Man accused in a series of 1980s rapes in Florida is convicted in another attack

MIAMI AP A man suspected of being the pillowcase rapist in a string of South Florida rapes back in the s was convicted Monday in another one of the attacks Related Articles Microsoft billion deal with IREN will give it access to Nvidia chips OpenAI and Amazon sign billion deal for AI computing power Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay Grateful Dead singer dies at SNAP to be partially funded in November Courts order ICE not to deport man who spent years in prison before murder event overturned Miami-Dade County jurors exposed Robert Koehler guilty of sexual battery kidnapping and burglary after deliberating for less than two hours His sentencing is scheduled for Nov Monday s conviction involves a woman who was years old in when someone broke into her southwest Miami-Dade County home and raped her Koehler was sentenced to years in prison nearly three years ago for a similar attack on a -year-old woman in Agents say the pillowcase rapist terrified his casualties by current into their homes at night The attacker used a pillowcase or other fabric to cover his face or the faces of his casualties before assaulting them tying them up and stealing from their homes The assaults attracted extensive media attention in South Florida and bureaucrats created a task force to investigate The trail had turned cold until when agents say a DNA hit for one of Koehler s relatives led police to him Prosecutors have commented they ve connected Koehler s DNA to at least attacks but there could be more than casualties