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Dec 17, 2010 · By Carlin Miller. December 16, 2010 / 10:30 PM EST / CBS News. Lonnie Franklin Jr. (AP) LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) On Thursday, the Los Angeles Police Department released 180 photos taken from stills...
- Lonnie Franklin’s First Foray Into Violence
- The Grim Sleeper’s Original Slayings
- The One That Got Away from Lonnie Franklin
- The Grim Sleeper Awakens from His “Hiatus”
- Capture After A Quarter-Century
- The Reign of Terror Ends
- The Death of The Grim Sleeper
Born Aug. 30, 1952, Lonnie Franklin Jr. grew up in South Central Los Angeles, California. By April 1974, 21-year-old Franklin had enrolled in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. But the military did little to discipline Franklin. On April 17, 1974, Franklin and two other U.S. Army men kidnappeda 17-year-old girl who was walking t...
Employed as a sanitation worker in Los Angeles, Lonnie Franklin was well acquainted with the city’s alleyways, dumpsters, and landfills. These desolate areas later proved to be ideal locations for Franklin to dispose of his victims. These locations also demonstrated how little the Grim Sleeper thought of his victims. He targeted vulnerable women, a...
In late November 1988, 30-year-old Enietra Washington was walking to a friend’s house when a black man in an orange Ford Pinto pulled up next to her. He offered her a ride, which she refused. He continued to press her and eventually snapped: “That’s what wrong with you black women. People can’t be nice to you.” Washington, tired of being pestered, ...
It would be another 14 years before the Grim Sleeper struck again — or so it seemed at first. In the time he had gone silent, the LA Weeklygave him his notorious moniker. “He was the longest-running serial killer in the United States west of the Mississippi,” said Jill Stewart, a former LA Weeklymanaging editor. “He had been operating longer than a...
A mountain of evidence was forming in the Grim Sleeper case: ballistics from the handgun, the composite sketch, and DNA found at each crime scene. By 2007, DNA technology had significantly advanced. The DNA from the crime scenes were thus entered into the state’s felon database and came out with a partial match: Christopher Franklin, Lonnie Frankli...
In February 2016, Lonnie Franklin’s trial began. Emotions were running high through the three months of testimony; victims’ families were elated at the idea of justice finally being served, but heartbroken thinking of their loved ones whose lives had been cut short at the hands of the monster sitting before them. On May 5, 2016, the jury found Fran...
But we will never know the full extent of the Grim Sleeper’s evil. When he died in 2020, he took his true number of victims to the grave with him. Lonnie Franklin died in his cellon March 28 at the age of 67. San Quentin State Prison corrections officers discovered him unresponsive that evening with no signs of trauma. For Diana Ware, the stepmothe...
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The images show mainly black women of a wide age range, from teenagers to middle-aged and older, often nude. Police believe Franklin took many of the pictures, which show both conscious and unconscious individuals, dating back thirty years. The photos were released to the public in an effort to identify the women.
- Deceased
- 10–25+ victims, 1 known survivor
- Grim Sleeper, 25 Auto Killer
- Death
The images form part of a chilling discovery of around 1000 photos of women or teen girls — many nude and some who appeared to be unconscious or dead — hidden in Franklin’s house. The collection included photographs of several victims, which leads police and prosecutors to believe Franklin left behind more than first thought.
Dec 17, 2010 · Grim Sleeper suspect’s photos of women released. By Andrew Blankstein and Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times. Dec. 17, 2010 12 AM PT. In July, when Los Angeles police arrested Lonnie Franklin Jr.,...
LAPD identifies 21 of 160 women in Grim Sleeper suspect's photos. Lonnie David Franklin Jr. appears in Los Angeles County Superior Court in July. (Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times)
Dec 16, 2010 · LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police investigating an accused serial killer dubbed the "Grim Sleeper" asked for public help on Thursday identifying women and teenage girls depicted in 180 photos...
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