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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Unknown Fairmount Park Rapist/Murderer
(aliases)
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Sex: Male |
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Race: Hispanic |
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Height: 5'5"-5'7" |
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Weight: 150 lbs. |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Black
Short, curly black hair that comes to a widow's peak
Slight mustache
Beard
Goatee
Bushy Eyebrows |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Unknown |
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Other Physical Characteristics: Victims say he is between 25 and 35 years old
Has a light-olive complexion
Muscular build
Pierced left ear with a gold hoop
Wearing an aqua and purple shirt from Zallies Shop Rite during one attack |
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Wanted for :
Murder, Philadelphia, PA;
Jul 13, 2003
Rape, Philadelphia, PA;
Apr 30, 2003
Attempted Rape, Philadelphia, PA;
Oct 25, 2003
Attempted Murder , Philadelphia, PA;
Oct 25, 2003
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Philadelphia, PA
Near U.S. Route 1 Bridge
West River Drive
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia PA |
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Possible Location : Central City , PA
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia police believe that the Fairmount Park Rapist/Murderer has not left Philadelphia and may still live in the vicinity of Fairmount Park. |
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Last Known : Unkown |
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Traits |
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Speaks broken English |
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Case Story |
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Bodies In The Park |
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Philadelphia police say the Fairmount Park Rapist struck again, following a long break since his last attack. DNA evidence has linked an August 11, 2007 attack to several rapes and one murder from years past. In the latest case, cops say a 29-year-old female was accosted while walking in Philadelphia's Pennypack Park. The woman was dragged into a wooded area where she was raped and robbed. Cops say at the time of the attack, the suspect was wearing a sky blue basketball jersey, white shorts and a gold chain. They say the suspect did not use a weapon.
First, Philadelphia Police discovered the body of a 30-year-old woman who had been raped, beaten and strangled in the River Park section of Fairmount Park on July 17, 2003. Her body was found face down over a log in a shallow grave deep within the park near the 3500 block of Conshohocken Avenue. Police say her killer left her clad only in a sports bra, running shoes and socks.
The 5-foot-1, 100-pound body discovered that summer day was that of Rebecca Park, a fourth-year medical student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Rebecca was also a second lieutenant in the Army Reserves, and police were able to identify her after running her fingerprints through military records. She lived just a few blocks away in an apartment on Lankenau Avenue, and an autopsy confirmed that she died of manual strangulation. |
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Police Link Crimes, Come Up With Sketch |
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Within hours of receiving confirmation that Rebecca had been raped before being murdered, police announced they had made a positive DNA link between her rape and homicide and another attack. Police say a 21-year-old woman had been raped three months earlier --on April 30, 2003-- in Fairmount Park.
This victim, as well as an eyewitness who spotted a man at the scene of Rebecca's murder, gave investigators such detailed descriptions of the suspect that cops were able to come up with a colored composite sketch of the perpetrator.
Philadelphia police immediately went public with their discovery and covered trees and signpost lining the trails of Fairmount Park with wanted posters. Now with help from the public police hoped to find the alleged rapist and murderer. Besides the composite sketch of the suspect's, the poster described the aqua and purple Zallies Shop Rite shirt he wore during the attack and the metallic purple 10-speed bicycle he used as a getaway "vehicle."
Four months after Rebecca Park's murder, Philadelphia police were still on high alert. Wanted posters still hung in prominent places, and the local news kept the story fresh in the public's mind. Yet despite their efforts, several good leads cops received were empty.
But the trails in Fairmount Park sure weren't. |
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Another Attack |
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Despite police warnings, park-goers continued to frequent Fairmount Park's jogging trails and picnic areas -- refusing to let the predator control their lives. But for 36-year-old "Lisa," refusing to change her well-established jogging routine proved to be a near-fatal mistake. Toward the end of her usual six-mile jog, Lisa was attacked from behind and held at knife-point in a secluded portion of the park on Oct. 25, 2003.
Lisa immediately knew her attacker was the same man whose face was plastered on wanted posters throughout the park. But the woman who wasn't going to let this rapist control her life, certainly wasn't about to let him take it.
Lisa fought her attacker, sustaining multiple wounds to her chest, hands and abdomen. Eventually, the attacker gave up and ran away from the scene of the crime. And Lisa -- bloody, but alive -- was picked up by a passing vehicle.
Cops say that was the last time the Fairmount Park Rapist attacked, and after his battle with Lisa, they say he seemed to disappear without a trace. Now they want to make sure he can't hurt anyone else.
On Dec. 1, 2005, AMW, along with the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, erected a billboard with a police sketch of the Fairmount Park rapist in Philadelphia. Hopefully this extra boost of publicity will help put this criminal behind bars sooner rather than later. |
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