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

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So not far from that cemetery where he attacked those kids with a machete. Wasn't that him?

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Hmmm...not sure about that. Never heard about him attacking kids in a cemetery.

LINK

Here is a basic summary. Gets way more in depth though once you start researching.

Much obliged

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The cops were insistent it was a white killer,

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I'll say this, at the time of this occuring they had several articles come out in all of the big newspapers around South Louisiana. When they were claiming a white killer and in particular the only black woman he murdered near lafayette, they had a mold of his shoe on the ground(tracks he left)and identified the shoe(BK's) he tracked on the grounds near where this woman was dumped. I called the hotline to tell them immediately that this person was NOT white because of the kind of shoe they identified. At the time they identified the shoe as being a 8 or 10 yr old British Knight, a cheaper selling BK. I also was in a profession that seen hundreds if not thousands of athletic shoes on older teens for years and knew exactly what they(white or black) wore during that time. I can tell you that this cheaper shoe was owned by a person who was lower in classification(upper,middle and lower class). He bought a shoe that he knew from school times(10 to 15 yrs before) to be a cool shoe. And the fact that it was an older model so to speak told me he was around 30 or older and definitely NOT white. I told the hotline why I know these things based on what I see everyday and they found my info interesting. Say I stereotyped all you want. It wasn't like that back then and I was 150% correct when it came out.

I was in grad school then. Scary times. I had friends who worked with Murray's roommate at the time. After she was killed the cops gave her roommate a dog from the K9 unit.

I was in the process of moving out of Sharlo townhomes to South Brightside view the day it happened. My first load of stuff I came in and out of the neighborhood. When I went to pick up my second load of stuff, cops were swarming everywhere and crime scene tape was up with coroner outside. It was quite a surreal scene especially knowing what we know now.

Didnt they match a telephone cord that was stolen from one victim, and used to tie up another. I seem to remember something about a telephone cord.

Yes that was him who attacked those kids in the cemetery

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I think the thought at the time was that he might have been to retarded to stand trial. Not that he was to retarded to have committed them. But they ruled he wasn't.

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Right, but I was specifically referring to another poster's comment that he knew a lawyer who believed DTL was too stupid to even be a serial killer.

I'm a little surprised a lawyer would think that, but it's not an uncommon misconception.