"Suspect said to boast, ‘I’m a serial rapist’" by John R. Ellement and Martin Finucane | Globe Staff, April 03, 2013
He selected his victims randomly, authorities say, but targeted the vulnerable: the unemployed woman desperate for work, the woman recovering from a broken leg. He allegedly used charm to get close to them, before transforming into a vicious sexual predator who ignored their pleas for mercy.
Tikee Beverly, a 37-year-old Roxbury man, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court to 13 charges, including eight counts of rape, in the rapes of five women during a streak of sexual violence that began last Sept. 13 and ended only when he was arrested Feb. 4 after he allegedly raped two women in the previous two days.
In court, Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Patrick Devlin alleged that Beverly committed “a series of vile, sick, and morally reprehensible rapes by a true serial rapist.’’ He said that one victim described the change in his demeanor from gentle to horrific.
“It was a true Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation,’’ Devlin said, quoting one of Beverly’s alleged victims. “He would get these women’s guards down before he would abduct them by putting his arm around their neck or putting a gun in their back.’’
Devlin also told Magistrate Gary D. Wilson that he was not the only person to call Beverly a serial rapist. After his arrest, Boston police searched Beverly’s apartment and discovered he kept a journal. One entry included a single, boastful, sentence, Devlin said.
“Damn. I am a serial rapist!!!’’ Beverly wrote, according to Devlin.
Devlin said Beverly served about 10 years in federal prison for bank robberies in the Boston area before he was released and placed on federal probation on May 14, 2011.
Hey, look, a bank robber that actually went to jail.
And then they let him out?
Prosecutors say Beverly was on federal probation when he committed the five sexual assaults investigators have so far connected to him through forensics, surveillance videos, and statements of the victims....
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Also see: Rapist Returns to Massachusetts
