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Serial rapist targets elderly women in Texas

Texas governor Rick Perry has ordered the creation of a task force to investigate the targetingof elderly women by a possible serial rapist. At least eight women ages65 to 91 have been raped or reported an attempted sexual assault inrural Central Texas towns in the last year. Other women were robbed.One 81-year-old scared off an intruder by firing a gun. The authoritiesbelieve all the cases are connected to a man who has been called theTwilight Rapist.

More:  New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/22brfs-TASKFORCEWIL_BRF.html?scp=6&sq=elderly&st=cse