Derrick Todd Lee
Derrick Todd Lee was an american serial killer.
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Biography
Birth
Derrick was born on the 5th November 1968 in St. Franseville, Louisiana.
Criminal career
His killing spree started in 1992.
One of the known victims and survivor of Derrick was Dianne Alexander. On the 9th July 1992, Derrick tried to enter in St. Martin Parish, home of the woman, and he beated and tried to rape her. She was saved thanks to her son that scared Derrick and chased him. In this way, the son was capable of describing the car of Derrick. Also, Dianne had details as to what Derrick looked like and on the 22th May 2003, she was able to describe Derrick to a police sketch artist.
Between the DNA evidence gathered off of the deceased victims, a psychological profile made by Mary Ellen O'Toole and the police sketch based on Dianne's description, the police went public with the information. Police in the nearby town of Zachary recognized the man by a recent incident that 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.
Once Lee was identified, law enforcement captured him. 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.
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 sentenced to life imprisonment.
Derrick was convicted on the 14th October 2004, for the rape and murder Charlotte Murray Pace, made on the 31st May 2002. He was sentenced to death via lethal injection. On the January 16th 2008, the state Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction and death sentence.
Derrick was placed on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.
Death
Derrick died on the 21st January 2016 at the age of 47, of heart disease at a hospital in Louisiana, where he had been awaiting execution.
Trivia
- The police sketch of Derrick was used in the webseries "Mandela Catalogue" for impersonate an alternate.
- His police skecth was also used for one of the phases of the "Mr.Incredible becoming uncanny" meme.
- During the manhunt, John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted, added the Baton Rouge Serial Killer to his Top 10 Fugitives of 2002.
- Derrick was portrayed in an episode of the docudrama series "Obsession: Dark Desires".
- It has been discovered that Derrick has 65 IQ, 4 points under the average, wich means that he has an IQ of someone with mental retardation.