There was a serial rapist on St. Thomas USVI a few years ago that was really scaring everybody. He predominantly targeted what we called ‘ex-pats’ who are usually white foreigners coming to work service industry jobs.

The locals rely almost entirely on tourism for income, so this is bad news and bad for business. There were posters everywhere for weeks. The docks, ferries, airport all had his face plastered all over the place so he couldn’t skip islands.

After a while, I noticed there weren’t any posters anymore of him anywhere on the island. I asked a table of locals and they simply told me that ‘The tide always washes away the trash’.

He apparently bragged about the rapes in a bar while drunk and a couple of guys offered him a cigarette to get him to step outside. They disappeared his ass and threw him in the ocean.