DNA Links Colorado Suspect to 5 Rapes, Slaying in Philadelphia
Police have linked a suspect in sex assaults near the Colorado State University campus to five rapes and a homicide in Philadelphia, police said Tuesday.
DNA left at the scene of two rapes in Fort Collins matched that of a man suspected of assaulting three female college students in Philadelphia and killing a University of Pennsylvania student from 1997 to 1999.
All six attacks in Fort Collins since May targeted women in their 20s. In each case, the intruder climbed through a window or balcony doors during the early morning hours, blindfolded the women and forced them to perform a sexual act.
“He’s certainly a shrewd individual, because he’s able to do this as long as he has and get away,” Philadelphia Police Cpl. Jim Pauley said. “He’s not a dummy.”
Fort Collins police have received 848 tips and interviewed almost 200 suspects. The main suspect’s car has been described as a faded-blue, late 1980s four-door sedan.
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