I just stumbled upon this thread because I was talking about this today and googled him to see if he was still in prison. In the summer of 1984 (I'm pretty sure that was the year), a man followed us from Briargrove down San Felipe for quite a ways. We finally lost him, but I came home to my house that night to find a man I did not know standing in my den a few feet away from my sister who was sleeping. He was youngish, very blonde wearing a white button down shirt. Over the next several weeks, we would come home and the back door would shut, doors we had locked would be unlocked in the morning, we would seem him peering in our windows, etc. We continually called the police, but I think at first they thought we were a bit crazy. The last time he came, we heard someone rustling through the bushes by the rear windows of our house, so I went to the front of the house and looked out the front windows. I then saw him come from our backyard and get in a taxi. I know this sounds bizarre, but I am not making this up…. We called the police (again) who came over and finally took us seriously. They heavily patrolled the neighborhood (Briargrove) for the next several weeks, and we never had another incident. Then we started hearing about the “Voss Road Rapist”. He was arrested a few months later and his photo was in the paper. Although I was never 100% sure it was him, it certainly did look like the man I saw. By the way, the strip club (that it was rumored he worked at) was called La Bare. It was located at Voss and Westheimer if memory serves…
Voss Road Rapist
in Historic Houston
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I just stumbled upon this thread because I was talking about this today and googled him to see if he was still in prison. In the summer of 1984 (I'm pretty sure that was the year), a man followed us from Briargrove down San Felipe for quite a ways. We finally lost him, but I came home to my house that night to find a man I did not know standing in my den a few feet away from my sister who was sleeping. He was youngish, very blonde wearing a white button down shirt. Over the next several weeks, we would come home and the back door would shut, doors we had locked would be unlocked in the morning, we would seem him peering in our windows, etc. We continually called the police, but I think at first they thought we were a bit crazy. The last time he came, we heard someone rustling through the bushes by the rear windows of our house, so I went to the front of the house and looked out the front windows. I then saw him come from our backyard and get in a taxi. I know this sounds bizarre, but I am not making this up…. We called the police (again) who came over and finally took us seriously. They heavily patrolled the neighborhood (Briargrove) for the next several weeks, and we never had another incident. Then we started hearing about the “Voss Road Rapist”. He was arrested a few months later and his photo was in the paper. Although I was never 100% sure it was him, it certainly did look like the man I saw. By the way, the strip club (that it was rumored he worked at) was called La Bare. It was located at Voss and Westheimer if memory serves…