Officials believe they've found the 'Pillowcase Rapist.' The suspect was building a 'dungeon' beneat
Source: CNN
By Dakin Andone and Devon M. Sayers,
(CNN)Authorities believe a Florida man arrested last weekend is the so-called Pillowcase Rapist and is responsible for a string of notorious South Florida assaults that took place in the 1980s, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office announced Thursday.
Robert Eugene Koehler was arrested in Palm Bay, Florida, after new DNA analysis allegedly tied him to a rape in Miami in December 1983, Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court documents show.
But that DNA also matched samples from a number of cases between 1981 to 1986 left by a suspect who became known as the Pillowcase Rapist, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a news conference.
The assailant in those cases is believed to have attacked more than 40 women in metropolitan Miami, often concealing his face with a pillowcase, shirt or towel.`
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/us/robert-koehler-pillowcase-rapist/index.html
FULL title: Officials believe they've found the 'Pillowcase Rapist.' The suspect was building a 'dungeon' beneath his home, officials say
SunSeeker
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LiberalFighter
(51,197 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Yeesh.
obamanut2012
(26,164 posts)I thought at first they were linking these rapes to JJD somehow!
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Ellen Forradalom
(16,160 posts)Change my mind.
No pearl clutching.
DenverJared
(457 posts)Thank god for those databases and thank god for them to letting police use them
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)some of the recent ones, including the Golden State Killer.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)the man who raped, sodomized and broke almost every bone in the the body of The Central Park Jogger. DNA. He left it everywhere.