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Derrick Todd Lee (born November 5, 1968 in St. Francisville, Louisiana) is a convicted serial killer, nicknamed the Baton Rouge Serial Killer.
He was linked by DNA to the deaths of seven women in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas in Louisiana, and in 2004 was convicted of the murders of Geralyn DeSoto and Charlotte Murray Pace. Newspapers have suggested Lee can be linked to other unsolved murders in the area, but the police lacked DNA evidence to prove these connections. After Lee's arrest, it was discovered that another serial killer, Sean Vincent Gillis, was operating in the Baton Rouge area during the same time as Lee.
Lee's methods varied with nearly each murder. Similarities between the crimes included the removal of cell phones from the victim's belongings, and a lack of any visible signs of forced entry into the location where the victim was attacked. Most of the murders were committed in the area around Louisiana State University (LSU). Two of the victims' bodies were discovered at the Whiskey Bay boat launch, approximately 30 miles west of Baton Rouge, just off Interstate 10.

Geralyn DeSotoReliaGene Technologies Inc. linked Lee to the January 2002 slaying of Geralyn Barr DeSoto. ReliaGene analyzed DNA evidence under the fingernails of DeSoto and said the results of its testing linked Lee to the 21-year-old Addis, Louisiana woman’s death.
Once Lee was identified as the primary suspect in these crimes, law enforcement located and captured him in Atlanta, Georgia. Lee waived extradition and was returned to Baton Rouge, where he was tried in August 2004 for the murder of Geralyn DeSoto. Desoto had been found dead in her home in Addis, stabbed numerous times.
DeSoto's husband had initially been the primary suspect in her murder, but as the investigation progressed, DNA evidence linking Lee to the crime had been discovered. Although Lee was eligible for first degree murder charges, the District Attorney elected to try Lee for murder in the second degree, because DeSoto had not been sexually assaulted, thus a first-degree murder conviction would be harder to obtain. Lee was convicted by jury and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

Charlotte Murray PaceThere was some argument that Derrick Lee was perhaps incompetent to stand trial; during psychiatric evaluations he scored an average of 65 on various standardized I.Q. tests, and a score below 69 is considered to be the threshold for what can be considered mental retardation. Lee was, however, deemed fit to stand trial.
Lee was convicted on October 14, 2004, for the May 31, 2002 rape and murder of LSU graduate student Charlotte Murray Pace. He was sentenced to die by lethal injection. On January 16, 2008, the state Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction and death sentence.
Lee is currently on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.

A.K.A.: "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer"

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 7 +
Date of murders: 1998 - 2003
Date of arrest: May 27, 2003
Date of birth: November 5, 1968
Victims profile: Randi Mebruer, 28 / Gina Wilson Green, 41 / Geralyn Barr DeSoto, 21 / Charlotte Murray Pace, 21 / Pamela Kinamore, 44 / Trinesha Dene Colomb, 23 / Carrie Lynn Yoder, 26
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife
Location: Baton Rouge/Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on December 10, 2004


Derrick Todd Lee (born in 1968 in St. Francisville, Louisiana, USA), dubbed the Baton Rouge Serial Killer, has been linked by DNA to the deaths of seven women in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas in Louisiana. Newspapers have suggested a link with other unsolved murders in the area, but the police lack DNA evidence to prove these connections.
The murder method has varied with nearly each case. Similarities between the crimes include the removal of phones from the victim's belongings and the lack of forced entry. Most murders were committed in the area around Louisiana State University (LSU), with two of the bodies being found in Whiskey Bay.
Public hysteria had created many rumors and false suspect reports in the area. Previously, the suspect was believed to be a white man driving a white pickup truck. Further new evidence then pointed to an African-American man from the Breaux Bridge area driving a gold 1997 Mitsubishi Mirage who was also wanted in connection with an attempted rape. Lee was captured in Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2003.
During the last week of May 2003, DNA swabs taken from a West Feliciana Parish man who resembled the most recent composite of the suspect were rushed to the crime labs for analysis. It didn't take long for the lab technician processing the samples to realize that there was a positive match between the suspects DNA and samples taken from Carrie Lynn Yoder. Technicians were able to further link the suspect to three more murders attributed to the suspected Baton Rouge serial killer. After many long months, investigators finally had their key suspect, thirty-four-year old Derrick Todd Lee.
On Monday 26, 2003 police issued an arrest warrant for Lee, who fled to Chicago and then Atlanta in an effort to escape murder charges. At the time the warrant was issued, he and his family had been gone for approximately three weeks. Police learned that on the day Lee voluntarily provided a DNA sample, his wife Jacqueline withdrew their young son and daughter from school, claiming they were moving to Los Angeles. The couple then quickly packed up their belongings and abandoned their brown-brick ranch style house on 4273 U.S. 61 in St.Francisville of West Feliciana Parish, La.
On May 27, 2003, Atlanta police working with a joint FBI-metropolitan Atlanta task force apprehended Lee at a hotel where he was lodging. Lee waived extradition and was flown back to Louisiana the following day. Initially he was charged with only Carrie Lynn Yoder's murder. However, by early June he was also accused of the rape and murder of Green, Pace, Kinamore and Colomb based on DNA evidence linking him to the crimes.
During the investigation into Lee, the police learned that he had an extensive criminal history. According to Penny Brown Roberts, staff writer for 2theadvocate.com, Lee's youthful record included a string of juvenile offenses that stretched back to 1984 when he was caught peeping into the home of a St. Francisville woman's home. It would mark the first of many such offenses. Robert's further states that Lee never really outgrew his teenage fetish.
As Lee grew older his "rap sheet" became more extended, including arrests for attempted first-degree murder, stalking, peeping into homes, as well as break in and burglary, among other crimes. According to Roberts, Dunne and Millhollon, Lee's arrests and related incidents between 1992 and 2001 were as follows:
November 1992: Lee arrested for illegal entry and burglary of Zachary resident Rob Benge's house.
January 1993: Lee and his accomplice, Thomas Whitaker Jr. were arrested for breaking into the home of seventy-three-year old Melvin Foster, whom they beat with a stick and robbed.
July 1993: Lee sentenced to one year in prison for burglary.
September 1995: Lee arrested for a peeping incident and resisting arrest, after being chased and caught by police after looking into the window of a woman. During the same month, Lee was arrested again for stealing from a Salvation Army Thrift Store.
August 1997: Lee arrested after being caught looking into the windows of a woman.
August 1999: Lee arrested after being caught in a woman's residence uninvited, for being a peeping Tom and stalking.
December 1999: Received a suspended sentence on a misdemeanor stalking charge.
January 2000: Accused of attempted first-degree murder after severely kicking and stomping his girlfriend Consandra Green at a bar after an argument over Lee's advances towards another woman. While trying to flee from the police following the incident he allegedly tried and to run over the sheriff's deputy with a car. Lee was sentenced to two years for the incident.
September 2001: Lee arrested for battery against wife but charges later dismissed.
Following the release of Lee's vast criminal history, residents of Baton Rouge were shocked that he was never suspected in the Baton Rouge murders, especially when the focus was changed to a man of color in March of 2003. Moreover, the task force was heavily criticized because Lee had been overlooked after having been brought to their attention by the Zachary Police Department in 2002. The Zachary Police suspected Lee in the murder of forty-one-year old Connie Warner in 1992 and the disappearance of twenty-year old Randi Mebruer in 1998. Despite the mistakes made in the case, the task force was congratulated for their work in catching the killer.
After Lee had been taken into police custody, the police with the help of the FBI immediately were focusing on trying to locate his estranged wife Jacqueline and the couple's two children. It was hoped that Jacqueline might be able to provide clues into Lee's behavior and whereabouts during the crimes. Family members suspected she was hiding out of fear.
According to Ned Randolph, a reporter for the Baton Rouge news site 2theadvocate.com, family members of Jacqueline Denise Lee claimed that "she lived in denial of her husband's transgressions, which include stalking, peeping into windows and infidelity." According to Advocate writer Ned Randolph, Jacqueline's aunt claimed she was afraid of her husband and at one point against her wishes he had a mistress move into their home.
Initially, Jacqueline and the couple's two children could not be traced. Eventually in June 2003, the FBI located the three in Chicago. Investigators were interested in Jacqueline not only for questioning purposes but also because they needed her consent before they could begin digging up the property of her former residence.
Lee was tried in August 2004 for the murder of Geralyn DeSoto, who was found dead in her home in Addis, Louisiana. DeSoto had been stabbed numerous times. Desoto's husband was the primary suspect, but DNA evidence creating a possible link to Lee was discovered as the murder investigation progressed. Although eligible for first degree murder charges, the District Attorney elected to try Lee for murder in the second degree, since DeSoto was not sexually assaulted and thus a first-degree murder conviction would be harder to obtain. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the benefit of parole.
One of Lee's victims is believed to have been Mari Ann Fowler (born 1937), wife of former Louisiana Elections Commissioner Jerry M. Fowler. Mrs. Fowler was abducted on Christmas eve 2002 from a sandwich shop in Port Allen in West Baton Rouge Parish. She was never found and was declared legally dead in 2004.
Lee was convicted on October 14, 2004, for the May 31, 2002 rape and murder of LSU graduate student Charlotte Murray Pace. Lee was sentenced to die by lethal injection, and he currently resides on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.
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The Trial of Derrick Todd Lee
Derrick Todd Lee who accused of terrorizing Louisiana with a series of at least seven murders of women in 2002 and 2003, is facing trial in four of the cases on charges of murder, two of them death penalty cases.
Investigators are continuing to seek evidence in the cases of other missing and murdered women in Louisiana and Mississippi to see if can be linked to Lee's travels as a truck driver in the region.
Latest Developments
Jury Recommends Death for Derrick Todd Lee
Oct. 14, 2004
A jury took 93 minutes to recommend the death sentence for Derrick Todd Lee for the brutal murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, rejecting expert defense witness testimony that Lee is mentally retarded.

Previous Developments

Baton Rouge Serial Killer Found Guilty
Oct. 12, 2004
It took a Baton Rouge jury less than 80 minutes to find Derrick Todd Lee guilty of capital murder in the death of Charlotte Murray Pace after the defense rested its case without calling a single witness.
Eye Witness Identifies Derrick Todd Lee
Oct. 11, 2004
A woman who survived an attack by Derrick Todd Lee because her son came home unexpectedly identified Lee as the person who tried to rape her to jurors in his trial for the murder of Charlotte Murray Pace in Baton Rouge.
DNA Evidence Stacks Up Against Derrick Tood Lee
Oct. 6, 2004
A Louisiana Police Crime Lab forensic analyst testified that when she first saw the DNA profile of Derrick Todd Lee she recognized it immediately, because it was a unusual and she had seen it so many times before -- in investigations of five murder cases within 18 months.
State Nails DNA Evidence to Derrick Todd Lee
Oct. 5, 2004
Louisiana State Police Crime Lab DNA analyst Julia Naylor told jurors that the chance that DNA evidence taken from the body of Charlotte Murray Pace belonged to someone other than defendant Derrick Todd Lee was once in 3.6 quadrillion.
Jury Sees Crime Scene Photos in Derrick Todd Lee Trial
Oct. 4, 2004
The roommate of Charlotte Murray Pace described the bloody crime scene to jurors as they viewed more than 100 photographs of the scene in the opening day in the murder trial of suspected serial killer Derrick Todd Lee in Baton Rouge.
Jury Selection Nears End in Derrick Todd Lee Case
Sept. 29, 2004
After almost two weeks, jury selection in the trial of Derrick Todd Lee may be coming to a close as 12 regular jurors have been seated in the trial for the murder of Charlotte Murray Pace. Four alternates still need to be selected.
Lee Faces Death Penalty in 2nd Trial
Sept. 13, 2004
Derrick Todd Lee, already convicted of one of a series of murders he is accused of committing in Louisiana from 1998 to 2003, faces the death penalty if he is convicted for the murder of Charlotte Murray Pace in a trial that begins today.
Jury Finds Derrick Todd Lee Guilty
Aug. 10, 2004
A Louisiana jury took less than two hours to find suspected serial killer Derrick Todd Lee guilty of second-degree murder in the 2002 beating and stabbing death of a 21-year-old woman in her Addis, La. home.
Lee, 35, will face a mandatory life sentence in the death of Geralyn DeSoto, who was killed on the day that she registered to enter graduate school at LSU.
Lee still faces first-degree murder charges in two other cases, in which he could possibly receive the death penalty. See: Serial Killing Suspect Guilty of One Murder.
Prosecution Rests After Derrick Todd Lee's Son Testifies
Aug. 9, 2004
Prosecutors rested their case after a day of testimony featuring that of Lee's 15-year-old son, who identified a set of bloody boots linked to the murder of Geralyn DeSoto. Lee's attorneys are expected to begin presenting evidence in his defense as trial continues in the January 2002 death.
Husband Describes Crime Scene
Aug. 6, 2004
The husband of a woman who prosecutors believe was slain by a serial killer described how he found his wife in their mobile home with her throat cut.
Lee Complains About Public Defender
Aug. 6, 2004
Derrick Todd Lee told a judge that he's unhappy with the case being presented by his public defender. "This ain’t no fame and fortune to me," Lee said in court Friday. "My life is on the line."
Jury Seated in Lee Trial
Aug. 5, 2004
Opening arguments in the first trial against serial killings suspect Derrick Todd Lee began in Port Allen, Louisiana where Lee faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of Geralyn DeSoto - one of seven women Lee is suspected of killing.

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Derrick Todd Lee (born in 1968 in St. Francisville, Louisiana, USA), dubbed the Baton Rouge Serial Killer, has been linked by DNA to the deaths of seven women in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas in Louisiana. Newspapers have suggested a link with other unsolved murders in the area, but the police lack DNA evidence to prove these connections.
The murder method has varied with nearly each case. Similarities between the crimes include the removal of phones from the victim's belongings and the lack of forced entry. Most murders were committed in the area around Louisiana State University, with two of the bodies being found in Whiskey Bay.
Public hysteria had created many rumors and false suspect reports in the area. Previously, the suspect was believed to be a white man driving a white pickup truck. New evidence points to an African-American man from the Breaux Bridge area driving a gold 1997 Mitsubishi Mirage who is also wanted in connection with an attempted rape. Lee was captured in Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2003.
Lee was tried in August 2004 for the murder of Geralyn DeSoto, who was found dead in her home in Addis, Louisiana. DeSoto had been stabbed numerous times. Desoto's husband was the primary suspect, but DNA evidence creating a possible link to Lee was discovered as the murder investigation progressed. Although eligible for first degree murder charges, the District Attorney elected to try Lee for murder in the second degree. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the benefit of parole.
One of Lee's victims is believed to have been Mari Ann Fowler (born 1937), wife of former Louisiana Elections Commissioner Jerry M. Fowler. Mrs. Fowler was abducted on Christmas eve 2002 from a sandwich shop in Port Allen in West Baton Rouge Parish. She was never found and was declared legally dead in 2004.
Currently Lee resides on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
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1. Gina Wilson Green
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Victim - Police FilesSeptember 24, 2001 - Gina Wilson Green, 41, worked as a nurse and an office manager for Home Infusion Network. She was found murdered in her home on Stanford Avenue near Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA.
According to autopsy reports she had been raped and strangled. Investigators determined that her purse and cell phone were missing. The cellphone was located weeks after her murder in an alley in another area of Baton Rouge.
Prior to her murder she told a friend and her mother that she felt as if she was being watched. DNA evidence later tied Lee to the murder.
2. Randi Merrier
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Victim - Police FilesApril 18, 1998 - Randi Merrier 28, divorced mother with a three-year-old son was raped, beaten and stabbed to death. She lived in Oak Shadows subdivision in Zachary, La. which is also where her three-year-old son was found wandering around in the front yard the following morning that Randi went missing.
Her body has never been found, but evidence found at her home has been connected to Derrick Todd Lee. Randi lived almost next door to Connie Warner who was murdered in 1992
3. Geralyn DeSoto
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Victim - Police FilesJanuary 14, 2002 - Geralyn DeSoto, 21, from Addis, LA was a student at LSU in Baton Rouge, LA and was planning to attend graduate school in the fall of 2002.
On the morning that she was murdered she made arrangements for a job interview later that same day. She wanted to be able to pay for her upcoming tuition. She never made it to the interview.
Geralyn was found by her husband dead inside their home. She had been raped, brutally beaten and stabbed to death.
Their home was located on Hwy. 1 which is the main road Derrick Todd Lee traveled to and from work at the Dow Chemical Plant in Brushly, LA.
Geralyn's husband was the lead suspect in her murder before DNA evidence was linked to Lee.
4. Charlotte Murray Pace
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Victim - Police FilesMay 31, 2002 - Charlotte Murray Pace, 21, was murdered right before she was to become the youngest student in LSU history to receive her master's degree in business administration.
Her roommate found her dead in their Sharlo apartment in Baton Rouge, LA. They moved to their new apartment a week before from a rental home on Stanford Ave., close to where Gina Wilson Green lived when she was murdered.
There were signs that Pace put up a powerful fight. Autopsy reports say she had been raped and stabbed over 80 times.
DNA evidence linked her murder to Derrick Todd Lee.
5. Diane Alexander
July 9, 2002 - Diane Alexander, Saint Martin parish, was raped, beaten and strangled inside her home. Her son interrupted the attack and Lee fled the scene. Alexander survived the attack and helped the police put together a composite of Lee.
6. Pamela Kinamore
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Victim - Police FilesJuly 12, 2002 - Pamela Kinamore, 44, was a mother, wife and business owner. She had an antique store in Denim Springs, LA and lived in Briarwood Place Subdivision in Baton Rouge.
She was kidnapped from her home, beaten, raped and her throat was cut.
Investigators did not find evidence that her killer broke into the home. He either came through an opened window or door or she let him enter.
Her body was discovered four days after she went missing, concealed under bushes about 20 miles from Baton Rouge in an area called Whiskey Bay. A small silver toe ring that she almost always wore was missing. Police believe it was taken by Derrick Todd Lee as a trophy.

7. Trineisha Dene Colomb
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Victim - Police FilesNovember 21, 2002 - Trineisha Dene Colomb, 23, of Lafayette, LA was grieving over the recent loss of her mother when she was kidnapped from her mother's burial site.
Her body was found three days after she went missing about 20 miles from where her car was found in Scott, LA. She had been raped and beaten to death.
DNA was later linked to Derrick Todd Lee.

8. Carrie Lynn Yoder
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Victim - Police FilesMarch 3, 2003 - Carrie Lynn Yoder was living in Baton Rouge, LA when she was kidnapped from her LSU apartment, beaten, raped and strangled to death.
On March 13, 2003, her decomposing body was found in Whiskey Bay near the same location to where Pam Kinamore's body had been found. Unlike Pam's body which seemed to be carefully placed and hidden, Carrie's body appeared to have been tossed from the bridge.
DNA evidence linked Derrick Todd Lee to her murder.

9. Connie Warner - Possible Victim
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Victim - Police FilesAugust 23 1992 - Connie Warner of Zachary, LA. was bludgeoned to death with a hammer. Her body was found on Sept. 2, near the Capital Lakes in Baton Rouge, La. So far no evidence has linked Lee to her murder.
 
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