‘Bad Breath Rapist’ on the run for 16 years caught after cops spotted him leaving multimillion-dollar home
His hideout stunk.
A convicted sexual predator known as the “Bad Breath Rapist” was found in a multi-million dollar California home and captured nearly 17 years after he went on the run during his Massachusetts trial.
Tuen Lee was arrested Tuesday in the wealthy Bay Area bedroom community of Diablo, where he’d been living for more than a decade with his flower shop owner girlfriend, who had no clue about his vicious past, according to Massachusetts State Police.
On Feb. 2, 2005, Lee broke into the home of a waitress who worked at his family’s restaurant in the Boston suburb of Quincy, held her at knifepoint, zip-tied her hands to a bed and brutally raped her, police said at the time.
Although he was wearing a ski mask, investigators were able to identify him in part because the victim recognized the smell of her boss’s horrendous halitosis, police said.
DNA evidence also linked Lee, who reportedly went by the fake name “Randy,” to the crime scene, where the victim’s boyfriend found her hours after the attack.
Lee was charged with rape and released on $100,000 cash bail before his trial — but he disappeared not long before closing arguments in September 2007.
He had already fled the state by the time the jury delivered the guilty verdict.
Authorities hunted for the funky-mouthed fugitive for years – and Lee was even featured on an episode of “America’s Most Wanted.”
