Post by theczar on Jan 21, 2016 12:20:45 GMT -5
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Convicted south Louisiana serial killer Derrick Todd Lee has died, officials confirmed Thursday morning.
Pam Laborde, spokeswoman with the Louisiana Department of Safety and Corrections, said Lee died shortly before 9 a.m. Lee was taken to the hospital on Saturday due to a medical condition, according to Laborde.
Lee, 47, has been linked to DNA to the deaths of multiple women. He has been convicted in two of those deaths.
In 2004, he was sentenced to death in the 2002 first-degree murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, of Baton Rouge. She was a graduate student at LSU at the time of her death.
Lee was also convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in the January 2002 killing of Geralyn DeSoto.
Lee is suspected of killing seven women between 1998 and 2003. The other murders include Pam Kinamore, Gina Wilson Green, Carrie Lynn Yoder and Trineisha Dene' Colomb.
Prosecutors believe Lee also killed Randi Mebruer from Zachary.
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Pam Laborde, spokeswoman with the Louisiana Department of Safety and Corrections, said Lee died shortly before 9 a.m. Lee was taken to the hospital on Saturday due to a medical condition, according to Laborde.
Lee, 47, has been linked to DNA to the deaths of multiple women. He has been convicted in two of those deaths.
In 2004, he was sentenced to death in the 2002 first-degree murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, of Baton Rouge. She was a graduate student at LSU at the time of her death.
Lee was also convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in the January 2002 killing of Geralyn DeSoto.
Lee is suspected of killing seven women between 1998 and 2003. The other murders include Pam Kinamore, Gina Wilson Green, Carrie Lynn Yoder and Trineisha Dene' Colomb.
Prosecutors believe Lee also killed Randi Mebruer from Zachary.
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