She added that an autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of his death. Privacy laws mean the Department of Public Safety and Corrections cannot discuss why Lee was taken to a hospital Saturday for emergency treatment, Laborde said. 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. Last September, the Lousiana Supreme Court upheld Lee’s death sentence despite his lawyers not handing in evidence of their client suffering from possible mental disorders.“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.

The outlet also reported that Lee was having issues with his pacemaker in recent times. Prosecutors believe Lee also killed Randi Mebruer from Zachary. The other murders include Pam Kinamore, Gina Wilson Green, Carrie Lynn Yoder and Trineisha Dene’ Colomb. Lee is suspected of killing seven women between 19. Lee was also convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in the January 2002 killing of Geralyn DeSoto. She was a graduate student at LSU at the time of her death. In 2004, he was sentenced to death in the 2002 first-degree murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, of Baton Rouge. Lee, 47, was linked through DNA to the deaths of multiple women. Officials said additional information about Lee’s medical condition cannot be released due to federal and state privacy laws. Lee was taken to the hospital early Saturday morning due to a medical condition, according to Laborde.

An autopsy to determine the cause of Lee’s death is forthcoming. Thursday according to Department of Public Safety and Corrections spokeswoman, Pam Laborde. An Associated Press report states that Lee was being treated for his condition and died shortly before 9 a.m. This past Saturday, Lee was rushed to an area hospital after falling ill due to unnamed medical reasons.

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