ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — An Orange County jury found the alleged "Hello Kitty" rapist guilty on all counts Thursday.
Edgar Collazo was accused of raping, tying up and robbing the victims.
Prosecutor Ryan Williams said emotional testimony from the victims played a big role in the convictions.
“There is no question that their courage is the reason there is this verdict,” said Williams.
The defense attorney said he was not surprised by the verdict, but said he did what he could to try and poke holes in the prosecutions testimony.
“My client maintained to me that he was not guilty and that’s not always the case for a criminal defense attorney,” said Joshua Adams.
It took jurors less than an hour to find Collazo guilty on multiple rape, sexual assault and robbery charges.
He was known by police as the alleged "Hello Kitty" rapist because of a tattoo he has of the character.
During testimony, a military veteran who was a victim of the sexual assault came face-to-face Wednesday with the man she accused of sexually attacking her.
The veteran’s testimony was similar to that of two other women, but officials said her attack happened two years earlier.
Officials said the victim had just returned home from a deployment in Afghanistan when she was attacked.
The woman said she knew her attacker even though he was wearing a mask and gloves because she could see his eyes.
The victim told jurors that he came into her apartment while her father was at work, told her to shut up and threatened her with a knife.
“I was stunned,” the victim said. “I told him, 'I know you. I’ve seen you.' He told me, ‘I am going to kill you.’ I was kicking him the whole time.”
The case went unsolved for years until DNA matched Collazo’s in an attempted rape case in an Orlando parking lot linked the three cases.
Officials asked the victim to identify her attacker from a lineup, and she picked Collazo.
"These are not fabrications, these are not figments of their imagination, these are the recounting of the actions by Edgar Collazo on June 1," Prosecutor Ryan Williams said.
Collazo’s attorneys presented his defense on Thursday and tried to poke holes in the state's case, saying they clearly had the wrong man. They called his girlfriend, Blossom Canales, to the stand to corroborate the story that he was home the night the two women were raped.
The defense said Canales got up to check on her children around 4 a.m. and saw police at the apartment complex investigating the case.
She said she also saw Collazo in bed.
Prosecutors portrayed Canales as a liar because while on the stand, she couldn’t remember the exact details of her original statement to police.
They tried to discredit her, saying she lied to get state assistance for her and her kids. She told those giving her money that she lived alone, but she told investigators he lived with her to give him an alibi.
When Channel 9 asked Canales about it, Canales said she lied to the people giving her money but was telling the truth about Collazo living with her.
"Edward Collazo came in here innocent. That is what you must believe; this is what you must presume," defense attorney Joshua Adams said.
Collazo did not take the stand during the trial.
His sentencing is scheduled for August.