Crime & Safety

DNA Evidence Adds 3 Life Terms for Serial Aspen Hill Rapist Timothy Buzbee

Timothy Buzbee has been in prison since the early 1980s.


A Montgomery County judge sentenced Timothy Buzbee, the man known as the “Aspen Hill rapist,” to three additional life terms on Thursday.

Buzbee, 54, has been serving time since the early 1980s after he pleaded guilty to multiple rapes in Aspen Hill. Although he became eligible for parole in 2005, DNA evidence linked him with five additional rapes, the Gazette reported. Buzbee pleaded guilty to three charges of first-degree rape.  

WUSA9 reported on the frightening scope of Buzbee’s predatory activity:

Cold case detectives suspect Buzbee attacked at least 24 women -- not just in Aspen Hill, but from Rockville to Silver Spring. He stalked a 9 year old. He also kidnapped and raped the 15 year old sister of one of the women who spoke against him -- and returned years later to rape her.

Read the full stories on The Washington Post, WUSA9, MyFoxDC, and The Gazette.

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