“He is remorseless,” Jan Cornell told The Post Tuesday. “He is evil. There are no feelings there. He’s just blank.”
Joseph Zieler, 61, brutally raped and murdered Robin Cornell, 11, and Lisa Story, 32, after sneaking into a Cape Coral condominium in 1990 as the pair slept.
At trial, Zieler testified that his DNA was present because he had had sex with Jan Cornell several months before the slayings. On the day of his sentencing Monday, with Cornell looking on from the gallery, Zieler suddenly clubbed his attorney with an elbow and had to be wrestled with the ground.Zieler wrote “killer” on his false teeth for the trial.Cornell embracing Ryan Pancoast after Zieler was sentenced to death.Zieler, she said, carried himself with a pitiless arrogance throughout the trial, often locking eyes with her from the defense table and while on the stand.
“I always told the detectives,” she said. “I know he’s alive and I know he lives nearby. I could just feel it. When they came to my door after 26 years and said they had a DNA match I just said “Oh my God” over and over again for 45 minutes. I knew justice would come.”
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