Grim Sleeper Serial Killer’s Only Surviving Victim Tells Details Of Dreadful Night!

Femmefatal1981

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I read an LA Times review from when it first came out and the writer noted something I forgot, that most of Lonnie's friends were struggling drug addicts and he would hire them to work or buy them drugs. Just like with Weinstein, Lonnie was someone who wielded power over others and that was one of the things that helped him get away with it for so long despite people knowing.
Yep. He took advantage of a very sad situation that was the crack epidemic
 

intellectualuva

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I'm trying to find this to watch, but I see a few of them. Is it the movie made in 2o14? I want to see the one where his friends and kids were interviewed.
 

ambergirl

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I just watched this. Omg, I can't believe how many people knew or suspected and said nothing. All his homeboys laughing and joking about him being a pervert, torturing women, or wanting to kill women who were addicts made me sick. Even his son was like nope, I would have never snitched on my dad if I knew.

It was an excellent documentary but it made me angry.

This is why this notion of BM checking other BM on behavior will never happen...if murdering and torturing women won't get someone to break the bro code nothing will.

Also I think this illustrates how the moral universe can get twisted when people are dealing with serious poverty and it's ills. When the "formal" economic and social systems fail, people become reliant on informal networks and connections to survive so there's a lot of looking the other way around unsavory behaviors of the folks who you may need one day.
 
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RUBY

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It's taken me awhile to watch the documentary. It was long, draining and depressing.

I really don't know to feel. There is a sense of hopelessness that emanates from the whole thing. And honestly I wouldn't mind if some kind of a Tsunami wiped out all the men and even some of the women in that documentary.
 

Ganjababy

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I saw this documentary on amazon called the grim sleeper. Anyone familiar with this case? It is about a serial killer in LA who killed over 100 black women from the 80’s to 2007.

The lapd knew about him for years but did not do much because the victims were drug addicted black prostitutes. What is even more shocking was the fact that a lot of the serial killers friends knew that he was killing women and did nothing. I suspect some of them were in on it.

It is so depressing. It’s like black women are worthless trash to some of these males.
 

Ganjababy

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I got the distinct impression that his son was in on it. Also was the baby sitter hinting that the serial killer molested his son?


Other people should have been arrested including the son, friends and probably wife. How did she not know? Even if she lived there part time?

Even though it took over 4 years to convict him I still do not think they did a thorough job of interviewing/getting info from people. It seemed they got one person and that was enough for them to say the case is closed. He did not kill all those women by himself. Plus as others have said there are/were other serial killers.
 

moneychaser

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I saw this documentary on amazon called the grim sleeper. Anyone familiar with this case? It is about a serial killer in LA who killed over 100 black women from the 80’s to 2007.

The lapd knew about him for years but did not do much because the victims were drug addicted black prostitutes. What is even more shocking was the fact that a lot of the serial killers friends knew that he was killing women and did nothing. I suspect some of them were in on it.

It is so depressing. It’s like black women are worthless trash to some of these males.


This documentary was so good and depressing! It show how the system values black women. It took them two whole decades to find him when he used the same gun and was going around bragging about killing all of those women.
 
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melisandre

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Convicted serial killer known as the 'Grim Sleeper' found dead in prison cell
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By Hollie Silverman, CNN



Updated 2:07 AM ET, Mon March 30, 2020




Grim Sleeper Lonnie Franklin died while on death row.
(CNN)A convicted serial killer, who murdered and preyed on women in California over a span of three decades, died over the weekend at San Quentin State Prison.

Lonnie Franklin, known as the "Grim Sleeper," was found unresponsive in his cell Saturday night, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
An autopsy is being performed to determine the 67-year-old's cause of death, but there were no signs of trauma, the statement said.
He was a former city trash collector and also worked as a garage attendant at a LAPD station.

Police collected DNA from some of the crime scenes but were unable to find a match for several years.


Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was convicted of being the Los Angeles-area serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.
That changed when investigators found a similar match to Franklin taken from the scene on a second attempt to cross reference a state databank of convicted felons' DNA.
The match was his son.
Franklin was placed on 24-hour surveillance and a plan was made to obtain his DNA.
An undercover officer posed as a waiter and collected a pizza crust left behind by Franklin. The DNA on that crust came up as a match for the killer dubbed the "Grim Sleeper."
He was arrested in July 2010. When police raided his South Los Angeles home, they discovered photos and videos of 180 women. Police have since accounted for the identities and whereabouts of most of them, but the circumstances surrounding about 30 of the women remain
He was found guilty on 10 counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in the deaths of nine women and one teenage girl between 1985 and 2007.
Franklin was sentenced to death on August 10, 2016 in Los Angeles County, the release said.
California reinstated capital punishment in 1978. Since then 82 inmates have died from natural causes, 27 have died by suicide and 13 have been executed in the state of California. Eight people -- including Franklin -- have died and are awaiting a cause of death while 14 have died from other causes, according to the release.
CNN's Giovanna Van Leeuwen contributed to this report.
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