Way back in July I wrote a bit concerning the rash of cat mutilations in the Denver area. I posited that the cats were being killed by wildlife, and a few weeks later the authorities came to the same conclusion.
Someone found that post and left this alternate theory:
Cat Mutilations, Sleep Paralysis and the Human DNA Hyper-Dimension.
Just when we thought it was safe to go dancing naked in the streets we have a telepathically communicating psychic gorilla/vampire that
a) has no face or legs
b) paralyses from a distance
c) knows your name
d) is hyper-elusive, hyper-intelligent and hyper-
malevolent
e) hates all things living : (
f) is all powerful and all knowing
Investigate the following; /earthfiles +cat mutilations/ tony warr +ufo/ sleep paralysis/
serial cat killings/ thisislocallondon +pet killer (1998 archive)/ Black Dahlia/ Axeman of New Orleans/ Cleveland Torso Killer/ Sharmini Anandavel/ cat mutilations +reward +toronto/
DCIEM +sleep deprivation/ DCIEM +amphetamine/
nocturnal assault research centre n.a.r.c./ : (
Posted by: Scared Snitless at October 14, 2003 09:56 AM
Mr[s]. Snitless left a very interesting link with his[her?] name. Sometimes this blog stuff is too much fun.
Posted by Walter at October 14, 2003 11:21 AMFrom the description the victim gives, it certainly sounds like a mistaken
case of sleep paralysis.
On 25 Jan 2004, Scared Snitless wrote:
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Saturday September 18, 1999 The Toronto Star
Pg. A03
Woman confronts attacker's 'pure evil'
Scarborough victim relives nightmare of assault in one place she should feel safe.
By Maureen Murray (Staff Reporter)
She felt she was in the presence of pure evil.
A Darkened room: a poke in the ribs; being suddenly jolted from deep sleep by a faceless, hooded fugure obscured by shadows.
"Seeing the hood and no face, I could make out a figure. It just went into the pit of my stomach, the feeling of evil."
These are the words of a woman who awoke to a nightmare and the struggle of her life on a hot and sultry night in early August, finding an intruder at her bedside - the sexual predator some have dubbed the Scarborough "Bedroom Rapist."
The middle-aged woman says she was lying face down and in a deep sleep when the intruder first jabbed her in the ribs. In her groggy state, she first thought it was one of her adult children coming into her second-floor bedroom to mooch bus fare.
Then suddenly she was seized by violent hands grabbing her body and shaking her into a panicked wakefulness. "He just shook me and all of a sudden I couldn't breath," says the woman, sitting on her porch recounting the tale that has robbed her of her sense of security in her own home.
She says she didn't scream; she needed all her energy reserves to fight off the menace intent on overpowering her.
"I just focused on survival, the physical stress of resisting."
She flailed, she twisted, she struck out with an ever-increasing sense of sheer terror that she was losing the battle.
"You just resist. It takes all of your energy. It just seems to go on for so long."
Despite being a woman of large build, he had all the advantages. On his side, he had the element of surprise and the fear of a victim finding an intruder in her home.
The she felt her energy collapse. She had no wind left, her breath was gone. The predator was on the verge of getting what he came for or worse."He could of killed me at that point," she says.
I was kaput...I had sustained as much (fighting) as I could."
As if caught in some surreal nightmare, she is unclear on what happened next. But she found herself falling from her bed, descending through the air with the intruder still in tow.
In desperation, she called out into the night; "Oh Jesus, help me."
The man/ghoul(ed.) suddenly turned and fled from the room. She rushed to the door to lock herself in her bedroom and he silently escaped form her home.
"He doesn't make a sound," she says of the man, who has mastered the art of being elusive.
Police continued their search yersterday along a water-runoff canal in a detailed hunt for evidence they hope will lead to the attacker.
The canal, a weed-filled ditch that encircles a large residential zoone near Warden and Finch Aves., is a possible route to reach many of the homes where he has struck.
At least two of the homes he has entered back on to the canal. Others are just a short walk away.
Meanwhile, police hope that by residents turning on all possible external lights, the predator - who uses the cover of darkness - will have no place to hide.
Police Superintendent James Bamford announced the Light The Night program, urging residents to leave outside lights on in an effort to thwart the rapist's shadowy attacks.
"If we light the whole area up, the predator will have more trouble moving around and it will be harder for him to hide," Bamford said yesterday.
"And the better we light the place up , the better opportunity we'll have to get a better decription."
According to police sources, the sexual predator rarely speaks. In all his attacks, he's only uttered about two words - and that happened during only one of his 12 break-ins since June 2.
It wasn't enough for police to properly ascertain any discenible accent.
Since the assailant, who has so far been connected to eight sexual assaults, strikes between 12:30 a.m. and 6:20 a.m., police believe he may live with someone - a girlfriend, wife or family member - who works overnight.
If that's the case, he could easily slip out and not be missed once his partner went to work, sources say. But it's only a theory, and until they catch him, police are relying on educated guesses based on years of (in)experience.
The victim can't describe his face or his smell. "He is deliberate. He carefully masks his identity."
But she can't forget the anger of his touch. "He's angry. Angry at somebody for something."
To this day, she and police are uncertain why her assailant fled. Maybe it was because he feared being identified during the fierce struggle, or perhaps he tired of her resistance.
But as far as this victim is concerned, God answered her prayers in her moment of greatest need.
'He has stolen my sense of security in my home'
She also wonders how her attacker knew she was alone. He struck shortly after her adult children went out for the night. She's convinced he had been staking out her house.
Although the attack left her sore and with bruises all over her body, what hurts most is what the predator has taken away from her.
"He has gone in, stolen my sense of security in my home...I felt safe in my house." She says it's a challenge to stay there, although a number of her adult children live with her.
Now she jolts awake at 3 a.m. to double-check that her windows are locked, and she repeatedly makes sure her doors are locked. She is looking to sell her long-time home to try and get away from the memories and sense of violation.
She is uncertain how he crept into her home. There was no forced entry. "I thought all the window were locked. But we're not exactly sure. We have no air-conditioning and it was a very, very hot night.
"I think people should be allowed to have a window open on a hot summer night."
Although the man frightened her senseless, incredibly she says that as a mother, she feels sorry for her twisted attacker. "This is somebody's son." As a religious woman, she prays for him, just as she prays he will be apprehended before he hurts anyone else. (what a nice lady!)
"I just want to know what happened to him that promoted this self-destructive behaviour.
"I think about it all the time. Why? Why? Why?
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Papers play new rapes just like cops want
They don't ask if real Scarborough rapist in jail or still on street
By ENZO Di MATTEO
The idea that someone other than the "Bedroom Rapist" police already have in custody may still be terrorizing a Scarborough neighbourhood doesn't seem to have captured the imagination of three of this city's four daily newspapers.
Since Friday (October 29), two more sexual assaults have been reported in and around the same Warden and Sheppard neighbourhood where in late September police arrested Eli Nicholas, the so-called Bedroom Rapist, after a string of attacks.
In each of the latest two attacks, police say the assailant broke into the victim's home while she was sleeping -- the same modus operandi as Nicholas's.
The description of one of the assailants in the latest attacks is similar to the one issued by police before Nicholas was arrested.
Copycat rapists
Is the Bedroom Rapist still on the loose? Or are the latest incidents, as some in the press have been calling them, just copycats?
Of the city's four dailies, only the Globe and Mail was intrigued enough to give the story substantial play on its front page Tuesday (November 2), after a fairly lengthy report on the first attack in the Saturday edition.
By comparison, both attacks were given only brief mention in the back pages of the Toronto Star.
The Toronto Sun, which usually counts the crime beat as its bread and butter, ran a small item on the first attack on page 4 Saturday and another item on the second attack on page 10 Monday.
Neither, though, gave any hint of a possible connection with the Bedroom Rapist.
The National Post, too, relegated coverage of the attacks to brief mentions in the back pages until following up Tuesday with a larger piece on page 22, the front of its Toronto section.
It's a puzzling turn for all the papers, especially because city auditor Jeffrey Griffiths released a report this week that's highly critical of the sexual assault squad's handling of investigations. (See story next page.)
It should also be remembered that despite being implicated by police in eight attacks and 12 break-ins in Scarborough, Nicholas has actually been charged with only two counts of sexual assault.
At the height of the Bedroom Rapist alarm this summer, the dailies were full of breathless accounts of the latest attacks, stories of children sleeping with their parents, tales of an entire borough of half a million keeping its lights on at night.
The coverage recalled the fear that gripped New York during the Son of Sam murders in the late 70s.
Obvious questions
The Globe's city editor, David Ellis, is reluctant to hazard an opinion about why the competition isn't giving the story bigger play.
"We're just asking the obvious questions," he says. "This neighbourhood has been terrorized for a long time, and suddenly, when it appears it's all over, it starts again. To me it seems pretty straightforward. It's something that cries out to be covered."
He's surprised that the Star, his former employer, and the crime-hungry Sun haven't run with it.
"I just couldn't believe it," he says after some prodding. "This kind of story really is a Star story or a Sun story."
The Star's city editor, Jonathan Ferguson, can't resist taking a shot at the Globe, weighing in with, "I can't tell you what the Globe's thinking is. I know I often wonder these days."
His suggestion is that the Globe's dropping circulation numbers may have something to do with its more aggressive coverage. It's a charge the Globe denies.
"But what I can tell you is that until the cops completely link this and say there's a pattern," Ferguson continues, "it's my decision to treat them (the latest attacks) as we would any sexual assault.
"Sexual assaults in this city, unfortunately, are almost a daily occurrence. We can't treat sexual assaults that come out of Scarborough now in the context of the Bedroom Rapist. In retrospect, that kind of labelling by the police -- Bedroom Rapist -- is alarmist."
The Star's decision to play down the latest attacks aside, Ferguson agrees that there are "real problems" with the cops' case so far against Nicholas -- namely the fact that he's only been charged in two of the more than eight attacks and 12 break-ins.
"We continue to ask the questions," says Ferguson.
Is it that the dailies, apart from the Globe, are unquestioningly buying the police line? The Sun's editor, Mike Strobel, says "I know the radio stations played it big, but you can't make a connection (between the assaults) if one doesn't exist."
The National Post's T.O. editor, Peter Scowen, argues that at some point reporters chasing cop stories have to jettison their adversarial role, "back off and let the cops do their job."
That may come as a shock to some editors. Scowen goes on to say that there are things reporters and police know about this case "but are holding back because (that evidence) will be used in court to identify him (Nicholas) as the person who's responsible for these multiple attacks." (The Post has reported that police collected cigarette butts from one crime scene and are using them to collect DNA evidence.)
Trust cops
"We're not the detectives," Scowen adds. "We're not there scraping the semen off the sheets. We don't really know what's going on. At some point, as scary as it is, you have to put a little trust in the cops."
So, does he think the Globe is blowing the story out of proportion? Scowen says no.
"We want to do Toronto stuff on the front page (too), but it has to be stuff with broader appeal." As an example, he cites the story of the "Kickin' Vixen," so dubbed for fighting off an assailant with a boot to the balls.
At police headquarters, inspector Tony Warr, the officer who headed up the probe that led to Nicholas's arrest, is confident police have their man."Obviously, we'd have to be confident it's the right guy or we wouldn't have arrested him."
Why, then, has Nicholas been charged in two of the eight attacks police say he's involved in? Could it be he's innocent of the other six?
"I can give you two answers," Warr says. "One answer is 'No, he's not.' And then I can say, 'Yes, he is.' Either one is a judgment call I can't make.
"I'm confident we've solved that problem in Scarborough. If I start going any further than that I'm going to start to get into fair-trial problems. Sometimes the public has to trust us. We do know what we're doing."
NOW NOVEMBER 4-10, 1999