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Aug 10, 2016 · Lonnie David Franklin Jr., 63, who has been dubbed as the "Grim Sleeper," was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl that went unsolved for years as the body ...
May 6, 2016 · Nearly 30 years after the first victim was found sprawled in a South Los Angeles alley, the man authorities believed was the “Grim Sleeper” serial killer was found guilty Thursday of murdering ...
Feb 17, 2016 · Thirty years after the first of the Grim Sleeper serial killer victims was found fatally shot and discarded in a South Los Angeles alley, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is facing a jury in a downtown ...
Apr 23, 2021 · Serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr., also known as the Grim Sleeper, died of natural causes while on death row at San Quentin State Prison on March 28, 2020. “Medical assistance was rendered and an ambulance was summoned.
May 23, 2023 · According to the 2008 piece, “The Grim Sleeper” was the longest-operating serial killer west of the Mississippi. Finally, after more than two decades, investigators made a break in the case with unintentional assistance from Franklin’s son, Christopher, who was convicted on a felony weapons charge in 2009.
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May 24, 2022 · Franklin, a Los Angeles serial killer nicknamed the “Grim Sleeper,” strangled the 15-year-old in 2002. “She didn’t get a chance to live her life,” Herard says. It took investigators 25 years to finally identify and arrest Franklin, from the discovery of Debra Jackson’s body in a garbage-filled South Central alley in 1985, to 2010 ...
May 5, 2016 · The killings from 1985 to 2007 were dubbed the work of the “Grim Sleeper” because of an apparent 14-year gap after one woman survived a gunshot to the chest in 1988.