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Big Brother 11 Houseguest Chima Benson was Final Victim of Bathtub Rapist ------------------------------------- On February, 10, 2009, Dale Devon Scheanette, dubbed the "Bathtub Rapist," was executed by the State of Texas for the rape and murder of Wendie Prescott on December 24, 1996. He was charged, but never tried for the identical rape and murder of Christine Vu on September 17 of the same year. The women were raped, strangled, bound with duct tape and found in half-filled bathtubs. The two women lived in the same apartment complex. Dale Devon Scheanette was suspected of five other rapes within the same area. At his execution, Scheanette only said, ''My only statement is that no cases ever tried have been error-free. Those are my words. No cases are error-free.'' He was executed by lethal injection and died nine minutes later. At 6:21 p.m., February 10, 2009, Scheanette was pronounced dead. Big Brother 11 Houseguest Chima Benson was Scheanette's last victim. She managed to fight him off, as she told the other houseguests, and he was caught shortly thereafter. The first victim, Christine Vu, was found by her boyfriend. There were no signs of forced entry and very little to go on. Three months later, Dale Devon Scheanette raped and killed again within the same apartment complex. In both cases, one fingerprint was found and the semen taken from the bodies matched. The police knew they were now looking for a serial killer. It was three years later that Chima was awoken in her dorm room by a masked man. After he beat and raped her, he fled. The semen taken from her matched the serial killer. Chima's rape brought attention back to the cold case and new fingerprint technology was used to identify Scheanette. He had lived at the apartment complex where the murders had taken place, but as he did not have a criminal record, he escaped further scrutiny. Scheanette was charged in August 2000, sentenced to death in January 2003 and executed this February. Chima told her fellow Big Brother 11 houseguests that she had to have two facial surgeries because the attack had been so brutal. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1936092/big_brother_11_houseguest_chima_benson.html?cat=39