A Sociological Analysis Of 'Grim Sleeper'

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The Grim Sleeper explores a lot of sociology topics. It’s honestly a wild story in its entirety. Lonnie Franklin, the biggest suspect in being the Grim Sleeper. I say suspect because even though he was arrested and sentenced to death for the murders he’s committed, there's still people that believe it wasn’t him. His murders took place in the time range from 1985-2007. It’s said he had roughly 10-25+ victims. Lonnie lived in the South side of Cali, in a not so great neighborhood. The schools and workplaces were bad with bars on the windows of the buildings and homes. The neighborhood had the highest homicide rate for its time. It was quite a small town and pretty much everyone knew everyone. One girl, Pam, was one of Lonnie's ex’s. She was …show more content…

A lot of people said he was just too nice. He was said to help out a lot and did a lot of good work. He would get anything for anyone, no questions asked. Though, he was said to make jokes that he would one day kill all of the crack addicts and prostitutes to clean up the streets. A major thing was he was the one dealing the crack to the girls. He would give them crack in exchange for money and sexual favors. He also had a lot of sketchy jobs done and had a lot of sketchy evidence that pointed to him. For example, he had a bunch of pictures of girls, most who have went missing. He also had the same gun that was used to kill more than half of the girls. A friend of his who was interviewed said it even seems like Lonnie was trying to get caught. He would show off the gun and the pictures and even one time handcuffs fell out of his car. He would try to get different women into his car and make them come into his home. Lonnie tried to get this one prostitute, Roxanne, to go into the back of his garage. He didn’t even really have a reason. The same girl said that she witness Lonnie slit this one girls throat. It was also said that most of the cars he was working on were cars that he had stole. One of his friends in an interview said that he would steal cars and that’s the reason he thought Lonnie was getting arrested but his other friend immediately shut that down and said Lonnie had never stolen a car. His friends also thought …show more content…

They refused to talk for whatever reason. The police even went as far as too not believing some of the victims that were physically abused by Lonnie. There's an organization of women put together to fight back against serial murderers. The police originally didn’t believe Annika, one of the girls in charge of the organization, story. That’s one of the reasons this whole story is just plain crazy. So much stuff goes into it. This documentary was really put together though. It had a lot of physical qualities that made it professional. The narration was good and was done by one of the guys and sometimes the girl Pam. There was background noise of the cars and other people talking. There was “Talking Heads” Where the people they were interviewing would pop up and talk. There was historic footage showing whenever they were talking about something quite important. There was also obviously subject interviews. That was pretty much the main part of the

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