EVERETT — The DVDs had women’s names written on them.
They were made without their consent.
Now a Monroe man stands accused of secretly taping women he was having sex with. Robert Allen Anderson, 48, was booked into the Snohomish County Jail on Tuesday for investigation of voyeurism.
“We have several victims, but there could be more,” Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said.
A woman who knew Anderson discovered the recordings, according to court papers. She contacted another woman whose phone number she found in Anderson’s phone.
She told the woman that she had been on a computer at Anderson’s home and found nude pictures and videos of the woman and many others, according to court papers.
The woman said that there were many VHS tapes and DVDs with women’s names on them scattered around Anderson’s studio apartment.
The DVDs contain video of women engaged in sexual acts with Anderson, according to court papers.
One woman told a sheriff’s detective that “she is extremely embarrassed that he filmed them having sex and that she never gave him permission to film them.”
Investigators believe the tapes include sex acts filmed at residences in Sultan and Monroe where Anderson had lived.
One woman said she questioned Anderson about a laptop set up in his Monroe home. The computer screen was pointed at the bed but the screen was blank. She thought she saw a light on the computer and turned the screen away from the bed. Anderson denied taping her when she asked him about it, but did straighten out the computer, she told the detective.
A search warrant was served on Anderson’s home Tuesday.
He told a detective that he had recorded many women.
Anderson told the detective “they had given permission because they should have seen the camera or web cam and they never said, ‘No,’ ” according to court papers. “He told me that he didn’t think it was a problem because he was only using them for his own enjoyment and that he had never shared them with anyone and never uploaded them to the Internet.”
Anderson was released on $40,000 bail Tuesday. He also was arrested for investigation of unlawful possession of a firearm.
He was convicted of second-degree malicious mischief for an incident in December 2000. In that case, he pleaded guilty to damaging his girlfriend’s truck and breaking windows at his aunt’s home.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, stevick@heraldnet.com.
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