UPPER MARLBORO — A Connecticut man serving multiple life sentences for a series of sexual assaults has appeared remotely in a Prince George’s County court. Aaron Thomas was arraigned Friday on charges of first-degree rape and other offenses, appearing in ...

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LEESBURG, Va. — A Connecticut man has received two more life sentences for the 2001 kidnapping and rape of a Leesburg woman that was one of many rapes linked to a man identified by authorities as the “East Coast Rapist.” ...

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MANASSAS, Va. — A Connecticut man accused of being the “East Coast Rapist” in a series of assaults over more than a decade from Rhode Island to Virginia was sentenced to life in prison Friday. The three life terms, plus ...

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MANASSAS, Va. — A plea deal for a Connecticut man accused of a series of rapes along the East Coast fell through Tuesday after the defendant told a judge he wasn’t sure he knew what he was doing. A plea ...

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WASHINGTON — The accused East Coast Rapist says he doesn’t know why he couldn’t stop attacking women for nearly two decades. “They were objects,” Aaron Thomas told The Washington Post in a series of telephone interviews from his jail cell ...

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WASHINGTON — A man suspected in a series of sexual assaults up and down the East Coast has been indicted in Virginia and could stand trial this summer. A grand jury in Prince William County, Va., returned an indictment Tuesday ...

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MANASSAS, Va. — A Connecticut man who police believe is responsible for a series of sexual assaults along the East Coast over more than a decade was arraigned Wednesday in Virginia on charges of raping two teenage trick-or-treaters in 2009. ...

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut judge on Monday agreed to send a man suspected in rapes along the East Coast to Virginia, where he faces more charges and a longer sentence if convicted. New Haven Superior Court Judge Roland ...

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NEW HAVEN, Conn.  — Connecticut prosecutors will try to send a man suspected in rape cases along the East Coast to face trial first in Virginia, where a prosecutor asked for him to be extradited to answer for “heinous crimes.” ...

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WASHINGTON — DNA evidence may link a man suspected in rape cases along the East Coast to another sexual assault in Maryland, and police there said they plan to file charges if lab tests confirm a match, authorities said Monday. ...

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