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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Hard book to read, especially since I lived in the area when this was going on. I'd interacted with several of the victims, though I knew none of them well. Very sad it wasn't solved sooner. ( ) Some true crime books can be dry and lack details. This is not one of them. The police had so many chances to arrest Derrick Todd Lee a very violent offender and yet it did not happen. It seemed everything went Lee's way the statue of limitations had run out, evidence disappeared, and even though he violated his probation, he was released. If he had been caught earlier many women would have lived. In my review of Dismembered I wrote that there were three serial killers in Baton Rouge at one time. One was Sean Vincent Gillis, another one was Derrick Todd Lee; A.K.A.: "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer"; A.K.A.: "The South Louisiana Serial Killer", the third was nicknamed the "Prostitute Killer". I don't think he was ever caught. Sean Vincent Gillis mainly preyed on women that he thought would be missed, women that 'were already dead', at least to him. Lee went over the woman he believed he could never get. Attractive, intelligent, accomplished, successful. He also was a black serial killer killing white women. But he also killed some black women, he just went after women he could only get by force. Then he killed them. I wrote, rather tongue in cheek, that this book could also be titled, "How Not to Catch a Serial Killer". The task force had no experience in serial killers, and rejected suggestion from 3 people 'you should really look a this guy'. Not flighty people, two of them were experienced investigators. In the end, these investigators were not even mentioned in the press conference authorities gave after Lee was caught. This book does not flinch in it's writing, the good, the bad and the ugly. The trial coverage is extensive and detailed. But it wasn't just a rehash of what you had already read. It really conveyed all that is involved in the prosecution of a murdered. Derrick Todd Lee was tried and convicted of two murders, but he has been linked to at least seven more. There are more murders that authorities think he was involved in. He never confessed nor offered to reveal where he disposed of bodies. There are families out there in pain, on January 21, 2016 Lee died in prison, taking his secrets to the grave. I recommend this book to true crime fans. no reviews | add a review
They Knew He Was Out There He took his time. He watched his victims and chose carefully. Then he struck--each attack more brutal than the last. By the time detectives arrived, all they found were gruesome crime scenes of bloodied, brutalized bodies. . . They Knew He Would Strike Again For more than ten years in South Louisiana the killings went on. Task forces were formed. The killer even spent time in jail. But that wouldn't stop the bloodshed. One victim was stabbed with a screwdriver 83 times. . . But They Couldn't Stop Him--Until Was Too Late He was a father. A husband. A co-worker. And a killer. Derrick Todd Lee was ultimately convicted of two savage murders and tied to at least seven more. From the slender trace of DNA that finally nabbed him to the courageous prosecutors who took him down in court, this is the shocking story of a homicidal maniac hiding in plain sight--and an evil that could never be washed away. . . Includes 16 pages of shocking photographs Previously published as "I've Been Watching You" Susan D. Mustafa is the executive editor of "Southeast News" in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is the award-winning co-author of "No Such Thing as Impossible--From Adversity to Triumph, " written with Jairo Alvarez Botero, and a freelance journalist for a variety of magazines throughout the South. Tony Clayton was the special prosecutor of the South Louisiana Serial Killer in the Geralyn DeSoto case. He currently serves as assistant district attorney for West Baton Rouge Parish. His career has included posts as a special prosecutor, district court judge, assistant district attorney and instructor of pre-law at Southern University. Sue Israel has more than twenty years of writing and editing experience and currently serves as the public information officer for the Office of the Commissioner in the state of Louisiana's Division of Administration. No library descriptions found. |
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