The “Belmont Shore Rapist,” Mark Wayne Rathbun is now on trial here in Seattle for three unsolved rapes in Ballard in 1996. Rathbun is already serving a 1,030 year sentence for 10 rapes in Long Beach, California. He lived in Capitol Hill for about a year in 1996, and police say he raped three women in Ballard, one on 46th St. and another on 42nd St. Detectives say Rathbun has a rare DNA marker linking him to at least one of the rapes.
Serial rapist finally on trial for Ballard rapes
