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Colleen. Hello, Eileen. For our first case, we got a good one.

Tonight we're covering the Grim Sleeper.

The Grim Sleeper was the moniker given to a serial killer active for over 20 years in South Los Angeles.

The name was coined by a journalist and comes from the theory put

forward by the LAPD that there is a 14-year break in his crimes. Today we're going to look

into how these crimes unfolded, how they were solved, and what questions remain.

Thank you for that intro.

So we're in South Los Angeles, and Eileen and I thought it would be kind of important to go through a little bit of the history of South Los Angeles leading up to the 80s when this case starts because a lot of how South Central became what it was,

plays a role into the outcome and the investigation of this case.

So South Los Angeles is just kind of a regional term for 50 square mile piece of LA.

And prior to the late 1940s, it was actually a predominantly white neighborhood.

And this was by design because back then in where California didn't have as many like Jim Crow laws.

They did have racism in how they,

in their housing basically.

Cities were designed to have like black neighborhoods

and white neighborhoods.

And home loans were only given to white people

in certain neighborhoods and then black people who may otherwise qualify for those

loans would be denied for no real reason.

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