Posted on 03/29/2020 5:40:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Lonnie Franklin, the convicted serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” who preyed on the women of South Los Angeles for more than two decades, has died in prison. He was 67.
California corrections officials said Franklin was found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State Prison on Saturday evening. An autopsy will determine the cause of death; however, there were no signs of trauma, corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton said in a statement.
Franklin had been on death row since August 2016 for the deaths of nine women and a teenage girl. Franklin was linked at trial to 14 slayings, including four women he wasn’t charged with killing. Police have said he may have had as many as 25 victims.
Most of the victims were fatally shot at close range, though two were strangled. Their bodies were dumped and left to rot in alleys and trash bins.
Franklin was connected to the crimes after a task force that re-examined the old cases discovered that DNA from Franklin’s son, which was in a database because of an arrest, showed similarities to genetic evidence found on some of the “Grim Sleeper” victims.
A detective posing as a busboy at a pizza parlor collected utensils and crusts while Franklin was attending a birthday party. Lab results connected him to some of the bodies and led to his arrest.
Investigators found a gun used in one of the killings and photos of victims in Franklin’s house after his arrest.
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Put the carcass in a landfill.
Of old age, the same way most leave death row...
At least he didn’t die of the Coronavirus!! /sarc
Why wasn’t this psycho executed decades ago?
Oh, it’s California, where you can kill just born babies but not baby killers. Somewhere there is a logic to this - NOT!!
bad puppy!
He kept a gun and photos of victims? This guy really thought they would never catch him.
At least he didn’t die of the Coronavirus!! /sarc
Why wasn’t this psycho executed decades ago?
Oh, it’s California, where you can kill just born babies but not baby killers. Somewhere there is a logic to this - NOT!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_California
And they say there are no black serial psycho killers.
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