DEREK LEE LOUISIANA SERIAL KILLER SERIAL
DEREK LEE LOUISIANA SERIAL KILLER TRIAL

A lot of families out there who still think that he probably murdered their loved one and never even got their day in court. Move on.' But I think the part of the reason we're breaking into programming here is he touched so many lives in south Louisiana in a very negative way. But it does bring some closure in and sense that you don't have to watch the courts everyday waiting to see what the next saga in this, the plan out execution of this case,' Clayton answered.Īnd honestly, there will be some people who will watch this and say, 'Okay, good. How their love ones were brutally murdered. They will always have this deeply embedded in their minds. But I don't think that it will ever end for the victims. Well, it does as it relates to the having to wait for the appeals then having to wait for the actual execution. When you think about what this will mean to the families, does that kind of put an end on this? Maybe one of the worst I've ever seen,' Clayton added. And the way that he was able to link him through DNA was that he tried to put her throat back together and she captured his DNA under her fingernails as she was trying to fight him as well as her own DNA. 'Yeah, we tried him the first case, the Geralyn Desoto case. This is, what we know of, was the first one that has actually connected through DNA. Geralyn DeSoto, that was the case that you prosecuted there. And the fact that he had no remorse and the fact that he didn't own up to what he had done, it creates the scenario, for lack of a better word, will put it in folks to not have much remorse for him,' Clayton replied. Juries want you to man up and accept responsibility to what you've done. We had him red-handed with DNA placing him here and there and at the crime scenes, etc.

DEREK LEE LOUISIANA SERIAL KILLER SERIAL

'You know, a lot of times, serial killers, they deny all the way to the end. Is that why so many people hated this man? He always tried to play like he still didn't do it and he was innocent and this was a big conspiracy. Derrick Todd Lee was never remorseful in any of his actions. It seems like so long ago we worked on this case together. I just have to hang my head low in prayer for all the folks who suffered through this.' So, in a weird kind of way, the victims can now begin to put this behind them as it relates to them waiting for his execution, etc. So now, they can just start the healing process. Derrick wreaked a lot of havoc on a lot of folks families. Just hearing what you were saying about this case, it's devastating.

DEREK LEE LOUISIANA SERIAL KILLER TRIAL

'You know Greg, it's just a solemn moment for the victims,' said Tony Clayton, lead prosecutor for the trial into the death of DeSoto. Prosecutors believe Lee also killed Randi Mebruer from Zachary. The other murders include Pam Kinamore, Gina Wilson Green, Carrie Lynn Yoder and Trineisha Dene' Colomb. Lee is suspected of killing seven women between 19. Lee was also convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in the January 2002 killing of Geralyn DeSoto. She was a graduate student at LSU at the time of her death. In 2004, he was sentenced to death in the 2002 first-degree murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, of Baton Rouge. Lee, 47, was linked through DNA to the deaths of multiple women. Officials said additional information about Lee's medical condition cannot be released due to federal and state privacy laws. Lee was taken to the hospital early Saturday morning due to a medical condition, according to Laborde. Lee reportedly had recent troubles with his pacemaker. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death.

Pam Laborde, spokeswoman with the Louisiana Department of Safety and Corrections, said Lee died shortly before 9 a.m. BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Convicted south Louisiana serial killer Derrick Todd Lee has died, officials confirmed Thursday morning.

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