Solved Beast of Bondi Identified as Keith Simms

[Kurve]

In a disappointing twist of fate, Simms has evaded justice by dying only earlier this year.

Police have identified the Beast of Bondi as Keith Simms linking him to 31 sexual assaults.

Keith Simms was given many nicknames over the years. In the 1980s, he was known as the “Centennial Park rapist”. In the 1990s, the “Bondi rapist”. “Tracksuit rapist” was the moniker coined following more rapes in 2000. Then 16 years later he became known as the “Bondi Beast”.

To friends and family he was 'Magoo', a dedicated family man.

Simms targeted women aged between 14 and 55, entering their homes or striking while the women were out jogging or walking using a knife and threats to subdue.

NSW Police Minister Paul O'Tool:

"Let me put it on the record that this "Bondi Beast" was an animal. This person was a low-life. This person was somebody who doesn't deserve to be even walking in our community.

"Today there will be sense of comfort of knowing who it is, but they will also feel as though this person hasn't done his time."

The first assault happened in Clovelly in 1985 and the last took place at Waverley cemetery in 2001.

The attacks occurred across suburbs including Bondi, Bronte, Randwick, Pagewood, Coogee and Centennial Park.

Police name suspect behind dozens of rapes in Sydney's eastern suburbs

Police say technological advances have identified a serial rapist behind 31 unsolved sexual assaults in the city's eastern suburbs — however, the man will never be charged.

www.abc.net.au

 

[BFew]

I wonder how many (if any) murders he might have committed too?

The double life of Keith Simms, the Bondi Beast

To his family and friends, Keith Simms was a dedicated husband, father and grandfather – until police revealed the ugly truth seven months after his death.

www.smh.com.au

'Police would not say whether there could be more victims who were unaccounted for.'

 

[Kurve]

I wonder how many (if any) murders he might have committed too?

The double life of Keith Simms, the Bondi Beast

To his family and friends, Keith Simms was a dedicated husband, father and grandfather – until police revealed the ugly truth seven months after his death.

www.smh.com.au

'Police would not say whether there could be more victims who were unaccounted for.'

Can't be interrogated now, he's dead. Fate's made a right mess of it this time. Not only do the police not get to arrest him or ask any questions, victims won't see him held accountable and his family's left likely shocked and will have to try and reconcile it against the person they thought they knew, somehow.

 

[MSB ROYS]

It seems that nobody who knew him suspected anything, which is amazing given the period and numbers of offences but not unprecedented.

 

[Todman]

Beast of Bondi serial rapist Keith Simms exposed months after funeral

Keith Simms was recently identified by DNA technology as responsible for a dozen sex attacks committed across Sydney's east between 1987 and 2000, and linked to at least 19 more.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Timeline of The Beast of Bondi's sickening sex crimes​

Using advanced DNA technology, Keith Simms has been linked to 12 sexual assaults between 1987 and 2000.
He is suspected of being responsible for 19 more sexual assaults.
Police believe there may be many more victims who did not come forward over the past 37 years or longer.
Almost all of the offences happened in Sydney's east.
Crimes linked to Simms by DNA:
1 - Randwick, September 27, 1987: Simms entered a unit where a 23-year-old woman was sleeping at around 5.05am. He put his hand over her mouth, threatened her with a knife and sexually assaulted her.
2 - Pagewood, April 10, 1989: Wearing a balaclava and armed with a knife, Simms entered a 14-year-old girl's bedroom at about 4.04am. He put his hand over her mouth and sexually assaulted her.
3 - Coogee, April 24, 1989: Simms entered a unit where a 32-year-old woman was asleep. He put his hand over her mouth, threatened her with a knife and sexually assaulted her.
4 - Coogee, January 28, 1992: Simms broke into a unit where a 21-year-old woman was asleep at about 4.20am. He threatened her with a knife and sexually assaulted her.
5 - Centennial Park, December 12, 1993: Simms grabbed a 44-year-old woman who was running at about 8am. He threatened to kill her with a knife and sexually assaulted her.
6 - Coogee, April 9, 1994: At about 2.45am Simms threatened a 24-year-old woman who was sitting on the beach with a knife and then sexually assaulted her.
7 - MacKenzies Point, June 17, 1995: Simms grabbed a 38-year-old woman who was walking at about 5.35am, threatened her with a knife and sexually assaulted the her.
8 - Coogee, March 30, 1996: Simms broke into a unit where a 27-year-old woman was asleep at about 4.30am. He put his hand over her mouth, threatened to cut her throat and sexually assaulted her.
9 - Coogee, March 21, 1997: A 28-year-old woman was asleep on the beach about 5am and she woke to see Simms wearing a balaclava, armed with a knife and straddling her with his penis exposed. He held the knife to her throat and sexually assaulted her.
10 - Tamarama, October 11, 2000: A 55-year-old woman was asleep inside 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 - Coogee, October 21, 2000: Simms grabbed a 23-year-old woman at Dunningham Reserve at around 6.10am. Wearing a balaclava, he put his hand over her mouth and threatened to cut her throat. He tried to get her to perform oral sex but she would not do so.
12 - Coogee, October 23, 2000: Simms grabbed a 17-year-old girl walking home through a cemetery at abound 3.30am. He put his hand across her mouth, threatened her and sexually assaulted her.

The New South Wales police (officers pictured in stock shot) never gave up on finding the Beast of Bondi
Crimes Simms is suspected of:
1 - Clovelly, March 2, 1985: Woman, 38, attacked at knife point while running at Thompsons Bay about 11am by a balaclava-wearing man who put his hand across her face and had a knife to her throat.
2 - Bondi, November 1986: A girl, 16, was sexually assaulted at knife-point at a beach
3 - Pagewood, March 1, 1987: A girl, 13, in her bed was sexually assaulted when a man in a balaclava broke into her home with a knife.
4 - Haberfield, May 9, 1987: A woman, 36, was sexually assaulted at knife-point in her unit by a man in a balaclava.
5 - Sydney, August 8, 1987: A woman, 23, was sexually assaulted at a public toilet at 7am by man with a knife.
6 - Randwick, August 15, 1987: A woman, 20, was sexually assaulted by a balaclava-wearing man with a knife at Randwick Boys High School toilets.
7 - Sydney, June 10, 1988: A woman, 25, was sexually assaulted at knife-point while jogging in Centennial Park at around 5.45am.
8 - Kingsford, October 31, 1988: A woman, 21, was raped at knife-point by a balaclava-wearing man with a knife at her home.
9 - Sydney, December 8, 1988: A woman, 22, jogging in Centennial Park at 9am was raped at knife-point by a balaclava-wearing man.

10 - Randwick, March 3, 1989: A woman, 33, was threatened with a knife by a balaclava-wearing man in a bungled sexual assault.
11 - Sydney, September 11, 1990: A woman, 33, was raped at knife-point by a balaclava-wearing man at Centennial Park at about 5.45am.
12 - Randwick, May 10, 1992: A woman, 23, was sexually assaulted at knife-point by a balaclava-wearing man at her home.
13 - Bondi, August 29, 1994: A woman, 23, was sexually assaulted at knife-point by a balaclava-wearing man at her home.
14 - Bronte, March 25, 1995: A woman, 26, was sexually assaulted at knife-point by a balaclava-wearing man at her unit.
15 - Bondi, April 25, 1995: A woman at the beach was sexually assaulted at knife-point by a balaclava-wearing man.
16 - Sydney, January 7, 1996: A woman, 29, was approached by a balaclava-wearing man with a knife, but she was able to escape.
17 - Waverley, April 18, 1998: A woman, 39, was was sexually assaulted at Waverley Cemetery at around 5.15am.
18 - Coogee, November 12, 2000: A woman, 20, a woman narrowly escaped being sexually assaulted when she kneed the man in the groin on Brook St.
19 - Waverley, October 30, 2001: A woman, 32, was sexually assaulted at Waverley by a balaclava-wearing man with a knife.

 

[HairyO]

I often wonder whether these sorts of cases where guilt is assigned after death are all true or the police are using a dead person to close a heap of cold cases.

DNA evidence only started in 1987 in the US, and for years was questionable, but here we have a heap of crimes dating back to 1985 all being lumped on one person.

Had the police known for years that the same person committed all the crimes and they even had a suspect but not enough evidence to take a DNA sample ?

Then when he died they asked the family for a sample ?

 

[MSB ROYS]

They could have stored evidence and then tested for DNA later. Also perhaps they are linking from the descriptions and MO.

 

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[ZionMig22]

No doubt he abused those in his family/circle

Sick man who got away with his crimes

 

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[Kwality]

No doubt he abused those in his family/circle

Sick man who got away with his crimes

Can you substantiate 'no doubt' ?

 

[ZionMig22]

Can you substantiate 'no doubt' ?

Someone who assualted stragers in the way he did would have done so to those close to him