Police make arrest in case of 'Woodland Rapist,' charges date back to 1992
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Police in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) say they have charged a suspect decades after an alleged serial rapist who targeted children eluded police in the 1990s.
Police in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) say they have charged a suspect decades after an alleged serial rapist who targeted children eluded police in the 1990s.
The investigation, known as “Project Woodlands” focused on sexual assaults which occurred in Peel, Halton and Waterloo between 1992 and 1995.
The cold case has dogged investigators for decades, with the suspect dubbed the "Woodland Rapist."
Children as young as eight reported being lured into the woods and sexually assaulted in a number of incidents, police have previously said.
A composite sketch of a suspect was released around the time of the assaults, but no arrests were ever made.
Searches in the national DNA database didn't turn up any matches to known offenders either.
