More than 18 months after a judge sentenced a North Fort Myers man to death for the brutal 1990 deaths of a girl and her babysitter in Cape Coral, the Florida Supreme Court is scheduled to hear his first appeal.
Joseph Zieler, 62, was sentenced to death on June 26, 2023, for the murders of 11-year-old Robin Cornell and 32-year-old Lisa Story.
“I’m keeping my faith that there is a justice system, and it’s going to prove that the justice system works,” Jan Cornell — Robin Cornell’s mother — told The News-Press on Friday. “Everyone knew that this was going to happen. It’s not a shock.”…