A man convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl and her babysitter more than three decades ago has been sentenced to death by a judge in southwest Florida.
Zieler was jailed on an unrelated assault charge in 2016 when his DNA matched to the cold-case murders of Cornell and Story, authorities said.
The girl and the woman were found in a Cape Coral apartment in May 1990, officials said. Robin's mother had been out for the night and discovered the suffocated bodies when she returned the next morning. Investigators said both victims were sexually assaulted. that Zieler stunned the courtroom when he claimed he had slept with Cornell's mother a few months before the murder.WINK-TV also "His conduct on the stand did not help," his other attorney, Lee Hollander, said.
Hollander continued:"I'm back behind counsel table. And he's up in the in the witness chair. And it was like, sitting down watching a train wreck."
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