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This entry is largely informationless and has not been updated for more than three or four years!Cokerwr 19:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Could give dates? jane jones jannneee2121@yahoo.com

This article asserts that DNA evidence suggested that the suspect was African American. While there are a few halotypes that are prevalent in African populations, so far as I know, race cannot be ascertained from DNA, as race is NOT biological. They're just slight variations in environmental adaptation, which is not quanitifiable as to locale. In other words, it's impossible to discover a suspect's race from DNA evidence, unless they carry a very specific halotype, and even then, that person might be identified as "white" or any other race based on their appearance. Blood types and sickle blood cells might point toward African ancestry, but that is not very conclusive at all. Besides being unclear and having NO citations, this article seems to contain several factual errors.

http://www.officer.com/print/Law-Enforcement-Technology/Beyond-CODIS/1$37894

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNAPrint_Genomics

http://journalsip.astm.org/JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/4378.htm

I included these links to help show that it is in fact increasingly possible to dtermine ethnic origin or even appearance from DNA, due to the discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs. Also, it's haplotypes, not "halotypes," which suggests something to do with salts.165.176.123.2 (talk) 19:24, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

So is Lee the black guy or the white guy? The article is unclear on what is going on with this case.

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[edit] I think he killed someone I knew a long time ago

I think Todd Lee killed a girl i knew from high school. She was found by her parents as though she was strangled and raped. I have never heard what was the truth. I believe he killed her and I am so sad that her life was lost to the monster. Just about the time that every woman in Baton rouge was buying guns my son had a dream that the serial killer pulled me out of our house and that he could not help me. Oh my gawd he was crying. You see how this man scared every body I want to know more about him Lee Maye —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leebaby99 (talk • contribs) 05:28, 4 May 2008 (UTC)