The victims' families were both traumatized and exhausted by the capital case trial and decided to discontinue prosecution after he received the death penalty in the prosecution of Murray (Charlotte) Pace.
In the end, Lee was found guilty for the murders of confirmed victims Geralyn DeSoto and Charlotte Pace. During his trial, Lee faced many allegations against him and was being charged for seven counts of murder. As for Lee, he was held in the East Baton Rouge's Parish Prison, with the Baton Rouge Senior Assistant District Attorney John Sinquefield seeking the death penalty for him if convicted. Her body was dumped outside during the time of Hurricane Andrew and no DNA remained when her body was discovered. They decided that DNA tests for the DNA found at the Mebruer scene was too expensive to pursue.Īuthorities were able to pin Mebruer's murder onto Lee through DNA at the very end of the case, but they were unable to trace a connection between Lee and Warner and she remains listed as one of his suspected victims. The police department was immediately criticized by Baton Rouge residents due to the investigation's shift of focus onto a man of color, as well as the fact that they overlooked him when Lee was suspected of the murders of Randi Mebruer and 41-year-old Connie Warner. It took a joint FBI-metropolitan Atlanta police force squad to apprehend Lee in a local hotel and he was returned to Louisiana, where the authorities discovered Lee's already-extensive rap sheet. At that time, Lee had fled with his family to Chicago, Illinois, and then Atlanta, Georgia to escape the murder charges. For a while, Lee was suspected as the murderer of Randi Mebruer and was put under police watch.ĭuring May 2003, investigators have found a match to the DNA samples taken from Lee's final victim, 26-year-old Carrie Yoder, and pin Lee as the key suspect. The crimes attracted the attention of authorities, who gave the then-unidentified perpetrator the nickname of "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer".
All the while, he continuously got himself arrested for unrelated crimes and also began cheating on his wife with an unknowing woman named Consandra Green, whom he would later threaten to kill, then beat, and got arrested as a result. Starting with 28-year-old Randi Mebruer, whose body was never found, Lee then murdered six more women in a six-year span. Their relationship afterward became strained, as he kept slapping her and once threatened her father with a gun.Īt some point during 1998, Lee snapped for an unspecified reason and started killing women. Sometime on 1988, he met one Jaqueline Sims and married her on August 17 of the same year, in Solitude, Louisiana. Then, on July 2, 1988, Lee was arrested for attempting to rob another civilian, but the charges were reduced and he shortly left jail. He also set his own car on fire in order to collect the insurance money it is likely the scheme failed. Three years later, on August 8, he was arrested on suspicion of murdering a civilian, but was released. At the age of 13, on November 8, 1981, he was arrested for burglarizing and vandalizing a candy store, and on the same day, he assaulted a woman in front of his mother. Mentally challenged, Lee was put in special-education classes and was bullied by classmates, who called him "retarded". Francisville, as one of four children, Lee was physically abused by his stepfather, abuse that was known by his domineering mother who never intervened.
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