British Serial Killer Robert Napper aka The Plumstead Ripper (Crime Documentary)
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Robert Clive Napper, a.k.a. "The Green Chain Rapist" and "The Plumstead Ripper", is a British convicted serial killer and rapist.
From 1989 to 1992, Napper is known to have raped two women and to have attempted to rape two more. The first was a 31-year-old woman who was raped at knifepoint in her Plumstead Common home in front of her two children in August of 1989. In November, Napper's mother called the police and told them her son had confessed to a rape, though he wasn't linked to any attack and wasn't even questioned. In March of 1992, Napper attempted to rape two 17-year-old girls one week apart on the Green Chain Walk. In May, he was more successful, raping a 22-year-old woman in front of her child in the same area. Napper is suspected to have been a serial rapist who was active in the area and was known as "the Green Chain Rapist", whose attacks are believed to date between 1990 and 1994. Though Napper was questioned in connection with the rapes, he was eliminated as a suspect. In August of 1992, the police had twice been tipped off about him by neighbors who identified him from a photofit and asked him to give a blood sample. Both times he failed to turn up, but after a few weeks, he was let off the hook anyway because he was 6' 2" tall and the rapist had been described as being 5' 7" inches tall. In October the same year, he was arrested for stalking a civilian employee at the Plumstead police station and his apartment was searched. Even though the police found a .22 pistol, two knives, a crossbow, a cache of ammo as well as several maps with markings, notes about how to bind and restrain people, a diary filled with suspicious entries and a blonde woman's fitness card, he was only charged with firearm violations. Worse yet, even though a psychiatric report described him as "without a doubt an immediate threat to himself and the public", he was only given an eight-week custodial sentence and no further inquiries about the search were made.
On July 15, 1992, Napper escalated to murder, raping Rachel Nickell and stabbing her to death on Wimbledon Common. She was killed in front of her two-year-old son, Alex. The police's profiler, Paul Britton, made an offender profile that said the killer would be in his 20s or 30s, would live alone not far from Wimbledon Common and have isolated hobbies, an interest in knives and the occult and have sexually sadistic fantasies. Though 32 men were questioned, the investigation focused on Colin Stagg, an unemployed man who often walked his dog in the area and owned books on the occult.
From 1989 to 1992, Napper is known to have raped two women and to have attempted to rape two more. The first was a 31-year-old woman who was raped at knifepoint in her Plumstead Common home in front of her two children in August of 1989. In November, Napper's mother called the police and told them her son had confessed to a rape, though he wasn't linked to any attack and wasn't even questioned. In March of 1992, Napper attempted to rape two 17-year-old girls one week apart on the Green Chain Walk. In May, he was more successful, raping a 22-year-old woman in front of her child in the same area. Napper is suspected to have been a serial rapist who was active in the area and was known as "the Green Chain Rapist", whose attacks are believed to date between 1990 and 1994. Though Napper was questioned in connection with the rapes, he was eliminated as a suspect. In August of 1992, the police had twice been tipped off about him by neighbors who identified him from a photofit and asked him to give a blood sample. Both times he failed to turn up, but after a few weeks, he was let off the hook anyway because he was 6' 2" tall and the rapist had been described as being 5' 7" inches tall. In October the same year, he was arrested for stalking a civilian employee at the Plumstead police station and his apartment was searched. Even though the police found a .22 pistol, two knives, a crossbow, a cache of ammo as well as several maps with markings, notes about how to bind and restrain people, a diary filled with suspicious entries and a blonde woman's fitness card, he was only charged with firearm violations. Worse yet, even though a psychiatric report described him as "without a doubt an immediate threat to himself and the public", he was only given an eight-week custodial sentence and no further inquiries about the search were made.
On July 15, 1992, Napper escalated to murder, raping Rachel Nickell and stabbing her to death on Wimbledon Common. She was killed in front of her two-year-old son, Alex. The police's profiler, Paul Britton, made an offender profile that said the killer would be in his 20s or 30s, would live alone not far from Wimbledon Common and have isolated hobbies, an interest in knives and the occult and have sexually sadistic fantasies. Though 32 men were questioned, the investigation focused on Colin Stagg, an unemployed man who often walked his dog in the area and owned books on the occult.