Mesa police said they arrested a recently retired Border Patrol agent suspected of being a serial rapist who assaulted people in Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler and Bisbee from 1999 through 2001.
John Daly III, 57, was arrested in Sierra Vista on Tuesday, Mesa police said in a statement.
He is accused of being what Mesa police are calling “the East Valley Rapist.” Eight cases of sexual assault between July 1999 and October 2001 were connected by similar suspect behavior and three were connected by DNA, Mesa police said, though no leads were established at the time.
An Arizona Republic article from November 2000 says police at the time believed a serial rapist was stalking and attacking white women between 21 and 41 years old through open doors and windows in single-family homes in south Mesa and north Gilbert.
Mesa police said the new lead was made possible in February thanks to funding from the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, a program from the Bureau of Justice Assistance within the U.S. Department of Justice.
Scary !!!