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July 16, 2004The Pine Hills ToucherGeocaching is a +1 event, especially if you're a female. And whereas all of my friends who partake in this activity all live with their +1, I have no one. My +1 crapped out on me in this hobby so I must rely on being a +2. Being a +2 is decent enough, but when 0 and +1 are holding hands and being all couply, my +2 ass is wishing there was something that I could do as a 0. I say this because my groundzero has become an area where it's unsafe for a woman to be alone. I've given up on walking in the neighborhood by myself since in May, one girl was abducted right in front of her place; Monday a woman was carjacked, robbed, & raped. When I moved into the apartment, a loony was trying to abduct women, and my coworker today tells me that there used to be the "Pine Hills Toucher". When did the Pine Hills Albany area turn into a playground for Sexual Deviancy? It makes a girl want to take a self-defense class. And you know what the worst part of all of this is? These two most recent crimes happened less than a block away from the Police Station - that takes some massively big cojones. 10:47 AM
CommentsMaybe its time to move to New Haven? Posted by: juliefoolie at July 16, 2004 09:11 PM HAHAHAH, like that's safer. It' takes all kinds --there's always been sexual devients --now it's just being publicised. Posted by: Groundzero at July 18, 2004 10:38 AM i am so glad i'm out of albany. well, except for the working here 9-5 part. Posted by: laura at July 19, 2004 02:34 PM The Pine Hills Toucher was somewhere around '89 or '90. The press called him that, but a lot of people were pretty upset at the name because it sounded so benign. Unfortunately, neighborhoods with a large transient population are always magnets for that kind of problem. Posted by: CJ at August 2, 2004 09:16 PM Yes, it was the press who dubbed him the "Pine Hills Toucher," mainly because he was more a molester than an actual rapist. His goal was probably to invade the first-floor bedrooms of his victims with the intention of raping them... but he'd chicken-out and only succeed in a bit of molestation before fleeing. He was described as a young black man of slight build, probably only 14-years-old. There was a backlash over the benign-sounding nickname, as some feared it would only incite him into greater, more brazen, activity. As someone who was born and raised in Pine Hills (including during the time of the "Toucher"), and someone who has a morbid fascinaton with true crime cases, I'm somewhat interested in writing a true crime book about this, Albany's most notorious UNSOLVED case. Posted by: MarkD The Pine Hills Toucher was alive and well in 1979. I, as well as several of my friends were victims of that particular crime. Unfortunately, there was also a Pine Hills Rapist circulating the area. Several of my friends were victims of that as well. It was a scary time to be a female in Albany. Guy friends down the street left their apartment permanently unlocked so I could hide out there if I felt unsafe at home. In addition to having my apartment broken into twice, we would find cinder blocks piled up under our windows. We booby-trapped the place, but it was frightening. Almost 30 years later, I still can't sleep in the dark. Posted by: sunya80 Post a comment
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