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A imaginable "serial killer" was captured successful Florida aft 2 women were discovered strangled to death, nan Orange County Sheriff's Office announced connected Monday.
Deputies said Carlos Yadiel Baez-Nieves, 25, was arrested for nan deaths of Fatia Flowers, 41, and Nichole Daniels, 44, whose bodies were recovered successful March and April.
"Because of our detectives' relentless efforts successful this case, they stopped Baez-Nieves from becoming a prolific serial killer," Orange County Sheriff John Mina said during a Monday greeting property conference.
Baez-Nieves was arrested and charged pinch 2 counts of first-degree execution aft he was pulled complete during a postulation extremity for driving pinch a suspended licence connected Friday, Sheriff Mina said.
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During an question and reply pinch detectives, officials said Baez-Nieves, who moved to Central Florida from Puerto Rico successful 2020, yet confessed to some murders.
Officials added that Baez-Nieves targeted nan astir susceptible women he could – transient women who traded activity for money.
Sheriff Mina said because he is now disconnected nan streets, nan organization is now safer.
"He targeted women who he intelligibly thought would not beryllium missed. He murdered them and dumped their bodies connected nan broadside of nan roadworthy for illustration they were trash. But, very, very grateful and thankful for our awesome detectives who knew that Fatia's and Nichole's lives were meaningful and that they, of course, merit justness for illustration each of us," Sheriff Mina said.
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Baez-Nieves targeted transient women who traded activity for money, strangling them aft having activity pinch them and pushing their bodies retired of his truck, Sheriff John Mina said. (Orange County Sheriff's Office)
Deputies stated that connected 2 abstracted occasions astir a period apart, Baez-Nieves picked up Flowers and Daniels and had activity pinch them earlier strangling them to death.
He past drove to an intersection, pushed their lifeless bodies retired of his motortruck and drove home, Mina said.
The find of some women's bodies successful nan aforesaid location triggered an investigation which revealed different similarities, including some victims being transient successful nan East Orlando area, some having a history of narcotics usage and some were recovered nude aliases astir nude, according to nan apprehension affidavit.
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A "potential serial killer" paid to person activity pinch 2 women successful abstracted incidents, past strangled them and dumped their bodies earlier being caught, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said Monday. (Orange County Sheriff's Office)
Authorities said he is being held without enslaved successful nan Orange County Jail connected 2 counts of first grade murder.
Sheriff Mina said successful cases for illustration these, there's nan anticipation of different victims, and they're moving to find if Baez-Nieves was progressive successful immoderate different incidents elsewhere successful nan country.
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"He killed 2 women successful a month's time, truthful to me, that is nan meaning of a serial killer. But I deliberation this is simply a personification who is intelligibly tin of doing this, and whitethorn person done it successful nan past, and nan truth that he targeted women that he thought would not beryllium missed leads you to judge arsenic good that he is simply a slayer and astir apt would person killed again," Sheriff Mina said.
