Brad Russ said yesterday.
Police believe it is just a matter of time before the suspect is caught.
The victims, ages 21 and 24, are among 200 Irish women in the area on work visas, and are staying in Hampton for the summer. Russ said police believe Gordon may also be responsible for the rape of a Nashua real estate agent in Manchester on July 7, after he posed as a prospective homebuyer. The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Gordon confessed to the three rapes in a phone interview from Amsterdam on Wednesday night, and said the gun was actually a pellet gun he bought at Wal-Mart. The man, who told the reporter he was Steven Gordon, said he was staying at a Christian Youth Hostel in Amsterdam, but was going to turn himself into Amsterdam police. The man allegedly knew information about the rapes that police had not disclosed.