How did Lee find his victims, and why did he choose them? Why didn't the Multi-Agency Homicide Task Force believe he was the killer when his name was brought repeatedly to its attention? What evil possessed him to rape and murder so many women? All of these questions are answered as I've Been Watching You journeys for more than a decade through the small towns and swamps of South Louisiana to create a graphic accounting of Lee's vicious rapes and homicides. There are many unanswered questions regarding these series of killings.

This recounting also details the murders of ten other women who were not connected by DNA, but whom these authors believe should be included on the list of Lee's victims due to strong circumstantial evidence. Readers will become intimately acquainted with the seven victims who have been linked to Lee by DNA, along with the frustrated investigators who could not catch this diabolical killer. I've Been Watching You-The South Louisiana Serial Killer dramatically tells the story of Lee's life and follows the timeline of his reign of terror over South Louisiana. Charlotte Murray Pace has brought her fight to you.' These crimes are vividly depicted in this first comprehensive book about Derrick Todd Lee. That fight is not over, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. She preserved her honor by the way she lived and the way she died. And in the fight, he took her life, her body. As her young, strong heart pumped its last blood out of the holes he cut out of her, she fought. Just open my hand, and you'll know who did it to me.'' Two months later: 'Charlotte Murray Pace fought from one room of that apartment to the other,' Prosecutor John Sinquefield told jurors as they blinked tears away. 'Geralyn was trying to tell us something.

Geralyn's clenched fist, frozen in death away from her body, held her secret.

'Rigor mortis had set in by the time police arrived,' Special Prosecutor Tony Clayton told the jury, watching their eyes as they viewed the photograph of the bloodied arm of Geralyn Barr DeSoto.

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