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Police: Confessed serial rapist tied to cases in 2 counties

By Liz Artz
By Liz Artz

ROSWELL, Ga. — Police say a local man has confessed to seven rapes in the metro area.

Five of the attacks happened in Roswell and two in Norcross.

Investigators told Channel 2’s Liz Artz that one of the victims was able to give police enough information to enable them to make an arrest. Police said once the man was in custody, he started confessing.

Roswell police arrested Errol Alex Martinez on Friday.

They said he confessed to seven rapes and beatings, and then went on to confess to countless more.

“He had been into so many homes that he can't remember them all," Officer Lisa Holland, with the Roswell Police Department, told Artz.

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Channel 2 Action News reported on one of Martinez’s alleged crimes back in 2014 in which a woman said she had been pulled from a busy Roswell intersection into bushes where she was beaten, robbed and raped.

Then in 2015 we spoke to a Norcross woman who was brutally attacked.

“Every day I look at different people that walk by and you can't help but ask yourself: Could it be him?" the victim, who is not being identified, said.

Police said Martinez confessed to that crime too and added that DNA has linked him to at least one rape in Norcross.

Holland told us Martinez would attack the women in bizarre ways to make their stories outlandish.

“These stories sounded so farfetched to when the made the report these incident to the police, that we may not have believed them," Holland said.

Police said Martinez had just served time for robbing a Roswell bank when he was arrested for the latest rape. According to police reports, his wife, Desja Perkins, was his accomplice in the robbery.

“No it's ... it's nothing much to talk about," Perkins told Artz.

But she did defend her husband.

"I'm fighting to prove it was not him. But I really don't know what's going on. The detectives haven’t really told me much about the case. I don't really know the women," Perkins said.

Roswell police are hoping the arrest will encourage other possible victims to come forward.

They're also asking other agencies to open all unsolved rape cases and look at this suspect. They think Martinez could be responsible for many other rapes.

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