Families Of LA Serial Killers Victims Still Await Closure NPR. Defendant Lonnie Franklin Jr. Franklin is accused of serial murders that terrorized South LA. Biography. com looks at the dark life of serial killer and sex offender Jeffrey Dahmer. Read about his life, vicious crimes and how he was murdered in prison in 1994. Warning May be disturbing. Authentic and graphic. The following contains photos of anything related to some of the most notorious serial killers ever know. Weapons. Al SeibLA Times via Getty Images. Al SeibLA Times via Getty Images. Defendant Lonnie Franklin Jr. Franklin is accused of serial murders that terrorized South LA. Al SeibLA Times via Getty Images. For 2. 5 years, the alleged Grim Sleeper killed mostly poor, black women in South Central LA, some of whom were prostitutes. His trial is close to wrapping up, but it hasnt been getting much attention a situation observers say is fitting because for years, neither did the killings themselves. Prosecutors have laid out their case against Lonnie Franklin Jr. They have talked about the lengths police went to to finally catch him. For example, detectives posed as busboys at a pizza parlor where Franklin attended a party. The Gainesville Ripper This grisly serial killer had a penchant for posing his victims in a manner that would further amplify the goriness of his heinous crimes. After 31 years atlarge, detectives in Wichita, Kansas home in on the serial killer known as BTK. Graphic Photos Of Serial Killer Victims VideoThey took pizza crusts off his plate to use as DNA evidence. It matched samples taken from murder victims. For almost six years since that sting, Porter Alexander has been coming to this downtown LA courthouse for nearly every pretrial and trial proceeding. His daughter, Alicia Alexander, was murdered in 1. He keeps pictures of her on his phone. Porter Alexander Jr. Alicia Monique Alexander, in Los Angeles on July 7, 2. Adam LauAP. hide captiontoggle caption. Graphic Photos Of Serial Killer Victims Pics' title='Graphic Photos Of Serial Killer Victims Pics' />Adam LauAP. Porter Alexander Jr. Alicia Monique Alexander, in Los Angeles on July 7, 2. Adam LauAP. I just want to show you, thats her, Alexander says, pointing to the pictures. Thats the youngest, thats my baby right there. In the small courtroom, Alexander sits just two rows behind his daughters alleged killer, who is shackled in an orange prison jumpsuit. Its taxing, very much so, but, you know, youve gotta find some strength in order to endure to continue on, he says. I just cant let this be something that destroy me if I allow that to happen, then this man have totally defeated us. The Grim Sleeper Might Have Never Slept. The nickname Grim Sleeper first came about because of an apparent gap in the murders. There were the unsolved slayings in the 1. South LA. But its now thought that the killer may have never slept. Police uncovered nearly 1. Franklins home. Frank Stoltze, a reporter for Southern California Public Radio, takes a photo of the 1. The photos and stills were found in Lonnie Franklin Jr. Gary FriedmanLA Times via Getty Images. Gary FriedmanLA Times via Getty Images. Frank Stoltze, a reporter for Southern California Public Radio, takes a photo of the 1. The photos and stills were found in Lonnie Franklin Jr. Gary FriedmanLA Times via Getty Images. Graphic Photos Of Serial Killer Victims Images' title='Graphic Photos Of Serial Killer Victims Images' />The initial mishandling of the case didnt surprise people in the community like Alexander, who never had a lot of trust in the cops. You know, Im not a racist, Im not a person that looks at that, he says. I look at things that went on in South Central Los Angeles and what was overlooked. Activation Code Corel Draw. By overlooked, he is talking specifically about the time when his daughter was murdered. The 1. 98. 0s were terribly violent, and crack cocaine was rampant. It has since come out that the police may have known a lot more about the serial killer than they let on. Graphic Photos Of Serial Killer Victims StoriesThey knew there was a pattern. Margaret Prescod, founder of advocacy group Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, says at one point they even had a vehicle description. But people in the neighborhood, especially women, were never warned that any of this was going on. We went down to what was then Parker Center Police Headquarters to find out about the murders, see what was being done about it, how the community was being informed, and we were told by the guy in charge, said, Why are you concerned about it Hes only killing hookers, Prescod says. White supremacist Christopher Cantwell first went viral as the star of a Vice documentary about the Charlottesville neoNazi rally. Then he went viral again as the. Final Truth The Autobiography of a Serial Killer Donald H. Gaskins, Wilton Earle on Amazon. FREEshipping on qualifying offers. Convicted serial murderer. John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men between 19. Margaret Prescod, founder of advocacy group Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, grabbed the mic from LAPD Chief Charlie Beck at a press conference. You. Tube. That led Prescod to form the group. Today, she still describes herself as an agitator of the Los Angeles Police Department, arguing that if this had occurred in a more affluent, whiter neighborhood, justice would have been swift. There would have been a national uproar. And we knew it had to do with the race of the victims, and that they were impoverished in a community that not that many people cared about, she says. When the alleged Grim Sleeper was finally apprehended, Prescod famously grabbed the mic from LAPD Chief Charlie Beck at a press conference, holding up a trove of archived police documents. Please stop referring to these victims as prostitutes. They were women, they were mothers, they were loved by their families and their communities, she said. Police Force Small And Crime Rate High Back Then, Chief Says. LAPD detectives declined to comment, citing the ongoing trial. But Chief Beck recently told NPR that the 1. The crime rate was much higher, and the police force, much smaller. Those were very, very difficult days, and things did not get investigated to the degree that were able to do them now, Beck says. I wish we could go back in time and fix all that, but thats not possible to do. After years of court ordered reforms, relations between the LAPD and the community have improved in some parts of South LA, but not so much has changed in others. Now, the violent crime rate is going back up. Alexander still lives in the same neighborhood where he raised his four kids. Everything that was going on then, is going on pretty much now, he says. Its even gotten somewhat worse. Today, he says, he hears more shootings and sees more guns just the other weekend two men were killed at a liquor store near his house.