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The Crimes Of Derrick Todd Lee, The Baton Rouge Serial Killer Who Raped And Murdered Seven Women

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After the violent deaths of three women in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Baton Rouge Police Department knew they had a serial killer on their hands.

The world would come to find it was the work of Derrick Todd Lee, a Louisiana man whose abusive upbringing and explosive nature created a recipe for disaster.

By the time he was captured, Lee had killed seven women — at least, that’s how many the Baton Rouge police have confirmed. But some think he has more than double that amount of victims. This is the story of serial killer Derrick Todd Lee…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

Derrick Todd Lee’s Tumultuous Childhood

The AdvocateDerrick Todd Lee’s yearbook photo in 1986.

Derrick Todd Lee was born Nov. 5, 1968, in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Lee dealt with a very dysfunctional and abusive home life from the get-go.

According to WAFB, attorneys for Lee said his biological father had bipolar disorder and psychosis and was largely out of the picture in both his and his 13 siblings and half-siblings’ lives.

At only three years old, his stepfather would reportedly beat him as his mother watched. Lee failed to find relief at school. His fellow students mocked him for being in special needs classes there.

They would call him “retarded” and make fun of how he called his teacher “momma” and sucked his thumb in class.

While Derrick Todd Lee’s parents and peers abused and bullied him, Lee looked for ways to express his anger. He found somewhat of a release in becoming his neighborhood’s peeping tom and abusing animals.

On several occasions, police arrested Lee on voyeurism, stalking, and burglary charges. From these experiences, Lee learned how to smooth talk his way out of bad situations he found himself in.

He would later use these skills to transform into a violent, unremorseful adult.

An Adulthood Marred With Violence

As Derrick Todd Lee Lee got older, life didn’t get easier. Lee dropped out of school after the 11th grade due to his difficulties with bullying and behavioral problems.

Things didn’t seem to get better after leaving school, either. For one, he continued to live with his mother, whom he became increasingly combative towards. By this point, authorities had arrested him for several offenses.

On one occasion, Lee reportedly lit his own car on fire to collect the insurance money and attacked the mother of a man who accused him of peeping.

One of the few silver linings to Lee’s life came in September 1988 when he married Jacqueline Denise Sims. The couple had two children together but decided to split after Lee abused her and threatened Sims’ father with a gun in 1989.

That same year, Lee started a fistfight at a bar in St. Francisville, and authorities arrested him for disturbing the peace.

Lee’s problematic behavior became intense enough for the courts to recommend therapy, but he never showed up to the appointments.

To any outside observer, Lee’s life looked like it was on a steady downhill trajectory. Still, the violence he later succumbed to was far more shocking than anyone would have imagined.

Derrick Todd Lee Begins His Decade-Long Killing Spree

Derrick Lee Victims

WBRZVictims of Derrick Todd Lee: Randi Mebruer, Gina Green, Geralyn DeSoto, Charlotte Pace, Pamela Kinamore, Trineisha Colomb, Carrie Yoder, and Connie Warner.

Though never proven definitively, it’s thought that Lee’s first victim was Connie Warner, an accountant from Zachary, Louisiana. Warner lived at the Oak Shadow subdivision — and so did Lee.

Between Aug. 23 and Aug. 24, 1992, Warner disappeared. Authorities found her body on Sept. 2 near the state capitol building.

Unfortunately, Hurricane Andrew blew through on Aug. 26, washing away crucial evidence at the crime scene. An autopsy found that Warner likely died of a skull fracture caused by an intense beating. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

According to The Advocate, the Zachary Police Department suspected Derrick Todd Lee immediately, but a lack of physical evidence prevented them from arresting him.

The next attack took place in April 1998. Lee abducted Randi Mebruer from her home in Zachary while her toddler slept peacefully in one of the bedrooms. Lee then raped, beat, and stabbed Mebruer to death.

The next murder occurred in September 2001 when Lee raped and stabbed Gina Green in Baton Rouge. He struck again in January 2002, beating and stabbing 21-year-old Geralyn DeSoto in Addis. In May of the same year, Lee raped and stabbed Charlotte Pace, a recent LSU graduate, to death in Baton Rouge.

Derrick Todd Lee’s final three known victims were Pam Kinamore, Trineisha Colomb, and Carrie Yoder. Lee had raped and slit Kinamore’s throat on July 12, 2002. Colomb had been raped and beaten to death on Nov. 21, 2002, and Yoder had been raped and strangled on March 3, 2003.

These are the confirmed victims of Lee, but investigators believe there could be as many as 17.

In many cases, Lee pretended to be a kind stranger asking for help. When the victims obliged, Lee would turn deadly.

Police Capture The Baton Rouge Serial Killer

Police Custody Of Lee

The AdvocatePolice escort Lee through the East Baton Rouge Governmental Building.

With the sudden surge in disappearances and violent murders, police were on the hunt for a serial killer. Thankfully, Derrick Todd Lee’s name was on their radar from day one.

During the investigation, a woman named Dianne Alexander came to police to report that an African American male had attempted to rape and strangle her in her home on July 9, 2002. This man came to her home asking to use the telephone. When she agreed and opened the door, Lee attacked her.

Thankfully, Alexander’s son came home and scared Lee off during the attack. From this encounter, authorities better understood the attacker’s physical description and car.

Authorities extracted physical evidence from several of the crime scenes. Although an initial FBI report found that the killer was likely a white male between the ages of 25 and 35, a Florida lab notified police that the forensic evidence they collected likely came from an African-American male.

With this, authorities looked deeper into Derrick Todd Lee.

According to court documents, authorities collected a DNA sample from Lee on May 5, 2003, and tested it against forensic evidence at the crime scenes. It was a match for Green, Pace, Kinamore, Colomb, and Yoder.

When police went to Lee’s home to arrest him for the murders, they found that he had fled the state. However, it didn’t take long for authorities to track him down to Atlanta and arrest him there on May 27, 2003.

Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington stated that Lee did not resist arrest, as reported by WBRZ.

“I know now that we have taken a very dangerous person that’s a serial murder suspect off the streets of Atlanta, and I’m sure the citizens of Louisiana are proud as well that we’ve taken this very dangerous person off our streets,” Pennington stated.

Derrick Todd Lee was found guilty of the murders of Geralyn Desoto and Charlotte Pace and sentenced to death.

For the victims’ families, it was some amount of justice.

However, Lee never reached his execution day, as he passed away from heart disease in 2016 at 47.

“I was not disappointed to hear that he died of natural causes,” John Sinquefield, Louisiana’s deputy attorney general, stated to A&E. “That assured me he would never get out. I think justice was done for the victims.”

 

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Guy Fawkes’ punishment was one of the most severe in English history – here’s what happens when a body is hung, drawn and quartered

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Fawkes and his co-conspirators were sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering. Crispijn van de Passe the Elder/ Wikimedia Commons

After their infamous plot to destroy parliament was foiled, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators received one of the most severe judicial sentences in English history: hanging, drawing and quartering. According to the Treason Act 1351 , this punishment involved…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

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  • Michelle SpearProfessor of Anatomy, University of Bristol

That you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, where you shall be hanged by the neck and being alive cut down, your privy members shall be cut off and your bowels taken out and burned before you, your head severed from your body and your body divided into four quarters to be disposed of at the King’s pleasure.

This process aimed not only to inflict excruciating pain on the condemned, but to serve as a deterrent – demonstrating the fate of those who betrayed the Crown. While Fawkes reportedly jumped from the gallows – which meant he avoided the full extent of his punishment – his co-conspirators apparently weren’t so lucky.

By dissecting each stage of this medieval punishment from an anatomical perspective, we can understand the profound agony each of them endured.

Torture for confession

Before his public execution on January 31 1606, Fawkes was tortured to force a confession about his involvement in the “gunpowder plot”.

The Tower of London records confirm that King James I personally authorised “the gentler tortures first”. Accounts reveal that Fawkes was stretched on the rack – a device designed to slowly pull the limbs in opposite directions. This stretching inflicted severe trauma on the shoulders, elbows and hips, as well as the spine.

The forces exerted by the rack probably exceeded those required for joint or hip dislocation under normal conditions.

Substantive differences between Fawkes’ signatures on confessions between November 8 and shortly before his execution may indicate the amount of nerve and soft tissue damage sustained. It also illustrates how remarkable his final leap from the gallows was.

An engraving depicting a person being tortured on the rack.
The rack slowly pulled a prisoner’s limbs in opposite directions. Wellcome Collection/ Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA

Stage 1: hanging (partial strangulation)

After surviving the torture of the rack, Fawkes and his gang faced the next stage of their punishment: hanging. But this form of hanging only partially strangled the condemned – preserving their consciousness and prolonging their suffering.

Partial strangulation exerts extreme pressure on several critical neck structures. The hyoid bone , a small u-shaped structure above the larynx, is prone to bruising or fracture under compression .

Simultaneously, pressure on the carotid arteries restricts blood flow to the brain, while compression of the jugular veins causes pooling of blood in the head – probably resulting in visible haemorrhages in the eyes and face.

Because the larynx and trachea (both essential for airflow) are partially obstructed, this makes breathing laboured. Strain on the cervical spine and surrounding muscles in the neck can lead to tearing, muscle spasms or dislocation of the vertebra – causing severe pain. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

Fawkes brought his agony to a premature end by leaping from the gallows. Accounts from the time tell us:

His body being weak with the torture and sickness, he was scarce able to go up the ladder – yet with much ado, by the help of the hangman, went high enough to break his neck by the fall.

This probably caused him to suffer a bilateral fracture of his second cervical vertebra, assisted by his own bodyweight – an injury known as the “hangman’s fracture” .

Stage 2: Drawing (disembowelment)

After enduring partial hanging, the victim would then be “drawn” – a process which involved disembowelling them while still alive. This act mainly targeted the organs of the abdominal cavity – including the intestines, liver and kidney, as well as major blood vessels such as the abdominal aorta.

The physiological response to disembowelment would have been immediate and severe. The abdominal cavity possesses a high concentration of pain receptors – particularly around the membranous lining of the abdomen . When punctured, these pain receptors would have sent intense pain signals to the brain, overwhelming the body’s capacity for pain management . Shock would soon follow due to the rapid drop in blood pressure caused by massive amounts of blood loss.

Stage 3: quartering (dismemberment)

Quartering was also supposed to be performed while the victim was still alive. Though no accounts exist detailing at what phase victims typically lost consciousness during execution, it’s highly unlikely many survived the shock of being drawn.

So, at this stage, publicity superseded punishment given the victim’s likely earlier demise. Limbs that were removed from criminals were preserved by boiling them with spices. These were then toured around the country to act as a deterrent for others.

Though accounts suggest Fawkes’s body parts were sent to “the four corners of the United Kingdom”, there is no specific record of what was sent where. However, his head was displayed in London .

Traitor’s punishment

The punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering was designed to be as anatomically devastating as it was psychologically terrifying. Each stage of the process exploited the vulnerabilities of the human body to create maximum pain and suffering, while also serving as a grim reminder of the consequences of treason.

This punishment also gives us an insight into how medieval justice systems used the body as a canvas for social and political messaging. Fawkes’s fate, though unimaginable today, exemplifies the extremes to which the state could, and would, go to maintain control, power and authority over its subjects.

The sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering was officially removed from English law as part of the Forfeiture Act of 1870 .

 

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OPINION: 4 Children Who Were Sentenced to life imprisonment At A Young Age And what They Did

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There are many unusual things happening across the world. Children are charming and lovely, yet others are really dangerous and have been involved in a variety of illegal activities in society.

In this post, we’ll look at four children who were condemned to life in jail Please keep in mind that some of these children are now adults…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

1. Joshua Phillips:

Joshua Phillips stabbed his neighbor’s eight-year-old daughter and put the girl’s body under his bed at home. After eight days, his mother discovered the body.

Joshua Phillips was fourteen years old when he committed this act, according to reports, and he was sentenced to life in jail.

Take a look at how Joshua Phillips is now.

2. Eric Smith:

Eric Smith, according to sources, was condemned to life in jail many years ago. Eric Smith was just 13 years old when he hit a 4-year-old boy with a rock and killed him.

Following multiple conversations with Eric, he stated that he was bullied by several senior kids at his school and that he killed the youngster because he was irritated and upset. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

3. Lionel Tate:

Lionel Tate was one of the youngest people to get a life sentence.

According to sources, when he was 13 years old, Lionel Tate killed his neighbor’s six-year-old daughter.

Lionel Tate claimed he was boxing with the young girl.

4. Brian Lee Draper:

Brian Lee Draper was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 for murdering a classmate, according to reports.

The murder was committed by Brian Lee Draper and his friend Torey Adamcik, who was sixteen years old at the time.

Parents should always endeavor to teach their children how to be good children, as well as pray for them.

 

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Lady Caught Feeding Neighbor’s Baby With Faeces & Urine Speaks From Prison, Gives This Ugly Reason

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A woman named Stella Namwanje was arrested in Uganda for allegedly committing an atrocious act against her neighbor’s baby. Reports indicate that she was caught on video defecating and urinating on the infant before feeding him the waste. This shocking behavior has drawn widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the child’s welfare…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

The incident took place in the Binyonyi A area of the Nyendo-Mukungwe division. Local authorities acted swiftly after the disturbing footage circulated on social media, prompting community outrage. The police have since taken Namwanje into custody to investigate the circumstances surrounding her actions and ensure the safety of the child.

The case has sparked discussions about the need for stronger measures to protect vulnerable individuals, especially children, from abuse. It highlights the alarming reality of child torture and the psychological issues that may drive such behavior. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

As the investigation unfolds, the community is rallying to support the affected family and prevent similar incidents in the future. The legal proceedings against Namwanje will likely focus on the extent of her actions and the necessary repercussions for such a heinous crime.

 

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