1 00:00:02,043 --> 00:00:05,043 Fred dinenage (narrates): On 31 may, 2001, 2 00:00:05,083 --> 00:00:08,883 22-year-old Charlotte Murray pace had just graduated 3 00:00:08,923 --> 00:00:11,363 from Louisiana state university 4 00:00:11,403 --> 00:00:13,803 and was looking forward to moving to Atlanta 5 00:00:13,843 --> 00:00:15,483 to begin a new career. 6 00:00:15,523 --> 00:00:18,963 But she had no idea that someone was watching her, 7 00:00:19,003 --> 00:00:20,883 and he had plans of his own. 8 00:00:22,083 --> 00:00:23,123 A lot of his victims, 9 00:00:23,163 --> 00:00:27,763 he had stalked them for days, weeks, sometimes months 10 00:00:27,803 --> 00:00:29,923 to get a feel for what they were doing 11 00:00:29,963 --> 00:00:32,203 and what would be the best way for him to get them. 12 00:00:32,243 --> 00:00:35,923 He kept an eye out on these women and then pounced. 13 00:00:35,963 --> 00:00:38,603 32-year-old Derrick Todd Lee 14 00:00:38,643 --> 00:00:41,843 had already stalked and killed at least three women, 15 00:00:41,883 --> 00:00:46,003 before he took away the future of the recent graduate. 16 00:00:46,043 --> 00:00:49,523 Charlotte Murray pace was very athletic 17 00:00:49,563 --> 00:00:54,083 and she fought Derrick Todd Lee through that whole house. 18 00:00:54,123 --> 00:00:58,803 He stabbed her 81 times with a flathead screwdriver 19 00:00:58,843 --> 00:01:00,203 before he raped and killed her. 20 00:01:01,363 --> 00:01:04,203 Lee would go on to kill another three women 21 00:01:04,243 --> 00:01:07,683 before DNA evidence finally brought an end 22 00:01:07,723 --> 00:01:11,003 to his brutal and heartless career of murder. 23 00:01:11,043 --> 00:01:14,483 What was the motive for Derrick Todd Lee? 24 00:01:14,523 --> 00:01:17,763 It wasn't simply sexual pleasure. 25 00:01:17,803 --> 00:01:21,603 That would be easy. It was much more about anger. 26 00:01:21,643 --> 00:01:23,563 It was about power. It was about control. 27 00:01:24,923 --> 00:01:27,763 Derrick Todd Lee had been unmasked 28 00:01:27,803 --> 00:01:30,723 as one of the world's most evil killers. 29 00:01:32,563 --> 00:01:35,563 (Theme music) 30 00:01:54,763 --> 00:01:57,163 In October 2004, 31 00:01:57,203 --> 00:02:00,923 35-year-old Derrick Todd Lee was sentenced to death 32 00:02:00,963 --> 00:02:03,963 for the murder of Charlotte Murray pace. 33 00:02:04,003 --> 00:02:06,603 She was one of seven confirmed victims 34 00:02:06,643 --> 00:02:08,683 of the serial rapist and murderer. 35 00:02:09,923 --> 00:02:13,243 Detective, David mcdavid had been on the trail of the killer 36 00:02:13,283 --> 00:02:14,883 since 1998. 37 00:02:14,923 --> 00:02:16,843 He had always been determined to prove 38 00:02:16,883 --> 00:02:20,323 that Lee had murdered 28-year-old randi mebruer 39 00:02:20,363 --> 00:02:22,123 in Zachary, Louisiana, 40 00:02:22,163 --> 00:02:25,643 her death had brought fear to the community. 41 00:02:25,683 --> 00:02:28,083 You had a lot of tension here, you had a lot of women 42 00:02:28,123 --> 00:02:30,523 and their daughters that were scared. 43 00:02:30,563 --> 00:02:33,403 You had people buying guns, you had people buying tasers, 44 00:02:33,443 --> 00:02:36,363 you had a lot of women taking self-defence classes. 45 00:02:37,883 --> 00:02:41,923 Most of Lee's murders happened in nearby Baton Rouge. 46 00:02:41,963 --> 00:02:43,763 Writer, Susan Mustafa 47 00:02:43,803 --> 00:02:46,683 recalls the panic his killing spree caused 48 00:02:46,723 --> 00:02:48,803 in the state capital. 49 00:02:48,843 --> 00:02:52,683 Before Derrick Todd Lee everybody felt safe in Baton Rouge. 50 00:02:52,723 --> 00:02:56,123 People didn't lock their doors, they didn't lock their windows. 51 00:02:56,163 --> 00:02:59,363 Nobody was afraid to be out and about. 52 00:02:59,403 --> 00:03:01,443 When the killings started happening 53 00:03:01,483 --> 00:03:04,363 and the women in Baton Rouge realised 54 00:03:04,403 --> 00:03:06,203 they weren't safe in their homes, 55 00:03:06,243 --> 00:03:09,523 everyone was just terrified to go anywhere. 56 00:03:11,963 --> 00:03:16,443 Lee's violent and deadly attacks meant that no woman was safe. 57 00:03:16,483 --> 00:03:21,883 David mcdavid had a tenacious desire to put the killer behind bars, 58 00:03:21,923 --> 00:03:23,923 but even as a hardened detective 59 00:03:23,963 --> 00:03:27,843 he was fearful that Lee might strike closer to home. 60 00:03:27,883 --> 00:03:31,123 The way he attacked women and the brutality he attacked them, 61 00:03:31,163 --> 00:03:32,843 I was worried and scared for my family. 62 00:03:32,883 --> 00:03:35,603 It was something in my career 63 00:03:35,643 --> 00:03:38,003 I hoped we was able to solve this case 64 00:03:38,043 --> 00:03:42,163 before he got close to my family, which he was probably, 65 00:03:42,203 --> 00:03:44,403 you know, half a mile away from some of these attacks, 66 00:03:44,443 --> 00:03:47,203 away from my family where they lived at. 67 00:03:47,243 --> 00:03:48,483 It worried me real bad. 68 00:03:52,883 --> 00:03:54,643 This killer's story begins 69 00:03:54,683 --> 00:03:58,083 in the small town of st francisville, Louisiana. 70 00:03:59,483 --> 00:04:03,963 Derrick Todd Lee was born on 5 November, 1968. 71 00:04:04,003 --> 00:04:07,363 His life was unconventional from the very start. 72 00:04:09,043 --> 00:04:13,283 Derrick Todd Lee had a childhood similar to most children, 73 00:04:13,323 --> 00:04:18,563 with the exception that his father went to prison 74 00:04:18,603 --> 00:04:22,643 for the attempted murder of his father's ex-wife. 75 00:04:22,683 --> 00:04:25,043 His mother later remarried 76 00:04:25,083 --> 00:04:29,603 and she and Derrick Todd Lee's stepfather raised him 77 00:04:29,643 --> 00:04:34,163 but for the most part, he had a normal childhood. 78 00:04:35,363 --> 00:04:37,043 Lee had a low IQ 79 00:04:37,083 --> 00:04:39,803 and didn't perform well academically. 80 00:04:39,843 --> 00:04:43,363 He soon became a social outcast at school. 81 00:04:43,403 --> 00:04:46,563 There is one particular detail that is rather sad 82 00:04:46,603 --> 00:04:48,499 and that's that he used to suck his thumb in class 83 00:04:48,523 --> 00:04:50,523 and he used to call his teacher, "mamma". 84 00:04:50,563 --> 00:04:52,483 So, this really does highlight 85 00:04:52,523 --> 00:04:55,523 that he's kind of looking for an authority figure 86 00:04:55,563 --> 00:04:57,203 to be protective of him, 87 00:04:57,243 --> 00:05:02,163 he's looking for a mother figure outside of the family. 88 00:05:02,203 --> 00:05:04,043 Even as a young child, 89 00:05:04,083 --> 00:05:06,243 Lee had developed a sinister trait 90 00:05:06,283 --> 00:05:10,843 that would become a defining factor in his career of murder. 91 00:05:10,883 --> 00:05:15,123 Derrick Todd Lee began peeping into homes, 92 00:05:15,163 --> 00:05:18,203 looking at women, from a very early age. 93 00:05:18,243 --> 00:05:20,243 I think six, seven years old 94 00:05:20,283 --> 00:05:23,003 he was caught peeping in his cousin's window 95 00:05:23,043 --> 00:05:27,283 and over the years he was arrested several times. 96 00:05:27,323 --> 00:05:30,563 Now, this is a really significant red flag for me 97 00:05:30,603 --> 00:05:34,163 because when we see people engaging in this kind of behaviour 98 00:05:34,203 --> 00:05:37,043 what they are doing is that they are gaining gratification 99 00:05:37,083 --> 00:05:38,763 and they are gaining enjoyment 100 00:05:38,803 --> 00:05:41,683 through watching other people without their consent, 101 00:05:41,723 --> 00:05:44,963 so, we've got this sense of power over others 102 00:05:45,003 --> 00:05:47,923 from doing something to them that they are not aware of, 103 00:05:47,963 --> 00:05:49,883 that they would not be happy with 104 00:05:49,923 --> 00:05:52,443 and this is something that we see in the backgrounds 105 00:05:52,483 --> 00:05:54,323 of quite a lot of serial killers. 106 00:05:57,723 --> 00:05:59,203 By the age of 16, 107 00:05:59,243 --> 00:06:01,083 Lee had become well accustomed 108 00:06:01,123 --> 00:06:03,563 to being on the wrong side of the law. 109 00:06:03,603 --> 00:06:05,763 As well as peeping through windows, 110 00:06:05,803 --> 00:06:08,443 he had arrests for burglary and assault. 111 00:06:09,603 --> 00:06:12,683 You now, have a boy who's really on the edge, 112 00:06:12,723 --> 00:06:14,683 a volcano almost. 113 00:06:14,723 --> 00:06:19,083 He's very sexually precocious. He's very rebellious. 114 00:06:19,123 --> 00:06:22,443 But he's also got that violent streak. 115 00:06:22,483 --> 00:06:25,123 Here is somebody who does not live by the rules. 116 00:06:25,163 --> 00:06:28,683 Here is somebody who wants to get what he's after 117 00:06:28,723 --> 00:06:31,603 and rules and laws and all of those things 118 00:06:31,643 --> 00:06:34,083 that prevent the rest of us from behaving in these ways 119 00:06:34,123 --> 00:06:37,203 does not prevent Lee from doing these things. 120 00:06:40,723 --> 00:06:43,323 Aged 20, Lee got married 121 00:06:43,363 --> 00:06:46,643 but that didn't mean that he planned on settling down. 122 00:06:47,723 --> 00:06:49,523 Soon after they married 123 00:06:49,563 --> 00:06:53,443 her father was killed in an explosion at a plant 124 00:06:53,483 --> 00:06:54,883 near Baton Rouge 125 00:06:54,923 --> 00:06:57,043 and there was a lawsuit 126 00:06:57,083 --> 00:07:01,443 and they got a lot of money from the lawsuit, 127 00:07:01,483 --> 00:07:05,163 which Derrick Todd Lee immediately begins spending. 128 00:07:05,203 --> 00:07:08,003 He had flashy cars, he had gold chains, 129 00:07:08,043 --> 00:07:09,403 he liked to dress well. 130 00:07:10,643 --> 00:07:13,203 Even though he was married 131 00:07:13,243 --> 00:07:15,043 he didn't have a problem in the world 132 00:07:15,083 --> 00:07:18,163 using his wife's money to attract other women. 133 00:07:20,323 --> 00:07:25,363 There is something about him that is very attractive. 134 00:07:25,403 --> 00:07:29,083 There is an element, a twinkle in his eye, if you like, 135 00:07:29,123 --> 00:07:32,083 that a lot of women find interesting. 136 00:07:33,283 --> 00:07:35,043 He's quite a dangerous person 137 00:07:35,083 --> 00:07:38,523 because he can appear to be charm syndrome man, 138 00:07:38,563 --> 00:07:40,403 he can sweet talk his way, 139 00:07:40,443 --> 00:07:44,083 he can get women to let their barriers down for him. 140 00:07:47,843 --> 00:07:50,083 In April 1993, 141 00:07:50,123 --> 00:07:53,043 David mcdavid was a uniformed police officer 142 00:07:53,083 --> 00:07:55,203 in Zachary, Louisiana. 143 00:07:55,243 --> 00:07:57,563 The vicious attack on a teenage couple 144 00:07:57,603 --> 00:07:59,203 in a local cemetery, 145 00:07:59,243 --> 00:08:01,763 had always remained fresh in his memory. 146 00:08:03,003 --> 00:08:05,219 They were you know, doing what teenagers do, making out. 147 00:08:05,243 --> 00:08:07,419 One of our police officers was driving down the roadway, 148 00:08:07,443 --> 00:08:09,083 saw a dome light on, 149 00:08:09,123 --> 00:08:12,163 went into the cemetery and came up on both of the kids 150 00:08:12,203 --> 00:08:14,723 who'd been attacked brutally with a hack blade. 151 00:08:16,683 --> 00:08:18,083 Both of them lived, 152 00:08:18,123 --> 00:08:20,803 but the boyfriend still today he won't talk about it. 153 00:08:22,763 --> 00:08:24,723 My understanding is he sleeps with the light on. 154 00:08:25,683 --> 00:08:26,963 That was a pretty brutal attack. 155 00:08:29,923 --> 00:08:33,123 The girl who survived the assault, Michelle Chapman, 156 00:08:33,163 --> 00:08:35,363 tried to help David and his colleagues 157 00:08:35,403 --> 00:08:37,683 identify her assailant. 158 00:08:37,723 --> 00:08:39,923 We brought in a police sketch artist. 159 00:08:39,963 --> 00:08:41,043 He spoke to Michelle, 160 00:08:41,083 --> 00:08:44,243 was able to get a photograph of the attacker. 161 00:08:44,283 --> 00:08:46,083 David didn't know it yet, 162 00:08:46,123 --> 00:08:50,163 but this would his first glimpse of Derrick Todd Lee. 163 00:08:50,203 --> 00:08:51,883 Over four years later, 164 00:08:51,923 --> 00:08:56,243 David, who was now a detective, would meet the killer, face-to-face, 165 00:08:56,283 --> 00:08:57,763 for the very first time. 166 00:08:58,963 --> 00:09:01,403 July of 1997 we got a call, 167 00:09:01,443 --> 00:09:03,323 they had a prowler over in oak shadows. 168 00:09:03,363 --> 00:09:06,843 A black male was peeping in the window of a house, 169 00:09:06,883 --> 00:09:09,963 of a single white female who had a daughter at home. 170 00:09:10,003 --> 00:09:12,043 The call we got, if I remember correctly, 171 00:09:12,083 --> 00:09:14,643 he was standing like in a kid pool 172 00:09:14,683 --> 00:09:18,003 looking in through a window at the apartment complex. 173 00:09:18,043 --> 00:09:22,443 We went to that location and saw him run across the roadway 174 00:09:22,483 --> 00:09:24,883 and go south back toward the cemetery 175 00:09:24,923 --> 00:09:26,683 and graveyard area. 176 00:09:26,723 --> 00:09:30,363 Lee's car was known to the police from previous arrests 177 00:09:30,403 --> 00:09:33,203 and David and his colleague soon found it parked 178 00:09:33,243 --> 00:09:35,523 in the vicinity of the crime. 179 00:09:35,563 --> 00:09:38,323 So, we blocked the vehicle in, we backed out and did surveillance. 180 00:09:38,363 --> 00:09:39,963 We caught him coming across the roadway 181 00:09:40,003 --> 00:09:41,523 from the graveyard 182 00:09:41,563 --> 00:09:43,483 and we made an arrest on him. 183 00:09:43,523 --> 00:09:45,843 In January 1998, 184 00:09:45,883 --> 00:09:49,883 29-year-old Derrick Todd Lee was given two years' probation 185 00:09:49,923 --> 00:09:51,643 for spying on women, 186 00:09:51,683 --> 00:09:54,443 but crucially, he didn't go to prison, 187 00:09:54,483 --> 00:09:58,443 and three months later, a woman would be dead. 188 00:10:00,883 --> 00:10:03,403 In the spring of 1998, 189 00:10:03,443 --> 00:10:05,883 Derrick Todd Lee had been regularly 190 00:10:05,923 --> 00:10:08,283 in and out of trouble with the police 191 00:10:08,323 --> 00:10:10,443 in Zachary, Louisiana. 192 00:10:10,483 --> 00:10:12,723 The 29-year-old peeping Tom 193 00:10:12,763 --> 00:10:16,283 was about to escalate his perversion into murder. 194 00:10:18,563 --> 00:10:20,523 On 18 April, 195 00:10:20,563 --> 00:10:23,003 randi mebruer's three-year-old son 196 00:10:23,043 --> 00:10:26,723 was found looking for his mother outside the family home, 197 00:10:26,763 --> 00:10:30,803 when a neighbour came over to find out what was wrong. 198 00:10:30,843 --> 00:10:32,363 The neighbour saw him 199 00:10:32,403 --> 00:10:36,363 and she went to the house and saw blood covering that house, 200 00:10:36,403 --> 00:10:40,323 and she called police and the police came 201 00:10:40,363 --> 00:10:45,043 and they found the bedroom was covered in blood, 202 00:10:45,083 --> 00:10:49,243 they found randi mebruer's contact lens on the floor, 203 00:10:49,283 --> 00:10:53,723 they found clumps of her hair mixed with blood in the hallway. 204 00:10:53,763 --> 00:10:55,123 They knew instantly 205 00:10:55,163 --> 00:10:58,323 that something really bad had happened to randi. 206 00:10:59,803 --> 00:11:03,043 Detective David mcdavid was called into search 207 00:11:03,083 --> 00:11:05,803 for the missing 28-year-old nurse. 208 00:11:05,843 --> 00:11:08,803 My partner called me and said, "look, we have a lady missing. 209 00:11:08,843 --> 00:11:12,123 "We have blood in the house. A child was left at the house." 210 00:11:12,163 --> 00:11:14,683 He had went next door to the neighbour's house, 211 00:11:14,723 --> 00:11:15,843 they came to the house 212 00:11:15,883 --> 00:11:18,323 and saw all the blood, backed out, called us. 213 00:11:18,363 --> 00:11:20,259 And I told him on the way, I said, "you know, who it is, 214 00:11:20,283 --> 00:11:21,803 "it's going to be Derrick Todd Lee." 215 00:11:22,883 --> 00:11:26,723 As part of the investigation into randi's disappearance, 216 00:11:26,763 --> 00:11:29,843 David once again found himself face-to-face 217 00:11:29,883 --> 00:11:31,683 with Derrick Todd Lee. 218 00:11:31,723 --> 00:11:35,123 The 29-year-old was a person of interest as he lived 219 00:11:35,163 --> 00:11:37,803 just a few blocks from randi's home. 220 00:11:37,843 --> 00:11:41,603 Lee agreed to a voluntary search of his house. 221 00:11:41,643 --> 00:11:44,803 I'll never forget that night I was in there and, 222 00:11:44,843 --> 00:11:48,203 you know, he was pacing back and forth in an area in the house, 223 00:11:48,243 --> 00:11:50,163 and I thought somebody was watching him. 224 00:11:50,203 --> 00:11:52,883 When I was searching his closet area, 225 00:11:52,923 --> 00:11:54,859 all of a sudden the hair stood up on the back of my neck 226 00:11:54,883 --> 00:11:56,923 and I turned and he was right there behind me, 227 00:11:58,323 --> 00:12:01,283 so, I kind of pushed him back, told him to step back, 228 00:12:01,323 --> 00:12:03,123 "you're too close to me." 229 00:12:03,163 --> 00:12:05,483 It just bothered me that he was that close to me, 230 00:12:05,523 --> 00:12:06,939 and I don't know if I was getting close 231 00:12:06,963 --> 00:12:08,123 to some evidence or what, 232 00:12:08,163 --> 00:12:10,283 right after that he told us to leave the house, 233 00:12:10,323 --> 00:12:11,883 he didn't want us there no more. 234 00:12:11,923 --> 00:12:14,883 He gave us consent to search, 235 00:12:14,923 --> 00:12:17,323 but he also had the right to revoke that consent 236 00:12:17,363 --> 00:12:19,059 and I guess either that I was getting close to 237 00:12:19,083 --> 00:12:21,003 something there in the closet, 238 00:12:21,043 --> 00:12:22,283 but, he asked us to leave. 239 00:12:23,563 --> 00:12:25,243 David and his colleagues 240 00:12:25,283 --> 00:12:28,523 continued to search for clues at randi's home, 241 00:12:28,563 --> 00:12:32,403 and an unusual looking item caught their eye. 242 00:12:32,443 --> 00:12:34,059 We were collecting evidence that next day 243 00:12:34,083 --> 00:12:35,683 and there was a pink trashcan liner 244 00:12:35,723 --> 00:12:38,043 outside the front door of randi mebruer's house 245 00:12:38,083 --> 00:12:42,923 and we kind of found it odd, "why is this pink case, 246 00:12:42,963 --> 00:12:45,843 "garbage can case was out here bag?" 247 00:12:45,883 --> 00:12:47,803 And we knew that her car had been used 248 00:12:47,843 --> 00:12:49,883 to evidently remove the body 249 00:12:49,923 --> 00:12:52,243 because it had been moved and the keys were missing. 250 00:12:53,563 --> 00:12:56,363 We really didn't know we had evidence on that bag. 251 00:12:58,683 --> 00:13:02,323 With all the evidence collected, the case went cold. 252 00:13:02,363 --> 00:13:03,603 Without a body, 253 00:13:03,643 --> 00:13:07,403 it was difficult to press charges on any suspect. 254 00:13:07,443 --> 00:13:11,803 But David was determined to get Lee off the streets and behind bars. 255 00:13:13,243 --> 00:13:15,643 In march 1999, 256 00:13:15,683 --> 00:13:19,003 he revisited the cemetery attack of the young woman 257 00:13:19,043 --> 00:13:21,803 and her boyfriend from 1993. 258 00:13:23,643 --> 00:13:25,843 I had got a photo line-up of Derrick Todd Lee. 259 00:13:25,883 --> 00:13:28,843 I presented it to her and she picked him out. 260 00:13:28,883 --> 00:13:30,283 Without hesitation, picked him out. 261 00:13:30,323 --> 00:13:33,003 "That is the guy that attacked us in the cemetery." 262 00:13:33,043 --> 00:13:35,683 I prepared a warrant for his arrest. 263 00:13:35,723 --> 00:13:38,643 I brought the warrant down for a judge to sign 264 00:13:38,683 --> 00:13:40,819 and I was told the statute of limitations had ran out. 265 00:13:40,843 --> 00:13:42,803 I think it's after five years. 266 00:13:42,843 --> 00:13:46,003 It was another frustrating turn of events. 267 00:13:46,043 --> 00:13:48,803 David was certain Lee was responsible 268 00:13:48,843 --> 00:13:51,683 for a long list of crimes across Zachary, 269 00:13:51,723 --> 00:13:53,163 but he couldn't prove it. 270 00:13:53,203 --> 00:13:55,683 You had the attack in the graveyard, 271 00:13:55,723 --> 00:13:58,003 in July '97 where he was peeping in the area 272 00:13:58,043 --> 00:14:00,243 and was arrested and charged. 273 00:14:00,283 --> 00:14:03,483 And then 1998, you had the murder of randi mebruer. 274 00:14:03,523 --> 00:14:06,883 So, every time you looked back around there 275 00:14:06,923 --> 00:14:08,523 he was always in that area. 276 00:14:08,563 --> 00:14:10,803 From '92 to '98 277 00:14:10,843 --> 00:14:12,803 he was committing crimes in that area 278 00:14:12,843 --> 00:14:15,163 and that's where our focus was, is on Derrick Todd Lee. 279 00:14:15,203 --> 00:14:18,803 If you draw a circle in that area he was always there, 280 00:14:18,843 --> 00:14:20,123 from '92 to 1998. 281 00:14:22,043 --> 00:14:25,323 Derrick Todd Lee remained a free man, 282 00:14:25,363 --> 00:14:27,283 but his luck was running out. 283 00:14:28,403 --> 00:14:32,083 In January 2000, whilst he was still married, 284 00:14:32,123 --> 00:14:34,683 he was arrested for assaulting a girlfriend 285 00:14:34,723 --> 00:14:36,683 in the parking lot of a bar, 286 00:14:36,723 --> 00:14:38,403 just north of Zachary, 287 00:14:38,443 --> 00:14:42,243 after she found him flirting with another woman. 288 00:14:42,283 --> 00:14:45,363 He ended up quite brutally attacking her 289 00:14:45,403 --> 00:14:47,603 and what this says to me 290 00:14:47,643 --> 00:14:51,163 is that he is the one who is in control. 291 00:14:53,243 --> 00:14:54,243 It doesn't matter 292 00:14:54,283 --> 00:14:56,243 that he's been engaging in this entirely 293 00:14:56,283 --> 00:14:58,803 inappropriate behaviour with other woman. 294 00:14:58,843 --> 00:15:02,923 "How dare she question me," will be the way that he sees it, 295 00:15:02,963 --> 00:15:05,923 "I'm the one who decides what happens in this relationship. 296 00:15:05,963 --> 00:15:07,603 "I'm the one who calls the shots. 297 00:15:07,643 --> 00:15:11,043 "You do not have a right to call me out on my behaviour." 298 00:15:11,083 --> 00:15:12,443 Still on probation 299 00:15:12,483 --> 00:15:17,283 for the peeping Tom incident 2.5 years earlier, 300 00:15:17,323 --> 00:15:20,603 Derrick Todd Lee was finally sent to jail. 301 00:15:22,483 --> 00:15:25,163 Derrick Todd Lee spent a full year in prison 302 00:15:25,203 --> 00:15:28,603 for beating up his girlfriend in that parking lot, 303 00:15:28,643 --> 00:15:30,203 and when he got out of prison 304 00:15:30,243 --> 00:15:33,083 is when he began killing in Baton Rouge. 305 00:15:36,243 --> 00:15:39,043 Derrick Todd Lee had changed his hunting ground, 306 00:15:39,083 --> 00:15:41,603 from Zachary to Baton Rouge 307 00:15:41,643 --> 00:15:44,843 and now he had murder on his mind. 308 00:15:44,883 --> 00:15:49,563 With the new area came a new victim, in September 2001, 309 00:15:49,603 --> 00:15:52,723 he chose 40-year-old Gina Wilson green, 310 00:15:52,763 --> 00:15:53,843 who told her mother, 311 00:15:53,883 --> 00:15:56,203 just two days before she was attacked, 312 00:15:56,243 --> 00:15:59,523 that she felt like someone was watching her. 313 00:15:59,563 --> 00:16:02,603 On the night of September 23, 314 00:16:02,643 --> 00:16:06,083 Derrick Todd Lee forced his way into her house 315 00:16:06,123 --> 00:16:11,243 and he strangled Gina, he beat he and he raped her. 316 00:16:11,283 --> 00:16:13,043 He placed her in her bed 317 00:16:13,083 --> 00:16:16,163 and she would be found two days later 318 00:16:16,203 --> 00:16:17,803 by her co-worker 319 00:16:17,843 --> 00:16:20,443 who got concerned when she didn't show up for work. 320 00:16:22,763 --> 00:16:25,763 This victim was beautiful, 321 00:16:25,803 --> 00:16:28,843 and successful and ambitious 322 00:16:28,883 --> 00:16:32,963 and it was scary for those who lived in the area 323 00:16:33,003 --> 00:16:37,283 because the killer had attacked her in her home. 324 00:16:37,323 --> 00:16:40,963 Detectives had no leads and just four months later, 325 00:16:41,003 --> 00:16:42,443 Lee would strike again. 326 00:16:43,723 --> 00:16:46,963 On 14 January, 2002, 327 00:16:47,003 --> 00:16:49,403 21-year-old geralyn desoto 328 00:16:49,443 --> 00:16:53,443 was found lying in a pool of blood, by her husband. 329 00:16:53,483 --> 00:16:56,643 Geralyn desoto lived across the Mississippi river 330 00:16:56,683 --> 00:16:58,643 in west Baton Rouge parish. 331 00:16:58,683 --> 00:17:01,003 She lived in a trailer, 332 00:17:01,043 --> 00:17:05,283 you know, she had been going to lsu and studying and that 333 00:17:05,323 --> 00:17:07,643 and obviously he gained her trust. 334 00:17:10,043 --> 00:17:15,283 The killer knocked on her door and asked for a phone 335 00:17:15,323 --> 00:17:17,203 and we know this because 336 00:17:17,243 --> 00:17:21,683 geralyn was hit in the head with that phone so hard 337 00:17:21,723 --> 00:17:23,763 it caused a skull fracture. 338 00:17:23,803 --> 00:17:25,523 She ran down the hallway, 339 00:17:25,563 --> 00:17:28,323 she knew that her husband kept a gun in their bedroom. 340 00:17:29,643 --> 00:17:33,363 She fought with Derrick Todd Lee with that gun 341 00:17:33,403 --> 00:17:34,899 and we know because there were etchings 342 00:17:34,923 --> 00:17:37,163 in the ceiling from that gun. 343 00:17:37,203 --> 00:17:39,443 He chased her back down the hallway 344 00:17:39,483 --> 00:17:43,963 where he stabbed her viciously over and over and over again 345 00:17:44,003 --> 00:17:45,283 until she was dead. 346 00:17:47,043 --> 00:17:50,003 Due to previous domestic disturbances, 347 00:17:50,043 --> 00:17:51,163 geralyn's husband 348 00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:53,643 was the number one suspect for her murder. 349 00:17:56,403 --> 00:18:00,523 Detectives had yet to make the link that an active serial killer 350 00:18:00,563 --> 00:18:03,083 was at large in Baton Rouge. 351 00:18:03,123 --> 00:18:07,323 Derrick Todd Lee appeared to be targeting similar victims. 352 00:18:08,403 --> 00:18:10,563 He had a wife, he had a girlfriend, 353 00:18:10,603 --> 00:18:12,363 but the women that he killed, 354 00:18:12,403 --> 00:18:14,923 the women that he attacked so viciously 355 00:18:14,963 --> 00:18:16,683 were the women who would reject him, 356 00:18:16,723 --> 00:18:18,963 they were the women he couldn't have 357 00:18:19,003 --> 00:18:23,003 and I think that's why he went after those particular women. 358 00:18:23,043 --> 00:18:25,043 They were beautiful, they were intelligent, 359 00:18:25,083 --> 00:18:28,443 they were independent and this is very deliberate. 360 00:18:28,483 --> 00:18:29,883 He is killing women 361 00:18:29,923 --> 00:18:33,563 who he sees as behaving in ways that women shouldn't behave. 362 00:18:33,603 --> 00:18:37,763 He believes that women should be docile and compliant 363 00:18:37,803 --> 00:18:39,643 and do what men tell them to do. 364 00:18:43,043 --> 00:18:44,843 Another four months passed 365 00:18:44,883 --> 00:18:48,403 until Lee claimed a third Baton Rouge victim. 366 00:18:48,443 --> 00:18:51,683 On 31 may, 2002, 367 00:18:51,723 --> 00:18:54,283 22-year-old Charlotte Murray pace 368 00:18:54,323 --> 00:18:57,563 was found dead in her apartment by her room-mate. 369 00:18:59,243 --> 00:19:02,283 Charlotte Murray pace lived on Stanford Avenue, 370 00:19:02,323 --> 00:19:04,203 just a few houses 371 00:19:04,243 --> 00:19:06,523 from where Gina Wilson green had lived. 372 00:19:06,563 --> 00:19:08,603 She had just graduated from lsu, 373 00:19:08,643 --> 00:19:11,243 she was looking forward to moving to Atlanta 374 00:19:11,283 --> 00:19:12,803 to start her career 375 00:19:12,843 --> 00:19:15,723 when this killer knocked on her door. 376 00:19:18,003 --> 00:19:20,043 Charlotte had defensive wounds, 377 00:19:20,083 --> 00:19:23,043 which suggested she doggedly fought for her life 378 00:19:23,083 --> 00:19:26,163 during the hideously, vicious attack. 379 00:19:26,203 --> 00:19:27,923 That case there was a very violent case 380 00:19:27,963 --> 00:19:29,683 and I saw the photos. 381 00:19:29,723 --> 00:19:31,643 He stabbed her many, many times. 382 00:19:31,683 --> 00:19:33,843 Each case he would become angrier and angrier, 383 00:19:33,883 --> 00:19:35,883 you can tell by the brutality on the cases. 384 00:19:37,043 --> 00:19:39,923 When he killed Charlotte Murray pace, 385 00:19:39,963 --> 00:19:43,723 he stabbed her 81 times with a screwdriver. 386 00:19:43,763 --> 00:19:46,883 Now, that's a degree of overkill, that indicates something. 387 00:19:46,923 --> 00:19:49,923 It indicates perhaps the level of rage he's feeling. 388 00:19:49,963 --> 00:19:53,363 It's part of what makes Derrick Todd Lee so chilling. 389 00:19:56,763 --> 00:20:01,363 That level of arrogance, that level of brutality 390 00:20:01,403 --> 00:20:03,563 against a woman who's already been effectively... 391 00:20:05,523 --> 00:20:08,723 Beaten to a pulp and raped, 392 00:20:08,763 --> 00:20:12,323 then to stab her 81 times is horrific. 393 00:20:12,363 --> 00:20:15,043 There's no other word for it. It's depravity of a very high order. 394 00:20:16,083 --> 00:20:20,083 This level of violence shows an absolute contempt for the victim, 395 00:20:20,123 --> 00:20:21,843 a hatred for the victim 396 00:20:21,883 --> 00:20:23,419 and when we look at the kind of person 397 00:20:23,443 --> 00:20:24,803 that Charlotte was, 398 00:20:24,843 --> 00:20:27,323 she was independent, she was successful, 399 00:20:27,363 --> 00:20:30,523 she was somebody who could well stand on her own two feet, 400 00:20:30,563 --> 00:20:32,043 she didn't need a man. 401 00:20:32,083 --> 00:20:35,283 This is the kind of woman that Lee absolutely detested. 402 00:20:38,683 --> 00:20:40,803 Detectives in Baton Rouge 403 00:20:40,843 --> 00:20:44,643 began to think the murders may be connected. 404 00:20:44,683 --> 00:20:46,683 When Charlotte Murray pace was killed, 405 00:20:46,723 --> 00:20:48,963 the fact that she had lived on Stanford Avenue 406 00:20:49,003 --> 00:20:51,803 so, close to Gina Wilson green 407 00:20:51,843 --> 00:20:54,603 really gave police their first inkling 408 00:20:54,643 --> 00:20:57,283 that they might be dealing with a serial killer. 409 00:20:57,323 --> 00:21:01,563 The police may have been finally putting the pieces together, 410 00:21:01,603 --> 00:21:04,683 but Derrick Todd Lee was nowhere near finished. 411 00:21:04,723 --> 00:21:07,723 His reign of terror was only just beginning. 412 00:21:09,883 --> 00:21:12,483 By the summer of 2002, 413 00:21:12,523 --> 00:21:14,923 33-year-old Derrick Todd Lee 414 00:21:14,963 --> 00:21:18,803 had raped and murdered possibly four women in Louisiana. 415 00:21:18,843 --> 00:21:23,203 One in Zachary and the other three in Baton Rouge. 416 00:21:23,243 --> 00:21:26,843 And it was in the state capital, on 12 July, 417 00:21:26,883 --> 00:21:29,563 where he chose to kill for a fifth time. 418 00:21:31,683 --> 00:21:33,723 Pamela kinamore had an antique shop 419 00:21:33,763 --> 00:21:35,083 in denham Springs, Louisiana. 420 00:21:35,123 --> 00:21:37,603 Derrick Todd Lee had been doing surveillance on her, 421 00:21:37,643 --> 00:21:39,643 followed her home that night. 422 00:21:39,683 --> 00:21:42,203 From what I understand, she left the key in the door 423 00:21:42,243 --> 00:21:43,643 and he attacked her in the house. 424 00:21:46,003 --> 00:21:49,683 She went to take a bath and it was there in the bathtub 425 00:21:49,723 --> 00:21:52,283 that Derrick Todd Lee walked in and got her. 426 00:21:53,483 --> 00:21:55,043 There was a struggle. 427 00:21:55,083 --> 00:21:57,643 They found drops of blood in the bathroom, 428 00:21:57,683 --> 00:22:00,843 different little things through the house were askew 429 00:22:00,883 --> 00:22:02,483 and Derrick Todd Lee 430 00:22:02,523 --> 00:22:05,683 took Pam kinamore naked from her home, 431 00:22:05,723 --> 00:22:08,203 put her in his vehicle. 432 00:22:08,243 --> 00:22:10,683 As he was driving down airline highway 433 00:22:10,723 --> 00:22:13,123 in Baton Rouge away from her house, 434 00:22:13,163 --> 00:22:17,603 he was weaving and a woman behind him noticed that. 435 00:22:19,483 --> 00:22:21,323 They pulled up to a red light, 436 00:22:21,363 --> 00:22:23,323 a woman in that pickup truck 437 00:22:23,363 --> 00:22:25,403 turned around and looked at the woman 438 00:22:25,443 --> 00:22:27,043 that was behind them 439 00:22:27,083 --> 00:22:28,963 and she said 440 00:22:29,003 --> 00:22:31,283 that there was something about the way 441 00:22:31,323 --> 00:22:33,563 Pam kinamore looked at her 442 00:22:33,603 --> 00:22:36,483 that she felt like she needed help and so she called police 443 00:22:36,523 --> 00:22:39,363 and she gave police a partial license plate. 444 00:22:41,763 --> 00:22:45,283 But the police didn't catch up with Derrick Todd Lee. 445 00:22:47,243 --> 00:22:49,483 44-year-old Pam kinamore 446 00:22:49,523 --> 00:22:52,123 was about to become his fifth victim. 447 00:22:53,843 --> 00:22:57,643 He drove underneath the bridge into a wooded area 448 00:22:57,683 --> 00:23:01,043 that's near the bay and there he raped, 449 00:23:01,083 --> 00:23:04,283 and stabbed and slashed Pam kinamore, 450 00:23:04,323 --> 00:23:07,363 almost beheading her and there he killed her. 451 00:23:09,923 --> 00:23:13,603 Her body was found four days later by a fisherman. 452 00:23:13,643 --> 00:23:18,963 And when Pam kinamore was killed everybody realised, 453 00:23:19,003 --> 00:23:22,403 "we have a serial killer in Baton Rouge 454 00:23:22,443 --> 00:23:26,403 "taking women from their homes, killing women in their homes," 455 00:23:26,443 --> 00:23:29,803 and terror just overtook the city. 456 00:23:29,843 --> 00:23:34,483 Local TV reporter Jim Shannon, remembers the collective fear 457 00:23:34,523 --> 00:23:38,043 that spread across the Louisiana state capital. 458 00:23:38,083 --> 00:23:39,419 The men were worried about the women, 459 00:23:39,443 --> 00:23:41,603 the women were worried about themselves. 460 00:23:41,643 --> 00:23:46,123 Record gun sales were made in Baton Rouge at that time. 461 00:23:46,163 --> 00:23:49,923 Record amounts of ammunition that was being bought. 462 00:23:49,963 --> 00:23:51,779 The gunsmiths couldn't get enough guns in here 463 00:23:51,803 --> 00:23:54,683 and they couldn't get enough ammunition for the demand 464 00:23:54,723 --> 00:23:57,283 that Derrick Todd Lee made in this community. 465 00:24:00,963 --> 00:24:03,763 The loved ones of Lee's latest victim 466 00:24:03,803 --> 00:24:06,323 were desperate for the killer to be caught. 467 00:24:07,523 --> 00:24:12,083 Pam kinamore's family spent money to buy billboards, 468 00:24:12,123 --> 00:24:14,803 to put up their own reward. 469 00:24:14,843 --> 00:24:16,763 They had their own reward for 470 00:24:16,803 --> 00:24:19,043 whoever could identify who killed Pam, 471 00:24:19,083 --> 00:24:22,723 and that was a piece of the frustration 472 00:24:22,763 --> 00:24:25,843 that the family members were going through at the time. 473 00:24:27,283 --> 00:24:29,683 By August 2002, 474 00:24:29,723 --> 00:24:34,123 investigators knew for certain that a serial killer was responsible 475 00:24:34,163 --> 00:24:36,763 for three of the Baton Rouge murders. 476 00:24:36,803 --> 00:24:39,963 DNA collected from Pam kinamore's body 477 00:24:40,003 --> 00:24:43,603 matched the same DNA recovered from Charlotte Murray pace 478 00:24:43,643 --> 00:24:45,523 and Gina Wilson green. 479 00:24:45,563 --> 00:24:48,563 They decided to pool together their resources 480 00:24:48,603 --> 00:24:50,963 to see if they could crack the cases. 481 00:24:51,003 --> 00:24:55,883 A multi agency homicide task force was set up in Baton Rouge 482 00:24:55,923 --> 00:24:58,643 that included Baton Rouge pd, 483 00:24:58,683 --> 00:25:01,443 it included the sheriff's department, 484 00:25:01,483 --> 00:25:03,563 it included the FBI, the state police, 485 00:25:03,603 --> 00:25:06,803 but it also included members of other parishes 486 00:25:06,843 --> 00:25:09,563 that joined Baton Rouge where bodies had been found 487 00:25:09,603 --> 00:25:11,763 and where murders had taken place. 488 00:25:13,763 --> 00:25:15,563 Zachary police detective, 489 00:25:15,603 --> 00:25:18,723 David mcdavid was sure that Derrick Todd Lee 490 00:25:18,763 --> 00:25:21,723 was responsible for the Baton Rouge killings, 491 00:25:21,763 --> 00:25:25,483 as well as the murder of randi mebruer on his own patch. 492 00:25:26,923 --> 00:25:29,923 He shared his findings with the task force. 493 00:25:29,963 --> 00:25:32,443 We came together with all the agencies involved 494 00:25:32,483 --> 00:25:34,083 and we showed our cases 495 00:25:34,123 --> 00:25:36,643 and our evidence, our photographs to them, 496 00:25:36,683 --> 00:25:39,443 they showed theirs on a big projector screen. 497 00:25:39,483 --> 00:25:42,003 Pretty much their cases matched up to ours. 498 00:25:42,043 --> 00:25:44,403 And I said, "hey, this is our guy here. 499 00:25:44,443 --> 00:25:46,043 "You need to look at him. 500 00:25:46,083 --> 00:25:49,203 "You know, this is similarities here." 501 00:25:49,243 --> 00:25:51,723 But the task force had their sights set 502 00:25:51,763 --> 00:25:53,203 on a different suspect. 503 00:25:54,963 --> 00:25:57,803 Witnesses near to the Charlotte Murray pace 504 00:25:57,843 --> 00:26:00,243 and Gina Wilson green crime scenes had 505 00:26:00,283 --> 00:26:04,363 told police they'd seen a white man in a white pickup truck 506 00:26:04,403 --> 00:26:06,963 around the time of the murders. 507 00:26:07,003 --> 00:26:08,923 They opened it up and they looked at the file, 508 00:26:08,963 --> 00:26:10,563 they saw he was black and they said, 509 00:26:10,603 --> 00:26:13,363 "no, our killer is a white man in a white pickup truck," 510 00:26:13,403 --> 00:26:14,723 and they closed the file. 511 00:26:14,763 --> 00:26:18,203 Because of that several more women would die. 512 00:26:21,683 --> 00:26:23,203 Because of their certainty 513 00:26:23,243 --> 00:26:25,683 that a white man was committing the murders, 514 00:26:25,723 --> 00:26:30,483 the task force missed an opportunity to capture Derrick Todd Lee, 515 00:26:30,523 --> 00:26:33,963 just three days before the murder of Pam kinamore. 516 00:26:37,083 --> 00:26:40,083 On 9 July, 2002, 517 00:26:40,123 --> 00:26:43,843 Diane Alexander was attacked at her home in breaux bridge, 518 00:26:43,883 --> 00:26:47,243 35mi west of Baton Rouge. 519 00:26:47,283 --> 00:26:51,203 She had been overpowered by a man who had knocked on her door 520 00:26:51,243 --> 00:26:53,563 and asked to use the phone. 521 00:26:53,603 --> 00:26:56,603 He forced his way into her home, 522 00:26:56,643 --> 00:26:59,323 he beat her, he tried to rape her, 523 00:26:59,363 --> 00:27:02,523 he took a computer cord that led to a phone 524 00:27:02,563 --> 00:27:03,963 and he cut that cord 525 00:27:04,003 --> 00:27:06,683 and he was trying to strangle her with that cord 526 00:27:06,723 --> 00:27:09,003 when he stopped for a minute 527 00:27:09,043 --> 00:27:11,683 and he heard her son pulling up in the driveway. 528 00:27:14,163 --> 00:27:17,283 Lee fled from the scene of the crime. 529 00:27:17,323 --> 00:27:18,763 Six days later, 530 00:27:18,803 --> 00:27:21,283 once she had recovered from her ordeal, 531 00:27:21,323 --> 00:27:23,763 Diane Alexander gave detectives 532 00:27:23,803 --> 00:27:26,883 a description of the man who had attacked her. 533 00:27:26,923 --> 00:27:30,043 It's the first time, indeed the only time, 534 00:27:30,083 --> 00:27:32,203 in Derrick Todd Lee's reign of terror, 535 00:27:32,243 --> 00:27:36,043 if you like, that he's made a mistake. 536 00:27:36,083 --> 00:27:40,243 There are obvious clues to what's going on. 537 00:27:41,603 --> 00:27:42,803 They have a suspect. 538 00:27:42,843 --> 00:27:46,003 Then they get a sketch of what the suspect looks like. 539 00:27:46,043 --> 00:27:47,403 And that, of course, 540 00:27:47,443 --> 00:27:51,163 illuminates a number of police officers in the area 541 00:27:51,203 --> 00:27:54,603 to the fact it looks awfully like Derrick Todd Lee. 542 00:27:56,403 --> 00:27:57,763 They had done a photo sketch 543 00:27:57,803 --> 00:28:00,323 and we had done a photo sketch from Michele Chapman 544 00:28:00,363 --> 00:28:01,523 on Derrick Todd Lee. 545 00:28:02,723 --> 00:28:06,123 If we just saw both photographs at the time, 546 00:28:06,163 --> 00:28:07,843 they were very, very much similarity. 547 00:28:09,763 --> 00:28:12,843 Had her son come back ten minutes later, 548 00:28:12,883 --> 00:28:14,083 she would have been dead 549 00:28:14,123 --> 00:28:16,883 and there would be no description of Derrick Todd Lee. 550 00:28:18,563 --> 00:28:21,603 That's the most significant moment in the case. 551 00:28:21,643 --> 00:28:25,043 But it was not connected to the Baton Rouge murders 552 00:28:25,083 --> 00:28:29,683 because Diane Alexander's assailant was black 553 00:28:29,723 --> 00:28:31,803 and by this time police in Baton Rouge 554 00:28:31,843 --> 00:28:33,403 were looking for a white man. 555 00:28:36,123 --> 00:28:38,643 During the search for the elusive killer, 556 00:28:38,683 --> 00:28:42,523 that the press were now calling 'the ghost of Baton Rouge' 557 00:28:42,563 --> 00:28:46,203 1,200 white men in white pick-up trucks, 558 00:28:46,243 --> 00:28:48,563 had their mouths swabbed for DNA. 559 00:28:49,643 --> 00:28:51,963 During the height of the killings, 560 00:28:52,003 --> 00:28:55,683 they were swabbing people left and right. 561 00:28:55,723 --> 00:28:59,283 Hundreds of people were being swabbed and tested, 562 00:28:59,323 --> 00:29:00,659 that was just something that happened. 563 00:29:00,683 --> 00:29:02,843 When you got pulled over, if you were a white male, 564 00:29:02,883 --> 00:29:04,483 and if you were in a certain age group, 565 00:29:04,523 --> 00:29:05,883 you were going to get swiped. 566 00:29:08,523 --> 00:29:11,443 With the task force hunting for the wrong man, 567 00:29:11,483 --> 00:29:13,883 Derrick Todd Lee was able to continue 568 00:29:13,923 --> 00:29:16,403 his killing spree undetected. 569 00:29:16,443 --> 00:29:18,803 In November 2002, 570 00:29:18,843 --> 00:29:22,003 four months after the murder of Pam kinamore, 571 00:29:22,043 --> 00:29:25,803 the body of 23-year-old trineisha dene colomb 572 00:29:25,843 --> 00:29:29,163 was found in a wood, just outside Lafayette, over 573 00:29:29,203 --> 00:29:32,083 50mi west of Baton Rouge. 574 00:29:33,403 --> 00:29:36,643 Trineisha was visiting her mamma's graveyard over there, 575 00:29:36,683 --> 00:29:38,523 Derrick Todd Lee happened upon her 576 00:29:38,563 --> 00:29:41,723 and attacked her and killed her in the graveyard there. 577 00:29:41,763 --> 00:29:44,283 She had been raped, she had been beaten, 578 00:29:44,323 --> 00:29:47,403 her head had been bashed against a tree. 579 00:29:47,443 --> 00:29:51,443 She suffered a horrible end at the hands of this killer. 580 00:29:52,843 --> 00:29:55,083 Police immediately realised 581 00:29:55,123 --> 00:29:58,763 that this could be connected to the Baton Rouge cases. 582 00:30:00,763 --> 00:30:06,003 DNA found on trineisha's body identified her as another victim 583 00:30:06,043 --> 00:30:08,043 of the 'ghost of Baton Rouge'. 584 00:30:10,323 --> 00:30:13,683 Lee killed for a seventh time the following spring, 585 00:30:13,723 --> 00:30:16,283 this time back in Baton Rouge. 586 00:30:16,323 --> 00:30:18,843 26-year-old Carrie Lynn yoder 587 00:30:18,883 --> 00:30:23,603 was kidnapped from her apartment on 3 march, 2003. 588 00:30:23,643 --> 00:30:26,603 Her body was found ten days later. 589 00:30:26,643 --> 00:30:29,803 Carrie Lynn's body was found in whiskey bay, 590 00:30:29,843 --> 00:30:33,603 near where Pam kinamore's body had been found once before. 591 00:30:33,643 --> 00:30:36,963 She had been beaten, she had been raped. 592 00:30:37,003 --> 00:30:39,043 She, like the others, 593 00:30:39,083 --> 00:30:42,163 had experienced a horrific death 594 00:30:42,203 --> 00:30:45,043 at the hands of this maniacal killer. 595 00:30:49,603 --> 00:30:54,003 DNA on Carrie's body linked her to the other victims. 596 00:30:54,043 --> 00:30:56,443 When the task force was offered the services 597 00:30:56,483 --> 00:31:00,523 of a genetics expert to analyse the killer's DNA, 598 00:31:00,563 --> 00:31:02,323 the results shocked them. 599 00:31:02,363 --> 00:31:05,803 The profile suggested the murderer's ancestry 600 00:31:05,843 --> 00:31:09,083 was 85% African. 601 00:31:09,123 --> 00:31:12,403 That changed the whole course of the investigation. 602 00:31:12,443 --> 00:31:13,923 At that time, 603 00:31:13,963 --> 00:31:17,963 they realised perhaps Diane Alexander's attacker 604 00:31:18,003 --> 00:31:19,723 had been their killer 605 00:31:19,763 --> 00:31:22,523 and the composite that Diane Alexander 606 00:31:22,563 --> 00:31:26,083 had help police create started going up on billboards 607 00:31:26,123 --> 00:31:27,843 around Baton Rouge. 608 00:31:27,883 --> 00:31:30,643 The police did press conferences saying, 609 00:31:30,683 --> 00:31:33,643 "yes, we know we told y'all the killer was white, 610 00:31:33,683 --> 00:31:36,403 "but now you need to be looking for a black man 611 00:31:36,443 --> 00:31:37,763 "to attack you not a white man." 612 00:31:39,603 --> 00:31:41,643 So, that pretty much told us then hey 613 00:31:41,683 --> 00:31:44,243 we were looking for an African American male 614 00:31:44,283 --> 00:31:45,883 involved in these cases. 615 00:31:45,923 --> 00:31:48,883 Of course, my thoughts that it's Derrick Todd Lee. 616 00:31:53,003 --> 00:31:56,883 In may 2003, armed with a subpoena, 617 00:31:56,923 --> 00:32:00,643 David and his colleagues knocked on Derrick Todd Lee's door 618 00:32:00,683 --> 00:32:03,843 and were able to obtain a swab of his DNA. 619 00:32:07,803 --> 00:32:09,163 Three weeks later, 620 00:32:09,203 --> 00:32:13,283 the results proved that Lee was the 'ghost of Baton Rouge', 621 00:32:13,323 --> 00:32:16,683 responsible for the murders of Gina Wilson green, 622 00:32:16,723 --> 00:32:19,883 Charlotte Murray pace, Pam kinamore, 623 00:32:19,923 --> 00:32:24,083 trineisha dene colomb, and Carrie Lynn yoder. 624 00:32:24,123 --> 00:32:27,203 Police everywhere were just astonished that 625 00:32:27,243 --> 00:32:30,763 it turned out to be Derrick Todd Lee except for David mcdavid, 626 00:32:30,803 --> 00:32:32,803 who had suspected him all along. 627 00:32:34,603 --> 00:32:37,363 When I walked in, he had all these dignitaries here, 628 00:32:37,403 --> 00:32:40,563 sheriffs, chiefs and there was a lot of people there. 629 00:32:40,603 --> 00:32:41,883 I said, "what's going on?" 630 00:32:41,923 --> 00:32:45,043 They said, "well, we just want to let y'all know the DNA 631 00:32:45,083 --> 00:32:48,283 "all got off Derrick Todd Lee has been connected to all the cases 632 00:32:48,323 --> 00:32:50,643 "in Baton Rouge and Lafayette area." 633 00:32:50,683 --> 00:32:53,803 And it was a relief off of me, 634 00:32:53,843 --> 00:32:55,763 I mean, because it's something in my career 635 00:32:55,803 --> 00:32:57,603 we hoped to solve this case 636 00:32:57,643 --> 00:32:59,843 but also, in the back of my mind, 637 00:32:59,883 --> 00:33:02,883 you know, I said, "hey, all along we had this piece of pie 638 00:33:02,923 --> 00:33:03,923 "and here it is today. 639 00:33:03,963 --> 00:33:05,843 "We solved it". 640 00:33:05,883 --> 00:33:08,083 You know, I smiled, but I knew we had work to do. 641 00:33:08,123 --> 00:33:09,403 We had to find him, 642 00:33:09,443 --> 00:33:12,123 we had to get him off the street before he killed again. 643 00:33:12,163 --> 00:33:15,723 But Derrick Todd Lee was no longer in Louisiana, 644 00:33:15,763 --> 00:33:19,563 he had taken off soon after the DNA swab was taken. 645 00:33:19,603 --> 00:33:21,443 The task force had their man, 646 00:33:21,483 --> 00:33:24,323 but now, they had to track him down, fast. 647 00:33:25,843 --> 00:33:29,003 On 26 may, 2003, 648 00:33:29,043 --> 00:33:32,443 a warrant had been issued for the arrest of serial killer, 649 00:33:32,483 --> 00:33:33,923 Derrick Todd Lee. 650 00:33:33,963 --> 00:33:37,043 Three weeks after a swab of his cheek had yielded 651 00:33:37,083 --> 00:33:39,883 undeniable proof that he was the killer, 652 00:33:39,923 --> 00:33:42,603 the 34-year-old had fled town. 653 00:33:42,643 --> 00:33:47,283 But he was soon tracked down, 500mi away from Baton Rouge, 654 00:33:47,323 --> 00:33:48,363 in Georgia. 655 00:33:49,483 --> 00:33:53,083 The us marshals called me that night from Atlanta, said, "hey, look, 656 00:33:53,123 --> 00:33:54,883 "we know he's in this area." 657 00:33:54,923 --> 00:33:57,243 I said, "I'm telling you something, you better find him. 658 00:33:57,283 --> 00:33:59,843 "He knows the gig is up, the game is up. 659 00:33:59,883 --> 00:34:02,363 "He's going to kill again before he gets caught," 660 00:34:02,403 --> 00:34:04,363 and luckily they found him, 661 00:34:04,403 --> 00:34:05,683 I think walking down the street 662 00:34:05,723 --> 00:34:08,203 close to a college area there in Atlanta 663 00:34:08,243 --> 00:34:10,043 that night and was able to arrest him 664 00:34:10,083 --> 00:34:12,283 and get him off the street before he killed again. 665 00:34:12,323 --> 00:34:17,803 Derrick Todd Lee was arrested on 27 may, 2003 666 00:34:17,843 --> 00:34:20,603 and extradited back to Louisiana. 667 00:34:20,643 --> 00:34:23,163 The killer was finally in custody, 668 00:34:23,203 --> 00:34:27,363 much to the relief of everyone in and around Baton Rouge. 669 00:34:28,843 --> 00:34:32,803 When Derrick Todd Lee was arrested and brought back here from Atlanta, 670 00:34:32,843 --> 00:34:36,723 he was the most talked-about item anywhere, 671 00:34:36,763 --> 00:34:39,003 in the coffee shops and restaurants and bars. 672 00:34:39,043 --> 00:34:42,843 Everyone in Baton Rouge just sighed a huge sigh of relief. 673 00:34:42,883 --> 00:34:44,683 I mean, we were so happy 674 00:34:44,723 --> 00:34:46,563 that we didn't have to be afraid anymore. 675 00:34:47,843 --> 00:34:49,603 Lee was in custody, 676 00:34:49,643 --> 00:34:52,523 but he wasn't saying a word to detectives. 677 00:34:52,563 --> 00:34:54,643 Even without a confession though, 678 00:34:54,683 --> 00:34:56,883 the police were finding out more and more 679 00:34:56,923 --> 00:34:59,643 about the killer by the day. 680 00:34:59,683 --> 00:35:04,883 When the investigators figured out that he was the prime suspect, 681 00:35:04,923 --> 00:35:08,883 they executed search warrants and found different items, 682 00:35:08,923 --> 00:35:10,363 cell phones, keys, 683 00:35:10,403 --> 00:35:12,363 and other things that belonged to the victims, 684 00:35:12,403 --> 00:35:13,883 that helped convict him. 685 00:35:15,043 --> 00:35:17,283 Derrick Todd Lee always took an article, 686 00:35:17,323 --> 00:35:19,483 but mostly his was keys. 687 00:35:19,523 --> 00:35:21,643 And what he was doing based on my experience, 688 00:35:21,683 --> 00:35:22,683 he had these items 689 00:35:22,723 --> 00:35:24,619 so, he could relive them cases over and over again. 690 00:35:24,643 --> 00:35:26,243 That's what a serial killer does, 691 00:35:26,283 --> 00:35:29,043 they go back and relive these cases over and over again 692 00:35:29,083 --> 00:35:30,283 for sexual gratification. 693 00:35:32,123 --> 00:35:35,683 As the investigation into Lee's past continued, 694 00:35:35,723 --> 00:35:39,483 his DNA linked him to a sixth victim. 695 00:35:39,523 --> 00:35:42,043 When Derrick Todd Lee was arrested, 696 00:35:42,083 --> 00:35:46,283 his DNA had been found on five of the victims, 697 00:35:46,323 --> 00:35:50,123 Pam kinamore, Charlotte Murray pace, Gina Wilson green, 698 00:35:50,163 --> 00:35:52,443 Carrie Lynn yoder and dene colomb. 699 00:35:52,483 --> 00:35:57,363 After Derrick Todd Lee was arrested his DNA was tested against 700 00:35:57,403 --> 00:35:59,043 DNA that had been found 701 00:35:59,083 --> 00:36:02,643 underneath geralyn desoto's fingernails 702 00:36:02,683 --> 00:36:06,603 and everyone was surprised when that DNA matched 703 00:36:06,643 --> 00:36:09,483 because everyone had thought that her husband had killed her. 704 00:36:10,883 --> 00:36:13,843 And Zachary detective David mcdavid 705 00:36:13,883 --> 00:36:16,523 was about to get an unexpected result, 706 00:36:16,563 --> 00:36:19,763 over 5.5 years in the making. 707 00:36:19,803 --> 00:36:22,723 Proof that Lee had killed randi mebruer 708 00:36:22,763 --> 00:36:25,003 in April 1998. 709 00:36:27,763 --> 00:36:29,459 We didn't know a whole lot about DNA evidence 710 00:36:29,483 --> 00:36:31,083 being from a small agencies, 711 00:36:31,123 --> 00:36:35,003 but once we were able to connect his DNA profile 712 00:36:35,043 --> 00:36:36,043 to all the other cases, 713 00:36:36,083 --> 00:36:38,883 we had then the police check our evidence 714 00:36:38,923 --> 00:36:41,603 and see if we had any DNA evidence on him in our 715 00:36:41,643 --> 00:36:43,363 stuff that we submitted. 716 00:36:43,403 --> 00:36:44,443 And sure enough, 717 00:36:44,483 --> 00:36:46,923 we found semen on the pink trash bags 718 00:36:46,963 --> 00:36:51,003 that came back to Derrick Todd Lee, positive for his profile 719 00:36:51,043 --> 00:36:52,419 and I was able to do an arrest warrant 720 00:36:52,443 --> 00:36:53,963 for murder for him on that case. 721 00:36:55,043 --> 00:36:58,283 Despite the validation for the police, 722 00:36:58,323 --> 00:37:01,403 randi mebruer's body has never been found. 723 00:37:03,363 --> 00:37:07,723 Investigators wanted justice for all seven of Lee's victims 724 00:37:07,763 --> 00:37:10,363 and began to prepare for the trials. 725 00:37:10,403 --> 00:37:12,203 But the killer's defence team 726 00:37:12,243 --> 00:37:15,083 were hoping to use Lee's lack of intelligence 727 00:37:15,123 --> 00:37:16,923 to their advantage. 728 00:37:16,963 --> 00:37:19,083 People will look at the case of Lee 729 00:37:19,123 --> 00:37:22,723 and highlight the fact that he had quite a low IQ 730 00:37:22,763 --> 00:37:26,723 and very often defence teams will try and use this 731 00:37:26,763 --> 00:37:29,763 as some kind of mitigation, 732 00:37:29,803 --> 00:37:32,683 claiming that this individual isn't responsible for what they did 733 00:37:32,723 --> 00:37:34,843 because of their low IQ, 734 00:37:34,883 --> 00:37:36,443 but I'm in no doubt 735 00:37:36,483 --> 00:37:39,163 that this guy knew exactly what he was doing 736 00:37:39,203 --> 00:37:42,043 and he knew what he was doing was wrong. 737 00:37:42,083 --> 00:37:45,803 Derrick Todd Lee was deemed fit to stand trial, 738 00:37:45,843 --> 00:37:50,803 they argued that although he wasn't intellectually 739 00:37:50,843 --> 00:37:52,923 maybe as smart as others, 740 00:37:52,963 --> 00:37:55,243 he was street smart, he had maintained jobs, 741 00:37:55,283 --> 00:37:58,643 he had lived like anybody else does 742 00:37:58,683 --> 00:38:02,843 and he was smart enough to plan out every single one of these murders. 743 00:38:04,443 --> 00:38:05,883 So, it was rule 744 00:38:05,923 --> 00:38:07,883 that he was deemed fit to stand trial. 745 00:38:09,723 --> 00:38:13,083 In August 2004 Lee was in court, 746 00:38:13,123 --> 00:38:18,163 charged with the January 2002 murder of geralyn desoto. 747 00:38:18,203 --> 00:38:20,963 There were two trials held for Derrick Todd Lee. 748 00:38:21,003 --> 00:38:23,963 The first one was in west Baton Rouge parish. 749 00:38:24,003 --> 00:38:27,123 Prosecutor Tony Clayton tried Derrick Todd Lee 750 00:38:27,163 --> 00:38:29,963 for the murder of geralyn bar desoto. 751 00:38:30,003 --> 00:38:32,043 He was charged with second-degree murder 752 00:38:32,083 --> 00:38:34,163 because there were no underlying felonies 753 00:38:34,203 --> 00:38:38,123 and he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. 754 00:38:40,243 --> 00:38:42,723 Lee was safely behind bars for life, 755 00:38:42,763 --> 00:38:45,043 but the community of Baton Rouge 756 00:38:45,083 --> 00:38:47,363 wanted him to pay an even heavier price 757 00:38:47,403 --> 00:38:48,923 for his murders. 758 00:38:48,963 --> 00:38:52,763 Prosecutors were determined that Lee should get the death penalty 759 00:38:52,803 --> 00:38:56,243 and the following month, September 2004, 760 00:38:56,283 --> 00:38:57,883 he was back in court, 761 00:38:57,923 --> 00:39:00,203 this time charged with the capital murder 762 00:39:00,243 --> 00:39:02,203 of Charlotte Murray pace. 763 00:39:02,243 --> 00:39:07,723 Reporter Jim Shannon was a regular in the east Baton Rouge courthouse. 764 00:39:07,763 --> 00:39:09,683 I covered every bit of it. 765 00:39:09,723 --> 00:39:13,363 The media circus, as it was, 766 00:39:13,403 --> 00:39:17,003 was because you had crews from New Orleans, 767 00:39:17,043 --> 00:39:20,323 Baton Rouge and Lafayette, and lake Charles. 768 00:39:20,363 --> 00:39:23,043 All of south Louisiana was covering this case 769 00:39:23,083 --> 00:39:25,203 because everybody, 770 00:39:25,243 --> 00:39:29,043 many of the victims had families in all of those different areas. 771 00:39:29,083 --> 00:39:33,963 Jim had the opportunity to see the serial killer up close. 772 00:39:35,283 --> 00:39:38,363 When you would see Derrick Todd Lee come into the courtroom, 773 00:39:38,403 --> 00:39:40,923 he would be dressed extremely well. 774 00:39:40,963 --> 00:39:44,403 Closely shaved, trimmed up, so to speak. 775 00:39:44,443 --> 00:39:48,803 So, he was very cognizant of what he looked like 776 00:39:48,843 --> 00:39:51,203 and what he wanted to present as himself. 777 00:39:52,883 --> 00:39:55,963 On 12 October, 2004, 778 00:39:56,003 --> 00:39:58,883 after just 90 minutes of deliberations, 779 00:39:58,923 --> 00:40:02,843 the jury returned an overwhelming verdict. 780 00:40:02,883 --> 00:40:04,163 Derrick Todd Lee was convicted 781 00:40:04,203 --> 00:40:06,203 of the murder of Charlotte Murray pace 782 00:40:06,243 --> 00:40:07,843 and the jury sentenced him to death. 783 00:40:09,603 --> 00:40:11,563 Had they not gotten the death penalty, 784 00:40:11,603 --> 00:40:13,723 they could have used any one of the other victims 785 00:40:13,763 --> 00:40:17,243 to try him again until they found a death penalty. 786 00:40:17,283 --> 00:40:19,843 They were determined to get Derrick Todd Lee 787 00:40:19,883 --> 00:40:20,923 on death row. 788 00:40:23,203 --> 00:40:26,083 Although only convicted of two murders, 789 00:40:26,123 --> 00:40:29,883 DNA linked Lee to seven in total 790 00:40:29,923 --> 00:40:32,523 and experts believe he could have been killing 791 00:40:32,563 --> 00:40:34,563 as early as 1992. 792 00:40:35,843 --> 00:40:39,763 In August of that year, 23-year-old Connie Warner 793 00:40:39,803 --> 00:40:42,603 was bludgeoned to death with a hammer, 794 00:40:42,643 --> 00:40:46,803 just a few blocks away from the home of randi mebruer. 795 00:40:46,843 --> 00:40:50,123 It was difficult to track down who might have killed Connie Warner 796 00:40:50,163 --> 00:40:52,043 because there was a hurricane, 797 00:40:52,083 --> 00:40:53,923 which all the evidence was washed away 798 00:40:53,963 --> 00:40:55,883 and they didn't find the body for seven days. 799 00:40:55,923 --> 00:40:59,003 Connie Warner's family knew in their hearts 800 00:40:59,043 --> 00:41:00,963 and from all the evidence I told them 801 00:41:01,003 --> 00:41:02,523 that he was involved in her case. 802 00:41:04,203 --> 00:41:07,203 If you looked out randi mebruer's house right now 803 00:41:07,243 --> 00:41:08,739 and looked around the corner like that, 804 00:41:08,763 --> 00:41:10,483 you can see Connie Warner's house. 805 00:41:10,523 --> 00:41:13,003 The family knew. They knew he was involved. 806 00:41:13,043 --> 00:41:15,163 They were satisfied with the case, 807 00:41:15,203 --> 00:41:17,283 you know, they were satisfied with the convictions. 808 00:41:18,243 --> 00:41:20,963 Susan Mustafa went to speak with Lee 809 00:41:21,003 --> 00:41:24,283 in the Louisiana state penitentiary in Angola 810 00:41:24,323 --> 00:41:26,163 while he was on death row, 811 00:41:26,203 --> 00:41:28,683 but she was met with short shrift. 812 00:41:28,723 --> 00:41:32,083 He certainly never showed any remorse or guilt, 813 00:41:32,123 --> 00:41:33,443 he never confessed. 814 00:41:33,483 --> 00:41:36,523 I sat outside of his cell and watched him 815 00:41:36,563 --> 00:41:40,123 and he climbed underneath the covers and wouldn't look at me 816 00:41:40,163 --> 00:41:41,683 and then he finally sat up 817 00:41:41,723 --> 00:41:44,523 and he started playing with his toilet paper 818 00:41:44,563 --> 00:41:47,683 and refused to look at me the whole time I was there. 819 00:41:47,723 --> 00:41:49,163 He wouldn't talk to anybody, 820 00:41:49,203 --> 00:41:52,763 and he never showed any signs of remorse. 821 00:41:52,803 --> 00:41:56,923 Derrick Todd Lee spent less than 12 years on death row, 822 00:41:56,963 --> 00:41:59,643 but he was never executed. 823 00:41:59,683 --> 00:42:04,403 He died of heart disease on 21 January, 2016. 824 00:42:04,443 --> 00:42:07,203 He was 47 years old. 825 00:42:07,243 --> 00:42:09,283 My understanding was he was already in bad shape 826 00:42:09,323 --> 00:42:12,403 leaving from Angola and he died the next day, 827 00:42:12,443 --> 00:42:15,043 you know, and, 828 00:42:15,083 --> 00:42:16,643 you know, he had to go meet his maker 829 00:42:16,683 --> 00:42:19,403 and he had to answer for what he did. 830 00:42:19,443 --> 00:42:21,483 Lee's death was a relief for the man 831 00:42:21,523 --> 00:42:24,363 who had invested a lot of time in making sure 832 00:42:24,403 --> 00:42:26,163 the killer was caught. 833 00:42:26,203 --> 00:42:29,003 I knew that he could not harm nobody else ever again, 834 00:42:29,043 --> 00:42:32,083 that he would never be able to escape from jail 835 00:42:32,123 --> 00:42:34,403 if he ever tried to harm anybody else. 836 00:42:35,683 --> 00:42:40,803 I think the good lord... took him 837 00:42:40,843 --> 00:42:44,203 and, you know, I think that... 838 00:42:44,243 --> 00:42:46,163 You know, he had to answer for what he did. 839 00:42:46,203 --> 00:42:49,323 And it was a relief. 840 00:42:49,363 --> 00:42:51,139 You know, I don't want to ever see nobody die, 841 00:42:51,163 --> 00:42:54,723 but this type of evil person had no business living on earth. 842 00:42:58,083 --> 00:43:02,203 In the community, Lee's death was greeted with relief. 843 00:43:02,243 --> 00:43:06,363 The 'ghost of Baton Rouge' had finally been exorcised. 844 00:43:07,523 --> 00:43:12,403 He was vicious, he was violent, he invaded people's homes, 845 00:43:12,443 --> 00:43:14,883 invaded their lives and then took their lives. 846 00:43:16,643 --> 00:43:19,083 He wasn't even really human. 847 00:43:19,123 --> 00:43:23,203 He had an ego, when he was rejected, he killed. 848 00:43:24,763 --> 00:43:26,363 There's other people worked this case, 849 00:43:26,403 --> 00:43:30,203 but all along my gut feeling was him, 850 00:43:30,243 --> 00:43:32,923 we held that piece of pie and then we solved this case 851 00:43:32,963 --> 00:43:35,643 and one of the most brutal serial killers I knew of, 852 00:43:35,683 --> 00:43:37,803 you know, we stopped him from killing anybody else. 853 00:43:41,483 --> 00:43:43,723 Lee was extremely dangerous, 854 00:43:43,763 --> 00:43:47,283 a seemingly charming man who could talk his way 855 00:43:47,323 --> 00:43:50,083 into women's homes before raping them 856 00:43:50,123 --> 00:43:51,883 and ending their lives. 857 00:43:51,923 --> 00:43:53,923 He was brutal, callous and, 858 00:43:53,963 --> 00:43:55,643 ultimately, remorseless 859 00:43:55,683 --> 00:43:59,643 in his quest to fulfil his sexual perversions, 860 00:43:59,683 --> 00:44:02,403 making Derrick Todd Lee 861 00:44:02,443 --> 00:44:06,523 one of the world's most evil killers. 862 00:44:06,563 --> 00:44:09,563 Captioned by ai-media ai-media. 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