Episode 124
Between the summer of 1997 and August 1999, six women in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, were raped by a man known only as the Center City Rapist. One woman, Shannon Schieber, was murdered in May 1998. All of these attacks occurred within about five blocks of one another. The first two attacks were little more than one block apart, yet it took years before these assaults were linked by the Philadelphia Police Department.
In the spring of 2001, a series of assaults in Fort Collins, CO, almost mirrored the attacks in Philadelphia. The trail of the Center City Rapist went cold until police from different states worked together to identify the man who terrorized two cities thousands of miles apart over a span of five years. This is part two of a two part episode about the victims and survivors of the Center City Rapist.
If you or someone you know has been the victim of sexual assault you can contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
Research sources for this episode include:
The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center
The Philadelphia Inquirer Archives 1997 – 2004
The Philadelphia Daily News Archives 1997 – 2004
Inquirer Magazine Archives: A Baffling Case, by Barbara Boyer, July 21, 2002,
The Guardian: Investigating Rape in Philadelphia: How One City’s Crisis Stands to Help Others by Joanna Walters
The Daily Pennsylvanian: The Story of Shannon Schieber by 34th Street, January 22, 2004
The Marshall Project: Rape isn’t rape, is it? by Christian Miller and Bob Meagher
The Washington Post: Maryland Politics by John Wagner, February 13, 2013
People Magazine Investigates: Terror in Philadelphia (available for purchase on YouTube)
The Fort Collins Coloradoan Archives 2000 – 2004
Catholic Mobilizing Network
The Catholic Review
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