The LAPD released photos today that were discovered on the property of Lonnie Franklin Jr. A man who was arrested for the murder of 10 women in July of 2010. The killings occurred between 1985 and 2007, with a 14 year break in between from 1988 to 2002. This period of inactivity is what earned the serial killer the nickname "Grim Sleeper."
The police found over a thousand photographs of women in the serial killers trailer. The photographs are sexually explicit in nature and in some cases the women appear to be dead or severely drugged. There are 180 different women among the 1 thousand or so photos that were discovered.
The crimes that Lonnie Franklin are accused of were traced back to him through ballistics and DNA evidence found at the scene of these crimes. But the police cannot be certain that these are the only murders he committed and released the photos in an attempt to possibly identify more victims of the serial killer. The chief of police Charlie Beck said "We certainly do not believe that we are so lucky, or so good, as to know all of his victims,"We need the public's help."
The images have been made available through the media and online. Due to the explicit nature of the photos the LAPD has cropped the images to only show the faces of the women. The photos can be found on the LAPD's website at http://www.lapdonline.org/
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