Everybody needs a hobby.
from www.komonews.com – SEATTLE — The man accused of attacking women and burying his head in their buttocks has been charged.
Duane E. Starkenburg, 46, has been charged with two counts of indecent liberties and one count attempted indecent liberties in three incidents that allegedly took place in Lincoln Park in August, December and earlier this week.
The victims in all three cases have positively identified Starkenburg, who told detectives he visits the park every day to “watch women run as he likes to watch them ‘jiggle and bounce,'” according to the statement of probable cause.
“It’s not like I drag the women into the bushes and rape them” Starkenburg told investigators.
When questioned about the latest incident, Starkenburg said he slipped and fell into the victim. He admitted to having also been involved in the December incident and said he’d “slipped” and “fell into her,” detectives wrote.
Starkenburg said he does not have a balance problem and when a detective asked why he gets so close to women in the park, he replied, “I can’t answer that.”
The latest incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon when a woman was attacked while jogging on a trail in Lincoln Park.
The woman told detectives a man ran up from behind and tried to tackle her by throwing his arms around her legs. The man “grabbed both of the front of her thighs and slid down to her ankles,” the statement said.
The 27-year-old woman was able to kick free of his grip and flee. She was not injured.
The man also fled the scene on foot, but officers caught up with him nearby. The man was later identified as Starkenburg.
The victim in the Dec. 8 incident said she was walking up a staircase to the parking lot of the park when a man appeared at the foot of the stairs “out of nowhere,” according to the statement.
After he passed her on the stairs, he asked her for help, claiming “he had been ‘running or something’ and had become injured,” the document said.
The woman offered to help him to the top of the stairs, but while walking, the man somehow got behind her and “grabbed her hips and ‘buried’ his head into her buttocks,”‘ the statement said.
“I screamed … His nose was up in my butt. I was very shocked,” the woman told investigators, adding she was able to break free and run off.
The woman said as she ran off, she saw the man “lying face down on the ground” and telling her, “Oh my God, I can’t believe I did that. I’m sorry,” the document said. The man also mentioned “he knew other girls had been attacked recently,” and was acting like what’d just happened was an accident, according to detectives. The woman she hadn’t been aware of any similar attacks, and thought it was strange he’d mentioned them.
On Aug. 11, a woman was jogging with dog in the park near Coleman Pool when a man she’d just passed tripped and grabbed her hips as he fell, investigators said.
“He did a face plant in my butt” and “lingered for a few moments,” the victim told detectives.
The woman managed to break free, and when she looked back, “he was on the ground, looking at his hands,” the statement said.
“It was an act. He was like, ‘What just happened,'” the woman told investigators.
Starkenburg was released on bail on Thursday.
His criminal record includes prior convictions for second-degree felony assault, reckless driving and malicious mischief.