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Post by sammyt on Mar 6, 2021 12:29:49 GMT -8
Serial rapist active from 1991-2000 in Bath, UK.
Fascinating case... this guy was similar to JJD in lots of ways...
The case is heating up. It's been unsolved for too long.
I need researchers to help me with this case... please PM for more details...
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Post by sammyt on Mar 19, 2021 13:01:22 GMT -8
My list of potential Batman rapes/attempted rapes (dated) and potential murders (named):
1. Shelley Morgan - 11/6/1984 - Bristol
2. Keith Burgess - 17/12/1989 - Bristol
3. 21/5/1991 - Bath
4. Sharon Hoare - 10/8/1991 - London
5. 23/10/1991 - Bath
6. 12/12/1991 - Bath
7. 1/3/1993 - Bath
8. Oct/Nov 1994 - Bath
9. 1/11/1994 - Bath
10. 14/11/1994 - Bath
11. 14/11/1994 - Bath University Grounds
12. 9/6/1996 - Bath
13. Melanie Hall - 9/6/1996 - Bath
14. 28/9/1996 - Bristol
15. 31/10/1996 - Bath
16. 31/10/1996 - Bath
17. 1996 Date unknown - Bath
18. 30/1/1997 - Bath
19. 30/1/1997 - Bath
20. 12/2/1997 Bath
21. Ann Myring - 25/6/1997 - Bristol
22. Nov 1997 - Bath
23. Early Jan 1999 - Bath
24. 26/1/1999 - Bath
25. 26/1/1999 - Bath
26. 12/5/2000 - Bath
27. Date Unknown - Bath University Grounds.
28. 2000 Date Unknown - Bristol - Nadine Hillier is attacked in a car park. She is part strangled and has her throat cut, but survives. Her attacker is jailed for six years.
I would imagine that he has other victims who never came forward. Particularly in terms of failed/aborted attacks. I'm looking at the mid-late 80s, and the years of 92, 95 and 98.
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Post by sammyt on Mar 19, 2021 13:08:06 GMT -8
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Post by sammyt on Mar 19, 2021 13:19:16 GMT -8
   The two composites of the Batman, and the man seen with Melanie Hall. The Batman was around 5' 7" to 5' 10" tall. Slim to medium build. One victim said that he definitely had a local accent. |
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Post by formercop on Apr 20, 2021 13:09:26 GMT -8
Why was he called Batman? The way he dressed and how he committed crimes (MO)?
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Post by steelbike on Apr 20, 2021 14:46:15 GMT -8
I think that he left a baseball cap at a scene that had the batman logo on it.
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Post by sammyt on Apr 23, 2021 7:57:13 GMT -8
Why was he called Batman? The way he dressed and how he committed crimes (MO)? A 'Batman Forever' baseball cap was left at an attempted abduction in Bath in 1999. There is apparently DNA from the cap, but so far there has been no match on the UK database. Fifteen minutes after the cap was dropped, another woman was abducted from her home a mile away. It's a long story, but it's possible that there were two offenders in Bath that day. The general MO of the Batman was to carjack a woman, then drive her (in her own vehicle) to an isolated beauty spot and rape her. He would then drive the victim back to Bath, and make his escape on foot... rather than just flee the scene and leave the victim stranded. An unusual MO. He didn't want to risk using his own vehicle - or risk the victim raising the alarm before he made it back to Bath. Some of the attacks were opportunistic, but some (the abductions from the homes of victims) seem pre-planned to me. His signature was to rip open the tights of his victims. If a victim wasn't wearing tights, then the Batman would give them a pair of tights from his rape kit to put on. The Batman was evidence savvy. He used condoms, wore gloves and didn't let victims see his face. He dressed in black and often wore a cap or balaclava. His early attacks took place late at night, but many of the later attacks took place around 5-6pm. His appearance and the timings of the attacks suggest that the offender may have worked as a bouncer or security guard. It's possible that he couldn't use his own car in the crimes because it was a work vehicle. It might have been marked, monitored or tracked, or just unsuitable. This might suggest a clamper, minicab driver or haulage driver. The Batman was like JJD in that he was very evidence aware, tried to avoid being linked to any vehicles, had long breaks in activity, attacked young and older victims, and often attacked twice in one evening. |
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Post by sammyt on Apr 23, 2021 8:06:28 GMT -8
The day after the Batman cap was dropped, three men and a middle aged woman attempted to retrieve the cap, from the lost property counter in 'Boots'.
Did the Batman panic that he had left his DNA behind, and call in his family/cronies to get it back? Why did he think the cap would have been handed in there?
Or was the first attack that day committed by another offender, who was a car thief rather than a rapist?
Either way, there hasn't been a DNA match, despite over 2,000 men being DNA tested in Bath.
I think that the Batman lived outside Bath, but knew the area well because he worked and/or grew up there.
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Post by sammyt on May 15, 2021 1:39:31 GMT -8
 The clothes worn by the Batman Rapist. I think he was a bouncer. Possibly with some kind of driving related job too. His initial attacks take place in the early hours of the morning, but he then changes MO and starts attacking victims in the early evenings. I think he lost his night time prowling privileges when he got married, or when his wife became pregnant. I suspect that he started attacking victims before he went to his night work. At one early evening rape he had to check the time to make sure he wasn't running late. |
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Post by sammyt on May 15, 2021 1:50:25 GMT -8
The Batman is like JJD in that he doesn't really attack in the summer months of July/August/September, only striking during university term time.
Perhaps there is some kind of link to Bath University, where two of the attacks took place.
If the Batman was a bouncer, then he may have worked security at university gigs and social events.
This offender was extremely comfortable with cars, so I suspect he had a nocturnal driving job, like clamping or mini cabbing. Many career bouncers had day jobs as clampers. Some clampers worked at night in Bath too.
He possibly had a livery on his own vehicle and this may be one reason why he chose to use the victims' cars rather than his own.
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Post by sammyt on May 15, 2021 2:24:38 GMT -8
Did the Batman kill American mum of two Shelley Morgan in Bristol in 1984? Did he then 'regress' back to rape like JJD did after killing Claude Snelling, or like killer-turned-rapist Ronald Evans did in Bristol in the 1980s? www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/missing-camera-could-hold-key-4604747Shelley was abducted and killed in Bristol. There is evidence to suggest that a local offender committed the crime. Her body was found naked apart from the torn and twisted tights around her ankles. The Batman made his victims strip and then put their tights back on, so he could then tear them open. If the women didn't have their own tights then he gave them a pair from his rape kit. I doubt if Shelley was wearing tights. It was June and she was wearing sandals. More likely IMO that the offender had a tights fetish just like the Batman did. The killer takes Shelley's clothing and possessions, but leaves the tights. Years later someone leaves postcards at the crime scene. One postcard shows where Shelley was found, and the other shows the place she was planning to visit that day to take photographs. |
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Post by sammyt on May 15, 2021 7:18:48 GMT -8
   Batman sketch Keith Burgess suspect Batman sketch Keith Burgess was stabbed to death at his home in Bristol in December 1989. He lived 1 mile away from Shelley Morgan. They were both stabbed many times in the back. A slim, 5'10"- 6' tall, dark haired man in his early 20s was seen outside Burgess' home. The man was described as scruffy, wearing a wool hat and having sunken cheeks, stubble and a pointy chin. Burgess was a regular in the pubs of Bristol. If the Batman was a doorman, then perhaps he worked at one of the pubs Burgess frequented. |
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Post by sammyt on Aug 24, 2021 6:40:05 GMT -8
The murder of Melanie Hall:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Melanie_Hall
She was 25 and disappeared after attending a nightclub in Bath on 9th June 1996.
Earlier that day the Batman Rapist attempted to abduct a woman from a car park in the same part of the city.
The remains of Ms Hall finally were discovered in 2009 in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire. Thornbury is 26.5 miles from Bath.
Eleven men have been arrested on suspicion of the murder, but all have been released without charge.
Last year, a partial DNA profile was developed.
Despite the new DNA evidence, the police still haven't ruled out the Batman Rapist as the killer.
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Post by sammyt on Aug 24, 2021 13:11:57 GMT -8
The first known Batman attack takes place in 1991.
The female victim is working a night shift, but feels unwell so leaves work unexpectedly early.
At 2am she returns home and parks her car in the garage at the back of her house.
The Batman attacks and begins assaulting her, but is disturbed by a cat.
He bundles the poor woman into her own car, and drives her to an isolated spot where he rapes her.
He then drives her back to her home and disappears into the night.
The victim doesn't report the rape until many years later.
Police think that the Batman is a burglar, who turns rapist when a victim of opportunity appears.
In this attack, he has a balaclava and knife, but no condoms (like in his later attacks).
It's unlikely that he is lying in wait for the victim, as she isn't due home for hours.
Police think that the Batman stumbles upon his MO of using the victims' cars after being disturbed.
However, if he's a burglar, then why is he casing a house with an awake male (the victim's husband) in it?
Why is he hot prowling solo without a burglary partner?
If Batman is a hot prowler turned rapist, then why do none of the Batman attacks take place in the victims' homes?
Has any other hot prowl burglar turned rapist ever only used outdoor abductions in his later series?
Was he a burglar turned rapist and became desperate to hide earlier burglary convictions... or was he there for some other reason that night?
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Post by murderinc on Aug 24, 2021 13:26:26 GMT -8
Maybe hot prowl rapes happened in Bath but were never linked to Batman because of linkage blindness?
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