DNA links rapist, Pov Srun to earlier assault

Pov Srun

One victim was snatched from lot at Waynesboro Mall

Jun 16, 2011
By Staff reports
The Record Herald (Pennsylvania, USA)

Waynesboro, Pa. — A man convicted of mid-2000s rapes in Pennsylvania and Maryland has been indicted by a grand jury in connection with a 1998 sexual assault in Washington County, Md.

Pov Srun, 40, a native of Cambodia and formerly of Hagerstown, was indicted on charges of first- and second-degree rape, kidnapping, first- and second-degree sex offenses, unlawful restraint and second-degree assault.

DNA found on clothing in the Dec. 8, 1998, rape matches Srun’s, according to documents filed in the case.

Srun is accused of hiding in a woman’s vehicle and kidnapping her as she was leaving for work. He allegedly forced her to drive to an area ballfield at knifepoint before raping her, the documents said.

Previous convictions

Srun, also called the duct-tape rapist, is serving the 35-year sentence in Jessup, Md., for 2006 convictions of rape. He was accused of abducting a woman from a school parking lot in 2005, and assaulting a teenager in a shopping center parking lot.

He was also convicted of raping two women in Franklin County Court in 2007 and was sentenced to an additional 34 1/2 to 170 years in prison, to be served consecutively with his Maryland sentence.

In both Pennsylvania cases, Srun kidnapped the women from parking lots — the Waynesboro Mall parking lot and the Weis parking lot in Chambersburg.

He wore duct tape over his face and drove the women to remote locations before sexually assaulting them and driving them back to the parking lots.