So, in a weird kind of way, the victims can now begin to put this behind them as it relates to them waiting for his execution, etc. So now, they can just start the healing process. Derrick wreaked a lot of havoc on a lot of folks families. Just hearing what you were saying about this case, it's devastating. 'You know Greg, it's just a solemn moment for the victims,' said Tony Clayton, lead prosecutor for the trial into the death of DeSoto. Prosecutors believe Lee also killed Randi Mebruer from Zachary. The other murders include Pam Kinamore, Gina Wilson Green, Carrie Lynn Yoder and Trineisha Dene' Colomb. Lee is suspected of killing seven women between 19. Lee was also convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in the January 2002 killing of Geralyn DeSoto. She was a graduate student at LSU at the time of her death. In 2004, he was sentenced to death in the 2002 first-degree murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, of Baton Rouge. Lee, 47, was linked through DNA to the deaths of multiple women. Officials said additional information about Lee's medical condition cannot be released due to federal and state privacy laws. Lee was taken to the hospital early Saturday morning due to a medical condition, according to Laborde.

Lee reportedly had recent troubles with his pacemaker. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death. Pam Laborde, spokeswoman with the Louisiana Department of Safety and Corrections, said Lee died shortly before 9 a.m. The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld that conviction and sentence in September, rejecting claims that his lawyer should have brought up evidence of mental illness.BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Convicted south Louisiana serial killer Derrick Todd Lee has died, officials confirmed Thursday morning. Lee was sentenced to life for one murder and to death for killing Charlotte Murray Pace, who was stabbed 81 times and bludgeoned with an iron in May 2002. State corrections officials say serial killer Derrick Todd Lee, who was convicted of murdering two women and was sentenced to death for one of them, has died at a hospital where he was taken for emergency treatment.ĭepartment of Public Safety and Corrections spokeswoman Pam Laborde says Lee was taken to the hospital early Saturday and died Thursday.

Lee was taken to the hospital early Saturday and died Thursday.ĭepartment of Public Safety and Corrections spokeswoman Pam Laborde says there will be an autopsy to determine Lee’s cause of death. DNA evidence linked him to five additional killings from 1998 to 2003 another woman survived to testify against him.

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