A man believed to be responsible for one of the most notorious crime sprees in Washington, D.C., history has been arrested in South Carolina.
Giles Warrick, 60, was arrested in Horry County, South Carolina on Wednesday. The FBI and D.C. police believe that he is the man who killed a D.C. intern and raped nine women over the span of seven years during the 1990s, according to NBC Washington.
Warrick allegedly raped seven women in Montgomery County, Maryland, and two women in Washington, D.C., between 1991 and 1998. Investigators say he is also responsible for the August 1998 murder of 29-year-old Christine Mirzayan. Mirzayan was sexually assaulted while walking home in Georgetown and then beaten to death with a slab of rock.
Authorities arrested Warrick after one of his family members took a DNA test that put investigators on his trail.
The women he is accused of having raped ranged in age from 18 to 58. In one case, the suspect known as the “Potomac River Rapist” broke into a house in Germantown, Maryland, and attacked an 18-year-old who was babysitting.
She said two years ago that she hoped to see him behind bars one day. “I would look him in the eyes, because he has no control over me anymore,” she said.
At the time of the assaults, Warrick worked around the D.C.-area in landscaping and as a contractor.
