Serial Killer Connected to Over 180 Missing Women While Police Looked the Other Way-Even Congratulating Him While He Sits on Death Row-He Worked For Police As A Mechanic-Even a Citizens Activist Group Worked Over 20 Years Trying to Get Police to Do Their Job
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In 2016, Lonnie Franklin Jr, nicknamed the Grim Sleeper, was convicted of serial murder in Los Angeles, California. With murders committed between 1985 to 2010 the true number of his victims remains unknown. In the 1980s, following the deaths of several women in south Los Angeles, California, community members formed the “Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders”. The group pressured police into setting up a task force and into acknowledging the deaths as serial killings.
On February 25, 2009, Police Chief Bratton addressed the press for the first time regarding the case, at which time the police formally gave the killer the “Grim Sleeper” nickname chosen by L.A. Weekly. The nickname of the Grim Sleeper surfaced due to a lull in his crimes between 1988 and 2002, although prosecutors now believe he did continue to kill during this period but his victims may never be found. This documentary, ‘Tales of the Grim Sleeper’ visits the neighborhood where the crimes occurred, following director Nick Broomfield as he explores how these killings could go unsolved for so many years.
On 10th August 2016, Judge Kathleen Kennedy gave her final verdict for Lonnie Franklin agreeing with the death penalty verdict decided on by jurors 3 months ago. She rejected the notions for a new trial and that a sentence of death would be unconstitutional. She said “I can’t think of anyone I’ve encountered in all my years in the criminal justice system that has committed the monstrous crimes that you have.”
Read about this case on Crime Traveller: http://www.crimetraveller.org/2016/08…
