So, according the the LA Weekly article:
http://www.laweekly.com/2008-08-28/news/grim-sleeper/4
Victim Number nine, the sole survivor:
"Then the LAPD got its biggest break of all, in the form of Victim No. 9. She was the sole survivor, attacked just before the Grim Sleeper vanished for 13 years. Victim No. 9, who still lives in Los Angeles (and who the Weekly is not identifying to ensure her safety), provided police the first eyewitness description of the attacker and his car. She said he was a 30-ish black man with short hair, driving a rust, red or orange Ford Pinto the very car victims Monique Alexander and Mary Lowe were reportedly last seen riding in.
In nightmarish detail,
the survivor told police she was picked up by a male motorist on November 20, 1988, on the corner of 81st Street and Western Avenue. But he then wielded a gun, shot her in the chest and then raped her. Seriously wounded, she persuaded the killer to let her jump out of the car."
Good grief, he picked her up literally 1/2 of a short block away from his own house!!! Surely the people in that neighborhood would know who around there was driving that Pinto. And, two other victims were last seen driving away with some guy in a similar Pinto. Doesn't do much good to Monday morning quarterback. I am very interested in this familial DNA technique. I imagine there are many more things to be discovered about DNA in the years to come.
It made me think today, and wonder what would be the outcome if some of today's present DNA techniques were applied to the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murders.