The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central, tells the story of serial killer Lonnie Franklin, who haunted South Los Angeles for more than two decades, killing at least 15 women. Police believe the death count is much higher, around 30.
Franklin’s victims were young black women, many of whom had drug addictions, and perhaps relatedly, these crimes went unsolved from 1984 to 2010. In 2006, People Staff Writer Christine Pelisek broke the story of one of California’s most prolific serial killers who went unchecked for more than two decades. Two years later, in her cover story for the La Weekly,...
Franklin’s victims were young black women, many of whom had drug addictions, and perhaps relatedly, these crimes went unsolved from 1984 to 2010. In 2006, People Staff Writer Christine Pelisek broke the story of one of California’s most prolific serial killers who went unchecked for more than two decades. Two years later, in her cover story for the La Weekly,...
- 6/13/2017
- by People Staff
- PEOPLE.com
Ten years ago, People Senior Writer Christine Pelisek began work on what would become the hunt for serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr. The case will be featured on Monday night’s episode of People Magazine Investigates on Investigation Discovery. In a People story earlier this year, Pelisek recounted how she first learned of Franklin’s crimes. Her piece is republished below.
For all of its celebrity allure as the next-to-last resting place for pop star Michael Jackson, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office is located along a rundown row of auto body shops. As a crime reporter for the L.
For all of its celebrity allure as the next-to-last resting place for pop star Michael Jackson, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office is located along a rundown row of auto body shops. As a crime reporter for the L.
- 12/26/2016
- by cpelisektimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
The Los Angeles Police Department is still trying to identify 35 women who may have been killed by “Grim Sleeper” serial killer Lonnie Franklin, who was convicted and sentenced to death for 10 murders earlier this year.
Detectives found more than 1,000 photos and videotapes of women and teenage girls in the former sanitation worker’s garage and backyard camper days after he was arrested in South Los Angeles in 2010.
(Franklin’s case is the focus of the upcoming People Magazine Investigates episode “The Grim Sleeper,” which airs Monday night at 10 p.m. Et on Investigation Discovery.)
Of those, police could not identify...
Detectives found more than 1,000 photos and videotapes of women and teenage girls in the former sanitation worker’s garage and backyard camper days after he was arrested in South Los Angeles in 2010.
(Franklin’s case is the focus of the upcoming People Magazine Investigates episode “The Grim Sleeper,” which airs Monday night at 10 p.m. Et on Investigation Discovery.)
Of those, police could not identify...
- 12/23/2016
- by cpelisektimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
He terrorized the streets of South Los Angeles over a 22-year period, killing at least 10 women from 1985 until 2007.
He was nicknamed the “Grim Sleeper” serial killer because of an apparent gap in the killings from 1988 until 2002, but for years his identity remained unknown as police made little progress in their investigation.
Finally, in 2010, familial DNA testing of an arrested man revealed the killer to be Lonnie Franklin, a married father-of-two and a former Lapd mechanic and sanitation worker for the city of Los Angeles.
Earlier this year, Franklin, 64, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murders. The case...
He was nicknamed the “Grim Sleeper” serial killer because of an apparent gap in the killings from 1988 until 2002, but for years his identity remained unknown as police made little progress in their investigation.
Finally, in 2010, familial DNA testing of an arrested man revealed the killer to be Lonnie Franklin, a married father-of-two and a former Lapd mechanic and sanitation worker for the city of Los Angeles.
Earlier this year, Franklin, 64, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murders. The case...
- 12/23/2016
- by greghanlontimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
The Grim Sleeper’s earliest known victim was found in 1985: Debra Jackson, a cocktail waitress, shot three times in the chest in South Los Angeles. The killer’s most recent victim was in 2007: Janecia Peters, discovered in a dumpster, strangled, shot and stuffed into a trash bag. In between, there are eight other known victims. DNA […]
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- 2/17/2016
- by Jenny C Lu
- Uinterview
There was the acclaimed Isaiah Washington drama, "Blue Caprice," a film based on the sniper that terrorized the Washington DC area and Virginia back in 2002 - John Allen Williams, who joined the Nation of Islam and changed his surname to Muhammad years before going on a shooting spree with a young accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, that took the lives of at least ten people." Was he a serial killer? A feature film inspired by the real-life story in the title of this post was produced by, and aired on the Lifetime network, earlier this year. Titled "The Grim Sleeper," it starred Dreama Walker, Macy Gray, Ernie Hudson and Michael O'Neill. And...
- 9/4/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
There was the acclaimed Isaiah Washington drama, "Blue Caprice," a film based on the sniper that terrorized the Washington DC area and Virginia back in 2002 - John Allen Williams, who joined the Nation of Islam and changed his surname to Muhammad years before going on a shooting spree with a young accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, that took the lives of at least ten people." Was he a serial killer? A feature film inspired by the real-life story in the title of this post was produced by, and aired on the Lifetime network, earlier this year. Titled "The Grim Sleeper," it starred Dreama Walker, Macy Gray, Ernie Hudson and Michael O'Neill. And...
- 8/22/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
A feature film inspired by this real-life story was produced by, and aired on the Lifetime network, earlier this year. Titled "The Grim Sleeper," it starred Dreama Walker, Macy Gray, Ernie Hudson and Michael O'Neill. And now a documentary feature that tells the real-life story that the above film was based on, is complete and set to make its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), as part of its Tiff Docs lineup. Titled "Tales of the Grim Sleeper," the documentary, directed by Nick Broomfield ("Biggie and Tupac") digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the "Grim...
- 7/29/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
We settled in for "The Grim Sleeper" on Lifetime with a full intent of writing a snarky post about the best lines and most absurd moments. Turns out this is not one of those Lifetime movies, like "She Woke Up Pregnant" or "My Stepson, My Lover."
"The Grim Sleeper" is about a real serial killer who terrorized South-Central Los Angeles from 1985 until 2010, making him the longest active serial killer west of the Mississippi River.
The Sleeper's original reign of terror spanned 1985-88, when the Lapd dubbed him the .25-caliber Killer. He then took a 14-year break and resumed killing in 2002. Once the killings started again, La Weekly fact-checker Christine Pelisek set out to investigate the new murders and discovered their links to the crimes from roughly 15 years prior.
Dreama Walker played Pelisek in the Lifetime movie, which dramatized Pelisek's dogged investigation into the crimes, which is what got the killings...
"The Grim Sleeper" is about a real serial killer who terrorized South-Central Los Angeles from 1985 until 2010, making him the longest active serial killer west of the Mississippi River.
The Sleeper's original reign of terror spanned 1985-88, when the Lapd dubbed him the .25-caliber Killer. He then took a 14-year break and resumed killing in 2002. Once the killings started again, La Weekly fact-checker Christine Pelisek set out to investigate the new murders and discovered their links to the crimes from roughly 15 years prior.
Dreama Walker played Pelisek in the Lifetime movie, which dramatized Pelisek's dogged investigation into the crimes, which is what got the killings...
- 3/16/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
When a Los Angeles journalist uncovers a pattern of clues and exposes a serial killer, she also exposes a secret the police held for over 20 years while a community was repeatedly terrorized. This is the story told in the Lifetime Original Movie, The Grim Sleeper, premiering this Saturday, March 15 at 8pm Et/Pt, starring Dreama Walker, Macy Gray, Ernie Hudson and Michael O'Neill. The Grim Sleeper follows reporter Christine Pelisek (Walker) as she doggedly investigates the unsolved murders of dozens of women in Los Angeles and soon realizes one person is responsible for many of these deaths that began over 20 years earlier. After a string of murders in the 1980s, the violence...
- 3/11/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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