From at least as early as 1985 to at least as recently as 2007,

a serial killer Lonnie David Franklin, Jr.

Eventually dubbed the Grim sleeper,

Rome the streets of South Central Los Angeles,

where he was born and raised,

targeting young and particularly vulnerable women.

This killer kidnapped, raped, beat,

typically shot his victims with a small 25 caliber semi-automatic pistol

he often carried in his shirt pocket.

He obsessively took photos of his victims both dead and alive,

both clothes and nude, often in sexually explicit positions,

saving them as trophies and keeping them carefully tucked away

in the garage behind his home where he worked.

His youngest victim, just 15 years old,

not apprehended until 2010,

the Grim sleeper, Rome the streets of South Central,

for a quarter of a century.

Incredible, he got away considering how careless he was with his murders.

Rather than carefully hiding the remains of his victims

in some heavily wooded body disposal site,

he typically just tossed them out of his old pinto

and into some urban alley.

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