Tales of the Grim Sleeper
25 years. Hundreds of victims. Justice for none.
2014 · 105 min · ★ 6.3 · Crime, Documentary
When Lonnie Franklin Jr. was arrested in South Central Los Angeles in 2010 as the suspected murderer of a string of young black women, police hailed it as the culmination of 20 years of investigations. Four years later documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield took his camera to the alleged killer’s neighborhood for another view.
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