Early Morning Rapist or Southside

[portofleith]

Nightdriver,

Is this article discussing the arrest of the Southside Rapist in Sac or the Early Morning? Do you have articles that distinguish the two?

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[portofleith]

I know this is hard to read- maybe this copy is better.

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[portofleith]

another version

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[nightdriver]

I'll be back later, too busy right now.

My memory is getting a little hazy, as to which one was who. The "Early morning rapist" was caught, just before EAR started?

He was a night cook at Eppie's, I think they indicated that he worked at the one by the RT barn.

I don't remember if they lumped both of those strings together. Or if it was two and they caught the other one.

Have you ever run across the "Photomat Rapist? Mostly in the Bay area, about 1974-1976? There was a story that he may have done one in Davis, but I don't remember the time frame.

I don't think there are any other reported rapes that can be tied to EAR, too bad.

[nightdriver]

Folks, here is a paragraph from an 11-15-06 front page Sacramento Bee article:

"Over the past three decades, Sacramento investigators have targeted roughly a dozen serial rapists, including some who were never found despite numerous attacks."

The article did list nine cases, not a dozen. Yes, the EAR was listed, but there was nothing about anything else as old as EAR.

I've tried to locate that story I remembered, no luck, but there is one more place I could look. No one else remembers reading that.

But I was told specifically that there was NO connection between EAR and EMR, period, end of discussion. There was no time overlap.

That's all I want to say about that, I saw that one person on A&E who reported what I have said in this thread, and without attribution. When you do that, you deserve nothing more.

[portofleith]

i found my answer on Southside but still zip on the Early morning Rapist.

The Southside rapist tried to get out on parole in 2006- luckily he was deemed still dangerous.

SACRAMENTO BEE
August 22, 1993
Edition: METRO FINAL
Section: MAIN NEWS
Page: A1


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SACTO SEX CRIME PROFILE
CAPITAL'S LATEST SERIAL RAPIST RENEWS TERROR IN THE NIGHT
Author: Mareva Brown and Winda Benedetti Bee Staff Writers
Article Text:
Two weeks ago, a young woman was awakened in early morning as she lay alone in bed in her second-floor apartment near Alta Arden and Howe Avenue.
Terrified, she realized there was a man in the room. She began to scream. The in truder punched her in the mouth. Then, he raped her.
It is a woman's worst nightmare - a faceless, nameless intruder who rapes in what once had been the security of her home. Violated and afraid, she never will be the same.
But this rapist probably will strike again, investigators and researchers say.
He is the most recent serial rapist to emerge in Sacramento County, a man who apparently stalks his victims, strikes as they sleep, then slinks away into the morning darkness.
There have been others. Four months ago, Sacramento sheriff's investigators searched for the "Parkway Rapist," blamed for the rape of one woman and attacks on two others on or near the American River Parkway. Over the past 15 years, Sacramento area investigators have pursued violent men known by their nicknames: the "Cowardly Rapist," the "Towel Rapist," the "South Area Rapist," the "East Area Rapist."
No one knows how many serial rapists are roaming the streets, primarily because only a small percentage of rape victims report the crime to police, experts believe. Sacramento police estimate that 45 percent of the city's 237 rapes in 1992 were committed by strangers, while the Sheriff's Department believes that 25 percent to 30 percent of its 267 rapes last year were attacks by strangers. Most of those, authorities say, can be attributed to serial offenders.
The victims in the latest attacks have not been able to provide police detailed descriptions of their attacker.
Authorities say the man, who has attacked three women in a three-mile radius since June 26, already may have chosen his next victim.
"Some have multiple victims they are stalking at the same time," said Gary Lowe, a specialist in sex-offense cases for the state Department of Corrections. "They're very good at it. Sometimes they take a long time watching a potential victim, through maybe weeks or days."
This rapist could have as many as 42 other victims, some researchers say. Their studies suggest that, for each reported offense of a serial rapist, as many as 14 others go unreported.
And with each unreported rape, detectives lose clues - and time.
"It's not like he's been really violent," said Detective Rebecca Moore, a sex-crimes investigator who is handling the case for the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. "No horrible beatings. But a lot of times, what it takes to get them aroused escalates."
Portrait of a rapist
Serial rapists generally fall into three categories, according to FBI research widely cited by rape experts:
* Sadists, who torture and brutalize their victims as they rape, often killing them in the process.
* Anger rapists, who lash out against women, often with brutal beatings and more violent acts of sex.
* Power rapists, whose scouting missions or peeping sessions are part of an increasingly potent fantasy that ends in rape.
As many as 90 percent of all rapists fall into the last category, said Michael Prodan, who profiles serial killers and rapists for the state Department of Justice.
According to an FBI profile of 41 rapists, power rapists are the least violent attackers and often convince themselves they haven't harmed their victims at all.
"They'll say, "I didn't kill her,' " said Fred Berlin, director of Baltimore's National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma. "I didn't physically injure her. We just had sex."
It's a notion victims cannot understand.
"What an absolute slap in the face to all the hell I've been through," said Ann, who awakened one night in 1989 to find Sacramento's so-called "Towel Rapist" standing in her bedroom. "You just want to survive. All you think is this is your last day on Earth. You go into a complete survival mode."
Many rapists, like Ann's attacker, stay at relatively the same level of violence over years of attacks. But others escalate, even to murder.
"It gets boring after a while," said Sacramento Police Capt. Ron Carrera. "It's not challenging any more. They start progressing for the excitement."
The ritual of rape
[glow=red,2,300][glow=red,2,300]Take Larry Buffington and the case of the "South Area Rapist." Buffington was sentenced to 31 years in prison in 1980 for 11 rapes he committed near his 69th Avenue home. [/glow][/glow]Buffington began raping women who were home alone, asleep. But Carrera said he soon became bolder, searching for greater danger and a bigger thrill.
In one instance, he lured his victim out of her room by flicking the hall light on, then marched her past her children's bedroom and raped her, Carrera said. In another, he raped a woman whose 2-year-old son was sleeping next to her during the attack.
Sacramento's "Cowardly Rapist," Anthony Ray Starks, is believed to have committed 13 rapes and 11 attempted rapes beginning in November 1984. He attacked single women across the city who were living alone, breaking out or cutting away screens to get into open windows or unlocked sliding glass doors. He then armed himself with a knife from his victim's home and attacked.
The "Cowardly Rapist" earned his nickname because he often fled at the victims' first sign of resistance. Starks was sentenced to 88 years in prison after pleading no contest to eight of the sexual assaults.
But even when serial rapists change their methods, many leave a "calling card."
"Ritualism is really important to all of them," said Sheriff's Detective Moore. "Some will cut the victim's underwear in a certain way, sometimes they take a souvenir of the crime."
The "Towel Rapist" is believed responsible for two rapes and possibly eight other attacks near Sunrise Mall in 1989 in which he broke into apartments but left without attacking female occupants. Frequently, he wore a towel over his head to hide his face. He was never identified or arrested.
Also at-large is the "Parkway Rapist," who raped a woman last April on Howe Avenue near the river parkway. The nighttime rape was followed by two more attacks on the parkway in May - this time in broad daylight and near other people. Sheriff's officials and West Sacramento police initially thought that two West Sacramento rapes in May might be linked to the parkway case because victims' descriptions were similar, but differences in the methods led police to conclude the attacks were unrelated.
Wearing his trademark ski mask and gloves and carrying a flashlight, he is believed to have traveled in drainage ditches and canals, first striking in Rancho Cordova in June 1976.
In many cases, he bypassed locks and security systems and awakened couples with a kick to their bed. He tied the men up and piled dishes on their backs while he assaulted their wives and girlfriends. If the dishes fell, he warned, someone would die.
Berlin of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma said many rapists are driven by urges they don't understand and can't control.
"The average man is not constantly fighting off the urge to rape," he said. "(Serial rapists) have to struggle to prevent it, rather than choosing to do it. This has become a way of life for them, devoted to consummating these behaviors."
Many spend remarkable amounts of time and energy watching their victims. Berlin said Sacramento County's latest rapist may be spending time cruising the area, "looking, getting some sense of where he might go or who he might go after and tragically, ultimately, finding this person."
That possibility has many women in the area fearful and angry.
"You just think no one can get up there," said Mona Lee, 18, who lives in a second-story apartment in the area where the most recent rape occurred. "It seems like that stuff won't happen to you. You think it's for people who are jogging in the middle of the night."
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Bee graphic Serial rapist strikes
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Record Number: 177

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Hi,

I feel the Early Morning Rapist looks like EAR/ONS apart from the receding hairline.

botham