Kansas State UPDATED 9/6/07

9/6/07
A new rape was reported at KU on the evening of Tue Sept 4th, 2007. According to Channel 49, the victim knew her attacker. This obviously has nothing to do with the ongoing KU Serial Rape investigation as the perpertrator is unknown to his victims. This is a knee-jerk media story that normally wouldn't even carry on the local news media and as a "dog bites man" story it should have been buried just like most of the rapes in the U.S. A little more attention from our local crime reporters, please.

9/3/07
KCTV Manhattan, KS
Police are on the hunt for a man they said raped seven college-age women near Kansas State University over the past seven years, the latest attack coming last month.
The man, they said, always wears long-sleeve shirts and dark-colored gloves and covers all but his eyes with a mask. Because of the mask, police don't have a composite sketch of the suspect and few leads to track down.
That uncertainty has ratcheted up the fear in the college community with parents pressuring law enforcement for more information and professors scheduling crime prevention presentations.

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Investigators said they believe the rapist got his start in October 2000 when he tried to rape a woman but ran off after a struggle.
His first successful attack came a year later in August 2001, but it wasn't until 2004 or 2005, after at least a fourth rape, that police determined the assaults may be related.
The attacker is described as a man 5 feet 10 inches tall, about 200 to 220 pounds and wears long-sleeve shirts, pants and boots.
Investigators said the man tended to do and say the same things during the attacks, which seems to support the theory of a single assailant, but they aren't saying what those actions are.
"Those are details that are known to him, the victims and a few of us," said Doehling. "Those are things we need to keep under our hats.... If you have information that he's a one-armed man, we'd be putting that out there. That's a pretty good clue. That's something to look for.
"But here, we're talking about methods and tactics."
The victims ranged in age from 18 to 25 and have lived within a mile or two of each other. Five were attacked between May and September, although one attack was in March and another in December.
At least five victims lived in apartments while another lived in a single-family home. Police won't say how the assailant gains entry.