I've Been Watching You: The South Louisiana Serial Killer by Susan D. Mustafa; Tony Clayton; Sue Israel

Author:Susan D. Mustafa; Tony Clayton; Sue Israel
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781467811026
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2006-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

Dannie Mixon: The Swabbing

It was cold—late February in Atlanta, and Dannie had just walked into the Hampton Inn at the Atlanta Airport. At his age, the cold went right through him, and he rubbed his hands together to get warm. Dannie’s cheeks, already pink from the frigid air, turned red as they usually did when he was upset about something. He and J.B. Cormier, the retired chief of detectives for the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office, sat down in the warm lobby for a moment to discuss the serial killings.

“J.B., I’m convinced Derrick Todd Lee is the serial killer, but no one on will listen to me. They think I’m a crazy old man. All that crap about a white man in a white truck is crap. It’s just like the D.C. snipers. Everybody thought they were white. It’ll be just like that—the direct opposite of the profile.”

J.B. nodded his agreement.

Upon their return to Louisiana, the two men discussed Dannie’s feeling with Ronnie Black at the attorney general’s office. Ronnie told them to talk to the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office as they were still investigating the Dené Colomb murder. Sheriff Michael Neustrom told J.B. to talk to Major Wendell Rayburn, the Lafayette contingent on the task force.

“I work with this old man at the attorney general’s office, and he knows homicide,” J.B. said to Rayburn. “He swears Derrick Todd Lee is the serial killer.”

Rayburn said he would get back with J.B. He never did.

Carrie Lynn Yoder disappeared on March 3.

Dannie was frustrated. He sat in his office surrounded by maps and charts, each with pins and flags stuck in them to denote locations and times and dates. He had collected so much information that it was impossible to keep it all organized. He had requested Todd’s incarceration records from the department of corrections. He had a list of all of the vehicles Todd had ever owned from the department of motor vehicles. He had Todd’s arrest record, which dated back to 1981 when Todd was just thirteen. He had spent years piecing it all together. And his desk was covered with everything he had collected. While he worked on his timeline of Todd’s life, his thoughts were fearful.

He worried that someone else would die before Todd was arrested.

He worried that he was getting too old for this. That’s what everyone else seemed to think. He could tell by the way everyone ignored him when he talked about his theory of the case. But he had that feeling—the one that never let him down. And he knew he was right.

Dannie began with Connie Warner. At one time, he knew that Connie’s daughter, Tracy, and her boyfriend, Andre Burgas, had been suspects simply because Tracy had not told her mother the truth about where she was the weekend Connie had died. But Dannie had never believed that Tracy would have killed her mother. A witness had reported seeing a man taking a bundle out of Connie’s house and putting it into the back seat of a Buick.

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