Anyone who has reveled with me at Mardi Gras knows I have this weird affection for New Orleans folk figures. Two years ago, I dressed as “The Axe Man of New Orleans” and last year as Hugging Molly, both folk figures from the fantastic book Gumbo YaYa.
The Axeman was certainly more infamous and based in reality than Hugging Molly. But it seems as though Molly might have been reincarnated…
The infamous “Georgetown Cuddler” may be back at it again.
This weekend a young woman woke up to find a man next to her. She screamed and the suspect got away. It all sounds similar to a string of attacks in the past year linked to a one man dubbed the “Cuddler.”
The attack happened around 6:30 Sunday morning in the 1200 block of 33rd Street NW.
Police haven’t determined yet if this is another case of the “Georgetown Cuddler” but students here have no doubts and believe the “Cuddler” has struck again. In the neighborhoods of Georgetown, rarely touched by crime, the “Cuddler” is the one criminal that continues to elude police.
He walks into homes, often lays with his female victims, sometimes fondling them and then runs away.
Georgetown Cuddler Strikes Again?
Granted Molly was a hugger, not a cuddler and certainly not a fondler. And he did strike in the open rather than breaking and entering. But this is a modern era so he may have stepped up his game.
Beware the spirit of Molly.