Serial rapist in Texas identified, accused of raping several elderly women from 1997 to 2005

A man authorities believed raped several women has been identified, according to the Texas Rangers.

Emory Earl McVay, 48, who died in 2005, has been identified as the man Texas Rangers say sexually assaulted multiple elderly women in Bastrop County between 1997 and 2005.

On March 27, 2004, police said an elderly woman was asleep when a man broke into her home and sexually assaulted her. After reporting the assault, investigators collected DNA and submitted it to the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a national database used to check for possible DNA matches between arrestees and unsolved cases nationwide, through the Texas Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) Crime Laboratory Division.

Later that year, in October 2004, the DPS Crime Laboratory in Austin notified the Texas Rangers of a possible DNA match between the 2004 case and another sexual assault from July 1997 involving a male suspect breaking into an elderly woman’s residence in Smithville.

The following year, DPS’s Crime Laboratory notified the Texas Rangers of a possible DNA match with a third sexual assault cold case with a similar narrative from July 2005.

Investigators collected several DNA samples from potential suspects, but none of them were a positive match.

In 2021, the Texas Rangers identified the case as eligible for testing and comparison through DPS’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) program.

In August 2025, after several years of advanced testing and research, investigators received a positive match with a male suspect from Bastrop County: Emory Earl McVay.

It was later learned that McVay had been deceased for more than a decade, and no arrests were made.

McVay had a lengthy criminal history, which included multiple convictions for burglary.