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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 web site or you should
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be able to access the link from the show notes in your app on June 18th 1976 the
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Sacramento Sheriff's Department responded to a break-in and rape of a young woman by the end of the year there
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were 10 attacks in total all attributed to one serial offender for the media dubbed the East area rapist
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detectives with the Sheriff's Department noticed the mo of the east area rapist fairly early on they kept the
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information under wraps they didn't want a state of panic they didn't want a copycat and they didn't want to alert
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the east area rapist that they were on to him but by november 1976 the community started to become aware that a
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violent serial predator was walking in their streets the Sacramento Sheriff's Department attended a local school
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meeting their intention was general crime prevention but as people questioned rumors of the rapes that will
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force the confirm that a serial rapist was at large the police was shocked at the brazen nature of the attacks into
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the meticulous planning the east area rapist moved through the community with military precision he seemed to always
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know where the police were did he have a police radio did he have years in the force or was he just lucky he had no
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sense of fear his level of bravado was rarely seen in criminal investigations and he had only just gotten started
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[Music] the Sacramento Sheriff's Department was dealing with the onset of panic washing
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over the city like a tidal wave by the end of the 1976 it started small but soon more and more neighborhoods got
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wind of the East Area rapist husbands boyfriends fathers and brothers were instructing women on self-defense giving
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them guns and knives for protection some started fitting bars to their windows rumors were getting out of control some
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suggesting the east area rapist was attacking every Ella and others stating the east area rapist was breaking down
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front doors and tearing down windows the reality was he was stealth-like not many
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victims heard him until he was already in the house the Sheriff's Department had to deal with a constant flurry of
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calls from the community asking if these rumors were true parents talked to their
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daughters about personal safety in households set up emergency plans but some questioned how much information was
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necessary to give their young daughters one mother said quote how much do you tell them you don't want to build on
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fear but maybe I should go into it further by just that know how detailed to get
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when another resident was routinely cleaning her garage and thinking about the east area rapist she became so
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frightened she ran inside and got a gun after this she encouraged other women in
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the neighborhood to help arrange a meeting so that women in the area could discuss ways to protect themselves
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groups of women arranged car patrols and everyone who was aware of what was going
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on started taking more notice of people in the neighborhood anyone who was acting strangely or seemed out of place
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very few men turned up to the early community meetings one of the organizers had mr. Sayle quote because rape had
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been swept under the cover for so long our men didn't know how to handle it when it started happening near us
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they've always been told that no woman is really raped but the women are scared out here really scared everybody is
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paranoid we are going to inform our men we are hoping that were coming out to the meetings and see the fear in the
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women and work with us maybe when the rapist sees that we are not going to be terrorized that we're going to get our
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men organized and facing by God he will think before attacking another woman many people didn't even lock their doors
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in 1976 but this changed locksmiths discounted door locks and deadbolts encouraging people to have better
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locking systems women living alone received offers from neighbors to fit locks on their doors people got to know
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their neighbors a little better those who knew what was happening became more aware of their surroundings but it
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was an age when not everyone heard News the day it happened many lived simple lives and are not everyone kept up with
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what was going on a lot of people in Sacramento were completely oblivious to the east area rapist most of those who
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were aware of the East Area rapist lived in the immediate vicinity of prior attacks those neighborhoods rallied
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together some local home security stores in those areas had waiting lists of up to five weeks for home security alarms
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but a lot of the other neighborhoods had little to no idea what was going on a rape crisis clinic was formed in
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Sacramento it proved to be an invaluable refuge for survivors of the East Area rapist and survivors of other
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in 1976 the Sacramento Sheriff's Department investigated over 300 rape cases the majority were known offenders
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not strangers in the night unreported rape cases were estimated to be at least double that the crisis clinic was a
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place where survivors and their families could seek help comfort and have their questions answered no matter how
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personal something they felt they weren't always able to get from police people were aware of the early morning
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rapist and the copycat early bird rapist naturally they questioned whether they were all related especially since the
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early bird rapist had last attacked only months before the east area rapist started but detectives by now had
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identified both the early morning and early bird rapists no arrests had been made but both were being kept under
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surveillance so detectives knew the east area rapist was in fact a separate third
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serial rapist and in the beginning of 1977 he was about to step it up a notch the task force was busy putting
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bulletins up conducting interviews and continuing covert surveillance on suspects the FBI requested a report to
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be presented to them at their local office they wanted this guy caught and all tiers of law enforcement knew very
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well that if he wasn't and it was likely to get worse captain stern put detective Shelby in
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touch with the security office for Pacific Bell and telephone company the plan was to arrange a phone trace on two
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of the survivors phones the trace would be able to determine where the incoming call was placed but only if the receiver
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could keep the caller on the line long enough the traces were arranged but the east area rapist didn't call either
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survivor again Shelby and Carol Daly teamed up as partners and continued to attend the community
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meetings which were by now being held on a regular basis they attended to provide
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support and to answer questions from the scared and confused the public at one of
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these meetings while Shelby and Daly were inside talking they had other officers outside on foot and in vehicles
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it was well known even then that some offenders liked to get close to an investigation either inserting
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themselves in searches or watching and attending things like town meetings this resulted in several people who fit
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the description of the East Area rapist things stopped and spoken to some names were marked down to be looked into
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closer but it didn't result in any arrests the east area rapists mo was now becoming clear his prowling began at a
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distance he liked to spend time in a neighborhood getting to know the area he likely chose a number of potential
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victims in the one area he would prank call not only his chosen victim but neighbors and other potential victims as
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well then he would circle closer scoping the house of his chosen victim sometimes
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breaking in beforehand when no one was home sometimes breaking into other homes nearby he watched and waited for the
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right time with victims being alone for the night or weekend of their attack that showed the level of stalking he was
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capable of in some cases he was likely in earshot of conversations or phone calls to know that would be home alone
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in the other break-ins where no rapes or attempted rapes were committed strange things of little value would be moved or
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taken in the first 10 attacks he's ransacking of his victims homes also resulted in hardly anything of value
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being taken it was believed this was just a method to create more fear in the victim it could have also been a reason
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to take a break to build himself up to raping again he didn't always have sexual satisfaction during the rapes the
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sexual element of the attacks was evident but the level of control also appeared to be a major factor for the
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east area rapist he thrived on being in complete and utter control into the instances where things slipped Thor
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didn't go according to plan well when he didn't cope with the situation he nearly always threatened to
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kill him that whisper through clenched teeth over and over he would threaten but he had rarely inflicted non-sexual
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physical injury the small number of times he had physically injured someone non-sexually such as when he punched one
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survivor in the face during attack for there was when he didn't have complete control of the situation
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attack for was an opportunistic attack and it came shortly after attack 3 where his chosen target was able to escape the
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ten attacks of 1976 were all carried out in two distinct clusters technically it
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was three suburbs four attacks in Rancho Cordova suing Citrus Heights and foreing
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Carmichael which is including the two in don't do don't do being a neighborhood in karma who if you look at the map you
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will see that attacks two and seven in del Deo are very close to attacks one three six and eight in Rancho Cordova
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they are separated by the American River if we move north two attacks four and ten in the northern part of Carmichael
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and attacks five and nine in Citrus Heights you will see they are also grouped very close together so although
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technically it's three different suburbs the attacks are in two very distinct areas attack number eleven the first
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attack of 1977 was the first to be carried out a little further west as far as the location goes he hadn't gone far
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he was still hugging the American River in an area called Glenbrook just west of
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Rancho Cordova it sat at the southern entry to the what Avenue bridge from early January in 1977 residents of
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Glenbrook started noticing a young men wandering around in broad daylight one day in early January a man was seen
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coming out of someone's backyard when asked what he was doing he casually said he was just taking a shortcut on
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another day in the same neighborhood a man with a similar description was seen crouching in the bushes of another yard
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On January 12th a resident on that same street who had recently had a break-in saw a man peering in the window of his
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next-door neighbor he coughed loud enough to let napela know he was there the Prowler turned around and returned
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his gaze he then calmly walked off that same night a woman on the same street stepped outside her front door actually
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stood under her porch light she saw a man walking across her front yard when he saw her he ran
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the following evening when she stepped back outside and went to put a porch light on she discovered someone had
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removed the light from its socket more than one person saw a blue car parked in that neighborhood with a young man
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sitting in the driver's seat no one recognized him nor the car all of the descriptions of the young man were
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similar no older than late 20s slim or thin with a muscular build five foot eight to six feet tall around 170 pounds
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he was singing tennis shoes one person noticed the tattoo on his upper right arm two described him with a neat 50
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style haircut combed and neatly with the side part at the time none of the incidents were reported to police it
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wasn't until police came knocking on their doors asking questions later that these residents revealed seeing the
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young men it's possible they weren't aware of the Asteria rapist or if they were there's the chance that being a
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suburb over they thought their neighborhood was safe it wasn't there was 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday the 19th of
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January 1977 when a young woman and her son watched as a man walked from the street into the back yard of their house
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in Glenbrook she went to the back window to see what he was doing the man was standing in her backyard staring
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directly at her he took off like a rabbit jumping over the fence into the neighbor's yard
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his hair was sandy colored and neatly styled he was wearing dark colored pants and a lightweight jacket the woman said
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that if he didn't jump the fence like he had if he had just walked away normally
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she wouldn't have given that another thought he just looked like a normal guy like someone from her neighborhood just
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a few hours later in a nearby house a 25 year old woman who worked as a secretary
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in the State Capitol building D antenna awoke to a flashlight beaming in her eyes and a knife at her throat she
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wasn't usually home alone but her husband was away on business the a stereo rapist broke a hole in her
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back window reached in removed the dowel that was holding it shut and climbed through in silence he quietly cut up
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electrical cord and stashed it in his pocket before cutting the telephone line with the flashlight in her face she saw
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nothing else at first like previous attacks he spoke with his teeth clenched in a whisper be quiet I won't hurt you
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all I want is your money just your money and I'll be gone he moved with a lighter
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way to get the cord and she saw he was wearing a dark ski mask his gloves and clothing were dark and his jacket was a
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light ski jacket the rest of his description was the same as previous attacks he tied her hands behind her
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back tightly and blindfolded her with a bandana the woman was five months pregnant she heard him leave the room
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and start rummaging around the house he opened her top kitchen jaw and went through the cutlery he walked back into
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the bedroom and she could hear the pumping sound of a lotion bottle he then raped her like previous attacks he left
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the room continued green sucking the house then returned and raped her again at one point while he was in the kitchen
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he started eating he remained in the house for four hours then the house fell silent she heard the sound of her car
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revving in the garage and then he drove off and was gone the survivor got herself free and after realizing her
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phone line had been cut she ran to her neighbor's for help the Sacramento City Police Department had jurisdiction of
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this case not the Sacramento Sheriff's Department it was the first time anyone from the Sacramento City Police
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Department attended an East Area rapist crime scene they founded the signatures that the Sheriff's Department knew all
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too well but after consulting the Sheriff's Department they soon realized he had done something which he hadn't
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done before in the living room they found a number of knives from the kitchen drawer he had broken the blades
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of some of the knives and just left them in the living room like previous attacks
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he had stolen some money he had also stolen some jewelry of little significance and a digital clock
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he cut the survivor out of a photo she was in with her husband at 5 p.m. that day the survivors car was found parked
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outside an apartment complex just a few blocks away her keys were never found tennis shoe footprints were discovered
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at the driver's side door this location showed all the hallmarks of previous attacked locations open spaces all
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around with Glenbrook Park close by levy walks behind and close proximity to the bike path along the American River
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these walks and open spaces made it easy to explore Glenbrook and go unnoticed and drop behind at the survivors house
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was a power pylon corridor essentially a permanently undeveloped strip of land which he could walk to the American
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River then hit a trail and get to the what Avenue bridge or further on the city police set up their own task force
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knowing full well they had not seen the end of the East Area rapist with the two
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departments now working on the case and meant that more eyes were on the lookout
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there were more investigators analyzing the growing amount of information that day the Sacramento Bee newspaper
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reported on attack number 11 the residents of Glenbrook were alerted that the a stereo rapist had come to their
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neighborhood in the early hours of Monday January 24th 1977 a young woman who lived alone had gone to bed sometime
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after midnight she lived in Citrus Heights just east of the prior attacks there she had some friends over for a
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small party earlier that night she was selling her house so it was a good excuse to celebrate before getting ready
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to move she awoke to the pool of someone yanking her arms back behind her back she screamed and kicked to try and get
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him away but it was of little use he had hold of her tightly he leaned in close and whispered scream again and I will
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kill you she felt something sharp against the side of her neck this time it wasn't a large knife it was an ice
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pick he tied her up and blindfolded her her hands became numb almost instantly and struggling only made it worse he
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walked in and out of the bedroom raping her numerous times ransacking the house him
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Twain rapes at one point he undid her bindings putting the string or rope into his pocket only to pull out different
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material and retie her he used her name more than once but she was convinced that he had seen it on an envelope
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somewhere in the house she didn't believe that he really knew who she was there were a couple of things that stuck
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in her mind about him one was his odor she described it as a strong personal smell and not a nice one there was the
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unusually small penis yet the excessive amount of lotion he used and she was convinced that although he seemed
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adamant about raping her he didn't really seem to enjoy it he verbally abused her growling at her through
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clenched teeth if he asked the question he told her to shut up while she was trying to answer just like he had done
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during previous attacks eventually the east area rapist stopped ransacking the house and it fell silent the survivor
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waited a while before she realized he had left she managed to get herself free and get out of the room he hadn't cut
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her phone line so she was able to call police he had struck back in sheriff's jurisdiction and it wasn't long before
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patrol officers arrived followed by detective Shelby the survivor described to the east area
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rapist as being between 30 and 40 years old but police doubted this seeing as her
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guest was on body and voice alone so they stuck with previous descriptions detectives found two empty Coors beer
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cans on the kitchen counter they didn't belong to the victim they were found near a large block of
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cheese with bites taken from it visible teeth marks could be seen the survivor confirmed that was not there when she
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went to bed it was bagged with other evidence yeah saw it her sight gate was open they found both her garage door and
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her back sliding door prior as this case was back in Shelby's jurisdiction he was
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able to call the blood here on the back in the dog traced the east area rapist scent from the house around the two
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corners to the Kirby outside the local elementary school at that time the Sheriff's Department
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had three main suspects including art Pinklon who we spoke about in part one deputies had them under surveillance and
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were able to confirm that none of the suspects left their homes the night of this latest attack the heavy body odor
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described by the survivor led the investigation team to wonder whether the east area rapist had a labor-intensive
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job during the day they discussed amongst themselves the potential of him being in construction with his ability
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to open doors and windows with ease the boots he wore in earlier attacks and his
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slim athletic build plus all the homes which had been targeted today were either for sale near a house that was
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for sale or near a house having construction work or renovations done they were also still considering links
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to the military and possible links to the medical field but they were all assumptions there was no solid evidence
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linking him to anything yet as far as forensic evidence so far they had the two latent fingerprints collected from a
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tack 7 they had determined he was a non-secretor and if he was the owner of the band-aid found at the scene of
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attack 10 then he was blood group a but they couldn't prove he was the owner of the band-aid his physical description
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was concrete in some respects like his height weight build and shoe size but they had little to go on in terms of
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facial features and hair on the rare occasions his face had been seen there were conflicting reports or confusion
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this could have been caused by him changing his hair color but it was impossible to know for sure during a
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canvass of the neighborhood of this latest attack detectives spoke to two boys who lived on the same Road as the
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survivor they walked to and from school together every day for three of the four
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days prior they had walked to the top of their Road and dried at the corner where
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their school was they had noticed a dark-colored American car a man sat alone in the driver's seat each time the
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boys passed the driver would turn away and to look down as if he was doing something when Shelby went to the spot
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the boys described he saw that it had a clear line of sight straight to the survivors home the for sale sign in her
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yard clearly visible Shelby was convinced the man the boys had seen was the east area rapist
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Shelby asked the boys and their parents if they would be willing to undergo hypnosis in the hope that would be able
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to provide a facial description they agreed but it never eventuated as they later changed their minds sketch artists
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began to produce facial composites from the witnesses who had seen the Prowler in their neighborhood but none were
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released to the press that wouldn't happen for a little while yet the following day the 25th of January 1977 a
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phone call was made for the Sacramento television station KX TV the caller informed at the switchboard operator the
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name of the East Area rapist the name was investigated by police but it didn't amount to anything
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detective Shelby and Daly spoke with a woman who said she was being followed by a man driving a car she was able to
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write down the license plate Shelby and daily visited the man's apartment when questioned the men admitted he had been
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following her he even admitted to writing down her license plate and going to the DMV to get her name and address
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there was little Shelby and Daly could do but put this man on their watch list there would be another 13 years in 1990
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before stalking would be criminalized in the state of California it was the first
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state in the u.s. to introduce the law within three years every other state followed suit recognising the need for
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the stalking law but in the 1970s stalkers were pretty much free to do what they wanted only when they
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physically harmed someone were police really able to do anything about it it wasn't until 1994 that the driver's
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Privacy Protection Act was introduced stopping people from being able to walk into the DMV pay a few dollars and get
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the name and address of any one they liked a few days after speaking to this admitted stalker detectives were called
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to a local store a customer had found a white envelope on the footpath the envelope was full of neatly cutout
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driver's license photos all the women of different ages and races knowing that the a stereo rapist had often stolen
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victims licenses from their homes this sparked the interest of detectives but no prints were found on them and without
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any other information on any of the women and never went anywhere that would be naive to think
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the east area rapist was the only offender operating in the area law enforcement was well aware that stalking
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was more common than most people realized and during this time when a report of stalking came in it was
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followed up agent Lee looking for links to the east area rapist with the east area rapist having
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crossed over into their jurisdiction with the attack in Glenbrook the Sacramento Police Department was still
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operating their own task force they had an agreement with the Sheriff's Department that if a they received the
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call relating to the east area rapist they would urgently notify the other officers from both departments became so
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entrenched in the investigation they worked a day and night and often after hours doing whatever they could to solve
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it Shelby was aware of how close he was coming to catching the east area rapist he was sure he had seen him before
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possibly crossed paths with him or missed him by just seconds he was going to give it everything he had lieutenant
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root said Shelby was probably the most prolific and active member of the task force at that time two investigators
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from the Visalia Police Department visited the Sheriff's Department and offered their help they had been
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involved in the investigation into the Visalia rancic er who was linked to over 90 home break-ins between 1974 into 1975
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Australia is just over two hundred miles or three hours south of Sacramento and halfway between Sacramento and Los
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Angeles Shelby knew a fair bit about the Visalia rants occur from when he was looking at the files of both the early
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bird and the early morning rapists they had looked for similarities and cross-checked suspects the Visalia
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Rancic er abruptly stopped his crimes in December 1975 although he had ransacked
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over 90 homes enflamed relatively under the radar especially with the press as he rarely stole anything of value and he
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never physically harmed anyone for most of his spree but that changed on September 11th 1975 he broke into a
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house and attempted to kidnap a teenage girl from her bed as he was dragging her
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outside the girl's father came to her but the visalia ran sucker shot him dead a few months later detective William
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McGowan stopped the suspicious mail the mail pulled out a gun shot McGowan and escaped McGowan was fine
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the bullet hit his flashlight and saved his life but the Visalia ransack his crimes stopped that day he was not
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linked to another break-in or attack again he was also never identified the east
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area rapists first attack was six months later three hours north in Sacramento while 1977 it was clear there were some
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similarities between the Visalia ran soccer and in the East area rapist some detectives had suspicions they were the
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same man they had similar physical descriptions like height and agility and both were described as physically fit
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white males in their 20s also the mo of the Visalia ran soccer ended the east area rapist was similar neither took
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anything of much value from the homes they broke into both were known to carry a firearm both were known to carry a
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short Club at times and both committed hot crowd burglaries in the middle of the night when the Visalia detectives
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arrived in Sacramento they were a welcome addition to the investigation but it was something that would later
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divide law enforcement as some including Shelby we're adamant device failure and
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soccer and to be a stereo rapist were not the same man not long after this government officials decided that the
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Sacramento County Sheriff's Department would not be involved in investigations inside the jurisdiction of the
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Sacramento City police the city police chief was told not to call the Sheriff's Department when their officers responded
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to a call related to the east area rapist this annoyed Shelby and all that the sheriff's office who had worked hard
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and found a benefit in the two departments working together regardless of the new policy both police
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departments continued to contact each other and still cooperated behind the scenes when a suspect came to light only
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days later the Sheriff's Department didn't have enough officers that can't be at the suspects house she'll be asked
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the Sacramento city officers for help and they came both departments regardless of what their superiors told
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them can to help each other it was only by working together that on February 4th
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1977 they had a suspect in custody behind the scenes the investigators still had their eyes on a few persons of
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interest these suspects were watched the day and night and after an East area rapist attack if surveillance confirmed
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the suspect had not moved from their home or work while the attack was being carried out they were moved from the top
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of the suspect list they were still monitored just not as much the suspect they arrested on February 4th came to
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light after a break-in that somewhat fit the east area rapists mo it occurred in
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Orangevale just one suburb south east of Citrus Heights a man broke in bound and
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blindfolded a woman but he didn't rape her although she was terrorized for quite a few hours there appeared to be
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none of the tell-tale signatures that officers had grown accustomed to with the east area rapist a fingerprint was
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lifted from the bedroom window where he gained entry and a match was found a 24 year-old man five feet 9 inches tall
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with light brown hair this was the man the Sheriff's Department requested the help of the city police to effect the
00:31:02
arrest it was hard to deny the similarities between the suspect and the a stereo rapist but he could not be
00:31:08
linked to any of the attacks he remained high on the suspect list but was eventually eliminated from the east area
00:31:15
rapist investigation another suspect came to light that month a local California Highway Patrol officer had a
00:31:23
daughter who worked as a waitress often finishing work late at night her protective father sometimes waited
00:31:30
outside her bar without her knowledge and would follow her home just to make sure she was safe one night as the
00:31:36
father waited he witnessed the car pull up and a man Kadir the man stood in the dark and watched his daughter getting
00:31:43
her car the Highway Patrol officer then watched as the man got back in his car and followed his daughter home it's not
00:31:51
known where the father followed the stranger to or exactly what information was handed over to investigators that
00:31:56
night but it was enough for them to be granted a search warrant the men who followed the Highway Patrol officers
00:32:02
daughter was a preacher from a church in the top western corner of Carmichael he was
00:32:07
married with children he was questioned and had hair and blood samples taken it's unknown what explanation he gave
00:32:15
her his behavior he was closely monitored but it was also later eliminated from the east area rapist
00:32:21
investigation around this time the Sheriff's Department received a phone call the female caller was aware of the
00:32:29
East Area rapist but didn't call this information in straight away after discussing it with her boyfriend they
00:32:35
decided they didn't want to get involved she only felt compelled to call when she
00:32:39
read further articles about the attacks she told the Sheriff's Department quote at around 2:00 or 2:30 in the morning I
00:32:48
was stopped at a stop sign at Oak Crest and Joey Drive I looked to the left to check the traffic and saw a person
00:32:55
wearing dark clothing and a ski mask crawling on his hands and knees towards the front door of a residence I looked
00:33:02
to the right for traffic and when I looked back to the left he was standing next to my car knocking on my window
00:33:07
still with the mask on that scared me I mean really scared me so I drove off real fast I slowed down
00:33:15
and watched out my rearview mirror and saw him go to some bushes and pull up bicycle out he got on it and started
00:33:21
riding toward me so I drove off real fast another local couple were returning home after a walk when they saw three
00:33:31
police cars drive by then they saw a person dressed in all black wearing a ski mask coming up from behind a bush in
00:33:37
someone's front yard the men didn't see the couple the men walked out of the yard onto the road and watched the
00:33:44
police cars drive off police were baffled by the amount of people who only came forward with sightings and
00:33:52
information after they knocked on their doors because there had been an attack nearby the fact that this couple didn't
00:33:58
find the police shows the sentiment at the time people were really scared to get involved didn't want the hassle well
00:34:05
they just simply had no idea what this man was capable of a young woman lived with her husband a
00:34:13
Vietnam War veteran ended their six year old daughter in Citrus Heights right near the northern tip of Carmichael she
00:34:20
was studying her master's in social science at Sacramento State College they lived just around the corner from
00:34:26
the exterior rapists fourth attack which occurred ten months earlier on the woman
00:34:30
who was at her parents house doing washing their house like all the houses on their stretch backed on to the large
00:34:37
del Campo Park and over the back fence jutting into the park was a public parking lot which at the time could hold
00:34:44
around six to ten cars people often parked there to go walking in the park the park also neighbored
00:34:51
adult campout high school school kids often climbed to the fence near the parking lot this couple were aware of
00:34:58
the exterior rapist but police had still only released scarce details about the actual attacks so things such as the
00:35:05
hang-up calls and growling behavior beforehand weren't widely known early in the morning of Monday February 7th 1977
00:35:13
the woman was having breakfast with her husband he was about to leave for work into their six year old daughter was
00:35:19
still asleep what they didn't know was that a neighbor who lived a few doors up was standing at her kitchen window
00:35:25
watching a man walk towards their house he would later be described as being in his early 20s five foot eleven with a
00:35:33
thin build and short dark blond hair he was walking casually in the direction of their home the neighbor who was
00:35:40
watching the men wasn't overly concerned seeing as the park was so close she thought it was probably just going for a
00:35:46
walk in the park but she still noticed him she had been spooked the day before when she was out in her yard with her
00:35:53
husband a man who was in the park behind them was staring at her and every time she looked back at him he seemed to
00:36:00
start looking elsewhere when he walked away she noticed he had a walk she could only describe as awkward she wondered if
00:36:07
it was the same man she was seeing now back inside the couple were finishing off their breakfast the husband has said
00:36:15
he felt something was wrong the woman put it down to his post-war instincts well thought that maybe he was
00:36:21
just unsettled because they dressed we being broken into they had reported it to police who came and checked to the
00:36:27
place out nothing of value was taken so they didn't worry too much about it even
00:36:32
when the woman started receiving prank calls after the break-in she didn't think it was anything to concern the
00:36:37
police about even though they knew about the east area rapist the couple didn't know anything about his MO as the
00:36:45
husband exited the front door he noticed the white van parked on its own in the neighboring del Campo Park parking lot
00:36:51
he called back to his wife to let her know and told her to make sure all the doors were locked
00:36:56
she checked all the doors and windows except for the back sliding door which she assumed should still have been
00:37:02
locked from the previous night five minutes after the husband left the woman turned to see a figure in the doorway of
00:37:09
her kitchen he was wearing a dark-colored ski mask with Jessie's eyes showing into slit for his mouth he was
00:37:16
holding a 4-inch knife and a gun in his gloved hands she would describe him as young 23 at most approximately 5 foot 11
00:37:24
and to no more than 195 pounds he was wearing black trousers a waist length dark blue nylon sporty jacket and the
00:37:34
red white and blue tennis shoes he growled through clenched teeth don't scream or I'll shoot you I just want
00:37:42
your money I don't want to hurt you he forced her into a chair and then pulled shoelaces from his pockets and
00:37:49
tightly behind her wrists together he held the knife to her throat do what I say or I'll kill you when he told her to
00:37:58
get up and go to her bedroom she started yelling no he placed the gun at the side
00:38:02
of her head and forced her to her bedroom as they passed her daughter's bedroom down the hall the woman noticed
00:38:10
the door was closed she knew it had been open earlier and realized the intruder had likely closed
00:38:16
it he threw her down on the bed and grabbed her ankles but she thrashed around and tried to kick free he held
00:38:23
the knife to her throat and she stopped but as soon as he moved the knife away and tried to tie her ankles again she
00:38:29
yelled get the [ __ ] out of here she then yelled at a dog to get the intruder while trying to keep his gloved
00:38:36
hand over her mouth he struck her on the head she ended up flat on her back with
00:38:41
the a stereo rapist sitting on top of her telling her to shut up she could feel this gun in his right hand
00:38:47
jacket pocket during the struggle she managed to get the gun out of his pocket they scuffled for some time the knife in
00:38:54
his hand hitting the side of her head at one point cutting her as they fought the
00:38:59
woman managed to get her thumb onto the trigger of the gun but she didn't know which way it was facing if she pulled
00:39:05
the trigger it could go through the bedroom wall into her daughter's bedroom she wasn't
00:39:09
taking that chance the east area rapist was able to get the gun back into then he started violently
00:39:15
stabbing the mattress over and over again right next to the woman's head the yeast area rapists pants were off and
00:39:23
she noticed he's a ladies were very white and covered in black hairs she also noticed his unusually small penis
00:39:30
he was mad he was able to tie her up blindfold her and karriker she felled him run the edge of his knife over her
00:39:39
he raped her then went rummaging and ransacking through drawers and cupboards walking back into the bedroom to check
00:39:46
on her regularly what he always did at one point he saw the six year old girl walk past sleepily he grabbed her be
00:39:55
quiet or I'll cut you up he pushed her towards her mother's room and put her in the bed the young girl started screaming
00:40:03
out for help the east area rapist reached over pulled the telephone from the wall then left the house it was
00:40:11
sometime close to 8:00 a.m. the next-door neighbor saw a young man with short dark blond hair black pants and a
00:40:17
navy sporty jacket jump her back fence and go into del Campo Park only a moment later she heard the survivor cry out for
00:40:25
help as the neighbor phoned of the Sheriff's Department two high school students on their way to del Campo High
00:40:32
School saw a man of the exact same description running up the street away from the direction of the survivors
00:40:38
house disappearing out of view towards the high school a woman that lived across the road saw the man just before
00:40:45
the high school students did and to talk detectives along the route she had seen
00:40:49
the man run when detectives followed the trail they found his exact tennis shoe prints a few empty beer cans and a few
00:40:56
cigarette butts from the witness accounts it appeared that he had parked a car on the other side of the high
00:41:02
school far enough away not to raise any suspicion allowing him to slip away from
00:41:07
police for the 13th time because of the large amount of witness accounts surrounding this attack and to the
00:41:14
similar descriptions that had been given a composite was made by the Sacramento Sheriff's Department there was still a
00:41:20
fairly strict media hold on the case so the sketch was not released it was believed that if the composite was
00:41:26
released and it wasn't the east area rapist it may bring harm to an innocent man it would be some months before a
00:41:33
composite would be released to the public although extremely frightened the six-year-old daughter was unharmed
00:41:40
detective Carol Daley was looking after the survivor and her daughter discussing
00:41:45
the protocol of going to the hospital to be checked out and to have swabs taken to preserve any forensic evidence
00:41:51
Shelby attended the scene also the survivor had a small cut on the top of her head which was bleeding as she
00:41:59
recounted a story detectives noticed that she also had a drop of blood lowered down on her face which didn't
00:42:04
appear to be from the same injury they cut a piece of bloodied hair from her head and swamped at the other blood job
00:42:10
for testing the victims blood type was easily extracted from the cut on her head she was taught be most expected the
00:42:20
second a separate drop of blood would also come back as the victims thought be but it didn't it came back type a that
00:42:29
second blood drop wasn't the victims as well as being type-a it also came back as a non-secretor it was determined from
00:42:38
semen samples the previous year that the east area rapist was a non-secretor he was in the 15 to 20% of the population
00:42:46
that carries the gene which inhibits them from secreting tiny particles of blood in other body fluids so detectives
00:42:52
felt confident that if a suspect arose and they had the appropriate court order they could now check the suspects blood
00:42:58
type and to secrete a status with 34% of the population having an a blood type and conservatively 20% of the population
00:43:07
being non-secretor 'he's only six point eight percent of the population would come up as both the net was wide but the
00:43:14
east area rapist had a fairly unusual combination they also felt more confident that the bloodied band-aid are
00:43:21
left on the picnic table and attacked number ten was the left by the east area rapist but what was unknown in forensics
00:43:29
in 1977 was that unfortunately someone is able to have both non-secretor and a secretor status at the same time this
00:43:37
meant that in the years that followed until this discovery was made some suspects may have been falsely
00:43:43
discounted based on secretest status once the discovery that you could have both was made suspects were placed back
00:43:50
on the list for further checking where possible within hours of this latest attack the
00:43:56
Sacramento Bee covered the story with a little information given by police I mentioned that the east area rapist had
00:44:03
gained access through an unlocked sliding glass door which was true however the survivor was sure that door
00:44:10
should have been locked leading detectives to believe that he may have gained access to the house earlier in
00:44:15
order to unlock the door waiting for the husband to leave ten days later in a cul-de-sac
00:44:23
just over highway 50 and only minutes south from attack number 11 in Glenbrook one month prior a 19 year old man was
00:44:30
returning home just before 10:30 at night there was a school with a large open park across from his house the
00:44:37
street was quiet he greeted his dad inside just before hearing a crashing noise in the back yard
00:44:43
the father switched the backyard light on and they saw a young man who they described as around 20 years old 5 foot
00:44:50
10 and around 170 pounds standing in the darkness of their backyard they bolted out the sliding door and chased the
00:44:58
Prowler as he ran down the side of their house towards the street they followed him across the street and over a fence
00:45:03
as the son was at the top of the fence ready to jump down and continue the chase he heard a gun [ __ ] the Prowler
00:45:11
was waiting for him as the bullet ripped through his stomach he fell back off the
00:45:16
fence onto his father who dragged him away they were both screaming and shouting
00:45:20
for help within seconds neighbors came to their aid and a police were called the area was cordoned off but the
00:45:28
Prowler had slipped away they located a 9-millimeter shell casing the 19 year old underwent surgery but survived the
00:45:37
Sacramento Bee wrote about it the following day the question was asked if this was the east area rapist
00:45:43
detective Shelby he had no doubt it was believing he had been prowling for his next victim when he was chased
00:45:50
it was clear from past attacks that when faced with an unexpected situation the Asteria rapist often didn't handle a
00:45:57
well and acted violently the Sheriff's Department worked hard on predicting his next move but wherever they placed their
00:46:06
surveillance vehicles the east area rapist always evaded them he had a way of blending in so that he didn't raise
00:46:12
suspicion and it was only when he was caught by surprise prowling on someone's property that the community really
00:46:18
seemed to notice him he was likely to have spent weeks scoping out a neighborhood working out the best route
00:46:25
through the night across parks pathways levees and canal systems which linked communities with the other doubt every
00:46:33
home attacked had one of these geographical elements in its immediate vicinity the task force was trying to
00:46:39
put the pieces together they had extensive notes on possible links to the military hospitals and doctors
00:46:45
construction real estate agents and houses for sale the scope of the investigation was widening every day on
00:46:58
March 8th 1977 one month after attack 13 the a stereo rapist had spent on stalking an area of East Sacramento he
00:47:07
hadn't yet hit a neighborhood between Robertson Avenue and Whitney Avenue which borders Carmichael the areas of
00:47:15
his previous attacks were likely too hot with police presence for him to risk going back five large blocks west of
00:47:22
Carmichael was a neighborhood that suited his MO it was linked by a narrow walking path tucked behind a long row of
00:47:29
houses to another neighborhood that path crossed the canal system and at the time
00:47:34
ran alongside a wooded park area and a school with a running track he could easily park his car at the end
00:47:40
of the path and approach the streets hidden by countless means at 3:00 a.m. that Tuesday morning March
00:47:47
8th a 37 year old elementary school teacher was asleep her young son was staying over at a friend's house she was
00:47:54
separated from her husband so was alone she had been receiving hang-up calls for
00:48:00
weeks every time she answered the person on the other end would remain silent after
00:48:05
a few moments the caller would hang up the calls had stopped the week earlier so she didn't think anymore of them
00:48:11
while she was sleeping the east area rapist was sliding open her glass door at the back of the house he had broken a
00:48:19
small hole mirror latch and was able to reach through and unlock it something he
00:48:24
had successfully done before it's difficult to determine exactly how many times he did this given the amount of
00:48:31
break-ins he committed in total but it was enough that he had perfected it and was able to do it in complete silence he
00:48:39
crept through the house into her bedroom and stood silently at her side do you feel this butcher knife the woman opened
00:48:48
her eyes and felt a knife at her throat if you scream or do anything I'll kill you all I want is your money I won't
00:48:55
hurt you if you don't scream he took both black and brown colored shoelaces and wrap them around the woman's wrist
00:49:03
so tightly she almost immediately felt her hands go numb he gagged her with some fabric and blindfolded her the
00:49:10
survivor felt he got much more pleasure out of tying her up and having complete control over her than he did from raping
00:49:16
her he walked out of the room and roamed the house rummaging and ransacking as he
00:49:22
went he seemed as though he was pulling every drawer and cupboard open looking for something but again nothing of value
00:49:28
was taken like previous attacks there were many things of value he could have taken but didn't
00:49:35
she heard him go way out to the patio and sit down for a while later she heard him eating in the
00:49:40
kitchen over a period of three hours he roamed the house and repeatedly raped the survivor at one point he took her
00:49:48
thumb and squeezed it tightly for no apparent reason he also took his gloves off it's
00:49:54
believed it was only the second time he took his gloves off during an attack after there was silence for long enough
00:50:01
to think he was gone the survivor got herself free and healed to a neighbor for help Shelby found a size 9 tennis
00:50:09
shoe footprints both at the back door and at the bathroom window the ones at the bathroom were noted as being older
00:50:16
prints and it was believed that they had been made some days earlier a canvass of
00:50:21
the neighborhood was conducted this would again show the east area rapist had extensively Prout the area and
00:50:27
planned this attack some neighbors had received hang-up calls for weeks in the lead up a few had seen a man feeding the
00:50:35
east area rapist description acting suspiciously but none had thought to call these in most had the attitude that
00:50:42
it was no big deal or not sinister enough to bother the police with other neighbors described two nights where
00:50:48
their dogs barked which was unusual at 6:30 that morning the exact time the east area rapist left the survivors
00:50:55
house a neighbor saw a man fitting the description peering in the front window of another house he was wearing a great
00:51:02
jogging suit on the street that runs parallel behind to the survivors house a neighbor noticed the yellow pickup truck
00:51:08
parked in the same spot for three nights in a row leading up to the attack he saw
00:51:14
the driver the man he described this five foot nine in his 20s walking into the front yard of a house so he assumed
00:51:21
he was just visiting someone but this house was directly behind the survivors house
00:51:28
another young girl on that same street said she saw the same pickup parked a few times they've been earlier than this
00:51:34
in the weeks leading up this time a canvass was done on the other side of the neighborhood as well where the
00:51:41
nearby path leads to the other side of the school on a closed off court on the other side of the school through a
00:51:47
wooded area residents told police that a yellow pickup truck had been seen parked
00:51:52
there the past few days the description of the yellow pickup truck was thought to be a late 40s early 50s afford one of
00:52:01
the residents remembered a partial license plate and Shelby took it to the DMV a trace was done on every model of
00:52:07
pickup truck from the 40s and 50s registered in the state of California officers all over the state were issued
00:52:13
with details of registered owners of pickups matching the description but it amounted to nothing when looking into
00:52:20
people who had close contact with a survivor of this latest attack attacked 14 sergeant Bevan made two discoveries
00:52:28
one was that the preacher who followed the Highway Patrol officers daughter home lived close by and to the other was
00:52:35
that the milkman who delivered to the survivors home lived very close to the previous attack attacked 13 when
00:52:42
officers paid the milkman a visit he told them that on the day of attack 13 a window screen had been removed from his
00:52:48
house again there were nothing more than coincidences which led nowhere in previous attacks the use of the
00:52:57
Bloodhound had been vital in tracking the Asteria rapist as the Bloodhound was getting old a new dog was brought in a
00:53:04
German Shepherd that belonged to one of the patrol officers the dog led detectives to the front of a house on
00:53:10
the corner of the street they noticed the same tennis shoe prints in a concentrated area as if someone had been
00:53:16
standing there a long while they were rolled in new prints and a fair few cigarette butts they knocked on the door
00:53:23
of that house and were greeted by a young man the man showed them his hedge which spent at the front of his property
00:53:29
he and his mother had found a cloth bag hidden in the hedge a few weeks prior inside the bag was a pair of gloves a
00:53:36
small flashlight and a ski mask they called the sheriff's office when they fee under the bag but the officer
00:53:43
they spoke to told them to throw it away which they did but they kept the flashlight as it seemed to worth keeping
00:53:49
the young man gave detective Shelby the flashlight it was small and silver and held a single D sized battery he felt
00:53:58
that it easily matched descriptions of flashlights used in previous attacks it didn't seem like a household stole a
00:54:04
flashlight but it was unbranded making it difficult to trace although this seems like a great piece of evidence no
00:54:12
fingerprints were found on it and it was never able to be traced to a manufacturer a few people described the
00:54:20
flashlight as looking like something used by Special Forces or navigators working within the military Shelby knew
00:54:27
that at the time navigators were being trained that the local made their Air Force Base so it was one of the first
00:54:33
places he cooked the flashlight he found that it was not standard issue for navigators or anyone else he did however
00:54:40
discover that may their Air Force Base had only just become responsible for training navigators one year earlier
00:54:46
January 1976 Air Force navigator trainees were moved from Texas to Mesa that same year the Marine Corps
00:54:56
transferred their marine aerial navigator school trainees to the Mather Air Force Base they had previously been
00:55:02
stationed just outside Irvine in Southern California Irvine will come up later on also in 1976 the
00:55:11
Navy established the Naval Air Training Unit at Mather this naval unit along with the Marines previously based in
00:55:18
Irvine were under their own command and not under the command of the Air Force they could have been anywhere between 20
00:55:25
and 130 Marines and enable their trainees stationed at Mather at the time that day the Sacramento Bee ran a story
00:55:33
titled rape may be linked to series it said little more than other articles stating a woman had been raped in her
00:55:40
home under the Sheriff's Department felt it had been committed by the east area rapist
00:55:44
it included a simple map marked with X's showing the locations of the 14 attacks
00:55:50
the article mentioned one other thing quote the rapist has never attacked while there was a man in the home during
00:55:59
the investigation of attack 14 detectives obtained a search warrant for a suspect they had reason to believe
00:56:05
knew the survivor the search was carried out by sergeant Bevins the suspect was a
00:56:10
photographer and had naked photographs of the survivor in his possession the suspect told detectives he was hired to
00:56:17
take the pictures and it turned out he was telling the truth there was just another lead that looked extremely
00:56:23
promising but turned out to be nothing more than coincidence it was 4:15 p.m. on Friday March 18th
00:56:33
1977 when the operator at the Sacramento Sheriff's Office took a call Sacramento
00:56:39
Sheriff's Office cannot help you I'm the east side rapist the line went dead 15 minutes later the phone rang again
00:56:50
Sacramento Sheriff's Office can I help you I'm the East Side rapist the caller started laughing before
00:56:58
hanging up thirty minutes later at 5:00 p.m. another call Sacramento Sheriff's Office can I help you on the east side
00:57:08
rapist and I'll have my next victim already thought you guys can't stop me the line went dead the Sheriff's
00:57:19
Department had no way of knowing if the phone calls were legitimate they had no way to trace the calls as they were too
00:57:25
short in lights around at the same time the Sheriff's Office received too those calls a 16 year old girl in Rancho
00:57:32
Cordova entered her home telephone the male caller told her he was a roof up and he needed to speak with her father
00:57:39
she told him her parents were away for the weekend and she hung up the phone she thought about the hang-up calls her
00:57:47
mother and sister had been getting for six months one time recently her mother was so angry when the prank
00:57:52
caller rang that she blew a whistle into the receiver seeing as they hadn't had one of these calls for around a week she
00:57:59
didn't think anymore of it and went to her shift at the local KFC around an hour and a half before she got
00:58:06
home from work her neighbor noticed their dogs growling nearby another teenage girl watched the strange man
00:58:12
crossed the road in front of her house and walk into a yard she was spooked enough to close all her
00:58:18
curtains and check the locks but she never called police after her shift at KFC the 16 year old girl returned home
00:58:25
she only planned on being there briefly to pack a bag she was going over to her friend's house to stay the night the
00:58:33
front of our house was shaded by a huge tree and with no street lights on her Street the front of their house was very
00:58:38
dark the hind of the houses opposite to hers was the canal that same part of the
00:58:45
canal system went to the nearby location of attack 6 which occurred five months earlier the attack where the east area
00:58:51
rapist tied the clothesline back and forth across the hallway that survivor was also a teenager whose father was
00:58:57
away the night of the attack they would have been receiving prank calls at the same time as each other
00:59:03
it was also only minutes walk away from attack number 8 when she walked inside she picked up the phone from the kitchen
00:59:12
bench to call her friend as she went to dial a noise behind her stopped her she turned to see a dark figure wearing a
00:59:19
ski mask and a dark green jacket but it wasn't the mask that she saw first there
00:59:25
was the small axe who was holding a bubbies head don't scream or I'll kill you the intruder said in a hoarse whisper
00:59:33
she froze he kept the axe above his head with one hand his eyes fixed on her with
00:59:39
the other hand he took the receiver and gripped the phone from the wall he pushed her toward the living room and
00:59:45
onto the floor he beyond her wrists behind her back with shoelaces and when it was found later that her ankles were
00:59:51
bound with the cord cut from the iron it was clear he had been in the house before she arrived home that night using
00:59:59
scissors he also got from the house he got strips from a towel my car is only a block away if you don't do what I say I
01:00:07
will kill you he blindfolded and gagged her his actions not ordering much from previous attacks
01:00:15
he drifted around to the house rummaging and ransacking then returned to the bedroom and raped her while taunting her
01:00:20
with a pair of scissors at one point she heard him go out the back sliding door but he wasn't gone he was doing
01:00:28
something outside possibly drinking in a can of dr. pepper which was found out there later the phone in her parents
01:00:35
room started ringing that seemed to ring forever going until it rang out the whole timer was ringing the Asteria
01:00:42
rapist stayed still in silent the girl knew it would be her friend wondering where she was the phone rang again the
01:00:51
yeast area rapist remained completely still while her rang out when it rang out he
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removed her gag when he's your family coming home when she tried to answer he told her to shut up
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he then bragged about the large size of his penis suddenly the doorbell rang by now it was 11:40 p.m. the girl's friend
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had been the one calling and after getting no answer she went to check on her in person when Nolan answered the
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doorbell she started knocking furiously on the door the east area rapist ran straight
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at the back door the survivor then cried out for help when Shelby into the team arrived they felt they knew exactly what
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they would find into they did size 9 tennis shoe prints a pried open garage door a lotion bottle empty cans this
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time dr. pepper and again nothing of value taken except the survivors driver's license a couple of her rings
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and her sisters school ID card to local real estate signs were found lying in the backyard the survivor described
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hearing a thud on her roof shortly after the east area rapist left her house they
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checked the roof and found a jar of Vaseline that didn't belong to the household they found that the small axe
01:02:10
discarded along the back fence the axe belonged to the house he would have grabbed it as he came in through the
01:02:16
garage the German Shepherd tracking dog was brought quickly to the scene who followed the east area rapist sent to
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the street behind in the survivors house up to corner where it suddenly stopped it
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appeared he may have parked the car there as opposed to escaping via the canal a neighborhood canvass revealed
01:02:35
sightings of a vehicle on and off for the previous month the vehicle was not known to the area and it was seen parked
01:02:41
in the exact same spot the dog lost the scent there was a gray Chevy Belair from
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66 or 67 during the attack the east area rapist told the survivor his car was parked only a block away that looked as
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though he was being truthful other neighbors told police during their door knocks that they had seen a suspicious
01:03:02
man in the area in the weeks leading up to the attack one even saw a man with a stocking over his face other neighbors
01:03:09
reported they too had been receiving hang-up calls it started the seemed like every second house had something
01:03:15
suspicious to report yet nothing had been reported at the time due to the masks the survivor barely saw much of
01:03:23
the East Area rapist but later she would give a description while under hypnosis
01:03:27
the holes in his ski mask were open enough that she saw his eyes this description was used in conjunction with
01:03:34
other descriptions to form the first composite released to the public a few months earlier under hypnosis she
01:03:41
described how his mouth was at the same level as her nose from this they determined he was in fact 5 foot 9 to 5
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foot 10 detectives got to work on putting together all of the witness accounts under the information given by
01:03:54
the survivor they weren't surprised to learn the survivors father was not expecting a call from a roofer further
01:04:02
stories ran on the a stereo rapist after this latest attack one headline from the
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Sacramento Bee read east area locks itself up in fear as crime soars the be reiterated quote he has never attacked
01:04:17
while there was a man in the home although occasionally there have been children those in the community who were
01:04:24
still oblivious to what was happening we're encouraged to get better locks for their doors and windows and told to
01:04:29
start watching out that weekend a local hardware store sold 200 dead bolts the survivor of attack 15 was shown a set of
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photos of knowns offenders as well as high school yearbooks from nearby schools she had
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not seen much of the East Area rapist but she had seen his eyes and had some close-up descriptions better than others
01:04:50
up to that point when flicking through the yearbooks she stopped at a picture she didn't necessarily think it was him
01:04:57
but she felt he looked similar he graduated from Kennedy High School three years prior with little else to go
01:05:05
on they looked into him closer his physical description matched he lived right near Mather Air Force Base just
01:05:13
south of Rancho Cordova his father was based there he liked to wear military clothing while
01:05:20
at high school he was on the track team he joined the Marines after school only to be kicked out for stealing from a
01:05:26
vending machine he owned relatives all over very close to some of the other survivors homes
01:05:32
this guy seemed to fit the east area rapist perfectly but when they covertly took the teenage survivor to his
01:05:38
workplace at a gas station she didn't feel it was him at all and it didn't go any further when this guy was arrested
01:05:45
for a rape in Sacramento years later he seemed a likely suspect again but he was
01:05:51
cleared from the east area rapist investigation the links and similarities between this suspect and the east area
01:05:57
rapist like suspects before him were uncanny but time and time again leads which seemed like sure things fell flat
01:06:10
today there had been 15 attacks carried out by the east area rapists he had remained
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relatively consistent with this MO with the exception of a few instances where he appeared panic pill caught off guard
01:06:23
the fact that he had struck on the night of the three phone calls made to the Sheriff's Department from someone
01:06:28
claiming to be the east area rapist showed it was highly likely he was the caller he had toyed with the police that
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night and now he was about to toy with the media it seemed he had read their news reports and decided to show them it
01:06:43
didn't matter who was in their house women or men he would take control of anyone and if your husband or boyfriend
01:06:49
was home it made no difference things were about to change Orangevale is one suburb southeast of Citrus
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Heights on the night of April 1st 1977 a woman went to the local drive-in with her boyfriend and her eight-year-old
01:07:06
daughter and seven-year-old son the couple both worked in the Kaiser pharmacy at the Medical Center close to
01:07:14
Arden arcade the pharmacy was a fair way west of the woman's home but it was very
01:07:19
close to the location where the envelope full of cut-up female driver license photos was found she had been receiving
01:07:26
hang-up phone calls but thought nothing of it the local papers had not reported anything about the hang-up phone calls
01:07:32
so women who were getting them had no idea how seriously they should have taken them they got home late from the
01:07:39
drive-in and all went straight to bed sometime after 3:00 a.m. the woman and her boyfriend woke to a bright flashing
01:07:47
torch in her eyes see the gun in my hand don't make a move turn over onto your stomach's I have a 45 with 14 shots and
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two clips they both froze in shock there were white shoelaces and neatly laid out on
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the bed the east area rapist ordered her to tie her boyfriend's wrists and ankles
01:08:09
he created her to make the bindings tighter before taking over and doing it himself
01:08:14
he then tied the woman up he said he would be gone in a few minutes if they did what he said he then asked for money
01:08:22
the boyfriend told him where his wallet was if you move I'll kill you both just like I did those people in Bakersfield
01:08:32
it was the second time he had mentioned to Bakersfield during an attack he then held the gun to the boyfriend's head
01:08:40
don't look up if you see me I'll have to kill you both after I take the money I'm
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going down to my camp on the American River he left the bedroom they heard him opening and closing drawers and
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cupboards before walking back into the bedroom he didn't want to leave them together in the room in case they untied
01:09:00
each other so he said he was taking the woman with him she felt something sharp in her back as he led her down towards
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the lounge room he ordered her to light down on her stomach and he walked off to
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the kitchen he came back with dishes from the kitchen and to play some on the woman's back he told her if she moved he
01:09:19
would hear and he would come back and kill her he then walked into the bedroom and did the same to the boyfriend
01:09:25
placing a cup and saucer on his back he then returned to the woman he asked her if she had had sex with her husband at
01:09:34
night she said no he blindfolded her with a towel and raped her things happen to the same as previous attacks in
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between the rapes he rents act at the house he made something to eat he asked her where the matches in a candle were
01:09:50
and at one point he unplugged the heater and cut the cord to the TV both of the children stayed fast asleep
01:09:57
in their beds and had no idea what was going on the east area rapist had never asked about them she noticed his legs
01:10:05
were scratchy like they were shaved just before leaving the east area rapist walked back into the bedroom he stood
01:10:13
next to the boyfriend and said next place next town then he was gone the boyfriend had detected a hint of a
01:10:23
German or similar accent when the east area rapist spoke even though he continued to speak through clenched
01:10:29
teeth in a whisper he was certain there was a hint of an accent the boyfriend wasn't completely sure the
01:10:35
east area rapist had left so he spent the next 10 minutes wriggling the cup and saucer of his back without making a
01:10:41
sound once it was off he was able to untie himself and he shuffled silently down the hall to check on the children
01:10:48
he made his way to his girlfriend who was still bound and blindfolded on the lounge room floor that had been nearly
01:10:55
two hours of Terror sometime between 4:30 and 5:00 that morning just after the east area rapist left a neighbor
01:11:03
heard a small foreign vehicle circling the block several times when Shelby arrived he arranged for the German
01:11:10
Shepherd to track the track the son of the East Area rapists around the corner before stopped at a curb the spot was
01:11:17
not directly in front of another residence line of sight there was a good position to get away quickly two other
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main roads a neighborhood canvass revealed a similar story unusual cars had been seen parked in the area the day
01:11:31
before the attack someone's for a great station wagon go up and down a nearby street five times there were more
01:11:37
incidents of suspicious people and vehicle sightings in this case than there had been before but not one was
01:11:43
reported until the police came knocking after the attack there were prowlers seen in yards matching the description
01:11:50
of the East Area rapist a number of break-ins nearby which seemed unusual for the area
01:11:55
one man found a tennis shoe imprints on his fence and an empty meat wrapper in his yard he had not given the meat to
01:12:02
his dog someone else had many had received hang-up calls including a woman and her two daughters
01:12:08
who had been receiving heavy breathing calls for months there were sightings of a possible phony meter reader in the
01:12:15
area a young man dressed as a meter reader was seen looking suspiciously around yards the utility company had no
01:12:22
record of anyone working in the area at the time of these sightings one woman out gardening saw a man in a grey
01:12:30
jogging tracksuit Chris crossed the street stopping and staring at each house the man got a
01:12:35
surprise when he realized who was being watched he said good evening and walked quickly to a bluish-gray car parked
01:12:42
nearby and sped off she took down his number plate but lost it before police came knocking not one of these things
01:12:49
was reported until after the attack already occurred it was clear the community had no understanding of the
01:12:55
warning signs of the East Area rapist but police felt if they told the public what to watch out for
01:13:01
there would be citywide panic and it would hinder their chance of catching him it was difficult to prove there was
01:13:08
a link to the real estate market seeing a sales and lettings were common everywhere in the developing area but
01:13:14
detectives found it hard to deny there was a strong connection it came up again in this case the next-door neighbor's
01:13:21
house was for sale there was no estate agent involved just the owners meeting and greeting potential buyers the
01:13:28
neighbors confirmed that a man stopped by to look at the house before the attack he told them he was being
01:13:34
transferred from Las Vegas to the McClellan Air Force Base he fit that a stereo rapist physical description
01:13:40
perfectly the east area rapist took his gloves off during attack 16-under the forensics
01:13:48
team found a fingerprint on the victims wrist the problem was they couldn't lift
01:13:52
it they sought the help of the FBI and the learn there could be a way to lift it however after a few attempts the
01:13:59
method was scrapped it was unsuccessful the east area rapist also left two chewed a chewing gum in the kitchen at
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attack 16 it would take only two weeks for another couple to be targeted in the early hours
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of April 15th 1977 this time in the far northern part of Carmichael in the Crestview area close to where he had
01:14:21
struck twice before once two months prior attacked thirteen in Citrus Heights and attack for seven months
01:14:28
prior in Carmichael he knew the area well apart from the fact there were no children in this house attack seventeen
01:14:37
mimicked the last attack the woman had been receiving heavy breathing hang-up phone calls for three weeks she awoke to
01:14:45
a flashlight in her eyes the east area rapist made her tie up her boyfriend just like in attack 16 he called the
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boyfriend husband indicating he might not have stalked them well enough to know they weren't married he separated
01:14:58
them stacked dishes on them and told them here we killed them if he heard them move the constant roaming rummaging
01:15:05
and ransacking of the house in between rapes continued and he ate in the kitchen there was almost a carbon copy
01:15:12
of attack 16 twice the boyfriend had dropped the dishes off his back as his hands were in agony from being tied so
01:15:19
tight the first time the east area rapist pressed the gun to his head and said he'd do that again and I'll kill
01:15:26
you the second time that happened he said next time I'll kill her one unusual thing the east area rapist he knew about
01:15:37
this survivor was that she had codeine in the house she'd had some dental work done and had a few tablets left in a
01:15:43
bottle at one point he demanded to know where the codeine was she said he sounded desperate like a drug addict she
01:15:51
couldn't stop wondering how he knew she hadn't codeine he took them over to the sink and ran the water it sounded like
01:15:59
he had taken them and the bottle was found empty but the next day a plastic bag with the wet codeine pills was found
01:16:05
in the neighbor's yard when Shelby pulled up at the house the first thing he noticed was the real estate sign in
01:16:12
the yard of the house across the road it was for sale it was currently unoccupied
01:16:17
and strangely it was also unlocked so he went in in the laundry he found a cigarette
01:16:25
butts the same type he had seen before and a tennis shoe prints enough to make sure we think the person had spent a
01:16:31
fair bit of time in that laundry when he looked out the laundry window the line of sight took him straight to the
01:16:38
survivors house across the road by now officers were on dedicated East Area rapist task force shifts patrolling the
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streets at night looking for anything suspicious they were no longer just staking out known pockets have already
01:16:52
hit neighborhoods now they were cruising wide areas and on alert for relevant dispatch calls others were stationed on
01:17:00
either side of main roads and highway 50 so they could pursue any car that contained a soul young male driver it
01:17:12
was just over two weeks before he struck again May 3rd 1977 attack number 18 this
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time I would be the Sacramento City police who would receive the call their second call to an East Area rapist crime
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scene it was back on their turf and very close to the first attack in their area
01:17:31
attack 11 at Glenbrook near the bridge south of the American River it was the first time the east area rapist would
01:17:38
attack a two-story home a woman her husband and two children resided there the woman was taking a course in real
01:17:47
estate at the Sacramento City College she also worked at Mather Air Force Base her husband was an Air Force major there
01:17:55
about 1 a.m. Tuesday May 3rd she heard a thottie outside she went and checked the
01:18:01
windows and doors were locked then got back into bed with her husband their children were asleep down the hall at 3
01:18:09
a.m. she awoke to find a figure in the doorway of the bedroom he had a flashlight in one hand and a gun in the
01:18:15
other he shone the torch across the gun and whispered angrily it was a 45 caliber he said if they moved he would
01:18:22
kill everyone in the house this time as he was making the woman bind her husband on the bed he kept
01:18:29
repeating that he could kill them and made a strange reference to having a camp across the levy he also said that
01:18:36
he got kicked out of the military it was the first time that the east area rapist
01:18:41
took a sheet and covered up the man's head he then placed a cup and saucer on his back he said he wanted money for
01:18:47
cocaine the husband motioned to his wallet on the dresser when the east area rapist
01:18:53
looked he seemed furious saying he'd better have more money or I'll kill you both the woman said there was more money
01:19:02
in her purse upstairs in the kitchen area before leaving the bedroom he tired the husband's wrists tighter then put a
01:19:09
jewelry box on his back along with the cup and saucer he forced the woman upstairs with his gun pointed at her the
01:19:17
woman said he started shivering as if he was having drug withdrawals but it didn't seem legitimate to her there was
01:19:23
like an act as they passed the upstairs bathroom near the kitchen he made her lie on the floor outside the bathroom
01:19:30
door while he tied her ankles tightly he took a shower cap put it over her face and left her for a few minutes when he
01:19:39
returned he tied her to the leg of the dining table while he wandered around the kitchen rummaged through drawers and
01:19:45
looked for food like previous attacks in between raping her he ransacked the house and ate
01:19:53
at one point he zipped up a bag in the kitchen that sounded like he had put things inside one time when he asked her
01:20:01
for drugs she felt his voice was soft and clear and did not think he was whispering through clenched teeth he
01:20:07
checked on the husband and numerous times but again didn't go near the sleeping children both the survivor and
01:20:14
husband told police they felt like the east area rapist was acting during this attack it seemed like the whole thing
01:20:20
was scripted and at times that even sounded like he was reading from script the requests for drugs and his shivering
01:20:28
were an act in their opinion to make it seem like he was a drug addict again the
01:20:33
survivor described him as having an unusually small penis the Sacramento City police brought in a tracking dog
01:20:40
the dog track to the east area rapist sent to the levy walk directly behind the couple's home in the levee police
01:20:48
found a knife from the survivors home and along the top of the levee they found two empty beer cans when they
01:20:55
canvassed the neighborhood there were no surprises when they learned six nearby homes had been receiving hang-up calls
01:21:00
and the two had been broken into recently another neighbor reported finding a plastic bag that contained a
01:21:07
pair of gloves and a flashlight hidden in a bush under her window again nothing was reported until after the attack when
01:21:15
police came knocking it has been well recorded the amount of things that weren't reported to police some caught
01:21:22
boyfriends or male relatives instead to come to their aid with guns for protection others just didn't want to
01:21:28
involve themselves some wanted to pretend it wasn't happening at all and believed if they ignored the whole thing
01:21:34
it would go away while others simply just didn't put two and two together and realized the suspicious activities were
01:21:41
related to the east area rapist less than 48 hours later he was ready to strike again
01:21:47
May 5th 1977 the neighborhood of winter Brook Orangevale was one with lots of construction going on houses were going
01:22:00
up and too much of the undeveloped delay and delay open the east area rapist had been here
01:22:05
before just a month earlier when he attacked two blocks away attacked 16 there was a home which had just been
01:22:13
purchased by a young man who worked for his thought brokers office in downtown Sacramento
01:22:18
he had only moved in ten days prior he was still relatively unpacked and he'd had no time to purchase curtains he was
01:22:26
waiting for his friend from work to visit for dinner and hang out while checking out his new place he had met
01:22:32
her six months earlier when she started at the same firm as a sales assistant that were purely platonic while the
01:22:39
woman was driving towards his house she had an uneasy feeling the uneasiness stayed with her as she got out of her
01:22:45
car with her two small dogs when she put her dogs into the back yard they barked
01:22:50
constantly as if someone was there they also stayed very close to the back door the pair chatted over dinner the
01:22:59
uneasy feelings still remaining with the woman but she thought that maybe it was
01:23:03
just because the house felt open and exposed without curtains at 12:15 a.m. the men walked her out to her car to go
01:23:11
home her car was parked in the driveway right at the front door but when she walked out and put our dogs down they
01:23:18
ran towards the front of the house barking the east area rapist stepped out from the shadow is pointing a 45 caliber
01:23:24
handgun directly at them get back inside or I'll blow your brains out once inside
01:23:32
he forced them onto the lounge room floor face down the dogs ran in after them barking this time he had black blue
01:23:39
and white shoelaces he ordered the woman to tie up the men they believed he was speaking through clenched teeth to
01:23:46
appear mad like he was exaggerating a bit and his voice seemed naturally high-pitched he repeatedly told them if
01:23:54
they didn't follow his orders he would kill them all while the woman tied the male victims wrists she yelled at the
01:24:00
dogs to be quiet fearing that would get them killed the east area rapist tried the man's wrist slider making his wrists
01:24:07
go numb he told them he was only after money he ordered the woman to get up and to lock
01:24:14
her dogs in a bedroom he followed closely behind her before forcing her back down onto a Landrum floor and tying
01:24:21
her tightly he cut the phone lines then collected dishes from the kitchen the stack on
01:24:26
their backs he threatened to kill them if they moved he then went back to the kitchen and started zipping something
01:24:34
open and closed that's unknown if it was a bag or his jacket he went through drawers and cupboards before going back
01:24:42
to the lounge room to check on them he was taking strange deep breaths which the male victim thought sounded like him
01:24:48
trying to build up courage the woman felt she heard a slight accent he forced the woman up held a knife to her throat
01:24:56
and pushed her into the bathroom near the kitchen he forced her down and blindfolded her she then heard him
01:25:03
lubricating himself with lotion you'd better swear to God you didn't see a vent down the street he repeated that
01:25:12
line to her three times he never took his gloves off during any of the three times he raped her he ransacked the
01:25:19
house between rapes at one point he walked into the bathroom and said she was not to make a sound while he was
01:25:25
eating and drinking or he would kill her he was then heard going into the kitchen
01:25:30
and opening the refrigerator after that the house fell silent they knew he was gone after breaking free the male victim
01:25:41
ran to the neighbors for help when detectives examined the crime scene they found a foot scuff marks on the trunk of
01:25:48
the large oak tree next to the living room window there were tennis shoe prints underneath empty beer cans were
01:25:54
found at the back door and a piece of chewing gum found thrown into a clothes basket in the laundry there was a knife
01:26:01
located behind the sofa the theory with this attack was that the east area rapist plan to strike
01:26:08
elsewhere possibly his chosen victims weren't home he then came across this house it's believed to be an
01:26:16
opportunistic attack due to the fact the survivor was only visiting and wouldn't
01:26:20
usually have been there detectives found a Zippo lighter in the bedroom which did
01:26:25
not belong to either victim although Zippos were available to the public they also went hand-in-hand with the Army
01:26:31
especially around at the time of the Vietnam War the Zippo lighter indicated a possible military link again although
01:26:40
the method didn't work for them since the day they discovered that good possibly touched fingerprints off skin
01:26:45
the east area rapist hadn't taken his gloves off again Shelby had requested that all patrol officers not discuss
01:26:53
this on their police radios when he found that that some had not listened to him and there had been chatter about
01:26:58
this process over the airwaves that's when it was considered he may have a police radio if he didn't have ears
01:27:05
inside the force that is that day the Sacramento Bee reported on the latest attack the tac-19
01:27:12
as well as attack 18 that occurred only two days prior it was apparent that the east area rapist was reading the papers
01:27:20
since the Sacramento Bee reported that he only attacked when women were home alone or with children he had
01:27:26
specifically targeted houses where there was a man home there was only nine days
01:27:33
until he struck again in the two weeks leading up to this next attack attack 20 which occurred on May
01:27:39
14th 1977 there was one Road which had an unprecedented amount of suspicious sightings of a man fitting the
01:27:46
description of the East Area rapist it was Merlin Dale Drive in Citrus Heights a young girl and her brother spotted a
01:27:54
man hiding in the bushes on the street when he realized they had seen the man ran off jumping fences until he was out
01:28:01
of sight at 12:45 a.m. May 13 a couple on the street heard someone on their roof then
01:28:08
the neighbor's dog started barking they immediately rang the Sheriff's Department just after they hung up their
01:28:15
neighbor rang them to say someone was walking around on their roof they were pleased to hear that a squad car was on
01:28:21
its way the police arrived in five minutes but the roof crowler was gone within any hour of the police leaving
01:28:28
someone tried to pry open the neighbor's door but they were unsuccessful the police weren't called back another woman
01:28:37
nearby heard noises in her garage she was too scared to go check it out and again police weren't caught at 6:30 a.m.
01:28:45
later that morning the Prowler was still around a woman saw a strange man fitting
01:28:50
the east area rapist description in the same street she was well aware of the east area rapist and she immediately
01:28:56
called the police by the time they arrived he was gone that evening around a 6:30 p.m. a woman saw an older black
01:29:06
car with a sole male driver parked suspiciously it appeared that the man inside was wearing an old brown uniform
01:29:12
of some description she thought the car looked like an old cop car and assumed there may have been
01:29:18
a stakeout going on but it wasn't a cop car there was no stakeout happening a young couple from out of town had just
01:29:26
bought a house on Merlyn Doyle Drive Citrus Heights she was a waitress and he was a restaurant manager from the day
01:29:34
they moved in the woman had been receiving hang-up calls and only recently they saw a strange men in their
01:29:40
backyard at 3:15 a.m. May 14th the couple woke to a dark figure in their bedroom doorway his head covered in a
01:29:48
nylon stocking the first time he was seen in this type of mask he's shown a flashlight into their eyes you make a
01:29:56
sound and I'll kill you I have a 45 and I'll kill you if you move I'm going to take your money and I want some food
01:30:03
then I'll leave in my van he forced them onto their stomachs and did exactly what he had done during
01:30:09
previous attacks he did however say slightly different things I'm going to take you in the van with me how would
01:30:17
you like to be in the river he also specifically mentioned food only in the last few attacks did he actually
01:30:25
mention food as opposed to just going to the fridge and getting it other than that everything happened as per previous
01:30:32
attacks that appears he may have been telling the truth about having a van at 5:20 a.m. which is right about the time
01:30:40
he fled the house a local paperboy saw a van sped away from the area there was blue and the
01:30:47
paintwork looked like it had been sanded back when police were at the scene speaking with the survivor a woman who
01:30:54
lived nearby approached them she was the person who sold the house to the survivor and her partner and had only
01:31:00
been week since she herself had lived there she told police that she was receiving hang-up calls for weeks before
01:31:06
she moved out and when she moved out of the house into a new place around the corner the calls continued despite the
01:31:13
fact she had a new number while she was selling the house she had an open for local real estate agents to come through
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on one particular day a young man who she now realized to fit the description of the East Area rapist walked in
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without an appointment which for an agent is a strange thing to do he introduced himself as Frank
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William dubbins jr. for an estate agent his car was unusually old and beat up when he told her the real estate company
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who worked for she felt it was odd because agents from that firm had already been to the house twice when he
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walked around he didn't look at the usual things she expected he looked at the windows and the questions he asked
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were more about her husband and daughter than about the house he frightened her but she didn't report it until after
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this latest attack attack number 21 occurred just three days later his target was an
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italian-american family who lived in the del Deo neighborhood of Carmichael close
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by to attack number two and attack number seven the husband's father was visiting from Italy at the time a couple
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of weeks earlier the couple found two BB pellets had been shot through one of their windows they thought it was odd
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but put it down to kids then they found a part of their garage door had been pried at the top making it almost
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impossible to open the strange thing about the place of the prying was that if you were familiar with that make of
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garage door then you would know there is a place at the top where you could slip
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in a tool and get the door to open it seemed to them that the person knew this but was unsuccessful they reported it to
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the sheriff's department that heard nothing more about it in the days leading up to the attack the woman saw a
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man outside her kitchen window he was on her neighbor's lawn carrying something he then disappeared down the side of the
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neighbor's house others also saw a man wandering around the neighborhood looking at the front of people's houses
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in that same week in the lead up a man was seen shining a flashlight near the victim's home a Breann Dodge Charger was
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seen parked nearby no one recognized the car but no one called the police or approached the victims to check if what
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they saw was unusual at 1:30 a.m. a hand to gently pried the lock on the patio door to the victims bedroom the east
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area rapist silently crept in elsewhere in the house two children were asleep as
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was there visiting grandfather the husband woke and noticed the figure this family knew all about the east area
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rapist in this husband knew instantly what was happening he pretended to be asleep wake up
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wake up wake up look at me look at me do you hear me the woman woke as he's shown his
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flashlight into her eyes in the other hand he had a gun he was wearing a beige ski mask and debris on leather gloves
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with slits at the sides his shoes seemed very heavy and they squeaked as he walked the woman pulled the sheet up
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over her head and started yelling to her husband the husband went to get up by the east area rapist shone the
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flashlight in his eyes sit down the east area rapist forced them onto their stomachs and they were tied up the same
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as previous attacks he forced the woman to tie her husband up first then he retied him before tying up the woman the
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husband went to say something shut up if you say one more thing oh she's dead she's dead
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the east area rapist reopened at the patio door and it sounded like he was rummaging through a toolbox he walked
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back in the bedroom holding what appeared to be a money box he rested it on the husband's back he was taking deep
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breaths he told them he was going to fix himself some food if I hear anything I'll kill everyone in the house and I'll
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leave into the night he left the bedroom for about 30 minutes when he returned he
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demanded money the woman said her purse was in the kitchen he forced her up and took her
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with him she showed him the purse and he shoved her towards the land room she noticed he had taken a rug and draped it
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over a lamp creating dull soft lighting he forced her onto her stomach and retied her wrists and ankles so tightly
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she felt them going numb the east area rapist appeared more angry during this attack calling her by name and
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threatening to kill her over and over as he prepared to rape her when he stopped
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he returned to the kitchen to eat he then told her he was going to get some food and beer and going to the backyard
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to eat for an hour he stacked plates on her back he leaned in and whispered that
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if the plates rattled he would come back and kill for the first time when he returned he said the following he seemed
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excited and studied his words a little bit those [ __ ] those [ __ ] those pigs I've never killed before but I'm
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going to now listen dear me I want you to tell those [ __ ] those pigs I'm going to go home to my apartment I'll
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have bunches of televisions I'm going to listen to the radio and watch television
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if I hear about this I'm going to go out tomorrow night and kill two people people are going to die
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he then walked directly to the husband went down and whispered angrily you'd tell those [ __ ] pigs that I could
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have killed two people tonight if I don't see that all over the papers and television
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I'll kill two people tomorrow night then there was silence when the woman heard her husband called out for his father in
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Italian she knew the ordeal was over the dog was able to track the east area rapist sent through the survivors
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property to the side gate then along the road to a small closed off Street two blocks away detectives had no doubt he
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had a car parked there they found the house in the same condition that they had grown accustomed to it had been
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ransacked there were empty beer cans left behind and partially eaten packets of crackers in the backyard
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the first thing Shelby saw when he arrived was the for sale sign in the yard of a nearby house there was also a
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school across the road they'll do elementary school Shelby had been there the year before for the parents meeting
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on crime prevention the one where residents first started asking questions about a possible serial rapist when
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Shelby walked inside he was introduced to the survivors husband he realized immediately who he was he was the man
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who stood up at that town-hall meeting seven months prior a dildo elementary school the one who paced up and down
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yelling that no man would stand by and let his wife be raped he for one certainly wouldn't
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was the east area rapist at that meeting the next day police debated whether or not to hold a press conference it was
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clear they were no longer able to keep quiet and give brief details about the rapist he had now attacked 21 times but
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they didn't know what to do the survivor stated that the east area rapist told her if he heard about the attack on
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radio or television he would kill two people the next night but her husband was adamant the east area rapist said
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the opposite he would kill two people if he didn't see it all over the papers in
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television they had conflicting versions and they weren't sure what to do to be continued next week
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