Law enforcement officials said the suspect, Robert Eugene Koehler, a 60-year-old registered sex offender, was arrested Saturday at his home in Palm Bay, Fla., about a one-hour drive from Orlando. Katherine Fernandez Rundle, the Miami-Dade state attorney, said at a news conference on Thursday that a DNA sample taken from Mr. Koehler had linked him to 24 other sexual assaults from that era. The key break in the case came last year, Ms. Rundle said, when Mr. Koehler’s son was arrested on a felony domestic violence charge, requiring him to submit a DNA sample to a criminal database. That sample, she said, provided a close familial match with samples collected from the rapist in the 1980s. She said investigators believe Mr. Koehler may have kept the items as souvenirs from his crimes.

Source: New York Times January 23, 2020 23:28 UTC