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If you've listened to this podcast before, you'll know that I have my doubts about criminal profiling.

It can be a useful investigative tool, but I don't think that profiling alone can solve a case.

That's because there isn't any single indicator that can predict whether or not someone will display criminal behaviors.

It's not black and white.

However, once a crime has been committed, there are some pretty standard emos when it comes to repeat offenders.

One of which is that perpetrators often return to the scene of the crime to relive whatever satisfaction they find in the crimes they committed.

Sometimes they return for other reasons too, like when a location feels like an easy target, especially when they've successfully committed a crime in the area before.

That's exactly what happened in Louisville, Kentucky in 1998.

Someone was terrorizing crafty drive, committing multiple rapes on the same street within just a few days.

But despite the clear pattern of behavior, it would take another seven years to bring the serial rapist to justice.

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

I'm Brock, and here's the astounding Bill Curtis, with a classic case caught on tape.

The knife was to my throat, and he started saying, do not say anything, don't say a word.

It's just after 3 a.m., when 29-year-old Shannon Johnson wakes to a stranger in her bed.

You try to get between my legs and I'm thinking, okay, if I let him go through with this, and he kills me, what's he going to do to my daughter?

So, it was just like a snap instance to grab the knife, and I grabbed it with this hand by the blame, and then we started fighting.

It was struggle for a minute, maybe even less than a minute. He stops, he pulls up his pants, and he takes off running after the door.

Johnson dials 911. The scene is all too familiar for police. 12 days earlier, a woman in the same apartment complex on crafty drive was attacked.

I knew he was African-American, I knew that he had close cut hair, I knew that he was taller than me.

Johnson's attacker matches a description given in the earlier assault. Investigators, however, have no suspects, and nothing else to move on.

Meanwhile, a rapist has his eyes on crafty drive, waiting for another woman, and another opportunity.

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