(CNN) A Florida man has been arrested in a cold case 1983 rape -- and law enforcement sources have told the Miami Herald that authorities believe he's responsible for much more: a notorious string of 1980s South Florida assaults collectively known as the "Pillowcase Rapist" cases. If he is confirmed to be the assailant in those cases, it will have been a huge break in a crime spree that terrorized the region decades ago. He has been charged in that case only: Two felony counts of armed sexual battery. The Miami Herald, citing law enforcement sources that it did not name, then reported that authorities believe he may be the "Pillowcase Rapist" -- a moniker that contemporary news accounts gave to an assailant believed to have attacked more than 40 women in metropolitan Miami from 1981 to 1986. The assailant, police said then, generally attacked women in apartments or townhomes, and would use something -- a pillowcase, a shirt, or a towel -- to conceal his face, according to the Herald.

Source: CNN January 23, 2020 04:29 UTC