"She had her arms folded up under her," said White. "He obviously had posed her looking for the shock factor, because her legs were sliced down the back and on the front pretty good," said White.īut Williams' killer wasn't done with her, even after her death.
Williams, 45, had been strangled to death, her body laid out for maximum horror. "Johnnie Mae Williams, face down in the woods, decomposing, covered up, you could barely tell it was a human being," said Burns. The problem escalated when the killer ups his ante with another murder even more vicious and gruesome. "Immediately they said this is not a normal heat-of-the-moment homicide," said Major White.
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"Very close examination of her mouth showed that there was a pubic hair with a root ball, which allows full DNA testing," said Burns. "He had sex with his victims after they were dead," said Major Bryan White. "She was on her back in a kind of balletic pose next to a 'dead end' sign, which I thought was a his humor, in a very sick kind of way, 'dead end,'" said Burns. And chillingly, Hall's body was found displayed beneath a street sign in a twisted parody of death. The killings begin again with the discovery of Katherine Hall, found at the end of a dark, rural road, nude, strangled, her body hacked and sliced to the bone. "All of the victims were killed by use of nylon zip-ties," said East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Major Bryan White. "It was very obvious that he chose women that he could handle."Īnd all also linked by a distinctive and grisly manner of death. "They were all really petite women," said Burns. His calling cards were far more brutal, gruesome and cruel than Baton Rouge had ever seen before. "You're talking about someone that's sexually deviant," said Former Senior FBI Criminal Profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole. "A true serial killer: taking souvenirs, dismembering victims," said Prem Burns. But the nightmare is not over.Ĭops soon learn there's a new serial killer on the loose, and he's even worse. DNA evidence ties Lee to the rapes and murders of at least seven women.Ĭops have their serial killer, and the people of Baton Rouge breathe a sigh of relief. "He would rape each of these women, and then to cover it up, beat them to death, stab them to death," said Prem Burns.īut one victim escapes, and she points a finger at a mentally challenged convicted voyeur named Derrick Todd Lee. Nightly newscasts reported the discovery of more women stabbed, strangled, raped and murdered.
His string of horrific attacks began in the 1990s, and police believe a single psycho killer is behind all the carnage. This sadistic madman was at large and had been tormenting cops for quite a while.