A serial killer in L.A.
Thirteen years after his last murders, a serial killer is on the move again in Los Angeles, terrorizing the neighborhoods of South L.A. The gruesome body count of his long spree -- 11 young African...
View ArticleStudy probes DNA search method that led to 'Grim Sleeper' suspect
The state of California has been a leader in the use of familial DNA searches -- investigations that seek out crime suspects by taking unidentified crime scene DNA, looking in a state DNA database for...
View ArticleGrim Sleeper: Judge allows DNA evidence gathered at restaurant
A judge on Tuesday ruled that DNA evidence that led to alleged Grim Sleeper serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr. was lawfully obtained via plates and utensils seized by a police officer who posed as a...
View ArticleDNA evidence in Grim Sleeper case was taken legally, judge rules
A judge ruled Tuesday that DNA evidence that led to accused Grim Sleeper serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr. was lawfully obtained from a pizza slice, cups and napkins seized by a police officer who...
View Article'The Grim Sleeper' is no '12 Years a Slave,' but it deserves credit
As any journalist will tell you, most journalists don't end up the star of a story-let alone a TV show or movie. ("All the Preisdent's Men"-huge exception; unprecedented story.) But that's pretty...
View Article'Tales of the Grim Sleeper' documentary looks at L.A. slaying suspect
For nearly a quarter-century, police said, Lonnie Franklin Jr. terrified people in South Los Angeles, luring women to his backyard camper with money and drugs and then brutally murdering them....
View Article'Tales of the Grim Sleeper' revealing look at accused serial killer
Veteran documentarian Nick Broomfield's "Tales of the Grim Sleeper" is a riveting and chilling investigation into the world of Lonnie Franklin Jr., a South Los Angeles resident arrested in 2010 and...
View ArticleGrim Sleeper defense says DNA in some cases points to another suspect
Since Los Angeles police first announced that they had made an arrest in the hunt for the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killer, the case involving the slayings of more than 10 women has centered...
View ArticleGrim Sleeper serial killings: Trial date set after 4 1/2 years of delays
A judge has set a summer trial date in the case of the alleged Grim Sleeper serial killer, charged with murdering 10 women and suspected of killing several others. Lonnie Franklin Jr. turned briefly...
View ArticleRelatives of Grim Sleeper's victims express the pain of delays
Pain from a pinched nerve shot through Diana Ware's right leg as she hobbled to her truck. It was 6 a.m. - time for another trek to downtown Los Angeles hoping for justice. The 76-year-old drove...
View ArticleGrim Sleeper: Defense says another serial killer linked to two victims
A defense attorney in the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killer case told a judge Friday that he believes genetic evidence links a man on death row to two women his client is accused of killing....
View ArticleTrial delayed in 'Grim Sleeper' serial killings case
A Los Angeles County judge on Friday pushed back the start date of a trial for a man accused of being the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killer. The capital murder trial of Lonnie Franklin Jr., who is...
View ArticleGrim Sleeper serial killings: Repeatedly delayed trial is set for Oct. 14
More than five years after authorities charged the man they claim is the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killer, the court case involving the killings of 10 women in South L.A. has devolved into this:...
View Article'Grim Sleeper' serial killings trial delayed again
A Los Angeles County judge on Friday again postponed the capital murder trial of the man authorities say is the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killer. Lonnie Franklin Jr., who is charged with killing...
View ArticleGrim Sleeper: Defense backtracks on expert witness
The judge in the case of the so-called Grim Sleeper blocked a defense attorney Monday from using evidence he previously said linked a serial killer already on California's Death Row to two of Lonnie...
View ArticleGrim Sleeper victims: Who they were
The victims of the serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper were young and black and leading troubled lives. Most were killed along a corridor in the Manchester Square neighborhood of South Los...
View ArticleHow a bite of pizza led to an arrest in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case
A serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper preyed on women in South Los Angeles for more than two decades, starting in the 1980s. But it wasn't until 2010 that police arrested a suspect in the case -...
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