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Article: PHILLY RAPIST TIED TO FORT COLLINS DNA FOUND IN ASSAULTS IN COLORADO MATCH MAN HUNTED IN RAPES, MURDER.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- September 18, 2001
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Byline: Joe Garner News Staff Writer
FORT COLLINS -- The man suspected of six sexual assaults in Fort Collins this summer is Philadelphia's infamous Center City rapist, a sexual predator who assaulted six women and murdered one in a series of crimes that terrorized the city over two years, police said Monday.
The link was confirmed by DNA comparisons that ``positively identified'' the Fort Collins suspect as the man Philadelphia police have sought since 1997.
``We do not have a name, but the code of the DNA from the Fort Collins cases matches DNA from the Philadelphia cases,'' Fort Collins police spokeswoman Rita Davis said Monday.
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