Belmont Religious Scholar Wanted For Sexual Assault Now On State's 10 Most Wanted

Richard S. Haugh is, quite simply, brilliant: a scholar educator who taught church history at Rice and was a Harvard Fellow in Medival Studies, the former Belmont resident focused his rigorious academic life on the topic of religion in history and literature.

A translator of Greek, French, Latin and German, Haugh was an expert in Dostoevesky, Hawthorne and Augustine, a subject he authored two book on, and edited "Solzhenitsyn in Exile" which the Nobel Prize committee recommends today to understand the Soviet dissedent.

In the early 1990s, Haugh was completing his masterpiece on 8th century comparative Latin and Byzintine religious and intellectual history.

But the Belmont native's facade of a religious academician who pondered God and his place in history masked a man pocessed by the devil, arrested by Belmont Police in 1992 for raping a young girl for years in his hometown.

But before justice could be rendered 21 years ago, Haugh, who founded the Falmouth Academy prep school on the Cape in the mid-70s, went on the lam and has yet to be found. 

For that reason and due to the recent success of police in arresting a 34-year-fugitive serial rapist in Maine, Massachusetts State Police last week placed Haugh on the state's 10 Most Wanted List.

“Any crime when it’s against a child are the ones that keep you up at night, because individuals like this typically tend to re-offend and our goal is to get them in custody so there won’t be another child victimized,” said police Det. Lt. Michael Farley, the agency’s head fugitive hunter in an interview with the Boston Herald. 

Haugh, 71-years-old, is described on the Massachusetts State Police 10 Most Wanted for Violent Fugitives as 5'11", 155 lbs., black hair, blue eyes, light complexion and white. 

According to the Mass. State Police Most Wanted website, Haugh was arrested at his residence in Belmont in 1992, armed with a licensed .25 caliber handgun.

Charged by a Middlesex Superior Court Grand Jury for two counts of Rape of a Child; two counts of Indecent A&B on a Child Under 14; and assault to Rape a Child and Disseminating Obscene Matter to a Minor, Haugh was scheduled to appear in Middlesex court on August 12, 1992, for his jury trial.

But instead of facing a jury of his peers, the scholar disappeared.

And now the state and Belmont Police want him caught. 

For a copy of the Wanted Poster, click here.

If you know Dr. Richard S. Haugh, also known as, Heinz Reuchlin, Charles Briel, Henry Briel and Paul Briel, or his where abouts, contact Massachusetts State Police: Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section at 1-800-KAPTURE or 1-800-527-8873.