SOLVED AFTER 25 YEARS: The Grim Sleeper

For twenty-five years, a serial killer hunted the same streets of South Los Angeles — then vanished for fourteen years, earning one of the most chilling nicknames in true crime history: the Grim Sleeper. Lonnie David Franklin Jr. lived an ordinary life. Married for thirty years. Two kids. A city sanitation job. But between 1985 and 2007, he murdered ten women and a teenage girl, dumping their bodies in alleys and dumpsters. The case went cold for decades — until a discarded slice of pizza and a revolutionary DNA technique finally unmasked him. This documentary covers the full story: the victims, the fourteen-year silence, the first-ever familial DNA manhunt in US history, the thousand photographs found in his home, the 2016 death-penalty trial, and the unanswered questions that remain to this day. CHAPTERS: 00:00 The Facts 00:59 The Hunting Ground 02:09 The Man Behind the Mask 03:00 The Vanishing 04:01 The Return 05:02 The Familial DNA Search 06:07 The Pizza Crust 07:18 The Photographs 08:21 The Trial 09:39 The Unanswered If you love real true crime stories, cold cases finally solved, and forensic breakthroughs — subscribe to Cold Case Solved for a new documentary every week. #GrimSleeper #TrueCrime #ColdCaseSolved #ColdCase #SerialKiller #DNA #Forensics #LosAngeles #TrueCrimeDocumentary #UnsolvedMysteries #CrimeDocumentary