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DATE |
HEADLINE |
CONTENTS |
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1976 | ||
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4 November |
Man Hunted as Suspect In 8 Rapes (Warren Holloway, Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Discusses first public info on attacks |
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10 November |
East Area Rapist… Fear Grips Serene Neighborhoods (Iris Yang & Bertha Gaffney-Gorman, Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Dread hits |
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1977 | ||
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19 January |
EAR: Attack of pregnant woman near US 50 and | |
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24 January |
Rapist Strikes Again, 14th Time in 15 Months (Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Attack near |
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7 February |
EAR: Attack near | |
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17 February |
EAR: 16 year old youth shot by prowler he was chasing near | |
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8 March |
EAR: 37 year old woman raped in home east of | |
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20 March |
EAR: 16 year old Rancho Cordova HS student latest victim of attack on evening of 18th; attacker waiting for victim in home in SW RC in area between Folsom Blvd and American River north of Watt Ave; includes map of rapes to date. | |
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20 March |
EAR: same attack as above except mentions attacker fled at about 11:40 pm when victim’s friend knocked at the front door after trying to call the victim. | |
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20 March |
East Area Locks Itself Up in Fear as Crime Soars (Iris Yang Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Anecdotes about community dread over EAR attacks |
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15 April |
EAR: Early morning attack near Madison and Manzanita Aves in Crestview; rapist forced way into home; after attack police stopped car nearby and took driver to station; later released. | |
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3 May |
EAR: Attack on woman with man at home in Greenbrook-College Greens area; Sacramento LE says not first such attack, says one previous case had man tied up first; also says attacker has only revealed his face once; includes map of rapes to date. | |
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5 May |
East Area Rapist attacks 20th Victim in Orangevale (Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Confronted couple in driveway at gunpoint and ordered them back into female victim’s house; house ransacked near Madison and Main Aves; only 2d time victims confronted outside of their homes, 3d couples attack and 2d attack in 48 hrs; includes map of rapes to date. |
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15 May |
East Area Rapist Attacks 22nd Victim at Home (Mel Assagai, Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Attacked couple at gunpoint in vicinity of Greenback Lane and Birdcage Street; attack of 2 April near Madison and Main added to list; originally excluded because it was a couples attack [the 2 April attack must have been the first couples attack therefore] ; includes map of rapes to date. |
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17 May |
East Area Rapist Attacks No. 23 Next Victims Die Tonight? (Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Calls EAR a ‘probable paranoid schizophrenic’ and mentions the creation of a psychological profile by a team of experts; mentions some details of the profile; Del Dayo attack (off American River Dr near Jacob Ln) of couple where attacker threatens to kill his next two victims tonight; gave conflicting reasons for the death threats: either if there was press coverage or if there were no press coverage; includes sketch of suspect and map of rapes to date. |
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18 May |
Police Seeking To Link Rapist, Snelling Slayer |
EAR/ VR: Police probe possible links between the EAR and the Visalia Ransacker |
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19 May |
Link To Rapist Still Sought |
EAR/VR: More discussion of possible EAR/VR links |
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20 May |
CBers Cautioned…Volunteer Patrols Could Hamper Rapist Search (Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Sheriff’s Office asks citizens group of CB operators not to conduct planned patrols looking for the EAR because they’ll get in the way; CB group headed by a dentist planned to continue patrols anyway |
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22 May |
Rapist’s Reign of Terror has Sacramento in a Panic (Dennis J. Opatrny, SF Examiner) |
EAR: rehash of case which mentions ‘inadequate endowment’ of rapist, vigilantes, and rewards of $10,000 and $15,000; states attacker has precision of a diamond cutter and seems to target victims rather than selecting them completely at random; says rapist called one victim by her first name although she did not know him by voice. |
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29 May |
EAR: First attack outside east area in the Sky Parkway area to the south; LE rep states that a lot of info about the rapist that are not publicly known ergo why they know the south attack was not an imitator; CB patrol organization (East Area Rapist Surveillance Patrol) cruisng east area with 100 members for last three nights but attacker struck outside of area; reward increased to $30,000. | |
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31 May |
Static Develops on Rapist Patrol from Other CBers (Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Other CBers claim EARS patrol degenerating into vigilantes; EARS to give press conference on Junee 1. LE also discounted any connection between the previous rape in the south area and the location of the dental office of the EARS Patrol head- the attack was a few blocks away but there was no direct route between the two places. |
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17 June |
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EAR: Response to recent criticism of sheriff’s dept |
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2 July |
EAR: LE is narrowing focus down in search for EAR to 12 suspects; quarter of suspects from tips eliminated; mentions 17 May press conference after which thousands of tips were received. | |
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17 August |
EAR: LE asking letter-writer named ‘Afraid’ to call to elaborate on inside info about the EAR. | |
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7 September |
Police Certain East Area Rapist Struck in Stockton (Wayne Wilson, Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Attack in |
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10 September |
Stockton Terror… East Area Rapist Attack Spurs Handgun, Lock Sales |
EAR: Description of dread over EAR in |
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2 October |
East Area Rapist Returns to District, Assaults Teen-Aged Girl in Duplex |
EAR: Considered 22d attack (2 removed as would otherwise be the 24th- an attack from October 75 and an October 76 one ); attack at duplex in College Greens-Rosemont (La Riviera and Tuolomne Drs); only 3d attack where victim was spending night at a place where she’d not normally be (the other two attacks were the 1st and 2d attacks). |
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3 October |
EAR: Detectives in | |
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3 October |
EAR: Two attacks within a month brought no major changes to manhunt. | |
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8 October |
EAR: Police received over 5,000 names in tips; city police cleared all but about 12 of 1,000 names received; county sheriffs not candid about their 4,000 suspects; first screened by description and times of attacks, then screened for criminal backgrounds and sexual criminal background. | |
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21 October |
Rapist Gets 25th Victim; Foothill Farms (Warren Holloway and Thom Axeman, Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Attack in Foothill Farms northeast of |
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28 October |
EAR: 900 residents attended a meeting at Foothills JHS to hear SCS talk about the EAR; admitted psychic and biorhythm charts used to try to catch EAR; half of police effort spent tracking down rumors | |
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30 October |
EAR: Attack in densely settled area north of Whitney between | |
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2 November |
EAR: Sheriff Deputy to speak at 7:30 8 November at Mira Loma HS, | |
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3 November |
EAR: Interview with Carol Daly, investigator who interviewed all EAR victims. Daly said about the EAR: “he hasn’t given us anything that will help us.” | |
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10 November |
East Area Rapist Attacks Girl, 13; Number 27 (Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: Attack at a condo on La Riviera Dr near Watt Ave in College Greens section of Sacramento city; rapist tied up mother and used the dishes trick on her while raping and molesting the daughter while she was tied to a chair; possible suspect captured at 5am at an El Camino Ave restaurant, but later released; suspicious car spotted in area, 1966 blue Chevy with Arizona plates; updated map |
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4 December |
EAR: Attacker in Foothill Farms aborts attack because of noisy teenagers outside on a corner; tied up woman and remained for two hours but left without a rape at about 1:30 am. | |
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4 December |
EAR: Same story as above; some shred of doubts about whether attacker was actually the EAR. | |
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December 6 |
Friday’s Threat Laid to East Rapist |
EAR: LE officially listed previous attack w/o a rape as an EAR attack (28th attack); new info on previous attack- 13 yo girl was molested but not raped. |
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December 17 |
EAR: 2 SCC students made an EAR T-Shirt with the composite on it and were selling it for $6 with about 500 sold. | |
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1978 | ||
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21 January |
Southland Suspect Quizzed, But is Not East Area Rapist (Sacramento Bee) |
EAR: |
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21 January |
Newport Beach Suspect Isn’t Sacramento Rapist (AP story in Sacramento Union) |
EAR: Same as above; NB attacker more of a burglar than the EAR as he routinely stole items |
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30 January |
East Rapist Assaults Teen Sisters (Thom Akeman, Sacramento Bee) |
EAR:Attacker smashes in front door at 10:15 pm and assaults two teenaged sisters in a home near American River College (Winding Way, east of Walnut Ave); LE conclude it was the EAR despite this unusual attack procedure; shortest time stayed in a home- may have left because girl’s parents came home; updated map. |
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4 February |
EAR/ Maggiore Murders: Story about the Maggiore murders; only one suspect mentioned. | |
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5 February |
EAR: Story about a local resident who posts poems insulting the Ear in the personals section of the Sacramento Union. | |
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16 February |
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