The person who police recognized by DNA because the Pillowcase Rapist sexually assaulted a girl — after restraining her with a phone wire and gagging her with a wad of cloth — at her southwest Miami-Dade city house 4 a long time in the past, prosecutors mentioned Tuesday.
Robert Koehler, 66, is accused of terrorizing and sexually assaulting the 25-year-old girl in 1984. His trial started Tuesday in Miami-Dade Circuit Courtroom; he has been convicted in one other rape case from 1983 and thru DNA, is going through expenses in a string of sexual assaults throughout South Florida from the Nineteen Eighties.
Koehler was recognized solely because the “Pillowcase Rapist” as a result of he usually shielded his face with a pillowcase or shirt. The Pillowcase Rapist was one of many most infamous serial rapists in Florida historical past.
The hunt for the Pillowcase Rapist was chilly till a DNA hit in 2020, following the arrest of Koehler’s son. His son’s home battery arrest led police to Koehler, a registered intercourse offender who had settled in Palm Bay in Central Florida.
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