Between 1998 and 2003, the quiet neighborhoods of Baton Rouge became the hunting ground of a man hiding in plain sight. Women were taken from their homes, from their routines, from the lives they worked so hard to build — while police spent months looking for the wrong kind of killer.

In this episode, we walk through the life and crimes of Derrick Todd Lee: his violent upbringing, his years as the “harmless” peeping tom, the brutal murders of Randi Mebruer, Gina Green, Geralyn DeSoto, Charlotte Murray Pace, Pamela Kinamore, Trineisha Colomb, and Carrie Yoder, and the forensic breakthrough that finally exposed him. We’ll also hear from the one woman who survived his attack — and I’ll share a personal moment from Angola, where I unknowingly spoke with Lee on death row.

This is not a story about a monster in the dark. It’s a story about how ordinary he looked… and how much damage that allowed him to do.

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