"Potential serial killer" arrested after 2 women found dead in Florida

A man who precocious confessed to murdering 2 women successful cardinal Florida has been identified arsenic "a imaginable serial killer," authorities said.

Carlos Yadiel Baez-Nieves is jailed connected 2 counts of first-degree execution for nan killings of 41-year-old Fatia Flowers and 44-year-old Nichole Daniels, which happened wrong nan span of astir a month, nan Orange County Sheriff's Office announced Monday. Flowers and Daniels were recovered dormant successful March and April, respectively, CBS affiliate WKMG-TV reported.

Fatia Flowers and Nichole Daniels were recovered dormant successful March and April. Orange County Sheriff's Office via Facebook

Baez-Nieves is being held without enslaved for some execution charges, including 1 count of execution pinch a firearm, astatine nan Orange County Jail, online records show. The 24-year-old faces a 3rd complaint for having an invalid driver's license, pinch enslaved for that group astatine $500. He was booked into nan jailhouse connected Friday.

Sheriff John Mina described Baez-Nieves arsenic a imaginable serial slayer who intentionally targeted susceptible women. Both victims were activity workers, Mina said, and nan circumstances astir their deaths were similar. Serial execution is defined arsenic nan "unlawful sidesplitting of 2 aliases much victims by nan aforesaid offender(s), successful abstracted events," according to nan Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On 2 abstracted occasions, Baez-Nieves picked up each unfortunate successful his truck, had activity pinch her and strangled her, according to nan sheriff. He past dumped their bodies astatine an intersection earlier driving himself home. 

Carlos Yadiel Baez-Nieves, 24, confessed to sidesplitting 2 women, nan Orange County Sheriff's agency said.  Orange County Sheriff's Office

"I'm assured that done their vigilance successful these cases, our detectives person prevented Baez-Nieves from becoming a prolific serial killer," said Mina successful a statement. "Baez-Nieves intelligibly targeted women he thought wouldn't beryllium missed. He murdered them and dumped them connected nan broadside of nan roadworthy for illustration trash. But our detectives knew that Fatia and Nichole's lives were meaningful — and that they are worthy of justice."

The sheriff said that deputies were yet capable to find and apprehension Baez-Nieves because he tried to waste his motortruck aft nan murders, WKMG reported. The achromatic Ford F-150 was nan aforesaid conveyance that had been spotted picking up Daniels astatine a section state position nan nighttime earlier she was recovered dead. Another Florida-based CBS affiliate, WTSP, reported that surveillance video recovered from nan state position showed Baez-Nieves entering nan Ford F-150 connected nan premises.

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