00:00For 25 years, someone in South Los Angeles was killing women, and the city didn't stop him.
00:07Not because there were no clues, because nobody was looking.
00:12He started in 1985.
00:15Young women vanished along the boulevards at night.
00:19Their bodies turned up in alleys, in dumpsters, abandoned.
00:24And then, around 1988, the murders just... stopped.
00:31Police figured he had died, moved, or was in prison.
00:37But he hadn't gone anywhere.
00:39He was home, living a quiet life with his wife and children, in the same neighborhood.
00:44Some neighbors even remember him as friendly.
00:47Then in 2002, the killing began again.
00:51Then, Detective Dennis Kilcoyne kept pulling the cold cases.
00:55Same bullet type.
00:57Same signature.
00:59Same man.
01:01DNA linked the new victims to the old ones.
01:04And when police ran a routine DNA search, they got a near miss.
01:10Not the killer.
01:11His son.
01:13Christopher Franklin had given DNA after a felony arrest.
01:18That changed everything.
01:19Detectives followed the older man.
01:22At a restaurant, he left a half-eaten pizza on his tray.
01:26They swabbed the crust.
01:28It matched the crime scenes perfectly.
01:31On July 7, 2010, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., a Quiet City garage worker, was arrested.
01:40In his home, police found nearly a thousand photographs of women.
01:45The Grim Sleeper, they called him.
01:47For the 14-year pause, he was convicted of 10 murders and sentenced to death.
01:54But here's what still haunts Los Angeles.
01:57Police believe there were more victims.
02:00Many more.
02:02Never connected.
02:03Who were they?
02:05Their names may still be in those photographs.
02:08Unsolved to this day.
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