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Police are desprately looking for a serial rapist and killer who is striking in the Reno, Nevada area around the University of Nevada-Reno campus.

Around a month ago 19-year-old college student, Brianna Denison, went missing on Sunday morning from a couch that she was sleeping on at a friends house. There was a small blood stain on the pillow she was using and her shoes, cell phone, and purse were left behind. Which means that she would have had to leave the house barefoot with nothing more than her sweatpants and sweatshirt.

There were no signs of forced entry and no other signs of a struggle in the home. Cops say that the glass-paned front door of the residence was unlocked and other residents say that the door — just a couple feet away from where Brianna was sleeping — may have been left slightly open. Authorities say that the suspect must have been quick and quiet as to not awake Hunter’s pet black-and-white Chihuahua, Chi-Chi, who was sleeping in the adjacent room with her two friends, KT Hunter and Jessica Deal.

Police immediately suspected foul play and the blood stains on the pillow made it appear that she was struck in the head with an object or suffocated in her sleep to subdue her. They also ran the DNA evidence found on Brianna’s pillow and found that it matched the DNA gathered after a November 13th groping attack on a UNR student and a December 16th kidnapping and rape of another UNR student which took place only a few blocks away from the home where Brianna was last seen.

In the November 13th incident, a 21-year-old UNR student was walking through an apartment parking lot at 401 College Drive, when an unknown male assailant approached her from behind and put her in a chokehold. The suspect dragged the victim between cars, pushed her to the ground and groped her. As she fought and yelled, he told her not to scream. The victim continued to scream and fought her attacker. Even though the assailant warned the victim to stop screaming, the assault stopped after the suspect kicked the victim in the head and arm and ran away.

In the December 16th incident, the assailant told the victim, a foreign student from Taiwan, that, “If you tell the police, I will kill you.” Authorities say the 22-year-old was abducted outside her home when an unknown assailant grabbed her after she parked her car on the 1400 block of Terrace Drive.

According to police, the assailant grabbed the female from behind, forced her to the ground and attempted to choke her with her right arm. He then placed his right hand over her nose and mouth which caused her to pass out. When she began to regain consciousness, the suspect forced her into the front passenger seat. The suspect slowly drove to a campus garage 3 to 4 minutes away where he forced her to perform sexual acts. After the attack, he drove her back to her residence where he dumped her off and threatened “he might be back.”

Police believe that the December attack is linked to an attempted burglary at the same residence on Jan. 19, 2008, the day before Brianna Denison went missing. Authorities say that in the January incident, someone attempted to enter the victim’s home by breaking off a door knob at the rear of the residence.

This suspect seems rather brazen to attempt so many sexual assaults within a confined area of less than a mile radius and over a short period of time of around 90 days.  Look at the map above.  The November 13th attack and the January 20th abduction of Brianna Denison happened about 80 feet apart!  The other 2 attacks happened between 1500 and 2000 feet from these attacks. We are talking no more than a 3-4 block radius between these four attacks!

It seems to be someone from the area if they are able to pull off such calculated attacks within such a close proximity. They must have been staking the area out and planning these attacks which leads me to believe that it is one of the students or campus staff who live and work in the area and would be around these students on a daily basis. However I am surprised that the surviving two victims have not run into this person and identified him so perhaps it is someone who lives close by but not on campus, maybe in the casino district. But these two surviving victims did not get a close look at their attackers face. It totally seems like this person could easily become the next Ted Bundy.

Brianna was not heard from in nearly a month until a body was found in a brush-covered field on Friday and identified as this missing girl. The initial autopsy indicated that she had died of strangulation and her body had been in the field for more than a week about 8 miles from the house where she went missing.

Based on partial descriptions, police describe the suspect as a white male between the ages of 28 and 40 and at least 5 foot 6 inches tall, with a long face and brown hair, and physically strong, but not muscular. Neither of the previous victims saw the attacker’s face. His vehicle is described as an extended cab pick-up truck or SUV with a dome above the windshield and an automatic transmission. The vehicle is tall enough that it requires a step to gain entry. The victim also noticed a floor-mounted console that opened in the front, that the radio had a blue and red LED read out, and that the seats were cloth. She also claimed that there was a baby shoe on the front seat floor board.  They believe that this video photo below shows a picture of the suspects SUV.

On Thursday a fourth woman came forward and for the first time reported that she had been attacked and raped at gunpoint in a UNR parking garage within 100 yards of a campus police station.  Based on her description of the attacker they were able to generate the composite sketch above.  They have not linked this fourth attack with DNA to the other three attacks, however they strongly believe that it was done by the same person.