Los Angeles Serial Killing

It was the most painful sort of ordinary. One summer day in 1985, a woman turned up dead in a South Los Angeles alleyway. Almost exactly a year later, another woman with fatal bullet wounds was found, in another alley nearby. And so it went, for nearly 25 years -- with a 13-year lull in which the killings seemed to stop -- black women, many of whos...

It was the most painful sort of ordinary. One summer day in 1985, a woman turned up dead in a South Los Angeles alleyway. Almost exactly a year later, another woman with fatal bullet wounds was found, in another alley nearby. And so it went, for nearly 25 years -- with a 13-year lull in which the killings seemed to stop -- black women, many of whos...