Dallas Morning News

Saturday | June 16, 2001

Women attacked by man who bites

13 cases reported in downtown area

06/16/2001

By Connie Piloto / The Dallas Morning News

Dallas police have linked more than a dozen cases to a man who investigators say has been biting and licking the arms of women in the downtown area since last year, police said Friday.

The man usually attacks the women from behind and bites their arm before licking it, police said. The latest two cases occurred May 11.

"We've got one incident where the skin has been broken," said Senior Cpl. Diana Watts, a department spokeswoman.

The suspect is always neatly dressed and frequents DART buses, trains and transit stations, police said.

DART police detained a man suspected in the assaults late Thursday at the Park Lane Rail Station and turned the man over to Dallas police, said Estela Hernandez, a DART spokeswoman.

Dallas investigators had made no arrests in the case Friday, said Sgt. Hollis Edwards, a Dallas police spokesman.

The 13 attacks that police are investigating occurred in the city's central business district, but detectives are expanding their search citywide, Cpl. Watts said.

Most of the victims attacked downtown were injured in the morning. They were followed from a bus or rail stop to their place of work, police reports show. One woman was attacked in an elevator and another inside her office.

Some of the victims have been attacked more than once.

A 27-year-old county employee was attacked June 13, 2000, as she walked to work in the 1500 block of Commerce Street, according to a police report filed then.

The woman, whose name is being withheld because she said she fears her attacker, was assaulted again last month. The first time, the man bit her. The second time, he licked her arm before she was able to get away.

"I am scared to the point that I have to look behind me all the time," the woman said.

The same man is suspected of biting a 23-year-old woman in her office on May 9, 2000. A man fitting the suspect's description was seen in her office earlier this year.

On March 20, a man identifying himself as her attacker left a message on her voice mail at work saying he wanted to bite her again, according to police reports.

"I was pretty much in shock, which is part of the reason he got away the first time," the woman said.

Police are urging anyone with information about the attacker to call the Crimes Against Persons Unit at 214-670-5146.

-- Anonymous, June 16, 2001

Answers

I say pull this guys teeth!!!! and feed him!!!!

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2001