This article from the hook has a long list of rapes connected by DNA and/or MO. It's dated January 2003. One would like to think this person has already been found OR, since there was DNA, JM has either been cleared of these or someone else arrested. Sorry if it has already been posted, I haven't read all the threads completely.
http://www.readthehook.com/92943/coverstory-guard-women-brace-against-serial-rapist
From the article:
Harding notes that effective January 1, everyone who is arrested for a violent felony must submit to DNA testing. "If he gets arrested, we're taking a sample," says Harding.
So far, they've looked at over 200 people and have conclusively eliminated 100.
Do they have a suspect, then? "No," says Longo. "I wish we did."
There have been a few tantalizingly close calls from women who reported after the fact suspicious behavior of a man making inappropriate remarks and who appeared to be following them. Unfortunately, police weren't notified until too late, and they stress that this is the type of situation where they want an immediate call to 911.
In other cases, potential witnesses say they didn't report anything because they didn't want to appear racist. Is there any danger of police casting too wide a net looking for black male suspects, and in some cases asking them for a buccal swab, swiping the inside of the mouth to obtain a DNA sample?
"Legally, police have the right to ask," says Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia. "Where the ACLU is uncomfortable is that in most circumstances when police make a request for a search, it's not voluntary because people feel coerced."
Harding wants to let people know they shouldn't worry about accusing the wrong person. "We've got the DNA" that will clear any innocent suspects, he says.
AND, the rather compelling closing from Chief Longo:
Already, Longo envisions how this case is going to be broken. "My gut tells me a citizen is going to see something or someone around a park or neighborhood that makes them feel uncomfortable."
And Harding predicts what the response to the capture of this predator, who probably seems pretty normal when he's not out raping and beating up women, will be: "Someone will say, 'We can't believe it's him.'"