Trial Begins For Accused Florida Serial Killer Of 4 Women

Miami FL

15 February, 2022

9:56 AM

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CBS Miami February 15, 2022 Prosecutors told jurors that DNA evidence linked an accused serial killer with the slayings of three women 16 years ago when he was a criminal justice student at a local university. Prosecutors in Daytona Beach said during opening statements on Friday that DNA taken from Robert Hayes matches material found on the bodies of two of the three women, who were found shot to death by the same gun between December 2005 and February 2006. Hayes, 39, is also facing trial later for allegedly strangling a fourth woman in Palm Beach County in 2016. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, prosecutor Jason Lewis told jurors that Hayes was responsible for "killing not once, not twice, but three times here in Volusia County." Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. CBS Local Digital Media personalizes the global reach of CBS-owned and operated television and radio stations with a local perspective.