Just last week, Seattlest reported to you that there seemed to be an alarming number of stabbings in Seattle, judging by local news reports. While we haven't noticed many stabbing-related stories this week, it appears there is a new crime du jour in the headlines: serial anonymous groping. We've already written about south Seattle's serial groper twice this week. With yesterday's arrest of a suspect in the south Seattle attacks, we were hoping to see 100% fewer headlines about anonymous groping assaults. No such luck. Our nightly perusal of local news websites found this headline on KOMO 4: "Police seek public's help in nailing Puyallup groper." The headline was located directly underneath the story regarding the arrest of Darin Boler, Seattle's suspected serial groper.
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