Published June 4 2015
On January 18, at approximately 1:00 p.m., Bellevue Police responded to a call at Bellevue College where a suspect was being detained by security. A female was in a restroom with her two friends when one observed an smart phone tipped towards her from underneath the adjoining bathroom stall.
The victim told her friends to leave with her and, once outside, she told them what she had seen -- not only the camera, but what appeared to be a man wearing a pink wig (which she saw through the crack in the stall door while washing her hands).
One of the victims went to alert security while the other two waited for the suspect to exit the bathroom. The two women saw the man in the pink wig, wearing sunglasses, exit the restroom and head toward a car. Security followed the suspect to the car where he removed the wig and glasses and put on a baseball hat.
The suspect was positively identified by the witness and arrested by Bellevue Police. Police brought the suspect in for questioning and obtained a full confession. Officers recovered the wig and glasses along with one iPhone from the suspect’s car, which was impounded by BPD.
A warrant was obtained for the iPhone, and photos were located of four total women in bathroom stalls with their pants down. A Bellevue detective used the GPS coordinates from the iPhone to determine the exact locations of where the photos were taken. Three of them were the victims at Bellevue College, and the fourth was at a location in Seattle.
In his recorded statement to the detective, the suspect said he was, "testing boundaries," but had not committed any sexual assaults.
The suspect, Robert Whitehead, has been charged with four counts of voyeurism, and is scheduled to appear in King County Superior Court on June 11.