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Felonious Florida

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As the police strain under Miami’s deadly cocaine-fueled crime wave, the Pillowcase Rapist is striking with impunity. After a school teacher is raped in her apartment in late 1983, Detective Simmons and his team are stunned to learn that the suspect returned to her apartment a second time — a brazen and unsettling escalation by the rapist.

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0:17.0	This episode contains graphic language
0:20.0	and descriptions of sexual violence that some listeners may find disturbing.
0:24.0	For over two years he has alluded the best efforts of Miami's police forces
0:30.7	and in that time say police has probably raped dozens of women.
0:36.3	November 1983.
0:38.8	News is spreading through Miami about a serial rapist who's been breaking into apartments late at night and attacking women.
0:47.0	The pillowcase rapist has not killed any of his victims, but police say they are concerned he's becoming more violent.
0:53.6	He's stealthy and usually armed with a knife.
0:56.6	None of his victims has ever seen his face.
0:59.8	Investigators have brought the case to the media
1:02.4	and begin urgently warning women to take precautions.
1:05.0	We're asking that they be very cautious, watch for suspicious people in their complexes, and be sure to lock their windows in sliding glass
1:15.2	doors, even on upper floors.
1:18.2	But in a small apartment south of Miami, news of the pillowcase rapes hasn't reached
1:26.4	Eileen Lear. The 30-year-old teacher has other things on her mind. Her fifth grade class the next day and
1:34.2	Thanksgiving in a week.
1:36.6	It was a regular school day, and in those days I thought nothing
1:41.0	about keeping my windows open at night. I felt completely safe here.
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