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Diaranson 8 Juni 2022
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Albertus J.T.M. van der
Putten “Bart”
*17-05-1960 - †06-06-2022
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
Lagrima y flornan por seca, su recuerdonan y
tur loke el a haci y significa pa nos, cu lo keda
graba pa semper den nos mente y curason.
“Cerca Dios mi alma ta na paz, ta di DJ’E mi
salbacion ta bin”
Salmo 62:1
Cu inmenso dolor na nos curason, nos ta
participa fayecimento di nos ser stima:
Sra. vda. Cecilia
Zievinger-Henriquez
*09-11-1935 - †28-05-2022
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues
Police: DNA technology connects man to
Florida serial rapes
MIAMI (AP) — Advanced Floyd began looking through
DNA technology helped de- the files in 2019 and found the
tectives link the cases of six case of a woman who was as-
women to a man accused of saulted in her Pompano Beach
being the "pillowcase rapist" apartment in June 1984. That
for a string of rapes back in led her to several other similar
the 1980s. crimes in Broward County.
"It was a hunch," Floyd said link-
Robert Koehler is currently ing the first case she found to
jailed in neighboring Miami- Koehler. "It was a hunch based
Dade County, where he faces specifically on this case, that he
charges for assaulting a woman used a pillowcase to cover his
in the early '80s as well, Broward face, and at no point was she able
County Sheriff Gregory Tony to identify who he was because
said in a Tuesday morning news she didn't know what he looked
conference. like."
Authorities believe Koehler, Around the same time, in 2020,
62, may have committed 40 to prosecutors in Miami-Dade before discussing it with her.
45 rapes, terrifying victims by County announced Koehler's "But when they did decide
breaking into their homes at arrest and said he was thought to to come back and were brave
night, the sheriff said. The as- be the "pillowcase rapist" whose enough to discuss it with me,
sailant used a pillowcase or oth- knifepoint attacks put women I was very proud of them," she
er fabric to cover his face — or across South Florida on edge said.
the face of his victims — before beginning in 1981. Their stories were all similar.
assaulting them, tying them up Floyd got a search warrant for They lived alone. They were as-
and stealing items from their Koehler's DNA and testing done saulted at night, and the attacker
by the sheriff's office crime lab apparently knew their habits, in-
homes.
The assaults by the pillowcase found it matched the evidence cluding in some cases the layout
of their apartments.
rapist attracted extensive media in the cases she was investigat- Now, those victims are very re-
attention in South Florida and ing, she said.
the creation of a task force to in- Detectives worked with prose- lieved to know the man who at-
vestigate the sex crimes, sheriff's cutors to bring six sexual assault tacked them may be brought to
officials said. charges against Koehler. justice, she said.
But the trail eventually turned "When I found my first case, it "Several of them have comment-
cold and the cases ended up in actually saddened me to have to ed that they hope more women
the cold case unit. However, reach out to that victim and have will come forward," Floyd said.
sheriff's officials said the me- her relive what had happened so Floyd explained there are so
ticulous record-keeping on the many years ago," Floyd said. many sexual assault cases in the
original cases provided detec- It was heartbreaking in many cold case files, many from a time
tives the ability to test the evi- cases, she added, because some before records were computer-
dence decades later. women had not even told their ized, making it difficult to match
They dug through 500 boxes of families what had happened to them.
evidence and thousands of sexu- them. She said some of the vic- "For those who haven't come
al assault cases to link the cases tims told her they would need forward yet, this will bring you
to Koehler, said Sgt. Kami Floyd. to talk it over with their families some closure," she said.
Texas suspends inmate transports after
escape left 5 dead
“The agency is conducting an were injured but were expected
internal Serious Incident Re- to survive. The inmate was in
view and also intends to bring stable condition. Authorities be-
in an outside firm to conduct an lieve that on Thursday, Lopez
independent review to identify killed 66-year-old Mark Collins,
factors that may have led to the and his four grandsons, Waylon
escape of (Gonzalo) Lopez,” the Collins, 18; Carson Collins, 16;
Texas Department of Criminal Hudson Collins, 11; and Bryson
Justice said in a statement Mon- Collins, 11. Waylon, Carson
day. No timeline was given for and Hudson were brothers and
how long the internal review Bryson was their cousin. Investi-
would take to complete. gators say Lopez stole an AR-15-
The agency said if it must trans- style rifle and a pistol from the
port an inmate for an emergency family’s ranch near Centerville,
medical appointment or for re- as well as a truck that he drove
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ lease, it will have more security. about 220 miles (350 kilome-
prison system has temporar- Such additional security mea- ters) to Atascosa County, south
ily stopped transporting in- sures were in place when a van of San Antonio, where officers
mates as it investigates how a that was transporting an inmate fatally shot him late Thursday.
convicted murderer escaped from a hospital to a prison in East Texas state Sen. John Whitmire,
from a bus last month and Texas collided with another ve- who had called for a temporary
later killed a man and his hicle early Tuesday on a freeway halt in inmate transports, praised
four grandsons. north of Houston, according to the prison agency’s change in
the prison agency. Three guards policy.