Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, March 28, 1994, Page 4A, Image 4

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Rapist grew up hating women
NACRAM! VTO. Calif (AH
His release from prison
enraged residents of a sparse
1\ populated northern ( all
forma counts and ro< ked the
state parole system The gov
ernor is now personalis i onstderillg his ease
Hut who is Melvin Alfred (.arter the serial rapist
of at least 1(H) svotnen. by his own ( nun!, who so
foi used one state s attention on ss here it plat es
parolees'
Carter, 4'h w ho has served less than half his nrig
inal 2r> \ ear prison senteni e and is now living in a
tsvo-hedroom bungalow in a forest prison < amp
grew to manhiKxi w ith ,1 profound hatred of women
according to a (onfidential Alameda Counts pro
Ixilion assessment obtained hs The Asvx infed Prrss
While he has dated ’a less women during his
adulthood, he has never had a i lose or satisfying
relationship with a woman and he h is never had
sexual i onlai t with any w oman he has dated, the
dew unient slated
(airier had an unhappy i hildhood. tormented hs
a stern mother he sas s humiliated his passive father
in domestu battles ( arter Ixdieses the hostilit\ he
holds for his mother i aused him to rape repeated
Is , said the i mill-ordered studs
Carter has said he assaulted women almost
monthly for 10 years
Dubbed the "College Term e Rapist." for a Palo
Alto neigldxirhixid near Stanford 1 nisersits Carter
never varied his methods investigators said
He stalked young women who lived alone near
< hi lege ( am puses, irx hiding lierkeles arid I lay ward'
as well as Stanford Wearing surge al gloves and
( arrying a knife, he entered the dwtidings after the
\ i< tuns had gone to beef Before ( reaping into the
bedrooms, he cut phone and electric al wires
\'u tun would awake to find defendant on top
of her ssith .i knife at her throat.” said a district attor
lies s report
(farter was i aptured in 19H0 and eventually i on
s it led of 21 crimes, including rape, assault, bur
glars and attempt to < ominit burglars
In the mid-1970s, rape investigators in the San
Francisco Bay area began noticing common ele
ments and started trading information Craduallv.
i rimes as far hack as 1071 were clearly tied to the
same rapist
No (barges were filed in mans of the cases
bet austi legal deadlines had passed, ... titers
said
"It's a woman's worst nightmare said lamms
line e head ul the I.os Angeles i Captor of the
Nil. ilia! ( )’\*. 11; i /> 11: . 1 -: \\ 11! c'' n i; i' I) 11 ;v s s
tem that has no :dc i boss In trai k its tin's! violent
offenders
The break ■ anie when ( arte: was slopped and
interrogated as a susjie ted prowler in Palo Alto
Authorities I out ll lets fed Ills ha' kgro I rid into I lie: r
College I errai e Rapist file and found remark aide
niati lies with parts of a profile developed !»v polii e
psychiatrists
I he profile identified the rapis* as * --is to In
"unmarried, an engineer or a m inntist of high int'd
ligenc e. and meticulous in his attention to detai
Carter, identified in one court report as a loner
mui h of Ins lifn. is a rescan h engineer who lust
worked for kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
m Livermore
While attending the Colorado St hool of Mines
(arter was arrested several times on peeping him
i hurges He s|>ent a year in a Colorado jail for assault
and assault with intent to rape
\t his sentencing in March 10HJ Carter confessed
to some 100 rapes Hut last month, prison officials
realized they had no choii e hut to release (airier
I its good India\ mr had already shav ed off one third
of his 2rvvear sentem e and a subsequent < hange in
state law boosted good tune and work-time credits
to half the time off
( arter was originally scheduled for release in
1 lav ward, i (informing to a stale law requiring release
in the i oimtv ol conviction But protests in Alamo
da ( ountv prompter! Cov Pete Wilson to order him
sent 'out m the wilderness someplai e and Carter
was sei retlv plai ed in the bungalow at the Devil's
(harden Conservation Camp near tiny Alturns. 400
miles northeast of San Franc isc o
I kwil s Carden is one of the state's 4H minimum
sis uritv i (impounds, whii h house more than 4.000
inmates The i amps are i onsidered the country
i lulls of the corns tional system, taking only inmates
with no history of se\ offenses, arson, i rimes of vio
lent e. kidnapping or es< ape Because Carter is a
parolee, not an inmate, the guidelines do not apply
Wilson never spec ified Modoc ( ountv. vvhic h
has 10.000 residents. as the "wilderness'' area, but
c ntic s are act.using him of election-year politic k
mg in demanding a rural area .with few votes
Carter's presenc e has prompted threats against
his life, including the digging of a mock grave A
busload of Modix High Sc.hool girls and politicians
desc ended on the state Capitol to demand (arter he
moved
List Wednesday, a group representing the state's
4,000 forest firefighters added their voic es. saving
that ( arter's present e in a t amp used as a tire
fighting base placed employees ol the Forestry
Department in jeopardy
The same day . sheriffs from numerous rural coun
ties gathered in Alturns to support Modoc ('minty s
efforts to e\ ic t ('.arter
Two weeks ago. a woman who lives in Modoc
County came forward and claimed Carter raped her
1 a years ago. His continued presence near a victim
would violate state law Wilson is expected to
dec ide early this week w hether to transfer ( arter to
another hx ation
At the i amp, ( arter has agreed to far stricter seen
r11v than any of the state s tFi,H 1 a parolees I he
three ye ir c c nidi lions include lie-detei tor tests and
we irim: an elet Ironic tr ee king device on his ankle
lie is watclied around the c lot k inside the com
pound, if he leaves c amp. he must he acitompatlied
by two offu ers
Carter reportecfly spends most of his time read
ing and yvati lung television
I ie s a real ay id reader, said c amp spokesman
M h k Reynolds lie's a highly intelligent and artii
ulate individual and he's spending his time watc h
illg news and reading newspapers and novels and
magazines
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