Good Riddance, New Orleans Serial Killer Derrick Todd Lee Dead at 47

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Derrick Todd Lee, the convicted serial killer linked to the deaths of seven south Louisiana women between 1998 and 2003, died on Thursday, a state correction official confirmed.

He died just before 9 a.m., said Pam Laborde, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections. An autopsy will be performed by the West Feliciana coroner’s office.

Lee was moved from death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on Saturday. He had been at a hospital, treated for an ailment that state corrections officials did not disclose, since then.

On death row for the murder of 22-year-old Charlotte Murray Pace in her Baton Rouge home, authorities say DNA evidence also connected Lee to six other deaths. He was taken to trial in one other, the slaying of Geralyn Barr DeSoto, 21, of Addis, receiving a life sentence for second-degree murder after a trial in West Baton Rouge Parish.

But evidence about the deaths of other women was used during Lee’s trial.

Authorities have said Lee also is suspected in the slayings of Trineisha Dené Colomb, of Lafayette; Randi Mebruer, Zachary; and Pam Kinamore, Carrie Lynn Yoder and Gina Wilson Green, all of Baton Rouge.