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In September 2025, the Austin Police Department identified Robert Eugene Brashers, a serial killer and rapist, as the suspect in the Yogurt Shop murders.
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Stephanie Slifer, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
Dubbed the Scarborough rapist, Bernardo brutally raped at least 14 women and girls — many of them teenagers — between 1987 and 1990, according to the CBC.
—Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
These are some of the worst child molesters, rapists, murderers that have been in and out of your community for a long time.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2025
Nothing will slow us down from recruiting more officers to remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists from American communities.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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Stephanie Slifer, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
Dubbed the Scarborough rapist, Bernardo brutally raped at least 14 women and girls — many of them teenagers — between 1987 and 1990, according to the CBC.
—Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
These are some of the worst child molesters, rapists, murderers that have been in and out of your community for a long time.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2025
Nothing will slow us down from recruiting more officers to remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists from American communities.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Rapist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rapist. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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rapist
noun
rap·ist
ˈrā-pəst 
: an individual who commits rape
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