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Investigators in nine states looking for man sending lewd letters to young girls
Ryan Calhoun
News 12 at 11 o'clock, November 18, 2009
EVANS, Ga. --- Investigators in nine different states, including Georgia and South Carolina, are looking for an older man sending sexually explicit letters to young girls.
Phoenix, Arizona investigators tell News 12 he's been doing it for nearly a decade, sending sexually suggestive letters postmarked in Phoenix all over the country, even as close as Evans, Ga.
Authorities said they have exhausted all efforts to find him, including DNA tests on some of the letters. Now they're looking for help from the public.
The letter-writer seems to mainly be focusing on girls in a bathing suit, dance outfits or gymnasts, which comes as a shock to parents like Jessica Dizon from Evans.
"Creepy," she said. "It's shocking and it makes me more uncomfortable to have two young girls."
Jessica's daughters are both gymnasts at Hayden's International Academy gym in Evans, and she said they love gymnastics.
"It's good, it's really good for them," she said. "So to have something like this kind of taint it, it's upsetting."
Investigators say in many of the cases the man gets a look at them in the newspaper and tracks them down before heading to the post office and sending them the letters.
Cassie Hayden is a coach at the gym in Evans. She says she hasn't heard of anything going on at their gym but is shocked to hear about the man on the loose.
"I think that's horrible," she said. "It's an achievement for a young child to be in a paper, especially their parents."
Evans was one of the cities that reported receiving a letter, authorities said. The letters started being sent in 1999 and since then approximately 80 of them were sent from coast to coast.
Nine different states, including Georgia, New York, California, South Carolina, Florida, New Jersey, Kansas, Texas and mainly Arizona.
In the two to four page letters he calls the girls names, such as "kiddo" and "lovebud", graphically talking about his desires, authorities tell News 12.
"If it was one area that's the only area that would have to worry about it right now," Hayden said. "But since he's doing it to several areas that puts more people on alert."
Because of this man Hayden is afraid people will be afraid to have their kids in the paper for their accomplishments, which is exactly what's going through Dizon's mind, who wants this guy caught.
"It's just becoming more and more common, hearing these stories on the news," Dizon said. "I mean, what do you do?"
Authorities believe he's the age of a Grandfather and say these letters are written very well and if he makes a grammatical error he corrects them in pen on the page.
If you have any information on the case please call local authorities and report it.
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