The Sunnyside Rapist (part 2)

Appalachian Mysteria

Jam Street Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In the second of this 2-part series, Jack Edward Hawkins is put on trial without physical evidence for three assaults committed by the Sunnyside rapist, but prosecutors refuse to claim he is a suspect in any others. Neighbors of the Hawkins family come forward to describe their experience with Jack and his children. As Hawkins’ involvement in a 1975 incident comes to light, the Mysteria team learns that a new West Virginia law now makes it impossible to learn details about any sexual assault cases. And a team of New Zealand researchers is hired by the defense to explain the problems with the eyewitness testimony used against Hawkins. Jack Hawkins’ letter to the judge explaining his side of the events 1:25 – Who is Jack Hawkins? 3:50 – Neighbors speak out 13:48 – Oklahoma, 1975 16:35 – Charges filed 17:25 – The death of FOIA and Geoff’s insider info 22:17 – The first trial 27:02 – Judge misconduct and the second trial 32:28 – Memories distorted? 48:30 – Final notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Appalachian Mysteria and this is the second of a two-part series on
0:15.3	Morgantown's Sunnyside rapist. Last episode, Morgantown was facing a
0:19.9	meticulous sexual predator who seemed to attack only in the summer, mostly in the sunny side and surrounding neighborhoods.
0:26.8	More than 30 women were attacked between 1985 and 1992.
0:31.1	We spoke with two victims of the Sunnyside rapist.
0:34.0	For the first, the attacker stood over her sleeping roommate in the dark,
0:37.8	waiting for her to arrive.
0:39.5	For the last, the attacker was driven off
0:41.7	by a young woman who fired a gun provided by her boyfriend.
0:45.0	After seven years, Morgantown police had developed elaborate action plans for these attacks
0:50.0	and kept officers quietly watching the streets of Sunnyside.
0:53.8	As we ended the episode, Officer George Cress detained a suspect on Saturday, June 27,
0:59.5	1992.
1:01.2	He checks all the boxes, suspicious erratic behavior, similar build, age and description,
1:06.8	and he sticks out as a sober 40-something in a student part of the neighborhood at 3.30 in the morning. His ID reads Jack Edward Hawkins. This was taken from Cress's incident report from the night Jack Hawkins was observed on Fife Street.
1:30.0	I asked him why he was in that area at that time of the morning.
1:34.0	He stated that someone had thrown a rock and hit his truck and that he was looking for
1:37.8	them.
1:38.8	Suspect stated that he had walked several blocks.
1:41.3	I feel that he was in the area at least one half an hour and probably
1:44.7	longer. While I was waiting for a return from dispatch, the suspect walked over to what turned
1:49.7	out to be his truck and got in it. He was in it for a few seconds and then got out. At that time felt
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