This episode contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual violence that some listeners may find disturbing. story which is about crime will be familiar. Since 1981, police believe the same man has raped 44 women in Dayton Broward counties.

In Miami, they call him the pillowcase rapist.

There are enough files on the case to nearly cover an entire couch.

The pillowcase rapist has frustrated police.

Unfortunately, they say they don't know where to expect him to strike next,

but they're hoping they'll catch him before he has any further opportunities.

It's early 1986.

The search for Florida's pillowcase rapist reaches a pivotal moment.

Over the past five years, police believe he's attacked at least 43 women.

But it's the 44th that would change the course of this investigation.

What happened in a North Miami apartment that just after midnight on February 11, 1986 hadn't happened before.

That incident gave police their first major break in the case in five years,

and they owe it all to the victim's ingenuity and quick thinking.

It was a break that offered the public their first look at the man who'd been terrifying

women across the region. TV newscasts were spreading a new sketch of the

suspect on broadcasts in English and Spanish.

The policy of the Metro C. A Cedeo captor the violators of the Salmone.

The unwanted posters are being printed by the hundreds of thousands

as the search for the pillowcase rapist becomes the largest in South Florida

history.

But with the face of the suspect now all over the media, the investigation was

entering unknown territory. Police say they doubt all this publicity will

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