Arrest made for series of rapes from the 1990s

Posted at: 11/02/2009 7:34 AM | Updated at: 11/02/2009 6:30 PM
By: Austin Reed, Eyewitness News 4

Albuquerque police believe that a man being held in a Pueblo, Colorado jail is the man who raped a series of Albuquerque women back in the 1990s.

Albuquerque police confirmed to the Albuquerque Journal (subscription) that 47-year-old Robert Bruce, currently in jail for allegedly attempting to blow up a police officer’s home last month, was the man responsible for the “Ether Man” rapes.

During the early 1990s, a man broke into at least 11 homes in the University of New Mexico area and put a chemical soaked rag over women’s nose and mouth, rendering them unconscious.

All of the Albuquerque victims were involved in the medical professions.

Bruce has lived in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho and Raton in the past.

Bruce remains behind bars in Pueblo and has been charged with in connection with the Albuquerque rapes. APD is hoping to extradite him as soon as possible.

 

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