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Of course, many of the assaults that were found to be committed by serial rapists could have been prevented, if only the rape kits of their earlier victims had been tested with some dispatch.
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Over the past six months, Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander – three wealthy Miami brothers best known for selling high-end real estate – have been accused of being serial rapists, drugging and abusing dozens of women at parties and in their multimillion dollar condos in Florida and New York.
—Ana Claudia Chacin and, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
Responding officers recovered surveillance footage of the would-be rapist walking down the street, looking over his shoulder, at around the time the attack took place.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2025
And of course, Dennis Hopper, huffing nitrous oxide as rapist, gang leader Frank Booth is a vision of male bestiality ripped out of a Francis Bacon painting (Lynch has acknowledged Bacon as a key influence on his work).
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Over the past six months, Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander – three wealthy Miami brothers best known for selling high-end real estate – have been accused of being serial rapists, drugging and abusing dozens of women at parties and in their multimillion dollar condos in Florida and New York.
—Ana Claudia Chacin and, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
Responding officers recovered surveillance footage of the would-be rapist walking down the street, looking over his shoulder, at around the time the attack took place.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2025
And of course, Dennis Hopper, huffing nitrous oxide as rapist, gang leader Frank Booth is a vision of male bestiality ripped out of a Francis Bacon painting (Lynch has acknowledged Bacon as a key influence on his work).
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Rapist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rapist. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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rapist
noun
rap·ist
ˈrā-pəst 
: an individual who commits rape
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