Killing Fields (2016) s01e01 Episode Script
A Body in the Bayou
Mike: [Humming.]
This place here, it's so remote.
Might bring out the demons in you.
They found some bodies.
Down about right back here, matter of fact.
I believe there's a bunch more.
On the other side of that tree line, the bodies would lay out there for just months.
Put a chill through me.
[Bird squawks.]
Killing fields.
We in it.
Captions paid for by discovery communications [train bell dinging.]
Rodie: We have a beautiful place in Louisiana, a lot of swamps, beautiful fishing area.
All this beautiful scenery, people pass by and talk about how pretty it is.
People don't really know.
It's nothing but killing fields.
Only law enforcement knows what really happens out in the fields.
It's a killing field and a dump zone for all murderers because of the landscape that we have down here.
The deterioration of the evidence, it's greater and greater every day, and it makes your case a hell of a lot harder to solve.
Miss Eugenie boisfontaine.
She was abducted in 1997 from the lsu lakefront.
Three months later, she was found dumped in a ragged-ass ditch in Iberville parish.
Detective on call Rodie Sanchez.
[Siren wails.]
Put everything I could into that case.
Woman: 34-year-old Eugenie boisfontaine was a student at ls Two months after she went missing, her body was found in bayou Manchac in Iberville parish.
Rodie: Very few people could give us any information on Eugenie because she was a very quiet person, and it made the case even harder.
The cardinal rule in law enforcement is you never make a promise, especially as a homicide detective, to anyone that you're gonna solve their case.
And I broke that rule.
I got to meet her mother.
She looked at me, and she said, "Rodie, please find out what happened to my daughter.
" And I said, "I promise you" to find out who murdered your daughter.
" I put that picture of Eugenie in my office, and I wanted to remind myself every day I walk in that frickin' office, "get your ass to work.
Get back on this case.
" And I didn't take it down till I left.
My health is deteriorating.
I'm getting up in age now.
No detective likes to leave their job knowing it wasn't fulfilled.
This case haunts me, and every day I get a chance, I think about that poor girl.
I wish I could still do something.
I'd like to see if I could open a case up Eugenie boisfontaine case.
Why now? You know, why With the people you have now and the advancement in DNA and all, I think the case can be solved.
How long ago that was? 18 years.
I'm retired, Ron, but in my mind and in my heart, I'm not.
I I it's the cop in you.
I spent 30 years in law enforcement.
I remember many times I used to wait and wait for that radio to go off and say, "hey, we got a shooting" just so I can jump back into it and get on another crime scene.
Nothing like catching a murderer.
Once that get in your blood, you want to be a cop for the rest of your life.
I been married six times because I [Bleep.]
up and put my job before my family.
But I have a great wife now, and she told me, when I first talked to her about this case, coming back out of retirement, "baby, if I don't let you do it, you'll be miserable all your life.
" [Rifle cocks.]
[Voicemail beeps.]
WOMAN: ONE NEW VOICE MESSAGE.
You know, by the grace of God, I've been given a second chance to work this case again.
This time, if it's the last thing I do, I'm gonna do everything I can to find out who killed Eugenie boisfontaine.
Y'all step in? Step in for a second.
All right, the deal is, y'all know Rodie retired, right? He's back.
So we speak to the sheriff about this cold case involving a Eugenie boisfontaine.
He give me his blessing, said, "hey, go for it.
" It wasn't a real hard sell.
He wants everything solved.
Aubrey, I want you to work with Rodie on this.
Rodie: I watched Aubrey grow up.
I worked with his father.
Great man, good cop.
St.
Angelo: Rodie and my dad always had a good relationship.
They worked a lot of cases together.
Hebert: - Y'all gonna be the lead on it.
This is not my first homicide, but it's my first cold case.
You know, the opportunity to work with Rodie, it's intriguing, and I think we complement each other.
He's kind of old school, and I'm new school.
He's yellow pages, and I'm Google.
Lori, whatever you can do to help out, as well, with the DNA and evidence portion of it.
Jeremy with the computer part of it.
'Cause Rodie don't know [Bleep.]
about computers.
No, he don't.
[Laughter.]
This case happened 18 years ago.
Young white female, very wealthy, 34 years of age when she became missing off Stanford Avenue.
Hebert: - Stanford Avenue, that's over there by lsu somewhere, huh? That's by lakefront.
By the lakefront? In east Baton Rouge.
Was she married, single? She was married at one time, but she was single at the time she became missing.
Living on her own.
Any children? No children.
She stayed missing three months.
Her body was found across the river by a young lady.
I can remember going to the crime scene area.
A very brutal, no-good son of a bitch had to do that, what they did to that poor girl.
What deemed it to be a homicide? Blunt trauma to the back of the head.
We also suspected she was raped.
She was resting up against a tree, but this tire was laying almost directly on her.
She looks - pretty badly decomposed.
How long did they suspect that she had been in the water? Three months she was missing.
Now, how long she stayed in the water undetermined.
Never pinpointed where she was abducted from.
There was a guy who was jogging.
Right on the edge of the lake in a little grassy area, he found Eugenie's driver's license and credit cards.
How far is that from the dump site? I mean, down 30.
Talking about 12, 13.
12, 13 Miles I would estimate, okay? Yeah, I kept up with the serial killers at that time going on in Louisiana.
Remember Derrick Todd Lee? Derrick Todd Lee, he's Jack the ripper of Louisiana.
Man: Investigators believe Lee murdered five women in the Baton Rouge area starting in September of 2001.
But they believe he could be involved in a string of other murders, dating back to 1992.
Rodie: There was two Derrick Todd Lee victims, both living on the same street as Eugenie lived on, and that's why Derrick Todd Lee was looked at in this case.
Lori, you go dig up some DNA evidence, get it retested, and, Rodie, you go ahead and take Aubrey to the dump site, and let's get him up to speed on this thing.
Leslie, I'm gonna need you to go to Eugenie's home.
I want to see how close it is to Derrick Todd Lee's other victims.
Oh, but you know what? Anyone can be a suspect in this.
So, you don't suspect Derrick Todd Lee for this? Everybody seems to think that Derrick Todd Lee is the killer of Eugenie boisfontaine.
Not me.
Now, these days, the more I sit and think about it And believe me, I think about it i think the killer's still out there somewhere.
I want the son of a bitch.
I want to put our hands on him.
Do you think she changed after the divorce? Yes.
They found a murder weapon.
Do we make you nervous? I'm just trying to answer your questions.
Hebert: That body is out there.
We need you to go and find it.
Look like a little fresh grave site.
Ooh, I smell it now, Aubrey.
Rodie: I'm gonna find that son of a bitch if it's the last thing I do.
I like this time of the year when they burn the cane fields.
Yeah.
Me, too, buddy.
You ask yourself why you're doing this, this case right now? I want to find out - who brutally murdered this girl and threw her in a ditch like a piece of trash.
Why you didn't solve it in '97? If I had the answer for that, we wouldn't be here now.
I'm proud of the things I done in law enforcement.
I don't have [Bleep.]
to regret except for a couple cold cases I never solved.
And that'll haunt you till the day they put you in the grave.
All I can say is this, my friend Let's catch this no-good, raggedy son of a bitch and let this poor family know what happened to their daughter.
[Birds squawking.]
Rodie: When you work a cold case, you just got to retrace your steps.
You always wonder, did I miss something? The cases you don't solve will haunt you till the day you die.
Been a long time since I been here.
Well, 17 years since I been to this spot.
The Eugenie case, it happened before my time in homicide.
I was a street cop.
I mean, I remember coming across Rodie's office, and I'd see her picture hanging on his wall.
I never knew what it pertained to.
I didn't even know Eugenie's case was a homicide.
Now that I dug into it, man, it's a twisted case, but I'm eager to try to break it open.
Yeah, right in here.
Who do you think put the flowers there? I would have no idea.
Come on down in here.
Whoo.
I think it was right in here, she was laying.
Brings goose bumps to me, buddy.
Whew.
I could still see her laying here.
I could see her, clear as day.
She was very, very decomposed.
Unidentifiable, way unidentifiable.
I mean, just Mainly just skull fragments and bones and some flesh.
When I grabbed to pick her up to move her and put her in a body bag, I grab what little hand she had left, and skin just peeled out into my hands.
Sounds like - they just drug her down here and left her like a piece of trash.
Derrick Todd Lee's other victims were taken, kidnapped, murdered, and dumped.
It's very probable that Derrick Todd Lee put his eyes on Eugenie and came in contact with her.
Yeah, well, we got to try to figure this one out.
Rodie: We'll find him Well, I hope.
I pray.
Let me tell you something about Derrick Todd Lee.
To someone, evidence-wise, forensic-wise, or a statement from a person that actually murdered Eugenie boisfontaine, till I can actually know in my heart and the truth who killed her, I rule no one out.
St.
Angelo: Where Eugenie lived, in the Stanford Avenue area, that was Derrick Todd Lee's preying ground.
I think he could have done it.
[Ringing.]
Bradford: Hey, I'm around LSU and Stanford.
I'm checking out these houses and seeing how close Derrick Todd Lee's victims were to Eugenie.
And it is so close.
Like, it's within houses.
Charlotte Murray pace, you know, that's the one that he actually went to trial on and was convicted on.
She's like three houses down.
Right.
And then only a couple houses past that was Gina green.
They're within like two or three houses from each other on Stanford, so we can't rule him out as a suspect.
Rodie: Derrick Todd Lee got caught by DNA.
DNA is why he's sitting for the rest of his life in prison, and DNA may be the way we're gonna find out who murdered Eugenie boisfontaine.
Morgan: - I have a huge box of evidence from - the Eugenie boisfontaine case.
Brocato: Yeah, - we've gone through the file.
We've looked at all the old records, so at least have an understanding of what's been done and what we might be able to do now.
That's perfect.
You can probably help me understand a lot of things, too.
This is our victims' clothes Miss Eugenie boisfontaine.
Yeah, a lot of this got our evidence tape on it, so we've looked at some of it, yeah.
Okay, you've looked at it.
The testing that was originally done back in '97 was really primitive compared to today's standards.
And there were just a limited number of items tested.
At that time, there was no Louisiana database.
Gotcha.
We did not have a DNA unit.
So, any DNA work that would have been done in '97 would have to be outsourced to a private lab.
I know that this case was looked at again because this was during the serial killer, Derrick Todd Lee.
So, I remember us going back to these old older cases and trying to figure out, could they be linked to the Derrick Todd Lee case? This case has a lot of similarities to a lot of those cases we've worked.
Homicide victims who they believe sexual trauma took place.
You look at the picture of her laying there.
The panties are just torn and ripped.
It looks like the crotch area is even torn out.
They've actually done three rounds of work on the panties over the years, as DNA developed over time.
And we didn't get anything of value from testing that was done in '03, '04.
These are the original undergarment cuttings, her panty cuttings, from the private lab from early 2005.
I believe that's the last time these have ever been looked at.
Those are the original cuttings? You guys never tested this particular DNA? No.
- No.
Okay.
10 years have gone by.
Testing is a little different.
As the technology advances, it gives us more of an opportunity to go in and identify those few remaining cells that may be there - and potentially pick it up and generate a profile from that.
That's gonna be your key piece of evidence.
St.
Angelo: Where you want to go from here? Rodie: I think we'll go talk to the lady who found the body.
When you work a cold case, you have to go, and you have to talk to every person you can, from where that scene started and where it ended.
And who knows? It's a long shot, but one of them persons may be the person you've been looking for all these years and be that person that solved that case for them.
Gomez: - I'm not exactly proud of the way I found her, I guess.
I was leaving my now husband's house kind of early in the morning, if you know what I mean.
And I had the windows down.
It smelled so good, but it was a beautiful morning.
Well, first, you know, I smelled her, and she smelled really sweet.
Human beings, I don't know why, God just made us smell a little bit sweeter.
Animals are muskier, I don't know, earthier.
We get that way eventually, but there, kind of near the end, we're pretty We have a nice little It's an ugly smell, but it's sweet.
So, I pulled over, and I spied her down in the bayou, and I kind of knew it was a girl.
Can't tell you why or how, but I knew it was probably gonna be a woman.
And I think at that moment, when I realized somebody was gonna have their life changed forever Yes, ma'am.
i just didn't want to have to make that call.
I understand.
I know you talking about about the smell.
Of course, she was out there, poor thing, three months from the day.
Well, you know, I'm kind of glad you brought that up.
Yes, ma'am.
'Cause I do have a A background in anthropology.
In three months in Louisiana, as you well know, I'm sure, things don't last very long.
The earth reclaims 'em.
It uses bugs.
It uses heat.
It uses our rain.
It uses everything, but eventually, everything goes back very quickly.
For her to have been dead for three months and laying in that bayou for three months, why was she still together? Why wasn't she scattered? She should have been nothing.
Her scraps of clothing should just about have been disintegrated.
Why didn't that happen? Did he keep her somewhere or what? It's questions - that we need to look into, I'm trying to answer again this time.
I do hope that you find who did this to Eugenie.
She made me realize how vulnerable we are.
I mean, you men are stronger.
You're faster.
We got something most of y'all want.
You gonna hurt us to get it.
The little flowers, that you leaving the little flowers? Oh, yes.
- I don't think anybody's ever I'd like to shake your hand on that one.
Thank you so much.
Me, too.
But how often do you go back to that spot? August 7th.
Every year? At least, but I pass by it every time I drive my buggies.
I want to give you this so you can have that.
Oh, my God, she was so pretty and so young.
I'm so sorry, Eugenie.
Call me.
Thank you.
What you think about her theory on how she should have been more decomposed and stuff like that? Well, I can see her opinion on that, but I think we need to look into that later.
Man, I never thought I'd be partnered up with somebody that has an aarp card.
[Chuckles.]
I'm ready to see what he's got.
I mean, the man's got years in homicide.
Share some of that with me.
Show me the nicks.
Show me the tricks.
You know? And I'll show you mine.
Let's go down here and check out this bar.
I heard Derrick Todd Lee's staying out down here.
You know, back in 1997, this was a very rural area, and they didn't have nothing but a damn gravel road right here, and on it the thing people would come back on this road for, you had to really know it.
It's called alligator bar.
You familiar with that bar? I don't know if you're familiar with it.
I heard about it, yeah.
Well, that bar was really swinging back in the '90s.
Swinging? - Bike gangs.
Popping we call it popping nowadays.
Popping? Popping.
It's really popping now.
It was really swinging back in them days.
And the only people that went there was, like, biker gangs and LSU students.
You know, I always thought Eugenie's killer might have frequented this bar, alligator bar, since her body was dumped so close by here.
Let's go see.
[Car door closes.]
[Knock on door.]
Sheriff's office! Bonifay: Who is it?! Sheriff's office! [Door opens.]
How you doing, sir? Detective Sanchez, Iberville parish sheriff's office.
Frank bonifay.
Good to see you.
Frank, this is detective Aubrey St.
Angelo.
St.
Angelo: You work here? I own the place.
Oh, you do? - Sure do.
Can we talk to you for a little bit? Yeah, yeah, come on in.
We're reopening this case, Mr.
Frank, and I'm trying to put some closure to it.
I remember.
This is horrifying.
This is something that was burned into our brain.
Did you ever see her in your establishment? I don't remember her.
I don't remember her.
We had a crowd, 200 to 300 people on a Sunday night, and sometimes as many as 1,200 people.
You had to know this [Bleep.]
area to throw her body here, 'cause you know yourself, at that time, this was an old gravel road.
Yep.
The only traffic they had here was coming to your bar.
See, and that's what's so scary, terrifying.
Thank God for you guys.
Thank God for you and you and all the deputies, all the law enforcement that stand between evil and and us.
You can't never tell a killer until you actually put him in front your face and catch him and talk to him.
A killer can be just like you, like me, like Aubrey.
You never know it.
And that's horrifying.
We got to stop it.
We got to stop it.
If whatever I can do I need you to slow down for a minute.
What year did the bar open, please? Well, it was 1995 that we bought it, and we civilized the area.
What was it before you had it? It was a it was a bar, but it was a racist pig bar, let me speak clearly.
What area what time did it change to a better place, where college kids would want to come? Probably '99.
You remember the name Derrick Todd Lee? Oh, yeah.
Don't remember him ever being in your place? With her, maybe? I don't.
I don't.
- I wish I did, but I don't.
Do we make you nervous? - No.
The horrible situation makes me nervous.
I want you to do me a favor.
Yes.
You have anyone tell you that they know or seen her at your place or around here, tell 'em call me.
Yes, sir.
Maybe our killer's up here.
Maybe the answer to that case, who killed that young lady, is right In one respect, I hope so.
In another respect, I hope to God they weren't here.
Thank you, Mr.
Frank.
You're welcome.
Anything I can do, y'all have my number.
You got ours.
Call us.
St.
Angelo: Alligator bar could have been the last place she went before she was killed.
I believe that she walked through that door just like we walked through that door.
You found that guy to be suspicious? I think everyone's suspicious in a murder case, buddy.
We got a chance to go through with the DNA experts to see if we could go forward with any of the evidence that we had.
We have panty cuttings, like, you're taking her body out of the water, removing the panties off of her, and cutting the stains you see.
Could the DNA on these undercuttings be for Derrick Todd Lee? Absolutely, it could be for Derrick Todd Lee, but if it isn't, it still doesn't stop anything.
As we read through more of the information, we realized that that private lab that they utilized Yeah.
that company ended up testing the very first cuttings of the panties.
They never got moved to the crime lab.
Hebert: It just never made it to the crime lab.
In our evidence box, we still had those original vials with the original panty cuttings, so I resubmitted those vials, and they are gonna do a quick processing and try to get us some information.
What's the turnaround on that about, approximately? I mean, they really said a few days, they would be able to give us some information.
So, that's my news.
Morgan: Well, that's great news.
Great, great news, baby.
- Good.
Let's not get too excited.
The wait-and-see attitude, of course.
Lori has taught me about DNA, which I knew absolutely zero about, you understand? But every minute, every hour is very important in this case, and I'm damn sure not gonna let them sit around on their ass and wait for [Bleep.]
DNA to come here.
I don't have to have DNA to solve a [Bleep.]
case.
I solved them many before, and I didn't have DNA whatsoever.
If you don't have good informants, you'll never solve [Bleep.]
in the street.
You know, some people call people that we using, working our cases snitches.
Informants are not snitches.
They're good people.
They want to talk to you.
[Ringing.]
Man: Hey.
Hey, buddy, where you at? Stay there.
I need to talk to you about a case I'm working, so don't go nowhere.
Be there in a few.
All right.
I meet my informants by myself.
Never have I ever took anybody.
Just like you have a black book of women you seeing, I have a black book in law enforcement.
I kept in my desk drawer, lock and key.
I didn't even put their name.
I use initials.
No one, to this day, knows my informants.
I don't know Aubrey's.
Aubrey's doesn't know mine.
that I know Aubrey's, probably, if they're a good detective.
[Rock music playing.]
Man: How you doing? You got your I.
D.
? Yes, sir.
Enjoy yourself.
- Thank you.
[Rock music continues.]
Can I have a crown and 7, please? Thank you.
What's up, buddy? You all right? If anyone knows about Eugenie boisfontaine or Derrick Todd Lee or who committed this murder, it's gonna be my informant.
It sure in the hell ain't gonna be Rodie 'cause I don't live out there in the streets with 'em.
I got a little case I'm working on, cold case, 18-year-old murder case.
I was, buddy, but the case been on my mind for a long time, and I'm trying to solve it, bring some closure to it.
This is the picture of Eugenie boisfontaine.
I need you to get with your people, see what you can find out about that.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
Thank you.
- All right.
Have a good time.
- You, too.
You got to have a good informant.
Once that informant give you that information, you got to have the heart to want to go out there and use it to the best of your ability to solve that crime.
[Voicemail beeps.]
ONE NEW VOICE MESSAGE.
St.
Angelo: Don't get no crumbs in my truck.
I ain't worried about this raggedy truck.
What this dude supposed to be wearing, you know? I have no idea.
All I can All I know is his name's supposed to be Mike.
Said he fishes over here by alligator bar.
Where's he from, you know? Baton Rouge area or somewhere.
Supposed to be friends with Derrick Todd Lee.
So, we gonna walk up to the first guy we see fitting that description, we just holler, "Mike, what's up?" We're gonna walk up and cover each other and approach him.
I don't know how y'all did it in 1920, but we gonna watch for a minute.
Oh, we gonna sit back and watch, yeah, do some surveillance, for sure.
Takes a lot of footwork and knocking on doors to find the people that we looking for.
These young guys I'm working with now, they're good, but they sitting in the office on their computers, googling up information.
I just ain't got time for that.
What y'all do whenever y'all had to entertain yourself? Like, nowadays, we have social media.
We got the Internet on our phones.
What y'all do? Well, when I was in there, we had 8-track tapes, cassette tapes, bingo.
[Laughter.]
It's all a waiting game.
Just part of the game.
Isn't that peculiar, he picked this area for us to meet him, boisfontaine's body being dumped over here? What you got to eat when you get home? Eat when I get home? Probably nothing.
What about you? Oh [Scoffs.]
I'll be all right.
She cooked or she didn't? Quit asking me about my personal life.
I'm asking you - about your personal life.
Give me an answer.
I'm not at liberty to disclose it.
You don't want to make conversation with me? You act like I'm your wife or your girlfriend or something.
You don't like, we out, going on a date.
Hold up.
Maybe.
Maybe.
I see a fishing pole in the back.
The party might begin.
He's just chilling.
I say we go check him out.
I say we go talk to him.
Let's do it.
Whiskey bay's one of the biggest drop zones in the state of Louisiana for bodies.
That's right here in my parish.
We worked a many of 'em.
People drop bodies, human lives, in open fields, throw 'em off the interstate.
For someone to take a human life, kill it, and throw it away like a piece of trash, that's not a human.
That's a frickin' animal.
I have no respect for a murderer, and that's why I became a cop, and I love what I do.
You didn't see nobody else pop out, huh? No, I don't see no more, but I got the driver's front of the truck.
See somebody walking up there now, just one.
Mike? Yeah.
- How you doing? Sanchez, sheriff's office.
Hey, man, what's up? Nice to meet you, man.
St.
Angelo.
- All right.
You wanted to speak to us about Eugenie's case a little bit? Yeah.
All right, what you got for us? Well, actually You talking about putting up a fence at the deceased victim we talking about's residence off of Stanford? Is that correct? We put I put her fence up.
Her fence? You positive about that? Positive.
What year was that? You remember? It was back in the '90s.
'90s? - Yeah, it was in the '90s.
While I was there, - a black guy came up, had Can't remember exactly his attire, but he was dressed up like a Maybe a cablevision man, telephone man, but he had a clipboard.
I remember a clipboard, and I actually wind up meeting that guy again through some people that I work with.
I said, - "hey, man, you remember me? I used to work for Edgar fence company.
" You came by her house, you know, I was putting a fence up.
He said, "no, no, that wasn't me.
" Just six, seven months, eight months But you knew it was him? - I knew.
Same guy? - I knew it was him.
St.
Angelo: So he played it off? Yeah, he played it off.
I never did think nothing about it, neither, you know.
I found out later on he was Derrick Todd Lee.
I had to take off that day.
I said, "let me go talk to somebody.
" This ain't right.
" We see him all the time fishing.
You know, I said, "I see him on this road here, you know.
" On this particular road? - Yeah.
Towards the alligator bar up this way? Yeah, here.
Rodie: I would have never believed that.
But you know what? Derrick Todd Lee could have done this.
The reason I asked you about this road right here is, you know we found Eugenie boisfontaine, her body on this particular road? And I I just found that out.
You done put two and two together.
Right.
- Okay.
Same lady who, you was at her house, put that little fence up for her, was found murdered on this road down there in that canal.
Man, I'm look, that's That's what make everything so scary.
Rodie's not Jesus Christ, and Rodie's not a super cop.
And if it is Derrick Todd Lee, for 18 years, I been sitting, praying that DNA is gonna solve this, and there's a possibility it may.
So, you know, all I can do now is wait.
[Ringing.]
Brocato: Crime lab.
This is joanie.
Hey, Joanie, this is Lori and Rodie from Iberville, and Aubrey's here, too.
We were just wanting to follow up with you.
We're kind of anxious about the DNA results.
St.
Angelo: If DNA on these undercuttings leads back to Derrick Todd Lee, we have forensic evidence, the great holy grail of DNA to lock it in.
Could be case closed, boom.
Brocato: So, there's some hope that we might be able to do some additional testing on the samples and potentially get some additional information.
So, - at this particular time, we have nothing that we can work with.
We were able to extract the DNA and compare it to Derrick Todd Lee.
Now, what we did find on one of the samples from her panties is that it is a mixture of potentially two to three males.
So, we may be looking for multiple males in this case.
Hearing it could be two to three males, different DNA, that put a whole twist in the whole case.
That tells me, as an investigator, several things.
Maybe there was more than one killer, or she was sexual with more than one person at the time of her death.
I promise you, from them results, we got our work cut out for us.
Miss Elizabeth, is there anything else that you remember? I did think I saw a truck with two people in it, but those two boys took off as I came approached 'em, which I thought was curious.
Sometimes, you just have to take the case and start all over again.
Bonifay: And that's the horrifying thing.
You look people in the eye, and you think that they're like you, and they could be a killer.
Rodie: I love catching a no-good son of a bitch murderer.
I love looking them in the frickin' eye and say, "I caught you, you no-good bastard.
" See if you're familiar with this young lady.
St.
Angelo: That's where somebody smashed her in the head and took her, I think.
You know, time's ticking.
What kind of weapon do you think I should be looking for? Something like a small hammer.
Hebert: There's a company, they have a lot of high-tech sonar equipment.
Get them in and scan that area.
Woman: Eugenie came from a very well-known family.
You think she changed after the divorce? Yes.
You're supposed to be retired, but you're tied up in everything.
This job will eat you alive, partner.
I want the son of a bitch.
I want to put our hands on him.
We found a murder weapon.
We got to get Robert.
Honest question Do we make you nervous? No.
You don't.
I'm just trying to answer your questions.
We were just hoping you answered 'em correct.
We need a [Bleep.]
crystal ball.
Man: We believe that this man committed this murder.
That body is out there.
We need you to go and find it.
Just wanted to go over everything with you.
Rodie: God, don't take me now.
I want you to cover every square inch.
Looks like a little fresh grave site.
That don't look good.
Ooh, I smell it now, Aubrey.
This place here, it's so remote.
Might bring out the demons in you.
They found some bodies.
Down about right back here, matter of fact.
I believe there's a bunch more.
On the other side of that tree line, the bodies would lay out there for just months.
Put a chill through me.
[Bird squawks.]
Killing fields.
We in it.
Captions paid for by discovery communications [train bell dinging.]
Rodie: We have a beautiful place in Louisiana, a lot of swamps, beautiful fishing area.
All this beautiful scenery, people pass by and talk about how pretty it is.
People don't really know.
It's nothing but killing fields.
Only law enforcement knows what really happens out in the fields.
It's a killing field and a dump zone for all murderers because of the landscape that we have down here.
The deterioration of the evidence, it's greater and greater every day, and it makes your case a hell of a lot harder to solve.
Miss Eugenie boisfontaine.
She was abducted in 1997 from the lsu lakefront.
Three months later, she was found dumped in a ragged-ass ditch in Iberville parish.
Detective on call Rodie Sanchez.
[Siren wails.]
Put everything I could into that case.
Woman: 34-year-old Eugenie boisfontaine was a student at ls Two months after she went missing, her body was found in bayou Manchac in Iberville parish.
Rodie: Very few people could give us any information on Eugenie because she was a very quiet person, and it made the case even harder.
The cardinal rule in law enforcement is you never make a promise, especially as a homicide detective, to anyone that you're gonna solve their case.
And I broke that rule.
I got to meet her mother.
She looked at me, and she said, "Rodie, please find out what happened to my daughter.
" And I said, "I promise you" to find out who murdered your daughter.
" I put that picture of Eugenie in my office, and I wanted to remind myself every day I walk in that frickin' office, "get your ass to work.
Get back on this case.
" And I didn't take it down till I left.
My health is deteriorating.
I'm getting up in age now.
No detective likes to leave their job knowing it wasn't fulfilled.
This case haunts me, and every day I get a chance, I think about that poor girl.
I wish I could still do something.
I'd like to see if I could open a case up Eugenie boisfontaine case.
Why now? You know, why With the people you have now and the advancement in DNA and all, I think the case can be solved.
How long ago that was? 18 years.
I'm retired, Ron, but in my mind and in my heart, I'm not.
I I it's the cop in you.
I spent 30 years in law enforcement.
I remember many times I used to wait and wait for that radio to go off and say, "hey, we got a shooting" just so I can jump back into it and get on another crime scene.
Nothing like catching a murderer.
Once that get in your blood, you want to be a cop for the rest of your life.
I been married six times because I [Bleep.]
up and put my job before my family.
But I have a great wife now, and she told me, when I first talked to her about this case, coming back out of retirement, "baby, if I don't let you do it, you'll be miserable all your life.
" [Rifle cocks.]
[Voicemail beeps.]
WOMAN: ONE NEW VOICE MESSAGE.
You know, by the grace of God, I've been given a second chance to work this case again.
This time, if it's the last thing I do, I'm gonna do everything I can to find out who killed Eugenie boisfontaine.
Y'all step in? Step in for a second.
All right, the deal is, y'all know Rodie retired, right? He's back.
So we speak to the sheriff about this cold case involving a Eugenie boisfontaine.
He give me his blessing, said, "hey, go for it.
" It wasn't a real hard sell.
He wants everything solved.
Aubrey, I want you to work with Rodie on this.
Rodie: I watched Aubrey grow up.
I worked with his father.
Great man, good cop.
St.
Angelo: Rodie and my dad always had a good relationship.
They worked a lot of cases together.
Hebert: - Y'all gonna be the lead on it.
This is not my first homicide, but it's my first cold case.
You know, the opportunity to work with Rodie, it's intriguing, and I think we complement each other.
He's kind of old school, and I'm new school.
He's yellow pages, and I'm Google.
Lori, whatever you can do to help out, as well, with the DNA and evidence portion of it.
Jeremy with the computer part of it.
'Cause Rodie don't know [Bleep.]
about computers.
No, he don't.
[Laughter.]
This case happened 18 years ago.
Young white female, very wealthy, 34 years of age when she became missing off Stanford Avenue.
Hebert: - Stanford Avenue, that's over there by lsu somewhere, huh? That's by lakefront.
By the lakefront? In east Baton Rouge.
Was she married, single? She was married at one time, but she was single at the time she became missing.
Living on her own.
Any children? No children.
She stayed missing three months.
Her body was found across the river by a young lady.
I can remember going to the crime scene area.
A very brutal, no-good son of a bitch had to do that, what they did to that poor girl.
What deemed it to be a homicide? Blunt trauma to the back of the head.
We also suspected she was raped.
She was resting up against a tree, but this tire was laying almost directly on her.
She looks - pretty badly decomposed.
How long did they suspect that she had been in the water? Three months she was missing.
Now, how long she stayed in the water undetermined.
Never pinpointed where she was abducted from.
There was a guy who was jogging.
Right on the edge of the lake in a little grassy area, he found Eugenie's driver's license and credit cards.
How far is that from the dump site? I mean, down 30.
Talking about 12, 13.
12, 13 Miles I would estimate, okay? Yeah, I kept up with the serial killers at that time going on in Louisiana.
Remember Derrick Todd Lee? Derrick Todd Lee, he's Jack the ripper of Louisiana.
Man: Investigators believe Lee murdered five women in the Baton Rouge area starting in September of 2001.
But they believe he could be involved in a string of other murders, dating back to 1992.
Rodie: There was two Derrick Todd Lee victims, both living on the same street as Eugenie lived on, and that's why Derrick Todd Lee was looked at in this case.
Lori, you go dig up some DNA evidence, get it retested, and, Rodie, you go ahead and take Aubrey to the dump site, and let's get him up to speed on this thing.
Leslie, I'm gonna need you to go to Eugenie's home.
I want to see how close it is to Derrick Todd Lee's other victims.
Oh, but you know what? Anyone can be a suspect in this.
So, you don't suspect Derrick Todd Lee for this? Everybody seems to think that Derrick Todd Lee is the killer of Eugenie boisfontaine.
Not me.
Now, these days, the more I sit and think about it And believe me, I think about it i think the killer's still out there somewhere.
I want the son of a bitch.
I want to put our hands on him.
Do you think she changed after the divorce? Yes.
They found a murder weapon.
Do we make you nervous? I'm just trying to answer your questions.
Hebert: That body is out there.
We need you to go and find it.
Look like a little fresh grave site.
Ooh, I smell it now, Aubrey.
Rodie: I'm gonna find that son of a bitch if it's the last thing I do.
I like this time of the year when they burn the cane fields.
Yeah.
Me, too, buddy.
You ask yourself why you're doing this, this case right now? I want to find out - who brutally murdered this girl and threw her in a ditch like a piece of trash.
Why you didn't solve it in '97? If I had the answer for that, we wouldn't be here now.
I'm proud of the things I done in law enforcement.
I don't have [Bleep.]
to regret except for a couple cold cases I never solved.
And that'll haunt you till the day they put you in the grave.
All I can say is this, my friend Let's catch this no-good, raggedy son of a bitch and let this poor family know what happened to their daughter.
[Birds squawking.]
Rodie: When you work a cold case, you just got to retrace your steps.
You always wonder, did I miss something? The cases you don't solve will haunt you till the day you die.
Been a long time since I been here.
Well, 17 years since I been to this spot.
The Eugenie case, it happened before my time in homicide.
I was a street cop.
I mean, I remember coming across Rodie's office, and I'd see her picture hanging on his wall.
I never knew what it pertained to.
I didn't even know Eugenie's case was a homicide.
Now that I dug into it, man, it's a twisted case, but I'm eager to try to break it open.
Yeah, right in here.
Who do you think put the flowers there? I would have no idea.
Come on down in here.
Whoo.
I think it was right in here, she was laying.
Brings goose bumps to me, buddy.
Whew.
I could still see her laying here.
I could see her, clear as day.
She was very, very decomposed.
Unidentifiable, way unidentifiable.
I mean, just Mainly just skull fragments and bones and some flesh.
When I grabbed to pick her up to move her and put her in a body bag, I grab what little hand she had left, and skin just peeled out into my hands.
Sounds like - they just drug her down here and left her like a piece of trash.
Derrick Todd Lee's other victims were taken, kidnapped, murdered, and dumped.
It's very probable that Derrick Todd Lee put his eyes on Eugenie and came in contact with her.
Yeah, well, we got to try to figure this one out.
Rodie: We'll find him Well, I hope.
I pray.
Let me tell you something about Derrick Todd Lee.
To someone, evidence-wise, forensic-wise, or a statement from a person that actually murdered Eugenie boisfontaine, till I can actually know in my heart and the truth who killed her, I rule no one out.
St.
Angelo: Where Eugenie lived, in the Stanford Avenue area, that was Derrick Todd Lee's preying ground.
I think he could have done it.
[Ringing.]
Bradford: Hey, I'm around LSU and Stanford.
I'm checking out these houses and seeing how close Derrick Todd Lee's victims were to Eugenie.
And it is so close.
Like, it's within houses.
Charlotte Murray pace, you know, that's the one that he actually went to trial on and was convicted on.
She's like three houses down.
Right.
And then only a couple houses past that was Gina green.
They're within like two or three houses from each other on Stanford, so we can't rule him out as a suspect.
Rodie: Derrick Todd Lee got caught by DNA.
DNA is why he's sitting for the rest of his life in prison, and DNA may be the way we're gonna find out who murdered Eugenie boisfontaine.
Morgan: - I have a huge box of evidence from - the Eugenie boisfontaine case.
Brocato: Yeah, - we've gone through the file.
We've looked at all the old records, so at least have an understanding of what's been done and what we might be able to do now.
That's perfect.
You can probably help me understand a lot of things, too.
This is our victims' clothes Miss Eugenie boisfontaine.
Yeah, a lot of this got our evidence tape on it, so we've looked at some of it, yeah.
Okay, you've looked at it.
The testing that was originally done back in '97 was really primitive compared to today's standards.
And there were just a limited number of items tested.
At that time, there was no Louisiana database.
Gotcha.
We did not have a DNA unit.
So, any DNA work that would have been done in '97 would have to be outsourced to a private lab.
I know that this case was looked at again because this was during the serial killer, Derrick Todd Lee.
So, I remember us going back to these old older cases and trying to figure out, could they be linked to the Derrick Todd Lee case? This case has a lot of similarities to a lot of those cases we've worked.
Homicide victims who they believe sexual trauma took place.
You look at the picture of her laying there.
The panties are just torn and ripped.
It looks like the crotch area is even torn out.
They've actually done three rounds of work on the panties over the years, as DNA developed over time.
And we didn't get anything of value from testing that was done in '03, '04.
These are the original undergarment cuttings, her panty cuttings, from the private lab from early 2005.
I believe that's the last time these have ever been looked at.
Those are the original cuttings? You guys never tested this particular DNA? No.
- No.
Okay.
10 years have gone by.
Testing is a little different.
As the technology advances, it gives us more of an opportunity to go in and identify those few remaining cells that may be there - and potentially pick it up and generate a profile from that.
That's gonna be your key piece of evidence.
St.
Angelo: Where you want to go from here? Rodie: I think we'll go talk to the lady who found the body.
When you work a cold case, you have to go, and you have to talk to every person you can, from where that scene started and where it ended.
And who knows? It's a long shot, but one of them persons may be the person you've been looking for all these years and be that person that solved that case for them.
Gomez: - I'm not exactly proud of the way I found her, I guess.
I was leaving my now husband's house kind of early in the morning, if you know what I mean.
And I had the windows down.
It smelled so good, but it was a beautiful morning.
Well, first, you know, I smelled her, and she smelled really sweet.
Human beings, I don't know why, God just made us smell a little bit sweeter.
Animals are muskier, I don't know, earthier.
We get that way eventually, but there, kind of near the end, we're pretty We have a nice little It's an ugly smell, but it's sweet.
So, I pulled over, and I spied her down in the bayou, and I kind of knew it was a girl.
Can't tell you why or how, but I knew it was probably gonna be a woman.
And I think at that moment, when I realized somebody was gonna have their life changed forever Yes, ma'am.
i just didn't want to have to make that call.
I understand.
I know you talking about about the smell.
Of course, she was out there, poor thing, three months from the day.
Well, you know, I'm kind of glad you brought that up.
Yes, ma'am.
'Cause I do have a A background in anthropology.
In three months in Louisiana, as you well know, I'm sure, things don't last very long.
The earth reclaims 'em.
It uses bugs.
It uses heat.
It uses our rain.
It uses everything, but eventually, everything goes back very quickly.
For her to have been dead for three months and laying in that bayou for three months, why was she still together? Why wasn't she scattered? She should have been nothing.
Her scraps of clothing should just about have been disintegrated.
Why didn't that happen? Did he keep her somewhere or what? It's questions - that we need to look into, I'm trying to answer again this time.
I do hope that you find who did this to Eugenie.
She made me realize how vulnerable we are.
I mean, you men are stronger.
You're faster.
We got something most of y'all want.
You gonna hurt us to get it.
The little flowers, that you leaving the little flowers? Oh, yes.
- I don't think anybody's ever I'd like to shake your hand on that one.
Thank you so much.
Me, too.
But how often do you go back to that spot? August 7th.
Every year? At least, but I pass by it every time I drive my buggies.
I want to give you this so you can have that.
Oh, my God, she was so pretty and so young.
I'm so sorry, Eugenie.
Call me.
Thank you.
What you think about her theory on how she should have been more decomposed and stuff like that? Well, I can see her opinion on that, but I think we need to look into that later.
Man, I never thought I'd be partnered up with somebody that has an aarp card.
[Chuckles.]
I'm ready to see what he's got.
I mean, the man's got years in homicide.
Share some of that with me.
Show me the nicks.
Show me the tricks.
You know? And I'll show you mine.
Let's go down here and check out this bar.
I heard Derrick Todd Lee's staying out down here.
You know, back in 1997, this was a very rural area, and they didn't have nothing but a damn gravel road right here, and on it the thing people would come back on this road for, you had to really know it.
It's called alligator bar.
You familiar with that bar? I don't know if you're familiar with it.
I heard about it, yeah.
Well, that bar was really swinging back in the '90s.
Swinging? - Bike gangs.
Popping we call it popping nowadays.
Popping? Popping.
It's really popping now.
It was really swinging back in them days.
And the only people that went there was, like, biker gangs and LSU students.
You know, I always thought Eugenie's killer might have frequented this bar, alligator bar, since her body was dumped so close by here.
Let's go see.
[Car door closes.]
[Knock on door.]
Sheriff's office! Bonifay: Who is it?! Sheriff's office! [Door opens.]
How you doing, sir? Detective Sanchez, Iberville parish sheriff's office.
Frank bonifay.
Good to see you.
Frank, this is detective Aubrey St.
Angelo.
St.
Angelo: You work here? I own the place.
Oh, you do? - Sure do.
Can we talk to you for a little bit? Yeah, yeah, come on in.
We're reopening this case, Mr.
Frank, and I'm trying to put some closure to it.
I remember.
This is horrifying.
This is something that was burned into our brain.
Did you ever see her in your establishment? I don't remember her.
I don't remember her.
We had a crowd, 200 to 300 people on a Sunday night, and sometimes as many as 1,200 people.
You had to know this [Bleep.]
area to throw her body here, 'cause you know yourself, at that time, this was an old gravel road.
Yep.
The only traffic they had here was coming to your bar.
See, and that's what's so scary, terrifying.
Thank God for you guys.
Thank God for you and you and all the deputies, all the law enforcement that stand between evil and and us.
You can't never tell a killer until you actually put him in front your face and catch him and talk to him.
A killer can be just like you, like me, like Aubrey.
You never know it.
And that's horrifying.
We got to stop it.
We got to stop it.
If whatever I can do I need you to slow down for a minute.
What year did the bar open, please? Well, it was 1995 that we bought it, and we civilized the area.
What was it before you had it? It was a it was a bar, but it was a racist pig bar, let me speak clearly.
What area what time did it change to a better place, where college kids would want to come? Probably '99.
You remember the name Derrick Todd Lee? Oh, yeah.
Don't remember him ever being in your place? With her, maybe? I don't.
I don't.
- I wish I did, but I don't.
Do we make you nervous? - No.
The horrible situation makes me nervous.
I want you to do me a favor.
Yes.
You have anyone tell you that they know or seen her at your place or around here, tell 'em call me.
Yes, sir.
Maybe our killer's up here.
Maybe the answer to that case, who killed that young lady, is right In one respect, I hope so.
In another respect, I hope to God they weren't here.
Thank you, Mr.
Frank.
You're welcome.
Anything I can do, y'all have my number.
You got ours.
Call us.
St.
Angelo: Alligator bar could have been the last place she went before she was killed.
I believe that she walked through that door just like we walked through that door.
You found that guy to be suspicious? I think everyone's suspicious in a murder case, buddy.
We got a chance to go through with the DNA experts to see if we could go forward with any of the evidence that we had.
We have panty cuttings, like, you're taking her body out of the water, removing the panties off of her, and cutting the stains you see.
Could the DNA on these undercuttings be for Derrick Todd Lee? Absolutely, it could be for Derrick Todd Lee, but if it isn't, it still doesn't stop anything.
As we read through more of the information, we realized that that private lab that they utilized Yeah.
that company ended up testing the very first cuttings of the panties.
They never got moved to the crime lab.
Hebert: It just never made it to the crime lab.
In our evidence box, we still had those original vials with the original panty cuttings, so I resubmitted those vials, and they are gonna do a quick processing and try to get us some information.
What's the turnaround on that about, approximately? I mean, they really said a few days, they would be able to give us some information.
So, that's my news.
Morgan: Well, that's great news.
Great, great news, baby.
- Good.
Let's not get too excited.
The wait-and-see attitude, of course.
Lori has taught me about DNA, which I knew absolutely zero about, you understand? But every minute, every hour is very important in this case, and I'm damn sure not gonna let them sit around on their ass and wait for [Bleep.]
DNA to come here.
I don't have to have DNA to solve a [Bleep.]
case.
I solved them many before, and I didn't have DNA whatsoever.
If you don't have good informants, you'll never solve [Bleep.]
in the street.
You know, some people call people that we using, working our cases snitches.
Informants are not snitches.
They're good people.
They want to talk to you.
[Ringing.]
Man: Hey.
Hey, buddy, where you at? Stay there.
I need to talk to you about a case I'm working, so don't go nowhere.
Be there in a few.
All right.
I meet my informants by myself.
Never have I ever took anybody.
Just like you have a black book of women you seeing, I have a black book in law enforcement.
I kept in my desk drawer, lock and key.
I didn't even put their name.
I use initials.
No one, to this day, knows my informants.
I don't know Aubrey's.
Aubrey's doesn't know mine.
that I know Aubrey's, probably, if they're a good detective.
[Rock music playing.]
Man: How you doing? You got your I.
D.
? Yes, sir.
Enjoy yourself.
- Thank you.
[Rock music continues.]
Can I have a crown and 7, please? Thank you.
What's up, buddy? You all right? If anyone knows about Eugenie boisfontaine or Derrick Todd Lee or who committed this murder, it's gonna be my informant.
It sure in the hell ain't gonna be Rodie 'cause I don't live out there in the streets with 'em.
I got a little case I'm working on, cold case, 18-year-old murder case.
I was, buddy, but the case been on my mind for a long time, and I'm trying to solve it, bring some closure to it.
This is the picture of Eugenie boisfontaine.
I need you to get with your people, see what you can find out about that.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
Thank you.
- All right.
Have a good time.
- You, too.
You got to have a good informant.
Once that informant give you that information, you got to have the heart to want to go out there and use it to the best of your ability to solve that crime.
[Voicemail beeps.]
ONE NEW VOICE MESSAGE.
St.
Angelo: Don't get no crumbs in my truck.
I ain't worried about this raggedy truck.
What this dude supposed to be wearing, you know? I have no idea.
All I can All I know is his name's supposed to be Mike.
Said he fishes over here by alligator bar.
Where's he from, you know? Baton Rouge area or somewhere.
Supposed to be friends with Derrick Todd Lee.
So, we gonna walk up to the first guy we see fitting that description, we just holler, "Mike, what's up?" We're gonna walk up and cover each other and approach him.
I don't know how y'all did it in 1920, but we gonna watch for a minute.
Oh, we gonna sit back and watch, yeah, do some surveillance, for sure.
Takes a lot of footwork and knocking on doors to find the people that we looking for.
These young guys I'm working with now, they're good, but they sitting in the office on their computers, googling up information.
I just ain't got time for that.
What y'all do whenever y'all had to entertain yourself? Like, nowadays, we have social media.
We got the Internet on our phones.
What y'all do? Well, when I was in there, we had 8-track tapes, cassette tapes, bingo.
[Laughter.]
It's all a waiting game.
Just part of the game.
Isn't that peculiar, he picked this area for us to meet him, boisfontaine's body being dumped over here? What you got to eat when you get home? Eat when I get home? Probably nothing.
What about you? Oh [Scoffs.]
I'll be all right.
She cooked or she didn't? Quit asking me about my personal life.
I'm asking you - about your personal life.
Give me an answer.
I'm not at liberty to disclose it.
You don't want to make conversation with me? You act like I'm your wife or your girlfriend or something.
You don't like, we out, going on a date.
Hold up.
Maybe.
Maybe.
I see a fishing pole in the back.
The party might begin.
He's just chilling.
I say we go check him out.
I say we go talk to him.
Let's do it.
Whiskey bay's one of the biggest drop zones in the state of Louisiana for bodies.
That's right here in my parish.
We worked a many of 'em.
People drop bodies, human lives, in open fields, throw 'em off the interstate.
For someone to take a human life, kill it, and throw it away like a piece of trash, that's not a human.
That's a frickin' animal.
I have no respect for a murderer, and that's why I became a cop, and I love what I do.
You didn't see nobody else pop out, huh? No, I don't see no more, but I got the driver's front of the truck.
See somebody walking up there now, just one.
Mike? Yeah.
- How you doing? Sanchez, sheriff's office.
Hey, man, what's up? Nice to meet you, man.
St.
Angelo.
- All right.
You wanted to speak to us about Eugenie's case a little bit? Yeah.
All right, what you got for us? Well, actually You talking about putting up a fence at the deceased victim we talking about's residence off of Stanford? Is that correct? We put I put her fence up.
Her fence? You positive about that? Positive.
What year was that? You remember? It was back in the '90s.
'90s? - Yeah, it was in the '90s.
While I was there, - a black guy came up, had Can't remember exactly his attire, but he was dressed up like a Maybe a cablevision man, telephone man, but he had a clipboard.
I remember a clipboard, and I actually wind up meeting that guy again through some people that I work with.
I said, - "hey, man, you remember me? I used to work for Edgar fence company.
" You came by her house, you know, I was putting a fence up.
He said, "no, no, that wasn't me.
" Just six, seven months, eight months But you knew it was him? - I knew.
Same guy? - I knew it was him.
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Angelo: So he played it off? Yeah, he played it off.
I never did think nothing about it, neither, you know.
I found out later on he was Derrick Todd Lee.
I had to take off that day.
I said, "let me go talk to somebody.
" This ain't right.
" We see him all the time fishing.
You know, I said, "I see him on this road here, you know.
" On this particular road? - Yeah.
Towards the alligator bar up this way? Yeah, here.
Rodie: I would have never believed that.
But you know what? Derrick Todd Lee could have done this.
The reason I asked you about this road right here is, you know we found Eugenie boisfontaine, her body on this particular road? And I I just found that out.
You done put two and two together.
Right.
- Okay.
Same lady who, you was at her house, put that little fence up for her, was found murdered on this road down there in that canal.
Man, I'm look, that's That's what make everything so scary.
Rodie's not Jesus Christ, and Rodie's not a super cop.
And if it is Derrick Todd Lee, for 18 years, I been sitting, praying that DNA is gonna solve this, and there's a possibility it may.
So, you know, all I can do now is wait.
[Ringing.]
Brocato: Crime lab.
This is joanie.
Hey, Joanie, this is Lori and Rodie from Iberville, and Aubrey's here, too.
We were just wanting to follow up with you.
We're kind of anxious about the DNA results.
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Angelo: If DNA on these undercuttings leads back to Derrick Todd Lee, we have forensic evidence, the great holy grail of DNA to lock it in.
Could be case closed, boom.
Brocato: So, there's some hope that we might be able to do some additional testing on the samples and potentially get some additional information.
So, - at this particular time, we have nothing that we can work with.
We were able to extract the DNA and compare it to Derrick Todd Lee.
Now, what we did find on one of the samples from her panties is that it is a mixture of potentially two to three males.
So, we may be looking for multiple males in this case.
Hearing it could be two to three males, different DNA, that put a whole twist in the whole case.
That tells me, as an investigator, several things.
Maybe there was more than one killer, or she was sexual with more than one person at the time of her death.
I promise you, from them results, we got our work cut out for us.
Miss Elizabeth, is there anything else that you remember? I did think I saw a truck with two people in it, but those two boys took off as I came approached 'em, which I thought was curious.
Sometimes, you just have to take the case and start all over again.
Bonifay: And that's the horrifying thing.
You look people in the eye, and you think that they're like you, and they could be a killer.
Rodie: I love catching a no-good son of a bitch murderer.
I love looking them in the frickin' eye and say, "I caught you, you no-good bastard.
" See if you're familiar with this young lady.
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Angelo: That's where somebody smashed her in the head and took her, I think.
You know, time's ticking.
What kind of weapon do you think I should be looking for? Something like a small hammer.
Hebert: There's a company, they have a lot of high-tech sonar equipment.
Get them in and scan that area.
Woman: Eugenie came from a very well-known family.
You think she changed after the divorce? Yes.
You're supposed to be retired, but you're tied up in everything.
This job will eat you alive, partner.
I want the son of a bitch.
I want to put our hands on him.
We found a murder weapon.
We got to get Robert.
Honest question Do we make you nervous? No.
You don't.
I'm just trying to answer your questions.
We were just hoping you answered 'em correct.
We need a [Bleep.]
crystal ball.
Man: We believe that this man committed this murder.
That body is out there.
We need you to go and find it.
Just wanted to go over everything with you.
Rodie: God, don't take me now.
I want you to cover every square inch.
Looks like a little fresh grave site.
That don't look good.
Ooh, I smell it now, Aubrey.