Roswell serial rapist Errol Alex Martinez captured after years on the run

ROSWELL, Ga. - Roswell police have arrested a serial rapist after he admitted to attacking women for the last three years.

Police said Errol Alex Martinez cased his victims, usually targeting single women between the ages of 46 and 60 attacked many of his victims in their own homes.

In 2014, police said a woman was beat up and raped in Roswell. The victim told investigators she was walking to work on Holcombe Bridge Road when she was grabbed from behind, dragged into some bushes and raped behind a building. 

Across the city line in Norcross, police said another woman was attacked at bus stop.  But a recent attack on a victim, while she slept, lead police to 23-year-old Martinez.

”He actually confessed to committing a bunch of rapes, in the area, said Roswell PD PIO Officer Lisa Holland.

Holland said there were a total of five sexual assaults in Roswell and two more in Norcross.
Now investigators are trying to determine if there may be more victims out there.

”He said there was so many, he'd been in so many homes that he can't remember, Holland said.

Police said Martinez cased his victims, watching and waiting for several days, before he attacked.

”Some of these victims had their light bulbs unscrewed in their car port. He was probably watching them and kind of setting it up for him to come into the house without being noticed, Holland said.

Police told Georgia Newsday Martinez would take a piece of clothing from his victims that may have contained his DNA.

He sits in the Fulton County Jail with no bond and charged with simple battery, burglary and rape. He was also connected to a bank robbery in August..

Police urged anyone who thinks they may be a victim of Martinez, to call the Roswell Police Department at 770-640-4100.