That confession led to him being charged with Miller’s murder. He later raped her, choked her with a belt, bludgeoned her with a hammer and tied her body to her bed, then set the bed on fire. He told police he broke into Miller’s Brevard County condo and hid naked in a closet for hours, watching her. He said he converted to Islam in prison and, during the month of Ramadan in 2005, sought atonement with a detailed confession. He is set to be executed for the 1988 murder of Patricia “Patsy” Miller in Brevard County.īarnes was already serving a life sentence for killing his wife when he confessed to Miller’s murder. If Barnes is responsible for more murders, he is scheduled to take that information to his grave at Florida State Prison on Thursday evening. “But the names he mentioned, where, how he did it, there’s no evidence there’s any validity.” “I can’t sit here and say 100% that he didn’t kill Chester Wetmore,” Robinson said. Robinson said he doesn’t believe Barnes killed the boy.
