Boston police search for possible Peeping Tom in Brighton

BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- A few months ago, it was the "serial tickler" in Brighton, which some were unsure actually existed. But the man caught looking into a woman's window in the same neighborhood is very real, and has police trying to identify him.

Just after midnight on Wednesday, police responded to a call for a report of a suspicious person peeking into a first-floor window around 1850 Commonwealth Ave. 

Officers spoke with a woman who lived there who told them earlier Tuesday evening she saw a man trying to look into her apartment window. She checked cameras that she had set up days earlier, after a similar incident, and she was able to catch a person looking into her window later that night.

"It's terrifying," the victim, who did not want her identity revealed, told FOX 25's Bob Ward. "It's terrifying to see someone so close his face is literally up to the window of the bedroom where I sleep. It's horrifying."

The woman first became aware of the Peeping Tom on August 1, when her boyfriend heard something outside the window, and actually saw the man.

"He told me he heard rustling outside the window. He thought it was a critter, but he saw a man's face and he confronted him. And he said, 'what the f are you doing here?' And he quickly said, 'I'm looking for my dog and ran away."
   
She thought she heard him again on August 6. So she set up a window camera, and installed window alarms.

And still, the incident early Wednesday.
   
It turns out, this guy was looking in the window at about the time the woman was in the shower.

"I think the scariest part of this, is how undaunted he seems to be," the victim said. "There's a tall hedge he has to climb over or circumvent and then cross a lawn and duck underneath a brush. And even then when the bars are put up by window or he's confronted by my boyfriend, he comes back twice after that. So that's the part that's so worrisome."

The police department is investigating the incident and hoping to identifying the person seen in the video. Anyone with information is asked to call District D-14 detectives at (617) 343-4256.

"I hope someone will recognize him through the video footage and report him to the police and we can hold him accountable."

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