Blood Bath by Susan D. Mustafa & Tony Clayton & Sue Israel

Author:Susan D. Mustafa & Tony Clayton & Sue Israel [Mustafa, Susan D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2009-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

On March 21, the task force issued another statement: “We are asking the community to broaden their thinking about this offender and consider that this person could possibly be a dark-complexioned white male, a man of mixed heritage, or a black male.”

The community was stunned. All of this time that they had been frightened of white males, they had opened their doors to black males—delivery men, politicians, salesmen. Carrie had opened her door for a black man. The task force had told her the killer was white. This information had come too late to save her life.

The task force began reviewing all of its old leads—those black men who had been cleared simply because of their skin color. On March 24, Captain Spence Dilworth, of the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office, called the task force to supply it with the names of several black men in the area who had a history of sexual misconduct and arrests. One of the names he gave them was Derrick Todd Lee. That was a name that had been heard before. Investigators had been to his house in the fall of 2002 and had cleared him because his truck was a show truck and not old, like the one that had been described by witnesses.

Research analysts dug up the old lead that Collette Walker had called the task force hotline with the previous September. The lead was reassigned to Detective Lee Alfred.

On April 7, Detective Alfred went to Todd’s home in Starhill, but no one answered the door. He returned the next day, along with Detective Mike Lockwood. Again, no one was home, so Alfred left his business card on the door and another with a lieutenant from West Feliciana Parish, according to a report filed in June by Detectives John Colter and Chris Johnson: Detective Alfred was assured by the lieutenant that his department would contact Detective Alfred if they had any knowledge of Lee’s whereabouts. This lieutenant advised task force investigators that they saw Derrick Todd Lee on a regular basis, and they would call the task force investigators the next time they saw him.

No one called.

Todd was left to roam freely for another seven weeks. His routine didn’t change. On the very day Alfred first went to his home, Todd was in a pawnshop in St. Francisville pawning a ten-karat nugget ring, a ten-karat chain with a cross attached—and a knife. He would be released from his job at JE Merit on April 25, and he and Jackie would appear in bankruptcy court on April 29. As his pattern exhibits, Todd usually searched for victims just after losing a job. And with the additional stress of filing bankruptcy and losing his home, surely his tension was mounting. In late April of 2003, no woman was safe.

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