Manager of an Atlanta motel where Lee was sighted At a news conference, Vernon Keenan, a spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said Lee apparently had been in Atlanta for about a week, working construction jobs in the downtown area. He would go to the ladies and say, “You married? You married?”’ The FBI obtained a warrant for Lee after it was learned he traveled from Louisiana to Atlanta by bus, he said.īy the time marshals got to the motel, Lee was gone, taken to a train station by a resident who thought he was headed to Louisiana to see his sick mother. In the FBI’S Atlanta office, agent Theodore Jackson had said Lee, 34, was last seen around midday Monday at Lakewood Motor Lodge, in the southeastern part of the city. Earlier, police said that Lee, whom they described as armed and dangerous, also is suspected in a sixth death more than a decade ago and the disappearance of another woman. Police and federal agents had fanned out across Atlanta on Tuesday after uncovering evidence that the suspect in the serial killings of five women in southern Louisiana fled to the city by bus. He left abruptly Monday - the day authorities released his photo, filed a warrant for his arrest and traced a call he made from a cell phone. Lee spent at least the past week in the motel, where he charmed residents, grilled ribs and chicken at a party and set up a Bible study. The suspect had been living in a dingy Atlanta motel but left Monday about the time a federal fugitive warrant was issued for his arrest. PARRIS SAID he did not know where Lee was arrested. by Atlanta police working with a joint FBI-metropolitan Atlanta task force, FBI spokesman Joe Parris said. ATLANTA, May 27 - The man suspected of killing six women in Louisiana was arrested in Atlanta on Tuesday, the FBI said.Derrick Todd Lee, 34, was taken into custody about 8:30 p.m.
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