Twilight Rapist Suspect Captured

Billy Joe Harris

A Texas prison employee is in police custody as the lead suspect in the so-called “Twilight Rapist” case.

Billy Joe Harris was arrested Saturday in Edna, near Victoria, as police responded to an elderly woman’s medical emergency alert.

Authorities say a DNA sample from Harris, 53, ties him to five other attacks.

For more than a year, authorities in several Texas counties, including Leon, searched for the man suspected of sexually assaulting elderly women in their homes.

Harris is currently held on a burglary charge as the investigation continues.

Harris works as a noncommissioned employee for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and was also employed by a Houston-based home health care agency.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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