Guilty verdicts in Grim Sleeper serial killer case

[Eugene]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Nearly 30 years after the first victim's body was found sprawled in a South Los Angeles alley, the man authorities dubbed the Grim Sleeper serial killer was found guilty Thursday of a series of slayings that spanned more than two decades.

With the verdicts, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., a former Los Angeles police garage attendant and city garbage collector, officially becomes one of California’s most prolific and enduring serial killers. The murder charges at his trial spanned deaths from 1985 to 2007, with a gap of more than 13 years that earned him his ominous nickname.

After a day and a half of deliberations, jurors found Franklin guilty of 10 counts of murder in the killings of nine women and a 15-year-old girl. Jurors also found Franklin guilty of one count of attempted murder.

The trial lasted nearly three months. The victims were all young and black, with some leading troubled lives during the chaotic 1980s in South L.A. The dead were left along a corridor in the Manchester Square neighborhood. Their partially clothed or naked bodies — some decomposing — were found amid the filth and garbage of alleyways. All were left without identification, and each was initially labeled Jane Doe.

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By Stephen Ceasar
MAY 5, 2016, 3:25 PM

[AuntPatsy]

1. He needs silence, it does not bring back his victims I know nor aid in healing but does one honestly

believe life behind bars fitting? He does not belong here, period....

So many horrific crimes every day around the world, it just never ends

[ret5hd]

2. I'm really not sure of what you are saying. Will you clarify?

[AuntPatsy]

4. i know CA does not have the death penalty but I personally am against any human being locked

up like a caged animal nor if proven without doubt of guilt a humane way of leaving this world...

[Eugene]

5. California does have a death penalty.

The penalty phase of Franklin's trial is due to start May 12.
He may very well die of natural causes before he exhausts
all appeals.

[Ex Lurker]

6. CA's death penalty is for all practical purposes on hiatus

There are nearly 700 inmates on death row, but there have been only 13 executions since the DP was reinstated in 1986. The most recent one was in 2006.

[AuntPatsy]

7. I'm actually surprised, granted I don't live in or near Ca but I just always assumed....

I just think jails are torture, people see foreign movies depicting torture against prisoners over there, honestly believing it does not happen here, it does, frequent, far far too often, when they do realize then they pardon themselves for ignoring this form of torture denying if they are in there any compassion,

they deserve it, jail is not a playground etc, etc, such ignorance knows no gender, age nor race, I've heard such excuses to ignore our complicity by always finding justifications regardless of crime committed if it was even a crime....

Sorry, I rambled, I guess without evil we would never understand goodness, or so they say....

JMO

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. That is VERY good news!

I've been reading the LA Times coverage of this trial, and it sure looked to me as though he were guilty.

Justice at last.

[LW1977]

8. How long until he's engaged to some crazed looney fangirl sending him letters from the outside?

Seriously, Gays couldn't get married but serial killers could? Are you fucking kidding me? That's Republican family values for you.

[The Second Stone]

9. And a republican, by judicial fiat, was the fifth vote that changed all that

It's a weird country we live in.