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Police seek ‘Teardrop Rapist’

Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese talks as Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials released composites and detailed the LAPD investigation into the "Teardrop Rapist" at a press conference on April 24, 2012. Police are asking for the public's help in identifying the suspect linked to dozens of sexual assaults since February 1996.

Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese talks as Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials released composites and detailed the LAPD investigation into the “Teardrop Rapist” at a press conference on April 24, 2012. Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspect linked to dozens of sexual assaults since February 1996.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

The Los Angeles Police Department is seeking the public’s help in trying to capture the Teardrop Rapist, who detectives believe is responsible for attacking 35 women since 1996.

LAPD "Teardrop Rapist" sketches

Reporter Claudia Peschiutta photographs sketches after LAPD and Sheriff’s Department officials released sketches of the rape suspect and detail their investigation of him at a press conference in April 2012.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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