


When we began checking it we, too, found that he was in Atlanta, but we did not know specifically where.ĬOOPER: I know you can't really talk specifically about the methods that the Marshals Service uses to track fugitives, don't want to give anything away, but generally speaking, how were you able to track his movements and what kind of movements did he make over the last several weeks? Marshals Service in Louisiana gave us some information that he was going to be in Atlanta, that their tracking devices brought him to Atlanta. When we first started this, we were put on notice by the Louisiana law enforcement, primarily the U.S. MECUM: He was and he used his name or seemed to be using his name pretty much throughout the entire investigation. This guy was going around using his name. marshal in Georgia.ĬOOPER: How difficult was this capture? Sort of the stereotype of serial killer suspects is that they're very smart and very crafty. Derrick Todd Lee (FindLaw, PDF)ĪTLANTA, Georgia (CNN) - Derrick Todd Lee, accused of five serial killings in Louisiana, arrived in Baton Rouge Wednesday in police custody, after waiving extradition in Atlanta.ĬNN Anchor Anderson Cooper discussed the apprehension of Lee with Richard Mecum, a U.S. There may or may not be evidence of sexual contact present at the crime scene. Warrant: State of Louisiana vs. Sexually-based is a motivation driven by the sexual needs or desires of the offender.The condition may include auditory and/or visual hallucinations and paranoid, grandiose or bizarre delusions. Psychosis is a rare situation in which the offender is suffering from a severe mental illness and is killing specifically because of that illness.Power/thrill is a motivation in which the offender feels empowered and/or exhilarated when he kills his victims.Examples of these include terrorist groups or an individual(s) who attacks a specific racial, gender or ethnic group out of sheer hatred for the group. Ideology is a motivation to commit murder in order to further the goals and ideas of a specific individual or group.A few examples of these types of crimes are comfort/gain killings, robbery-homicide or multiple killings involving insurance or welfare fraud. Financial gain is a motivation in which the offender benefits monetarily from killing that is not drug, gang or organized crime-related.For example, murder may be perpetrated by a drug gang in order to eliminate its competition. Criminal enterprise is a motivation in which the offender benefits in status or monetary reward by committing murder that is drug, gang or organized crime-related.Anger is a powerful motivation in which the offender displays rage or hostility toward either a certain subgroup of the population such as the homeless or society as a whole.As concisely reported by the FBI in 2005, they are listed below. The categories are not intended to be a complete measure of serial offenders, nor are they intended to comprise a theory of their motivation.
