Suspected Roswell Rapist Confesses To 5 Attacks: Police

ROSWELL, GA -- An Alpharetta resident has been charged with raping a woman inside her home, and police said the suspect has confessed to several more similar incidents in the area.

Roswell police on Friday, Dec. 16 arrested Errol Alex Martinez, 23, and charged him with rape, burglary in the first degree and simple battery in connection to an attack on a victim last month, said spokesperson Lisa Holland.

Holland said detectives believe Martinez is connected to a case in which a woman was grabbed from the street and sexually assaulted during the early morning hours of Oct. 21, 2014.

In the days following the October 2014 assault, Holland said Norcross police were investigating a similar rape near a bus stop and another incident in the city.

"We always thought our cases were similar and related," she added.

Those detectives continued to work on the case over the next two years. About a month ago, a woman called police to report her house had been burglarized and she was raped inside the residence. That woman, Holland said, told detectives she thought she knew the alleged attacker. Police were able to track down the suspect, identified as Martinez, and bring him in for questioning.

Holland said he eventually confessed to the incident as well as five other rape cases in the area. However, Holland said authorities believe there could be more victims out there, as they are often hesitant to come forward in the aftermath of the attack.

"We are also thinking that this could have happened in other jurisdictions," she said, adding she's hoping detectives in surrounding agencies will look in their case files to see if they have any unsolved attacks that are similar in nature.

The suspect, Holland stated, singled out women who were in their mid-40s to their 60s and lived alone. He also targeted women who were walking by themselves. In one instance, the suspect loosened the light bulbs in the homes of his victims so he could enter the homes undetected.

"We suspected that he’d unscrew them and was casing the area so he’d go unnoticed when he came back," she added.

Martinez remains held at the Fulton County Jail with no bond.

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