Bike Path Rapist: A Cop's Firsthand Account of Catching the Killer Who Terrorized a Community
How an Elite Police Task Force Tracked Down a Brutal Killer—A Riveting Behind-the-Scenes Account For twenty-five years, a series of rapes and murders by a faceless man dubbed “The Bike Path Rapist” terrorized the quiet suburbs of Buffalo, New York. His first known attacks were in the early 1980s, and his spree continued through 1994. After a twelve-year gap, in September 2006 he strangled and killed a forty-five-year-old mother on a rural bike path. Bike Path Rapist examines the fascinating story inside the decades-long investigation—including the startling revelation that an innocent man had spent more than twenty years in jail for two of the rapes. Homicide Detective Dennis Delano worked tirelessly on behalf of this man, who was finally exonerated—thanks to DNA evidence that, coupled with stellar detective work, also led to the capture of the real killer.