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On the morning of March 9, 1987, two passing motorists discovered the body of 21 year-old Diane Johnson in a roadway construction area west of the Harbor Freeway at 10217 South Grand Avenue. She was found partially nude and had been strangled.

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On October 29, 1987, just after 1:00 a.m., a passing motorist discovered 26 year-old Annette Ernest lying on the roadway. She was found partially nude on the dirt shoulder at Grand Avenue and 106th Street. She too had been strangled.

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On January 20, 1989, Southeast patrol officers received a radio call regarding a dead body in an alley at 9819 South Figueroa Street. Officers saw a wood panel door leaning diagonally against a detached garage. Behind the door, officers found the body of 31 year-old Anita Fishman. She was partially nude and the cause of death was strangulation.

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Around 11:00 a.m., on September 23, 1989, a woman discovered the body of 27 year-old Regina Washington in a detached garage of a vacant home at 8858 South Figueroa Street.

She had been strangled. The investigation revealed that Washington was six months pregnant. The death of the fetus was attributed to the strangulation of the mother. The baby girl’s death was ruled a homicide.

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On April 2, 1993, at 9:15 a.m., a construction worker discovered the body of 29 year-old Andrea Tripplett. She was found lying in the yard to the rear of a vacant building at 7812 South Figueroa Street. The victim was found partially nude and had been strangled.

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On May 16, 1993, at 7:00 a.m., the body of 29 year-old Desarae Jones was found laying alongside a vacant residence at 6821 South Estrella Avenue. She was partially nude and the cause of death was strangulation.

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On February 12, 1995, at 8:20 a.m., a friend discovered the body of 31 year-old Natalie Price alongside a residence at 532 West 80th Street. She too was partially nude and had been strangled.

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On April 6, 1998, at 2:00 a.m., Central Area patrol officers were flagged down. They were told there was a possible dead body in a portable outhouse at 500 Gladys Avenue. The officers found the partially nude body of 37 year-old Brenda Bries. The cause of death was strangulation.

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A custodian at the 97th Street Elementary School discovered the partially nude body of 32 year-old Debra Williams on November 16, 1992. She was found lying at the bottom of a stairwell that led to the campus boiler room. The cause of her death was strangulation.

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On December 16, 1992, at 9:00 a.m., an employee of the Figueroa Motel at 9714 South Figueroa Street discovered the body of 42 year-old Mary Edwards inside a carport. This carport is off of an alley that is next to the 97th Street Elementary School. The cause of death was strangulation.

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She was found on September 30, 1992 at the 97th Street Elementary School. She had been strangled.

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About 10:00 a.m. on November 6, 1996, the body of 45 year-old Mildred Beasley was found in the bushes at 9611 South Broadway, next to the Harbor Freeway. She was partially nude and had been strangled.

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Turner was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 47 year-old woman on March 16, 2002, on Los Angeles Street between 6th Street and 7th Street at 11:30 p.m. Turner assaulted the victim for approximately two hours. Afterward, Turner threatened to kill the victim if she told the police. The victim did report the crime and Turner was arrested and convicted. As a result, Turner was required to provide a DNA reference sample for inclusion in CODIS. It was this reference sample that ultimately led to the identification of Turner as Paula Vance’s killer.

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The investigative journey that ultimately led to the arrest of Turner began on February 3, 1998. At 7:00 am that day, a security guard discovered the semi-nude body of 38 year-old Paula Vance. She was found at the rear of a vacant business at 630 West 6th Street. Vance had been sexually assaulted and murdered.

The crime was captured on videotape from a nearby surveillance camera. When Detectives looked at the tape, it was of such poor quality the suspect could not be identified. Despite a lengthy investigation, the case remained unsolved.

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Debra Jackson, 29, was found August 10, 1985, in an alley in the 1000 block of West Gage Avenue. Cause of death: two shots to the chest. A carpet covered her fully clothed, decomposing body. She was a cocktail waitress.

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Bernita Sparks, 25, was found April 16, 1987, in an alley in the 9400 block of South Western Avenue. Cause of death: one shot to the chest, strangulation, blunt- force trauma. Found inside trash bin covered with trash. Fully clothed. She had no arrests for prostitution.

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Henrietta Wright, 35, was found August 12, 1986, in the 2500 block of West Vernon Avenue. Cause of death: two shots to the chest. Wrapped in a blanket, covered with a mattress, fully clothed, no shoes.

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Thomas Steele, 36, was found August 14, 1986, near 71st Street and Halldale Avenue. Cause of death: one shot behind right ear. Dumped in road fully clothed.

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Mary Lowe, 26, was found November 1, 1987, in an alley in the 8900 block of South Hobart Boulevard. Cause of death: one shot in the chest.

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Alicia Alexander, 17, was found September 11, 1988, in an alley in the 1700 block of West 43rd Street & Western Avenue. Cause of death: shot twice in the chest. Her nude body was covered with a mattress.

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Princess Berthomieux, 14, was found March 9, 2002, in an alley in the 8100 block of South Van Ness Avenue in Inglewood. Cause of death: strangulation. She had been in and out of foster homes.

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Carolyn Jackson, 43, was found February 5, 2003, on the sidewalk in the 4400 block of West 111th Place in Hawthorne. Cause of death: smothering. A divorcée with four children, Jackson was homeless toward the end of her life.

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Valerie McCorvey, 35, was found July 11, 2003, near 108th Street and Denver Avenue. Cause of death: strangulation. She had a drug habit. Four months before she died, McCorvey left a voicemail for her aunt, saying she was okay.

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Leah Deshay Benjamin, 38, was found April 10, 2004, in an alley in the 10600 block of Manhattan Place. Cause of death: multiple sharp and blunt injuries to the head and face. The one-time Cal State Stanislaus student had a history of drug-related charges.

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Gail Lee Phelps, a.k.a. Denise Carraway, 41, was found July 20, 2004, in an alley in the 13200 block of Willowbrook Avenue in Los Angeles. Cause of death: strangulation. A ligature was found around her neck and a mattress placed on top of her body.

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Pertina Jynita Epps, 21, was found April 26, 2005, near an apartment complex in the 2700 block of West 141st Place in Gardena. Cause of death: strangulation. She died a day after moving back from San Diego.

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Judy Day, 40, was found May 25, 2005, in the 7300 block of Roseberry Avenue in Huntington Park. Cause of death: manual strangulation. Police believe she may have been killed and dumped along the road.

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Carrie Bradley, a.k.a. Iola Lynn Simms, 40, was found June 25, 2005, in Griffith Park. Cause of death: multiple stab wounds to the face, neck and shoulder. Her partially clothed body was found by joggers about 10 days after she died.

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Ashley Veater, 19, was found June 28, 2005, in an alley in the 800 block of North Highland Avenue in Hollywood. Cause of death: Massive blunt- and sharp- force trauma to the head. Veater, a perpetual runaway since age 13, had been in L.A. for only a few days.

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Earlene Suggs, 45, was found April 8, 2006, in an alley in the 11400 block of South Berendo Avenue. Cause of death: Stab wound to the chest. Suggs had five children and lived on and off the streets for five years.

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Barbara Ware, 23, was found January 10, 1987 in an alley in the 1300 block of East 56th Street. Cause of death: one shot to chest. Trash covered her clothed body, and a plastic bag was draped over her upper torso and head.

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Lachrica Jefferson, 22, was found January 30, 1988, in an alley in the 2000 block of West 102nd Street in Lennox. Cause of death: two shots to the chest. A mattress covered her fully clothed body.

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Keyon Ervin, 17, was found June 23, 2002, at a hotel in the 6300 block of South Figueroa Street. Cause of death: strangulation. The hotel manager remembered renting a room to Ervin and a Latino man. A can of pepper spray was found under the bed.

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Jeri Patterson, in her mid-30s, was found August 10, 2002, in an alley between 103rd Street and Broadway. Cause of death: major blunt-force trauma. She was last seen getting into a car with a heavyset black man in his mid- to late 40s.

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Linda Stump, 43, was found April 20, 2004, in bushes in a parking lot at a Ralphs Market in Woodland Hills. Cause of death: unknown. She was a transient.

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Marie Meridy, 48, was found March 20, 2003, in the front of a residence at 1709 West 110th Street. Cause of death: strangulation.

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...was found dead by a homeless man near 9500 Western Avenue. She'd been shot in the back and placed in a garbage bag.

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"November 20, 1988, a young black man driving an orange Ford Pinto picked up a young black woman in South Los Angeles, shot her in the chest and raped her. She persuaded her attacker to allow her to escape, and she is the only known eyewitness survivor of the Grim Sleeper."