Derrick Todd Lee A.K.A."The Baton Rouge Serial Killer"

Derrick Todd Lee was born

Nov 5, 1968

Derrick Todd Lee was born in St. Francisville, Louisiana.

Derrick Todd Lee

Period: Nov 5, 1968 to Jan 21, 2016

Randi Mebruer

Apr 19, 1998

Randi Mebruer was taken from her Oak Shadows Subdivision home in Zachary, Louisiana. There were signs of a bloody struggle. Her 3 year old son was found asleep in his bed a few feet down the hall. Her body was never found. Police say that evidence found at the scene matched Derrick Todd Lee's DNA.

Gina Wilson Green

Sep 4, 2001

Gina Wilson Green was found strangled in her Stanford Avenue home in Baton Rouge.

Geralyn DeSoto

Jan 14, 2002

Geralyn DeSoto never arrived at an interview she had at 2:30 pm. Someone broke into her home.The intruder smacked her in the head with a telephone and stabbed her three times. She ran for her bedroom and got a shotgun.When she tried to turn the gun on her attacker, he managed to jerk it out of her hands.Then he cut her throat from ear to ear and stomped on her body.

Charlotte Murray Pace

May 31, 2002

Police found her body at her home on Baton Rouge. She had been stabbed more than 80 times, beaten with a clothes iron, and had her throat cut.

Pamela P. Kinamore

Jul 1, 2002

She disappeared from her Baton Rouge home. A few days later, her body was found floating 30 miles away in Whiskey Bay, dumped off of Interstate 10 between Baton Rouge and Lafayette. Her throat had been slashed.

Baton Rouge Police

Jul 31, 2002

Baton Rouge Police Department hosted a meeting with local law enforcement investigators.The purpose of the meeting was to find out how many cases were connected to The Baton Rouge serial killer.

Possible Id

Jul 31, 2002

Police believe that Derrick Todd Lee was a white male who drove a white pick up truck.

Trineisha Dene Colomb

Nov 21, 2002

She was visiting her mother's grave in St. Landry Parish, when she disappeared. Police found her car near the cemetery but could find no sign of her. Three days later, a hunter found her body dumped in the woods near the cemetery. She had been beaten to death. DNA the killer left at the scene positively linked Trineisha's murder to those of Gina Wilson Green, Charlotte Murray Pace, and Pam Kinamore.

Women in Baton Rouge

Nov 24, 2002

Women began to take self defense classes and sales for guns, pepper spray, and alarm systems increased.

Carrie Lynn Yoder

Mar 3, 2003

The 26-year-old graduate student who lived just south of the LSU campus disappeared. She was unloading groceries from her car when she was abducted. Ten days later, a crawfish farmer discovered Carrie's body floating in Whiskey Bay. She had been beaten and strangled. The blows to her body fractured her ribs and lacerated her liver. Like the other women, she had also been raped.

Stalkings

Apr 1, 2003

Zachary cops began to receive complaints from a woman in Oak Shadows subdivision. Someone was stalking her on her early morning jogs.

Lee was out of jail

Apr 2, 2003

Dannie Mixon began to dig into Derrick Todd Lee's criminal history. He made a timeline for Lee, documenting the dates when Lee was in jail. Mixon compared the timeline to the dates of the murders and disappearances. Lee was out of jail during each attack.

Warrant for his arrest

May 26, 2003

A warrant for his arrest was put out.The next day he was arrested in Atlanta.

Derrick Todd Lee Dies

Jan 21, 2016

Derrick Todd Lee dies in a local hospital.