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Is Long Island Facing a Serial Bed Intruder?

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The most watched non-major label viral video of 2010 was the "Bed Intruder Song," Antoine Dodson’s quaint auto-tuned ode to a break-in gone awry. Now, it seems that Great Neck, Long Island may be facing its own serial bed intruder; police are investigating four home invasions in the past week which they believe were all done by the same man. Wasn't it enough that LI has a possible serial killer on their hands?

Police say that the intruder has yet to steal anything in the incidents, but has developed a pattern of creeping into the bedroom during his visits, targeting children and grown women while they sleep. But police say he is becoming "more and more daring with each home invasion," according to ABC. Police believe the first attack occurred Sunday night, when the suspect broke into a 15-year-old girl bedroom, and allegedly held a wet cloth across her face.

Then on Wednesday, there were three break-ins that occurred within a two hour time-span: at the first, a 5-year-old girl called for her parents when she awoke to a man standing in her bedroom, who then fled. Twenty minutes later at a nearby home, a 63-year-old woman heard banging and breaking glass—she saw a man on the other side of her back door before he ran off. Then an hour later, the intruder put a knife to a woman's throat in another nearby home. She managed to escape his grasp, and chased him as he fled on foot, but he escaped again.

Police describe the suspect as a Hispanic man, 25 to 30 years old, and about 5-foot-10. He is about 200 pounds with black hair, and his black shoes had silver loops on the sides. How long before someone comes forward with their own first person account of the intruder? And how long until that account gets remixed?

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  • heniC

    Ill give you a first hand experience, On nov 30 at around 2:30 in the morning i heard something in the backyard i had raccoons the night before tear open my garbage so i thought id catch them. I turn on my porch light and see a mexican masturbating looking in through my back door oh excuse me hispanic... I started yelling for my boyfriend and this guy made for my door which ended up being open ( i know my fault i smoke outside and forgot to lock up) and we fought for the door my boyfriend showed up and finally scared him off i reported this to the 6th precinct and called them again today to remind them that this happened before what the news is saying and it is most definitely sexual this guy did not flinch when i turned on the lights he was waiting to be seen. I have been so scared i havent left my house in almost three weeks.

  • Rammy

    This isn't remotely funny and the sooner someone shoots this bastard the better off we'll be.

  • ganghiscon

    Great Neck? It's Jay Gatsby, snatching up yo peoples.

  • I like how in one case, the police say the dude was standing over the kids' bed, but the parents claim he was never in the kids' room.

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