Derrick Todd Lee killed Charlotte Murray Pace 20 years ago today (May 31)

I lived in my hometown Arnaudville at the time. One of his victims was found just miles away in Grand Coteau. I remember how on edge everyone was.

That was a crazy time to be living in BR. I forget the name of the other serial killer, but some of you living in University Acres/Woodstone/Woodgate will probably remember that POS living in a house we all rode bikes by as a kid.

Burl Cain would always invite my family to the rodeo and one year we were allowed to tour death row. I’ll never forget the way DTL looked at the women in our group. Pure evil.

I didn’t know her personally but I had mutual friends with both her (she went by Murray, I think) and Geralyn DeSoto.

When Geralyn was murdered, I remember that my friends who knew her were convinced it was her husband that did it. At the time she was killed, I don’t think they had announced that there was a serial killer yet. She didn’t get linked to DTL until later.

At the time this was all happening I lived with two other girls in a house in the garden district. I was fricking terrified all the time.

My son was friends with Pam Kinnamores boy. They were in cub scouts together. I remember when we got the news, we were all shocked and saddened for the family.

I initially thought that my son didn’t really realize what was happening. However, the next summer, my son was very reluctant to go to scout camp. The lasy had been killed while the boys were at camp the previous year and he didn’t want anything to happen to us while he was gone.

Knew the son of another victim of his

I knew Murray well. She was a sorority sister with my wife. She was a great girl

A friend of mine got questioned by police due to the “white pickup truck” angle. He was eating breakfast at Louis while a couple of cops were mean mugging him for 10-15 mins. He finally looked at them directly and said “What?”. They showed up at his work two days later for questioning.

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I worked at a BR gun store during all this….we’d get pepper spray in by the case and people would be lined up to buy it