. CRIMINAL JUSTICE: HOMICIDE AND MURDER: Notorious 'Grim Sleeper' Serial Killer Nabbed? Notorious 'Grim Sleeper' Serial Killer Nabbed? By ALYSSA LITOFF, NEAL KARLINSKY and LAUREN SHER July 7, 2010 ABC News <http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/grim-sleeper-serial- killer-nabbed-arrest-made-la/story?id=11109240> A shorter URL for the above link: <http://tinyurl.com/25o3p3u>The "Grim Sleeper" serial killer who has eluded Los Angeles police for more than two decades may have finally been nabbed.
Los Angeles County District Attorney's office announced that the suspect was 57-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr.
Franklin will be charged with 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, making him eligible for the death penalty or life in prison without possibility of parole.
The high-profile case had languished unsolved and haunted the files of the LAPD cold-case unit.
"This was accomplished by the LAPD's hard work with great assistance from the California Department of Justice Division of Law Enforcement personnel," said District Attorney Steve Cooley in a statement.
The killings of 10 young black women and one man, beginning in 1985, have all been blamed on the "Grim Sleeper."
The cluster of killings stopped in 1988, but then, 14 years later, police say they linked new murders to the same man, nicknamed the "Grim Sleeper" for the long lull between slayings. The most recent murder happened in January 2007.
Police closed off the block on 81st Street in South Los Angeles where Franklin lived and the arrest was made. Residents were shocked.
Neighbor Donna Harris, who's known Franklin for nearly 20 years ago, said the retired mechanic was supposed to fix her car this morning.
"Everybody on the block, we all knew if anything was happening with anybody's cars, he was always there for us. Especially the ladies," Harris said. "Even if we weren't at home, instead of calling Triple AAA, he would help."
<snip>A handful of detectives, headed by Detective Dennis Kilcoyne, have been working full time on the case for years, determined to find the "Grim Sleeper."
<snip>"The commonality is that they're all from the same general area of the city in south Los Angeles," Kilcoyne said. "I don't think I would label them all as prostitutes per se, but they certainly have troubled lifestyles. They're broken people and easy targets."
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