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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Bob Lee Boog Jr., dubbed the Capitol Hill Rapist for his attacks on more than a dozen women in the 1980s, has been transferred from prison to a Salt Lake City halfway house, and is expected to be released this summer.
Boog served 16 years at the Utah State Prison, and then in November 2003 was transferred to a federal prison to serve time for having violated his probation in a drug case.
Boog, 51, will complete his stay at the Salt Lake City federal halfway house sometime this summer, according to federal Bureau of Prisons records.
State parole authorities will have supervision of Boog for at least three years and perhaps as long as 10 years.
During a prison interview in 2001, Boog told The Salt Lake Tribune he was a changed man who was ready for a normal, healthy relationship with a woman.
"My dream, my goal, is simply to find a job, get baptized again (in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and get married in the temple," Boog said.
Boog's targets were blue-eyed blondes.
Boog prowled Salt Lake's Capitol hill area, posing as a jogger. He peeped through windows and checked for unlocked doors.
Once he focused on a woman, he went through her mail, discovered her marital status, learned her work schedule and memorized the layout of her home. Just before an attack, he would cut the phone lines.
Then wearing a ski mask, yellow latex gloves and crotchless pants, Boog would flash his knife and call his victim by name.
During an attack on Halloween eve of 1987, Boog surprised his victim by jumping from behind a shower curtain with a butcher knife.
Authorities said Boog committed 13 rapes and five attempts.
Seven attacks were committed after Boog was granted federal probation in May 1987 after pleading guilty to charges in his attempt to sell a pound of cocaine to an undercover police officer.
In October 1987, a police officer stopped him as he was driving from the scene of an attack. The officer made a note of Boog's name and address and let him go. Detectives, acting on a tip, used the information to track him to his home in North Salt Lake.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
