USA - California. Lonnie Franklin, the serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper", has been sentenced to death

Lonnie Franklin, the serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper", has been sentenced to death as police admit they are no closer to identifying a further 33 potential victims. Franklin, 63, Black, was sentenced last week for the murders of 9 women and a teenage girl in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Franklin was linked to the deaths of 14 people during the trial, including 4 he wasn't charged with killing. But investigators are struggling to identify a further 33 potential victims that were found in photographs pinned on walls inside Franklin Jr's home and released 180 photographs of the potential victims earlier this year. Franklin earned his nickname due to what appears to have been a 14-year gap in murders from 1985 to 2007. Prosecutors allege he targeted vulnerable young Black women who had turned to prostitution to support crack cocaine addictions. Franklin came under suspicion after a task force began re-examining the cold cases following the final killing in 2007 and DNA from his son showed similarities to genetic evidence found on some of the victims. He was arrested in 2010 after a police officer posed as a busboy at a birthday party he was attending and managed to get DNA samples from dishes and utensils.