The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 15

THE FRESNO BEE Monday Aug 1 5 1983 B3 i Elusive East Bay Rapist is still at large five years later involved because of the pressure Richard was putting on the By CLARK BROOKS McClatchy News Service raped the woman Always there were foul-inouthed threats and insults as the intruder taunted his victims for up to three hours to answer to some of those charges The only certain charges he faces are two counts of kidnapping a crime for which there is no statute of limitations Richard now admits he tabbed the wrong man However he believes the rapes attributed too the East Area Rapist were committed by more than one man He also maintains the police investigation has been from the beginning SACRAMENTO For 22 months he squeezed Sacramento in a grip of terror and held the law in the palm of his hand Richard who has a degree in police science and taught criminal justice at Sacramento City College presented a convincing case His report was a summary of 1500 pages of documents He persuaded Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Ken Peterson that his theories were worth investigting though Peterson recently told The Bee he too doubted man was the rapist men in many cases took it worse then the Bevins said of the frustration they felt We had a couple of cases where when they were finally untied the men actually went outside and fired weapons in frustration long after the rapist was gone" And five years after the sexual attacks suddenly stopped the detective he eluded is still pursuing East Area Rapist Bevins who headed the investigation from the outset said the victims are among the people who contact him periodically with leads from all parts of the country He also hears occasionally from police officials who think they might have the East Area Rapist in custody flashlight and a gun in their face tv-would have been suicide for them to try anything Some victims had! guns under their pillow or under their mattress and use 1 These people sleeping! with guns before the East Area! Rapist burst on the scene Bevins said During the height of his of terror gun sales in Sacramentor County soared as did sales of locks floodlights burglar alarms and even guard dogs The rapist at one time or slipped through almost every type of! security imaginable and always-eluded police No one ever saw his face except for one woman who got? a vague glimpse of his profile in the? dark think been stigmatized with the East Area Rapist being one monster out Richard said point is that hey maybe we had several East Area Rapists" says Bevins want him very sheriffs Sgt Jim Bevins said the other day got six years invested and hate to think it was all for The search for the East Area Rapist has involved 100 officers and at least 10000 hours of investigation The cost has been nearly $2 million Bevins said The detective said he currently is reviewing cases in Illinois and Missouri However based on what read in the reports he believes rapes there were not committed by the man who once was the most-hunted criminal in Sacramento Peterson said told Richard my first thought when I picked up the report was I dealing with a crazy But as I read it it became clear it a crank who had written this report It was well-organized and He explained: (1) Hie East Area cases are easy to identify (2) His scenario is like reading a script (3) It any one thing the rapist said but a combination of how he said them and what he said to his victims The rapist attacked 31 women in Sacramento County mostly in the northeast area of metropolitan 'f Sacramento He also raped 13 women in Stockton Davis and the Bay area The hunt continues despite the possibility that it is too late to prosecute him on any of the Sacramento rape sex perversion assault robbery and burglary charges Only if he has spent a substantial amount of time out of the state which count toward statute of limitations would the rapist have Richard's man had been eliminated from the police investigation in 1977 mainly because the blood type differed from that of the East Area Rapist Bevins said check out everybody who is called in as a possible Bevins said I can eliminate a suspect without ever even contacting him by their blood type shoe size and physical In the first 15 rapes he broke into the homes of women who were alone or with children Then he sought out married couples forcing the wives to bind their husbands before he The East Area Rapist Bevins said was more a terrorist than a rapist Once inside a house the ski masked-intruder usually would awaken a couple by shining a flashlight into their faces Armed with a gun or a knife he supervised as the woman tied her husband leaving him face down in bed was very Bevins said he was also very lucky! We caught him on number 15 A neighbor saw him go into a house but she cpll anybody" The first raped attributed to him in Sacramento County was on Jiin 18 1976 the last on April 14 He then headed down the valley into the East Bay area authorities believe he committed bifr last rape on June 25 1979 in WalnuC Creek 2 But Richard discovered that the name on the blood sample although phonetically the same was spelled differently Richard was convinced officers had acquired a blood sample from the wrong man Bevins and Peterson said it was a spelling error prize money tops $1 6500 Bevins occasionally goes to other cities in search of the rapist In April he went to Colorado Springs Colo although it was a trip he want to make Madera County bureau The rapist then stacked dishes on the back warned he would kill the woman if he heard so much as a rattle and tied the woman to a chair in another room He toyed with his blindfolded victims for one to three hours threatening to kill and mutilate them as he whispered an endless stream of obscenities is That investigation began when Don Richard of Sacramento who spent four years researching the East Area Rapist for a bode he is writing submitted to the sheriff's department a 65-page synopsis of his work Nevertheless Bevins joined Deputy District Attorney Chuck in Colorado Springs to track down elements of report The result was the same as other leads may be out of the country)? Bevins said may be in jail he may be dead I just believe-he would up and stop something thK apparently was a driving force foC vC MADERA Prizes offered in die Madera District Fair premium list total 516512 up $282 from last year The fair will run Sept 21-25 and the annual Old-Timers Day parade -in downtown Madera will be Sept 24 Premium lists are available at libraries in Firebaugh Oakhurst and Chowchilla at Chowchilla I Union High School the fair office in Madera and the 4-H office It will include a queen contest Trophies of silver and crystal will be awarded to first-place winners and ribbons to first through fifth places There will be a full slate of western classes show which will be sponsored by the fair and the Madera County Horsemans Association Further information may be obtained by calling 674-1128 days and 673-7955 evenings Another new fair feature will be an area next to the main gate for 30 homemade crafts and arts booths where exhibitors can sell their handcraft He always raped his woman victims Bevins said but the rapes were usually brief The rapist also searched the house at times taking money but most often opting for inexpensive souvenirs The bulk of research focused on one man whom he was percent was the East Area Rapist Bevins rejected the report out of hand and Richard took it to the district attorney conducted an extremely professional and thorough investigation and it revealed he was said spent hundreds of hours proving somebody innocent which people think we usually In any case Bevins said a harder to catch a rapist whdr apparently is no longer anybody have a much better chanCe of apprehending die guy if he still he said again hate to see any more victims of the trauma he dished out kind of caught between two A new fair feature this year will be an Open Horse Show on Sept 25 a while he received so much publicity the victims knew right away who he was" Bevins said men knew what was going to happen but they do anything about it With a was certain his man the East Area Bevins said guy had been checked out several years back and had been eliminated as a suspect I only got report criticized police and sheriffs detectives Bevins took the criticism personally according to Richard deadline for licenses taxes Fresno County residents have until the end of this month to obtain licenses for their dogs and to pay their unsecured property taxes FARM EQUIPMENT? 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