Serial Glue Assaults

(Milwaukie, Oregon) A 22-year-old convicted burglar, Jared Weston Walter, is accused of committing a series of bizarre crimes in Oregon, Washington state and Texas.

Up to a dozen women, with more possible, claim that Walter sprayed Super Glue on their hair, sometimes also cutting it. Walter was arrested and charged with one count of interfering with public transportation and two counts of third-degree robbery.

The Oregonian newspaper reported that Walter was wanted on hair-and-glue assault charges in King County, and that he was convicted of burglary with intent to commit a sex crime in Texas.

Victims began to emerge across the country, in communities Walter was known to have lived, after the story was first reported on various news broadcasts.

A 12-year-old girl in Houston, Tex. was allegedly attacked and super-glued at a Walgreen's drugstore. The assault was caught on surveillance video and Texas police indicated Walter was a suspect.

"When I touched myself, it felt hot like it was sizzling on my hair. And I said, that guy put glue in my hair," the girl told KHOU-TV reporters. Soon after her hair began to fall out.

Four other victims in the Houston area allege they too had superglue squirted in their hair on the same day: One attack happened in a Walgreen's, another in a Kroger grocery store, two at a movie theater and still another inside the discounter Marshall's.

In Oregon, the glue-assaults by Walter allegedly occurred as women rode the bus. Authorities continue to investigate.