I was scanning the connecticut cold cases page here in order to find something to corroborate a weird childhood experience that I won't go into here. While I was doing that I stumbled upon this case (scroll down, the website isn't maintained very well so the case doesn't have its own page).
Summer of 1984 , four attacks in Bloomfield, Middletown, Rocky Hill, and Windsor.
In August of 2004,a Superior Court Judge signed Connecticut's first "John Doe" arrest warrant charging a suspect identified only by his DNA profile with four counts of Kidnapping in the First Degree with a Firearm.
The warrant was issued based on an investigationby the Cold Case Unit of the Office of the Chief State's Attorney in conjunction with the Connecticut State Police Forensic Laboratory and the police departments in Bloomfield, Middletown, Rocky Hill and Windsor. The State of Connecticut is offering a reward of up to$50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual responsible for the crimes.
The warrant charges "John Doe" in the following crimes:
On June 3, 1984, a 25-year-old female was sexually assaulted in her apartment at the Sutton Apartments in Bloomfield by an armed man. The attacker entered through a sliding glass door, and the victim awoke with him standing next to the bed. The man placed his hand over the victim's mouth and told her not to scream or he would shoot her and her roommate. The intruder also said that he had just shot someone at a convenience store. The intruder told the victim to smell the barrel of the gun. He blindfolded her, sexually assaulted her and then remained in the apartment for what the victim described as an "eternity." The intruder disabled the telephone, which was found the rear yard, searched the residence for valuables and drank a beer from the refrigerator. The victim remained in her bed until she felt the intruder had gone and then summoned police.
On June 26, 1984, a 30-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in her residence at the Trolley Crossing Condominiums in Middletown. The victim was sleeping when the intruder entered through a sliding door and jumped on top of her. The intruder put a gun to her head and told her that he had just shot someone for not cooperating. The intruder blindfolded the victim, disabled the telephone and searched the residence for valuables and money. At one point, he guided the blindfolded victim downstairs to find her purse. The intruder guided her back to the bedroom where he sexually assaulted her. The intruder remained in the residence asking if there was food in the refrigerator. The victim stated that her attacker remained in the residence for several hours.
On July 21, 1984, a 24-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in her apartment at the Rivers Bend Apartments in Windsor. The victim was sleeping when the intruder entered through sliding glass doors. She awakened to the man putting a gun to her head. The man blindfolded her and sexually assaulted her. The intruder then sat her in a chair, still blindfolded, while he searched for valuables and money, disabled the telephone, tampered with the time on her clocks and ran water from faucets to cloak his departure. The victim estimated that it was a period of hours from the time the incident began until she felt safe that she could summon assistance.
On July 24, 1984, a 24-year-old woman was sexually assaulted at her apartment at the Westledge Apartments in Rocky Hill. The victim was sleeping in her bed with her 2-year-old daughter when the masked intruder entered through the sliding doors. The victim awoke to the man sitting beside her pointing a gun to the side of her face. The intruder told her not to scream as he began to touch her. The victim requested to move her daughter to another room. The intruder blindfolded her and additionally stuffed cotton balls into the blindfold. He then guided the victim as she carried her sleeping daughter to another bedroom where she placed the child on a bed. The intruder guided the victim back to the other bedroom and sexually assaulted her. After the assault, the intruder disabled the telephone, searched the apartment for valuables and money and made himself something to eat. The victim estimates that he remained in the apartment for more than one hour, and left water faucets running to cloak his departure.
These crimes remain unsolved despite extensive investigation that drew upon the expertise and experience of a special task force of detectives from the police departments in Bloomfield, Middletown, Rocky Hill and Windsor and the Connecticut State Police. The detectives employed all means and techniques available at the time of the crimes, which occurred prior to the advent of DNA technology.
Subsequent developments in technology led to the DNA analysis of evidence from the scenes of the four attacks linking them to the same, unidentified man. The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Forensic ScienceLaboratory continues to conduct routine searches of its DNA Data Bank and the National DNA Data Bank to place the DNA profile with a name. (DNA profiles from additional individuals are constantly being added to the State and National Data Banks).
The methodical way the guy went about this, with cutting the lines of the phone and feeling comfortable enough to hang out in their homes for hours afterwards, makes me believe that these aren't the only times he did this. I don't believe people like this just stop either.
Honestly, at first I thought maybe it was the EAR because 1984 was a period of time between his sexual assaults and his re-emergence as ONS, but I think they would've seen a connection with the DNA in 2004 and I suspect EAR would've also killed the women by this point.
What do you all think?
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Have you heard or read of any crimes with a similar MO during this time period?
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Do you think these were his only crimes or was he an old hand at this?
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And what do you think happened to him? Where did he go?
I'll try to find some contemporary news reports and add them later.
Submitted March 01, 2017 at 07:00AM by HailMahi http://ift.tt/2l9DOXv UnresolvedMysteries
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