Detectives from State Crime Command’s sex crime squad have spent years analysing 31 incidents of actual or attempted sexual assault that occurred across Sydney’s eastern suburbs between 1985 and 2001.
Advances in forensic DNA technology enabled investigators to eventually track down Simms via male relatives – and in September, his DNA was found to be an exact match to semen samples provided by 12 of his victims
https://perma.cc/RZ2K-U9HSThirty-seven years after the first chilling attack, Doherty revealed that the DNA matches pointed to a 66-year-old La Perouse grandfather, Keith Simms.
But in a frustrating twist for investigators and victims,
Simms died in February this year – seven months before police narrowed their gaze
https://perma.cc/KUC7-UBYVThe revelation comes
37 years after the first assault
🤦♂️, which saw the suspect branded as the "Centennial Park rapist" in the 1980s, the "Bondi rapist" in the 1990s, the "tracksuit rapist" in the 2000s and most recently the "Bondi Beast" in 2016
https://perma.cc/326K-NRKJMr Simms, however,
will never be charged as he died earlier this year
https://perma.cc/AR39-ZGESThe serial rapist used to target the age group of 14 to 55 years and its methods were similar
NSW Police Minister Paul Toole: "Let me put it on the record that this "Bondi Beast" was an animal. This person was a low-life.
This person was somebody who doesn't deserve to be even walking in our community https://archive.is/StXnQSuch person DESERVE DEATH PENALTY! nothing other!
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