‘Grim Sleeper’ serial killer convicted in LA

A former sanitation worker in Los Angeles has been convicted of murdering nine women and a teenage girl. The ‘Grim Sleeper’ serial killer preyed on prostitutes and drugs addicts for 30 years.

The Superior Court jury reached its verdict on all 10 counts of first-degree murder against Lonnie David Franklin Jr, 63, after deliberating for a day and a half, capping a trial that ran for 11 weeks.

Franklin, who could face the death penalty, was also convicted of attempted murder, for an attack on an 11th victim, Enierta Washington, who survived being shot in the chest, raped, pushed out of a car, and left for dead, in 1988.