KS - Serial rapist targeting Kansas college campuses starting in Oct 2000

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I found an email address for the Chief of Police & sent an email with the bus route information. IDK if we'll hear anything, but hey if we help in the investigation, that's wonderful!

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I found an email address for the Chief of Police & sent an email with the bus route information. IDK if we'll hear anything, but hey if we help in the investigation, that's wonderful!

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I would send to KU as well.

It does bother me that according to Ksprincess who went to KSU in the mid 2000 that there were no busses.

But, it seems currently that the buslines
go by the temporary housing now. If there were no busses at the time, did he hit off campus housing because it was easier? Less likely to get caught?

I also wonder (per the pics ksprincess sent) if the 2nd floor balcony doors were less likely to be locked? I remember my off campus housing. We could get into the apartment by jiggling a stiff card between the door and lock.

And, I was floored once by watching how easy it was for a locksmith to get into a locked house with a sharp tipped knife. You have to know how to do it but still....easy peasy.

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My personal opinion is that the perpetrator was at student at K-State who lived or had friends that lived at either one or possibly both of the apartment complexes where the rapes took place or possibly in the fraternity that's right behind the Chase apartments. I also wonder if he's originally from Manhattan and that's why he would have stayed in town over school breaks. It's the KU rapes that totally throw me off though, I'm guessing he has friends there that he would have visited?

I'm sure people who live on the second story are less likely to lock their door on a balcony or keep the door open with the screen shut to get fresh air.
 
Authorities release composite photo in Kansas college rapist case

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http://www.kake.com/story/35985086/authorities-ask-for-help-catching-kansas-college-rapist-1
 

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My personal opinion is that the perpetrator was at student at K-State who lived or had friends that lived at either one or possibly both of the apartment complexes where the rapes took place or possibly in the fraternity that's right behind the Chase apartments. I also wonder if he's originally from Manhattan and that's why he would have stayed in town over school breaks. It's the KU rapes that totally throw me off though, I'm guessing he has friends there that he would have visited?

I'm sure people who live on the second story are less likely to lock their door on a balcony or keep the door open with the screen shut to get fresh air.

I am wondering about him being a previous apartment maintenance man and maybe had worked at the apartments before. The reason I am wondering about this is because some apartments have a master key that will unlock every apartment. They are special keys and a store will not allow a master key to be duplicated usually. If he had worked as a maintenance man at one or more of the apartments he may have kept his master key and then maybe used it many years later in the crimes after he was no longer employed by the apartments.

Below is what made me think of this possibility.

"Investigators said several of the victims said they locked their doors though there weren't signs of forced entry."


http://www.kwch.com/content/news/New-information-to-be-released-about-Kansas-serial-rapist-436974413.html


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And the reason he chose during school breaks was most likely because many students go back home to live with their parents during school breaks. A lot of apartments would be empty at the time and less witnesses. It makes me think he definitely was scoping out his victims during the day to see who still was living there during the break and if they were a female maybe living alone or with hardly any neighbors home during break.

He may have hung out at the apartment pool during the day to see which potential victims he could target or he could have even been a current maintenance man to be on the apartment property. Or maybe pretended to be a bug sprayer or something to allow him access to the property during the daytime for his scoping out sessions. I am convinced he had to have done some pre scouting before he would strike. Somehow he knew who was staying there during break and that they were female. Because he struck very early in morning so it means he knew the victims situation.

Very scary. He needs to be arrested and prosecuted.
 
The 7 year break in this perpetrators' activity is significant.

Could he be in the military reserves & gotten called-up for overseas duty?

Could he have been serving time for some crime?

Just my quick thoughts...

Yes, significant.
 
Just wanted to post pictures of the apartment complexes where the majority of the rapes occured. The first pic is of University Crossing apartments where the first 3 rapes took place and the second is Chase apartments where 4 of the rapes including the 2015 one took place. I don't think the second floor balconies look very high at either complex. Both are very popular complexes where mostly students live.
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For now I am pursuing a possible theory of the perp possibly had gotten a master key of at least one of the apartment complexes by working as a maintenance man or some other maintenance type work there at one time.

The thing is though is not all his accesses to all the other apartment complexes would have been just by one key. But he could surely access all the units of the same complex so thinking maybe he at one time worked for the University Crossing apartments in some capacity since multiple rapes occurred there. That would be the one place where this theory may have taken hold if he used a key like that.

Keeping with that possibility then is it possible maybe the same company managed a set of apartments at KU too and maybe had changed all the locks there and maybe his one key could open doors at some KU apartments too in addition to the KSU University Crossing one. This could only happen if a single company managed apartments at both KU and KSU area.

I am not sure of the likelihood that one company managed or owned apartments at both KU and KSU and also had the locks setup where a single master key would open the doors at both however i do think it is possible IMO.

I dont know if apartments even use those types of master keys anymore but I used to know someone who worked as a maintenance man and I was surprised to see how one master key could open all the units doors. It shocked me at the time because it didnt make sense how each persons key is slightly different and yet a single key opens all the doors.

The master key was really special and literally had the word "MASTER" engraved on it. It was treated like gold by the person I knew who worked at some apartments I knew. He told me if he lost it he was in big trouble and that key places will never duplicate them.

They may not even have those sorts of keys and locks anymore but back around the time of these incidents I suspect they still were in use. It is the only thing I can think of that would tie both KSU and KU together for this perp if he happened to have a key like that and knew he could just get inside anytime he wanted to units where his key would work.

Anyhow its about the only thing I can think of to maybe tie the KU and KSU incidents together maybe.

I like the bus route idea too. There has to be something that investigators can find to tie him to all these incidents.

I am also guessing he may have tried to become a student around the time of his first rape and maybe flunked out or was kicked out. Thus beginning his life of crime and staying near his campus and then even going to another campus. He may have resented college if he failed out himself and could be why he targeted those areas.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article163943417.html
 
Could he be in the military reserves & gotten called-up for overseas duty?

Could he have been serving time for some crime?

Just my quick thoughts...

Yes, significant.

I agree that it is significant and that break should help LE narrow down any suspects they may have on their list.

Good guess of possible military overseas duty or possible prison sentence.
 
Geez, the sketch looks like it was faxed to media from the 1990s. I wish there was a clearer version.

I understand this is a serious topic but it made me giggle/frustrated; figured someone else here might appreciate a dark-humor laugh, too.

Yea I was disappointed in the quality of the sketch too. And they should have made an attempt at age progression.

With computers these days I suspect a teenager in a beginner computer course has free shareware that he could have provided better quality sketches and even age progression sketch.

Cmon investigators. That was kind of ridiculous. Enhance it and age progress it too with a side by side. They already have new witness statements saying his belly is larger so they would know his face would be more filled in on the age progression one.
 
I've seen this exact same scenario in another case before.

This thing just makes me shiver. I've always thought a 2nd floor dwelling was safe from break-ins, robberies and worse. And if it is possibly the landlord or anyone else who would have a master key, then this is like a horror movie. Awful, just awful. So, so scary.
 
I just saw the composite on Facebook and came here to share but you guys are all faster than I am. I just have to agree that the quality of the sketch is terrible and says it was from a rape that took place in 2000. That was over 17 years ago!! Why wait this long to release the sketch? Memories fade and people change a lot in that time.
 
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article163943417.html
July 27 2017
Noting that the perp entered various types of dwellings and not just apartment buildings, reminded too of this guy's brutality and that at least one attack lasted 8 hours!
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Authorities trace the string of attacks to October 2000, when they say a man tried to rape a woman in Manhattan but, after a struggle, ran away.

Within a year and a half, in the same block, the first two rapes in Manhattan had occurred. But it wasn’t until three or four years later, after more rapes, that police acknowledged the cases might all be connected.

By then, attacks of KU students in Lawrence, about 85 miles from Manhattan, had begun.

Attacks in both college communities occurred in off-campus apartments, duplexes and single-family houses.
“I was awoken by a man with a gun,” she told the crowd of nearly 300, the Emporia Gazette reported. “He beat me, tied me up and raped me. He terrorized me for almost eight hours.”


 
Geez, the sketch looks like it was faxed to media from the 1990s. I wish there was a clearer version.

I understand this is a serious topic but it made me giggle/frustrated; figured someone else here might appreciate a dark-humor laugh, too.

Omg, this made me laugh so hard!!!

I've solved the case: it's Marilyn Manson.
 
http://rileycountypolice.org/news/2017/12/12/composite-released-in-ks-college-rapist-case
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December 12, 2017

Released by: Hali Rowland

MANHATTAN, KAN. – On July 27, 2017, the Riley County Police Department and the Lawrence Police Department jointly announced our intensified efforts into solving multiple incidents of rape committed in both Manhattan and Lawrence since 2000 that appear to be connected. Part of these efforts has included a review of each case to identify any information that could yield additional leads.

During the investigation of the very first case at 2215 College Avenue in Manhattan, an individual provided information regarding a white male seen in the vicinity shortly before the incident. This male was described as being 5’10” to 6’ in height, with a medium athletic build and medium-length sandy blonde hair. It was unknown whether this subject was connected to the incident, but the Riley County Police Department wanted to speak with him to determine if he could provide any information relevant to the case. Detectives completed a composite sketch of this male at the time and distributed it in the area of the incident, but no additional leads were generated as a result.

The Riley County Police Department and the Lawrence Police Department have decided to release this composite again in the hope that anyone living or visiting in the Manhattan area or attending Kansas State University at the time may recognize the individual. It is important to remember that this sketch represents the subject’s appearance in October of 2000, and it’s expected for his appearance to have changed since then.
 

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Is the suspect sketch showing freckles, or acne scars, or not? If he has sandy-blonde hair, he could also be pretty heavily freckled.

ETA: And does his nose look crooked to y'all? Like maybe it's been broken?
 
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article163943417.html
July 27 2017
Noting that the perp entered various types of dwellings and not just apartment buildings, reminded too of this guy's brutality and that at least one attack lasted 8 hours!
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8 hours!! I had never heard that before! That right there absolutely shows he was stalking his victims before he attacked, he had to have known there was no way anyone else would come home or over during that time. Also if most of the rapes occurred in the early morning did he just walk out after 8 hours? Surely it would have been midday by then and someone could have noticed or recognized him leaving the victims residence.
 
Is the suspect sketch showing freckles, or acne scars, or not? If he has sandy-blonde hair, he could also be pretty heavily freckled.

ETA: And does his nose look crooked to y'all? Like maybe it's been broken?

JMO
I looked at the sketch closer (thanks DOTR for the larger picture in post 137).

I dont think they are freckles because when you look at the ear you see the same small specks so I think it could be just the poor quality of the image.

I agree with others that it does look like a faxed image which could explain the small specks. It is frustrating that they did not make attempts to give the public a clearer image and also an age progression attempt.

Now the nose part is a good catch.
At the top of the nose area it does look like it bulges out there and maybe is crooked towards the bottom so if that was done on purpose in the sketch then he could have had a broken nose in the past. If there was any reported bar fights around the time of the incident before this sketch then maybe he was in one of the college bars and got into a brawl with someone. If any fights were reported to the media where there was an arrest then that maybe something we could look for.

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Wouldnt it be lucky if we could find an arrest photo of someone who looks like this sketch and they happened to be in a bar fight right before the rape incident. I am going to try to find out when the sketch was released and which incident this sketch was made from so we have a possible date range to look for any arrests like that.

I think the sketch was made from one of the early incidents in Manhattan KS but not positive. I will try to find out more.
 

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