Grim Sleeper

A Los Angeles jury will decide if the notorious serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” will be put to death for murdering 10 young Black women. Prosecutors successfully proved Lonnie David Franklin Jr. shot or strangled his victims between the years 1985 and 2007; his youngest victim was only 15 years old at the time of […]

Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman "displayed charts, diagrams, photos and DNA test results to throughout the 3-month-old trial to make the case" that Franklin was a cold-blooded killer hiding in plain sight.