Do You Know This Man?

C’mon, Crime Fighters, Let’s Help Catch This Sexual Predator

Sixty-one-year-old Leslie Renald Lagrotta is on the lam. Worried that his penchant for raping women was about to be exposed, he emptied his bank account of $22,000 and disappeared. The last time anyone saw him was in Daytona Beach in 2010.

Police have been looking for Lagrotta for over a year. He is wanted for seven cases of sexual assault: three in Orlando, and four in Volusia County. They took place over a ten-year period — 1988 and 1998. The Volusia County sheriff’s office is offering a $25,000 reward for his arrest.

The Moves of a Predator

There’s no telling how many women Lagrotta sexually assaulted. While the last known link between Lagrotta and one of his victims was in 1998, his behavior afterward suggests that his known attacks were just a sliver of a much darker criminal scope. He was arrested in 2010 after he was spotted lurking outside a woman’s window in 2010. If he hadn’t been caught, what do you think would have happened next?

Lagrotta didn’t seem to care who or where he struck. He assaulted one woman as she walked on a beach. He snuck into woman’s homes and attacked. No one was safe.