The so-called "pantyhose rapist" has been returned to the Fulton County Jail.
Ali Reza Nejad was caught by U.S. Marshals near Houston on March 22, a week after he slipped out of an electronic monitoring device around his ankle.
He arrived at the Fulton jail Wednesday, the county sheriff's office said Thursday.
Nejad disappeared after the Georgia Supreme Court reversed an appeals court decision that temporarily freed him. The Supreme Court determined that Nejad should be returned to prison to finish his 35-year sentence for rape.
According to court testimony, Nejad would take his victims at gunpoint to secluded areas in Midtown, force them to put on torn pantyhose and assault them, prosecutors said. He was convicted in Fulton County in 2005 of raping two women.
During the trial, several women who worked as prostitutes along Ponce de Leon Avenue testified about other incidents involving Nejad dating to 1997.
He appealed his conviction to the Georgia Court of Appeals, citing ineffective assistance of council, and he was released on a $100,000 bond.
Nejad was apprehended at a Marriott Courtyard in Pearland, Texas.
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