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The Grim Sleeper explores a lot of sociology topics. It’s honestly a wild story in its entirety. Lonnie Franklin, the biggest suspect in being the Grim Sleeper. I say suspect because even though he was arrested and sentenced to death for the murders he’s committed, there's still people that believe it wasn’t him. His murders took place in the time range from 1985-2007. It’s said he had roughly 10-25+ victims. Lonnie lived in the South side of Cali, in a not so great neighborhood. The schools and workplaces were bad with bars on the windows of the buildings and homes. The neighborhood had the highest homicide rate for its time. It was quite a small town and pretty much everyone knew everyone. One girl, Pam, was one of Lonnie's ex’s. She was …show more content…
A lot of people said he was just too nice. He was said to help out a lot and did a lot of good work. He would get anything for anyone, no questions asked. Though, he was said to make jokes that he would one day kill all of the crack addicts and prostitutes to clean up the streets. A major thing was he was the one dealing the crack to the girls. He would give them crack in exchange for money and sexual favors. He also had a lot of sketchy jobs done and had a lot of sketchy evidence that pointed to him. For example, he had a bunch of pictures of girls, most who have went missing. He also had the same gun that was used to kill more than half of the girls. A friend of his who was interviewed said it even seems like Lonnie was trying to get caught. He would show off the gun and the pictures and even one time handcuffs fell out of his car. He would try to get different women into his car and make them come into his home. Lonnie tried to get this one prostitute, Roxanne, to go into the back of his garage. He didn’t even really have a reason. The same girl said that she witness Lonnie slit this one girls throat. It was also said that most of the cars he was working on were cars that he had stole. One of his friends in an interview said that he would steal cars and that’s the reason he thought Lonnie was getting arrested but his other friend immediately shut that down and said Lonnie had never stolen a car. His friends also thought …show more content…
They refused to talk for whatever reason. The police even went as far as too not believing some of the victims that were physically abused by Lonnie. There's an organization of women put together to fight back against serial murderers. The police originally didn’t believe Annika, one of the girls in charge of the organization, story. That’s one of the reasons this whole story is just plain crazy. So much stuff goes into it. This documentary was really put together though. It had a lot of physical qualities that made it professional. The narration was good and was done by one of the guys and sometimes the girl Pam. There was background noise of the cars and other people talking. There was “Talking Heads” Where the people they were interviewing would pop up and talk. There was historic footage showing whenever they were talking about something quite important. There was also obviously subject interviews. That was pretty much the main part of the
Lesson from this, don’t ever think crime happens in small towns, and the bad things seem to always happen to the families that mind their own business and stay out of
Lori was the first one to leave for New York City after graduation, later, Jeanette followed her and moved into her habitat with her. Jeanette promptly found a job as a reporter, the two sisters were both living their dream life away from their miserable parents. It wasn’t difficult for them since they cultured to be independent and tough. Everything was turning out great for them and decided to tell their younger siblings to move in with them, and they did. Jeanette was finally happy for once, enjoying the freedom she had and not having to be moved every two weeks. She then found a guy whom she married and accustomed her lifestyle. Furthermore, her parents still couldn’t have the funds for a household or to stay in stable occupation, so they decided to move in with Jeanette and her siblings. Jeanette at that moment felt like she was never going to have an ordinary life because her parents were going to shadow her.
In this case, there were multiple motives take in into deliberation, however the most interesting and promising motives for the crime belonged to John Byers. Byer has a criminal past with a history of domestic violence against his ex-wife Sandra Slone stated in the book Devil’s Knot “Byers came to the her house around 6 A.M, demanding to take the children, he then “began to threaten her, telling her he wanted full custody of the kids, that he was going to kill her” (pg 20)”. She also says “her ex-husband had threatened to kill her or have someone else kill her several times in the past; that she sought a restraining order against him (pg 21).” Not only was he violent to her, but to his own children. She told Lax the private investigator for the defense team that “he used to beat her and the children but did so in a way which left to visible marks or bruises when dressed” (pg 205). It is not only his blood related children he bea...
Her full name was Shirley Lucille Hardin, Lou for short. She was the daughter of Herbert Sidney Hardin and Shirley Lucille Jackson. Lou was born in 1919 in San Francisco, California. Lou’s childhood was very unstable due to the mother being only nineteen when she had Lou. Her mother, Shirley was known as a 1920s flapper girl, which at the time was similar to an exotic dancer. Flappers bobbed their hair, smoked, drank, and treated sex very casual. Herbert disappeared shortly after the birth of Lou and he mother gave her to her mother, Shirley Lucille Jackson, to look after her and raise her. Early reports of Lou’s first marriage with Cleon Morgan Cox II, or Red, said that Lou was a horrible mother, to her two son Cleon and George. Shortly after Lou’s divorce with Red is around the same time that she met Howard’s dad, Rodney. Within the next year, 1955, Rodney prosed to Lou and they all moved in together under one house. With Lou’s previous marriage, she was more financially stable than the Dully family which seems to bother Rodney. “A woman should not be the bread winner in the family.” Rodney soon took up multiple jobs in order to become more financially stable to support his family better. Beside from teaching at an elementary school, he worked as a motion picture processor at Eastman Kodak, a check at Whitecliff Market, and lastly as a crossing guard for the same elementary school that he teaches at. He also enlisted into the national guard and took military classes on weekends Rodney’s attitude and relationship with his children began to spiral downward. Rodney was never home and when he was home he didn’t want to be bother. If the children woke him up they would get punished for it. Lou also ran a tight ship and kept t...
Before the trial a man around the same age of Donald tried to beat Donald up, it later name out that John Wayne Gacy hired the teenager to hurt Donald so he woul not have a chance to testify on the stand. John was found guilty and was forced to serve ten year in Iowa State Reformatory, but was released from jail on June 18, 1970 or being a good prisoner. After prison he moved to Chicago, Illinois and started a contracting company, called PMD, which he used to lure young boys into his house. The first murder committed by John, however, was not in association with PMD. John claims the murder that happened on January 2, 1972 was an accident. Timothy McCoy, a fifteen year old boy, was picked up by John at a Greyhound bus terminal. Here is how the murder happened: McCoy entered Gacy’s bedroom with a knife from the kitchen and Gacy thought the boy was going to attack to Gacy struck first out of self defence and sadly stabbed him to death. When he walked into the kitchen he saw Timothy made breakfast and was calling because of food, not to attack. John then stuffed the murdered body into a crawl space underneath the house. In January 1974 John killed an unidentified boy by strangling him and stuffing cloth into vicum’s mouths so no fluids would leak out. This way of murder led to the way John would kill his other
wins a lot of money and is persuaded to stay the night by an old
There are several different types of murderers, with one of the most popular in the media being a serial killer. A serial killer is someone who kills at least three people at different times, with time in between each murder described as a “cooling off period”. After killing, they feel a sense of relief for a while, but when it wears off they feel the need to kill again to release their stress. Ronald Dominique is classified as a serial killer for murdering at least twenty-three men in Louisiana over the course of nine years. The number has never been clarified because Ronald claimed to have murdered more, but that he could not recall where he had dumped the bodies. This research investigated his victims, how he killed them, Ronald’s life, and people’s opinions about him. When Ronald was in high school, he was teased and bullied about being homosexual. It eventually became very hard for him to attend
Some victims were prostitutes. He picked up the women, either by force or if they were prostitutes, by soliciting them and raping them. Franklin also took photos of his victims with a polaroid camera after his killings. He killed the women by shooting them in the chest with a Titan FIE .25-caliber semi-automatic pistol. When Franklin started killing again in the 2000s, he instead would kill women by strangling them to death after raping them. The Grim Sleeper only used a gun for his final known murders during the 1980s. The victims ' bodies would be dumped in trash dumpsters or dumped in alleys in the south side of Los Angeles. He then covered their bodies with trash. Franklin was profiled as a male based on witness accounts and tended to kill within the same ethnic group of women. His age range in 2008 is believed to have been between 45 and
culture. Initially slasher films don’t seem to break the barriers of American Cinema; they still
As far as Lonnie goes he was the local mechanic that (sometimes) delt in stolen cars. Lonnie had a love for pictures he was part of a local photography club.By far the most incriminating aspect of his life was the fact that it was well known that he was perverted and would openly make women feel uncomfortable and took pictures of the women he was “with”. It is also mentioned in the film that Lonnie had a first wife that did not work and was a drug addict she took Lonnie’s money and would buy drugs with it. This is most likely where Lonnie got his hatred for druggies a hatred that would lead him to murder. The fact of the matter is that the murders happened in a poor part of town where a bunch of druggies and low-class citizens and the police did not think anything of the murders most likely because their are so many killers in the area that there is no way of getting them all. The lack of action by the police then makes the people of the area untrusting. The film does a great job describing and showing what the area that Lonnie lived in looked
Culture, from a sociological perspective, is everything humans creates in establishing our relationships to nature and with each other including language, behavior, and knowledge. An example of culture includes but not limited to: the way a person would talk if they grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood. vs a person who grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood or a criminal in prison has a code for no snitching, etc. From the video, we saw in class, culture is a subconscious of society. An example of this is “if horror films are nightmares of societal subconscious…” (quote from video), it seems that the villains in movies are victims of a traumatic experience that they went through. The Ring (2002) directed by Gore Verbinski was
His image was built up in folklore, misinformation and media attention to such a degree that we may never know the full story, but we do know he killed at least 5 women and was within seconds of getting caught
One of the integral things that must be addressed when making a film is the ethics involved. Ethics are a constant issue that have to be carefully considered when filmmaking. This difficult decision-making is highly prevalent in that of documentaries, because of the difficulties associated in filming ‘real people’ or “social actors, (Nichols, 2001).” More importantly, the issues faced by a filmmaker differ between each of the documentary modes. Each particular documentary mode poses different formal choices that must be made in order to operate in an ethical fashion. Two films that have been made both display examples of how ethics must be considered when embarking on a documentary are Etre at Avoir [To Be and to Have], (2001) and Capturing the Friedmans (2003). These films have been made in different documentary modes, highlighting that there is not one mode which is easier or has fewer ethical issues associated with it. Additionally, what must be considered is how these style choices in these different modes affect the power relationships between the filmmaker, the subject and its audience, (Nichols, 2001).
Holy Sleeper is located in a small city with vast land and a population of less than a thousand. It’s an often visited cemetery from people who travel hundreds of miles just to visit and the ideal place to be sent to when dead. Rows upon rows of headstones and gravestones which once used to shine under the sun, but soon became dull after years of silence. Some were dated all the way back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Every once in a while came a single person or a group with faces holding frowns or tight muscles and tears which spilled no matter how much they didn’t want it to. No one pried in each other’s business. There were no screaming curses at the sky like in the movies unless it was an old person soon to die themselves every once in a while. The children ran up and down the hill laughing, their parents too tired to scold them due to the heavy guilt burdening their back. There were red rose petals scattered around some or mixed flowers bundled together which were sold on the edges of the freeway about a mile away from the entrance gates. Others were artificial plants showing their life lasting dedication to the person’s sentimental mindset, or how they make up their inability to come back and visit in the future.
He was revealed as a liar and a cheat. He was a partner with the druggist, to help each other build their wealth.