Word: rapists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When alone, she slept with all the lights in the apartment turned on. A few weeks after the attack, she returned from a brief vacation to find a makeshift ladder at one of their apartment windows and the screens ripped. But the prowler, whom Mrs. Walker assumes was the rapist bent on another attack, was heard by a friend of the Walkers' and fled as police arrived...
...stop being victims when the police leave," says Mrs. Walker. "Violence is disabling. It changes your life for years." The Walkers have moved from the apartment, and she says, "I will never set foot there again. The anger, the dread and the fear are receding. But the rapist is still in my head. I don't think he will ever go away...
...does not want: a ski-masked white man who has entered eight or more homes, usually just after the husband has left for work in the morning, and raped at least two women. Joann Orndorff, 33, white, was saved when her German shepherd-Labrador retriever, Tippy, attacked the rapist. Mrs. Orndorff, like a score of other Strasburg women, now owns a handgun...
Dealing with a rapist requires a different strategy. Some police officials suggest that a woman should first try to talk her way out of the assault. "Get as close to him as you can and start talking," says Shilah Johnson, a Los Angeles police officer who lectures on rape-defense techniques. "Say anything you like, but don't put him down." Some women have escaped rape by pleading that they are pregnant, menstruating or have a venereal disease. Other experts contend that talk is useless; Patsy Klaus, a researcher at the Justice Department's National Institute of Justice...
...commits murder and then suicide. Later, Assistant Professor Simsa becomes attracted to his pupil, but finds that his impotence is directly proportional to his desire. In a brutal and surreal scene, he takes Lizinka to a prison and tries to rape her while he hangs a prisoner--a mass rapist and murderer--from the gallows. Throughout, Lizinka is unmoved...