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🗓️ 14 March 2024
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The award-winning Felonious Florida returns with a chilling new season available only on Wondery+. Imagine waking up in your own bed with a menacing figure standing over you? In 1980s Miami, this nightmare became a reality for dozens of women. The Pillowcase Rapist stalked and attacked his victims in their very own homes in a terror spree that spanned 4 decades. Who was the man beneath the pillowcase? And how did he stay in the darkness for so long?
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0:00.0 | Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to a stranger next to your bed. |
0:07.0 | It's what happened to dozens of women in Miami and across South Florida |
0:12.0 | when an elusive serial rapist began a terrifying |
0:14.8 | crime spree in the early 1980s. In a new season of Flonius Florida exclusively |
0:20.9 | on Wundery Plus, detectives embark on a frantic investigation to stop the cunning and dangerous |
0:26.5 | predator who was known as the pillowcase rapist. |
0:30.6 | The mysterious attacker never allowed his victims to see his face and he left behind virtually no clues. |
0:37.0 | He became one of Florida's most prolific serial rapists. |
0:41.0 | And despite one of the largest crime-stopping efforts in the state, he evaded |
0:45.6 | capture for nearly four decades. From the journalist at the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Valonius Florida in the darkness reveals |
1:00.2 | how an extraordinary stroke of luck may have finally cracked the case. |
1:05.1 | Who was the man beneath the pillowcase? |
1:08.1 | And how did he escape capture for so many years? |
1:11.9 | Here's a preview from episode one. On the night of September 6th, Mary Beth is home by herself. Her boyfriend who also |
1:28.8 | works for Eastern Airlines is back at his home base in New York City and her roommate is out for the night. |
1:35.1 | I had a flight that night. I came in around one in the morning and what was funny was I |
1:41.8 | you know I had my suitcase with me and I left it right in the doorway |
1:46.1 | and I thought well if the robber comes in he'll trip over it and it was the things you remember |
1:52.0 | are really funny because I was watching three days of the |
1:54.9 | condor before I went to head. She watches the Robert Redford Classic for a while |
1:59.4 | then falls asleep. But not long after, a noise jolts her awake. |
2:08.0 | There's barking. |
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