If so did he select his victims when he was preaching?
Sex Attacker "The Night Stalker" a JW?
by JWFreak 12 Replies latest jw friends
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nelly136
Striking up to nine times a week, the attacker eluded police despite a huge manhunt which involved sending officers to the Caribbean and the offer of a £40,000 reward.
The Night Stalker is thought to have attacked at least 108 times, although several recent assaults were not publicised and - according to reports - that total may be closer to 200.
The incidents took place in clusters in south and south east London, including Dulwich, Orpington, Norwood, Downham, Lee, Croydon, West Wickham and Bickley.
A source confirmed that a series of attacks which took place over the past four months were not publicised by police.
Although the vast majority of victims were women, police said they also included 10 elderly men, one of whom suffered a sexual attack.
Earlier this month, the Met Police revealed detectives working on Operation Minstead obtained more than 2,000 DNA samples from suspects as part
of the 12-year inquiry at a cost of £102,700.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2731262/Night-stalk-rapist-is-held.html
Women AND men were terrorised into handing over savings or cashcard PIN numbers.
The beast, who would cut off the phone and electricity, ruthlessly raped four victims - one of them a man - and sexually assaulted 24.
Among those who almost died was a woman of 88.
The rapist almost always wore a mask and would be clad in an all-in-one black suit, thought to be a motorcycle outfit.
Cops issued a likeness of him on a bike he sometimes fled on.
From DNA the maniac left behind they knew his parents were likely to have come from the Windward Islands of the Caribbean - Trinidad, Tobago, St Lucia or St Vincent.
A £40,000 reward was posted as a team of 30 cops were tasked full-time with tracking him down.
The huge probe saw eight officers travel to the Caribbean - and a list of 21,500 potential suspects here drawn up.
Detectives asked thousands fitting the rapist's profile to voluntarily give DNA samples.
Neighbours in Brockley, South East London - where Grant lives with his wife and sons Jason, 20, and Louis, 11 - were stunned at his arrest last night.
They described him as a "devoted" husband to Jehovah's Witness
Jennifer - a former classroom assistant who for the past four years has been wheelchair-bound with multiple sclerosis.
A 44-year-old who lives near the family's three-storey house, where Grant has converted the garage for his wife to use, said: "He was a quiet guy. His children are very decent."
Grant's older twin girls have moved out of the house.
He is also dad to Delroy Junior, 33, Michael, 30, and Daniel, 20, from a previous marriage.
As police last night cordoned off the quiet mews street where the suspect lives, other neighbours described him as an amiable "Frank Bruno" type.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2731262/Night-stalk-rapist-is-held.html#ixzz0X0OK1CLM
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purplesofa
It only says his wife is a JW.
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nelly136
yup just his wife so far, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6917852.ece Residents in the cul-de-sac where the man lived described his wife, who is a Jehovah’s Witness and suffers from multiple sclerosis, as a deeply religious woman. They said he was a keen air-rifle shooter, who used glass bottles for target practice in his garden. They recalled seeing him driving in and out of the cul-de-sac in the early hours in his silver people carrier but did not think anything of it, as his days were taken up looking after his wife. His three-storey terraced mews house was cordoned off last night. Police sources said that the Night Stalker, who is believed to be of Caribbean extraction, had become “blasé”, committing up to five attacks in one night. He first struck in 1990 but stopped from October 1992 to 1996 and again between August 1999 and October 2002. The attacks have taken place in South London areas including Dulwich, Orpington, Norwood, Downham, Lee, West Wickham and Bickley. His victims ranged in age from 68 to 93. Most were female, although he has also attacked ten men and sexually assaulted one of them. The Metropolitan Police put 29 detectives on the case, codenamed Operation Minstead, and £40,000 was offered for information leading to a conviction. They speculated that the attacks might have been triggered by childhood sex abuse by an elderly relative or family friend. He is thought to be a “gerontophile” — someone who enjoys sexual activity with the elderly. The attacker is said to have behaved in an “almost childlike manner” when spoken to firmly by his victims. When women asked what he was doing and suggested that his mother would be upset by his crimes, he would flee. Despite this, police say that he carefully selected his victims, choosing women on their own, and entered their homes in the early hours. In each case he removed glass from a ground-floor window and cut off the telephone and electricity before beginning the attack. Wearing a balaclava, he would wake his targets by whispering to them and shining a torch in their face during his assaults. Although he is thought never to have deliberately killed anyone, several frail and distraught victims died subsequently. Investigators drew up a list of 21,500 suspects and began asking men for DNA samples. The manhunt has cost in the region of £20 million. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “We can confirm a 52-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning in a pre-planned operation. He is currently in custody at a London police station.”
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nelly136
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=iol1258354252995M235
Neighbours said his wife Jennifer was a Jehovah's Witness who goes from house to house with her husband to attract more followers. It was not clear whether he is also a Jehovah's Witness.
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carla
If so did he select his victims when he was preaching?--- that could be entirely possible, I remember a few years back two jw's would look in people's houses during fs to see if they had antiques and rob them later.
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Judge Dread
I remember a few years back two jw's would look in people's houses during fs to see if they had antiques and rob them later.
Come on, Carla, that is bulls***t, and you know it.
Judge Dread
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Gayle
his wife Jennifer was a Jehovah's Witness who goes from house to house with her husband to attract more followers. It was not clear whether he is also a Jehovah's Witness.
Time for people to call/write the local Kingdom Hall and be put on the "Do Not Call" List.
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carla
I probably have the story printed out somewhere but do your own search it was in a few different news sources, hmm, probably about 3 years ago?
You seem incredulous that jw's commit crimes, check these out and this is just a start-
http://www.theage.com.au/national/jail-for-dj-caught-in-child-porn-sting-20081203-6qo7.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&hl=en-GB&v=N9Xjw_sk7tA
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21917798
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article294046.ece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v677xYhazQ&feature=related
http://www.njnnetwork.com/njn/?p=22465
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2041666
http://jwemployees.bravehost.com/NewsReports/2031.html
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/408515_baby28.html?source=mypi
http://www.watchtowernews.org/
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Two-Children-Murdered-Friday-Night-in-Silver-Lake.html -- this murderer was a jw
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_clergy09.3c06480.html - jw murderer
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nelly136
it would be very good cover, no one would suspect a lady in a wheelchair, and he could collect info on whether they were old alone etc for later. do they still have the record sheets for the doors these days listing whose in whose out rv's etc?