Jewelry, SUV clues to finding attacker
BY SHEILA MCLAUGHLIN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON – Warren County sheriff’s detectives are hoping two pieces of jewelry will help them find a blue-eyed man involved in the sexual assaults of two women at a Franklin Township model home last weekend.
Investigators released pictures of the diamond and ruby rings Wednesday in case the man tries to sell them or pawn them.
“We’re looking for anything new that people can bring us,” Capt. George Hunter said.
The latest detail comes a day after police released the description of a white Chevrolet Suburban believed to be driven by the man when he apparently visited another model home in Springboro before the attack at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Investigators were trying Wednesday get a license plate number by enlarging photographs of the SUV. The security tape did not catch a clear view, Hunter said.
The man in the SUV fit the description of the Franklin Township attacker and police believe he may have been casing the other model home. He walked in but left “when he didn’t like what he saw,” Sheriff Tom Ariss said.
Witnesses there remembered his face and vehicle.
That was one of hundreds of tips the Sheriff’s Department has received since Monday, when police said the attack could be linked to seven sexual assaults and eight robberies in nine incidents around the region since 1992. In all of the attacks, the man was armed and described as having piercing blue eyes, brown hair and a stocky build.
The 24- and 29-year-old women who were attacked in Franklin Township told police a man walked in with a handgun and demanded their purses and money
