OK, time for a quiz. First question:
What's so special about New Hampshire?
No, it's not that Franklin Pierce was born there. (Come on. Franklin Pierce??!!)
And no, not that it's bigger than Delaware. (Our cat is bigger than Delaware.)
True, it's very old, but that's not it, either. Delaware is older ... and smaller.
The answer, my friend, is that New Hampshire is the home of Jack the Snipper.
Not only that, but police have actually made an arrest in the Snipper case.
Jack got his name from the fact that he sneaks into women's homes and snips off their nightwear as they sleep.
According to the News Leader, "Police believe an intruder used scissors or another cutting tool to remove the women’s clothing."
They reached that conclusion after finding a pair of scissors and cut-up jammies at one crime scene.
Anyway. Jeffrey W. Gelinas, 28, was arrested a few days ago after a woman told police she noticed some guy trying to get into her bedroom through a window. Gelinas was found soon thereafter "sweating profusely and ... disheveled," according to someone else quoted in the News Leader.
Gelinas earlier pleaded guilty to a series of stalking, prowling and loitering charges.
He is called the "only suspect" in the Snipper case.
In another display of investigative sagacity, Durham, N.H., Deputy Police Chief Rene Kelley said, "This pattern of behavior is, quite frankly, very disturbing."
A source in Vermont, which is bigger than New Hampshire, said that videotape was found and that the late Andy Warhol intends to release it under the title "Sleep 2 -- Not As Soporific as Sleep One!"

Posted at August 03, 2004 12:03 PM