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strike again. as the investigation went into the fifth week and we heard nothing more about any suspects being arrested or charged or identified, it became an idea that maybe this was going to be an unsolved crime. then, five weeks later, 15-year-old vanessa rocha and her 16-year-old boyfriend were in a secluded area of godard park in downtown texas city. we went out there on many occasions and never had anything to worry about. a man walked up rapidly to the couple. we looked up and saw a man with a devil mask and ran up and told my boyfriend to turn and not to look at him. the man pulled a gun on vanessa s boyfriend and ordered her to undress. he was calling me every name in the book. cussing me out. at one point, he started to
choke me. i couldn t breathe. i was just gasping for air until he finally stopped. after the sexual assault, he told vanessa s boyfriend to remove all of his clothes. i was terrified. i really thought he was going to kill us. i don t know the how to explain it. you can t explain something like that. he demanded the keys to the couple s car and then made his get away. he told us not to get up until we heard him start the car. unfortunately because of the mask, neither of the teenagers was able to provide a detailed description. he was covered up from head to toe. what caught my attention was his mask that he was wearing. it was the devil. when we re teenagers, we don t think anything s going to happen to us until it happens. the assault was similar to the stevie green case except vanessa rocha s case was more brazen. i have never read about or talked to anyone who had worked a case where two people were abducted and totally controlled, stripped down in front of each othe
very seldom do you have an attack take place with a witness present. attackers in most sexual assaults don t want any other witnesses. z a rape test kit collected biological evidence and the results showed it was the same perpetrator in both cases. the next morning, investigators found the teenager s car just a few blocks from where vanessa was assaulted. we realized he didn t keep the car long. and that the point, we really started focusing in on that he did live in that area and that was his area of comfort where he was acting from just to give him an easy route to get home, wherever that was. unfortunately, police found no foreign fingerprints or other trace evidence inside the car. the very next night, two women were walking home from a nightclub around 2:00 a.m. when