LOS ANGELES (AP) – The trial of alleged “Grim Sleeper” Lonnie Franklin Jr. headed to a close Monday after months of testimony about a serial killer who stalked women during the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic, then laid low for 14 years before renewing the grisly sex attacks.
Closing arguments were scheduled to begin in the morning and could last two days.
Franklin, 63, could face the death penalty if convicted.
He is charged with nine women and a 15-year-old girl between 1985 and 2007. They were shot or strangled and their bodies dumped in alleys and trash bins in South Los Angeles and nearby areas.
He also is charged with the attempted murder of a woman who survived being shot in the chest and pushed out of a car in 1988.