In the summer of 2002, a serial killer prowled the streets of Baton Rouge, preying on the city's best and brightest women. The authorities had a profile of their suspect. They were wrong. This is the shocking true story of the investigation that went awry--and the good old-fashioned police work that solved the case.
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This review is from: An Invisible Man: The Hunt for a Serial Killer Who Got Away With a Decade of Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is the story of Derrick Todd Lee, a black serial killer. Stephanie Stanley, the author, got the idea to write this book from a source on this story. It was a good idea, as the other press on this story did not tell the background of Derrick Todd Lee. Mr. Lee was well known to the Louisiana police and had a long history of run ins with the law.
Ms. Stanley is a superb writer. I hope that I will be able to read more by her. This is a tale of errors by the police and by the FBI. It is very difficult to read. It also saddens me, that due to errors in identifying Derrick (he was thought to be white, not black in the FBI profile, the police tended to look at the boyfriends of victims rather than the possiblity of a serial killer being loose) he was allowed to kill for longer than he should have been. At least the mistakes were not as bad as in the Coral Watts case (read "Evil eyes" by Corey Mitchell) and the Green River Killer case.
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If you like true crime novels, you will really enjoy this one! After reading this, you won't answer your door again! This is about a serial rapist/killer who manages to elude capture by slipping through the cracks numerous times. You wonder how someone this obvious could get by for so long with stalking and murdering women in areas with very little crime. The killer becomes more and more frenzied and eventully is caught, but at the expense of many lives. Very good read!
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The names that matter,
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Stephanie's writing style is engaging and assessible reflecting her reporter's roots. She has told the story of the horror and darkness which enveloped so many of us in those awful years with clarity and compassion. Even though I've spent much time trying to learn about Derrick Lee, I still learned many things about him from this book. Stephanie's book also reminded me that criminal profiling is only an "educated" guess of dubious worth and unexpected potential for harm; that the justice system is a system and all the parts need to work for justice to be anything but serendipitious; and - above all - that Derrick Lee should never, ever have been outside a prison when my child died.
P.S. Gina Wilson Green, Geralyn Barr DeSoto, Charlotte Murray Pace, Pam Kinamore, Trenisha Dene Colomb, Carrie Lynn Yoder, and Randi Meubreuer - these are the names you won't remember, but they're the names that matter.
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A silent electric impulse, shooting faster than a bullet through the wet Louisiana night sky, across miles of copper lines high above the sleeping suburbs and darkened swampy land, fired down into a modest two-story brick home on Danny Park Drive just outside New Orleans, bursting the silence with a loud, alarming ring. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thirteen loci, serial killer task force, serial killer investigation, other unsolved murders, task force investigators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Saint Francisville, Derrick Todd Lee, New Orleans, Oak Shadows, Mari Ann, Peeping Tom, Saint Martin, West Feliciana Parish, Randi Mebruer, Connie Warner, Whiskey Bay, Mardi Gras, Grand Coteau, Breaux Bridge, Lafayette Parish, Gina Green, Murray Pace, Lake Charles, Lynne Marino, Pam Kinamore, Stanford Avenue, Diane Alexander, Louisiana State Police Crime Lab, Ann Pace, Atchafalaya Swamp New!
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A silent electric impulse, shooting faster than a bullet through the wet Louisiana night sky, across miles of copper lines high above the sleeping suburbs and darkened swampy land, fired down into a modest two-story brick home on Danny Park Drive just outside New Orleans, bursting the silence with a loud, alarming ring. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thirteen loci, serial killer task force, serial killer investigation, other unsolved murders, task force investigators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Saint Francisville, Derrick Todd Lee, New Orleans, Oak Shadows, Mari Ann, Peeping Tom, Saint Martin, West Feliciana Parish, Randi Mebruer, Connie Warner, Whiskey Bay, Mardi Gras, Grand Coteau, Breaux Bridge, Lafayette Parish, Gina Green, Murray Pace, Lake Charles, Lynne Marino, Pam Kinamore, Stanford Avenue, Diane Alexander, Louisiana State Police Crime Lab, Ann Pace, Atchafalaya Swamp New!
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- The Mississippi River (Rivers of North America) by Jen Green on page 75
- Birds of America by John James Audubon on page 44
- Baton Rouge by Patricia Cornwell on page 241
- A Beautiful Child by Matt Birkbeck in Back Matter
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