Yahoo! News - Man Jailed for Hair Cutting Spree Mon Apr 7,10:50 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When police finally came to Michael Howard's home, they discovered hair everywhere: a thin carpet of hair covering the floor, huge mounds on the bed and in the closet plus photos of severed ponytails lined up as neatly as bodies in a morgue.
The cops knew then that they had finally caught up with the notorious "Haircut Bandit."
For three weeks in December of 2001, Howard cruised the streets of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, casing bus stops and park benches for women with ultra-long tresses.
Before he was caught, Howard chopped hanks of hair or entire ponytails from the heads of nine victims, ages 12 to 45. Investigators began closing in on the bicycle repair shop owner on New Year's Eve when a deputy sheriff saw him approach a woman at a bus stop and shear off her waist-length hair.
He escaped -- dropping his scissors and his hair trophy -- but police nabbed him the next day. On Thursday, Howard entered a surprise guilty plea and was sentenced to eight years in prison for his hair-razing rampage.
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