BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The capture of the man wanted in the serial killings of five women in Louisiana was met with relief Wednesday — as well as questions about whether investigators missed or discarded clues that could have saved some of the victims.
Ultimately, it was not the task force in charge of the 10-month investigation that zeroed in on Derrick Todd Lee as the suspect. Instead, it was an investigator working on two seemingly unrelated slayings who obtained the DNA that implicated Lee.
Lynne Marino, the mother of the killer's third victim, Pam Kinamore, said Lee's history of arrests in neighboring towns for stalking, attempted murder and peeping into homes should have made police check out his DNA years ago.