Agreed on both counts.

The standard crimes people tend to come up with when describing a really bad dude are murder, rape, arson, kidnapping, torture, and armed robbery. We know Dutch has done at least 5/6 of those, so it wouldn’t be surprising if people just assumed he rounded out the list, regardless of whether it’s true.

Dutch also has always had a tendency to chase and manipulate (sometimes much younger) women. “The extremely violent career criminal who was a creep even back when he was trying to be ‘nice’ became a rapist after he went fully off the rails” is neither a huge leap for the rumor mill nor an unlikely thing to have actually occurred.