Thursday, February 08, 2007




Rapist/Fag/Coward......"Where there's one there's more".

A 10-month search for a serial robber-rapist targeting young males in the Baytown area has led to the arrest of a 19-year-old Baytown man.
This case has set a precedent as the first male-on-male serial rapist that the FBI has ever psychologically profiled, Baytown Police Capt. Roger Clifford said Wednesday.
At midnight Tuesday, Keith Chester Hill, 19, was taken into custody at his parents' recently built two-story, brown brick home at 6703 Zeenat in the Tanglewilde subdivision in Baytown. His parents, Phillip and Sherry, would not answer their door to comment.
Hill is being held on $60,000 bail on two charges of aggravated robbery and one charge of aggravated sexual assault, but additional charges are expected, investigators said.
FBI specialists from Virginia came to Baytown to look at detailed reports of the investigation and to develop a psychological profile of the attacker.
But Clifford said the FBI specialists had no data in their immense files of past criminal offenders with which to compare this case.
"They had no standard to go on. Ours will be a precedent-setting case," Clifford said.
The FBI concocted a possible profile based on past female victims, and only some of the characteristics seemed to fit, such as the attacker being cocky and thinking he was smarter than the police, Clifford said.
Although the attacker robbed his victims at gunpoint, his major motivation was to gain "domination and sexual gratification," Clifford said. The attacker was armed with a gun and demanded money and sex from his victims, pistol-whipping one who was not compliant.
The uniqueness of the case has drawn national attention. One of the assaults was re-enacted on a television segment of America's Most Wanted on Feb. 3.
Baytown residents have filled local blog sites with their fears that their son or someone they knew might be the next victim. A young male was being attacked about every 30 to 60 days from July until the last incident Nov. 30. That attack occurred in front of the Tanglewilde subdivision where Hill lived with his family, police said.
Residents have posted sketches of the attacker every place they could, demanding to know who was terrorizing their area.
All the victims had "cookie cutter" similarities: young white males, in their late teens to early 20s who were still living at home. Investigators think the rapist carefully stalked each of the victims and then attacked them on the driveways to their homes or surprised them inside.
"They were all slender and a little smaller stature than Hill," Clifford said. Hill is 6-foot-1 and weighs 170 pounds.
Although the attacker was reported to be black with light skin and all the victims were white, Clifford said that race was not an issue.
"This was just the type that he was physically attracted to," he said.
Just after Christmas, one of the victims reported seeing something that he felt "pointed toward Hill" as possibly being the attacker, but Clifford would not specify what that was.
Baytown Detectives J.R. Miller and Bryan Thompson had also collected a DNA specimen that came from an attack in May. It turned out to be a match to a specimen voluntarily submitted by Hill.
"There's only one in a quadrillion chance that this DNA from the attack could come from someone else," Clifford said.
Several of the victims have been unable to identify the attacker because sometimes he wore a ski mask or partially covered his face with a hooded jacket. But crime-scene investigators, armed with a search warrant, have taken numerous items from Hill's home that they hope may, along with other evidence, lead to more charges, Clifford said.
Hill, a 2006 graduate of Ross S. Sterling in Baytown, is unemployed and not attending school, investigators said.
Neighbors said they had been worried about the serial rapist but never suspected Hill.
"He was a polite young man," said one neighbor who did not want her name used because she said she is concerned about her safety. "We got a big yellow letter from our homeowners association warning us to beware. I'm shocked the attacker could have been living right here."
cindy.horswell@chron.com

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