Segment question - two versions of Original Night Stalker/East Area Rapist ?

[unsolved1981]

I seem to recall that there were two versions of the Original Night Stalker/East Area Rapist story. The Episode List at the UM Wikia confirms this (under 'Strip Mall rapist'), but I am not sure if I recall it right.

This is one I think I may have seen in its original airing. They spectulated it may be the same person doing both the rapes and then graduating to murder (they were right).

Any idea what the original version of the segment might be so named?

[justins5256]

Originally Posted by unsolved1981

I seem to recall that there were two versions of the Original Night Stalker/East Area Rapist story. The Episode List at the UM Wikia confirms this (under 'Strip Mall rapist'), but I am not sure if I recall it right.

This is one I think I may have seen in its original airing. They spectulated it may be the same person doing both the rapes and then graduating to murder (they were right).

Any idea what the original version of the segment might be so named?

More great info from the Wikia.

I can only surmise the strip mall rapist was the case from Boston involving a number of unsolved rapes of women in department stores that occurred during the fall of 1989. I think the case was profiled on UM in May of 1990, and the rapes stopped around that time.

The Original Night Stalker / East Area Rapist story was a Lifetime produced segment from the early 2000s. Totally unrelated to the Boston rapes in the late eighties.

[unsolved1981]

Originally Posted by justins5256

More great info from the Wikia.

I can only surmise the strip mall rapist was the case from Boston involving a number of unsolved rapes of women in department stores that occurred during the fall of 1989. I think the case was profiled on UM in May of 1990, and the rapes stopped around that time.

The Original Night Stalker / East Area Rapist story was a Lifetime produced segment from the early 2000s. Totally unrelated to the Boston rapes in the late eighties.

Thats what I thought too..I couldnt remember ever hearing about him striking strip malls. Ah well, maybe Im remembering another crime show that speculated it was the same man before it was confirmed.

[TracyLynnS]

Yeah, one thing about the UM wikia site, even though it's the best UM info resource on the net, imo, is that anyone can edit it.

They had a problem last year or early this year where someone went in and made a big mess out of at least one case's wikia page. I forgot exactly what they said, but they wrote a big bunch of foolishness that was intentionally all wrong and the page had to be fixed.

One thing that's good tho, if someone does that to one of the pages, you can click the arrow on the "edit this page" button which will bring a drop down menu. Click on "history" and you can go back and choose an earlier version of the page to read, see who last edited that page and when, and at least have a good chance at getting the most correct info instead of whatever some bored trickster has decided to publish on the site.