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'Major development' in Louisiana serial killer case
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (CNN) -- The task force hunting the south Louisiana serial killer Thursday announced "a major development" in the case, releasing pictures of a pair of athletic shoes the killer could have been wearing during one of the homicides. It appealed to members of the public for clues. "We don't think he's going to turn himself in, but we think someone who knows him may provide that call ... identifying who this individual is," said Lafayette Parish Sheriff Mike Neustrom. "I think this is a major development." A shoe print matching a $40 pair of "Adidas-type" basketball shoes that can be purchased in a number of stores around Lafayette and Baton Rouge was found November 24 "in the immediate vicinity" of where the body of Trineisha Colomb was found, Neustrom said. "This information is designed to get someone who is an acquaintance, a friend, an ex-wife, a roommate of the individual who was wearing this type of shoe around November 21st, 22nd, 23rd" to notify authorities about their suspicions, Neustrom said. Four women have been killed in the region over the past 17 months, and authorities have said they have linked the killings through DNA evidence. A psychiatric profile of the killer describes him as an impulsive, aggressive risk-taker who lives between Lafayette and Baton Rouge, knows the area well, and lives a "fairly normal life." Colomb, 23, is the most recent known victim. Two days after she was reported missing, a hunter found her body in a wooded area in the southern Louisiana town of Scott, just west of Lafayette, where Colomb lived. That was about 20 miles from where her abandoned car was discovered, in Grand Coteau. The killer has not been found. "We think someone knows who it is, but is maybe not 100 percent certain. ... We encourage them to call and let us know and, hopefully, prevent any other acts." The killings began in Baton Rouge in September 2001, when Gina Wilson Green, 41, was found strangled near the Louisiana State University campus. In May, Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, was found stabbed to death in her home, also near the LSU campus, and in July, Pam Kinamore, 44, was abducted and her throat was slit. Kinamore's body was found 30 miles outside Baton Rouge, in the direction of Lafayette. Last month, authorities said they were searching for a "person of interest" who was spotted in a white pickup truck about 500 feet from where the latest victim was found. Police have said they are searching for a white early 1990s Chevrolet or GMC pickup truck with a fish sticker on the tailgate, with chrome bumpers. That truck was seen near where Colomb's vehicle was abandoned in Grand Coteau. A truck of similar description was reported where Kinamore's body was found. A man deemed suspicious was reportedly seen November 21 -- the day before Colomb was reported missing -- in a rural, wooded area of Scott. Neustrom said the man was seated in a white early 1990s pickup, with chrome front and rear bumpers -- about 500 feet from where Colomb's body was found. A tip line has received more than 11,700 calls.
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