LOS ANGELES (AP) — A serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl that went unsolved for years as the body count grew in a poor section of Los Angeles haunted by the scourge of crack cocaine. FILE – In this Feb. […]
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Jury Returns Death Sentence for ‘Grim Sleeper’ Serial Killer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” should be sentenced to death for murdering nine women and a teenage girl over more than two decades in South Los Angeles, a jury decided Monday. In this Feb. 6, 2015, file photo, Lonnie Franklin Jr., who has been dubbed the “Grim Sleeper” […]
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‘We Got Him,’ Victims’ Father Says of ‘Grim Sleeper’ Killer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — By the time police found Alicia Alexander’s naked body under a mattress in an alley in 1988, six other young, Black women had died similar deaths in the neighborhood known as South Central Los Angeles. Community activist Margaret Prescod, from left, Porter Alexander Jr. and his wife Mary, in red, whose […]
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Women Who Died at the Hands of the L.A. ‘Grim Sleeper’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lonnie Franklin Jr. was convicted of 10 murders and one attempted murder in the serial killings that were dubbed the work of the “Grim Sleeper” because of a 14-year gap in slayings that spanned two decades in South Los Angeles and targeted vulnerable young Black women in the inner city. (Top […]
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Los Angeles Man Guilty in 10 ‘Grim Sleeper’ Serial Killings
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles trash collector was convicted Thursday of 10 counts of murder in the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings that targeted poor, young black women over two decades. Lonnie Franklin Jr. appears in count in Los Angeles, Thursday, May 5, 2016. The former trash collector in Los Angeles was convicted […]
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L.A.’s Alleged “Grim Sleeper” Serial Killer Arrested After 25 Years of Attacks
A 57-year-old man was arrested and charged on July 6 after authorities identified him as a serial killer responsible for murders spanning over 25 years. According to The Associated Press, Los Angeles police arrested Lonnie Franklin after identifying him as “The Grim Sleeper,” a long-hunted serial killer in the Los Angeles area. Franklin was charged […]