Derrick Todd Lee, dubbed the Baton Rouge Serial Killer, has been linked by DNA to the deaths of five 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.
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. This suspect, Derrick Todd Lee, was captured in Atlanta, Georgia in May, 2003.
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America's Most Wanted (http://www.americasmostwanted.com/site/thisweek/CS_20030125.html)
BatonRouge LA The way has been cleared for serial killing suspect Derrick Todd Lee to appeal a murder conviction and death sentence for the killing of a BatonRouge woman one in a series of slayings that authorities have pegged to Lee.
BatonRouge LA Twelve jurors, including a high school basketball coach, a union leader and a woman who said she thought Derrick Todd Lee looked like "a nice man," were chosen Wednesday to try Lee for the first-degree murder of Charlotte Murray Pace.
BatonRouge LA Police informed public, referring to yet unpublished details of their investigation, that the three victims have been sexually abused.
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