By Chuck Hustmyre
(Continued)
'A SICK, LOST SHEEP'
By the spring of 2002, Gillis figured out he wasn't the only serial killer operating in Baton Rouge. He hadn't killed anyone in two years and now there was a new killer in town. Someone else was getting all the press.
In September 2001, the raped and strangled body of Gina Wilson Green was found inside her Baton Rouge home. In May 2002, Charlotte Murray Pace was discovered stabbed to death inside her home near Louisiana State University. She'd also been raped. In July 2002, someone kidnapped Pam Kinamore from her home. She was found four days later floating in Whiskey Bay, between Baton Rouge and Lafayette.
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| Gina Wilson Green |
In August 2002, the Baton Rouge Police Department formed a serial killer task force. None of the unsolved female homicides the task force was investigating were the work of Gillis.
Gillis, who spent up to 15 hours a day surfing the Internet, watched from the sidelines as this new killer struck twice more.
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| Trineisha Dene' Colomb |
In November 2002, Trineisha Dene' Colomb disappeared while visiting her mother's grave in St. Landry Parish, just north of Lafayette. Police discovered her car in the cemetery but found no sign of Trineisha. Three days later, a hunter came across her body dumped in the woods 20 miles from the cemetery. She had been raped and beaten to death. DNA the killer left at the scene positively linked her murder to those of Gina Wilson Green, Charlotte Murray Pace, and Pam Kinamore.
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| Pace & Kinamore |
In March 2003, Carrie Lynn Yoder was snatched from her home in Baton Rouge. The LSU graduate student's body was found 10 days later in Whiskey Bay, a mile and a half from where Pam Kinamore had been found.
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| Carrie Lynn Yoder |
In May, police arrested a 34-year-old ex-con named Derrick Todd Lee. The press and the public referred to Lee as the Baton Rouge serial killer.
Gillis created a file on his computer hard drive and named it DTL. In it, he started collecting press clippings about his competition—Derrick Todd Lee.
Prosecutors and police accused Lee of killing seven women. Gillis had killed only six.
It was time for him to get back to work.
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Sean Vincent Gillis Letter 1
Sean Vincent Gillis Letter 2
Sean Vincent Gillis Letter 3
Gillis's Strange Antics Fit The "Common Sense" Profile Of A Serial Killer
Sean Vincent Gillis Has Confessed To Killing, Mutilating Eight Women
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