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Police: DNA technology connects man to Florida serial rapes

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at the BSO Public Safety Building in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Authorities announced that they were able to identify and charge a man known as the "Pillowcase Rapist," Robert Koehler, for multiple sexual assault cases in Broward County in the 1980's. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Broward Sheriff's Office Cold Case Unit Sgt. Kami Floyd speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at the BSO Public Safety Building in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Authorities announced that they were able to identify and charge a man known as the "Pillowcase Rapist," Robert Koehler, for multiple sexual assault cases in Broward County in the 1980's. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Broward Sheriff's Office Cold Case Unit Sgt. Kami Floyd, right, speaks as Sheriff Gregory Tony looks on during a news conference, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at the BSO Public Safety Building in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Authorities announced that they were able to identify and charge a man known as the "Pillowcase Rapist," Robert Koehler, for multiple sexual assault cases in Broward County in the 1980's. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

FILE - Robert Eugene Koehler sits in court at his first appearance before Judge David Silverman via closed circuit on Jan. 21, 2020 at the Brevard County Jail in Sharpes, Fla. Koehler is currently jailed in neighboring Miami-Dade County, where he faces charges for assaulting a woman in the early 1980s, Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said in a morning news conference Tuesday, June 7, 2022. Advanced DNA technology helped detectives link the cases of six women to the Florida serial rapist who was dubbed the “pillowcase rapist". (Tim Shortt/Florida Today via AP, File)

Police: DNA technology connects man to Florida serial rapes