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FILE - In this July 9, 2010, file photo, a billboard showing that the suspect known as the Grim Sleeper had been arrested stands near a freeway in Compton, Calif. More than 30 years since the bodies of young women started turning up in alleyways and garbage bins in south Los Angeles, attorneys are set to give opening statements Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in the long-awaited “Grim Sleeper” trial. Lonnie David Franklin Jr. has pleaded not guilty to killing nine women and a 15-year-old girl from 1985 to 2007 in one of the city’s most notorious serial killer cases. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Lonnie Franklin Jr., the ‘Grim Sleeper’ serial killer, sentenced to death

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

Lonnie Franklin Jr. appears in Los Angeles Superior Court during closing arguments of his trail Monday, May 2, 2016, in Los Angeles. The “Grim Sleeper” serial killer trial is coming to a close in Los Angeles after months of testimony. Franklin is charged with killing nine women and a 15-year-old girl between 1985 and 2007. They were shot or strangled and their bodies dumped in alleys and trash bins in South Los Angeles and nearby areas. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)

Lonnie Franklin Jr., ‘Grim Sleeper’ suspect: Fingernails spotted in trash led to arrest

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

‘Grim Sleeper’ suspect had 4-decade arrest record

By Gillian Flaccus - Associated Press