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   While authorities in Texas are frantically searching for the serial   
   rapist who appears to be preying on alumnae of the Delta Sigma Theta   
   Sorority, the well-known black sorority is warning its members to be   
   on the look-out for the attacker.   
      
   In the last 10 months, four alumnae in their mid 50s and 60s have   
   been attacked at night in their homes near Dallas. The first two   
   rapes happened within five months of each other in Plano, a suburb   
   northwest of Dallas with a population of 250,000. The third attack   
   occurred a short drive away in the small bedroom community of   
   Coppell in September. The most recent rape was on October 14 in   
   Corinth, a few miles away.   
      
   In one of the rapes, the man broke in through the victim’s garage,   
   and in at least two other attacks, he accosted the women while they   
   were asleep in their beds. The man, police said, seemed to have   
   personal information about his victims. Investigators have released   
   surveillance video that apparently shows the rapist walking around   
   one of his victim’s homes on April 6.   
      
   “The attacks are not random,” said Coppell Deputy Police Chief   
   Matthew Kosec. “This is an exception in our community and we take it   
   very seriously.”   
      
   A motive behind the brutal assaults is unclear, and police are still   
   trying to determine why the man—described as black, in his late 30s   
   to mid 40s, 5-foot-7 to 6 feet tall, 250 to 300 pounds, with a heavy   
   build—would target the women.   
      
   “The key link is their sorority alumni association,” said Kosec.   
   “They are associated with the same sorority. It is a large   
   organization and [the victims] went to different colleges.”   
      
   Another question is why he chose these particular victims. Heather   
   Bowden, press coordinator with the Plano Police Department, said the   
   police have shown the women a video of the alleged attacker but “as   
   far as I know the [women] are pulling a blank.”   
      
   “We are still trying to figure out how he got their names,” she   
   said.   
      
   Lt. Jimmie Gregg of the Corinth Police Department said the attacker   
   may have gotten their names off the Internet or accessed a sorority   
   list. “Their information is not on the sorority website but if he   
   knew their names he could find out their information with a Google   
   search…It is possible based on what we found he did track them and   
   found out their daily habits.”   
      
   The Dallas chapter of the sorority, which is almost 100 years old,   
   holds regular monthly meetings but police aren’t disclosing if the   
   women attended them. “There is a monthly meeting,” said Bowden. “I   
   don’t know if all of the women are active and go to the same   
   meetings.”   
      
   The non-profit has more than 250,000 members, mostly black college-   
   educated women, and has more than 940 chapters in the United States,   
   England, Japan (Tokyo and Okinawa), Germany, the Virgin Islands,   
   Bermuda, the Bahamas and South Korea.   
      
   When the news broke, Delta Sigma Theta sorority posted a warning to   
   its alumnae urging them to refrain from wearing clothes that   
   identify the organization, and asked them to remove items   
   identifying them as sorority alumnae from their cars, key chains,   
   homes and offices. In addition, the organization told its members   
   they should stop posting their personal information, such as their   
   whereabouts, on Facebook and other social-media sites, and make sure   
   their homes are locked and secured.   
      
   “To think that our members are being targeted is disturbing and   
   extremely disheartening,” said Delta Sigma Theta National President   
   Cynthia M. A. Butler-McIntyre. "Since receiving news of these   
   incidents, our primary concern has been the safety of our members."   
      
   https://www.thedailybeast.com/delta-sigma-theta-sorority-alumnae-   
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