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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hey, Tubi does true crime too, most recently in the form of Evil Among Us: The Grim Sleeper, a feature-length documentary that zeroes in on serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr., who raped and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Initial searches to find the “Grim Sleeper” suspect under the new program that same month failed to find a relative in the database. A second search this spring was successful. At a press ...

Hey, Tubi does true crime too, most recently in the form of Evil Among Us: The Grim Sleeper, a feature-length documentary that zeroes in on serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr., who raped and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...