‘Pillowcase Rapist’ Who Admits to Over 100 Assaults to Be Released While Drunk

A soft-on-crime policy was set to once again benefit the serial “pillowcase rapist” as the democratic state prepared to release an infamous sex offender who confessed to more than 100 rapes.

(Video: Fox11)

The community north of Los Angeles, California, remains enraged ahead of the October 1 sentencing hearing for 73-year-old convicted serial rapist Christopher Hubbart.

“We all moved here to get away from it all,” a man identified only as Bob said during a community meeting in Antelope Valley in early September.

“I think next time he’s going to escalate and start murdering,” neighbor Cheryl Slack-Holbrook told Fox 11. “And people are not going to tolerate that. We’re done with that. … He got a life sentence. He should be in prison for the rest of his life.”

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón echoed this sentiment to some extent, agreeing that Hubbart should not be placed in the Antelope Valley but seeming more concerned about the whereabouts of the rapist (who earned his nickname by muffled his victim’s screams with a pillowcase) than about the release of a known repeat offender.

“Continuing to release sexually aggressive predators into underserved communities like Antelope Valley is both irresponsible and unjust,” the George Soros-backed district attorney said in a Sept. 4 press release. “Repeatedly placing these individuals in the same community demonstrates a blatant disregard for the safety and well-being of our residents. Our Deputy District Attorneys will continue to oppose Mr. Hubbart’s placement in Antelope Valley. We must demand more of our judicial system, ensuring that decisions serve the best interests of our communities while exploring alternative locations for these placements.”

The details of Hubbart’s heinous crimes were outlined in a May 2014 letter from then-Interim Los Angeles County Sheriff John L. Scott, who urged the Santa Clara County Superior Court to review his release decision, which ultimately ruled that Hubbart was held pretrial for violating the terms of his release.

“He is the most prolific and brutal rapist that I have ever encountered in my 45 years in California law enforcement. He has been identified as a mentally ill and extremely dangerous violent sex offender,” said Smith, who said the convicted man confessed to raping more than 100 women between 1971 and 1983.

At the time, the sheriff noted: “After being released on parole in 1983, Mr. Hubbart raped a woman the same day he was released. Mr. Hubbart raped nine more women in the San Jose area that year before he was apprehended and returned to prison. He was released again in 1990, but was returned to custody shortly thereafter after taking a woman hostage.”

“Very few American criminals inspire the same fear in the public as Christopher Hubbart,” Smith said.

Hubbart’s conditional release was ordered in March 2023 “over the objections of LADA” by the Santa Clara County Superior Court, which left the decision on whether to release the rapist to Los Angeles County.

“Some of these people don’t know the horrible things he’s done,” one community member lamented. “Well, a lot of us have seen a lot of what he’s done. And you know what, it has to stop.”

In her Sept. 16 letter to Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Harrison, Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger wrote, in part, “The rural nature of this foothill community and its challenging terrain make it difficult to develop and maintain a robust communications infrastructure. Cellular phone signals and service, landline service, and internet connections are unreliable and inconsistent. If any elements of his parole require the use of this type of technology to supervise or monitor Mr. Hubbard, failure is possible and, I believe, inevitable.”

She also warned that only two sheriff’s deputies were assigned to patrol “hundreds of square miles” and that there were no fewer than 25 homes containing women and children within a one-square-mile radius of Hubbart’s proposed release site.

“These are law-abiding citizens who will have to live in fear through no fault of their own,” Barger said, opposing the release of the rapist.

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