Posted on 07/07/2010 1:54:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The "Grim Sleeper" serial killer who has eluded Los Angeles police for more than two decades may have finally been nabbed.
L.A. police release 911 call from witness who said he saw victim dumped. Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley told the Los Angeles Times that the suspect was 51-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr.
The high-profile case had languished unsolved and haunted the files of the LAPD cold-case unit.
The killings of 10 young black women and one man, beginning in 1985, have all been blamed on the "Grim Sleeper."
The cluster of killings stopped in 1988, but then, 14 years later, police say they linked new murders to the same man, nicknamed the "Grim Sleeper" for the long lull between slayings. The most recent murder happened in January 2007.
A handful of detectives, headed by Detective Dennis Kilcoyne, have been working full time on the case for years, determined to find the "Grim Sleeper."
11 people have died so far, and there was one confirmed attempt and near killing, in the same South Los Angeles neighborhood.
"We have 12 individuals, starting in 1985. Our third victim, Thomas Steele, was the only male involved in this," said Kilcoyne.
All the slayings have been connected to the same 25-caliber handgun, and matched to the same DNA, usually saliva taken from the victims' breasts.
"The commonality is that they're all from the same general area of the city in south Los Angeles," Kilcoyne said. "I don't think I would label them all as prostitutes per se, but they certainly have troubled lifestyles. They're broken people and easy targets."
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Obama?
Must admit — Hussein came to mind.
Maybe THAT would get him impeached....Nah
14 year lull may mean the killer was locked up for some other crime during the “sleeper” period.
Nice.
One interesting but unreported thing about this story is that all five of L.A.’s most recent serial killers have been black, even though its black population is only about 10 percent.
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