In 2010, the Los Angeles police arrested Lonnie Franklin, a middle-aged
African American, for the murder of ten women over the course of 25 years.
Few were aware of the serial killings (Franklin may have killed many more),
and his neighbors in South Central described him as a decent guy who
worked hard and resisted drug gangs. Director and on-screen interviewer
Nick Broomfield (BIGGIE AND TUPAC, HEIDI FLESS: HOLLYWOOD MADAM),
along with his son Barney, and Marc Hoeferlin, dig for information,
uncovering a murky, hellish tale of brutality and depravity fueled by
economic desperation, institutional racism and crack cocaine. And we
wonder: Would the LAPD let a killer operate for a quarter-century in a
white, middle-class neighborhood? Broomfield’s interviews with survivors
of near-fatal encounters with the killer are riveting and heartbreaking.
