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Omaha Steve

(99,802 posts)
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 11:05 PM Jan 2020

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
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Officials believe they've found the 'Pillowcase Rapist.' The suspect was building a 'dungeon' beneat (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jan 2020 OP
Florida Man strikes again. nt SunSeeker Jan 2020 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author RandiFan1290 Jan 2020 #5
It wasn't the Pillow guy? LiberalFighter Jan 2020 #2
Jaysus, he looks like the damn Golden State Killer / EARONS greenjar_01 Jan 2020 #3
I thought the exact same thing when I saw this the other day on Reddit obamanut2012 Jan 2020 #7
First thing I thought. RhodeIslandOne Jan 2020 #10
Male violence is the worst problem in the world. Ellen Forradalom Jan 2020 #4
Familial DNA matches is getting a lot of these people caught DenverJared Jan 2020 #6
Yeah, but this was more old school, not a complex genealogical DNA thing like greenjar_01 Jan 2020 #8
That's how they caught Matthias Reyes, Haggis for Breakfast Jan 2020 #9

Response to SunSeeker (Reply #1)

obamanut2012

(26,164 posts)
7. I thought the exact same thing when I saw this the other day on Reddit
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 09:43 AM
Jan 2020

I thought at first they were linking these rapes to JJD somehow!

 

DenverJared

(457 posts)
6. Familial DNA matches is getting a lot of these people caught
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 07:58 AM
Jan 2020

Thank god for those databases and thank god for them to letting police use them

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
8. Yeah, but this was more old school, not a complex genealogical DNA thing like
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 05:51 PM
Jan 2020

some of the recent ones, including the Golden State Killer.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
9. That's how they caught Matthias Reyes,
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 09:45 PM
Jan 2020

the man who raped, sodomized and broke almost every bone in the the body of The Central Park Jogger. DNA. He left it everywhere.

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