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Pennypack Park rapist convicted

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
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The Pennypack Park rapist of 2010 and 2011 was convicted Monday.

Prosecutors say 40-year-old Robert Palen beat and sexually assaulted three women during his spree.

Investigators finally found him in Wisconsin after DNA matched from a rape he committed there.

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