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S2 E2: The East Area Rapist

October 20, 2026 · 11 min

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After Visalia, the prowler became a predator. This episode follows the East Area Rapist's reign of terror over Sacramento from 1976 to 1979 — the taunting phone calls, the prowler's meticulous home invasions, the stacked plates, and the more than fifty people who endured him. Victims first: their courage, their decades of fear, and the three days in court when they finally spoke to the man in the mask.
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Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).

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