ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputies believe the capture of a 24-year-old man accused of murdering two women might have prevented him from killing more.
Deputies arrested Carlos Yadiel Baez-Nieves, 24, Monday for the murders of 41-year-old Fatia Flowers and 44-year-old Nichole Daniels. There bodies were found in the same location in March and April, according to a press conference.
On two different occasions, deputies said Baez-Nieves picked up the women to have sex with them in exchange for money. Afterward, they said he strangled them and pushed their bodies out of his white Ford F-150 pick-up truck, where they were later found.
Detectives recovered surveillance video from a nearby gas station showing Baez-Nieves entering the pickup truck the night before Flowers’ body was found by authorities, potentially trying to sell and get rid of it, Mina said.
“Baez-Nieves clearly targeted women he thought wouldn’t be missed. He murdered them and dumped them on the side of the road like trash,” Mina said. “But our detectives knew that Fatia and Nichole’s lives were meaningful - and that they are worthy of justice.”
He was eventually arrested on a suspended license but later confessed to both murders. He was sent to Orange County jail where he faces two counts of first-degree murder.
