ANDERSON TOWNSHIP — A Clermont County felon who is a registered sex offender is suspected of abducting two women in three days and raping one of them.

        A 44-year-old Anderson Township woman was kidnapped at knifepoint at 9 p.m. Monday from the Anderson Towne Center parking lot, then robbed and raped, deputies said.

        The attack, at the former Beechmont Mall, was the second since early Saturday, when an 18-year-old college student was abducted in New Richmond.

        A man who had been hiding in her back seat held a knife to her throat as she drove away from a gas station before dawn.

        Randy Joe Slider, 40, of the 100 block of Maple Tree Lane in Moscow, faces charges of aggravated robbery, kidnapping and rape in Hamilton County and charges of aggravated robbery and kidnapping in New Richmond.

        He was convicted of felonious assault and gross sexual imposition in Washington County in 1993 and paroled in April 2001 after serving eight years of an 11-to-20 year sentence, state records show. He also is a registered sex offender.

        “We want him, and we want him now,” said Steve Barnett, spokesman for the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office. “There's a good possibility he could be a repeat offender.”

        In Monday's attack, deputies said Mr. Slider brandished an 8-inch kitchen knife, forced the woman into the passenger seat, handcuffed her and drove her to several ATM locations in Northern Kentucky and Hamilton County to make cash withdrawals from her account.

        At one point, Mr. Barnett said, Mr. Slider raped the woman somewhere in downtown Cincinnati.

        She was released near Ohio 32 and Eight Mile Road at 1:55 a.m. Tuesday, deputies said.

        She found a phone and called her husband, who picked her up and notified police.

        The kidnapper in Monday's attack is described as white, 35-40 years old, 5-feet-8 inches tall, of medium build, and wearing blue jeans, a plaid jacket and a red ball cap, deputies said.

        The Anderson woman's silver 2000 Toyota Camry remains missing, deputies said. It has Ohio license plates CIG-1634.

        In Saturday's attack, the 18-year-old New Richmond accounting student was abducted after she got into her black, two-door 1991 Pontiac Grand Am at a Speedway store at 4:40 a.m.

        She had left the car running in the parking lot of the Sycamore Street store while she bought pain reliever and a soda.

        A man was hiding in the backseat, the student told the Enquirer Tuesday, and she didn't know he was there until he placed a knife to her throat and whispered in her ear, “Do you want to die?”

        He told her to pull over so he could drive, she said, and as he climbed into the driver's seat, she hit him on the head with the 20-ounce soda bottle she had just bought and ran off.

        “I knew if I didn't hit him when the car was stopped I would never get out,” said the woman, who asked not to be named for fear of repercussions.

        “You have to fight for your life. There was no way I was going to allow that guy to take control over me. I had more power than that.”

        After he fled in the New Richmond woman's car, Union Township police spotted the suspect on southbound Interstate 275 near the New Richmond exit shortly after 5 a.m.

        He led them on a chase before crashing the Pontiac at the exit, escaping on foot, according to New Richmond Police.

        E-mail jedwards@enquirer.com

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