Victim, a 13-year-old girl, had been sound asleep when the intruder jumped on her back and placed a hand over her mouth. “Don’t say a word. I’m not going to kill you. All I’m looking for is money. All I want is money.” 

   Assailant placed a knife against her neck and ordered her to put her hands behind her back. If she did not keep quiet he said he would stab her. He tied her wrists and ankles. He rummaged in the bedroom. He came back to her bed and stood over and leaned next to her ear. Through clenched teeth, he hissed: “I’m not going to kill you. All I’m looking for is money. All I want is money.”

     She then heard him lubricating himself with lotion. Then he straddled her and she felt his penis in her tied hands.

     “You rub my cock and you better make it good or I’ll kill you,” he whispered through clenched teeth. “I got my long knife and if I kill you it will be instant death.” 

     Then assailant got off her and ordered her to roll on her back. He untied her feet and took her underwear off.

     “Have you ever been fucked before?”

     She did not respond.

     “I want you to spread your legs far apart.” He started to rape her. “Just do what I want and I won’t hurt you. Gimme a good drop or I’ll kill you.”

     He raped her.

     Assailant retied her feet. “If I hear one word out of you, I’ll kill you while I’m looking, looking looky, for money, money, money,” he whispered devilishly.

     Victim eventually got loose and woke her father and sister in their bedrooms. Police were called.

Investigation

Investigators arrived to find the crime scene confined to the girl’s bedroom. White bindings were used to tie the victim. A bra had been used to gag her. Twine was on the floor at the foot of victim’s bed along with her underwear. Another piece of white twine was found on the ground outside the bedroom window. The father had verified that the twine did not come from the house. Therefore EAR must have brought it with him. EAR had also brought the lotion, Johnson’s Baby Lotion.

     The bloodhound picked up The EAR’s scent. The dog went to the two sliding glass doors in the backyard, then to a window at the side of the house, then a wooden door. From there the dog went outside the open side gate, west on San Pedro Court, right on San Carlos and then left on San Jose Court. The dog lost the scent at the same location as the dogs had after the first rape in Walnut Creek (No. 45) nearby on El Divisadero.

     Investigation proved that EAR had only been in the victim’s room. Her sister, 16 years old, was in her bedroom, and their father was in the master bedroom.

     Victim confirmed that the assailant used the exact expression “Gimme a good drop.”  No one, including the victim, had ever heard that expression before.

Description

The East Area Rapist was wearing a loose fitting, cheese cloth-type mask (probably the same “white loose fitting hood” he wore in the No. 45 attack on El Divisadero). Victim described him as about 6 ft. tall but not heavy. When he was rummaging in the room, she could see he was wearing some type of jogging shorts.

Geography

House

The house is a single story, detached middle class style home, similar to No 45.

Analysis

Mirroring his earlier No. 45 attack just the street over, this attack shows EAR did not have a gun. He also wore what must have been the same white loose fitting hood. Clearly he drove to the area and parked at the blind spot. But his attire is quite unique. Due to the early morning hours he must have tried to look like a jogger. I suggest to you that the white hood was wrapped around his neck while he walked/jogged about, acting as though he was a passing jogger. This way it merely looked like a cloth that many joggers wear to catch perspiration.

     Given this, where he hid the twine and lotion on him is a good question. The tube must have been in his elastic belt or he wore a wind breaker, which he may have taken off before gaining entrance, thus explaining the dropped twine outside.

     The victim must have meant much to him, for he risked quite a lot to get at her. He remained only in her room and did not even try to bind the others. It would have been quite risky, I suppose, with a father in one room and a 16 year old in another to bind one of them silently first. If either of the other 2 should awake, one could run out the door. He clearly had stalked the house before. He knew the victim’s room window.

     Curious that in both Walnut Creek cases he went to great lengths to get his victims, and each time he did not carry a gun. 

     The EAR’s behavior is consistent with his MO when he raped an individual alone in the house. This is how he attacked the coed on Wake Forest  in Davis. This is how he attacked the single victim alone on Liberta Court in Danville, and others. He pounced on them and held them down.

     Most of all this was his dig and retreat MO. He struck deepest from Ygnacio Valley Road with No. 45 and then struck closer to this point of exit/entry in his last victim. Had he struck his intended victims near the golf course this would have been even more evident. As with his Dig and Retreat method, when finished he never returned to the community again.

Night Predator
Files on the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker