#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/11/2016 #5

A former sanitation worker was sentenced to death on Wednesday for murdering nine women and a teenage girl as the “Grim Sleeper,” a serial killer who preyed on prostitutes and drug addicts in a Los Angeles crime spree dating back three decades.

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#2 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/28/2022 #19

In 2020, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., the convicted serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” who preyed on the women of South Los Angeles for decades, died in a California prison at the age of 67. #GrimSleeper

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#3 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/05/2022 #23

In 2016, former Los Angeles trash collector Lonnie David Franklin Jr was convicted of ten counts of murder in the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings that targeted poor, young black women over two decades. #GrimSleeper

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#4 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/06/2022 #14

In 2016, a jury in Los Angeles returned a death sentence for Lonnie David Franklin Jr, the serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” who murdered nine women and a teenage girl over several decades. #GrimSleeper

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#5 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/07/2022 #15

In 2010, Los Angeles police charged Lonnie David Franklin Jr (Grim Sleeper) in the city’s “Grim Sleeper” serial killings. (Franklin, who was sentenced to death for the killings of nine women and a teenage girl, died in prison in March 2020 at the age of 67.) #GrimSleeper

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#6 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/10/2022 #16

In 2016, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., the Los Angeles serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper”, was sentenced to death for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl. (Franklin was found dead in his cell on March 20th, 2020.) #LonnieFranklin #GrimSleeper

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#7 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/30/2025 #5

In 1952, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. (Grim Sleeper) was born and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. He was given a dishonorable discharge from the United States Army in July 1975, after being released from prison for his conviction of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in Stuttgart, West Germany, in April 1974. #GrimSleeper

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