February 14, 1955 - Darrell Keith Rich
Over the course of a single summer, Rich carried out a concentrated campaign of sexual violence and murder in one California community, targeting victims across a narrow span of weeks. The speed and frequency of the attacks — four killings and multiple rapes within roughly two months — reflect a level of escalation that made him a significant case in the study of serial offenders.
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Darrell Keith Rich (February 14, 1955 – March 15, 2000), known as The Hilltop Rapist, was an American serial killer and serial rapist who murdered three women and an 11-year-old girl in Redding, California between June and August 1978. He raped five more women and injured another during the same timeframe. He was sentenced to death in California in 1981 for two of the murders and was executed in 2000 at San Quentin State Prison by lethal injection.
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