Sheriff: ‘Potential serial killer’ arrested after killing 2 women in Orlando area
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Orange County Sheriff John Mina announced Monday that his detectives arrested a man whom he described as a “potential serial killer.”
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Mina said Carlos Baez-Nieves, 24, confessed to killing 2 women within 1 month.
Investigators said Baez-Nieves targeted the most vulnerable women he could find: transient women who traded sex for money.
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They said Baez-Nieves picked up the women, had sex with them and then strangled them.
“He targeted women who he clearly thought would not be missed,” Mina said. “He murdered them and dumped their bodies on the side of the road like they were trash.”
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