The rape of a 15-year-old girl in Mount Washington early Wednesday has triggered a new look for a serial rapist who has confounded detectives for years.

        The forceful removal of the girl from her house on Ambar Drive sounds familiar to investigators who for years have tracked a man who committed five rapes in Mason, Montgomery and Colerain Township in 1998 and 1999.

        The red-haired, blue-eyed man last struck in October 1999, leaving officials to think he might have moved or been in jail.

        But about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, the McNicholas High School student was forcefully removed from her bedroom and taken through several yards to a football practice field at Guardian Angels school, she told police.

        Another similarity: He came in through an unlocked door. This attacker did not, however, wear a mask, as in the previous assaults.

        Lt. Steve Luebbe, commander of the Cincinnati Police Division's personal crimes unit, said suspects sometimes change their methods of operation.

        He did not yet know whether detectives have DNA evidence in this case. That's how the serial cases were linked.

        The family called police a little after 3:30 a.m., about an hour after the man broke in.

        The girl described the man as white, in his 40s, with a pock-marked face. He was wearing a gray, long-sleeve T-shirt, black jeans and a Nike baseball cap.

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