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Lonnie Franklin, Jr. was everybody\'s friend.\\xa0 Gregarious.\\xa0 Friendly to a fault/.\\xa0 Had good jobs, first at the City Sanitation Department and then as a mechanic for the LAPD.\\xa0 Lovely house on a corner lot.\\xa0 Lovely and devoted wife.\\xa0 Two kids.\\xa0 Kinda guy that would give you the shirt off his back - or perform sometimes complex repairs to your car for just 20 bucks.\\xa0 The epitome of a great neighbor.\\xa0 Problem is, Lonnie Franklin, Jr. had a side gig that wasn\'t so friendly.\\xa0 Turns out he was also one of the most prolific serial killers in the annals of crime.\\xa0 And he was good at it - eventually becoming infamous as the elusive "Grim Sleeper" who got away with at least 26 brutal slayings of women in South Central Los Angeles.\\xa0 26 that we know of, that is.\\xa0 Join Melissa as she opens her case file on this devastating case with an overview of Franklin\'s evil career, to be followed in coming episodes with the horrifying details of the work of a monster who hid in plain sight for more than two decades before DNA and cheese from a pizza finally put him away.\\xa0 PLUS - Melissa reveals disturbingly hilarious details from her past that MAY explain...er...a lot!