Cold Case Files: The Grim Sleeper' premieres Friday, Nov. 8, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on A&E Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty The Grim Sleeper serial killings of young Black women began in the 1980s in South Los ...

Instead, “The Grim Sleeper” is the frill-free work of a veteran LA Weekly journalist who gave the subject of this book, Lonnie D. Franklin Jr., his name in a 2008 cover story for that ...

The jury concluded that Franklin was the Grim Sleeper, who preyed on young and black women in South Los Angeles. Most were killed along a corridor in the Manchester Square neighborhood of South ...

Lonnie Franklin, the serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper," died in his prison cell on March 28, 2020 Christine Pelisek is a senior crime writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Washington survived, but she still got her revenge. As one of the rare survivors of the “Grim Sleeper” serial killer, Washington’s testimony helped prove the case that sent Lonnie Franklin ...

He Chose Victims the Authorities Wouldn’t Care About His victims strayed from the standard profile, too: while serial murders most commonly target white women, the victims of the Grim Sleeper ...

A Los Angeles jury on Thursday convicted the man accused in the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings that began decades ago and left at least nine women and a teenager dead. Lonnie Franklin Jr., 63 ...

Lonnie Franklin Jr., who has been dubbed the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer, sits during a court hearing in Los Angeles. AP LOS ANGELES — A serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” was ...

(CNN)-- Los Angeles police are searching for a serial killer dubbed the "Grim Sleeper," who is thought to have killed 11 people. The killer, who police say murdered from 1985 to 2007, was ...

When he returned to his killing ways, he was largely ignored until the magazine LA Weekly broke the story in 2008, dubbing him “The Grim Sleeper” for his 13-year absence. If it were not for ...

Cold Case Files: The Grim Sleeper is a new addition to the acclaimed true crime series, diving into the disturbing case of Lonnie Franklin Jr., infamously known as the Grim Sleeper. Franklin's ...

A California serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper" should be put to death, a Los Angeles jury recommended Monday, capping a case that has played out over three decades, according to reports ...