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From: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.women
Subject: Re: Skunk oil
Message-ID: <19119@styx.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 14:17:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 14:17:49 1986
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Reply-To: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
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Summary: The "stinky" rapist

In article <6370@tektronix.UUCP> carlc@tektronix.UUCP (Carl Clawson) writes:
> In article <845@rtech.UUCP> jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) writes:
> >> 
> >> A few years ago in Oakland there was a serial rapist ("Stinky"?) who
> >> according to the news media was reported to have a really noticable [sic]
> >> foul smell, and I don't recall that he was ever identified.
> >
> >It was Berkeley, and one of the main reasons that Stinky was never caught
> >was that the Berkeley city council was a band of jackasses.
> 
> Stinky _was_ caught!  They didn't have enough evidence to prosecute,
> but the individual responsible was identified and the attacks stopped.  It's
> hard to prosecute someone based on smell, as well it should be.

Someone from Berkeley can provide the full details here, but my memory
of the ultimate outcome was that a robbery suspect in Oakland was shot
& killed by police or a fellow robber, and was believed (to the
satisfaction of the Berkeley police) to be Stinky. The attacks then
stopped.

Michael C. Berch
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