Word: strasburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fear in a Small Town. Strasburg, Va., is arguing with the U.S. Census Bureau that its official population count of 2,288 people is too low. But the Shenandoah Valley town has one resident it 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...
...visit the other night and I'm not done with you yet. No dog is gonna stop me the next time." Recalls Mrs. Orndorff, a mother of three: "That got me mad. I told him a .22 would stop him." She is sure there have been unreported rapes in Strasburg, explaining: "If I'd been raped, I wouldn't have told anyone. This is a small town and people run their mouths...