Hi Sis,
Did you miss that day when Mom taught us "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all?"
Just kidding, I have no room to talk, lol. When you sense an injustice, it needs to be pointed out.
I've been away from this thread for awhile (or what is awhile to me) to collect my thoughts. I am totally outraged!
I think John Pritchett (Mari Ann Fowler's son) said it best when he said that the task force got their feelings hurt from the criticism they recieved and that the TF needed to stand in their place to realize what real pain feels like.
I am just so disappointed about the lack of professionalism shown by this task force. The Yoder family, who has fully supported and cooperated and to this day publicly supports the task force did not even receive a phone call when the suspect was found!! The TF should be grateful to this family, after all it was their daughter whose evidence brought up the red flag to Derrick Lee. Bless her soul for holding on to the DNA after such a horrible murder.
Sickening that a bone was found outside Lee's old residence.
'Bone' found in driveway dig
WBRZ staff report
Members of the East Feliciana Sheriff's Office and Louisiana State Police have dug up the driveway at the former residence of Cassandra Green, serial killer suspect Derrick Lee's ex-girlfriend, and uncovered a bone in a spot found by cadaver-sniffing dogs.
They are awaiting members from the Lousiana State Crime Lab and Mary Mannheim from FACES Lab, who will determine whether the bone is human.
Sheriff Austin Daniels says a witness saw Lee pouring slab two days after the 1998 disappearance of Randi Mebreuer.
Mebreuer lived one street over from the 1992 murder victim Connie Warner. Lt. David McDavid of the Zachary Police Depart said that Derrick Todd Lee was their prime suspect in the abduction of Mebreuer and the murder of Warner.
Investigators have removed the slab, and are sifting through the earth with their hands.
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All the women of Louisiana and God knows what other states were totally let down by this system. Most of all, the victims and their families. We were all put in danger by too many mistakes made by many people that we had faith in.
I am still so in shock how they didn't suspect this man or at least follow up on him. Flashback to 1992 Zachary, a relatively sleepy town, two women murdered in their homes and another violently attacked in a graveyard. The prime suspect in all these cases? Derrick Lee! The last young girl picked Lee out of a lineup as the one who attacked her and would have killed her had he not been scared off. The time had run out for him to be charged on attempted murder.
He also was found and charged for entering a home in the same Zachary neighborhood. All these things happend just blocks from each other!
The TF should have looked him up and said, that is odd, for a man that lives in st. francisville to be a prime suspect what is he doing in zachary? I wonder where else he has worked? They would have seen the Lafayette connection and that he owned a chevy truck. DNA was left at Mebrurer's crime scene, why wasn't this compared earlier?
I am not for one minute suggesting that the tf didn't work hard or that they didn't want this murderer off our streets just as much as we did. However, they knew they were not trained to catch a serial killer or else the criticism would not have effected them so much if they truly felt that they were doing all they could.
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Lee confessed to Atlanta authorities that he killed a woman and buried her underneath a concrete slab. They have only found animal bones and a silver bracelet. That was only one of the many houses he was known to live in.
Gotta love it, Lee's attorney says he is "frightened" Give me a freaking break! He has no idea what that is like. I hope he gets more than just frightened in jail with the other prisoners, if ya know what I mean. I wonder if he is in an isolated cell?
His attorney's partner feels that Lee would receive a fair trial in EBR Parish because citizens here know the reputation of the tf. I don't think that has anything to do with it. First of all, they were not the ones who caught him. Anyway, there is not only DNA evidence that links him, there is other evidence- or so they say.
That bugs me about Murray Pace's neighbor not reporting the naked man outside until after Pace was murdered. Maybe that is why they didn't follow up as quickly because they thought she may be lying. Still no excuse.
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