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  Derrick Todd Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Derrick Todd Lee (born in 1968 in St.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derrick_Todd_Lee   (365 words)

  
 Police arrest serial-killings suspect in Atlanta - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Lee, a hustler with a checkered background of arrests and convictions for violence against women, burglary, stalking and criminal trespass, had been suspected in a homicide and a disappearance in Zachary, La., a suburb of Baton Rouge.
Lee had talked about the unsolved disappearance in Zachary five years before, Zachary police reported to a state investigator and the two agencies obtained a court order for his DNA to be tested.
Lee was under investigation in a 5-year-old Zachary case: the disappearance of Randi Mebruer, 28, who went missing from her home in April 1998.
www.washingtontimes.com /national/20030528-120418-2660r.htm   (743 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - La. jury recommends death for twice-convicted killer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Lee, 35, was convicted Tuesday for the first-degree murder of 22-year-old Charlotte Murray Pace, who was raped and riddled with more than 80 stab wounds in a brutal struggle throughout her home in May 2002.
Lee has been linked by DNA evidence to the deaths of seven women from 1998 to 2003, and prosecutors introduced the gruesome details of four other killings in the Pace trial.
Sarah Deland, a Tulane University psychiatrist, agreed that Lee is retarded.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-10-14-la-serial-killings_x.htm   (730 words)

  
 Gambit Weekly : A Chilling Tale : June 13, 2006
Their story is about Louisiana's most prolific serial killer, Derrick Todd Lee, whose crime spree escalated from peeping at and stalking women to murderous rage in the Baton Rouge area and parts of south Louisiana.
Another tragic paradox about this case was the number of times Derrick Todd Lee was in the clutches of the justice system but was nonetheless allowed "to wander about south Louisiana searching for pretty women." Short stretches in jail and suspended sentences were a part of his criminal history.
Ultimately, Derrick Todd Lee was nailed by DNA evidence that co-author Tony Clayton, a special prosecutor in West Baton Rouge Parish, presented to jurors after he got the call for the first case to be tried.
www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2006-06-13/words_feat.php   (897 words)

  
 CNN.com - Suspect in Louisiana serial killings arrested - May. 27, 2003
Derrick Todd Lee is wanted in connection with five killings in Louisiana.
Lee, a father of two, disappeared from Louisiana shortly after he voluntarily submitted to DNA testing May 5.
Lee's most recent address was in St. Francisville, Louisiana, 40 miles from Baton Rouge, police said.
www.cnn.com /2003/US/South/05/27/louisiana.killings/index.html   (923 words)

  
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Lee, 36, of St. Francisville, was convicted Oct. 12 of first-degree murder in the May 31, 2002, death of former Louisiana State University student Charlotte Murray Pace, a Jackson, Miss., native, in her home.
Meantime Derrick Todd LEE was convicted for one of that murders on Charlotte Murray PACE, the jury seeks death penalty.
A nurse who prosecutors contend was one of the victims of serial-killing suspect Derrick Todd Lee was strangled with her murderer’s bare hands as she struggled to free herself from his grip, a pathologist testified Friday.
www.crimezzz.net /serialkiller_news/LEE_derrick_todd.php   (11564 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Serial killings suspect guilty in second trial, could face death
Lee, 35, sat stone-faced after the verdict was read, while the victim's mother began to shake and cry.
DNA evidence was used to connect Lee to the Pace murder, and a nurse testified that Lee tried to brutally rape and kill her in July 2002.
Lee was convicted in August in the beating and stabbing death of 21-year-old graduate student Geralyn DeSoto.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20041013-0124-serialkillings.html   (544 words)

  
 © 2004 Forensic Solutions LLC; Criminal Profiles
Derrick Todd Lee was arrested on May 27th, 2003; the FBI provided a profile to the task force in this case in the Fall of 2002, and it was amended in January of 2003.
Derrick Todd Lee was in fact described as a religious 34 year old fl male with an ex-wife and two kids who was also known as smooth, handsome and charming.
Derrick Lee was arrested in November 1992 for burglary, and arrested again in July 1997 for burglary, criminal trespassing and two counts of being a peeping Tom.
www.corpus-delicti.com /prof_archives_profiles.html   (2657 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
It's also believed that Derrick Todd Lee left the Baton Rouge area by bus and traveled to Chicago and then made his way to Atlanta where he has spent the last week working odd jobs perhaps in the construction industry is what authorities tend to believe at this point.
Derrick Todd Lee, the 34-year-old suspected serial killer of five women in the Baton Rouge area, is in custody in Atlanta right now.
Derrick Lee produced a identification indicating that he was Derrick Lee, and he was from the state of Louisiana.
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0305/27/asb.00.html   (10490 words)

  
 Derrick Todd Lee:  Murderer or Martyr?
Lee tried harder than most of us are willing to go in being Christ-like, he still fell far short of the seemingly unbeatable record the Lord has set when it comes to ripping folks apart or otherwise killing them.
The bottom line is that Derrick Todd Lee, if not a prophet, is nonetheless a devout man of God who would probably have had an Old Testament book named after him, had Jesus come just a couple thousand years later (and were Derrick not unfortunately a descendant of Ham).
Just as Derricks’ victims had the misfortune of being born tempestuous women, those civilians had the misfortune of being born in a country that practiced the wrong religion (not to mention had a leader who rubbed our President the wrong way).
www.landoverbaptist.org /sermons/murdererormartyr.html   (848 words)

  
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Lee was charged in a warrant issued Monday with murder and aggravated rape in the killing of Carrie Yoder, 26, a Louisiana State University graduate student who became the serial killer's fifth known victim in March.
Lee was named as a suspect nearly a year after police linked the murders of three Baton Rouge women to a single DNA profile, creating a frenzy in the area as women flocked to self-defense classes and bought pepper spray and handguns.
The photo of Lee bears a similarity to the sketch, which is of a fl man, but police said Monday they had not connected Lee to those encounters in St. Martin Parish.
www.11alive.com /news/news_article.asp?storyid=32173   (1174 words)

  
 CNN.com - Concrete slab dug up at home of suspect's former girlfriend - Jun. 2, 2003
Lee, shackled and wearing a bulletproof vest, is taken off the plane after it landed in Baton Rouge on Wednesday.
Derrick Todd Lee spent part of his time on the run but made friends quickly.
Lee has a criminal record that includes a two-year prison term for burglary and a history of stalking and "peeping Tom" incidents.
cnn.com /2003/LAW/05/30/louisiana.killings/index.html   (872 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Louisiana Serial Killings Case Goes to Jury
Lee's lawyers have challenged DNA evidence used to link him to the death of Pace and others in southern Louisiana.
She said Lee showed up at her mobile home, saying he was lost on his way to a construction job.
Lee was sentenced to life in prison in DeSoto's death.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A25310-2004Oct11?language=printer   (499 words)

  
 The Directed Decisions Pressroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Lee, 35, is scheduled to go on trial on a count of first-degree murder Sept. 13 in the May 2002 death of Charlotte Murray Pace.
Lee, who is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in the DeSoto case, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder.
Lee could be condemned to death if convicted in the Pace case.
www.directeddecisions.com /PressReleases/08_16_04.html   (966 words)

  
 Suspected Serial Killer Derrick Todd Lee arrested in Atlanta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Lee was charged Monday with murder and aggravated rape in the killing of Carrie Yoder, 26, a Louisiana State University student who became the serial killer's fifth suspected victim in March.
Lee spent at least the past week in the motel, where he charmed residents, grilled ribs and chicken at a party and set up a Bible study.
Lee is the suspect in the killing at least five southern Louisiana women since September 2001, and he is suspected in a sixth death more than a decade ago and the disappearance of another woman in a Baton Rouge, La., suburb.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/918629/posts   (3182 words)

  
 Search At Serial Suspect's Home - CBS News
Lee, 34, was arrested Tuesday outside an Atlanta tire store and was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish prison Wednesday night on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated rape, second-degree kidnapping and aggravated burglary in the death of Pam Kinamore.
Lee has not been charged in the two cases in Zachary — the 1998 disappearance of Randi Mebruer, 28, and the 1992 slaying of Connie Warner, 41 — but Zachary police said they suspect he is responsible.
Lee also was accused in a St. Martin Parish warrant Tuesday with attempted murder and attempted rape in an incident in July, before three of the serial killer's victims were slain.
uttm.com /stories/2003/05/30/national/main556223.shtml   (1191 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
Thirty-four-year-old Derrick Todd Lee, a name you've probably gotten to know quite well over the last 24 hours, has waived extradition just hours over his arrest last night in Atlanta.
Lee didn't appear on the serial killer investigation radar until Sunday, when his DNA was matched with DNA taken from the five serial killer crime scenes.
While police say they have DNA evidence linking Todd Lee to five killings, as you've heard in Ed's report, Lee also is a suspect in other cases, including the 1998 disappearance of Randy Brewer.
edition.cnn.com /transcripts/0305/28/se.06.html   (1510 words)

  
 Serial killings suspect guilty in one case - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
Derrick Todd Lee, 35, faces a mandatory life sentence in the death of the woman, Geralyn DeSoto, and faces two first-degree murder charges carrying possible death sentences in other cases.
Lee’s next trial, in the killing of Charlotte Murray Pace in May 2002, is scheduled to begin Sept. 13.
Her death was not linked to Lee until after he had been arrested in May 2003 in connection with a string of five slayings that terrorized people for more than a year in an area from Baton Rouge to Lafayette.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5664499   (604 words)

  
 Suspected serial killer Lee wants murder trial moved - The Clarion-Ledger
Lee faces a March 1 trial in the death of Jackson native and Millsaps College graduate Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, and has pleaded innocent.
Lee could receive a fair trial in the parish of East Baton Rouge," Lee's lead attorney, public defender Mike Mitchell, said in Friday's filing.
Lee was arrested in Atlanta in May 2003 after an intense manhunt.
www.clarionledger.com /news/0402/01/m05.html   (235 words)

  
 Jury urges death for suspected serial killer - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
Lee’s mother and sister each shouted, “I love you,” while the victims’ family members gasped, cried and hugged each other in a courtroom packed with the relatives and more than a dozen sheriff’s deputies.
Lee, 35, was convicted for the first-degree murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, who was raped and riddled with more than 80 stab wounds in a brutal struggle throughout her home in May 2002.
Lee cried after he was removed from the courtroom, according to his lawyer Mike Mitchell, who said he wasn’t entirely surprised by the verdict.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6235719   (666 words)

  
 Divers Search Water Near Derrick Todd Lee Home - News
It was part of the discussion at a brief, 20-minute procedural hearing in the first-degree murder case against Lee in the beating and stabbing death of Charlotte Murray Pace.
Lee also is charged with attempted murder and attempted rape in the attack of a woman in St. Martin Parish.
Lee is set to go to trial in the Pace case on March 1.
www.wdsu.com /news/2695661/detail.html   (398 words)

  
 Derrick Todd Lee, the Baton Rouge Serial Killer -- the Crime Library - The Crime library
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.
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.
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.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/baton_rouge/5.html   (1299 words)

  
 DNA 'Silent Witness' in La. Slayings (phillyBurbs.com) | National
Derrick Todd Lee, 35, is on trial for first-degree murder in the death of Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, who was killed in May 2002.
After Lee was arrested, police dug up concrete slabs, drained a pond and scoured Lee's old cars looking for evidence to tie him to the murders but came up with only a "lack of evidence," Mitchell told jurors.
Lee's lawyers also contend that their client is mentally retarded and could not be executed because of a Supreme Court ruling barring the execution of mentally retarded convicts.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/1-10042004-376815.html   (561 words)

  
 Derrick Todd Lee, the Baton Rouge Serial Killer -- the Crime Library - The Crime library
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.
Lee was sentenced to two years for the incident.
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.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/baton_rouge/5.html?sect=2   (1299 words)

  
 Derrick Todd Lee- Louisiana Serial Killer @ GeauxLouisiana.com
On August 10, 2004, Lee was found guilty in the second degree murder of Geralyn DeSoto.
As evidence from past murders and rape kits continue to be tested in South Louisiana, it is foreseeable that Derrick Todd Lee's notorious rap sheet will continue to lengthen.
Looking back upon Derrick Todd Lee's vast criminal history, we can surmise that he is no stranger to law enforcement, nor the prison walls that surround him today.
geauxlouisiana.com /DerrickToddLee.html   (333 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Grand jury indicts man accused in south Louisiana serial killings
BATON ROUGE, La. – Derrick Todd Lee, suspected in the killings of six southern Louisiana women, was indicted on one murder charge Wednesday.
Sinquefield said it was not appropriate to use evidence from that killing because police have yet to issue an arrest warrant in the case.
Lee did not testify before the grand jury, on advice from his attorneys, according to documents from Mitchell's office.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20030625-1606-serialkillings.html   (335 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - La. serial killings suspect found guilty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Derrick Todd Lee is already sentenced to life in prison for another killing.
Jurors will begin deliberations Wednesday on whether Derrick Todd Lee, already sentenced to life in prison for another killing, should be executed for the slaying of Charlotte Murray Pace in May 2002.
In his closing, Mitchell said that DNA evidence against his client was questionable because the analysis was done by law enforcement employees who trained one another in at least one lab that wasn't accredited.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-10-12-la-murder-suspect_x.htm   (754 words)

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