The Grim Sleeper: Lonnie Franklin Jr. and the Long Shadow Over South L.A.
For more than two decades, a quiet man named Lonnie David Franklin Jr. moved through the streets of South Los Angeles, leaving a trail of murdered young Black women in alleys and dumpsters. Known as the Grim Sleeper for the long apparent pause in his killings, he was finally caught through familial DNA and a discarded pizza crust. Host Alexander Lawson recounts the crimes, the victims, the investigation that spanned generations, and the families who waited far too long for justice.
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