The Guanajuato state district attorney said a psychological profile indicates the serial rapist being sought for the assault of four foreign women in San Miguel de Allende "is defying authorities and is still in town."
District attorney told some 40 foreign residents that four teams of state police officers have been keeping "13 or 14 people who match our profiles under surveillance," but said so far there has been no match to blood samples and a fingerprint collected after the rape attacks.
Mayor Luis Alberto Villarreal and residents have complained that the district attorney´s office in the past has been slow to respond and has made it difficult for victims to file a report. The main office has "excellent relations with the city police department and the mayor himself" and his investigators are working closely with San Miguel police.
The state of Guanajuato´s justice attorney, "gave me instructions to put all of our abilities into solving these crimes." "We have four teams of state troopers working 24 hours a day" along with forensic examiners, psychologists and "a lot of lawyers," he added.
Disclosed that the serial rapist apparently had been in the house next door to that of the first rape victim in October in the San Antonio neighborhood. Saliva found on a can of soda in the neighbor´s house matched the DNA samples collected after the rapes.
An artist´s sketch based on descriptions given by the victims has been distributed to San Miguel´s 180 police officers and has been shown to two of the victims and neighbors but will not be made public.
The rapist indicated to some of the victims that he had lived in the United States. The sole fingerprint is being matched manually with Mexican drivers´ licenses and voting records, he added, a process that could take a much longer time.
