The Grim Sleaper

[Shirley]

Not dead, but not free to kill anymore either.

I'd never heard of this guy until five minutes ago.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

Reading the story and the evidence they had, how did this guy escape detection for so long? He wasn't exactly the most careful of serial killers.

[howard]

…how did this guy escape detection for so long?

Young black victims in south central during the height of the Crips-Bloods war, the LAPD failed to do a bang-up job. That's how.

[Rex]

I'd like to think he was caught by Rowdy Roddy Peeper

[Shirley]

…how did this guy escape detection for so long?

Young black victims in south central during the height of the Crips-Bloods war, the LAPD failed to do a bang-up job. That's how.

Yeah, not really a mystery, I guess.

[Pruitt]

…how did this guy escape detection for so long?

Young black victims in south central during the height of the Crips-Bloods war, the LAPD failed to do a bang-up job. That's how.

Cops must love TV shows and movies about the police. On TV, they can trace down a killer from a cigarette butt, but in real life, a dozen corpses can't provide enough evidence to track down a killer.

And race issues aside (and I am not discounting them as being a factor in this case), there have been a couple of white serial rapists/killers up here who had been suspects, had been questioned by investigators and were not charged... and then went on to kill again.