Lonnie Franklin's Persecution Of Women

The photographs taken from the Franklin home were released by the Los Angeles Police Department last week. The women’s faces in the photos looked like they were unconscious, asleep, or dead. These women were mothers, daughters, and sisters who had families that will never get their loved ones back. It was a abhorrent case that is part of history today. Women left behind children, spouses, and families. I cannot imagine what the women who were captured by this Lonnie Franklin. At this time the people of Los Angeles did not trust the LAPD. Law enforcement did not disclose any information. Like today the minority deaths generate more outrage. Officer officials did not want the story to be publicized in fear that the perpetrator would hear the news. Police believed that the case would have been cracked within a few months. Unfortunately this investigation took decades to resolve. In one video retrieved, a man, …show more content…
31, 1987, at a Halloween party at the Love Trap Bar 10 blocks from Franklin 's home. She was discovered dead in a nearby alleyway, shot in the chest, the following day.Enietra Washington, who survived her encounter with the Grim Sleeper. One night in November 1988, a man, driving an orange-colored Pinto, picked her up outside a rundown liquor store in South Los Angeles. After driving for a while, the man shot her in the chest, then sexually assaulted her. After the attack, he took a photo of her using a Polaroid camera, before pushing her out of his car. "That is what woke me up," Washington told The Daily Beast last week. "I remember the flash."When Washington recovered from her injuries, she leads police to a Spanish bungalow just three doors down from Franklin 's home. For a month, detectives staked out the house and the neighborhood without arresting any suspects. In fact, it would take another 20 years plus before police arrested the man, who they think is responsible for all the