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Lonnie Franklin Jr. listens to one of his attorneys during a pre-trial hearing last year.

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Jury Gives Grim Sleeper Serial Killer Death Sentence

7:41pm June 06, 2016

by Chris Arnold

The death penalty will be official if upheld by a judge at a sentencing hearing. Sixty-three-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was convicted in the murders of nine women and a teenage girl.

On Thursday, a Los Angeles jury found Lonnie Franklin Jr. guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder.

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'Grim Sleeper' Trial: Jury Finds Los Angeles Man Guilty On 10 Counts Of Murder

6:50pm May 05, 2016

by Laura Wagner

Lonnie Franklin Jr. "sat silently, staring straight ahead," as the clerk read the guilty verdicts, NPR's Kirk Siegler reports.

Defendant Lonnie Franklin Jr. listens during opening statements of his trial. Franklin is accused of serial murders that terrorized South LA.

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Families Of LA Serial Killer's Victims Still Await Closure

11:34am May 02, 2016

by Kirk Siegler

Police allege Lonnie Franklin Jr. terrorized LA for decades, targeting mostly young black women. As his trial wraps up, critics wonder if racial bias caused the investigation to take so long.

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