There’s the myth of serial killing, the myth that it’s a “white thing”, the myth that black people may kill, yes, but never from sadistic pleasure. And then there’s reality. The names – Jake Bird, Wayne Williams, Chester Turner, Lorenzo Gilyard, and Andre Crawford – historical proof that whatever compulsion it is that moves the Ted Bundy’s and John Wayne Gacy’s of the world to murder, can be found in black men, too.
It’s a compulsion that’s explored in “Tales of the Grim Sleeper,” Nick Broomfield’s latest documentary about the now infamous serial killer, Lonnie Franklin Jr. Between the mid-1980s up until his eventual arrest in 2010, Franklin would kill nearly a…
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