1.   Iowa, New Jersey and Seattle have such databases, which can be helpful in linking serial rapes in neighboring cities.

2.   Last October, the police captured another man charged with commiting serial rapes in Queens.

3.   Police, faced with their third major serial rape case in a decade, frankly are baffled.

4.   They were not prostitutes but victims of serial rape.

5.   The officers stopped Diallo because they thought he matched the description of a serial rape suspect.

6.   A court in St Petersburg sentenced a man to death for the serial rape and murder of young boys, Interfax news agency reported Saturday.

7.   Jakarta police investigating the serial rape and murder of eight boys detained six suspects but have since cleared them of the murders, reports said here Tuesday.

8.   Jakarta police have been investigating a serial juvenile rape and murder case.