‘Guilty. Thank you God.’ A victim’s brother sketches the Grim Sleeper trial
Donnell Alexander’s pen smoothly sketched a torso on a fresh page as he listened to the witness describe a woman’s murder 30 years earlier.
A pathologist was explaining in excruciating detail how a bullet had followed a downward trajectory as it tore through the front of a woman’s chest. On Alexander’s notebook, the outline of a bullet took shape, hovering above the body. Thin lines marked its path through an oversized heart.
