… I no longer have that way to fight for Murray - to keep being her mother.” Pace, who has attended every court hearing since Lee’s 2004 conviction, written to legislators and spoken to prisoners, said Lee’s death made her realize that “all of that was just my way of wanting to keep being Murray’s mom. She said Lee’s death has brought “a tidal wave of memory” and, in a way, has taken her daughter again. “It’s good that he is not there to take up space that will now be filled up by remembering Murray and loving Murray,” Pace’s mother, Ann Pace, said through tears in a telephone interview Thursday from her home in Jackson, Mississippi. Baton Rouge serial murder suspect Derrick Todd Lee appears in Fulton County Superior Court for an extradition hearing in Atlanta, (Erik S. DNA evidence linked him to at least five other killings, officials said.
He had been sentenced to life for one murder and to death for killing 22-year-old Charlotte Murray Pace, who was stabbed 81 times and bludgeoned with an iron in May 2002. Thursday, Department of Public Safety and Corrections spokeswoman Pam Laborde said in an emailed statement. Lee, 47, was taken from prison to the hospital early Saturday and died shortly before 9 a.m. NEW ORLEANS-Serial killer Derrick Todd Lee was sentenced to be executed years ago, but instead he died Thursday in a Louisiana hospital.
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