The Grim Sleeper Update
Not much news to report regarding the investigation into the Grim Sleeper killings - least from a public perspective! (let’s hope they’re busy behind the scenes). The LAWeekly has just published a story about how LAPD’s ‘closers’ managed to snare John Floyd Thomas while chasing down The Grim Sleeper. The story is a very interesting piece of journalism which throws open an array of frightening theories as to why so many serial killers successfully elude capture - either by their own efforts or more worryingly through the failings of investigating authorities. Reading the article it is easy to see how the Grim Sleeper has managed to stay active for so long. Equally it is apparent that there is an urgent need to address the issues raised and make some serious attempts to close the ‘holes’ that allow rapists, killers and the like to evade capture. One thing is apparent, there are some dogged investigators who are determined to hunt down these criminals any way they can. But they need more help, more back-up, more bilateral communication channels and perhaps a healthy dose of luck and coincidence!
2 Responses to “The Grim Sleeper Update”
July 31st, 2009 at: 5:56 pm
If they are having such a hard time catching the grim sleeper, they should think about why there is a 14 year gap in the killings. What would keep a man busy for 14 years. Check jail records, marriage records, small business that may have closed after 13 or 14 years.
August 3rd, 2009 at: 6:47 am
Some personal gut feelings:
The Grim-Sleeper doesn’t live in the South Central area. Not anymore. He spent his youth there, teens, maybe twenties. Has a few associates, knows his way around, but that world is not one he frequents.
My guess is, he’s from the NW Inglewood area. More affluent, better educated. I’m thinking Ladera Heights, Fox Hills, maybe more southern…Lennox, Hawthorne. When he wants to play he goes back to his old stomping ground. That’s why most people don’t remember his car.
Think about it….A car like that? In South Central? Late 80’s.
Crack-Heads would’a stripped it dry before his key left the lock.
Also, he wasn’t in jail. He screwed the pooch on that last diddy and he’s thinking, “FUCK! She’s alive. She saw my face. Did she get my license? Does she remember where we stopped?”
And so he goes quiet, ’cause he fucked up really bad and he’s not dumb. He stays away from Western and ditches his .25 pea-shooter.
The 14 year-old, Princess, is interesting. She resurrects him. Where did she go to school? Who was her case-worker? Who picked up the phone when the foster parents call and say, “She ran away again”. Did he fancy her photo from some file? Did he ever interview her? Keep tabs on her?
Who did she roll with on the street? Someone had her back……until they didn’t…
Maybe he gets word she’s hit the streets, and goddamn it if she ain’t runnin’ around his old neighborhood. He goes out, catches word of where she’s hangin’, thinks if anybody asks I’m just pickin’ her up and returning her to foster care.
He gets her in the car…..Says we’re gonna have a little talk….drives somewhere quiet…and the beast is back.
Pretty fuckin’ thin….
Other random thoughts:
The 911 Caller - Was it him? Guy sounds articulate. Cool. Calm. He has all that information - exact address, license plate, make, model, color, calls it a murder, male suspect……but HE DIDN’T SEE THE GUY? I mean, Jesus Christ, that’s a PERFECT description….except for the guy.
Was he trying to throw the cops off? Or I could be wrong. If the cops pulled some evidence from the van—like a print—and matched it to a later crime scene, then the caller was probably legit.
Also, the last three victims were all killed ON or within a WEEK of a major holiday. Christmas time-Princess…..Post July 4th-McCorvey…..New Years Eve-Peters.
You kill this Janecia on New Years Eve and your family doesn’t know you’re missing? Is this guy a loner? What’s a 50 year-old doing hanging out with a 25 year-old stranger on New Years. And he obviously had her at a quiet place ’cause she was found naked, in a black trash bag….so the crime scene is….elsewhere.
And this Orange Pinto. Are we sure it was a Ford Pinto? Or was it a Datsun? Or something similiar. One thing’s for sure, he drove it for atleast a year. A neighbor spotted Mary Lowe getting into it in Oct.1987 and then his surviving victim described it in Nov.1988.
And it was his baby. His flare for some color and flash. Finding that car would be a huge break. But maybe he ditched it after the botched murder…
…all I know is I saw an Old-Ass but well-kept orange Datsun at 6231 S. Halm Avenue…License Plate 288-NDW or NOW or NQW.
…I was too much of a pussy to go in the guy’s driveway. Also, there are multiple old, well-kept cars, small and covered on Shenandoah Avenue, nearby. I wanted to take a peak under their covers because come of them look like the same size/shape of a Pinto.
I’ll keep my eyes peeled….YOU should TOO.
Lastly, this guy has balls. I drove down Western today, around some of the murder sights, and let me tell you, my pasty white Irish-ass hasn’t gotten that many double-takes since living in Mexico. It is black. And it is hard.
-And I’ve been to some pretty hairy place in my life. But this neighborhood is tough and it will be hard to crack. This guy definitely at one time, lived there.
Good luck, everyone.
Keep your ears and eyes open. Somewhere, some guy has an old Polaroid of a serial-killer standing next to his eye-sore Orange Pinto, waving, wearing a big shit-eating grin……And that holds the key…
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