[Unresolved Crime] Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a serial rapist in central PA
The news on this mystery broke a couple weeks ago but has apparently been going on for quite some time, and shows that despite all our technology, our CCTVs, our GPSs, and Siri/Alexa (who is always listening!), serial offenders can still operate with relative ease. Also almost everyone around here is armed so this guy is brazen in my opinion.
This came to my attention when I opened up my little town's fishwrap of a weekly newspaper. The editor toned down "rape" to "assault" (the paper is mostly a bulletin for the local churches, many of which are conservative)
So I went looking and found these articles:
http://wnep.com/2017/06/21/troopers-investigating-several-related-sex-assaults/
I also found an article from 2014 referencing a serial offender around Bloomsburg University, which is in Columbia County, one of the counties this guy stalks. I wonder if it's the same guy.
If you click through the first articles look at the MO: he stalks his victims, then learns their schedules. He rather reminds me of EARONS. I wonder if that's how he got the idea---reading about him and going "hey, I can do that."
It's not the first serial rapist for Bloomsburg---there was one in the early 90s. The man they arrested for those crimes was acquitted.
If Northumberland County is familiar to you it's because 1, its prison burned down in 2015 and 2, Miranda Barbour, the Craigslist Killer, had her trial here and is imprisoned in the area.
Posted Jul 8, 2017, 7:55 PM UTC · edited
I remember in the early 2000's when I went to Ohio State, their were billboards up about a serial rapist. Had a suspect sketch on it. The guy had been doing it since the early 90's. Sometimes I wonder if they ever caught him.