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Perhaps this reference posted previously, got you, like me thinking about bike paths:
I brought up the "Bike Path Rapist"- (NY) case. I followed this closely on another crime website, when the news broke that the FBI had finally been able to get this guy's DNA from the glass and flatware where he had been dining with his wife. He had gone undetected for decades and another man was wrongly imprisoned for some of the crimes.
http://buffalo.ynn.com/content/all_...st--case-featured-on-investigation-discovery/
"Bike Path Rapist" case featured on Investigation Discovery
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20603452/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/t/trail-bike-path-rapist/
On the trail of the bike path rapist
A series of horrible rapes and murders on a peaceful bike path went unsolved over decades. Could they have been committed by the same man?
Luv this one:
How an Elite Police Task Force Tracked Down a Brutal Killer - Bike Path Rapist: A Cop's Firsthand Account of Catching the Killer Who Terrorized a Community
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'Concentric, bike path rapes are fairly common, imo'. We have had a few in GA. This one was the most brutal, imo:
Silver Comet Trail Killer Sentenced To Death | www.wsbtv.com
www.wsbtv.com/news/news/silver-comet-trail-killer...death/nFBNf/
May 23, 2009 – A jury sentenced Michael Ledford to death Friday for the murder of Jennifer Ewing along the Silver Comet Trail
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However, a bump & grab of a victim on a bicycle using a vehicle & then using the preplanned ruse, is what makes the NC coed & Mickey's abduction rare, imo, possibly pointing to the same perp. The finess required in both the bump & the follow up ruse of closing the deal, would indicate that he is no stranger to the game.
This would also indicate an organized sexual predator, imo. He would have had to have rope or tie downs to secure the bike on top of the SUV in the NC attack. Who knows what other items were in his rape kit..