The King County Sheriff’s Office is investigating whether a naked man who approached a woman on Tiger Mountain Trail in Issaquah on Sunday afternoon is the same man who attacked a woman with a Taser on the same trail last month.
On Sunday, Heather Nausadis was walking the trail when the man, who was hiding off the trail, surprised her. Nausadis’ fiancée was about 50 feet behind her on the trail.
With warm weather over the weekend, the popular trail would have been busy with foot traffic.
What could have been just an amusing story of one man’s inappropriate cavorting with nature took a more sinister turn with the news that police were considering whether this man was the same one who attacked a female trails worker on the mountain on April 24. She was working on a volunteer trails restoration project, and was about 100 yards away from the rest of the work crew.
In that instance, the man, who was clothed in running attire, approached the woman and hit her with a Taser or stun gun, and wrestled her to the ground.
The woman struggled and was able to get away. She suffered only minor injuries, but was reportedly quite disturbed by the incident.
The hiker on Sunday said the sketch of the man released by police after the attack in April looked similar to the naked man that approached her.