The East Area Rapist Turned to the Original Night Stalker

The original night stalker went on to claim another six lives, killing ten in total. He mostly targeted couples after breaking into their homes. After binding them, he would rape the woman before almost always bludgeoning them to death. Seven years after his killing spree began, the stalker disappeared. Some firmly believed that the East area rapist andOriginal Night Stalker were one and the same. They had near-identical modus operandias and matching physical descriptions. Proponents of this theory suspected that the East Area rapist hadn't stopped committing crimes in 1979, but instead relocated and evolved into a killer.