The definitive book on 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 storyplot of the terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for many years, killing probably the most susceptible women in one Southern Central neighborhood. In her cover content for LA Regular, Christine dubbed him “The Grim Sleeper” for his long break between murders. The killer preyed on a community devastated by about The Grim Sleeper: The Shed Ladies of South Central crime and medicines and left behind a path of body•all ladies of color, all murdered in a similar fashion, and everything 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 violence, and despair; about how a serial killer could continue his grisly work for two years in part due to society’s insufficient concern for his selected victims; and about the power and tenacity of those women’s families and the detectives who refused to let the case go 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 publication on the capture of one of America’s most ruthless serial killers. Based on comprehensive interviews, reportage, and details never released to the public, The Grim Sleeper catches the lengthy, bumpy street to justice in another of probably the most startling true crime tales of our era.