'Serial rapist' is snared after 30 years on the run - and he's found living on luxury yacht READ MORE: Conservative influencer reveals terrifying stalking ordeal By Will Potter For Dailymail.Com Published: 20:49, 21 August 2024 | Updated: 20:57, 21 August 2024 e-mail View comments A suspected serial rapist who evaded authorities for over 30 years was finally snared after he was spotted living a double life on a luxury yacht. Stephen Paul Gale, 71, was allegedly identified as the infamous 'Boston Strip Mall Rapist' through DNA testing, leading to a manhunt that saw investigators track him to a $1.
5 million yacht in Los Angeles this week. As cops swooped in to arrest him, Gale reportedly realized he was being trailed, ran from his boat to his car, and led police on a daring high-speed chase through LA for over 90 minutes before he was apprehended. Gale was subsequently charged in connection with the kidnapping and rape of two women in Framingham, Massachusetts at gunpoint in 1989.
Investigators - who Gale has been avoiding for two years since a new DNA test matched him to the crimes - said he was known to have ties to organized crime, lived in numerous states and used a variety of aliases over the years. Stephen Paul Gale, 71, was arrested this week under suspicion of being the infamous 'Boston Strip Mall Rapist', who raped two women at gunpoint in 1989 Gale was arrested following a police chase through Los Angeles, which ended with him being hospitalized with medical complicat.