Cold Case Files The South Side Rapist (Season 2, Episode 2)
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TV Episode | Documentary, Crime

Cold Case Files

The South Side Rapist (Season 2, Episode 2)

TV-14

TV Episode | Documentary, Crime

1992--For three months, the St. Louis metro area is seized by a string of rapes. The victims each report the same scenario to detectives at the St. Louis Metro Police Dept.: a man with his face covered breaks into their home under the ...See more1992--For three months, the St. Louis metro area is seized by a string of rapes. The victims each report the same scenario to detectives at the St. Louis Metro Police Dept.: a man with his face covered breaks into their home under the guise of a burglary. With weapon in hand, the man rapes them. When finished, he tells them to bathe themselves and keep quiet or he will return to kill them. This is the Modus Operandi of what has become known as the South Side Rapist. Police believe it is the work of one man, a serial predator of women. A Task Force is established in efforts to catch the offender, but with few leads to follow up on, the cases go cold. In 1995, Det. Mark Kennedy begins working on the South Side Rapist case full-time. With the help of partner Det. Randy Sassenger, the two begin their investigation by going back into police archives and researching rapes and attempted sexual assaults. What they find is an arsenal of cases dating back to 1984--each illustrating an identical MO to that of the South Side Rapist cases of 1992. With the help of DNA criminalist Mary Beth Karr, the detectives are able to link some 29 cases to a single man dubbed in 1992 as the South Side Rapist. With only a DNA profile, the nameless man escapes from justice undetected. A fluke audit of a license plate number in 1998 leads detectives to a burglary suspect Dennis Rabbitt, who later through DNA analysis is identified as the SSR. See less

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Name	Known for
Eugene Frigo Self Self See fewer	Cold Case Files (1999)
Jennifer Juwer Self Self See fewer	Cold Case Files (1999)
Mary Beth Karr Self Self See fewer	Cold Case Files (1999)
Mark Kennedy Self - Det., St. Louis Metopolitan P.D. (ret.) Self - Det., St. Louis Metopolitan P.D. (ret.) See fewer	Cold Case Files (1999)
Mark Kennedy Self Self See fewer	The First 48 (2004)
Sue Kleeschulte Self Self See fewer	Cold Case Files (1999)
Antoinette Kovar Self Self See fewer	Unusual Suspects (2010)
Scott Parsons Self Self See fewer	Cold Case Files (1999)
Dennis Rabbitt Self Self See fewer	Cold Case Files (1999)
Cliff Sasenger Self Self See fewer	Cold Case Files (1999)
Randy Sasenger Self - Det., St. Louis Metropolitan P.D. (Ret.) Self - Det., St. Louis Metropolitan P.D. (Ret.) See fewer	Cold Case Files (1999)
Dennis Simpson Self Self See fewer	Cold Case Files (1999)