Pizza helps US cold case police catch ‘Grim Sleeper’

A STRING of murders of young black women had south Los Angeles on edge in the mid-1980s, then the killings suddenly stopped, only to resume again 14 years later.

That mysterious hiatus in 10 known serial killings troubled detectives for years and earned the suspect the nickname the ‘Grim Sleeper’. Now, investigators say they have solved the 25-year-old case with the arrest of Lonnie Franklin Jr., 57, and possibly uncovered the reason the killings stopped for more than a dozen years:

He may have been spooked by a near miss by police in 1988.