- When a serial rapist targets St. Louis in the 1990's, a multi-agency task force exhausts countless leads in their search for the mysterious predator. Years later, a concerned citizens helps investigators bring an unlikely culprit to justice.—Anonymous
- This episode documents the prolific career of serial rapist Dennis Rabbitt (Britt Prentice). Over 25 years Rabbitt raped over 100 women in the St. Louis, Missouri and Southern Illinois and New Mexico areas from the 1970's thru the 1990's. He was raised and lived in the south St. Louis area, where many of his victims were, and thus was given the nickname the "South Side Rapist". He kept the authorities guessing for decades and the police didn't know half of his crimes until he confessed to far more than suspected. During the investigation, the police hotline rang off the hook, but of perhaps 2,000 clues, not one pointed to Rabbitt. And the police actually even had him in custody and released him!
Rabbitt started raping in the early 1970s, as a teenager, and is estimated to have raped more than 100 women across Missouri and Illinois and, at the end, in New Mexico. The victims, ages 14 to 82, traits and appearance were irrelevant to Rabbitt. He said he thought them all beautiful. On a few occasions he turned explosively violent and most of the time he menaced the women into submission and then acted like a rough, awkward, but eager suitor. He boasts, face flushed, about what he took to be orgasms, dismissing any suggestion that fear might make a woman tremble and breathe hard. He says it wasn't until he talked with police, after a four-month nationwide manhunt finally brought him back to St. Louis in handcuffs, that he realized he'd done damage. In an ironic twist, he never actually killed any of his victims. He is currently serving six life sentences in prison.
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