Original Post Date: 6-12-09
Overview:
The "Grim Sleeper," a serial killer so named because he took a break between
killings in Los Angeles, CA.
The suspect kills by gunshot or strangulation, in some cases both, usually after some kind of sexual contact, in all there have been 12 victims. Ten victims were women, all were black. One victim was a black male, who was either a friend of one of the victims or learned the identity of the killer. The bodies were all found outside, usually in dirty alleyways a few miles south of downtown. One other was a black woman who survived.
The killer is known to have struck last January 1, 2007, and his first known victim was in 1985. Police are focusing on the January 1987 slaying of Barbara Ware found shot to death in a South Los Angeles alley. A man saw a blue-and-white van dump her body. He called police with what he saw and gave the license plate number of the van. Within about an hour, police had tracked the van to its registered address at a church, the engine still warm, but that is where the trail runs cold.
911 Call
Yes, I would like to report a murder, or a dead body, or somethin'.
(Operator:
Where at.)
The address is 1346 East 56 Street. In the alley.
And the guy that dropped her off was driving a white
and blue Dodge van.
One of us we thought was about to die.
He threw her out. And the only thing that's hanging out of this, like he threw a gas tank on top of her, and uh, and uh only thing you could see out was her feet. (He had mentioned seeing her feet in the first reversal.)
If was alive, shouldn't be doin' that.
...I know too many people. Okay
then bye, bye.
I am a Negro. The police believe we do that.
I see the feet.
One of us we thought was about
to die.
If was alive, shouldn't be doin' that.
I am a Negro. The police believe we do that.
