How A Deadly Serial Killer Evaded Capture For 22 Years
The true story of the Grim Sleeper
In the early hours of August 10, 1985, a woman named Debra Jackson was found dead on a sidewalk in Los Angeles. She had been shot three times with a .25 caliber handgun and dumped out of a car. Even the police were mortified.
Over the next 22 years, (at least) nine more women would meet the same fate. They died at the hands of an infamous criminal with a chilling nickname — the Grim Sleeper.
Many people called him that nickname due to the lengthy gap in his murders. After all, the Grim Sleeper took a 14-year break from killing people between 1988 and 2002.
Despite an intense investigation by Los Angeles Police Department, the Grim Sleeper evaded capture for over two decades. It wasn’t until 2010, when advances in DNA technology allowed investigators to link the murders to a single suspect, that they made an arrest.
Let me explain what happened…
The state of California collected DNA from state prisoners and filed them in a massive database. But when the Grim Sleeper’s DNA didn’t match existing samples…
