From A&E, and E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast.

In Sacrades, the podcast. In Sacramento County, California, in the darkness, just before dawn, a rapist slips

through windows and doors, attacking as his victim's sleep.

In October of 1993, 500 Point West Avenue, in January of 1994, 1100 Howe Street, and each bed In each bedroom, the story is the same. Each victim lives alone in a second floor apartment. Each victim lives alone in a second floor apartment. Each survives. Each describes the same attacker.

Description was a male black in his early to mid-20s,

5-7 to 5-8, a little bit overweight, a roundish face.

A sketch is developed and circulated through the community.

Soon after, phones inside Sacramento's police department begin to light up with leads.

I would estimate we received over 100 tips on who we should look at.

I know we took a lot of photographs and I did a lot of people.

That's how you do it. That's how you eliminate people. Snapping photos, comparing

fingerprints, eliminating suspects.

It is the heavy lifting of a criminal investigation and it takes time.

Meanwhile, a rapist waits in the shadows for the right moment and his next victim. He's a predator, he's an animal, he has no respect for women.

I think he got more comfortable and more brazen every time because I think he thought he was invincible.

Nobody's going to catch me.

In May of 1994, a young woman named Paula lives alone in a new apartment.

She is cautious, locks her doors at night,

and sleeps with a gun under her pillow.

Early one morning, Paul wakes at five

and jumps in the shower.

As the water runs, an uneasy feeling washes over the 24-year-old.

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