Monique Alexander, an 18 year old girl, is found shot in the chest under a mattress in an alleyway. People Magazine Investigates s1e9: The Grim Sleeper, Discovery 2016
A possible serial killer who is murdering women with a .25 calibre firearm. ibid.
For 14 years the murders of seven innocent women have gone unsolved; now with modern technology DNA tests reveal that their killer has claimed 2 additional victims. ibid.
In the City of Angels there is a devil on the loose. Ten young vulnerable women murdered by a predator who leaves no trace behind. The Face of Evil s1e4: The Grim Sleeper, ID 2019
In the mid 1980s a monster turned these rough streets into his own personal hunting grounds. It would take nearly three decades and the expertise of the nation’s third largest police department to bring him down. ibid.
A local newspaper dubs the killer The Grim Sleeper because of the fourteen years he went quiet. ibid.
The DNA is a partial match to 28-year-old south-central resident called Carl Franklin … The man’s name is Lonnie Franklin junior, Carl’s 57-year-old father, who’s been married to the same woman for decades. ibid.
In July 2010 detectives in Los Angeles, California, had finally identified a sexual predator who had been murdering innocent women over a 25-year period. The serial killer had plagued at least ten victims before discarding their bodies in alleyways and dumpsters. World’s Most Evil Killers s5e3: Lonnie Franklin – The Grim Sleeper, Sky Crime 2021
When one of his victims survived, he suddenly stopped. It wasn’t until 14 year later in 2002 that Franklin began to kill again. ibid.
On the surface he was a friendly neighbour and family man. ibid.
The Grim Sleeper: It’s believed he took a 14-year break between killing sprees. From the mid-80s until the early 2000s Lonnie David Franklin violated and shot sex workers in South Central Los Angeles … His son’s DNA was added to the national database … In 2010 he was found guilty of 10 charges of murder, but they believed he was actually guilty of killing dozens more. True Crime Recaps: 10 Most Terrifying Serial Killer Stories, Youtube 15.20, 2022
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In 1991 the residents of Strathfield were left traumatised when a man opened fire in a local shopping plaza. In just ten short minutes the gunman unleashed a wave of terror that would become the most violent and shocking in Sydney’s history. Armed with a machete, rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition the unidentified gunman burst into action, stabbing and shooting at those within close range. Crimes that Shook Australia s2e7: The Strathfield Massacre, CI 2017
In just fifteen minutes eight people were dead, six people lay wounded and dozens more were traumatised and in shock. ibid.
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In April 1999 women were disappearing from a quiet town in Queensland, Australia. A brazen abduction in broad daylight changed everything and unmasked a cold and calculating killer unable to control his cravings. Crime Stories: Leonard Fraser: The Rockhampton Rapist, 2007
The story of the Rockhampton Rapist: hope for Natasha Ryan was fading. ibid.
Leonard John Fraser ... registered on a local domestic violence database. ibid.
He abducted, tortured and eventually murdered the four women. ibid.
The terrible legacy of Leonard Fraser sadly lived on for the victims. ibid.
Before he was sent to prison for the rest of his life on September 7, 2000, for the abduction, rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl, Leonard Fraser had spent almost 20 of the preceding 22 years behind bars for a series of rapes.
While in prison Fraser confessed to four more killings and took police to where the remains of some of his victims were concealed. His subsequent murder trial caused a world-wide sensation when one of his alleged victims, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, turned up alive and well in the middle of proceedings.
Leonard John Fraser was born in the sugar growing community of Ingham, north Queensland, on June 27, 1951. He was the second youngest of four children and when he was six his family uprooted and moved to a brick house in Mount Druitt in the blue-collar outer western suburbs of Sydney.
According to court psychiatrists there was not the slightest indication in young Lenny’s early childhood that he would grow up to be a vicious rapist and killer. While his upbringing, childhood and environment appeared to have been outwardly normal, his schoolwork was poor. By the time he dropped out of second year high school at age 14, Lenny Fraser had learned to read but little else and had trouble writing his own name. True Crime Cases online article
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Elgin, Scotland, April 28th 1998: In an idyllic place a mother disappears from the family home. Arlene Fraser, a family woman, has simply vanished. Weeks earlier she’d been attacked – was there a link? A Killer’s Mistake s1e1: Nat Fraser, DiscoveryPlus 2023
‘If she was going to run away she’d have taken the children with her.’ ibid. father
Downgraded to assault, he was living out of town on bail. ibid.
He had an alibi – he was out of town delivering fruit and veg. ibid.
An Elgin mechanic revealed that he had sold a vehicle to a friend of Nat Fraser. ibid.
One of Nat’s friends had turned against him. ibid.
Weeks after her 10th wedding anniversary Arlene Fisher vanishes. Detectives are baffled. Her husband is Nat Fraser, soon a person of interest to the police. Meet, Marry, Murder s1e17, Netflix 2022
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On 19th January 1997 in St Helens near Liverpool, Philip Fraser murdered his ex-partner Kathryne Scaife … Philip Fraser met Kathryn Scaife in 1983; they married two years later and had two children together. The relationship however was dominated by abuse. The Killer in My Family s1e6: Phillip Fraser, Quest Red 2020