MIAMI (WSVN) – A man convicted in a string of rapes that took place in South Florida during the 1980s has been sentenced to life in prison in a hearing that went off the rails after he was given the opportunity to speak in court ahead of his sentencing.
Wearing an orange prison jumper, Robert Koehler sat silently in a Miami courtroom as Circuit Court Judge David Young delivered his sentence, Monday morning. However, the 66-year-old would not remain quiet for long.
A prosecutor addressed Koehler directly at one point, but the defendant, nicknamed the “pillowcase rapist” due to the way that, authorities said, he would cover his or his victims’ faces, began speaking over her…