Months later, in January 2002, Geralyn DeSoto, 21, was found stabbed to death in her home.ĭiane Alexander was at home alone in July 2002 when Lee knocked on her door and asked to use her phone, claiming he was lost. In September 2001, Gina Wilson Green, 40, was found raped and strangled to death in her home near Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Missing from Warner, Champman, and Mebruer crime scenes were the victims’ keys, leading investigators to believe the killer was taking them as souvenirs, McDavid told the Advocate. There were signs of a violent struggle and a trail of blood winding through her home. To this day, Mebruer’s body has never been recovered. Randi Mebruer, 28, lived in the same sub-division as Warner and was abducted in April 1998.
Years later, survivor Michelle Chapman picked Lee out of a police photo lineup, but by then, the statute of limitations for the crime had expired, according to the Advocate. The couple was alone in their car when they were attacked by a man with a machete, nearly severing one of their feet. Lee was also considered a suspect in a 1993 assault on a young couple in a Zachary graveyard. "We believe in our hearts that he killed Connie, but we can’t prove it,” Zachary Police Chief David McDavid told Louisiana’s Advocate newspaper in 2016. While Lee was a suspect in the case, no charges were ever filed against him, and no further evidence tying him to the crime has ever been found.
Weeks later, the 41-year-old's badly decomposed body was found nude in a local drainage ditch.Īndre Burgos, the former boyfriend of Warner’s teenage daughter, reported seeing a man who looked like Lee watching the family’s house prior to Warner’s death, according to WAFB. In 2000, Lee was convicted of fleeing from officers after attacking Green at a local lounge, and he was sentenced to two years in prison, according to the Associated Press.Ĭonnie Warner went missing from her home in Zachary, Louisiana in August 1992. In 1988, Lee married Jacqueline Denise Sims, and they had two children together. Lee also had a long-term girlfriend, Consandra Green, whom he sometimes lived with. Lee later described himself as a loner, and he also gained a reputation in his neighborhood as a “Peeping Tom” and was arrested multiple times throughout his life for voyeurism, stalking, and burglary, according to the Chicago Tribune. He dropped out in the 11th grade, according to court documents. Tests would reveal Lee had an IQ of 65, reported the Associated Press. He did poorly in school, where he was enrolled in special education classes. Lee was primarily raised by his mother, and he grew up with 13 siblings and half-siblings. Mental illness ran in his family, and his father reportedly suffered from bipolar disorder and psychosis, according to Baton Rouge CBS affiliate WAFB. Francisville, Louisiana, a small town north of Baton Rouge. Lee, whose case is explored in Oxygen’s “ Mark of a Killer,” was born on Nov. 5, 1968 and raised in St. Known in the press as “The Baton Rouge Serial Killer,” his name was Derrick Todd Lee, and although he has been tied to seven deaths and convicted of two murders, the possibility exists he was responsible for more. Preying on people’s kindness, he asked for directions or charmed them with a smile before forcing his way inside women’s homes to assault and murder them. In the early 2000s, a serial killer snaked his way through the communities of southern Louisiana.
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