The owner of the house was Belle Gunness, who turned out to be one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.īelle was a robust Norwegian immigrant with four children who ably ran her farm - especially when it came to hog butchering. In addition to three bodies found inside the house - one of them headless - investigators found the remains of several more buried on the property. “Somehow, I think Derrick Todd Lee needed to die for what he did to these people.In May 1908, after fire destroyed a LaPorte farmhouse, police made a gruesome discovery. “This is one of the most traumatic things that’s ever happened in this city and I think that today we can look at it and say justice was done,” he told CNN affiliate WBRZ. The state Department of Public Safety and Corrections said it could not comment on Lee’s medical condition because of privacy laws.įormer Baton Rouge Police Chief Pat Englade recalled long hours put in by members of a task force investigating the killings and trying to put an end to them. “A lot of time serial killers they deny all the way to the end and that is what Derrick did, even when we had him red-handed with DNA.” “They are always going to have it deeply embedded in their mind how their loved ones were brutally murdered.”Ĭlayton also spoke of Lee’s behavior in the years since the crimes. “I don’t think it will ever end for the victims,” Tony Clayton, who prosecuted Lee in the DeSoto killing, told WAFB. While observers spoke of at least some closure for relatives of victims, they also cited the nature of the crimes. But he has a seat at the table in your head.” An eighth woman survived.Īnn Pace, mother of Charlotte Pace, told CNN Baton Rouge affiliate WAFB that Lee “had an unwanted seat at the table. He was linked to the deaths of five other women, but was not tried in those cases. Lee, 47, was on death row for the 2002 murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, and had a second-degree murder conviction for the death of Louisiana State University graduate student Geralyn DeSoto, 21, who also died in 2002. The death of an unrepentant serial killer at a Louisiana hospital on Thursday prompted an outpouring of emotion.ĭerrick Todd Lee died five days after he was transported from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for emergency care, state prison officials said.
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