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The ‘Sugar House rapist’ terrified a 1970s Utah neighborhood. He has died at 79.

After four months and several assaults, Ronald Dale Easthope was arrested in 1971 when five victims identified him in a police lineup.

(Utah Department of Corrections) Ronald Dale Easthope, in a photo taken by the Utah Department of Corrections on Sept. 26, 2023. Easthope, who served more than 52 years in prison for a series of rapes in Salt Lake City's Sugar House neighborhood in the early 1970s, died April 25, 2025, in a care facility.

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