12 Days of Updates (#8: The Daytona Beach Killer)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This is an update for episode #94, which detailed the murders of LaQuetta Gunther, Julie Green, Iwana Patton, and Stacey Gage. In the months since my coverage, Florida officials have announced the arrest of a suspect, Robert Tyrone Hayes, who was linked to at least 3/4 of the murders with genetic testing...

Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

This is Day #8 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Over the next few days, I'll be catching up on some stories I've previously covered and detail what we've learned in the months/years since.

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0:00.0	Between 2005 and 2007, a mysterious offender struck in the region of Daytona Beach, Florida.
0:16.3	The first victim was 45-year-old Laquita Gunther, who was known for her no-nonsense attitude
0:21.8	and sarcastic sense of humor.
0:24.1	She was also a mother of five, who had been arrested numerous times in her life for engaging
0:29.0	in sex work and drug use.
0:31.2	She disappeared on December 24th, 2005, Christmas Eve, and was found deceased two days later
0:38.7	on December 26th.
0:40.5	She had been shot once in the back of the head with a 40-calibre firearm, and the killer
0:45.4	had left behind DNA evidence.
0:48.1	A second victim would follow just weeks later.
0:51.1	34-year-old Julie Green was another woman living in Daytona Beach that had a history of
0:56.0	sex work and drug use.
0:58.1	On the evening of January 13th, 2006, Julie told her friends that she was going to use
1:03.7	a nearby payphone.
1:05.4	Her body was found the following day, January 14th, and she had been killed by an identical
1:11.6	40-calibre weapon.
1:13.5	Police also found tire tracks near the body, but it was uncertain if they could be tied
1:18.3	to the crime.
1:19.3	I want a patent was the third victim to be targeted by the same killer.
1:23.8	Due to her troubled lifestyle, it was unknown when exactly she had gone missing, but her
1:28.9	body was discovered on February 24th, 2006.
1:33.3	Like the other two victims, she had been shot with a 40-calibre firearm, and police would
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