Rape Suspect Was Crime Watch Block Captain
A man suspected in a string of rapes in South Dallas remains at large and his neighbors say he'd been hiding in plain sight until just a few days ago.
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A man suspected in a string of rapes in South Dallas remains at large and his neighbors say he'd been hiding in plain sight until just a few days ago.
Dallas police have confirmed that laboratory results from evidence submitted for one of the nine sex assault offenses provided a positive DNA match for a suspect.
"I really want this person to be caught 'cause I can't sleep, I can't eat, I have nightmares," said the ninth victim of a serial rapist who has victimized unsuspecting women since June in a South Dallas neighborhood near Fair Park.
Police say the suspected rapist covers his face with a cloth, wears glasses, and is always armed with a handgun. He approaches on foot, and possibly leaves in a fray Honda Civic 4-door or older model gray Volvo sedan.
There has been a possible break in the case of a serial rapist. Police identified Alan Mason as a person of interest and took him into custody on Friday morning.
Only one in three victims of rape will come forward, crisis advocates say.
A serial rapist struck seven times near Fair Park before the Dallas Police Department issued an alert – and people who live in area want to know why.
The man convicted of kidnapping and raping three women and then holding them in his Cleveland house for a decade was found dead in his prison cell, Ohio officials said Tuesday,
Dallas police say a man raped a woman, stole her phone, and used it to send her family explicit messages.
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Residents of an uptown Dallas apartment community received a letter Sunday from the Manchester State Thomas management, advising them of an alleged sexual assault.
Police in Fort Worth are investigating a bizarre case that happened Wednesday evening involving allegations of rape and a stolen minivan.
Incidences of rape are up 12.4 percent in Dallas, according to the latest crime report, which city leaders looked over Monday.
Parents with children at a west Dallas middle school received notices Tuesday about an alleged sexual assault of a student on the school campus.
Investigators have been finding palm prints for decades. It was less than four years ago, though, the Texas Department of Public Safety created a searchable statewide database of them.
A jury in Tarrant County on Wednesday handed a 10-year jail sentence to 26-year-old Chase Robert Dilg, a man with a history of sexually violating women as they slept.
A serial rape suspect is now behind bars, and residents in the Lake Highlands area of Dallas want to thank those police officers who worked on the case.
Lake Highlands residents are breathing a sigh of relief, a day after Dallas police arrested the man they say is responsible for a string of sexual assaults in the area.
Dallas Police may have caught the serial rapist who has been terrorizing the Lake Highlands neighborhood.
Dallas Police say one man is behind all three sexual assaults in the Lake Highlands area.
A single donation has increased the reward for information on the recent rapes in Lake Highlands to $25,000. An anonymous donor has added $20,00 to the already $5,000 reward being offered by Crime Stoppers.
Families in the Lake Highlands area remain on edge, as the search for a rapist continues. Three attacks on women have taken place in the past month, and residents are pursuing plans to protect themselves.
Former Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI Danny Coulson joined KRLD to discuss the recent string of sexual assaults that have occurred in the Lake Highlands area of Dallas.
Investigators with the Dallas Police Department believed there were two rapists, and possibly three, terrorizing a neighborhood in Lake Highlands – until now. DNA has proved a suspect in one case is not the culprit.
Police in Dallas are investigating a third sexual assault in same neighborhood in a little more than three weeks.
