Alexander said when the man found out her husband was not home, he overpowered her and attempted to rape her. Police said on July 9, 2002, Diane Alexander was attacked at her home in Breaux Bridge.Īlexander later told police that a black male knocked on her door asking to use her phone. J– Diane Alexander attacked Breaux Bridge Pace had recently graduated from LSU as one of the youngest students to receive an MBA degree in business administration. She also received other defensive injuries showing she tried to fight off her attacker. On May 31, 2002, a roommate found 22-year-old Charlotte Murray Pace's body at her apartment in Baton Rouge.Īutopsy reports said Pace was stabbed over 80 times and raped.

– Charlotte Murray Pace killed Baton Rouge 'Gangsta's Paradise' rapper Coolio dead at 59ĭesoto’s husband was the lead suspect in her murder before evidence linked to Lee.Fugitive shot to death after search led federal marshals to EBR neighborhood.Geralyn DeSoto was an LSU student and was planning to attend graduate school in the fall of 2002. 14, 2002, Darren DeSoto found his 21-year-old wife Geralyn Desoto lying in a pool of blood in her Baton Rouge home. The cellphone was found weeks later in an alley on Choctaw Street.ĭNA evidence was taken from the crime scene and was analyzed at the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab. Police said her cell phone and purse were missing.

Autopsy report shows she was raped and strangled. 24, 2001, 40-year-old Gina Wilson Green was found murdered in her home on Stanford Avenue near LSU. 24, 2001 - Gina Wilson Green killed Baton Rouge Here is a timeline of events that covers the murders, the case, and Lee's eventual death: He was still waiting on death row at the time of his death at the age of 47. DNA evidence was also used to link Lee to five additional killings from 1998 to 2003. BATON ROUGE - Serial killer Derrick Todd Lee was sentenced to a life sentence and death for the murder of two women.

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