concord also in the room that day was crime scene investigator detective Larry Crompton crompton had
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just been selected for a transfer to the sheriff's crime lab after two years in narcotics and three years in Patrol
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Dewayne Dillon addressed the crime lab quote Sacramento Sheriff's Office investigators will be there at Concord
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PD tomorrow to talk about the rapist that has been terrorizing their County for the last two years they believe he's
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heading our way and the sheriff wants us to be represented at the meeting we don't know
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much at this time but apparently their investigators have not been able to come up
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with anything of value and do they think we had better be ready Dwayne Dillon requested that Larry Compton attend the
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briefing at Concord PD on behalf of contra Costa sheriff's crime lab the Sheriff's Department would also send
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representatives from Patrol and detectives just like our Sacramento Sheriff's and Sacramento City Police are
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two different departments so to work on cord PD and Contra Costa Sheriff's Department there were only about 15
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minutes away from each other but two separate police departments entirely the Contra Costa Sheriff's Crime Lab where
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Larry Compton worked was the largest lab in the county some other city police departments had their own lives but they
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were small and couldn't run as many tests so most specimens were sent to the Contra Costa sheriff's lab if the east
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area rapist did strike in Contra Costa County that was important Crompton and his lab was informed as they would
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likely process the evidence the following day August 15th just after 8:00 a.m. in the morning sergeant Jim
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Evans and Lieutenant Ray Route arrived at the Concord Police Department it became immediately clear to all officers
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in attendance why they had chosen Concord to hold the briefing based on the city's geography and a lot of
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intuition the Sacramento Sheriff's Task Force believed Concord was the place the
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east area rapist would hit next with its vast canal system trails and open spaces
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admitting to many of the areas previously hit by the rapist to the Sacramento detectives had seen the
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logical place for him to strike representatives from all of the central Contra Costa County law enforcement
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agencies were present at the briefing Concord PD Walnut Creek PD Pleasant Hill PD Martinez PD and the Sheriff's
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Department some law enforcement agencies from other parts of the county like Antioch PD and a Pittsburgh PD were also
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present but law enforcement agencies from other parts of the county not considered potential targets of the east
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area rapist didn't attend Larry Compton spoke to us about the meeting quote I went to the meeting and
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listen to what they were talking about and even though Sacramento was not that far from Contra Costa County we knew
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nothing about the attacks they started telling us about the rapist and that they felt it was coming down into our
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area at the time we all thought why would it be coming to our area they went over the things that were happening
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during the rapes when we heard the things that this person was doing during those attacks we thought no way he's not
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coming to us we don't have any serial rapists like that but what you have to understand is back then if the crimes
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were not happening in your area and you were not getting the newspaper from other areas you didn't hear about any of
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these things today it's a little different but then we knew nothing about it we were told that he was very violent
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and that he had threatened to kill the big thing is that before we even knew about this there were almost 40 attacks
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that's the difference between how things were then compared to today today you would know about it it made it very hard
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they told us they thought he was coming to our area but they thought it was going to Los Angeles or Southern
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California and in order to get there he had to come through our area that was very difficult for us to imagine why if
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that was the case that he was going there why would he even stop in the area we left that meeting thinking that we
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wouldn't hear any more about him lieutenant root told those in attendance of the meeting quote we think he's ready
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to move and we believe he is coming here you'd better be prepared we think he might come to your area
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you're going to need a task force all the agencies need to work together unless you cooperate completely with
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each other you were going to lose I strongly suggest you form a multi-agency task force before he hits the
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psychological profiles that we have each say that he will kill and that he will kill a cop if cornered we believe it and
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we suggest that you believe it too [Music] lieutenant route offered all of the different
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contra costs and law enforcement agencies the reports and evidence they had as well as an offer for any
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assistance they needed day or night he finished with this quote we have invented the wheel but we can't seem to
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fit the spokes when he hits and he will we would appreciate a call the Contra costs the law enforcement agencies heard
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the details of his MO and to the signs to look out for but the sentiment in the room matched what Crompton was feeling
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not in our county what color Kron sure but a serial rapist never Compton wasn't alone in thinking it was a joke to
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imagine all agencies cooperating either not only that but cooperating on a task force for something that hadn't even
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happened yet this is a quote from Larry Crompton's book sudden terror cooperation multi-agency task force get
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real some cops cooperate even some agencies cooperate but most cops don't most agencies don't only when it's too
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late and the damage is done there's any real sense of cooperation kick in and then only because the
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outside pressure comes to bear egos politics budgets laziness incompetence human nature all play a part in the
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phenomenon known as lack of cooperation another thing lieutenant route made clear to the Contra cost the law
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enforcement agencies in that briefing was that the rapist often said and did things they believed were a deliberate
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attempt to throw off the survivors in police pull holes is an investigator for the District Attorney's Office in Contra
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Costa County he was previously chief of forensics at Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department he discussed this
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point with us I will tell you that this offender did verbally stage Wyckoff verbal staging or
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even behavioral staging you can stage a crime scene right you want to make a homicide look like a suicide so you you
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place you know the person you just shot the gun in their hands and you kind of change things up to make it look like a
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suicide that's called staging he was staging these scenes but he's staging it verbally as well as behaviorally he is
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telling the victims bits of information because he knows they're going to be talking to law enforcement but he's
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telling them bits of information to mislead law enforcement away from what he is and you know little examples such
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as you know don't tell the pigs you saw my van outside or I need to take food and money out to my van says that
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multiple times I guarantee he was never driving a van he's verbally staging that
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he's this transient individual that is just scraping by in the first Modesto attack he steals $1,500 they had a
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dry-cleaning business they had their business proceeds and in a bank where you were bag it's a little zippered bag
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and he takes that well over $1,300 if that was cash two days later he's up and Davis attacking a 19 year old girl and
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he when he first walks in I need food and money right no he doesn't he just got $1,300 cash that's $1,300 in 1978
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this is showing he's following a script he's decided I need to have the victims think this is the type of person I am
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behaviorally some of the victims would say he'd sit there and shiver like he's withdrawing from drugs or he'd be asking
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for drugs and like one time he finds the victims codeine pills if she hears him run over to the sink and he's on the
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faucet he's making all sorts of noise it's like he's taking a bunch of these pills this is Hall Park
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his act and so when you start to see what he's trying to make the victims and thus law enforcement believe he's this
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semi transient just dredge a society guy well he's obviously trying to make law enforcement think completely opposite of
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what he really is in Sacramento task force detectives were continuing to receive tips and continued to review
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possible suspects when detectives had a suspect that would pull up any information they could find if they had
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a military record it would show the blood group of the person which made it easy to determine if they were type-a or
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not what they didn't know was at the time military records were not always correct so there is a chance that some
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suspects may have been eliminated based on an incorrect blood type on their military record Paul holes confirmed
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that at the time they mostly used saliva samples to determine a suspects accreta
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status that would help to either eliminate the suspect or keep them on the list he had this to say via email
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about secretest status and blood type to eliminate suspects quote the suspects blood was obtained either via consent or
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search warrant military records have also been used but we have concerns about the accuracy of the military's
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determination of the soldiers blood type a small percentage of suspects had their
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blood type determined but most suspects were eliminated based on secretor status
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as it was easier to get a saliva sample than to get a phlebotomist out each time
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a suspect was contacted the use of the secretest status was an unfortunate misstep in my opinion as there are a
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subset of individuals who do not neatly fall into the secrete our non-secretor groupings and there is the potential of
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someone with poor dental hygiene having bleeding gums throwing the secretest status determination off it is possible
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that someone was falsely eliminated based on secreta status today we completely ignore the previous
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determination of secretor status and go for DNA if we find a suspect that had previously been eliminated by it
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there was no slowing down of the Sacramento Sheriff's task force extensive patrols surveillance and
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inquiries were still being conducted the yeast area rapist lasts trucking Davis on July 6th 1978 he hadn't struck in
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Sacramento since mid-april no attacks were happening but there was a reason the helicopters were still hovering
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every night the east area rapist was still present in East Sacramento he just wasn't attacking he was prowling
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he was doing the reconnaissance missions he had always done and first select the
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group of residents he was leaving the early warning signs that he was coming for them Sarah and James moved to
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Carmichael around this time that's not their real names they were building a home outside of Sacramento but needed to
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rent in Carmichael until the build was finished they had just bought their first daughter into the world and they
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rented a home on st. Lynn night Carmichael in the pocket just east of Arden arcade Sarah spoke to us about her
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time in Carmichael the articles in the newspaper local TV news and conversations with friends kept the
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crimes of the East Area rapists on the front burner helicopters flying at night with large spotlights focused on
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sleeping neighborhoods filling backyards and darkened streets with blinding light
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as they searched folks in the area had taken to painting their house numbers on their roofs big white numbers to help
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law enforcement as they flew overhead during the night we were happy to know we would not be staying as it really was
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a fearful situation in Carmichael with the rapist on the loose it was the end of September in 1978 and we had been up
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working on the new house was dark point parked in our carport and we could see right away that the kitchen door to the
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house was open we went in and looked around the screen was removed from my daughter's room and our dog was still in
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the backyard and had been given a couple rib bones we called the police it seemed
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like they filled the house with in minutes sitting on the couch we answered their questions and listen to
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their cautions I was told to make note of things that may be missing as they explained that the rapist would break
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into homes like a reconnaissance for his later crime the police finally left and
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we were still sitting there sleeping child and two adults that would not close their eyes until the next night
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when we started staying with a relative in Fair Oaks we never went back to that house and stayed with relatives until
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our house was finished later in October the police sent us a postcard saying that they were not able to gather any
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forensic evidence about our intruder regarding the missing items a snapshot of myself that was on our kitchen
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bulletin board and a piece of my lingerie that went missing and was never recovered you know at the time it felt
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to our community that it must be somebody we know somebody you see on a regular basis because obviously he did
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not stand out in 1978 around 100,000 people lived in the City of Concord the largest city in
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Contra Costa County Concord police had taken the warnings from the Sacramento Sheriff's Department seriously but it
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had been over seven weeks since the briefing and to the chatter and the rumors had subsided officers went about
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their jobs just like they had done before nothing changed the Concord PD just like the other
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departments in Contra Costa County when you are confident NOAA right no serial rapist was coming their way
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the interstate 680 is a north-south highway that links Concord to San Jose San Jose being an hour south of Concord
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if the Sacramento task force was right and to the east area rapist was about to strike in Concord as he moved south
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towards Los Angeles then towns and cities along the interstate 680 could also be in his sights some of the major
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ones were Walnut Creek San Ramon Fremont and San Jose in 1977 the east area rapist took a break after attack 22 on
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May 22nd he didn't strike again until September 6th a three and a half month gap now a year later in 1978
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he had taken another break the last attack he committed attack 37 in Davis was on July 6th 1978 attack 38 occurred
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three months later on October 7th 1978 around 11:30 p.m. a 26 year old woman was driving home with her husband after
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an idea they lived in billion quart Concord which came off Manor Road as they pulled into Balian court they
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noticed the vehicle parked on Manor Road they didn't recognize possibly a Volkswagen they weren't concerned by it
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they just remembered seeing it what the couple didn't know was that three nights earlier a resident on
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Manute Road was awoken by his 17-year old daughter at 1:30 in the morning she had seen a prowler standing in their
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backyard in an instant the girl's father was standing at his bathroom window pointing a rifle at the Prowler who was
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about 20 feet away the father yelled out what the [ __ ] are you doing here the Prowler replied he was looking for a
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friend when the father yelled get out of my yard or I'll blow your [ __ ] head off the Prowler ran the father ran
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through the house unlocked the front door and went after him but he was gone the girl and her father returned the bed
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after that they didn't call the police after all it was Concord not Sacramento the east area rapist hadn't struck in
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Concord yet after the couple arrived home to belying court on October 7th they put their sleeping baby to bed the
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husband had noticed the door closed that he was sure he had left open when he checked the other doors he found the
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front doors deadbolt unlocked he checked with his wife but she hadn't unlocked it
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they must have forgotten to lock it when they went out he thought they hadn't the
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east area rapist had been inside while they were out he had tried to pry the outside guards door lock with a knife
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leaving mix around the doorknob but the deadbolt held he then tried numerous window screens before having success
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with the living room window the glass was found with an 8 hole in it right near the lock just like other crime
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scenes in Sacramento it's believed he did this by holding a screwdriver to the glass and lightly tapping it
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he got inside unlocked the front door and left leaving it unlocked before returning to the back yard to replace
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the living room screen to avoid suspicion this enabled him to lay in wait for the couple to return home
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then enter the house again and complete silence the couple had been asleep for some time when the husband was awoken
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with a flashlight in his eyes and something touching his foot I just want food and money I'll kill you
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if you don't do what I say my main man wants gold and silver he was panting almost hyperventilating as he
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said this the attack followed the same script as previous attacks the threats to kill the woman tying the man up only
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for the east area rapist to retie him then tie the woman up the shoelaces the ransacking the plates on their backs it
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was all the same he dragged the survivor out of the bedroom to the living room he
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said he wanted her to find her purse but really he was just getting hairy out of
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the bedroom to rape her he turned to the TV on put the volume down and threw a blanket over the screen
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he cut the survivors nightgown off and threatened to cut her baby's ear off as she didn't give him what he wanted
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she said he smelled musty before he raped her he called her by name and said I've been seeing you for a
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long time after the rape he cried in the corner before leaving police arrived within 20 minutes but the rapist was
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long gone the attending patrol officer had not been involved in any discussions about the east area rapist so the attack
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was initially treated as an isolated burglary and rape the rapist had taken thousands of dollars worth of jewelry
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and other items including kitchen utensils dishes and appliances it was anyone's guess why he stole these items
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but if Sergeant Bevan sent a lieutenant route from the Sacramento task force were correct and to the east area rapist
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was heading south towards Southern California maybe he was in need of household goods for his new place semen
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and saliva samples were discovered at the crime scene it would take four days for the Sacramento task force to be
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informed of this latest attack sergeant Jim Evans made his way to Concord as soon as he heard after looking at the
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case he told Concord Police quote your rape was committed by the east area rapist
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and he's going to hit again he's going to hit you soon and he's going to hit you in the same general area we think he
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uses different cars and different disguises when he checks out neighborhoods and it appears that many
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of those times are during the day as we've had neighbors tell us later that they had seen suspicious people and cars
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in the area he shot a teenager who chased him so we know he's capable of murder if confronted the east area
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rapist will have no qualms about shooting and killing a cop the survivors husband agreed to be
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hypnotized and revealed the following the rapist wore gloves talked through clenched teeth and had a revolver with
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four or five bullets in the cylinder he also remembered a white or awkward green box shape Deven parked near the
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house the night before the attack the type of van with only two small windows at the back standing by the van was a
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white male with dark hair he was wearing light blue pants and a white t-shirt a security officers badge was found in a
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neighbor's backyard a state of California seal was in the middle of the star shaped badge the words special
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officer were around the leading edge it was traced back to a manufacturing company called hook-far specialties in
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Providence Rhode Island with the model number be - six one seven the badge appeared worn with scratch marks on it
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consistent with being kept in a wallet the company provided a list of 3,000 salesmen who worked for twelve different
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companies that had the task of selling that specific badge but no further leads came from this information
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numerous neighbors came forward during the canvass with the usual stories of backyard prowlers hangout calls as well
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as obscene calls they didn't stop after this attack either neighbors continued to get them numerous strange cars were
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seen in the area and many neighbors found pry marks and drill holes on their own window screens the survivor
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mentioned to police that in a lead-up to the attack a Mormon couple knocked on their door this sparked the interest of
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police because Mormons weren't known to do their rounds in male and female pairs
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at that time as well as the Sacramento Task Force Concord police contacted Stockton Police for assistance Stockton
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Police were able to provide them with information about a vehicle of interest a survivor from one of the Stockton
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attacks had since gone under hypnosis she described an early sixties model 10 or beige Toyota or Dotson seen in the
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area at the time of her attack the car had the old-style California license plates and two
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stickers one said milk drinkers make better lovers and the other said I'd rather be sailing
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the license plate was remembered partially possibly being bi K BT K will be a key but no matches were found on
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the system despite contacting Stockton and Sacramento Concord police hadn't thought
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to inform the Contra cost the Sheriff's Department of the attack the sheriff's knew nothing about it
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the Sacramento task force had been right they correctly predicted where the east
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area rapist would strike next and they knew it was just the beginning attack 39 occurred only five days later
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in Bryan caught Concord only two blocks from the previous attack the 29 year old
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mother and her 30 year old boyfriend put their young daughter to bed they had only moved to Concord two months earlier
00:32:23
and we're getting used to their new neighborhood they hadn't seen the little scratches on nearly all of their window
00:32:29
screens outside these scratches didn't seem to be pry marks as the screens removed easily there were small markings
00:32:36
on the bottom left corner of the screen likely made by the east area rapist while prowling in the neighborhood the
00:32:43
same scratches appeared at the crime scene the week before in the first Concord attack and they would be later
00:32:48
found on many neighbors screens as well little marks which secretly indicated the east area rapist had set his sights
00:32:55
on the house the couple didn't know anyone in a new neighborhood well if they did they may have heard the local
00:33:02
talk of prank calls backyard prowlers sight gates being left open window screens being removed and windows being
00:33:10
pried open if they had heard that talk and didn't knew anything about the east area rapist
00:33:15
they likely wouldn't have gone to sleep with the bedroom in the living room windows open the house was silent as
00:33:22
they slept the couple of woke to the sound of their bedroom door hitting the wall as a burst open a flashlight shot
00:33:29
straight in their eyes don't move I'll blow your heads off the ski mask the angry whisper nothing
00:33:38
had changed the woman screamed if you scream again I'll kill you the east area rapist pointed a gun in the face of the
00:33:47
boyfriend I don't want to hurt you I just want food and money for my girlfriend and me roll over and put your
00:33:54
face in the pillow put your hands behind your back he told the woman to tie her boyfriend's
00:34:00
wrists with white shoelaces he had brought himself he told her to tie them really tight or he would kill her he did
00:34:07
his usual thing of untying and retying as he threatened to kill them both their young daughter heard the commotion and
00:34:14
walked into the room she screamed when she saw the east area rapist he walked the girl towards the bathroom telling
00:34:21
her to be quiet before shutting her in and propping a piece of furniture against the door so she couldn't get out
00:34:27
then the rummaging began the bedroom cupboards the kitchen the garage he returned and placed dishes on the
00:34:34
boyfriend's back and made more death threats he hid the boyfriend in the head with his gun he walked the survivor to
00:34:41
the living room he put his face close to hers and whispered if you want to live then this had better be good between the
00:34:51
rapes the survivor heard tales tearing and plastic bags rustling as he walked in and out of the garage several times
00:34:57
at one point she heard him say he put this in the car but she didn't hear a reply this confused the survivor as
00:35:07
there were no other footsteps or anything else to indicate there was another person present the house soon
00:35:13
fell silent they got free and opened to the bathroom door to get their daughter out before calling the police the
00:35:21
neighbor was woken up by the beeping sounder car makes when the door is opened into the key is still in the
00:35:26
ignition he heard it again five minutes later Concord Police responded they found two
00:35:33
strips of a blueprint towel each approximately two to three inches wide on the floor in the garage the
00:35:39
television had been unplugged into the cable was missing another strip from the tower was lying
00:35:45
on the survivors bed and debris on shoe with the laces missing was near the foot
00:35:49
of the bed several white and brown shoe laces were scattered around the room the
00:35:54
yeast area rapist had brought the white ones with him but taken the brown ones from the shoe in their house on the
00:36:01
floor near the front door they found two metal shavings which matched the scratches on the window screens the
00:36:07
California Highway Patrol sent a helicopter up and two spotlights with the area until dawn broke at 7:00 a.m.
00:36:15
that morning a woman in the same street found her side gate open and a bicycle missing it was recovered three days
00:36:21
later in bushes just around the corner it wasn't until Larry Compton received evidence in his lab from the second a
00:36:29
Concord attack that he even knew the east area rapist had struck in Contra Costa County another special meeting was
00:36:40
held at Concord Police Department with briefings from Concord Police Chief Jim chambers and Contra Costa sheriff Harry
00:36:46
Ramsey Concord Police Chief Jim chambers got himself into hot water at the meeting when he suggested that women
00:36:53
shouldn't wear short shorts or bathing suits in their front yards the Mount Diablo rape crisis center who were
00:37:00
helping the concord survivors of the east area rapist were quick to respond quote that is a sexist approach to the
00:37:07
problem that says women are inviting rapes Larry Compton spoke to us about this second meeting quote after the first two
00:37:18
in Concord there was another meeting with us and they said you better put a task force together but when he hit
00:37:24
Concord the first time we knew nothing about it they didn't tell us then the second time the only reason that we
00:37:31
found out was that they brought evidence over to the crime lab because of that we
00:37:35
started looking at it and then the Sacramento detectives came back down again to remind us that we better be
00:37:40
ready for him we had nothing to go on other than the way he did his attacks the things he said to the victims and
00:37:47
the way he handled the victims we knew it was the same person each time several tips were called into police after the
00:37:57
Concord attacks a Concord investigator received a call from a woman who thought her ex-boyfriend could be the a stereo
00:38:04
rapist she felt one of the composite sketches looked like him plus he had been acting strangely descriptions of
00:38:11
his recent behavior raised alarm bells however it was discovered that he was 6 foot 2 too tall to be the east area
00:38:18
rapist he was eliminated based on his height a second caller suggested that police look into one of their own a
00:38:27
California Highway Patrol officer who had been working in Sacramento during the attacks there had just been
00:38:32
transferred to the Martinez office near Concord right before the first Concord attack the anonymous caller said the
00:38:39
officer also owned ski masks the officer was questioned but it was discovered that he was on patrol and
00:38:45
made a DUI arrest the night of the first Concord attack plus he was a blood type
00:38:51
oh so he was eliminated they also received a call about a grocery manager who had work in Sacramento then stopped
00:38:59
him before recently making the move to Contra Costa County he fit the description of the East Area rapist and
00:39:06
he had been in the military for one month before being medically discharged but it was just another promising tip
00:39:12
that led to nothing when it was found that his blood type also didn't match the geography of both Concord attacks
00:39:19
was very familiar a canal system ended nearby walking trails the following is quoted
00:39:25
the website cuesta files.com he was thus following the deacon to retreat mo of striking deep in a community from the
00:39:33
point from which he accessed it then retreating a bit in striking a victim closer to his point of entry the nearly
00:39:40
identical method is followed here as with the to Modesto attacks this had become the east area rapists mo
00:39:46
everywhere stalking from a distance and becoming in close the two crime labs of Sacramento
00:39:55
County and Contra Costa County had quite a few good quality forensic evidence swabs from the crime scenes at the time
00:40:02
there was not much they could do with them but they were aware forensics was changing rapidly
00:40:07
they had done the right thing by preserving as much physical evidence as they possibly could with the early
00:40:13
version primitive style of rape kit they had at the time by the late 70s more women were coming forward to report
00:40:21
sexual assaults many jurisdictions still didn't actively investigate rapes by men
00:40:27
unknown to the survivor but that was changing forensics was about to shift to a place that made identifying offenders
00:40:34
possible rapes were receiving a lot of media attention especially with the countless serial rapists popping up and
00:40:40
with the recent arrest of Ted Bundy rape was being taken more seriously at the time many crime labs fell short when it
00:40:49
came to keeping the evidence preserved and free from contamination in that year 1978 martha goddard headed up a chicago
00:40:58
organization called the citizens committee for victim assistance with the goal to spread the word of the benefits
00:41:04
of a brand a new rape kit that had been created she was a survivor of rape herself she had approached police
00:41:11
stations all over the Chicago area visited hospitals prosecutors judges and politicians determined to find out what
00:41:18
was needed to best collect and preserve evidence but she needed funding to make the rape kit a reality she got it from
00:41:25
her friend Christie Hefner the daughter of Hugh Hefner the initial funding for the new rape kits came directly from
00:41:32
Hugh Hefner's Playboy Foundation according to the Chicago Tribune quote the kit was first utilized in September
00:41:41
1978 when 26 Cook County Hospital emergency rooms made it part of their standard practice for gathering trace
00:41:47
evidence when rape victims came through the doors from there the new rape kit became standardized across the country
00:41:55
there was a cardboard box which held items like swabs slides a small comb and a set of instructions Larry Crompton
00:42:04
knew he needed to find out a little more about the mind of the East Area rapist so he sought out the help of a
00:42:10
psychologist Larry Crompton told us quote I went up to the Vacaville Medical Center where
00:42:17
they hold certain prisoners Charles Manson was there at the time dr. Emily issue was known by the
00:42:23
prisoners was the psychologist who dealt with rapists at the facility Vacaville Medical Center is an adult
00:42:29
facility for prison inmate felons incarcerated within the California Department of Corrections who need
00:42:35
medical psychiatric care some of the worst are there I left a couple of reports with dr. Emily and she said to
00:42:42
come back in a week when I returned she said to me you had better catch him she told me her rapist patients told her
00:42:50
that he wants to kill and he will dr. Emily told me that he just needed justification and then he would begin
00:42:57
killing I asked her why he hadn't started and she said he had not got that justification yet but he would it was
00:43:07
already known that when things didn't go according to plan the east area rapist escalated the violence he didn't cope
00:43:14
when things were out of his control Crompton felt something would eventually happen to give him his justification
00:43:21
[Music] 20 minutes south of Concord down the interstate 680 past both Walnut Creek
00:43:29
and Danville lights the city of San Ramon prior to the mid-60s San Ramon had been a tiny village but
00:43:36
when the interstate 680 was built when developers saw the opportunity for a new city in 1970 Western Electric purchased
00:43:44
700 acres of land and over the next eight years a variety of housing stores and the light industry was built in 1978
00:43:53
a further five hundred and eighty five acres of land opened up which became Bishop Ranch Business Park there was a
00:43:59
lot of construction work going on that year into the city was growing further from 75 to 78 the population of San
00:44:07
Ramon grew 15% the community was mostly upper-middle class attack 40 occurred in
00:44:15
San Ramon on October 28th 1978 a married couple into their young son were preparing the movie out of their rental
00:44:23
home on Montclair place into a new home they just purchased they had already moved most of their belongings to their
00:44:29
new home it was their last night in the house on Montclair place at 4:30 a.m. in
00:44:35
the morning the couple woke caught me and standing directly over them shining a flashlight in their eyes he had
00:44:41
entered the home through the unlocked garage door the attack that followed mirrored previous attacks when he forced
00:44:47
the survivor out of the bedroom he told her he had seen her at the lake she didn't know what he was talking about so
00:44:54
she asked him what like to which he replied we spa we spent [ __ ] it was walking around the house wearing
00:45:02
no pants he went to the thermostat and turned it down to 63 degrees which is 17 degrees Celsius when she told him she
00:45:10
needed a glass of water he got one and threw it in her face the rape was brutal he commented on a ring the survivor was
00:45:20
wearing which he ended up stealing from her before he left through the back sliding door the description on the
00:45:26
police report red light Olek skin dark hair medium build large upper body a little extra weight on his stomach legs
00:45:36
white complexion not muscular especially dark hair moderately hairy close-set eyes small distinctive nose Romanesque
00:45:46
small not full lips possible mole on the left side of his chin he had a double chin and a short neck but not a neck
00:45:55
like a football player when he walked he kind of scuffled his feet he seemed very
00:46:00
confident and sure of himself he was unafraid five-ten to six-feet tall the east area rapist had cut the phone line
00:46:11
in the bedroom but they had another phone in the living area that he didn't cut with that phone the survivor dialed
00:46:18
9-1-1 the first time the emergency service has been mentioned in this case at the time some areas were serviced by
00:46:25
9-1-1 in someone the couple paid 28 cents extra per month for the 9-1-1 service but when the civil had dialed
00:46:34
the number she was greeted by a recording telling her that 9-1-1 didn't service her area she hung up and rang
00:46:40
the switchboard for the local police this time the San Ramon Police responded they were unaware of the East Area
00:46:49
rapist they treated the scene as an isolated burglary and rape they found two straight marks on the
00:46:55
board fence when the rapist had entered the yard in several shoe prints with his
00:46:59
exact pattern casts were made and they showed a shoe size of nine and a half torn tails were found in strips and
00:47:06
white shoelaces were found to me the kitchen floor more shoelaces were found in the bedroom there was an empty Coors
00:47:13
beer carton on the kitchen counter the carton didn't belong to the household cupboards and drawers were open
00:47:19
everywhere but the house was nearly empty due to the move so there wasn't much to see in them several finger
00:47:25
prints were collected from the scene and San Ramon police began comparing them to
00:47:29
those of friends and family no match was found it was hard to deny the east area
00:47:37
rapist had chosen this location for a reason the interstate 680 was just two blocks to the west
00:47:43
Montclair place was a quiet court which backed onto an open strip of land for the power pylon corridor across this
00:47:51
strip the cross Valley Trail ran along the edge towards a middle school a resident who lived between the powerplay
00:47:57
long corridor into the middle school saw a man jump his fence after the attack leading police to believe the exterior
00:48:03
rapist had parked his car in this area almost ten minutes walk away this theory was bolstered when they discovered the
00:48:10
cut phone line in the bedroom he always cut the phone line and when he needed extra time to get away he may not have
00:48:17
seen the other phone line in the living room four days after attack 40 a woman who
00:48:22
lived six blocks south of the attack watched out her window as a man entered her backyard quote I saw this fellow
00:48:30
jumping over our six-foot fence approximately five foot ten and a hundred and sixty pounds with hazel eyes
00:48:36
and sandy hair very muscular in the arms and shoulders after that he walked towards the patio
00:48:42
he didn't see me I went into the kitchen and my dog jumped up and hit the screen
00:48:48
door he almost went through it there was no response from this fellow he didn't flex a muscle didn't walk or step faster
00:48:55
I yelled what are you doing here he turned his head and in a phony date voice said just passing through was he
00:49:05
nervous no absolutely not he was very composed and unafraid of dogs in short a cool customer
00:49:16
when police attended they found one of her window screens had been pried open someone was supposed to attend and draw
00:49:23
up a composite sketch of the men but no one ever turned up it would take nine days for attack 40 to be officially
00:49:30
linked to the east area rapist the survivor underwent hypnosis she described a vehicle in her Street
00:49:38
leading up to the attack it was a Toyota Celica cream color with shawnee hubcaps and two
00:49:44
red stripes down the side but the license plate was registered to a 1973 Chevrolet Vega that was junked a year
00:49:52
earlier it was junk that Casteel Auto Parts in Windsor California junked cars were known to be kept in fairly secure
00:50:00
locations protected by guard dogs only two people were allowed to remove plates the owner being one of them a composite
00:50:09
was developed that the person driving the car seen by the survivor not only was the east area rapist using many
00:50:15
different types of vehicles he was changing the plates on the vehicles if this was in fact him around to this time
00:50:22
a suspect came to the attention of contra Costa detectives according to detective Compton a man who worked for a
00:50:29
major newspaper contacted a deputy and told him about a guy who delivered papers for them who previously lived in
00:50:35
Sacramento he was delivering papers in the Concord area at the time of both attacks there and he was also delivering
00:50:42
papers in the San Ramon area during the time of that attack on all three nights of the attacks the men had taken off
00:50:49
from work he was 5 foot 10 185 pounds when investigators looked into him they found he had been in the Marines and two
00:50:58
his highly athletic and light-footed he had been diagnosed with having a split personality and felt women were
00:51:04
subservient it was wanted on a felony wife baiting charge from Los Angeles they arrested him checked his blood and
00:51:11
found him to be blood type 8 another promising lead in a long list but again at amounted to nothing
00:51:19
he was later eliminated as a suspect in early November members of the Walnut Creek PD Concord PD and to the Contra
00:51:30
Costa County Sheriff's Department met with the California Highway Patrol to discuss using their helicopter in the
00:51:35
event of another attack the California Highway Patrol agreed and the helicopter remained in the area for three days over
00:51:43
the weekend of November 9th 1978 they didn't have the means or funds to have the helicopter on standby permanently so
00:51:51
it was agreed that they would follow the pattern of the East Area rapist today and use it over a weekend it was made
00:51:57
available from 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. for the three nights that weekend everyone held their breath and waited
00:52:04
for the east area rapist to strike but he didn't as November became December contra cost the law enforcement agencies
00:52:12
breathes a sigh of relief it had been over a month since the east area rapist had attacked in their County but
00:52:19
niggling in the back of their minds was the fact the Sacramento police had also seen breaks between attacks before was
00:52:26
this the calm before the storm detective Larry Compton made arrangements to go to
00:52:32
Berkeley 30 minutes southwest of Concord as they were dealing with a serial rapist of their own who had been labeled
00:52:38
stinky Compton was interested to learn how they were doing things down there Berkeley had a task force set up in
00:52:45
search of stinky who is known for his foul breath body odor and a gasoline smell he had raped over 47
00:52:52
women and although he hadn't been arrested they believed they knew who he was they just didn't have enough
00:52:57
evidence to charge him at the time while Compton was in Berkeley an investigator
00:53:03
mentioned two rapes to him that had just been committed in San Jose California Larry Crompton's ears pricked up when he
00:53:11
heard the details of the two rapes he knew immediately that the east area rapist had not taken a month off
00:53:17
he had just traveled 40 miles south from San Ramon where he had last hit into Santa Clara County if Santa Clara County
00:53:26
had heard about the east area rapist they didn't know to pick up the phone to alert Sacramento or Contra Costa
00:53:32
counties Larry Compton on why agencies were not working together quote in the 70s in the
00:53:40
early eighties when things were occurring he didn't really get two agencies involved
00:53:44
whichever agency was working that case they pretty much kept it to themselves back then agencies were not used to
00:53:51
working closely together departments then did not have the manpower to get involved across many things what would
00:53:57
happen is if someone like this was hitting in one area and then moved to another area it was usually a case of oh
00:54:04
they've gone we don't need to worry about it anymore but the point we got to with this case
00:54:09
was that we would be thinking no wait he heard people in my area so wherever he is he's still my concern I was
00:54:18
supposed to catch him that is hard to get out of your head Crompton also made it clear that in those days some
00:54:27
agencies didn't even investigate rape if the survivor didn't know who the rapist
00:54:31
was San Jose was one of those departments Crompton quoted they just put it off to the side so for this
00:54:39
reason I didn't know about the San Jose rapes until that conversation in Berkeley
00:54:45
a tax 41 and 42 occurred four weeks apart in San Jose the largest city in Santa Clara County and the spot where
00:54:55
the interstate 680 ends from which he can either continue south towards Los Angeles or Northwest toward San
00:55:01
Francisco in many ways the area mimicked the geography profile seen before both attacks occurred just off exit 5
00:55:10
providing an easy escape onto the interstate an elementary school large park in the numerous walkways were in
00:55:16
the vicinity of both attacks attacked 41 occurred on November 4th about 3:30 a.m.
00:55:23
a woman was home with her young son her ordeal mimicked to those of the survivors before where no man was
00:55:30
present the east area rapist kept her in the bedroom having no reason to drag her
00:55:35
from the bed he didn't approach her son the insults and threats were the same and when
00:55:42
Crompton finally read the police report in December he noticed that the rapist told her not for the survivors throat
00:55:47
and told her he was only after food and money he said he was hungry and just wanted to eat the survivor reported that
00:55:56
the rapist had a smaller than average penis but she wasn't able to describe what he looked like
00:56:02
attack 42 was on the same side of the interstate 680 and only 10 minutes by foot from attack 41 4 weeks earlier that
00:56:10
occurred at 4:30 a.m. on December 2nd 1978 this time the east area rapist attacked a young Japanese couple he came
00:56:20
prepared with his own pre-tied ligatures he tried prying a door into the garage but he couldn't get into the house so he
00:56:28
knocked a small hole in the glass of a bedroom window right near the lock like he had done many times before that's
00:56:35
clear this was the work of an experienced burglar breaking a fairly small neat hole in a pane of glass is no
00:56:41
easy feat it was also something that the exterior rapist would do prior to his attacks or no on his home
00:56:48
it was discreet enough to go unnoticed and allowed him to quickly and easily enter the house later but during this
00:56:54
attack when the rapist attempted to remove the rod from the window I only get in that got stuck he then
00:57:00
went to the sliding glass door leading into the living room he broke the glass near the lock reached him unlocked it
00:57:07
and entered he wasn't deterred by the several failed attempts he wanted to get in and he didn't stop until he succeeded
00:57:17
this time when the rapist wiped them with the flashlight the survivor screamed and her husband jumped out of
00:57:23
bed and lunged towards him the husband felt the full force of the barrel of the rapists gun hitting him twice on the
00:57:29
shin don't move [ __ ] you try that again [ __ ] and I'll shoot you all I want is food
00:57:35
and money and I'll leave in my van he stood in front of them holding shoelaces in his gloved hands he hit the husband
00:57:43
on the legs again with his gun and he ordered the survivor to tie him up after which he angrily retied him they told
00:57:52
the rapist there was food in the refrigerator and money in the hallway under a cupboard he left the room then
00:57:59
started rummaging he ripped towels in the kitchen and returned to blindfold both of them he dragged the survivor out
00:58:06
of the bedroom to the lounge kitchen area and then placed dishes on her husband's back they both felt he had a
00:58:13
really low voice but they found it difficult to determine if it was real or if he was putting it on in this attack
00:58:20
he showed a strange tenderness towards the survivor and was concerned as to whether or not she could breathe with
00:58:26
the gag in place this was not the first time Crompton had read these notes in an
00:58:31
East Area rapist attack he was constantly changing between death threats and kindness he then addressed
00:58:38
the survivor by name whispering I've been watching you for a long time after raping the survivor he continued to
00:58:46
threaten to blow her brains up he walked to the kitchen and started pacing up and
00:58:50
down then he started crying and sobbed you [ __ ] you [ __ ] everything fell silent and she thought
00:58:59
he had gone so the survivor made a run for her husband lie still or I'll kill you
00:59:06
she fell back down to the ground dishes fell to the floor in the bedroom and the
00:59:11
rapist ran down the hallway towards her husband just try that again [ __ ] and I'll shoot your wife first then you
00:59:18
this happened twice both times the husband got a gun to the side of his head and another threat the rapist went
00:59:27
back to the kitchen and continued crying before the house fell silent again this
00:59:32
time he was gone he had eaten a packet of biscuits and stolen the husband's gold nugget wedding ring the six-pack of
00:59:39
Coors beer and a digital clock radio zigzag tennis shoe footprints were found when Crompton read the police reports of
00:59:47
these to San Jose attacks there was no doubt in his mind the Asteria rapist was responsible both cases were marked
00:59:55
inactive by San Jose police almost straightaway due to the survivors not knowing their attackers but when Compton
01:00:02
discovered them they were added to the east area rapist investigation shortly after attack 42 in December 1978 an
01:00:12
early survivor of the a stereo rapist received a phone call would you be interested in speaking to me while I
01:00:19
masturbate the east area rapist was still terrorizing early survivors when word about the to San Jose attacks got back
01:00:29
to Concord Police Sacramento Sheriff's and Contra Costa Sheriff's it seemed to the whole of Northern California went
01:00:36
into high alert a full feature article with the title rapes aftermath raises issue of suburban safety was rung in the
01:00:43
Contra Costa Times a neighbor to the survivor of attack 40 in San Ramon was interviewed quote I figured you can get
01:00:52
hysterical or you can get locks I got locks I wasn't going to let the rape take over my life other neighbors
01:01:01
felt very differently one described to the rape is feeling like a death in the family the neighborhood was close-knit
01:01:08
and family orientated and before the attack she described it as one where you felt you didn't even
01:01:13
have to lock your doors another neighbor with teenage daughters admitted they never locked their doors
01:01:19
as she felt having her husband home was the best deterrent she had since changed her mourning over
01:01:26
the next seven months between December 9th 1978 and July 5th 1979 the east area rapist yo-yoed up and down the
01:01:36
interstate 680 he never returned to Concord and he never returned to San Jose he avoided those areas but stayed
01:01:44
on the same path never veering far from the exit of the interstate 680 it was just seven days after attack 42 in San
01:01:54
Jose that the east area rapist returned to Contra Costa County Compton had only found out about the San Jose attacks
01:02:02
days before when the call came in for attacked 43 the first attack in Danville in 1978 Danville had a population of
01:02:11
just over 25,000 people it had only seen structured housing development since 1947 and had experienced rapid growth
01:02:19
for its small area just after 5:00 a.m. on the morning of December 9th 1978 Danville police received a call a 32
01:02:28
year-old woman had been attacked in her home Danville police immediately alerted
01:02:34
Contra Costa Sheriff's Department and 20 deputies plus Larry Compton and his team
01:02:39
attended the same the survivor was preparing to move out of her home which had been for sale for two months she had
01:02:46
gone to bed around at midnight leaving her stereo on in the living room most of the items in the house were packed in
01:02:52
boxes which mimicked attack 40 in San Ramon the survivor was careful to lock her doors before going to bed he had
01:02:59
been broken into a couple of months earlier but that burglar had actually been caught detectives found her story
01:03:06
no different to those before she was awoken with a flashlight and tied up while hearing don't scream don't make
01:03:14
any noise I won't hurt you all I want is money and food for my bed put your hands
01:03:19
behind your back if you make a sound I'll kill you then the ransacking began followed by
01:03:26
the rape he called the survivor by name the survivors patio door had been pried in the cord to her phone in the bedroom
01:03:35
cut suggesting he had parked a little further from the house on this occasion they found strips of orange tile nodded
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at both ends and white shoelaces cut and knotted the house wasn't ransacked to the degree of others but it still
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clearly been gone through the survivors driver's license was missing from her purse possibly how he was able to call
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her by name the survivor was also missing two rings an antique stick pin brooch into two pendants they found the
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stereo unplugged and next to the court they found one of the missing rings two bloodhounds were dispatched and they
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immediately picked up the yeast area rapist scent when the dogs entered the bathroom
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they both behaved erratically in the same way that the bloodhound had in Sacramento this type of behavior
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indicates they had picked up minut chemical changes suggesting that the person they were tracking had either a
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serious disease or was a heavy drug user both dogs followed the trail half a mile
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from the home in a side street by the railway track both dogs lost the scent at the same spot a criminologist saw
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some pages lying on the ground at that spot they were all torn from the same spiral notebook and had holes punched
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down the margin during the neighborhood canvass investigators found that residents had seen a suspicious vehicle
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parked in the exact spot where the dogs lost the trail and the pages were found on the pages were two long pieces of
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writing and one map these are known as the mad is the word essay the general custer essay into the punishment map
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sometimes they are referred to together as the homework it's believed the east area rapist dropped them either from a
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bag or from his car the mad is the word essay his hand written in fully joined copperplate handwriting it runs over two
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pages with the first page a little messier than the second it appears to be a personal journal or
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note written in anger about the writers 6th grade teacher if the HVAC area rapist was thought to
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be is correct he would have been in the sixth grade in the 1960s a time when male teachers were relatively rare it
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reads as follows mad is the word that reminds me of sixth grade I hated that year I wish I had know what was going to
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be going on during my sixth grade year the last and worst years of elementary school mad is the word that in my head
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about being a sixth grader my madness was one that was by disappointments that hurt me very much
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disappointments from one teacher such as field trips that were planned and then canceled my 6th grade teacher gave me a
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lot of disappointments which made me very mad and made me built a state of hate in my heart now I never let me down
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that hard before and I never hated anyone as much as I did him disappointment wasn't the only reason
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that made me mad in my sixth grade class another was getting in trouble at school
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especially talking that's what really bugged me was writing sentences those awful sentence that my teacher made me
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write hours and hours but sit and write 50 100 150 sentence day and night I write those dreadful paragraphs which
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embarrassed me and more important had made me ashamed of myself what in turn deep down inside made me realize that
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writing sentence wasn't fair it wasn't fair to make me suffer like that it just wasn't fair to make me sit and wait
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until my bones ached until my hand felt ever horrid pain had ever had and as I wrote I got madder and madder until I
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cried I cried because I was ashamed I cried because I was disgusted I cried because I was mad and I cried for myself
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who kept us having to write those lame sentences my from sixth grade will scar my memory for life and all will be
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ashamed for my sixth grade year forever the General Custer essay clearly torn from the same notebook and written in
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the same handwriting appears to be an essay written on the general possibly for a school project this type of essay
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is consistent with those written in middle school or early high school on the other page was a map it is referred
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to as the punishment map because the word punishment appears to be scrawled on the back upon first looking at the
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map it's clear it's a sketch of a neighborhood detailed with curved roads houses park lands a lake and
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watercourses it includes symbols and some parts have been rubbed out this is not a quick
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drawing it's very detailed here is contra Costa District Attorney investigator Paul holes describing his
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investigation into these pages it will be handy to access the show notes and click on the links to look at these
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items as we go over them the mad is the word essay you know you start reading it and you start to see
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well this is this is a kid that has some some psychological issues and you know he's very very upset about what his
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sixth grade teacher did and having to write sentences and he just kind of devolves emotionally as he writes this
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essay this is somewhat psychologically consistent with who our vendor might be and then this diagram I didn't know what
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I was looking at with the diagram but on the back of the diagram there was some writings and there is one word that had
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been scrawled on the back of it and I'm looking at it I'm trying to figure out what it says and I just happen to have
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one of my clerks come in I say hey what does this word say if she immediately goes all that says punishment I was like
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huh and then pretty soon you start to recognize why he's writing girls names down like Melanie or Jan or Jerry then
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come from maybe spellin E or Snelling or something like that and you start to start to see
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this guy's thinking this looks like he's fixating on girls he's starting to plan
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I'm going to come from here these daring rapists that's what he was doing in terms of his victims as he was punishing
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his victims I mean he's an anger retaliatory offender and he's punishing him so psychologically that was making a
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lot of sense and it added up between the murders of the mad is the word so I call
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on the TV this thinking that he's doing and he's doodling on the back of the paper on the back of the diagram but it
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really wasn't until I started looking at that diagram that things started to add
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up even more because initially what I did is I decided well this diagram must be somehow associated with construction
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thinking the guy that could have been a carpenter or something along those lines
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I ended up reaching out to the a victim in Stockton because in the the case file
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it said that her husband had reported she would frequently go out construction sites and so I thought well
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maybe she's out there on construction sites and the offender sees her and follows her home in a pack sir when I
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finally got in touch with her and there's a whole story behind getting in touch with her but I finally get in
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touch with her and I send her that diagram she ends up sending me back a written analysis of the diagram she
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absolutely dissected it turns out she was a high-level person for a development company in Stockton and she
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even looked at this diagram and started to point out how this is not something that an amateur would do these take a
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look at the curvilinear fashion of the roads look at how he's interspersing single-family multi-family housing
01:11:38
taking advantage of water drainage and and she really got into some significant analysis of this diagram and pulled out
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a lot more detail than I ever thought was there and then her boss I ended up putting the diagram in front of him and
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there's two little symbols in the lower right hand corner which just looked like
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stick houses and I just thought yeah I just thought there was some stupid little juvenile no type of attempt at
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drawing a stick house and then he wrote back and he laughed at me and he goes no
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those are two different side elevations of a gable roof two-story house with an attached garage
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these were industry specific symbols and then you look at some other things I had
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a civil engineer point out drainage markers that cross the road as well as some shading that was going on
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indicating sloped features within the diagram saying this guy is taking into account drainage issues on this
01:12:42
particular parcel of land and pretty soon different things added up to where there is more sophistication in the
01:12:49
diagram than what it looked like to me at the beginning there industry-specific if their practitioner specific this is
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not something that's necessarily taught in school something that you pick up by working on
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the job sites or in that field and there's symbols the symbol that's furthest to the right in the lower right
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hand corner he draws that symbol without picking the pencil off the paper there's another
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symbol which would be a truck that's backed into the strip mall in the upper part of the diagram
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he draws that symbol without picking the pencil off the paper he's showing that he's done this before and he start
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looking at the shading and some of the flourishes that he puts in the shading the artistic aspect again it appears
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that this is something that he's somewhat practiced that he's probably not drawing this diagram to the fullest
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extent of the skills that he has because that's not the purpose of this diagram this diagram is merely a brainstorming
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session he may have been doing for himself however I think there's some markings on the diagram that might
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indicate he was collaborating with somebody you know for example the most obvious is the two different
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handwriting's in the lake now could that be the same person yes but it also could
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be one person writing and another person writing and then you start paying attention to some superfluous marks with
01:14:15
the pencil like under one of the commercial buildings you see the pencil being drawn over and over like a circle
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and you're imagining why would he do that well that's somebody talking to somebody
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else saying and right here you know so you start seeing this there's possibly an exchange of ideas
01:14:33
what's going on with between two people now what setting that is you know somebody online was like I can't believe
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you know something out of a spiral notebook would have been used in a professional presentation well that's
01:14:46
not what this diagram was this is and when you talk to people it's like my contacts and stalked and I've got this
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one woman who's just I mean she knows everybody she was in the market and marketing for subdivisions back in the
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day she also worked for savings and loan companies that loan to developers money
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and he would say hey this is how we did business back in the day is we would go to the bars
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or we'd go to restaurants you know like people do today right and they're having
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drinks and dinner and they're talking concepts you know a lot of business was conducted at each other's houses so you
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can imagine you know let's say let's say our offender is at his house and he's got a business partner probably a friend
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but they're you know in business together hey I've got this idea I've got this plot of land and he grabs an
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old-school spiral off the shelf opens up to the next clean page and now they're talking about how to lay out a
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subdivision and then they're done with that our offender happens to be somebody I believe was taking notes when he's out
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prowling we have two cases in Sacramento where pens are dropped and recovered by
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law enforcement at the crime scene why does he have ballpoint pens because he's taking notes so he probably has a pad of
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paper that he's taking notes on which would mean that well the reason why he has possibly a spiral with them is
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because he was using that for notes and he grabbed that spiral with that diagram
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that he had done previous tour those three pieces of paper the two essays and the diagram folded him up probably
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tucked it in the pocket of the spiral and then as he's escaping he always wore masks
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yet gloves now he's approaching his vehicle he's taking those off and he would typically have a duffel bag or a
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doctor's bag or something like that he opens that up and puts those items in as he's approaching his car and the paper
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fall inadvertently falls out that's the theory that I think is going on there and that's kind of explains why he would
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even have it in the first place so that's that's how I think that all that evidence has kind of manifested itself
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immediately following a tech 43 in Danville newly appointed contra Costa Sheriff Richard Rainey set up his own
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task force to handle the east area rapist Larry Compton was promoted to Sheriff sergeant the task force included
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officers from Concord Walnut Creek in Pleasant Hill Police Department's the California Highway Patrol and the
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Alameda County Sheriff's Office they continued to communicate and consult with the Jim Evans and the Sacramento
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task force at the time Contra Costa County was dealing with at least 30 reports a day relating to the east area
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rapist very competent quote airplanes equipped with powerful searchlights were sent aloft to search neighborhoods the
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elusive rapist inked a favor the Sheriff's Office and affected police departments issued lock light and look
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warnings to fearful residents seminars on rape prevention and self-defense for women sprung up throughout the county
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the fear that he put into people he just emanated fear it was knowledge that he wanted to kill somebody and
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these victims realized that that's why nobody fought him with news of the attack in Danville breaking police
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became aware of three other incidents linked to the east area rapist within hours of the Danville attack three
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houses for sale were visited by a suspicious male who matched the description of the east area rapist at
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midday he visited an open house in San Ramon he introduced himself to the real estate agent as Greg Pippen and said he
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worked for a San Jose property investment firm he said he was looking for a house for a friend he had no
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business card and did not behave the way the agent expected a property investor to behave he pulled a ring de notebook
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from his pocket and took notes as he checked window and door locks he left after making a low offer the real estate
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agent was glad to see the back of him in this orange BMW three hours later the same man attended a different open house
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in Dublin ten miles south of Danville he introduced himself in the exact same way
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but this time said he was looking on behalf of his brother and sister-in-law who lived in Concord
01:19:10
he mentioned he worked for sunshine investments the age of watched as he went to the backyard where he checked
01:19:17
the lock on the side gate and looked over the fence again he made a low offer than to drove off in the same car
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an orange BMW a couple of hours later at another house in Dublin the open house had finished and the agent was gone
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but seeing as the sign was still up in the yard the man pulled up in his orange bound W and knocked on the door the
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couple living there didn't let him in telling him the agent would be back the following day for another inspection he
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left compton looked into these incidents he discovered that there was a property
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investment company in San Jose called sunshine that company had just two salesmen and
01:19:55
both men were in their 50s no one what the name of great Pippin had ever worked there and the company had not done any
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inspections on the San Ramon or Dublin properties Crompton contacted the state realty board to see if there was a great
01:20:09
Pippin licensed as a real estate agent for Pippins were located each with a different first-name although were
01:20:15
eliminated they are in luck when they located an orange BMW owned by someone with the last name Pippin but his blood
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type didn't match so he was eliminated a couple of weeks later Compton received a
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call from an officer in San Ramon a couple had come home to find a long piece of white nylon rope hidden under a
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cushion on their sofa one of their wedding pictures had been taken out of an envelope and placed on top of the
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other contents in the drawer the couple had a ritual they followed every time they got home they were well aware of
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the East Area rapist and checked every lock and every window in their house multiple times a day the evening they
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found the Rope Crompton and another officer arranged for the couple to stay elsewhere and they spent the night in
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the house hoping the east area rapist would attack the Crompton left at 4:30 in the morning when nothing except
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barking dogs was heard during the night this following attack has not been numbered as there are some doubts as to
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whether it's an East Area rapist attack just over a week after the danville attack on Tuesday December 20th a woman
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and her 12 year old twins were asleep in their Rancho Cordova home she was sure she locked the doors she awoke tore me
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in sitting on top of her she screamed and he punched her in the face leaving her with a nasty cut lip and a black eye
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his threats and actions match the Asteria rapist he beyond her wrists with rope cut from a tent in the garage he
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ransacked her house and stole three thousand dollars worth of jewelry she said he ransacked the house for a long
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time at least half an hour when he returned to the bedroom he stood staring at her back for a long time he then left
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without raping her no one reported seeing the east area rapist for three months after that in March 1979 and then
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they was sent to the Contra Costa task force recommending that the chief reduced the number of officers involved
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crompton and the others weren't happy about it but the word came from the top and they didn't have a choice their
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superiors believed the east area rapist had moved on he was no longer their problem so the task force was reduced
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the three-month gap in attacks had convinced them that was over but they hadn't learned from the past the east
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area rapist had taken breaks before there was only three days after the numbers in the task force were
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officially reduced that the east area rapist struck again attack 44 occurred at 1:00 a.m. on April 5th 1979 in
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Fremont Alameda County south of Contra Costa County for attack 45 the exterior rapist ended 35 miles north back to
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Contra Costa County that occurred on June 2nd 1979 in Walnut Creek just south of Concord attack 46 was back in
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Danville On June 11th just two blocks from attack 43 the first attack in Danville where the homework papers were
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found the east area rapist crawled through the only unlocked window in the house
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ataque 47 was back in Walnut Creek on June 25th just a few blocks from the previous Walnut Creek attack the
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survivor of this attack was just 13 years old her sister and parents were asleep in the house and had no idea what
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had happened some of the survivors of these latest attacks had been broken into prior with nothing of value taken
01:23:39
and the many of their neighbors had been receiving hang-up phone calls attack 48
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was the final attack in Contra Costa County it occurred on July 5th 1979 in Danville the previous two danville
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attacks were within two blocks of each other but for this attack he moved the good ten blocks north over a fairly
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major road this time the couple the east area rapist had his sights on actually had their sights on him being well aware
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of the east area rapist this couple formed a plan for what they would do if they were attacked their
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plan was that the husband would charge at the east area rapist then attack him while he's Y friend for help both of
01:24:21
them had played the scenario over in their heads but neither thought they would actually have to carry it out
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early that morning July 5th a neighbor heard someone on their porch but didn't investigate just before 6:00 a.m. the
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husband awoke to a rummaging sound in that room in the reflection of a mirror near their wardrobe the husband saw the
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east area rapist pulling a mask over his face he threw himself out of bed and yelled at the top of his voice for his
01:24:49
wife to get out of the house the east area rapist dropped shoelaces to the floor which he had taken from the
01:24:55
husband's shoes this was about to be another situation where the rapist was not in complete control of the situation
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the husband yelled at him who the [ __ ] do you think you are the rapist took two
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steps backwards the husband blocked him from exiting and his wife ran out of the
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bedroom towards the front door the husband was much bigger than the a stereo rapist he continued yelling get
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the [ __ ] out of email he can leave his wife Rani I saw it and screamed for help
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the couple's neighbors heard the screaming and immediately called the police the east area rapist didn't
01:25:30
launch at the husband he made no move for a weapon either he just stared directly at him through the jagged holes
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of his mask the husband saw the rapists eyes with deep set and voice with large irises and strangely full lashes the
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rapist never uttered a word then who never made a move he continued staring the husband made a run for it and the
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east area rapist quickly escaped the location was full of police just minutes later tracker dogs immediately followed
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the rapist scent which was only minutes old but the trail disappeared and officers realized they'd missed him
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again Crompton thought back to what dr. Emily had told him you had better catch him he
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wants to kill and he will he just needs justification he hadn't gotten justification yet but he would to
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