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ATLANTA - The man suspected of killing six women in Louisiana was arrested in Atlanta on Tuesday, the FBI (news - web sites) said.

Derrick Todd Lee, 34, was taken into custody about 8:30 p.m. by Atlanta police working with a joint FBI-metropolitan Atlanta task force, FBI spokesman Joe Parris said.


Parris said he did not know where Lee was arrested. The suspect had been living in a dingy Atlanta motel but left Monday about the time a federal fugitive warrant was issued for his arrest.


"It is my understanding he was arrested without incident," Parris said.


Authorities suspect Lee of killing at least five southern Louisiana women since September 2001, as well as two earlier slayings.


The serial killings unnerved Louisiana women and triggered a 10-month DNA dragnet in which police took cheek scrapings and swabbings from more than 1,000 men