article_snippet: Mr Broomfield, pictured right interviewing a friend of Franklin's, said the documentary took a year and a half .
article_snippet: Pam Brooks was interviewed by Mr Broomfield, giving an insight into life in Los Angeles . '
article_snippet: Mr Broomfield, who spoke to relatives and friends of Franklin to produce the documentary, claims when his son Christopher told his son Christopher officers were almost 'grateful' that the alleged Grim Sleeper had rid the streets of some of the 'problem' people officers had been dealing with on an almost daily basis.
article_snippet: his son Christopher added that in the one-and-a-half years it took to make the documentary, Franklin was described as a 'loving father' and almost a Robin Hood figure, who would fix people's cars and get cheap washing machines if people's cars needed people's cars.
article_snippet: Mr Broomfield said Franklin had been popular in the area, according to locals.
article_snippet: But locals claimed Franklin was often obsessed with crack addicts - becoming popular with women in the 1980s during the crack epidemic which swept Los Angeles.