The Grim Sleeper, Part 2

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 1980s Los Angeles, a killer is terrorizing South Central, murdering African American women and discarding their bodies in the street. As the victim count rises–suspects are few–fear and anger take hold in a community often overlooked by the police.

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0:00.0	This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:04.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:06.0	Since 1985, a murderer has roamed the streets of South Los Angeles.
0:11.0	He suspected of killing at least 11 women.
0:14.0	Young women who were involved in prostitution or illegal drugs.
0:18.0	He would victimize them and then just discards their body
0:22.9	in alleys like they're trash.
0:24.8	He is a monster.
0:26.4	In 1988,
0:27.8	after an attack on a victim
0:29.2	who got away,
0:30.3	the killing stopped.
0:32.1	Justice is supposed to be fair.
0:34.0	When they said,
0:34.5	I for an eye, two, for two, right?
0:36.6	I deserved to go after him. You did this to me. Why can't you put me in a room we go one on one? Y'all don't know what I could do. Let me do to you what you did to me. Can I sit there and repeatedly shoot you, shoot you, shoot you, shoot you? Can I do it for all these women? All these women are you in a shot?
0:55.2	For the other victims?
0:57.5	Can I have somebody rape you?
0:59.5	Can we just push you out of a car and just leave you there?
1:02.7	Can I do all those things to you?
1:04.5	Wouldn't it be fair?
1:06.1	That's how I thought of it.
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