The Donvale Rapist

Between 19 71 and 19 79, there were 12 assaults, attempted rapes and rapes throughout melbourne attributed to an unknown attacker. Many of the victims were married women who were either home alone or with their young children when the donvale rapist struck. As more details came to light, pelice tasked a sculptor with creating a bust of the perpetrator, the first time a three dimensional likeness was made of a wanted man in australia. The sculpture took forty five hours to build. Boris was used to gain the public's assistance in identifying its real life counterpart, who was described as having soft hands, being well spoken and often going barefoot. Had a pasty, fair coplex