Here’s my column from Saturday’s Dallas Morning News, in which I discuss the impact having a local guy arrested as a serial killer suspect is having on my small Louisiana hometown. Note especially how this thing is taking an O.J. turn, with at least some black folks there saying Derrick Lee couldn’t possibly be the killer, and that this thing sounds like a white put-up job. Also, since I wrote this, townspeople have turned media-savvy. A cousin of mine who teaches elementary-school special education mentioned in the teacher’s lounge the other day that in the time she had young Derrick Lee in her class, one of the finches in the classroom birdcage turned up dead in the cage, with its neck broken. A day or two later, CNN phoned my cousin, wanting to know about Lee’s possible history as a torturer of small animals.