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Plain claims the Justice of the Peace was actually on the call and heard the racial slur herself. Plain was also asked if anything had been done or if he had heard from the Justice of the Peace since he brought the matter to her attention. “Absolutely nothing was done to that clerk.
In an email obtained by the 9News Investigators, the Justice of the Peace said as of April 8, she would recuse her office from any future cases with Plain’s firm.
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Attorney Kendall Plain said he has never felt so attacked. Last month, while on a recorded call with a clerk for Justice of the Peace Tracy Batieste, he claims he was called the N-word.
Two of the victims' bodies were discovered at the Whiskey Bay boat launch, approximately 30 miles west of Baton Rouge, just off Interstate 10 . As a result of an inaccurate FBI offender profile and erroneous eyewitness accounts, police originally believed the killer to be white.
Although Lee was eligible for first degree murder charges, the District Attorney elected to try Lee for murder in the second degree because DeSoto had not been sexually assaulted, which meant a first-degree murder conviction would be harder to obtain.
Prior to his murder charges, Lee had been arrested for stalking women and watching them in their homes. Despite this, he was initially overlooked by police, because they incorrectly believed the killer was white.
Lee was linked by DNA tests to the deaths of seven women in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas in Louisiana, and in 2004 was convicted, in separate trials, of the murders of Geralyn DeSoto and Charlotte Murray Pace. The Pace trial resulted in a death sentence.
Lee died on January 21, 2016, of heart disease at a hospital in Louisiana, where he was transported for treatment from Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he had been awaiting execution.
Lee was convicted on October 14, 2004, for the May 31, 2002, rape and murder of LSU graduate student Charlotte Murray Pace. He was sentenced to die by lethal injection. On January 16, 2008, the state Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction and death sentence.
Dianne Alexander is the only known survivor of Derrick Todd Lee. Alexander survived because her son walked in during the commission of the crime, frightening Lee out of the back of the house. Alexander's son chased Lee through the back of the house and was able to get a description of the car.
Very little media coverage for this cold case/murder of Margaret Coon former Assistant District Attorney.
Okay, I went to my local Mandeville Library today --- no news articles from 1980s kept at this parish location -- must go to Slidell to view micro film.
I remember the Margaret Coon murder pretty well, nola, and the rumors of a cover up (so what else is new). FWIW, here's an excerpt from a book written by a former St. Tammany Parish LEO who claims that he answered a call about an attempted robbery at the Beau Chene club house the evening that Coon was jogging, and presumably abducted.
Cool find, Bessie. I've lived in Mandeville since 2001 and only heard about this case a few years ago. I've never been able to find anything on-line except a local Madisonville man's blog. There was some talk (on Topix) that the FBI was looking into the case, but I've never seen anything else. This lady so deserves justice.
Wow thanks Nola for bringing this case here to WS. I was born and raised in Covington and at the time of this murder I was a freshmen in high school at SSA in Covington and some of my friends lived in Beau Chene and as a young kid we rode our bikes all over that place even before it was densely populated.
I found this article (Dallas Times) that references the serial killer Henry Lee Lucas' ties to three St Tammany murder cases from '82 and '83. It is specific about the cases and LEOs role in connecting Lucas to these crimes.
After all these years, I finally found an online photo of Margaret Ann Coon. This picture was included in a classified ad placed by her father four years after her murder in his local paper (Alexandria, LA). The classified ad and photo of Margaret is a memorial to his daughter and a reminder that her murder was still unsolved back in 1991.