A man has been charged with 15 counts of invasion of privacy after allegedly photographing more than a dozen people inside women’s restroom stalls at John M. Olin Library.
Prosecutors said the defendant, Dennis Dill, 30, photographed women in various stages of undress inside Olin restroom stalls on Nov. 19 and Nov. 25. Dill, who is unaffiliated with WashU, allegedly took the photos by placing his phone in a side pocket of his backpack and pushing the backpack into adjacent stalls.
Surveillance footage indicates that Dill was in a women’s restroom on the first floor of Olin for about five hours on Nov. 19. Corner 17 employees confronted Dill on Nov. 25 after noticing suspicious activity in the restroom stalls. Soon after, the WashU Police Department arrested Dill and launched an investigation into his actions, during which officers obtained a warrant to search his phone…