I-4 Serial Killer Carlos Yadiel Baez-Nieves Targets Women Involved in Drug and Sex Trade Centered Around Orlando Fl

PUBLISHED 11:49 AM ET Apr. 29, 2024 ORLANDO, Fla. — A 25-year-old Orange County man was behind bars Monday after being charged with two counts of first-degree murder in a case that Sheriff John Mina said could have been just the beginning of a "prolific serial killer." Carlos Yadiel Baez Nieves also AKA Carlos Yadiel Baeznieves, a transplant from Puerto Rico, was identified as a suspect in the deaths of 41-year-old Fatia Flowers on March 4, and 44-year-old Nichole Daniels on April 17, Mina said. According to detectives, both women were strangled to death and their bodies were dumped at the intersection of Trevarthon Road and Harrell Road — a location that was also not far from Baeznieves' home, Sheriff Mina said. 

"Carlos Yadiel Baez Nieves also AKA Carlos Yadiel Baeznieves, DOB 5/22/1999, targeted the most vulnerable women," Sheriff Mina said. "Women who were transient, and who traded sex for money." He clearly targeted women he thought wouldn’t be missed. He murdered them and dumped them on the side of the road like trash. Carlos Yadiel Baez Nieves also AKA Carlos Yadiel Baeznieves, 25, faces murder charges in the slayings of Fatia Flowers and Nichole Daniels, whose bodies were found on the side of the road near the intersection of Trevarton and Harrell roads in east Orlando. Flowers, 41, who detectives said also went by Antonia Heath, was found dead March 14. The body of Daniels, 44, was found April 17. On Monday, Sheriff Mina said at a press conference that Baez-Nieves had the makings of a “potential serial killer” given the short time span between the killings and the similarities in the incidents. Sheriff Mina added he is working with other law enforcement agencies to see if Baez-Nieves, who is from Puerto Rico but moved to Orange County around 2020, had other victims. The FBI considers serial murder to be “the unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender, in separate events,” a definition under which Baez Nieves’ alleged actions would qualify. Sheriff Mina said that due to the nature of the two Orange County murders, investigators are looking into any similar cases that Baez Nieves may have a connection to in Orange County, or other areas along I-4 in Florida. Carlos Yadiel Baez Nieves also had NO VALID DRIVER LICENSE.

According to the FBI, four unsolved killings along I-4 near Orlando are among 28 in Florida that are unsolved and connected to serial killings that the bureau suspects were committed by long-haul truckers. Those include 19 deaths along the Interstate 4 corridor between Tampa and Daytona Beach, although all but one local law-enforcement agency denies any serial-killer cases on its books.The FBI report documents dozens of serial killings of people whose bodies were dumped near popular trucking routes.The report is accompanied by a map that shows the FBI plotting more than 500 serial killings — mostly prostitutes and female drug users — across the United States.

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