Serial “Pillowcase Rapist” Found Guilty in Cold Case Assaults

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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A man known as the “Pillowcase Rapist” has been convicted in another South Florida rape from the 1980s, after DNA evidence linked Robert Koehler to dozens of unsolved attacks across Miami-Dade County. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute.
0:03.0	A man suspected of being the pillowcase rapists at a string of South Florida rapes back in the 80s
0:08.0	was convicted Monday in another one of the attacks.
0:10.5	Robert Kohler, now 66, was found guilty on the four charges he faced, including sexual
0:15.2	battery, kidnapping, and burglary.
0:17.3	Back in 1984, a woman said someone broke into her Miami-Dade County home and raped her.
0:21.8	The case went unsolved for more than 35 years until 2020 DNA match linked Coler to the crime.
0:27.5	State attorneys say Kohler's DNA has been linked to at least 25 sexual assaults in Miami-Dade alone
0:32.9	that happened between 1981 and 1986.
0:36.2	Authorities say the pillowcase rapists terrified his victims by breaking
0:39.8	into their homes at night using a pillowcase or another fabric to cover his face or the faces
0:44.4	of his victims before assaulting them, tying them up, and stealing from their homes.
0:48.8	Kohler is already serving 17 years sentenced in 2003 in another rape case from the 80s.
0:54.3	His sentencing in this case
0:55.7	is scheduled for November 24th.
0:57.6	I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute.
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