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Dead. May the victims families have some peace now.
http://www.wafb.com/story/31022385/...todd-has-died?clienttype=generic&sf19369943=1
Here is an interesting article about some of what I spoke of yesterday about how DTL had tormented my town for years. Our police chief, was interviewed yesterday.
http://theadvocate.com/news/1463911...iller-derrick-todd-lee-dies-at-local-hospital
Ann Pace, the mother of Charlotte Murray Pace, said Lees death robbed her of the justice she sought.
The sentencing had a true feel of finality. We simply did not understand that the jurys decision, the close of the trial, none of that would matter in the convoluted system that passes for justice, Ann Pace wrote in an email. The capital offender has what seemed to be limitless appeals. Appeals so frustrating, so lengthy, that some of us died before we could get to the end of it all including, now, the killer himself.
But while Lynda Yoder described the appeals process as difficult, she was pleased to see it end. Its over, and we couldnt be happier, she said.
Michael Mebruer, the ex-husband of suspected Lee victim Randi Mebruer, said any hope of finding her body disappeared with Lees death.
We always felt there was that 1 percent chance that he might say where he put her. This morning, that died, he said. To have no hope at all is incomprehensible, really.
The first murder?
Melanie Barr, the mother of DeSoto, said she found no joy in Lees death. Now, she said, he goes to meet the Lord and the Lord will pass the true sentence against him.
His sentence here on Earth is nothing compared to what hell suffer when he goes before God if he hasnt made his peace, Barr said.
Interesting. Well, tell them as I said I pass that subway often and every single time I think about her and what happened and her family, etc. I've never forgotten her or her family.
Was the video ever released to the public? Do you know?
On Christmas Eve in 2002, Mari Ann was on her way from Louisiana to Texas to visit her incarcerated husband when she stopped at a Subway sandwich shop at a strip mall in Port Allen. Shortly after purchasing some food, Mari Ann disappeared. Her vehicle was left behind with wrapped Christmas presents inside, and her food, purse, and keys were scattered in the parking lot. Some false fingernails were also found on the ground, which likely came off when Mari Ann struggled with an attacker.
Investigators checked footage from a nearby surveillance camera. Although it was hard to see anything at first, the FBI eventually enhanced the footage enough to make out the image of Mari Ann being forced into a Chevy pickup truck before it sped out of the strip mall parking lot. Unfortunately, the footage was not clear enough to provide an adequate shot of the assailant.
The most likely suspect is Derrick Todd Lee, the notorious Baton Rouge serial killer, who is currently on death row for the murders of at least seven women. Lee owned a pickup truck similar to the one seen in the surveillance footage, and cell phone records placed him in Port Allen on the day of the abduction. However, there has never been enough evidence to conclusively link him with Mari Ann Fowler’s disappearance. To date, she has not been found.