The Washington Post Spotlights 'East Coast Rapist'

A 13-year manhunt for a rapist who has attacked across four states is the subject of a lengthy Page One story in The Washington Post today.

The paper gave up much of its front page to the decade-plus effort to catch the predator, along with online graphics, photos, and sketches of the man believed to have attacked up to 17 different victims since 1997. The Post's report includes interviews with some victims, but only through an agreement in which the paper agreed not to identify them.

“Now he has been back to Northern Virginia. The most recent rapes were on Halloween in Dale City, when he forced three trick-or-treating teenage girls into a wooded ravine at gunpoint," the story notes. “That was the closest police have come to finding him. And the attacks showed them that he's brasher than ever.”