Crime & Safety
Officials Link 10th Victim to Potomac River Rapist
DNA evidence has connected another victim to a serial rapist who terrorized D.C.-area women in the 1990s.
Investigators have connected another victim to the 's history.
Retested DNA evidence has linked a 10th victim to the serial rapist who terrorized D.C.-area women for almost a decade in the 1990s, according to a Washington Examiner Report.
The new case identifies a 58-year-old woman who was attacked while walking on the 4900 block of MacArthur Boulevard in Northwest D.C., dragged into the woods and sexually assaulted.
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"Officials now say the Potomac River Rapist sexually assaulted eight women in Montgomery County and one in the District between May 1991 and November 1997, before killing a young woman in Georgetown in August 1998," the Examiner reported.
The previously known attacks occurred as follows, according to an NBC4 report:
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May 6, 1991; Gaithersburg
Sept. 5, 1991; Germantown
Nov. 21, 1991; Bethesda
Dec. 11, 1991; North Potomac
Jan. 24, 1992; North Potomac
March 8, 1994; Rockville
Feb. 26, 1997; Rockville
Nov. 14, 1997; Silver Spring
Aug. 1, 1998; Georgetown
As investigators their efforts to find the person responsible for the attacks, John Walsh of America's Most Wanted told the Examiner that the Potomac River Rapist would be featured on his June 29 show.
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