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Ghost Story

Listen Now: Felonious Florida Season 4

Ghost Story

Wondery | Pineapple Street Studios

True Crime

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

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?

 

Felonious Florida: In the Darkness is available exclusively on Wondery+. You can listen to the first full episode wherever you listen to podcasts. To hear the full season, subscribe to Wondery+ in the Wondery App or Apple Podcasts: https://wondery.app.link/FFS4_GS

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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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