Derrick Todd Lee...What was it like around Baton Rouge at that time?

It was awful around LSU, ladies were very worried all the time. Messed with a lot of things. Exercising around the lakes, going to do things alone, etc.

Laffy sheriffs dept drew down on me close to the site of one of his victims.
White chev truck, camera across street and 24 hr rolling patrol.

It was a pretty scary time. I was going hunting early one morning and saw a white van driving slowly around my buddy's neighborhood so I followed it. Turns out they were throwing newspapers.

I knew a few guys who lived across from the Pace murder. (Sharlo) They were inside in the middle of the day and they heard screams. It was her roommate walking in on the aftermath. Apparently was one of the most gruesome scenes BRPD has had.

I remember a checkpoint on Burbank and East Boyd. They had no leads and just stopping everyone to see if they saw anything.

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Does anyone have a map of the murders?

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I was in college and working at Jim's Firearms... we'd have people lined up waiting for us to get shipments of pepper spray in, and people were buying guns left and right

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Did any of you with a white pickup truck get strange looks?

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I worked for a contractor at Dow Chemical in Plaquemine, LA at the time. I had to drive outside of the plant in order to smoke a cigarette. I would go out to Hwy. 1 and find a safe spot to park. When the whole DTL thing hit I would be visited by a deputy or some type of LEO every time I parked. The funny thing is it was usually the same cops daily. Strange days indeed.

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I don't remember, what did he do to her?

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Well, the official report is that she bled out but they found a bloody iron as well as many other stab wounds, some thin like a screwdriver made it and others wider like a knife.

When her roommate found her, she was mostly nude and there was a ton of blood in the bedroom but also throughout the rest of the townhouse as well. DNA evidence showed that he did rape her as semen was found on the lower part of her buttocks very close to her vagina.


As for the wounds themselves, she had blunt force trauma to the head area including a skull fracture and blunt trauma to the eyes which we assume was where he hit her with the iron. She had stab wounds through her left eye socket into her skull, multiple wounds to her heart, liver, and lungs. In total, she had 81 different stab wounds. He also cut her throat from the cartilage at the top of her neck, gashed open her esophagus and also severed her left jugular.


Saddest part was that she had defensive wounds on her arms and hands, indicating that she did try to defend herself for at least some time during the attack.




TLDR: He basically bashed her head in, stabbed her 81 times and cut her throat so deep it damn near decapitated her. Unknown if he raped her before or after she lost consciousness/expired.

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was living in those apartments on Stanford by the lakes (torn down and something newer there now

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I can't think this AM...what were those apts called back then? Had a friend that lived there.