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Peter Samuel Cook, aka The Cambridge Rapist aka The Hooded Rapist
From 19th October 1974 to 8th June 1975 Peter Cook terrified the young women of the university town of Cambridge, United kingdom by comitting a serious of burglaries with rape and violence against seven women.

Cook was a convicted thief and burglar who'd served time in prison. He lived in a caravan with his wife in the nearby village of Hardwick, 5 miles from Cambridge. He was a wine and spirits delivery van driver and part-time handy man working in the boathouses dotted along the north bank of the river Cam in the heart of Cambridge.

In the evening of 19th october 1974, a young woman was alone in her top floor flat in Springfield Road, Cambridge. Lying on her bed listening to music, naked apart from a dressing gown, she was suprised when the power was cut to the flat, leaving her in darkness. At the same time she heard a footstep on the landing outside her door, followed by somebody inserting a key and opening the door.