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I grew up in South Central LA back in the early 80s. We all knew that it was someone I did kill

a woman. I found out my mom was killed by a serial killer when I was like eight years old.

If I was a different race, maybe if I came from Beverly Hills and came down here and brought some rocks

and he got me, maybe then it would have been some different, but we were all black women. He was

called the Grim sleeper. He prayed on the weak and drugged. He prayed on brought the two women.

It was like we don't matter. Black folks don't matter. You never think you'll be one of the victims

of a serial killer. We were left behind because we were drug addicts. It don't take you 39 years to

catch your mother. There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America. Each one is a cold case.

Only 1% are ever solved. This is one of those rare stories.

It's January 2006 in Los Angeles, California. And reporter and author Christine Pelasek is out looking

for a case to cover. I was covering crime for the LA weekly, everything from gang killings to

love affairs gone bad. I used to go and visit the coroner's office just to see if there was any cases.

The coroner told me about these body dumps. There were 38 women on the list and it was women whose

bodies were found in alleyways and parks in so central. The majority of the women were African

American and many of them were sex workers. I started making calls to different detectives about it.

They were not used to getting calls from the media on cases like that. But as I was going through

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