Disturbing, graphic account of rapes of two elderly women. The same would have been in store for Jean Zamarripa except for the lact that she had a gun.
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August 17, 2001
August 17, 2001
Rape victims provide graphic testimonies By Bill Hethcock/The Gazette

[EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains information that some readers may
find disturbing.]

A 56-year-old rape victim said the armed, masked man who attacked her
spent six hours sexually assaulting her, drinking her liquor and calling
her obscene names.

Then he washed the glasses he drank from, took the house key she offered
and left, according to testimony Thursday in the second day of Anthony
Allen Peralez’s trial.

Peralez, 41, is accused of burglarizing, raping and beating that woman
Sept. 2, 2000, on North Sheridan Avenue and a 74-year-old woman Aug. 6,
2000, on Eagle View Drive. He also is charged with burglarizing,
kidnapping and raping a 51-year-old Security woman Sept. 12, 1999, on
Rosemont Drive.

He was arrested after a 72-year-old woman shot him three times when he
broke into her home Nov. 18. He is charged with trespassing and burglary
with intent to commit sexual assault in that case.

Prosecutors say DNA evidence and similar crime patterns suggest Peralez
committed all four.

Peralez’s lawyers say the DNA evidence is unreliable and Peralez has an
alibi on at least one of the nights when the rapes occurred. The defense
will present its case next week.

Peralez could spend the rest of his life in prison if he is convicted.

The 56-year-old victim, who has since turned 57, testified she was
leaving her bathroom about 11 p.m. when a masked man grabbed her and put
a gun to her head.

He told her to go to the bedroom, where he tied her hands and feet
behind her, took off her clothes, called her obscene names and
repeatedly raped her.

Between sexual episodes, the naked, masked man forced her to bathe while
he drank her wine and Johnny Walker Red scotch in the darkness, she
testified.

At one point, the intruder told her that all women fantasize about being
raped, she said.

She said her attacker seemed disappointed when he found her video
collection didn’t contain pornography and recommended she get some to
teach her how to be “a wonderful whore.”

The woman said she “played along” with the
rapist out of fear for her life.

“I didn’t know what else to do,” she said. “I don’t know how to fight. I
didn’t have a gun. I decided the best way to stay alive was to
cooperate.”

At one point, after more than an hour of being forced to perform oral
sex, the woman offered her rapist a house key and told him to return the
next night, she testified.

“I said, ‘I’m getting tired and you’re tired and maybe it would be
better if you came back later,’” the woman testified.

The rapist initially refused but agreed to the offer after another hour,
the woman said.

Before he left, the rapist put towels the woman had used in the washing
machine and put the glasses they had drunk from in the dishwasher.

He turned on both appliances, took the house key, then stole a camera,
money and her new deerskin gloves and left the house about 5 a.m., the
57-year-old testified.

The 51-year-old victim, who is now 53, said she fought her masked
attacker even though he had a knife.

The Security woman said she heard someone flip the breaker switch as she
walked into her bathroom and said she knew she wasn’t alone.
“I started screaming, ‘No, No,’ and I heard footsteps coming toward me,”
she said.

The rapist choked her, bashed her head against a wall and stabbed her in
the neck and abdomen, then tied her up and repeatedly raped her on her
water bed, the victim testified.

The victim’s mother called as the rapist was sexually assaulting her and
left a message on her answering machine. She called back, and the rapist
pulled the phone off the wall, she testified.

The rapist swabbed between the victim’s legs with a damp towel and a
household disinfectant, then he left in her car, she testified.
The trial resumes at 1:30 p.m. today in 4th Judicial District Judge
Theresa Cisneros’ courtroom.

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