"In the Potomac Rapist, detectives have painted a chilling portrait of a skilled burglar who, despite the populated communities he targeted, stalked his victims for days before breaking into their homes and waiting for them. As his perverse appetites grew, he became more brazen. And as news spread, his attacks seemed to become more violent and theatrical. He would try to engage his victims in a perverse form of pillow talk, asking them about their own previous sexual encounters while he raped them."
- The first rape occurred in May 1991 in a new housing development in North Potomac.
- In November 1991, he attacked an anesthesiologist in Bethesda, Maryland, gaining entrance through a second-floor window and hiding until she came home.
- A month later, he returned again to the North Potomac site and attacked another woman whose husband was away on a business trip.
- A month later and a block away from the last attack, he barged into the basement apartment of a live-in housekeeper less than 20 minutes after her employers left to go to a movie. But this time, the victim fought back. His rape attempt was foiled, but he viciously beat her with a portable stereo before fleeing.
- The attacks abruptly ended until 1994. Then, he attacked a mother of two who lived near a new housing development.
- After another lengthy break he resurfaced again in February 1997 in a middle-class suburb of Montgomery County and attacked a 19-year-old in the kitchen of her townhouse. Before he left, he snatched a $100 bill from her birthday card.
- Nine months later, the Potomac Rapist assaulted his last victim in Maryland, and eight months after that, he killed Mirzayan, a newly married intern with a promising future in biochemistry.
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