Facts of the Crime:
Convicted and sentenced to death in the murders of five Florida women and suspected in other murders including a Georgia woman. The first Jacksonville victim was Nicole L. Williams, 18, who was found December 19, 2002 in a ditch, wrapped in a blanket.
Two weeks later on New Year's night, Nikia Shanell Kilpatrick was discovered bound and strangled in her apartment. Police say Kilpatrick, who was 19 and pregnant, could have been dead two days. Her two small children were found unharmed in the apartment.
On January 10, 2003, 20-year-old Shawanda Denise McCalister, who was also pregnant, was found bound and strangled in her apartment in the same neighborhood.
The last two victims were found together February 5 in a vacant lot. Surita Ann Cohen, 19, and Jovanna Tyrica Jefferson, 17, were last seen with a cab driver.
A police report states that Cohen was found with her hands bound behind her back with a telephone cord. There was bruising on Jefferson's wrists, which the medical examiner said was consistent with being bound before her death.
A search of Durousseau's previous residence turned up a bed sheet that contained DNA from Jefferson, police said. A search of his car turned up jewelry belonging to Cohen and Jefferson, and the pair's cell phone records showed that they had placed calls to him, police said. The Georgia victim was Tracy Habersham, whose nude body was found September 7, 1997, by someone walking a dog near the neighborhood where the 26-year-old grew up. She was last seen two days earlier at a party at a Fort Benning, Georgia club. Police had believed she was strangled shortly after the party.
Durousseau was sentenced to death in Duval County on December 13, 2007.
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