Rape suspect eyed in attacks in Mo., Calif.

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Source: AP

By BILL DRAPER, Associated Press Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Detectives in Missouri and California are diving into cold-case files as they investigate a career convict charged this week in a string of Kansas City rapes in the mid-1980s.

Bernard Jackson, a 52-year-old sex offender who has spent most of his adult life in prison, was charged Thursday with sexually assaulting four women in Kansas City between July 1983 and February 1984, after authorities say DNA evidence linked him to the attacks.

Investigators also consider Jackson a "person of interest" in five recent rapes in the same area of Kansas City as the previous attacks, as well as a suspect in at least 17 sexual attacks in Sacramento, Calif., in the mid-1980s.

As in the 1980s cases in Kansas City, the attacker in the most-recent attacks is believed to have entered the victims' homes through unlocked doors or windows. And they all happened in the middle-class neighborhood of Waldo, the same general area of the older attacks. Police tracked Jackson to a friend's home in Kansas City on Wednesday and chased him down after he fled out the back door. He was arrested on a parole violation for failing to report back to a halfway house.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100508/ap_on_re_us/us_kansas_city_rapes

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Here in KC people are breathing a lot easier.

[proteus_lives]

1. They can't be cured.

He needs to be locked for the rest of his life.

[alp227]

2. Creepy smile

Also the article says:

Jackson has spent most of his adult life behind bars for sexual assault, first going to prison in 1977 at age 19 after pleading guilty to raping a Kansas City woman in her home. He served less than six years of a 15-year sentence and was paroled in April 1983.

EXCUSE ME? Just less than 6 out of 15 years? Wow what is it with the American justice system and sex offenders? Why can't more sex offenders just be put away for life but there are people serving years and years and years over victimless drug offenses?

[truthisfreedom]

3. Imagine how many unreported rapes he committed. What an animal.

I'm so glad they got him.