31.   The officers were patrolling in an unmarked car looking for a serial rapist.

32.   The typical serial rapist leads a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde life, undetected by neighbors, co-workers, even family.

33.   Then, this spring, Andreychak heard of Sharif, a murderer and womanizing serial rapist from Mexico.

34.   There were reports of a serial rapist, too.

35.   These include a recently convicted serial rapist, Anthony Monagas, who struck the Stuyvesant Town apartment complex last year and who was described by one of the victims.

36.   They were searching for a black serial rapist who had been attacking women in black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

37.   They were looking for a serial rapist in a neighborhood where guns are not unknown.

38.   What investigators hope is that the end of the hunt for the serial rapist began Saturday morning with the police chase of the white van.

39.   Police in the Russian capital have launched an all-out search for a serial rapist who has attacked nine teen-age girls in the past month, an official said Wednesday.

40.   Police have arrested a man alleged to be the so-called Scorpion Rapist, a serial rapist who attacked eight women while wearing a gold scorpion pendant.