Derrick Todd Lee
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Derrick Todd Lee (born in 1969 in New Orleans, Louisiana), 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.
External links
- America's Most Wanted (http://www.americasmostwanted.com/site/thisweek/CS_20030125.html)
- Dispelling some of the Urban Legends surrounding killings (http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/batonrouge.asp)
- WAFB Baton Rouge Serial Killer Information Center (http://www.wafb.com/Global/category.asp?C=37799)