One Summer, there was a rapist striking in and around our neighborhood. About 4-5 neighboring families would gather each evening after supper on our side yard, with ice chests, blankets, lawn chairs, etc. There was no A/C back then, so folks had to wait for the houses to cool down enough to sleep in. All of the men had firearms and all window screens had been nailed down. ...People had to sleep with open windows to create a draft through the house and the rapist had just been removing the screens and crawling through the windows. So did one of the neighbors nail him, the po-po get him a date with Old Sparky, or did he just move on to other targets?
As I recall, he was finally caught when he entered the wrong house (one with an armed husband). I believe he dated “Old Sparky”. Black guy who thought it was fun terrorizing white folks and reading about it in the papers, ‘til he was caught.
Today, he would just be shot in the house.