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Using advanced DNA technology, Keith Simms has been linked to 12 sexual assaults between 1987 and 2000.
He is suspected of being responsible for another 19 assaults.
Police believe there may be many more victims who have not reported in the past 37 years or more.
Nearly all of the offenses occurred in eastern Sydney.
Crimes linked to Simms by DNA:
1 – RandwickSeptember 27, 1987: At about 5:05 a.m. Simms entered a ward where a 23-year-old woman was sleeping. He put his hand over her mouth, threatened her with a knife and assaulted her.
2 – Page woodApril 10, 1989: Wearing a balaclava and armed with a knife, Simms entered the bedroom of a 14-year-old girl at around 4:04 a.m. He put his hand over her mouth and abused her.
3 – CoogeeApril 24, 1989: Simms entered a ward where a 32-year-old woman was sleeping. He put his hand over her mouth, threatened her with a knife and assaulted her.
4 – CoogeeJanuary 28, 1992: Simms broke into a ward where a 21-year-old woman was sleeping at about 4:20 a.m. He threatened her with a knife and assaulted her.
5 – Centennial parkDecember 12, 1993: Simms grabbed hold of a 44-year-old woman who was running around 8 a.m. He threatened to kill her with a knife and assaulted her.
6 – CoogeeApril 9, 1994: At approximately 2:45 a.m., Simms threatened a 24-year-old woman sitting on the beach with a knife and then assaulted her.
7 – MacKenzie’s pointJune 17, 1995: Simms grabbed a 38-year-old woman who was walking around 5:35 a.m., threatened her with a knife, and sexually assaulted her.
8 – CoogeeMarch 30, 1996: Simms broke into a ward where a 27-year-old woman was sleeping at about 4:30 a.m. He put his hand over her mouth, threatened to slit her throat and sexually assaulted her.
9 – CoogeeMarch 21, 1997: A 28-year-old woman was sleeping on the beach around 5 a.m. and she awoke to find Simms wearing a balaclava armed with a knife and straddling her with penis exposed. He held the knife to her throat and assaulted her.
10 – TamaramaOctober 11, 2000: A 55-year-old woman was sleeping in a friend’s unit when Simms broke in in the early hours of the morning. He put his hand over her mouth, threatened to stab her to death and sexually assaulted her.
11 – CoogeeOctober 21, 2000: Simms apprehended a 23-year-old woman at Dunningham Reserve at around 6:10 am. Wearing a balaclava, he put his hand over her mouth and threatened to slit her throat. He tried to talk her into oral sex, but she wouldn’t.
12 – CoogeeOctober 23, 2000: Simms grabbed a 17-year-old girl walking home across a cemetery at about 3:30 a.m. He put his hand over her mouth, threatened her and abused her.
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Crimes Simms is suspected of:
1 – Clovelly2 March 1985: Woman, 38, attacked with knife while running in Thompsons Bay around 11am by a man in a balaclava who put his hand over her face and held a knife to her throat.
2 – BondiNovember 1986: A 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted with a knife on a beach
3 – Page woodMarch 1, 1987: A girl, 13, in her bed was sexually assaulted when a man wearing a balaclava broke into her home with a knife.
4 – HaberfieldMay 9, 1987: A 36-year-old woman was sexually assaulted with a knife by a man wearing a balaclava in her unit.
5 – SydneyAugust 8, 1987: A woman, 23, was sexually assaulted by a man with a knife in a public toilet at 7 a.m.
6 – RandwickAugust 15, 1987: A woman, 20, was sexually assaulted by a balaclava-wearing man with a knife in the toilets of Randwick Boys High School.
7 – SydneyJune 10, 1988: A woman, 25, was sexually assaulted around 5:45 a.m. while jogging in Centennial Park.
8 – KingsfordOctober 31, 1988: A woman, 21, was knife-raped at her home by a balaclava-wearing man with a knife.
9 – SydneyDecember 8, 1988: A 22-year-old woman jogging in Centennial Park at 9 a.m. was knife-raped by a man wearing a balaclava.
10 – RandwickMarch 3, 1989: A 33-year-old woman was threatened with a knife by a balaclava-wearing man in a botched assault.
11 – SydneySeptember 11, 1990: A 33-year-old woman was knife-raped at around 5:45 a.m. in Centennial Park by a man wearing a balaclava.
12 – RandwickMay 10, 1992: A woman, 23, was sexually assaulted at her home by a man wearing a balaclava.
13 – BondiAugust 29, 1994: A woman, 23, was sexually assaulted at her home by a man wearing a balaclava.
14 – BronteMarch 25, 1995: A woman, 26, was sexually assaulted by a man wearing a balaclava on her unit.
15 – BondiApril 25, 1995: A woman on the beach was sexually assaulted with a knife by a man wearing a balaclava.
16 – SydneyJanuary 7, 1996: A woman, 29, was approached by a balaclava-wearing man with a knife, but she managed to escape.
17 – WaverleyApril 18, 1998: A woman, 39, was sexually assaulted at Waverley Cemetery around 5:15 a.m.
18 – CoogeeNovember 12, 2000: A woman, 20, narrowly escaped sexual assault when she kneaded man in the groin on Brook St.
19 – Waverley30 October 2001: A woman, 32, was sexually assaulted in Waverley by a balaclava-wearing man with a knife.