During the investigation, police found hundreds of images of black girls and women in his home, most nude or in a state of undress. In 2010, 25 years after Franklin started his killing spree, he was arrested and charged with the murders of ten women.

But if you’re one of the people who believes actions say more than words, then the answer is obvious: they did not care. The big question has always been “why didn’t the LAPD say anything?”, to which the department has never given a sufficient explanation. Serial Killer ‘The Grim Sleeper’ Be Put to Death The community only learned of a suspected serial killer when LA Weekly published an investigative article revealing the task force, and thus the serial killer’s existence. The department remained silent, even after forming a secret six-man task force to investigate the murders in 2007, 22 years after the murders began. This time, the screw up was that after the murders of several Black women under similar circumstances in the mid ’80s, the LAPD failed to warn the South Central Los Angeles community where the murders took place that a serial killer was on the loose. It also closes another beyond unfortunate chapter in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department, which is perpetually marred in controversy. Previously, he was found guilty of 10 murders, though some speculate that he may have killed many more, possibly 180 Black women between 19.įranklin’s sentencing gives some semblance of justice to the families of the women he murdered. aka The Grim Sleeper was sentenced to death on Tuesday. After committing a two-decade killing spree of Black women in the Los Angeles area, Lonnie Franklin, Jr.

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