Black Serial Killer Caught: Race Not as Surprising as Some May Think

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My favorite writer of all time and my main influence, Voltaire, once described history as being “little else than a picture of human crime and misfortune.” This may be accurate when speaking of mass murderers and serial killers. Just this week, police in Los Angeles California captured 51-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr., the alleged “Grim Sleeper” serial killer.

DNA and ballistics evidence were employed to connect Franklin to the murders of 10 women and one man between 1985 and 2007.

Serial killers are not a monolithic group, athough most think they are generally of European descent. Hu Wanlin was from China and is thought to be one of the world’s most prolific medical serial killers ever, killing 146 people, and being suspected of more. Then, there is Pedro Alonso López from Colombia, the Monster of the Andes, who is said to have killed more than 300 people. Then throw in Karl Grossmann of Germany who killed as many as 50 young women, dismembered them and sold the meat to unknowing customers of his meat business. Thug Behram of India is said to have murdered up to 931 victims by strangulation from 1790 to 1840. Andrei Chikatilo was a Ukrainian man convicted of the murder of 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990.


America appears to be the home of the serial killer, as there have been more on record here than any other nation in the world. In the early 1920s, Minnesota-born Carl Panzram, the son of Prussian immigrants, claimed to have killed 10 sailors and dumped them in the river. He admitted that he raped and killed two boys, beating one to death with a rock in Massachusetts. That’s just the beginning of a long list of sordid “homeboys.”

America’s most recent addition to the serial killer list, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., the neighborhood mechanic, lived in a tidy neighborhood on 81st Street in South Los Angeles and worked as a city sanitation worker. Most of his victims were black prostitutes or drug addicts whom he sexually assaulted before killing. As such, he fits the general description of sexual sadists such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy.


The truth is, race doesn’t have a thing to do with the mental distortions that occupy the deranged mind. Mass murderers don’t have a particular “look,” ethnicity, race or national origin. –torrance stephens, ph.d.
For more with Dr. Stephens, visit twitter.com/rawdawgbuffalo and rawdawgb.blogspot.com.

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