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<p>A Texas prison employee is suspected of being a serial rapist accused of targeting older women after he was caught fleeing an elderly woman&#8217;s home, authorities have said.</p>
<p>Billy Joe Harris, 53, was taken into custody after Edna police responded to a medical emergency alert from an elderly woman, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.</p>
<p>DPS officials said police saw Harris running from the woman&#8217;s home and arrested him after a short pursuit. Harris is being held in the Jackson County jail on a burglary charge, the agency said.</p>
<p>After the arrest, a DNA sample taken from the suspect linked him to five other assaults in Yoakum, Bell, Falls and Leon counties, the DPS said.</p>
<p>Harris lives in the Houston suburb of Missouri City and works as a non-commissioned employee for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Rosharon, the DPS said. The agency said records indicate Harris was employed by a home health care agency in Houston.</p>
<p>Authorities have been looking for the so-called &#8220;Twilight Rapist&#8221; since 2009, when they gave the suspect that name after what they believed were as many as 12 rapes, attempted rapes or burglaries in rural towns in central and south-east Texas. The women ranged in age from 65 to 91 and generally lived alone, authorities said.</p>
<p>One victim played piano at her church on Sundays. An 81-year-old woman scared off an intruder with a gun, firing several rounds. A 66-year-old woman was attacked twice, despite having moved across town following the first assault.</p>
<p>Authorities have said the attacks appeared to have been planned &#8211; phone lines were cut and porch lights were unscrewed outside some of the victims&#8217; homes. One victim had more than 10,000 dollars stolen.</p>
<p>Governor Rick Perry created the Twilight Rapist Task Force in November 2009, 11 months after the first reported attack in Yoakum, a quiet town surrounded by wide-open ranches about 100 miles east of San Antonio. The suspect&#8217;s arrest was about 40 miles away in Edna, roughly 100 miles south-west of Houston.</p>
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