Texas "MoPac" Rapist:

Texas Legislature expands use of DNA testing

Cox News Service
June 8, 2001 Friday

Byline: Laylan Copelin
Dateline: AUSTIN, Texas

Christopher Ted Dye raped three Austin women in their homes before the police first arrested him in 1993 for burglarizing a house. Unaware they had apprehended a serial rapist, authorities released the 34-year-old former auto mechanic on bail.

Over the next six months, Dye raped four more women before being arrested a second time for burglarizing an apartment. He served two months in jail. For two more years, as the police searched for the MoPac rapist, nicknamed that because the attacks occurred near the expressway, Dye raped seven more women before finally being caught.

When Austin Police Chief Stan Knee began championing DNA testing at the time of arrest, he had to look no further than Dye, the city's most notorious serial rapist. "He's the perfect example of how we could have saved 11 (rape) victims." Testing Dye upon his first burglary arrest could have led to a DNA match from his first three rapes.