In Lafayette, La., the police department had used all the conventional approaches in probing a serial rapist, including a task force comprised of investigators from five different agencies. The attacks started in the early 1980s and continued through 1995. Randal Comeaux was a longtime member of the sheriff’s department in Lafayette, Louisiana, having worked there for more than 20 years. What no one knew was that he was also a serial rapist, terrorizing the women of his town for 13 of those years. All they knew was that Lafayette and a neighboring town had been struck by a series of unsolved rapes that all appeared to have been committed by the same man. He never left any physical evidence and always covered his face with a ski mask, leaving