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[Harmony 2]

http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/10374903/40672417/Whats_in_the_Grim_Sleepers_Grand_Jury/1

L.A. County has just unsealed over 1,000 pages of grand jury transcripts from the indictment in the Grim Sleep serial-killer case. Christine Pelisek on the chilling details buried inside.

 

[Donjeta]

http://www.lapdonline.org/

New PDF flyer
http://www.lapdonline.org/assets/jpeg/grim_sleeper_big_poster.jpg

New to me, anyway, and I didn't see a link here.

 

[joe jones]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/01/california.grim.sleeper/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

death penalty now on the table

 

[Kat]

http://crime.about.com/b/2011/08/12/grim-sleeper-probe-expanded-to-230-unsolved-cases.htm

'Grim Sleeper' Probe Expanded to 230 Unsolved Cases

By Charles Montaldo

Investigators for the Los Angeles Police Department are looking into 230 cold case files in an attempt to see if they can be linked to the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer case.

 

[Donjeta]

August 2
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...l-killer-suspect-reported-slaying-to-911.html

Grim Sleeper: LAPD believes serial killer suspect reported slaying to 911

Now, prosecutors say it might have been Franklin himself who placed that 911 call.

They want permission to record Franklin's voice so they can compare it to the 24-year-old tape. A match of the voices would add to a trove of evidence -- including DNA -- that detectives say connects Franklin to at least 10 murders in the 1980s and 1990s.

 

[Donjeta]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/grim-sleeper-community-meeting.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-grim-sleeper-lapd-pictures,0,4635031.photogallery
Updated flyer: http://www.lapdonline.org/

 

[Donjeta]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-s-pace-and-victims-families-are-furious.html


The Grim Sleeper’s Trial Is Moving at Snail’s Pace, and Victims’ Families Are Furious
Mar 21, 2013 4:45 AM EDT
Notorious serial killer the Grim Sleeper was on the lam for decades. Now there’s a suspect, but his lawyers are dragging their feet. Christine Pelisek on the excruciatingly slow march to justice.

For the past three years, Diana Ware has often made the 30-mile bus trek from the middle-class suburb of West Covina, California, to the criminal-courts building in downtown Los Angeles. The bus drops her off a block from the courthouse, and she walks the rest of the way. “Lately it has been harder,” says the retiree. “It winds me, and I have a bad knee.”
The 74-year-old former office worker has made the journey to attend the pretrial hearings for “Grim Sleeper” serial killer suspect Lonnie Franklin Jr., the former sanitation worker accused of killing Ware’s 23-year-old stepdaughter, Barbara, and nine other women. Since Franklin was arrested on July 10, 2010, she has missed only two of over a dozen hearings, one because she had a doctor’s appointment.

 

[Donjeta]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/grim-sleeper-lapd-facebook-photos_n_1987864.html
LAPD Posts 'Grim Sleeper' Photos To Facebook, Twitter In To Help Identify Possible Victims

Posted: 10/19/2012 3:14 pm EDT Updated: 10/19/2012 3:14 pm EDT
Two new social media accounts -- @LAPDGrimSleeper on Twitter and "LAPD Grim Sleeper" on Facebook -- were launched Thursday.

 

[Donjeta]

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=9040785
Monday, March 25, 2013
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The so-called "Grim Sleeper" serial murder suspect's trial was expected to take place this year. But it is far off schedule with no trial date in sight. Frustrated family members of the victims spoke out exclusively to Eyewitness News.
...
Ware and more than a half-dozen others came to Monday's pre-trial hearing as they have for all court proceedings in the case. They had expected Franklin's trial to be under way by now. Instead it has been one defense delay after another. In every hearing the prosecutors and the judge have prodded defense attorney Seymour Amster to move forward.

Monday the prosecutors brought evidence Amster had requested, but then Amster said he wanted to wait before taking it.

"I just feel it is a proper procedure just to have a paralegal there," said Amster.

LAPD officials and the district attorney say that the delays cost taxpayers money and victims' families pain.

 

[Donjeta]

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_20396837/family-seeks-justice-likely-victim-grim-sleeper-but

Family seeks justice for likely victim of Grim Sleeper, but probably won't get it
By James Figueroa, SGVN
twitter.com/jfigscribe
Posted: 04/14/2012 07:13:27 AM PDT
Updated: 04/14/2012 10:17:44 PM PDT

SAN GABRIEL - There won't be justice for Rowenia Morris, if the Grim Sleeper trial proceeds as expected.

There won't be closure if her body is never found. But her family is seeking some semblance of closure anyway.

"I was hopeful that my sister was going to come home," said LaTanya Clark, who has followed the Grim Sleeper case closely ever since Morris was linked to the suspect, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., through photographs.