DNA Links 10th Victim to Potomac River Rapist

Retested DNA evidence has linked a 10th victim to the "," the serial rapist who terrorized D.C.-area women for almost a decade in the 1990s, according to a Washington Examiner report.

The new case identifies a 58-year-old woman who was attacked while walking in the 4900 block of MacArthur Boulevard in Northwest D.C., dragged into the woods and sexually assaulted.

"Officials now say the Potomac River Rapist sexually assaulted eight women in Montgomery County and one in the District between May 1991 and November 1997, before killing a young woman in Georgetown in August 1998," The Examiner reported.

The previously known attacks occurred as follows, according to an NBC4 report:

• May 6, 1991 in Gaithersburg.
• Sept. 5, 1991 in Germantown.
• Nov. 21, 1991 in Bethesda.
• Dec. 11, 1991 in North Potomac.
• Jan. 24, 1992 in North Potomac.
• March 8, 1994 in Rockville.
• Feb. 26, 1997 in Rockville.
• Nov. 14, 1997 in Silver Spring.
• Aug. 1, 1998 in Georgetown.

John Walsh of America's Most Wanted told The Examiner that the Potomac River Rapist would be featured on the show's June 29 episode.