FLORIDA
First Coast News
Julia Jenae and First Coast News , WTLV July 24, 2017
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A former youth pastor accused of the dismemberment and murder of a Nassau County teen in the 1990s has been accused of sexually abusing more victims according to newly obtained court documents.
The documents, which were filed on July 18, state that Ronnie Hyde, 60, was sexually abusing two boys around the same time he was sexually abusing Fred Laster.
Laster, 16, went missing in 1994. A passerby came across a decapitated torso that was missing its hands and lower body at a BP Gas Station in Lake City. Authorities didn’t know who the torso belonged to until 2015 when a DNA test was conducted with Laster’s twin sister, confirming the torso was his and solving a 23-year-old cold case.
On March 7, the FBI executed a search warrant at Hyde’s Jacksonville Beach home. Agents arrested him that same day on second-degree murder charges over Laster’s death.
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