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Cold Case Files

REOPENED: Modus Operandi

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On the south side of St. Louis, a series of sexual assaults appears to follow the exact same pattern - leading police to dub the perpetrator, "The South Side Rapist." The last step in his modus operandi...was to disappear completely. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode contains descriptions of violent crimes and sexual assaults.

0:05.0

Please listen with caution.

0:07.0

Antoinette Kovar was tired and glad to be going home when her shift ended at 2 a.m. on March 20, 1992.

0:20.0

She was 25 and independent. She lived alone.

0:24.1

After pulling into her driveway, she turned the headlights off and got the door key ready.

0:29.0

Antoinette then walked the short path from the car to the house and turn the key in the lock. She entered the house, but someone else was there.

0:40.0

I thought he was just going to kill me. I couldn't imagine why anyone would come in my house.

0:44.0

Why would he be here? What would his intentions be?

0:48.0

That was Antoinette.

0:50.0

The intruder would soon make his intentions clear.

0:54.0

From A&E, this is cold case files. I had my hand on the handle but he was behind me and had his hands over my eyes and my

1:18.6

mouth and said don't say a word I'm not going to hurt you. The next thing I remember he was kind of dragging me from the back to the bedroom.

1:27.0

He started to pull down my sweat pants that I had and I said, oh God you got to be kidding me and he threw me

1:36.2

on the bed and attempted to have oral sex with me. The attacker positioned himself on top of her, forcing himself between her legs.

1:45.0

The assault continued until the phone rang.

1:49.0

Antoinette told the masked man that her boyfriend was calling.

1:52.0

He would be over soon. The attacker quickly

1:56.0

dressed and headed for the front door. Antoinette didn't want him to get away. Here she

2:02.0

is to explain. He said, don't you come after me or I'll come

2:06.1

back. Well, at that instant, when I heard the screen door close, I said, that's too bad. And I

2:11.3

jumped up, grabbed grabbed my it was a robe sitting on the my

2:17.2

stationary bike I grabbed that wrapped it around my bottom and I ran out the

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