California
Franklin, 67, was convicted in 2016 of killing nine women and a teenage girl from 1985 to 2007.
March 29, 2020
The detective slid the photograph across the table.
March 15, 2016
Lonnie Franklin Jr., the alleged Grim Sleeper, is suspected in the deaths of eight more women
April 6, 2011
Movies
Veteran documentarian Nick Broomfield’s “Tales of the Grim Sleeper” is a riveting and chilling investigation into the world of Lonnie Franklin Jr., a South Los Angeles resident arrested in 2010 and accused in a string of serial rape-killings spanning 22 years.
Dec. 10, 2014
Lonnie David Franklin Jr., better known as the “Grim Sleeper,” has been sentenced to death.
Aug. 11, 2016
More than 1,000 photographs were found in the home of Lonnie Franklin Jr., the serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.
March 16, 2016
Since Los Angeles police first announced that they had made an arrest in the hunt for the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killer, the case involving the slayings of more than 10 women has centered around DNA.
Dec. 14, 2014
A judge has set a summer trial date in the case of the alleged Grim Sleeper serial killer, charged with murdering 10 women and suspected of killing several others.
Feb. 6, 2015
The trial of the man accused in the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killings shifted to the defense Monday, with an attorney repeatedly challenging DNA and ballistics evidence linking his client to the grisly deaths and suggesting other attackers may have been involved.
March 21, 2016
For nearly a quarter-century, police said, Lonnie Franklin Jr. terrified people in South Los Angeles, luring women to his backyard camper with money and drugs and then brutally murdering them.
Aug. 28, 2014