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A man suspected of terrorizing women with sexual assaults from Virginia to Rhode Island over a span of 12 years as the so-called East Coast Rapist has been arrested in Connecticut, federal and local authorities said.

A federal judge Tuesday blocked the execution of convicted rapist and murderer Albert Greenwood Brown, saying there was "no way" the court could conduct an adequate review of California's new lethal-injection procedures before the death sentence was to be carried out Thursday.

A convicted rapist wanted in the killing of a woman was arrested Monday, police said shortly after the woman's father, a N.C. police chief, had pleaded with peers nationwide to find the man.

Pepper spray has been flying off the shelves in the central Texas towns where a series of rapes and robberies of elderly women have been occuring in the past year.

A rapist living in an Ohio home where several bodies have been found has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder, police said.

At least three bodies are discovered at the home of a convicted rapist in Cleveland, Ohio.