The Grim Sleeper is back! The Los Angeles police are searching for a serial killer dubbed the “Grim Sleeper,” who is thought to have killed 11 people.
It all started in August 1985 when a stranger began a horrific campaign of murder and rape that went almost unnoticed by the people of Los Angeles. Suddenly, in 1988 the killings stopped and Los Angeles Police Department breathed a frustrated sigh of relief and thought it was over.
The relief lasted for over a decade until March 2002 when a 14 year old girl became the killer’s 4th known victim after a 13 year break. Now the LA police and public face a terrifying reality; the serial killer who has so far claimed 11 confirmed victims has awoke and is once again prowling the streets of LA. Striking at will and vanishing into the night.
The killer was nicknamed the Grim Sleeper because he seemed to take a break between homicides according to the police.
Authorities this week released a 9-1-1 tape recorded shortly after a killing in 1987, in the hope of producing clues.
“Yes … I’d like to report a murder,” an anonymous caller says on the tape. “The guy that dropped her off was driving a white and blue Dodge van. He threw her out. … He threw a gas tank on top of her. All that you can see sticking out is her feet.”
Police found the scene just as the caller described and found the van. But they are still searching for the caller and members of the now-defunct church that owned the van.
The killer is wanted in 11 deaths and another homicide attempt, police say.
Detectives say they have the Grim Sleeper’s DNA, and a $500,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest and prosecution. The killer shot his victims with a .35-caliber gun, police said.
Porter Alexander has waited two decades for the Grim Sleeper’s arrest. His daughter Alicia Alexander became the Grim Sleeper’s eighth victim in 1988, police say.
“No one should have to face anything like this,” he said. “To experience their daughters or sons taken away as early as she was.”
The sole survivor of the grim sleeper mentioned that her assailant was a respectable man dressed in good clothes and shoes. He didn’t look like a desperate individual, he looked like a regular guy who had ‘just gotten off work’. This could demonstrate that the killer is playing the part of a good son/husband to the outside world much like Bundy did during his campaign. He is maintaining the pretence of fitting in with his relatives’ wholesome and trouble free lifestyle. Keeping his nose clean to the outside world while conducting his evil deeds in total secrecy.
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