The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central Audiobook (Free)

The definitive book around the hunt to find the most ruthless serial killer in Los Angeles’ history, told with the fearless reporter who broke the storyplot.

In 2008, Christine Pelisek broke the story of the terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for many years, killing one of the most vulnerable women in one Southern Central neighborhood. In her cover article for LA Weekly, Christine dubbed him “The Grim Sleeper” for his long break between murders. The killer preyed on the community devastated by about The Grim Sleeper: The Shed Ladies of South Central crime and drugs and left behind a trail of body•all females of color, all murdered in a similar fashion, and all discarded in the alleys of Los Angeles.

The case of the Grim Sleeper is unforgettably singular. But it also tells a wider tale about homicide investigations in areas beset by poverty, gang assault, and despair; about how exactly a serial killer could continue his grisly function for two decades in part because of society’s insufficient concern for his chosen victims; and about the energy and tenacity of those women’s families as well as the detectives who refused to let the case move cold.

No one does know this story better than Christine Pelisek, the reporter who followed it for over ten years, and has written the definitive book on the capture of 1 of America’s most ruthless serial killers. Predicated on extensive interviews, reportage, and details under no circumstances released to the general public, The Grim Sleeper captures the long, bumpy street to justice in one of the most startling true criminal offense stories of our generation.