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The Grim Sleeper
Friday, August 29, 2008 at 8:31 am
If there was a serial killer in your community, wouldn't you want to know?
Don't you think the authorities would eventually tell you about it? Especially if the killer was prolific, elusive, and long-lasting?
You'd think.
Los Angeles has been plagued by a serial killer since the 1980s. He is the most enduring killer you've never heard of.
He targets black women. He uses a .25 caliber firearm. The killer goes after women from poverty-stricken, sometimes crime-ridden areas. The same psychopathic killer has killed at least 11 troubled women. L.A. Weekly has dubbed him the Grim Sleeper. Why? Because beginning in 1988, he 'went to sleep' for more than a decade.
Christine Pelisek, writing for L.A. Weekly, tells us more:
Under orders from Chief Bernard Parks, in 2001 the LAPD began delving into a backlog of unsolved cases from the violent 1990s, '80s and earlier, testing bits of hair and skin saved from cold crimes. The LAPD's lab workers in 2004 and 2005 hit pay dirt. Like a long-delayed tripwire, the tests found matches between new killings in 2002 and 2003 and old human traces left at the eight Western Avenue shootings in the '80s [...] A monstrous Phoenix, the 1980s killer, had re-emerged.
The Grim Sleeper hasn't just faded into the dark alleyways again, either. On the first day of January, 2007, someone discovered the nude body of Janecia Peters inside a black plastic bag, secured with a twist tie. The 25-year-old single mother was killed by the Grim Sleeper.
Police fear that the 11 women they know about are just the tip of the bloody iceberg with this particular killer. One investigator told Christine Pelisek that he believed 11 may be just "half of what he has done."
In L.A., the police chief will hold off-the-cuff pressers about Lindsey Lohan's love life, but apparently neither he nor many others at City Hall feel the need to let the public know there's a maniac killing women on the South Side of town. Is this because the victims are poor and black?
Read the article in L.A. Weekly -- linked below -- and see what you think. [LA Weekly]
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