The following episode contains intensely disturbing accounts of violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

I grew up in South Central, L.A.

Back in the early 80s, we all knew that it was someone out there killing women.

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

When you're eight, nine, it's hard to go to an adult.

Like, can you tell me what happened to my mom?

He prayed at night, trolling the streets of South Central L.A. for victims, and it's believed there were many.

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

rocks and he got me, maybe then it would have been something different.

But we were all black women.

He tells me, my sister is dead.

I said, what happened to her?

What are you talking about? He's nicknamed the Grim Sleeper,

because the killing suddenly stopped as if he was asleep for 13 years. He murdered black women

who were involved in prostitution or illegal drugs. He was called the Grim Sleeper. He prayed on the

weak and druggies.

He prayed on prostitute women.

When I saw the way she was portrayed,

I was so angry that she was listed as some type of a prostitute.

If they wanted to catch him, the police could have called him.

It was like, we don't matter. Black folks don't matter.

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