The Daytona Beach Serial Killer

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In the mid 2000s, 4 women were found murdered, all under similar circumstances. The case went cold but when another woman was murdered 2016, investigators tried something new in order to track down the killer.

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0:00.0	In recent years, genetic genealogy has become a somewhat surprising new tool in the arsenal of police investigators as it has helped them to catch a variety of different criminals through use of things like DNA kits. These kits were previously designed to create family trees for people, but now that they're being used to investigate homicides, it means many serial killers have been caught before their victim list can swell to include larger and larger numbers.
0:28.0	Of course, most killers are still able to roam free during the early days of their sprees by hiding in plain sight,
0:35.6	meaning it remains common for them to stack up body counts in the multiples before they're
0:40.2	eventually captured.
0:42.0	And that's exactly what happened during the 2000s and 2010s
0:46.1	with a man who by all accounts appeared to be relatively normal and well-rounded to those who knew him.
0:52.4	Unfortunately, like many serial killers, well-rounded to those who knew him.
0:52.5	Unfortunately, like many serial killers,
0:55.1	his outside appearance was only a facade
0:57.5	to hide the evil that was truly inside him.
1:00.7	This is monsters. Oh, you're going to be. Robert Tyrone Hayes was born on March 12th, 1982 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
1:33.6	And it was there he was mostly raised by his mother
1:36.3	after his father was murdered shortly after his birth.
1:39.9	Unfortunately, it seems that murder had a crippling emotional effect on the widow as, growing up, Robert would be repeatedly abused by his mother.
1:49.0	It's not clear what the exact abuse was, but it's likely it involved some kind of sexual acts.
1:55.2	And if that was the case, it wouldn't be the only time the youngster was molested as a child,
2:00.0	because while he was still a teenager, a separate family member would also force him into a sexual situation against his will.
2:07.7	Needless to say then, those incidents had a big impact on the man Robert would later become. And it wasn't just the sexual abuse that
2:15.5	negatively affected him either, as during his school years he'd be a regular target for
2:20.3	bullies on account of him being overweight.
2:23.0	Still though, while all that might have been quietly combining inside of him to create a whirlwind of pain and anger,
2:30.0	to the outside world he seemed to be an altogether normal kid.
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