UK UK- "Batman Rapist'', committed 17+ knife point sexual assaults, tight fetish, blindfolds with hairband,1991-2000, Bath, * DNA, Operation Eagle*

[RosalindaA]

Here is an explanation on how IGG is used in the UK: Should we be making use of genetic genealogy to assist in solving crime? A report on the feasibility of such methods in the UK (accessible version)

Thank you for posting the above article for those who are not familiar with the issues involved. To be clear GedMatch has required contributors to give specific consent for law enforcement use of their profiles for several years. I fully support that this should be a prerequisite.

Therefore what is the difference between me (if I were a male) volunteering my DNA profile to police at the time of the crime to assist the enquiry, and a person uploading their profile for comparison to a public database today?

I am sure if the police come across a familial match in samples directly volunteered to them, they would use that information (as they do within the criminal DNA databank). It's just a bigger, extended family that is accessible on GedMatch, No logical difference in my opinion. The case still has to be proved by traditional gathering of additional and corroborative evidence.

I can only imagine how victims and their families feel knowing the path to justice for these life-changing crimes may be now likely so quick and accessible but no-one in authority will fight for them, unlike in the USA. And IMO it is also an issue of public safety to wilfully leave violent criminals at large when you have the means to prosecute them.

 

[dotr]

The Batman Rapist Geographic Profile

A Rossmo geoprofile of The Batman Rapist.

geographicprofiler.com

Model

How geographic profiling helps find serial criminals

Using geographic profiling, crimefighters are predicting where serial killers live - and where they will strike next

www.wired.com

 

[tes1984]

Interesting that the Rossmo geo profile only shows 17 locations (including the secondary locations where he drove victims).

The outlier attack in Kingswood, Bristol is also missing from the geo profile, which is understandable, but I'm wondering if the map is completely up to date in terms of definitely linked attacks.

 

[dotr]

Wondering if anything came of this?

Rapist still a danger

WOMEN have been warned to be vigilant while they are in their cars, as police admit they are no closer to catching Bath's Batman rapist.

www.gazetteandherald.co.uk

4th April 2001 rbbm
''The force also renewed its appeal for information about three men and a woman who asked if a cap had been handed in at Boots store, Southgate, following the last confirmed Batman attack on January 26 1999.

DI James said: "At 10am on January 27 1999, a man asked if a cap had been handed in at the photographic counter in Boots. At 2pm, two more men made the same request at Boots, followed by a woman in her 50s the day after."

Detectives also believe a near collision involving a large silver or grey saloon and a blue Ford Escort at the Bathwick Street and Sydney Place roundabout on January 26 1999 is linked to an attempted attack.''

 

[tes1984]

Why haven't they run a familial DNA test yet? It's been nearly 25 years now.

I think A&S would have mentioned such an undertaking, even if it had drawn a blank.

 

[tes1984]

The Western Daily Press reports on 18th November 1994 that the Batman Rapist may have stalked as many as ten women before abducting a 27 year old woman on 14th November.

One of the stalking victims, a 21 year old from Bath, managed to escape when she made it to her car.

She described the "night stalker" as white, clean shaven with dark hair, around 5ft 7 tall, and in his 20s or early 30s.

 

[tes1984]

The Batman Rapist is first known to have attacked in 1991.

His last known offence was in 2000.

The Evening Post reports on 9th June 1989 that a rapist struck in Camden Crescent, Bath in June 1988. An anonymous caller tells police that a woman was also raped there in May 1989.

 

[Hustling01]

Take it there is no development. Hope the case is reopened and looked at again

 

[tes1984]

Take it there is no development. Hope the case is reopened and looked at again

They need to run advanced and familial testing on the DNA.

Julie Mackay's book made it clear how difficult it was to get A&S police to fund cold cases.

Hoping for a case review next year, when it's 25 years since his last known attack.

 

[tes1984]

This offender may have committed other attacks, which went unreported or weren't linked.

He has 17 attributed attacks, but that's probably an underestimation if we include the stalkings from 1994, or the 1988-89 rapes.

 

[Hustling01]

This offender may have committed other attacks, which went unreported or weren't linked.

He has 17 attributed attacks, but that's probably an underestimation if we include the stalkings from 1994, or the 1988-89 rapes.

what are the 98-89 rapes? Im not familiar with them. Hope they doa case review

 

[tes1984]

His first rape is in 1991, and the police think it's a spur of the moment abduction.

He attacks a women outside her house, gets disturbed by a screeching cat, so then steals her car, driving her to an isolated spot a few miles away.

He then drives her back and drops her round the corner, before walking off.

IMO it's an advanced MO for a first offence, which is why I suspect previous attacks. JMO though.

 

[tes1984]

Why does he take his victims back to where he's abducted them from?

Is he heading back to his home, or for his vehicle?

Mobile marauder rapist, or commuter rapist?

 

[dotr]

2000

Police link 11 attacks to serial rapist

Detectives hunting a serial rapist who has struck at least 11 times over the past nine years yesterday linked the knifepoint attacks for the first time.

www.theguardian.com

"Another possibility to explain the long gaps is that this is a man who comes to the area infrequently, possibly for work reasons," said Inspector Keith Jones, a spokesman for Avon and Somerset police. "We need to talk to anyone who might be able to explain why he has operated in this way."

Mr Jones said there were similarities in the descriptions provided by victims, and detectives are hoping that recent scientific breakthroughs will make a DNA profile possible.

The key to linking the cases, however, had been in the pattern of behaviour. The rapist seems to have a detailed knowledge of Bath and has identified a specific hunting ground. He uses a knife to abduct his victims and forces them to drive to secluded areas to the south of the city to attack them.''

 

[c4rtm4n]

Interesting that the Rossmo geo profile only shows 17 locations (including the secondary locations where he drove victims).

The outlier attack in Kingswood, Bristol is also missing from the geo profile, which is understandable, but I'm wondering if the map is completely up to date in terms of definitely linked attacks.

The profile was done using data points from this map by Any of N and includes points that are classified as Definitive Operation Eagle.
Here is a link to the profile with more info: Batman Rapist Geoprofile

 

[dotr]

2020

What we know about the 'Batman rapist' who attacked women in Bath

It is Britain's longest-running serial rape investigation and remains unsolved

www.somersetlive.co.uk

The unknown serial rapist attacked women all over Bath (Image: SAKhanPhotography / Getty)
''Avon and Somerset Police asked residents to recall if any of the men they knew matched most of these characteristics:

• a white male
• of slim or medium build
• aged between 30 and 50
• knows the Bath area well, and has some connection with Bristol, particularly the Kingswood area, and can drive a car.

The leaflet also suggested that women must be able to tick yes to two of these three descriptions:

• he has a tights fetish and he could get his sexual partner to wear tights which he may rip during intercourse
• he sometimes wears a baseball cap
• he has aroused suspicion with absences from home during the evening and early hours of the morning

Up to 2,000 men DNA tested in hunt to find assailant''​

A screengrab from the reconstruction of the serial rapist's attack on BBC Crimewatch (Image: BBC)

 

[poirotoupierrot]

Is it really unreasonable of me that I read about this and immediately googled locksmiths and auto lockmiths in the Bath area, and it immediately showed me one I looked up on a publicly available government website which showed a man born in a year which would tally with a possible perpetrator, who elsewhere on the internet is shown in a photo with blue eyes ( I don't know if he has a mark below his mouth, worth checking?)? The most recent photo is from fourteen years ago. There is one other person in specifically auto locksmithing in the area but there is no photo available, and they are also of the right age - born in the early 70s. I don't want to make people think innocent people are guilty. With the abrupt end to perpetrating, I always hoped the person had gone to prison for something else, or else been discovered and finished by someone. I find the forced driving back to the journey start particularly odd. Even driving somewhere seemed risky for the perpetrator, and I truly don't understand the lack of DNA from the ridiculous hat. The newspapers disrespect victims by making out the crimes are cartoonish with this nickname. I wish they'd have sensitivity as if a family member had been raped. I find the case horrific and weird. One of the people which came up straight away lives extremely near to the area where the crimes were committed in newspaper reports. This made me wonder if driving there was necessary for a specific reason. Did they associate that area with something? Did they film it and have something already set up? Did they know that area better, or own land there they knew would not be visited? I haven't seen any of these things considered in reports.

 

[Deleted member 339775]

Is it really unreasonable of me that I read about this and immediately googled locksmiths and auto lockmiths in the Bath area, and it immediately showed me one I looked up on a publicly available government website which showed a man born in a year which would tally with a possible perpetrator, who elsewhere on the internet is shown in a photo with blue eyes ( I don't know if he has a mark below his mouth, worth checking?)? The most recent photo is from fourteen years ago. There is one other person in specifically auto locksmithing in the area but there is no photo available, and they are also of the right age - born in the early 70s. I don't want to make people think innocent people are guilty. With the abrupt end to perpetrating, I always hoped the person had gone to prison for something else, or else been discovered and finished by someone. I find the forced driving back to the journey start particularly odd. Even driving somewhere seemed risky for the perpetrator, and I truly don't understand the lack of DNA from the ridiculous hat. The newspapers disrespect victims by making out the crimes are cartoonish with this nickname. I wish they'd have sensitivity as if a family member had been raped. I find the case horrific and weird. One of the people which came up straight away lives extremely near to the area where the crimes were committed in newspaper reports. This made me wonder if driving there was necessary for a specific reason. Did they associate that area with something? Did they film it and have something already set up? Did they know that area better, or own land there they knew would not be visited? I haven't seen any of these things considered in reports.

What made you Google locksmiths??

 

[poirotoupierrot]

There's aso a locksmith listed in Kingswood but the same government website lists one of the owners as a 98 year old man in Essex, with no discernible lockmsith doing the work. Difficult to see what's going on there, business-wise. No 'owners' listed at all....

 

[poirotoupierrot]

What made you Google locksmiths??

An entirely literal interpretation of the several mentions in reports of someone who had perhaps done car robberies before or break-ins..