Giles Warrick, the man accused of being the 'Potomac River Rapist' who terrorized the Washington, D.C., area in the 1990s, was found dead in a jail cell on Saturday.
A man accused of being thewas found dead inside a Washington, D.C., jail cell on Saturday while awaiting trial in a murder case, police said.
Giles Warrick was discovered hanging from a sheet in the jail cell during a routine check just before 8 a.m. and was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later,Police did not release any details about the circumstances leading up to Warrick’s death. Warrick was accused of murdering one woman and sexually assaulting eight others in the Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Md., areas between 1991 and 1998.
Warrick was arrested in Nov. 2019 after investigators said they linked him to the crimes via forensic evidence and the similar violent methods in each attack.in the summer of 1998 as she walked home from a cookout in Georgetown, D.C. He was also accused of sexually assaulting eight other women, including an18-year-old babysitter and two women whose children were in the home at the time of the attack. His victims ranged in age from 18 to 58, officials said.
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