The Grim Sleeper Investigation

Until his April 2 arrest, John Floyd Thomas Jr was a Los Angeles insurance adjuster. Police now call him the “Southland Strangler” — named for the geographical section of Los Angeles County where they suspect he killed at least 30 women and raped many more. Thomas is also in the frame for a spate of [...]

CNN have created an interactive Grim Sleeper ‘case book’ which sumerizes the investigation, evidence, theories and other aspects of the case. It features sound-bites from Det.  Dennis Kilcoyne, Bernard Parks and various other ‘key players’. This interactive is a good place to get aquainted with the case. It supplies concise facts but provides little ‘new’ [...]

During an idle moment we had a look at the calender to see when the Grim Sleeper carried out his attacks. This is what we found:
Debra Jackson - Saturday (left a friend’s home in Lynwood on Saturday evening) C = confirmed
Henrietta Wright - Tuesday
Thomas Steele - Thursday C
Barbara Ware - Saturday (white and blue [...]

Since this site began we have been lucky enough to have many people visit to read the posts and comment on the investigation. It is evident that many of you have some strong theories and ideas about the case which we believe would make excellent articles in their own right.
Therefore we want to invite you [...]

The phone call recently released by LAPD detectives has raised new questions about the investigation, the likely identity of the killer and the LAPD’s  handling of one of the earliest and greatest chances of breaking the case. Already views are divided between those who think the anonymous caller is simply an eye-witness and those who [...]

This is the call made by an anonymous man on the night of  January. 10, 1987, at 19 minutes past midnight.
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And here is the exact conversation transcript…
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Recording begins with the voice of an unidentified LAPD technician: “Central”
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LAPD Communication Division Operator: LA city police agency what is it?
Yes, I’d like to report a murder…a [...]

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We’ve noticed something while researching The Grim Sleeper’s victim discovery locations which is most probably just a quirk or coincidence. However, we feel that for the record, it’s worth offering up the premise for public scrutiny as well as cementing the fact that this connection (if any) was first bought to public attention here at [...]

From LAWeekly:
“The Los Angeles Police Department’s search for the Grim Sleeper, an extremely elusive South L.A. killer, suffered a big blow Tuesday when a long-shot effort to identify the man through DNA “familial” testing came up empty-handed.”
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/dna-familial-search-falls-shor/
How is this possible? How can this killer be so lucky and mysterious?