Criminal Minds - Troy Graves (Centre City Rapist)
- 6 years ago
Serial rapist Troy Graves attacked four women in Philadelphia; the fifth attack followed the same routine, but ended in murder, it is believed because a neighbour called the police after hearing Shannon Schieber fighting him. Graves strangled the student trying to silence her. Incredibly, the police went away without following through, leaving her brother to find the body.
After another attack, Graves relocated to Fort Collins becoming a maintenance worker on an Air Force base. Then his attacks began again. One of his victims appears in this documentary; Kristen Deutcher's husband was suffering from terminal cancer, so this was the last thing she needed.
Leaving so much evidence it was inevitable that Graves would be caught sooner rather than later. Apart from his apparently being such a nice guy that nobody suspected him even though they did! there was the bizarre incident of his writing to the police, taunting them.
He was arrested in April 2002 and confessed his crimes to his public defender - who also appears herein - hoping to avoid the death penalty. He was granted that wish, but due to the magnitude of his crimes he will hopefully never see daylight again.
The parents of Shannon Schieber also appear in this programme, and their attitude towards Graves is magnanimous, to put it mildly.
Troy Graves (born May 4, 1972) is an American serial rapist and murderer of Shannon Schieber. He committed a series of rapes in Philadelphia between 1997 and 1999, where he was known as the "Center City rapist". He also committed rapes in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2001, where he was arrested in 2002. He is serving a life sentence in the Sterling Correctional Facility in Sterling, Colorado.
Police in Fort Collins, Colo., have arrested a man that they say DNA evidence ties to the 1998 murder of Wharton doctoral student Shannon Schieber, as well as a string of other Center City sexual assaults in the late 1990s.
Troy Graves, 29, was taken into custody at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday morning as a suspect in six sexual assaults that occurred last summer near the Colorado State University campus.
Last year, investigators concluded that DNA collected in two of the Colorado crime scenes matched that gathered in the Philadelphia cases believed to be linked to the so-called Center City rapist.
In the Colorado incidents, the intruder entered apartments through an unlocked door or window during the early morning hours and, once inside, sexually assaulted the female residents, according to a statement from the Fort Collins Police.
Those incidents are eerily similar to six sexual assaults in the Rittenhouse Square area between 1997 and 1999 - including Schieber's murder. Schieber was found dead in her Rittenhouse Square apartment in May 1998 after she did not show up for a lunch date with her brother. Neighbors called police at around 3 a.m. after hearing a sounds of a struggle in her apartment, but police officers left the area after Schieber did not answer her door.
After another attack, Graves relocated to Fort Collins becoming a maintenance worker on an Air Force base. Then his attacks began again. One of his victims appears in this documentary; Kristen Deutcher's husband was suffering from terminal cancer, so this was the last thing she needed.
Leaving so much evidence it was inevitable that Graves would be caught sooner rather than later. Apart from his apparently being such a nice guy that nobody suspected him even though they did! there was the bizarre incident of his writing to the police, taunting them.
He was arrested in April 2002 and confessed his crimes to his public defender - who also appears herein - hoping to avoid the death penalty. He was granted that wish, but due to the magnitude of his crimes he will hopefully never see daylight again.
The parents of Shannon Schieber also appear in this programme, and their attitude towards Graves is magnanimous, to put it mildly.
Troy Graves (born May 4, 1972) is an American serial rapist and murderer of Shannon Schieber. He committed a series of rapes in Philadelphia between 1997 and 1999, where he was known as the "Center City rapist". He also committed rapes in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2001, where he was arrested in 2002. He is serving a life sentence in the Sterling Correctional Facility in Sterling, Colorado.
Police in Fort Collins, Colo., have arrested a man that they say DNA evidence ties to the 1998 murder of Wharton doctoral student Shannon Schieber, as well as a string of other Center City sexual assaults in the late 1990s.
Troy Graves, 29, was taken into custody at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday morning as a suspect in six sexual assaults that occurred last summer near the Colorado State University campus.
Last year, investigators concluded that DNA collected in two of the Colorado crime scenes matched that gathered in the Philadelphia cases believed to be linked to the so-called Center City rapist.
In the Colorado incidents, the intruder entered apartments through an unlocked door or window during the early morning hours and, once inside, sexually assaulted the female residents, according to a statement from the Fort Collins Police.
Those incidents are eerily similar to six sexual assaults in the Rittenhouse Square area between 1997 and 1999 - including Schieber's murder. Schieber was found dead in her Rittenhouse Square apartment in May 1998 after she did not show up for a lunch date with her brother. Neighbors called police at around 3 a.m. after hearing a sounds of a struggle in her apartment, but police officers left the area after Schieber did not answer her door.