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I can't explain to you why a person

would do something like this.

Some glitch, some wire

that didn't hook up to the right spot.

It seemed like every time we turned around,

there was another body.

So in a 12 square mile, you had nine victims.

The person was trying to rub our face into it,

knowing that he's gonna get away with it.

We were looking into one of the most prolific

serial killers in Louisiana history.

This is a serial killer you've never heard of.

And she kept repeating, he's going to kill me.

And he shoots my daughter.

That's about the only time in my career

that I just wanted to shoot him.

You can run.

You can't hide.

The thing about Louisiana is that when you travel

from parish to parish and town to town,

you get different culture.

And that is what's so great about the state.

Kenner is its own little tiny metropolis

on the outskirts of New Orleans.

Kenner has its own culture as well.

And I think that's fed by a lot of the different

immigrants that call Kenner home.

It's the area that's right before you hit what's called

the Bonne Carre Spillway, which is

this long stretch of roadway that heads toward

Baton Rouge and areas west.

Crime in Kenner has actually been down

since the early and mid-'90s.

You know, we average maybe four a--four a year of homicides.

My participation in these investigations

stemmed from three homicides we had here

in the city of Kenner.

Back in the late '90s, young males were

dumped in various parts of the city of Kenner on the roadside.

A man named Manuel Reed was found strangled.

He was thrown in a business trash bin in Kenner,

but he had been strangled and raped.

These three were unique because the bodies

were disposed of where they were gonna

be found the next morning.

So they were positioned to be found.

It wasn't like somebody was trying to hide these bodies.

You know, we had no idea that we were dealing with,

you know, some-- something larger.

We worked it as trying to find--identify the victim.

Where did he come from?

You know, what-- try to find out

how the perpetrator got here in the city of Kenner

to discard a body.

The victims were similar in age.

And then we started asking around.

So with the local parish sheriff's office,

had something similar in St. Charles Parish.

So we started to compare notes and talk.

By this time, I think it was our three,

and the sheriff's office had an additional three

all within, you know, with a two-year frame

where bodies were just discarded,

where someone would find them,

either near a dumpster or near a roadway.

So that's kind of when we started thinking that

it may be the same person.

We were trying to see if it was a,

like a certain type of individual that was preying

on these--these people.

The Christmas decorations are up

in this St. Charles Parish home,

but all over the living room are pictures

of 19-year-old David Mitchell, who was murdered.

It's been hell every single day.

Every night, I can't sleep.

I toss and turn because I can't--you know,

I don't have any closure.

I don't know what happened,

how it happened, why it happened or anything.

It's been--it's been living hell.

David was a happy-go-lucky person.

He was always jolly.

He could never hurt a flea or anything.

He had to be center stage, you know?

He had to be the clown and his dancing.

And he always made people laugh and everything, you know?

Everything I did, you know, I did for him.

I took him everywhere I went.

I bought him clothes.

I just did everything I could because I--

Like, that was a part of me.

Some of these cases started as missing person cases.

So Oliver LeBanks was 27 years old.

He was doing the job that a lot of people

do in New Orleans, which is work

in the hospitality industry.

He worked at a French Quarter restaurant.

He was a dishwasher there.

He was a family guy.

He had five daughters.

His body was found in Metairie, and he had been strangled.

What is similar about all these crimes?

Early on, we were able to determine that some of them

were coming out of the city of New Orleans,

last seen in the city, mostly African Americans, you know,

really come from poor areas of the city.

Some of the ones here in Kenner,

they were just last seen in, you know, neighboring parishes,

walking the streets with no detail of, you know,

the exact time, the exact, you know, date

that someone was last seen.

The characteristics of every victim

were they would walk the streets.

I mean, they were young, same physical build,

no gunshot wounds.

They were all, you know, strangled, some form.

A lot of them didn't have broken bones or bruising

that you would see whenever there's a struggle,

which was interesting for investigators.

A lot of them didn't have a lot of money.

Many of them were vulnerable.

They were all men.

And I think that was one of the tells

that made them say, hey, wait a second.

We need to connect these cases.

We need to get a task force together and figure out

what happened to these men.

The three victims that are found in the city of Kenner,

the three victims found in St. Charles Parish,

and three victims in Jefferson Parish were relatively close.

So within a 12 square mile, you had nine victims,

two of them being dumped within several feet of each other,

months apart.

Serial killers are rare.

Well, I thought they were rare until this period of time,

where apparently there were enough

going around South Louisiana to make everyone take note.

We really didn't get a good grasp

on the kind of person that was--that was doing this.

But the geographical layout was,

it was someone that was gonna be from within this area.

Was it someone that was comfortable in his environment

that, you know, didn't care to be caught?

Or was he just good enough to get away with it?

All of a sudden, Metro New Orleans

doesn't get any more of these dumped bodies of--

of the same, you know, type victim.

They all started coming down several miles

in lower Louisiana in and around the city of Houma.

Terrebonne Parish is one of the most beautiful parts

of Southeast Louisiana, small highways that are

lined by sugarcane fields.

It's just calming when you're driving down there.

It's peaceful.

It's quiet.

I grew up in Houma, and it's a very close-knit community.

The people there have very big hearts.

But at the time, it seemed like every time we turned around,

there was another body.

Some of these guys had decomposed

to the point they couldn't have these open casket funerals.

They really never got to say goodbye to these people

in a proper way.

The rapes themselves, that horrified the families,

it really just tore them to their core.

Some of them didn't have extensive families

to sound the alarm about the cases and anything

falling through the cracks.

My impression was, there were a lot

of crickets in the community.

People just didn't seem to make much of an impact at all.

I mean, I'm still shocked, and I'm still surprised by that.

So, you know, it was really kind of an eye-opener for me.

And the fact that, you know, a lot of people

weren't jumping on TV talking about how horrified they were

that this had happened, I think that was

shocking to me as well,

just because of the nature of the crimes.

The victims were not all but mostly homosexual.

It didn't have the grip that killing

young, beautiful women does.

There were two other serial killers

loose in South Louisiana...

Who are getting most of the publicity.

They were Derrick Todd Lee and Sean Gillis.

Both of them were attacking, kidnapping, raping, and killing

young, attractive women.

I remember Datrell Woods just because I was there.

I remember he was young.

The killer dumped him with his bicycle in a sugarcane field

out behind a church.

And it was summer, and it was hot.

And he'd been there.

And it wasn't a pleasant scene.

So I remember going to the--

to his house and talking to his parents after he was found.

And his--there were a lot of--

there was a lot of family there and a lot of heartache.

It was very sparse, and it was very spread out

over so many parishes.

It wasn't until the end there that it seemed to escalate

and the bodies seemed to start piling up.

Some were found with-- missing a shoe.

Some had no shoes.

And they were trying to say that that was the trophy

that this killer was-- was keeping, was a shoe.

So we were working every angle, trying to find out

if, in fact, you know, we can prove that that was,

like, a trophy item the person's taking.

The task force was put together

when they realized that we have these dead people

that all have a common denominator in that

they have been tied up.

So from 1998 to 2005, we had the nine here

in Metro New Orleans and then the ones coming up

in the Lafourche and Terrebonne.

So we probably had somewhere around 19.

And it was full, you know, 8 1/2x11 printouts

of a mug shot of a person's head.

And every time we would-- would find one,

another victim would go on.

That was the frustrating part that was kind of early on.

Just the number of victims is the hardest thing.

One of his dumping sites in Lafourche Parish

was on the bank of a drainage ditch

right next to the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office.

Guess the psychology of it is,

the person was either trying to rub our face into it

where he can actually kill someone, discard them in a--

a place to be found, knowing that

he's gonna get away with it.

Or was the person comfortable enough

that he might be a law enforcement officer,

that that would cause no red flags,

him being in and around some kind of police complex?

You know, we working, you know, day and night

trying to develop a suspect, only, you know,

to wake up the next morning to, we have another victim.

It might be a sugarcane field.

It might be under an overpass.

It might be in a ditch.

No defensive wounds or no-- no evidence of a big struggle.

Because some of these people were

decent sized, you know, men.

Even though they were-- they were young at age,

they were, you know, pretty much tall and big in stature,

some of them.

They weren't always found right away because it

was really remote places.

In South Louisiana in the summertime,

in the heat and the daily rains,

it would degrade a body.

It would degrade a dump site pretty quickly.

So there wasn't always DNA to find.

We had the attorney general's office,

the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab,

probation and parole working it.

You know, it was overwhelming at the time.

You know, we would get working, you know, leads

and people call in, giving us some kind of tip.

Somebody gave a tip of, you know, white guys,

you know, Black guys of different ages.

Investigators were making some progress

in trying to figure out what happened to these people.

But at that point, Hurricane Katrina hit.

And everything just kind of went crazy.

With Katrina's worst on its way, the last wave of people

fled New Orleans overnight, thousands of them

looking for any place safe.

There was still a lot of chaos, I guess, going around.

A lot of those people from New Orleans evacuated to Houma.

We had, in just a few days, what officials compared

to ten years' worth of growth in Houma.

Our infrastructure wasn't up to it.

We just had this inundation of people coming from all over.

They're hoping, of course, not to watch their homes

or their neighborhoods blow away.

We are on the outer edge of this storm,

and you can see what we're dealing with here.

We kind of had to slow down a little bit

because duties, you know, was spread all over the place

at that time.

We weren't really impacted

in the way of storms by Katrina.

But just a few weeks later, Rita come through.

And it did--it did have a lot of damage locally.

And so the communities were trying to recover from that.

How many bodies went unreported, went undiscovered?

How many more are buried somewhere,

discarded, perhaps, in a more organized way in the bayou?

We know that Katrina was so destructive

that there were bodies lying around the bayou.

It wouldn't have been uncommon to come across a body

that was exposed to the elements.

In the task force meetings,

we knew the perp wasn't 100% successful

in one contact, one kill.

Whoever's doing this is not 100% successful.

Every contact with a person is gonna end up with a victim.

That's where the probation and parole aspect came in.

So we had the probation and parole agents,

when they met with people they were supervising,

they would ask, is anything out of the ordinary happening

in and around this area?

I think one of the turning points

was when one of the victims got away.

Ricky Wallace was one of those victims.

He told a story about a white guy

in a pickup truck that approached him

while he was walking down the street.

Said he had a family member that was a victim of abuse.

Showed a picture of, you know, some--we later learned that

it was a family member of the perpetrator

he was using and lured him in where she'll pay you for sex.

She's a domestic violence victim.

She's afraid of men.

Actually got into the pickup truck with the perpetrator,

actually let him bring him to a trailer.

And once he got into the trailer,

he said, well, before the girl comes in,

being that she's afraid of men, I have to tie you up.

And he said, there's no way I'm gonna do that.

At that point, Ricky was like,

I'm out of here, no, and ran.

And he got away.

Well, he was on parole.

So the next time he saw his parole officer, he says,

look, the weirdest thing just happened to me.

So we drove by, got a bunch of license plate numbers

and ran some records, everything from that address,

and came up with all the residents there.

That led police eventually to Ronald Dominique.

Ronald Dominique lived on his sister's property

in a trailer in the front yard.

We started some surveillance on him,

and it didn't amount to-- to anything.

He worked at a oilfield supply company

doing some kind of just manual labor,

and other than that, didn't really have a life.

He didn't leave the house, didn't go to no bars,

didn't frequent anywhere.

He would just sit at home.

So we still didn't have anything

to tie him in to these bodies.

Found out basically that he was a loner.

And going back, we found out that, you know, in high school,

didn't really have any friends.

He had a couple of jobs.

One was as a meter reader.

What did he do positive in the community?

Well, he called bingo, might have

helped some neighbors with groceries and mow their lawn.

We knew he was arrested previously,

accused of raping a male.

So he was high on our radar with just that

but didn't have anything to connect him,

you know, with the crimes in itself.

And then we realized that the sister previously

lived right here in St. Charles Parish,

within a few hundred feet

of the St. Charles Parish homicides.

You know, the three bodies, you know,

where they were dumped in St. Charles Parish.

So all the homicides moved at the same time

this family moved, and Dominique followed them

to live on his sister's property

outside of the city of Houma.

When he realized that the police were following him

and that his arrest was probably imminent,

he left his sister's property,

and he moved into the Bunkhouse,

which is a homeless shelter there in downtown Houma.

We had the FBI there.

Their surveillance team actually

was--was assigned to it.

So 24 hours a day, we had someone,

you know, watching him in his residence.

And it is-- yes, it's binoculars.

It's--you know, it may be cars on the ground,

people walking, even aircraft in the air if he was mobile.

At that point, when we identified the killer,

there was not gonna be any other victims.

So we just sent two people to--to make contact with him.

You know, one female investigator

from Lafourche Parish and one from--

a male from Jefferson Parish.

And they interviewed him.

It was very civil.

It was almost like he expected it

and he was waiting for them.

And he answered questions.

Wouldn't admit to anything

but did consent to a buccal swab,

which is a swab of his saliva.

They took that DNA sample from him

and found that it matched DNA that was found

on Oliver LeBanks and Manuel Reed.

That's when they had enough

to charge him with those two murders.

Good evening, everyone.

I'm Katie Moore, and welcome to the WWL Louisiana news at 5:00.

It was a Friday, and I remember

going into the newsroom and them saying,

okay, this arrest has been made.

So we went down to the homeless shelter

to try and talk to people,

and they said that they were stunned

because he was very quiet, very nice.

They said, you know, he could have lived there for 20 years

and nobody would have thought he did anything wrong.

He was that unassuming.

At the Bunkhouse in Houma, a handful of homeless men

spent three days with 42-year-old Ronald Dominique.

Until Wednesday, Dominique lived in these trailers

that crime scene investigators

combed through looking for evidence.

They were parked behind his sister's

house on Bayou Blue Road.

Law enforcement agencies,

including the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff,

aren't releasing many details about the case,

but we do expect to learn more next week,

including how they linked Dominique to the murders.

Everyone kind of knows everybody down there.

And so I think when this case popped up,

everyone was shocked because a lot of people knew him

and a lot of people knew his family.

And I don't think anyone ever would have expected

that he could be responsible for something so heinous.

A multi-agency task force announced the arrest

of 42-year-old Ronald Dominique last night

in connection with two murders in the late '90s in Kenner.

Investigators also believe he is the suspect

in almost 20 other murders over the past 11 years.

Two of the victims lived in Jefferson Parish.

Two more are from Lafourche Parish.

Four resided in St. Charles Parish.

And 11 of the victims lived in Terrebonne Parish.

The law enforcement task force

would only say that forensic evidence

links Dominique to the two murders

that he's currently charged with.

Both of the Kenner victims

and about half of the others were found strangled,

partially dressed, and missing shoes.

The local people down in Terrebonne Parish

put out a word to the public defender board

that they needed a lawyer to come down

and represent him because he was

charged with a capital case.

And that's what we did.

Of course, one of the first things we did

was go and talk to Dominique.

At that time, I had handled dozens

and dozens of capital cases but never a serial killer.

I went in there to see him, and out of all my clients,

he was probably the least intrusive.

I mean, he was--he was short and fat or obese.

He was quiet.

He walked with a limp and with cane and really reserved.

His demeanor was rather a passive demeanor.

You know, there wasn't

anything threatening about him.

If you look at a lot of serial killers

through the years, they don't stand out.

They fit in well.

This guy fit in well at what he did.

I mean, he didn't do anything.

He didn't do anything to call attention to himself.

He never got in many arguments,

you know, with the sister,

with anybody else in the community.

He kind of just stayed alone.

Let's put it this way, he wasn't scary,

wouldn't scare anyone, and kind of taken aback

by how someone that looked like he did

would be capable of committing all these offenses

that he was accused of.

He had a bad heart, fat and flabby.

There was nothing physically about him

that would make you think that this person was

capable of killing anyone at all, with his hands.

He looked like just some little guy that really

had nothing going for him.

And then as we started to hear more and more details

out of that serial killer task force,

we started to realize that this was

much bigger than just two men.

When they had Ronald Dominique in interrogation,

then it was like the floodgates opened.

He told police that he had killed Oliver LeBanks.

They went to a remote area, had sex,

but the victim was apparently pretty rough on Ronald,

and Ronald struck him in the head with a tire iron.

Once he knocked him out,

realized that he doesn't have to deal with this pressure

or problem anymore.

And then he strangled him.

And then we learned that apparently, Ronald Dominique

had confessed when he went in to police

and just frankly told them

that, you know, he had killed

up to 23 people.

And I just--my mind was blown.

Most people who had come in contact with Ronald Dominique

were shocked to find out that he was accused

of killing more than 20 people.

I mean, they were stunned.

This man that people now were hearing

may have been one of Louisiana's

most prolific serial killers.

So police say that Ronald Dominique gave them details

about how he committed them.

And what Dominique told police was that he went out

late at night, prowling in search of men

who appeared to be in need of money.

He would pick people up on Bourbon Street

near the gay bar.

He would see them riding their bicycle down the road.

He seemed to like Black men, slight Black men--

not big, brawny guys, but lean, thin.

Of his 23 victims, 18 of them were Black.

He would cruise, go to areas where street people,

hustlers would frequent, stop, talk to them,

make a determination.

If they said yes, he'd say, come on, get in.

He would drive them to his trailer,

and he would say, well, look, I don't want you to hurt me.

So in order to not be hurt, I want to tie you up

before we have sex.

If he thought they were gay,

he would proposition them for sex with himself.

If he thought they were heterosexual,

he had a picture of an attractive woman,

who he'd say was his girlfriend or his wife,

and he'd offered them money to come back

and have sex with this woman.

And he would use his niece's picture

because she was an attractive young lady

to entice men to come to his place.

That was the photograph he used to say, look, my wife

wants to have sex with you.

Here's what she looks like.

If they agreed to be tied up,

he'd rape them and strangle them.

You have to have a certain personality

to be able to strike up a conversation with someone,

make them feel comfortable enough to where

they're willing to go to another location with you

and spend time with you.

And in this case, a lot of times

he was convincing them to go to an offsite location for sex.

The early victims, he would meet in an automobile.

The crime was committed in an automobile.

He would strangle him with the seat belt.

In Southern Louisiana, a shocking confession

from an alleged serial killer.

Ronald Dominique was charged with 11 counts of murder.

Police say he admitted to killing

23 men over eight years.

The victims, which ranged in age from 16 to 46,

had all been strangled or suffocated.

When we go investigate people, we do.

We go back and try to find out people that knew him

when he was growing up, teachers, people he worked for,

whoever he may have come in contact with.

He grew up in Lafourche Parish.

He went to Thibodaux High School.

He was not a popular guy.

My understanding is that he didn't--

he didn't come to terms with his homosexuality

until late in his teens.

I'm told that he was bullied.

So high school was rough for him.

And we found with Dominique, really didn't have

any long-lasting friends,

teachers that really took to him.

Lower income, lived in a trailer in Bayou Blue.

Just regular, everyday, working folk.

I don't think Ronald Dominique is a high IQ person.

I really don't.

I think he's a simple person that had a simple plan.

How he came up with the actual killing of someone,

I don't think it was the killing was the motive.

I think it was a sex act that was his motive.

He always lived with either his mom or his older sister.

Just didn't fit my preconceived idea

of what a serial killer would be like.

I mean, he was the most unthreatening individual,

like, I could think of.

There's two forms of pleasure

involved in these homicides,

perverse pleasures.

One is, of course, the sexual part.

The other part was the-- the homicide part.

He felt the only way he could become intimate

with someone else was by tying them up

and then forcing himself on them, right?

Again, power. Again, control.

But such low self-esteem

to think that the only way he could be close to someone

was through this mechanism.

He just kept talking and talking and talking.

And he admitted, and he provided

details of all these murders.

I thought it was really weird, though,

because our reporters had put together

from different sources, and they had gotten,

like, a list of men that had gone missing

and then turned up dead, and we'd put together,

before he was arrested, the list of possible

serial killer victims.

And we didn't have all 23, of course,

because we didn't take into account the ones,

like, in the Kenner area.

We were more looking at our jurisdiction.

And he admitted to every one on our list,

but he didn't admit to any that weren't on our list.

And I just find it highly suspect

that we got them all right.

I always wondered if maybe there were more

or if he just decided to confess to everything.

I don't know.

I've always wondered if there were others.

One of the things that surprised me was the fact

that he was able to not only strangle these people,

with the strength that took, but also to pick up

the bodies, put them in his vehicle,

and then take them someplace and dispose of them.

I was trying to figure out how he could do that because

he didn't strike me as being that strong of an individual,

even though the victims weren't that big,

they probably weighed 145 pounds, somewhere around there.

He didn't look like someone that you would consider

a serial killer or someone capable of killing

23, you know, grown men.

In everyday life, Ronald Dominique was powerless.

But when he was hunting and killing, he was very powerful.

It dawned upon me that he probably had

a big adrenaline rush when he was doing this.

And that may have had some play in why he did it

and why he was able to-- to move bodies around

and that sort of thing.

Six weeks before he was arrested,

he killed Sutterfield, according to the police.

He was able to subdue, tie up, and rape a full-grown man,

and then drag his body to where he dumped it.

Then when he was arrested,

he has a cane and he can't even walk upright.

He's having to be helped into the car by two officers.

I just always felt like that was a show.

I just couldn't see how physically,

how he could have declined so much.

They said he had a heart attack,

but I still felt like a lot of that was for show.

He didn't amount to much of anything other than

he worked in, you know, some kind of labor intensive,

menial job working in a supply business.

He felt that he was inferior.

Couldn't get a girlfriend or boyfriend.

He was kind of, you know, little overweight.

Just really aimless life, no friends, no one

to be in love with or to love him.

Even when he came out of the closet

and was part of the gay scene,

he really wasn't accepted there, either.

Favorite thing was being a female impersonator.

He liked to dress up like Patti LaBelle and imitate her,

but he wasn't very good at it.

This female impersonation, this act,

where he was inviting others to laugh at him,

he's in control of that.

Now, whether this predated his--his sensibilities

when later on went on to kill, we don't know,

but this is a marker.

Control is a marker.

And we know that with the serial rapes,

rape has nothing to do with love or affection

or intimacy or sex.

It's a control issue.

And yeah, the trappings of it were there in the act.

So in the early to mid-'90s, Ronald Dominique had actually

been arrested for rapes.

The story goes that it was at his sister's house

and that the victim jumped out the window

and ran away yelling but that they never followed through

with the case because they could

never locate the victim again.

So nothing ever came of that.

The second time he was arrested for a rape,

which was in 1996, he was convicted

and ended up serving time in prison.

And while he was in jail, he was brutalized.

Police believe that that may have been Ronald Dominique's

trigger, that once he had to do the time in jail,

he decided he wasn't gonna spend time in jail anymore.

So he would kill his victims so that they couldn't

tell police what he had done.

Something happened to him that,

whether or not it was a sexual fantasy

or it was something else that got him to come up

with this plan and scheme that if he wanted to have sex

with a male, I guess he was intimidated

and couldn't do it on his own.

He had to kill him first.

It escalated to where he really enjoyed

the entire process, from the rape to the murder.

It just got to where the interval in between murders

became smaller and smaller, like he needed it more often.

I don't think that we knew until the following week

that the number of victims would climb that high.

You know, when we went to the news conference

that was law enforcement agencies

talking about how deep and wide their investigation went,

I think all of us were stunned.

And then to hear that law enforcement

hadn't even connected all 23 of those killings.

Ronald Dominique did.

When you hear that it's over 20 people

that this man is accused of killing over that many years,

it's stunning that they weren't able

to catch up with him sooner,

especially given the similarities in the cases.

But nobody knows about Ronald Dominique

because he killed people who were marginalized.

He killed people who lived a high-risk lifestyle

and didn't necessarily garner a lot of sympathy

from people outside their family.

Each of them had a family that loved them

and cared about them.

These were people that were hurting.

I mean, their loved ones, in spite of the fact

that their loved ones might have been

homeless and street hustlers or whatever,

they still loved them.

And they were angry at what happened.

They had 22 unsolved murders.

You know, I mean, I don't know how--

how the guy did that for so long to get away with that.

I would want him dead.

I would want him dead.

I mean, serving time in penitentiary, that--

that don't help.

I mean, he took a-- he took my child's life.

We discussed the ins and outs of the case

and came to the realization

that trying eight capital cases

in that parish alone would be burdensome,

not only on the parish's finances,

but also on the families of the victims.

It would be decades before this would be over.

The families would have to go through the trial

over and over.

They would have to hear all these horrendous details

of what happened to their loved ones.

And they were not about hearing those gory details.

In the end, Ronald Dominique was

offered a plea deal by prosecutors,

and he ended up taking it.

He pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty.

The prosecutor said at the time that he felt like,

and some of the families felt like, that it would be more

of a punishment for Dominique to be jailed

for the rest of his life than it would be for him

to get the death penalty because he hated jail so much

that they saw this as a bigger punishment for him

than taking his life.

I mean, eight consecutive life sentences, that's--

yeah, that's one after the other.

That's what you give a cat.

There's no need to waste the resources,

you know, to prosecute him anywhere else.

You know, we just have open warrants for him

if he ever does, you know, try to get out.

Each one of these victims had a life to live.

And that got cut short because of Ronald Dominique.

They had the unlucky fortune or misfortune of, you know,

coming into his crosshairs.

I think the most important thing that needs

to come out of it is, how did this person

fall through the cracks?

What did we miss in order to stop this person

from taking so many lives?

In this case, it's just horribly sad.

I mean, he was preying on people

that were some of our society's most vulnerable.

Even though Ronald Dominique is one of the most prolific

serial killers in Louisiana history,

many people have never even heard of him.

This is the serial killer you've never heard of.

He was prolific.

He got away with it for ten years.

Nobody knows who he is.

These were somebody's children.

And they were raped and dumped in mini storages

and sugarcane fields and under overpasses.

They deserved better.