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BATON ROUGE, La. – A suspected serial killer was arrested in Louisiana last week after he called a sheriff's office and claimed responsibility for a string of shootings that killed three men.

• Baton Rouge Serial Killer. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. From 1998 to 2003, a serial killer was following, stalking, and violently murdering women. There was never any visible forced entry to the victims' homes and, for quite some time, law enforcement was sure that a white male in a white pickup was their suspect.
• If these charges are proved, Baton Rouge might have escaped a horrific killing spree: A 23-year-old white man arrested Tuesday was accused of killing two black men and firing on a black family in a string of attacks that police say may have been racially motivated. A law enforcement official said they had found.

At least five serial killers — one of whom remains at large — have stalked Baton Rouge over the past two decades

THIS city in America’s deep south is stalked by death.

I Survived a Serial Killer: Serial Killer Documentary. Derrick Todd Lee (born November 5, 1968 in St. Francisville, Louisiana) is a convicted serial killer, nicknamed the Baton Rouge Serial. (CBS/AP) BATON ROUGE, La. – Jury selection is set to begin Monday afternoon in the second-degree murder trial of suspected serial killer Jeffery Lee Guillory. The 45-year-old Guillory is charged in the strangulation of 46-year-old Renee Newman of Baton Rouge. Sean Vincent Gillis murdered and mutilated eight women between 1994 and 2003 in and around Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Dubbed as the 'Other Baton Rouge Killer' his arrest came after the arrest of his rival, Baton Rouge Serial Killer, Derrick Todd Lee.

Over the past two decades, the citizens of Baton Rouge and its outskirts have been hunted by no less than five serial killers.

Close to 70 men and women have been taken since around 1997, when authorities started noticing unusual patterns forming in their murder statistics.

The phenomenon is now receiving national attention in America, at least among devotees of Discovery’s new crime documentary Killing Fields, which tracks the reinvestigation of the 20-year-old unsolved murder of Eugenie Boisfontaine in the parish of Iberville, just outside Baton Rouge.

The series, shot in real time and dubbed the love child of Serial and True Detective, follows the original lead investigator, retired detective Rodie Sanchez and cold case Detective Aubrey St Angelo, as they team up to find Ms Boisfontaine’s killer.

One of the revelations to emerge from the series is that the investigation — both then and now — has been “complicated” by the fact that “multiple serial killers” were operating in the area at the time of the 34-year-old graduate student’s 1997 murder.

Last weekend, one of the prime suspects, Derrick Todd Lee, whose DNA has been linked to the murders of seven women — including two who lived on the same street as Ms Boisfontaine — died in hospital while on Death Row.

In fact Lee is one of at least five serial killers who have operated in the area independently of each other since 1995. The others include Sean Vincent Gillis, Jefferey Guillory and Ronald Dominique (who preyed exclusively in gay men). The fifth, named “Jennings killer” after the district (just south of Baton Rouge) his victims come from, has been linked to the murders of at least eight women and remains unidentified and at large.

Did Derrick Todd Lee murder Eugenie Boisfontaine or was it one of the many other serial killers operating in the area at the same time?

Two of Lee’s victims, including Charlotte Pace (above), lived on the same street as Ms Boisfontaine

Gina Green, another of Lee’s victim’s who lived on the same street as Ms Boisfontaine.

Award-winning true crime writer Susan D Mustafaplaces the collective victim tally of the five killers at close to 70 — a number backed by authorities.

Ms Mustafa co-wrote the recent New York Times bestseller The Most Dangerous Animal of All with Gary L Stewart and Blood Bath, about the Derrick Lee Todd case, with Sue Israel and Special Prosecutor Tony Clayton.

“It’s crazy,” Ms Mustafa told news.com.au.

“Let’s see, I’ve put Derrick Todd Lee at a possible 17, Sean Gillis at least eight, Jeffrey Guillory at a possible 12 but it could be more, Ronald Dominique at 21, I believe, and the Jennings killer at nine or so. That’s 67 (victims) between five killers.”

Ms Mustafa said there was merit to the theory — explored in Killing Fields — that Ms Boisfontaine was one of Derrick Todd Lee’s victims and said it would be interesting to see how his January 21 death would affect the investigation.

Ms Boisfontaine was last seen June 13, 1997 by an exterminator at her home. A jogger found her driver’s license and credit cards the next day near the Louisiana State University lakes.

Police searching the area found her keys in the same area three days later. Her badly decomposed body was found three months later in a bayou near a bar.

Then and now: Retired detective Rodie Sanchez (right) and cold case Detective Aubrey St Angelo have teamed up to find Ms Boisfontaine’s killer. Picture: Discovery

Free rust license key. New posters appealing for information about the unsolved abduction and murder of Eugenie Boisfontaine have begun appearing around Iberville

Detectives Sanchez and St Angelo literally digging for clues in a scene from real-time crime documentary Killing Fields. Picture: Discovery

At the time of her murder, Ms Boisfontaine lived on Stanford Ave — the same street as two other victims linked to Lee by DNA, though the killings took place in different years.

“I think it would be safe to say that some detectives believe Derrick Todd Lee killed Eugenie, but there’s simply no proof,” Ms Mustafa said.

“There were two DNA samples in her panties that did not match Lee. However; I still think Lee killed her based on the fact that he did not rape all of the women he killed, so he might not have left DNA.

“The fact is that serial killers are creatures of habit. In 1992, Lee killed Connie Lynn Warner in Oak Shadows subdivision. The next year, he attacked two teenagers in the cemetery that borders Oak Shadows.

“Then in 1998, he killed Randi Mebruer, who lived one street over from Connie Warner. He had already established a pattern of returning to the same area to kill.

“In 1997, Eugenie disappears from the Louisiana State University Lakes. She lived on Stanford Ave in Baton Rouge. Gina Wilson Green, who lived two houses down from Eugenie’s home, is killed by Lee in 2001, and then Charlotte Murray Pace, who had just moved from her home on Stanford Avenue, lived three houses down from where Eugenie lived in the opposite direction from Gina Wilson Green.

“That simply can’t be coincidence. In a five-house radius, three women are killed.”

True crime author Susan D Mustafa, who has written books about Baton Rouge serial killers Derrick Todd Lee and Sean Vincent Gillis

THE SERIAL KILLERS HAUNTING BATON ROUGE AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA

The Jennings Killer (STILL AT LARGE)

The eight women believed to have been killed by the Jennings Killer.

The Jennings Killer is the only one of the five serial killers of southern Louisiana who remains at large and has been linked to a string of unsolved murders.

“This Jennings killer operates about an hour and a half from Baton Rouge. He has killed eight or nine women and has not yet been caught,” Ms Mustafa told news.com.au.

His first victim, Lynn Lewis, 28, was found floating in a river by a fisherman on May 20, 2005. The other women have been identified as: Ernestine Marie Daniels Patterson, 30; Kristen Gary Lopez, 21; Whitnei Dubois, 26; Laconia “Muggy” Brown, 23; Crystal Shay Benoit Zeno, 24; Brittney Gary, 17 and Nicole Guillory, 26.

Police determined Ms Patterson and Ms Brown had their throats slit but the other bodies were too decomposed to determine the cause of death, although strangulation was strongly suspected in several.

Investigations have uncovered several connections between the women and there has been some suggestion the perpetrator works as a police officer or has close ties to local law enforcement.

Most of the victims knew each other well, some were related by blood (such as cousins Kristen Gary Lopez and Brittney Gary) or lived together (Gary lived with Crystal Benoit shortly before her death).

They also shared traits such as poverty, mental illness and histories of drug abuse and prostitution. All eight served as police informants before their murders.

Derrick Todd Lee aka The Ghost of Baton Rouge

Lee is escorted from the courtroom after being sentenced to death

Lee in his high school days

Lee has been linked by DNA evidence to the murders of seven women in the Baton Rouge area but is suspected by authorities to have killed as many as 21 women between 1997 and 2003.

After his arrest, police discovered another serial killer, Sean Vincent Gillis (see below) had been operating at the same time and area as Lee, muddying the waters of the investigation to this day.

Lee’s victims include 41-year-old nurse Gina Wilson Green, who was found strangled in her home at 2151 Stanford Ave on September 24, 2001 and Charlotte Murray Pace, a 22-year-old who had just completed her MBA.

Ms Pace was found stabbed to death in her home at 1211 Sharlo Ave on May 31, 2002. She had moved from 2107 Stanford Ave just two days earlier.

Ms Pace lived three doors down from Ms Green at the time of her murder.

Lee has also been linked by DNA to the murders of Pam Kinamore, 44, Carrie Lynn Yoder, 26, Trinesha Dene Colomb, 23, Geralyn Barr DeSoto, 21, and Randi Mebruer, 28.

In 2004 he was convicted of the murders of Ms DeSoto and Ms Pace and sentenced to death.

He died last weekend in hospital while on Death Row.

Sean Vincent Gillis

Serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis

Gillis was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007 for the rape and murder of eight women aged between 29 and 82 in the Baton Rouge area. Gillis nearly always mutilated his victims, some of whom he stabbed, others he strangled, and frequently took body parts as trophies. He notoriously masturbated with the severed leg of one of his victims.

He defied typical FBI serial killer profiles by crossing defined boundaries regarding age and race. His lengthy “cooling off” periods between kills, particularly at first, challenged what FBI profilers had become accustomed to seeing in such killers and may have significantly contributed to him remaining free for so long.

Like Lee, he crossed racial lines, preying on both black and white women who lived in both poor and affluent areas.

Linked to several of his victims by DNA evidence, Gillis has confessed to a total of eight murders.

Ronald Dominique aka The Bayou Serial Killer

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Ronald Dominique pleaded guilty to the murders of eight men but later confessed to having murdered 23

In 2008, Dominique pleaded guilty to the rapes and murders of eight men aged between 16 and 46 and received eight life sentences.

After his 2006 arrest, Dominique confessed to the rape and murder of at least 23 men in Terrebonne Parish, Lafourche Parish, Iberville Parish and Jefferson Parish over a 10-year period beginning in 1997.

In his confession, Dominique claimed he frequented gay bars and targeted men he thought would be willing to have sex for money.

Jeffery Lee Guillory

Baton Rouge serial killer Jeffrey Guillory has been linked to nine murders but is suspected in the slayings of at least three others

Guillory first came to the attention of police in 2001, when detectives found his fingerprints at the murder scene of Baton Rouge woman Sylvia Cobb, 36.

He was later linked by DNA to the deaths of three other Baton Rouge women whom police suspected had been committed by the same man who killed six others women in central.

Guillory was arrested in late 2009 and charged with the murders of Florida Edwards, Sylvia Cobb and Newman, all of Baton Rouge. The bodies of Ms Edwards and Ms Cobb, both 36, and Ms Newman were found in 1999, 2001 and 2002, respectively.

Guillory was indicted in Ms Newman’s killing in May 2010. In a bizarre twist, his legal team subpoenaed fellow convicted serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis to testify at his trial.

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Derrick Todd Lee (November 5, 1968 – January 21, 2016), also known as the Baton Rouge Serial Killer, was an American serial killer. His killing spree began in 1992 and ended in 2003, and claimed the lives of seven women.^[1]

Prior to his murder charges, Lee had been arrested for stalking women and watching them in their homes. Despite this, he was initially overlooked by police, because they incorrectly believed the killer was white. Lee was linked by DNA tests to the deaths of seven women in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas in Louisiana, and in 2004 was convicted, in separate trials, of the murders of Geralyn DeSoto and Charlotte Murray Pace. The Pace trial resulted in a death sentence.

Newspapers suggested Lee was responsible for 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 died on January 21, 2016, of heart disease at a hospital in Louisiana, where he was transported for treatment from Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he had been awaiting execution.^[2][3][4]

Methods[edit]

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. Two of the victims' bodies were discovered at the Whiskey Bay boat launch, approximately 30 miles west of Baton Rouge, just off Interstate 10.

As a result of an inaccurate FBIoffender profile and erroneous eyewitness accounts, police originally believed the killer to be white.^[5] Police therefore administered thousands of DNA tests to Caucasian men in and around the general area of the murders. Having no leads, police then allowed the now defunct company DNAPrint Genomics to access DNA left at the crime scenes. DNAPrint Genomics generated an ancestry profile indicating that the suspect was 85% African,^[6] thus changing the course of the investigation. Police then knew they were searching for a black man for the January 2002 slaying of Geralyn Barr DeSoto. More specific analysis of the DNA evidence found under the fingernails of DeSoto linked Lee to the 21-year-old Addis, Louisiana woman's death.^{[citation needed]}

Dianne Alexander[edit]

Lee entered the St. Martin Parish home of Dianne Alexander on July 9, 2002. Lee beat Alexander severely and attempted to rape her. Dianne Alexander is the only known survivor of Derrick Todd Lee. Alexander survived because her son walked in during the commission of the crime, frightening Lee out of the back of the house. Alexander's son chased Lee through the back of the house and was able to get a description of the car. Alexander had details as to what Lee looked like and on May 22, 2003, Alexander was able to describe Lee to a police sketch artist.

Between the DNA evidence gathered off of the deceased victims, a psychological profile made by Mary Ellen O'Toole^[7] and the police sketch based on Alexander's description, the police went public with the information. Police in the nearby town of Zachary recognized the man by a recent peeping tom incident they had just investigated. Police in Zachary called the police in Baton Rouge to let them know the name of the suspected perpetrator. Additionally, the Zachary Police Department also let the Baton Rouge Police Department know that they had a DNA sample from Lee due to a prior murder investigation from 6–8 months earlier. The DNA lab ran and compared the samples and they were a match to Derrick Todd Lee.

Alexander's survival and description of Lee assisted investigators in his arrest. Alexander felt she deserved the Lafayette Crime Stoppers Inc. public reward offering of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of Lee. On or about August 14, 2003 Alexander contacted Lafayette Crime Stoppers Inc. and inquired about the offer. It was then that Lafayette Crime Stoppers Inc. informed Alexander that she was not eligible to receive the reward.

On February 22, 2006, Alexander hired Attorney L. Clayton Burgess to pursue the case. Lafayette Crime Stoppers Inc. claimed that the reward offer expired on August 1, 2003 and that, although Alexander had gone to the police, she did not contact Lafayette Crime Stoppers Inc. before August 1, 2003. Furthermore, Lafayette Crime Stoppers Inc. claimed that she [Alexander] did not use the tipster hotline and, thereby did not comply with the 'form, terms, or conditions' required by Lafayette Crime Stoppers Inc. The case was decided in Lafayette Crime Stoppers Inc.'s favor.^[8]

Geralyn DeSoto[edit]

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, which meant a first-degree murder conviction would be harder to obtain. Lee was convicted by jury and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

Charlotte Murray Pace[edit]

There was some argument that Derrick Lee was perhaps incompetent to stand trial. During psychiatric evaluations, he scored an average of 65 on various standardized IQ tests; 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 despite his low IQ.

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.^[9] Lee was placed on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. During the manhunt, John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted, added the Baton Rouge Serial Killer to his Top 10 Fugitives of 2002 at #3.

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Lee was portrayed in an episode of the docudrama series Obsession: Dark Desires, which aired in March 2014 and centered on his stalking of surviving victim Collette Dwyer^[10] whose tips to police about Todd were not fully followed up.^[11]

'Crying baby' rumor[edit]

In early 2003, an urban legend began to circulate that Lee was using the taped sounds of a crying baby to lure victims to the door. The Baton Rouge Police were quick to deny that the information was coming from their office. Fueling the rumor were season 3 episodes of the television series Criminal Minds titled 'Children of the Dark'^[12] and 'Tabula Rasa'.^[13] Lee and the 'crying baby' rumor were mentioned in both episodes. Snopes reported on this urban legend.^[14]

References[edit]

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1. ^Bell, Rachael. 'Derrick Todd Lee, Baton Rouge Serial Killer'. Crime Library. truTV. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
2. ^'Officials confirm convicted serial killer Derrick Todd Lee has died'. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
3. ^'Louisiana Serial Killer Derrick Todd Lee Dies'. abcnews.go.com. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
4. ^Hamberger, Jeff. 'Convicted serial killer Derrick Todd Lee cause of death released'. wgno.com. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
5. ^News, A. B. C. (2006-01-07). 'Despite a White Profile, a Black Suspect'. ABC News. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
6. ^'Genome Test Nets Suspected Serial Killer'. genomenewsnetwork.org. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
7. ^Augenstein, Seth (June 5, 2017). 'NHIA 2017 Meeting to Feature Psychopathy, Blood Spatter, Police Shootings'. Forensic Magazine. Rockaway, New Jersey: Advantage Business Media. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
8. ^Dianne ALEXANDER, et ux. v. LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS, INC., et al. (Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit February 3, 2010). Text
9. ^'Review of death sentence for Derrick Todd Lee refused', Associated Press, March 8, 2008Archived April 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
10. ^'Obsession: Dark Desires'. Crime and Investigation Network. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
11. ^'Tipster claims her leads about serial killer suspect were ignored'. Capitol Watch. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
12. ^'Criminal Minds - Children of the Dark'
13. ^Criminal Minds episode, 'Tabula Rasa', imdb.com; accessed January 22, 2016.
14. ^'Snopes - Crying Baby Lure', snopes.com; accessed January 22, 2016.

External links[edit]

Baton Rouge Serial Killer 2003

• Derrick Todd Lee at About.com

Baton Rouge Serial Killers List