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...Fatal Repulsion." In Andy Anderson's minimalist revenge drama Positive I.D., a Texas real estate agent (Stephanie Rascoe) is raped. When she learns that the rapist is up for parole, she devises a second identity for herself, that of a good-time gal named Bobbie, and hangs out at a bar owned by the rapist's uncle. She soon sees that Bobbie is a more suitable, rewarding part than the quiet housewife she has been playing for too many years. She might be Fatal Attraction's Beth, now cosseted and corseted by marriage, who'd rather be a free...
...attacks, which began in 1983, were all on elderly women, five white and one black. By throwing a sheet over the head of each victim, the culprit had remained unseen. Yet hair samples and sketchy impressions of some witnesses indicated that the rapist was black. It also appeared likely that he was a local: he always seemed to know which women could be found alone in houses unprotected even by a dog. All of which made residents especially edgy, and made Police Chief Christopher Kelly particularly eager to solve the case...
Homestead's black leaders generally supported the fingerprinting tactic. The Rev. Donald Turner, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, volunteered his prints and urged others to cooperate. "We're not here to prove you are the rapist," he told members of the black community, which makes up 40% of Homestead's population. "We want to prove that you are not the rapist." Alice Kirkland, president of the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., said her group would not oppose anyone who wanted to volunteer prints, adding, "We've had no complaints from the residents so far." One of two black officers...
Oddly, an even more unorthodox police procedure went unreported: Kelly's men had asked many of those they interviewed to volunteer blood samples to be checked against bits of the rapist's blood in police possession. "We got 45 samples," Kelly noted last week...
...justify a system in which a convicted rapist who hacked off the forearms of his victim is considered to have "paid his legal debt to society" after serving "nearly eight years of a 14-year four-month sentence" ((NATION, June l))? Have rape and mutilation become so commonplace that they are treated like a traffic offense...