In 1976, Rancho Cordova became the launch pad for a serial rapist. With no more than a mask and gloves, he confounded detectives struggling to turn up identifying evidence - forensic science had yet to reveal the DNA fingerprints left in semen and blood.
ifteen-year-old Kris MacFarland was alone in the house practicing the piano in the living room when she heard the soft sound of fabric tearing. She paused. It’s nothing, she thought. She resumed playing.
It was days before Christmas 1976, early in a series of increasingly nightmarish attacks on terrified suburbanites in Sacramento and beyond. The rapist would advance from stealth attacks on vulnerable victims to blitz rushes on couples, entire families in the house. He would hold men prisoner with plates balanced on their backs as their wives were raped again and again. He locked children in the bathroom.
Rancho Cordova had become the hunting ground of a serial rapist whose prolific prowling was hauntingly similar to that of the dog-killing cat burglar in Cordova and the Ransacker in Visalia, who gunned down the father of a girl he tried to abduct. The M.O. of the crimes was the same, but there was a key difference: witness descriptions. The Ransacker was stocky. The rapist was slim.
Rape drew a sentence as short as a year, and the statute of limitations was so brief that evidence was thrown out even as serial attackers claimed new victims. Even law enforcement struggled against the social taboos of rape, dwelling sometimes more on how the attacker entered the locked house than on what he did to the woman. More than once, an officer or criminal profiler described the East Area Rapist as “gentlemanly.
He opened his attacks telling victims he only wanted their money. Also food for his “van.” He did this to gain their compliance. Detectives also suspected he was leaving false clues that he was a drifter or a boy down the street, even planting evidence from a victim in someone else’s home. She had long been guided by her faith, transferring from a sheltered Christian academy to public high school months before the rape to “share the Word.” After the attack, Kris briefly returned to Christian school, but after a series of small rebellions — she smarted back, wore pants, kept her coat on — the friend’s parent who drove her refused to give her further rides.
Her father changed their telephone number. He changed their address. But he never talked about the rape.acramento’s first rape crisis center opened at the height of the attacks in the back of a feminist bookstore. Sheriff’s detectives were horrified by the artwork in the store, including a giant poster of a nude woman with her legs spread.
The center’s director countered by saying the sheriff was a “pig” and accused him of hiding details about the rapes, putting women at risk. She said the problem was officers’ brutish callousness toward traumatized rape victims, who needed counseling, support and self-defense training. Battles like these were not uncommon with the creation of rape crisis centers, often seen as interlopers in police matters.
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