Rachel Bey, 32, was found dead on March 7, 2016, along the Beeline Highway near Jupiter, Florida, by construction crews. Authorities determined she had been strangled and that her jaw and teeth were broken. Bey had struggled with drug addiction and was known to work as a prostitute in West Palm Beach, about a mile from the home of the suspect, Robert Tyrone Hayes.

Robert Tyrone Hayes, 37 at the time of his arrest, was charged with Bey’s first-degree murder. DNA from Bey’s body matched samples recovered from other murder scenes in Daytona Beach from 2005 and 2006, and investigators used genetic genealogy to link Hayes to Bey after matching DNA from a cigarette butt discarded by Hayes. Hayes was arrested at his West Palm Beach home and remained in custody while prosecutors in Palm Beach and Volusia counties said they would seek the death penalty if convicted.

Hayes had studied criminal justice at Bethune-Cookman University and lived in Palm Beach County while raising a child. He was previously questioned in connection with Daytona Beach killings because he had purchased a firearm similar to one used in those crimes. Three Daytona victims named in the investigation are Laquetta Gunther, 45, Julie Green, 34, and Iwana Patton, 35; another victim, Stacey Gage, 30, was killed in 2008 but reportedly lacked physical evidence tying Hayes to that death.

Did anyone in West Palm Beach or Daytona Beach recognize Hayes or have information about Rachel Bey’s movements before March 7, 2016?