Gerald Arthur Friend (born November 24, 1937) is an American rapist and kidnapper from Lakewood, Washington, currently serving two consecutive 75-year terms at Airway Heights Corrections Center.
He then drove the girl to Mount Rainier National Park where he beat her, raped her, and cut her hair.
He repeatedly raped and tortured her while she was tied to a pulley suspended from the ceiling of his mobile home.
Friend was stopped a day later for a traffic violation, and arrested when the deputies recognized him.
[4] The following year, his second victim sued the state and the Department of Corrections for prematurely paroling Friend in 1980.