{"id":32465,"date":"2025-11-04T07:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/32465\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:55:12","slug":"man-known-as-pillowcase-rapist-convicted-in-south-florida-cold-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/32465\/","title":{"rendered":"Man known as ‘pillowcase rapist’ convicted in South Florida cold case"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI (AP) \u2014 A man suspected of being the \u201cpillowcase rapist\u201d in a string of South Florida rapes back in the 1980s was convicted Monday in another one of the attacks.<\/p>\n

Miami-Dade County jurors found Robert Koehler, 66, guilty of sexual battery, kidnapping and burglary after deliberating for less than two hours. His sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 24.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s conviction involves a woman who was 22 years old in 1984 when someone broke into her southwest Miami-Dade County home and raped her. Koehler was sentenced to 17 years in prison nearly three years ago for a similar attack<\/a> on a 25-year-old woman in 1983.<\/p>\n

Authorities say the \u201cpillowcase rapist\u201d terrified his victims by breaking into their homes at night. The attacker used a pillowcase or other fabric to cover his face \u2014 or the faces of his victims \u2014 before assaulting them, tying them up and stealing from their homes.<\/p>\n

The assaults attracted extensive media attention in South Florida and authorities created a task force to investigate. The trail had turned cold until 2020, when authorities say a DNA hit for one of Koehler\u2019s relatives led police to him.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have said they\u2019ve connected Koehler\u2019s DNA to at least 25 attacks, but there could be more than 40 victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 A man suspected of being the \u201cpillowcase rapist\u201d in a string of South Florida rapes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8128,3321,265,1108,1881,1882,28,30,29,477,1106,6008,22707,1311,2425,1110],"class_list":["post-32465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-assault","tag-burglary","tag-crime","tag-criminal-punishment","tag-domestic-news","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-general-news","tag-juries","tag-kidnapping","tag-robert-koehler-miami-dade-florida","tag-sexual-assault","tag-theft","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}