LEE, DERRICK TODD: World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
On 31st May 2001, 22-year-old Charlotte Murray Pace had just graduated from Louisiana State University, and was looking forward to moving to Atlanta to begin a new career. But she had no idea that someone was watching her, and he had plans of his own. 32-year-old Derrick Todd Lee had already stalked and killed at least 3 women before he took away the future of the recent graduate. Lee would go on to kill another three women before DNA evidence finally brought and end to his brutal and heartless career of murder. World’s Most Evil Killers s6e7: Derrick Todd Lee, Sky Crime 2021
LEE, JAMES: see EBRAHIMI, BIJAN murder
LEEHEY, LUKE: Code-Blue: The Killing of June Fox-Roberts TV -
‘I’ve just come home and I’ve found my mother’s body in the dining-room. She’s wrapped in plastic and there’s blood going from the front door.’ Code-Blue: The Killing of June Fox-Roberts I, daughter’s 999 call, ITV 2023
November 2021: The victims is a 65-year-old grandmother. It appears to be a random but extremely violent crime. Her body has been dismembered. ibid.
June’s head and limbs have now all been found in bags in the house. ibid.
Another who’d come under suspicion, a 25-year-old art student called Luke Deeley who’s gone missing. ibid.
South Wales police have arrested 25-year-old art student Luke Deeley, who’d been reported missing. He’s refusing to talk. Code-Blue: The Killing of June Fox-Roberts II
Luke Deeley was remanded in custody and ordered to undergo psychiatric tests. ibid.
LEEMING, ROBERT: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
9 days after that last sighting and with fears for their safety growing, police began searching a remote wooded area 30 miles west of their home. And they made an Englishman, Robert Leeming, their prime suspect. ibid.
He started collecting knives at the age of seven. ibid. Kerry
‘He subjected her to years and years of abuse. These are her words.’ ibid. journalist
They began delving into his background further. What officers found out over the next few hours caused them even more worry. ibid.
LEGGATE, STUART: When Missing Turns to Murder TV -
A young boy has vanished from outside his home triggering a frantic police search. When Missing Turns to Murder s2e3: Mark Cummings
There was a television picture covering the emergency fire escape. It was in the ground floor. It was showing a stairway leading from the ground floor to the first floor. And all of a sudden into the picture came young Mark, and an adult who at that time I had no idea who he was. ibid. rozzer
He was lying dead in a bin. ibid.
God almighty, that’s Leggate! That’s him. ibid. rozzer spots perpetrator visiting crime scene
LEGERE, ALLAN: Crime Stories TV - Born to Kill? TV -
Monday, May 28th 1989: In Chatham, New Brunswick, police arrive on the scene of a house fire; they soon discover that this was no accidental blaze. Crime Stories s1e1: Allan Legere: The Monster of Miramichi, Court TV 1998
But in 1989 that sense of security comes under attack when a series of horrendous crimes gives way to an unprecedented wave of terror. ibid.
Legere is a man tied to a violent crime in the past … ‘The Glendennings had been put through everyone’s worst nightmare in their home.’ ibid. man
He struck with brutal ferocity. But what was the root of his inner fury? And was he born to kill? Born to Kill? s7e5: Allan Legere, Really 2017
The killer had evaded capture for six months. ibid.
A masked intruder had initially demanded money but had then subjected the elderly women to a prolonged attack before setting the building ablaze. ibid.
The attacker had worn a chain around his midriff. ibid.
Father James Smith would become the fourth victim of a sadistic killing spree. ibid.
As before Allan Legere had disappeared without trace. ibid.
Although Legere would eventually be cornered, he was holding the truck driver captive at gunpoint. ibid.
LEIGHTY, KENNETH: Cold Case Files TV -
There’s a body [Sherry] we believe to be buried on this 150-acre parcel of land. Cold Case Files s2e5: Missing in Altoona, rozzer, A&E 2021
1999: After being together for seven years Sherry finally separates from Aaron. But she can’t afford her own place. She moved in temporarily with her husband’s parents, the Leightys. ibid.
In an effort to clear his own name, Aaron [husband] agrees to help investigators target his father. ibid.
Out of the blue Kenneth said, I did it. ibid.
LENNON, JOHN murder: viz Assassinations: LENNON, JOHN
LENT, LEWIS: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
1994: 12-year-old Becky Savarese … A thin dirty-looking man came out and came over to her, Becky had this feeling nothing would be the same again. True Crime Recaps: Escaping the Unthinkable: The Lewis Lent Case Unveiled, Youtube 14.18, 2023
He hung out with little girls around 13 or 14. ibid.
13 years later another little boy was found strangled by a tree in Upstate, New York. The man who did it was Lewis Lent.
12-year-old Sarah Ann Wood was peddling home from church when a van pulled up beside her; a thin grungy-looking man stepped out; he had a hunting knife in his hand … ibid.
That rare kind of monster – a serial killer of children. ibid.
He said the aliens made him do it. ibid.
LEONSKI, EDDIE: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer TV -
Melbourne, 1942: GIs arriving daily from America, and one of them is a serial killer with a bizarre fetish: he wants to steal the voices of women he meets. Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer s1e1: Eddie Leonski, Amazon 2020
Three women are dead and detectives are sure there will be more victims … Three women had been snatched, stripped, strangled, left for dead. ibid.
Already known for his heavy drinking and sexual abuse of a woman at home in New Jersey, Private Eddie Leonski arrived in Australia at a time when relations between the Alien were not always what the authorities wanted. ibid.
The Australian authorities gave way, still the only time a killer on Australian soil had not been tried by an Australian court. ibid.