Dennis Rabbitt

Dennis Nathaniel Rabbitt (born June 28, 1956), known as The South Side Rapist, is an American serial rapist who raped between 16 and 29 women in St. Louis, Missouri and the surrounding areas between 1988 and 1998. He pleaded guilty to 20 rapes and was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes.

Biography Dennis Nathaniel Rabbitt was born on June 28, 1956, in St. Louis, Missouri, the only child of a middle-class couple, with some rumors claiming that he was the godson of baseball player Stan Musial. The investigators had been investigating the supposed criminal since 1992, attributing at least 22 rapes of girls and women between the ages of 14 and 82 since 1988 to him. On November 3, he was spotted at the American Motor Inn in Springfield, where he remained for approximately four days, before being seen watching a football game at the Faurot Field in Columbia. After the game, he left the city and went to Osage Beach, where he was recorded on a surveillance camera entering a convenience store. He was last seen checking into a motel in Joplin on November 8, after which he crossed the border into Oklahoma and his tracks were lost. However, they failed to locate him after a subsequent search of the area. Based on a witness' testimony, the girl was found in the room where Rabbitt was staying under an assumed name, and after law enforcement attempted to question him, he tried to flee and was immediately arrested. Although he was found in the company of a 15-year-old girl, Albuquerque police did not charge him with any crime, leading to his immediate extradition to Missouri to face charges there.

During interrogations, Rabbitt testified that his first attempted rape took place in 1973. He claimed that the victims' age, appearance and personality traits were irrelevant to him, and that during the assaults, he would use a bright flashlight and imitated the behaviors and speech patterns of police officers. He was also suspected of two rapes in Collinsville, Illinois, but was never charged in them.