article_snippet: A man accused of murdering a string of women and dumping women bodies may have killed up to 180 people - escaping detection because the police force turned a blind eye to Grim Sleeper' Lonnie Franklin Jr crimes because Grim Sleeper' Lonnie Franklin Jr victims were mainly drug addicts and prostitutes, a documentary claims.
article_snippet: Lonnie Franklin Jr - dubbed the Grim Sleeper because Lonnie Franklin Jr - dubbed the Grim Sleeper allegedly had a break between committing multiple murders - is due to go on trial later this year accused of sexually assaulting, murdering and then dumping the bodies of 10 women across Los Angeles over two decades.
article_snippet: But a new documentary by British filmmaker Nick Broomfield suggests Lonnie Franklin Jr was able to go on killing for so long, and possibly target dozens more victims, because of a police 'blindness' to Lonnie Franklin Jr - dubbed the Grim Sleeper victims - which Lonnie Franklin Jr - dubbed the Grim Sleeper likes to a 'genocide happening and nobody was talking about it.'
article_snippet: Lonnie Franklin Jr, dubbed the Grim Sleeper, may have murdered up to 180 people as police in LA turned a blind eye because Lonnie Franklin Jr victims were usually black and with drug problems, a documentary has claimed .
article_snippet: Mr Broomfield said Franklin, a father-of-two, was able to go on killing so long because Mr Broomfield targeted vulnerable black women, many of whom had become crack and cocaine addicts in the 1980s.
article_snippet: The suspected victims of the Grim Sleeper: Enietra Washington (left) survived an attempted murder and was found in 1988, Alicia Alexander (centre) was found dead in an alley in September 1988, Henrietta Wright (right) died in August 1986 in an alleyway .
article_snippet: Nick Broomfield (left) claims in the documentary that alleged killer Franklin (right) continued with Nick Broomfield (left) killing spree for so long because police turned a blind eye to Nick Broomfield (left) victims, who were largely black drug addicts . '
article_snippet: The alleged killer earned the nickname the Grim Sleeper after The alleged killer allegedly committed murders between 1985 and 1988, taking a 13 year break before The alleged killer is believed to have resumed in crime spree in 2002.
highlights_snippet: claims police turned a blind eye because Grim Sleeper' Lonnie Franklin Jr victims were drug addicts .
  