The series covers in real time, the cold case investigation of the murder of Eugenie Boisfontaine, who has been considered a possible victim of Baton Rouge serial killer Derrick Todd Lee. Some background:
Serial killer fear stalks the bayous
Saturday 17 August 2002 23.41 EDT
The Guardian
The unsolved murders of 37 women are causing panic in the slow and sweaty capital of Louisiana, writes Ed Vulliamy in Baton Rouge
Fear hangs heavy in the putrid air over the bayou during this season of sweat. Home-made notices pinned to trees across town advise: 'Killer on the loose'.
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Trust has been suspended. Women have given up walking, shopping or jogging alone. They have flocked to buy guns and learn how to use them. They make sure their mobile phones are charged and they have ample Mace pepper spray on hand.
Their nightmare started when police confirmed that in the past 10 months a serial killer persuaded three attractive, middle-class women to open their doors to him. Two were found dead in their homes and a third was abducted, then killed.
When police chief Pat Englade - his neck wider than his head - tersely announced what the 230,000 citizens of Baton Rouge regarded as obvious, he avoided the phrase 'serial killer'. But he confirmed that DNA matches showed that one man had killed the three women.
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Connie Warner was the first to be killed, in 1992. She was a professional, as was Eugenie Boisfontaine, murdered in 1997. Boisfontaine lived a block away from Green and Pace. Hardee Schmidt, another attractive middle-class woman, was killed in 1999.
Cold Case Reopened: Tests to see if serial killer link exists
Adam Causey, Chief Staff Writer - LSU Reveille
Mar 17, 2004
Investigators are re-examining evidence from the 1997 murder of a University student to see if there is a connection to accused serial killer Derrick Todd Lee.
Eugenie Boisfontaine, a 34-year-old graduate student, was found in Bayou Manchac -- south of East Baton Rouge Parish -- in Iberville Parish in August 1997.
Boisfontaine apparently had been kidnapped while walking or jogging around the University lakes. Her body was decomposed, and her skull was fractured.
Forensic scientists used dental records to identify Boisfontaine. Authorities have said they did not have the capabilities to identify Boisfontaine using DNA evidence in 1997.
The Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office gave evidence to the State Police Crime Lab in 2002 for DNA analysis, but no links to other murders were found.
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Boisfontaine was last seen June 13, 1997 by an exterminator at her home. A jogger found her driver's license and credit cards the next day near the University lakes.
Police searching the area found Boisfontaine's keys in the same area three days later.
Boisfontaine, who resided at 2009 Stanford Ave. at the time of her death, lived in close proximity to two victims who have been linked through DNA to Lee, though each of the murders took place in different years.
Eugenie Boisfontaine: Eugenie Boisfontaine disappeared June 13, 1997 from either her home on Stanford Avenue in Baton Rouge or from the LSU lakes where she sometimes liked to take walks. A visiting professor found her credit cards aligned in a circle near the lakes on June 14. Her body was discovered August 7 in Bayou Manchac near the Alligator Bayou Bar.
She had died from a skull fracture resulting from a beating. Although she had never been officially linked, many investigators feel that the location of her home indicates that she was Derrick Todd Lees first victim from Stanford Avenue. Eugenie was a white woman with brown, highlighted hair, a beautiful smile and high, pronounced cheekbones. She was 34 years old.
http://susanmustafa.com/derek-todd-lees-victims/
Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office reopens 20-year-old cold case
Posted: Oct 06, 2015 10:46 PM CDT - Updated: Oct 07, 2015 12:00 AM
By Elizabeth Vowell WAFB-9
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Two months after she went missing, her body was found in Bayou Manchac in Iberville Parish. She died of blunt force trauma to the head.
Leads in her case soon turned cold. A few years later, when convicted serial killer Derrek Todd Lee was stalking the Metro area, many suspected Boisfontaine could have been one of his early victims. However, that theory was never proven.
Two decades later, new technology and a new ally have given the old case new life.
"We've picked up some new leads," Sheriff Brett Stassi said. "We've developed some new evidence that wasn't available at the original autopsy. We're moving forward with that information."
The Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office has teamed up with the Discovery Channel, which has opened the door to new resources like sonar and advanced DNA testing. In turn, the case will be featured in an upcoming new television series.
http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Derrick_Todd_Lee
https://books.google.com/books?id=Q...sMAM#v=onepage&q=eugenie boisfontaine&f=false
