# Bike Path Rapist Caught?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [January 15, 2007, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077 "2007-01-15T10:59:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/41 "2007-01-16T10:31:29Z")
LIES!! he wasn’t caught… i’m still on the loose
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### Author:  [@RedDawg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedDawg)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/42 "2007-01-16T10:42:39Z")
> [@cooter](#):
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> Here is a little something from Americas Most Wanted
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> [http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=41726](http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=41726)
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> kind of creepy, but my aunt and uncle had a house on allendale (where this dude live) and they lived right across the street from this guy…
allendale rd. in west seneca? if so, my parents still live and i used to live one street over from there
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### Author:  [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/43 "2007-01-16T11:18:18Z")
so i just found out that my uncle worked with this guy, scary
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### Author:  [@avs](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/avs)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/44 "2007-01-16T11:34:38Z")
About time!
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### Author:  [@cooter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cooter)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/45 "2007-01-16T11:39:46Z")
> [@RedDawg](#):
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> allendale rd. in west seneca? if so, my parents still live and i used to live one street over from there
no, different allendale…this allendale is located in the Cleve-Hill area
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### Author:  [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/46 "2007-01-16T11:44:44Z")
[](javascript:showPicture(‘[http://www.buffalonews.com/graphics/2007/01/16/actualsize/0116allendale.jpg](http://www.buffalonews.com/graphics/2007/01/16/actualsize/0116allendale.jpg)’)) Click to view larger picture Charles Lewis/Buffalo News
Altemio Sanchez, alleged to be the Bike Path Killer, has lived with his family in this house on Allendale Road in the Cleveland Hill section of Cheektowaga for more than 20 years.
When Cleveland Hill neighbors found out about Altemio Sanchez, they wept.
They talked and cried and commiserated the way one would upon the death of a good friend. Because for years, that’s exactly what Sanchez was.
The man they knew wasn’t a serial killer and rapist, accused in the deaths of three people. He was the best neighbor anyone would wish for.
The friendly and gregarious man they knew planted flowers out front and raised two good sons with his lovely wife, Kathleen. He hosted neighborhood parties, coached basketball at the local Catholic school and helped with church fundraising.
He was a sports fan, an athlete who bowled, golfed, ran and played basketball and baseball with friends at work, at church and at home.
Neighbor Ed Van Volkenburg has known Sanchez since his family moved into the neighborhood in 1986. Sanchez’s boys, now in their 20s, were knee-high back then.
“He’s got a beautiful, wonderful wife and two sons,” Van Volkenburg said. “I personally watched those boys grow up. . . . He’s a great, great neighbor and a wonderful, wonderful family man.”
Sanchez worked the overnight shift at Luvata Buffalo in Riverside. But when he wasn’t at work, he was typically found at home working on his lawn, his house or his car.
“His house was immaculate,” Van Volkenburg said, choking back tears that welled nonetheless. "I used to tell him, "You’re making it bad for me. I can’t do all that stuff.’ "
Many neighbors recalled the great parties Sanchez threw. He was so well-liked that people who had moved away from the neighborhood still came back to attend.
The Walker family, who lived next door, never chose to go to his parties, but Sanchez would always come by to warn them that it might get noisy.
He was often known to do good deeds in the neighborhood. When the October storm hit, Sanchez came to the Walker family’s house and offered to let them share his generator.
“No way you would think of the monster and associate it with him,” said the mother, who would not give her first name.
Sanchez’s aunt, Margarita Torres of Buffalo, shared the opinion of many when she said: “I can’t believe he could have done anything like that.”
Torres said that she did not see her nephew frequently - mainly just at family funerals - but that she did see him last at Thanksgiving for a family get-together at the home of Sanchez’s nephew. He hugged and kissed her, she said, and he didn’t act like anything was wrong or was bothering him.
Sanchez was college-educated and was always well-dressed and well-mannered, Torres said.
“It’s shocking,” she said. "He’s a nice person. It’s hard to believe. When I heard about it, I said, “It can’t be.’ I can’t believe it myself.” Monday, longtime neighbors stood outside in the rain. They talked about the man they thought they knew. And they expressed sorrow for his wife and children.
Sanchez was an active member of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Catholic Church in Cheektowaga. He helped with church fundraising and played softball on the church team, neighbors said. He also coached basketball and baseball at the church school, they said.
“There’s nothing bad to say about the guy,” said neighbor Jerry Donohue. “That’s why it’s such a shock.”
Donohue had rushed home from work in the middle of the day after his distraught wife, Nadine, called him. She had seen the police cars descend on the neighborhood and immediately turned on the news. When she saw the police composite sketches flash across the screen, she thought of Sanchez and spent the rest of the morning in tears.
“Our kids grew up with their kids,” she said, remembering how Sanchez coached the Cleveland Hill Little League team.
She wondered, she said, how could she know _anyone_ if she didn’t know _him_?
It was a question pondered by almost everyone whose life was touched by him, including those with whom he worked.
Sanchez worked as a machine operator at the sprawling Luvata plant, the former American Brass Co., on Sayre Street off Military Road. The news of his arrest was as shocking to his fellow workers as it was to his neighbors.
Employees leaving at the end of the first shift, or arriving to begin the second shift, Monday afternoon described Sanchez as a mild-mannered, hardworking colleague.
“He was a good guy, as far as we knew,” said Rick Smith, who works the second shift in Luvata’s copper mill. “Gone out golfing with him a bunch of times.”
Sanchez worked the third, or overnight, shift at Luvata. He has been there for 23 years, said Jack Alonge, director of human resources for the plant. His job involved operating a crane and driving a forklift, co-workers said. They knew Sanchez as a guy with whom they played sports and joked around.
He had been a member of the plant’s running club for many years, said Gordon Chudy, chief union steward on the second shift.
Chudy said he had run several 5K races with Sanchez but never the Linda Yalem Safety Run, held in memory of one of the Bike Path Killer’s victims.
He added that Sanchez was a solid employee who could be trusted to pay attention and not make mistakes on the job.
Ken Czekaj, a 36-year Luvata worker currently on disability with a neck injury, was astonished to hear about his colleague’s arrest.
“I’d see him and talk with him all the time,” said Czekaj, 58. “He was a likable guy, very well-known in the plant.”
When Czekaj saw Sanchez’s picture on TV, he was stunned. “In all the years I worked with him, he never said one thing that gave an indication that he might be involved in something like this,” he said. “You think you know a guy, but you don’t. It’s unbelievable. It’s scary.”
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### Author:  [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/47 "2007-01-16T11:49:05Z")
I should go for a jog on the bike path…
but you know what they say … you can’t rape the willing
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### Author:  [@jay\_g](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jay_g)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/48 "2007-01-16T11:49:16Z")
Sounds like he was to good to be true. I wonder if he has multiple personalities.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/49 "2007-01-16T11:52:34Z")
I must say i dont think newman was caught yet. but then again his mommi prolly never let him outta his room for breakfast today.
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### Author:  [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/50 "2007-01-16T12:06:46Z")
> [@num482](#):
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> I wonder if he has multiple personalities.
You just did the defense’s work for them.
Whatever his deal is, he shouldn’t be out in society.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/51 "2007-01-16T12:11:44Z")
> [@SammiB](#):
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> I must say i dont think newman was caught yet. but then again his mommi prolly never let him outta his room for breakfast today.
who are you?
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### Author:  [@jay\_g](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jay_g)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/52 "2007-01-16T12:21:35Z")
> [@JaysGreenLX](#):
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> Whatever his deal is, he shouldn’t be out in society.
I totaly agree, and IM glad hes off the street. I just want to know what makes him tick.
> [@LAFENGAS](#):
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> ```
> so have we all convicted this guy already? Or are we waiting to prove him innocent?
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> ```
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> I really hope this is the correct guy too.
As far as people already saying hes guilty, its hard to over look his DNA matching with all the cases. Unless some crazy info comes to light I’d bet hes the guy.
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### Author:  [@RedDawg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedDawg)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/53 "2007-01-16T13:15:40Z")
> [@cooter](#):
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> no, different allendale…this allendale is located in the Cleve-Hill area
good, that would’ve been weird
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/54 "2007-01-16T15:46:12Z")
im a gurl who can take cheap shots at people also! so keep throwin them at people on here n ur gonna feel like an ass when im done with ya!😉
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### Author:  [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/55 "2007-01-16T15:50:48Z")
> [@SammiB](#):
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> **im a gurl** who can take cheap shots at people also! so keep throwin them at people on here n ur gonna feel like an ass when im done with ya!😉
Beck, is that you?
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### Author:  [@tnick24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tnick24)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/56 "2007-01-16T15:56:38Z")
> [@RuBiCaNT](#):
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> Beck, is that you?
yeah, probably…
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/57 "2007-01-16T15:59:19Z")
“The rapist for 1000 Trebek.”
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/58 "2007-01-16T16:00:24Z")
haha and y would i be beck? do u not see the name dumbass
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/59 "2007-01-16T16:57:06Z")
> [@SammiB](#):
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> im a gurl who can take cheap shots at people also! so keep throwin them at people on here n ur gonna feel like an ass when im done with ya!😉
no, i probably won’t.
come back when you’re either funny or attractive. right now, you’re neither. GTFO.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bike-path-rapist-caught/23077/60 "2007-01-16T16:59:54Z")
haha and if u seen me ur jaw would drop and ud be droolin everywhere so STFU!
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