families to fight for the attention these cases need. yeah but we can t assume that all of these women we can t assume that all of these women were sex worker workers, by the i didn t assume that. some have families. i want to underscore that point. the hillside strangler operated in los angeles. i lived in new york city and knew all about it. the fact that these were black women in south l.a., i do believe race played a factor. we can all learn a lesson from here and move forward and realize whether it is one white young woman killed in aruba or women in south l.a. that that s some mother s daughter, that s some father s child. an important message, i think, for sure, margaret. you have been in touch with many of the victims families. how are they feeling? are they still waiting to make sure that police have the right person before they breathe a sigh of relief? well, i think everyone is being cautious and optimistic,
to be of value. along those lines, casey, most of the grim sleeper s victims were black, many were procestitut prostitutes. and what about margaret s point? the most common denominator in almost all of these is the vulnerability. not really the race, but the occupation of being a streetwalker, drug addict is the number one variable we see in these victims. in other words, margaret is absolutely right. they re very often considered the sort of population that society doesn t care about. and we see this typically i could name a dozen serial killers that the general public has never heard of. prolific serial killers but because of the nature of their victims, the cases never got the attention. police really left it as a very low priority and we see that this is a real epidemic. it s not just the serial killers, but the fact they get away with it because they choose people who won t be missed and who don t have empowered
had about a 15-year hiatus. other than that, it s relatively repairi to have a gap of a year or two. the 14-year gap to franklin is what led the trail to grow cold and not a very famous case to people outside of los angeles. that s right. i don t think a lot of people had heard of it outside of los angeles. margaret, are you pleased with the way the lapd has been handling the investigation into these murders? anything they should have done differently? well, let s hope that they ve caught the guy. but that can t whitewash what happens gone on before. this has been going on for over 25 years. a 911 tape was only released last year. it was taken in 1987 by an eyewitness. and we believe that there have been a lot of problems with the investigation. sanjay, you and i know that if these murders had happened in beverly hills, in a wealthy part of connecticut, you know, wealthy part of manhattan that this not only would have been local news, but it would have been national and internation
janeisha peters was discovered january 1st, 2007, shot in the back and dumped in a garbage bag. a quarter of a century of killing is over. and now police say they can finally put a name to the grim sleeper. randi kaye, cnn, new orleans. just some incredibly gruesome details there. casey jordan and margaret prescott, who worked closely with the families allegedly murdered by the grim sleeper suspect. thank you both for joining us. casey, the thing that strikes me and most people, is it normal for serial killers to take such long breaks or intervals between murders? it s relatively unusual. what makes a serial killer is not just the fact that they have three or more victims, but that they have a cooling off period between the victims. typically these last a few months, a few years. jeffrey dahmer had a gap, btk
detailed proposal, 88 pages, $8.4 million to implement. as you guessed it, still nothing. bear in mind, it s 1500ths of a percent that bp earned in the quarter before the spill. it s about 2.5 hundredths of a percent sandra bernstein estimated the spill would cost bp. i spoke about it earlier with dr. ira lifer. dr. leifer, it s been more than three weeks since congressman ed markey asked bp to give your group the green light to do this kind of testing to measure the flow rate, to measure the impact overall of the oil on the ecosystem. you ve heard nothing from bp is my understanding. why do you think that is? i really don t know. i wish they would pick up a phone and just give me a call so i can walk them through the proposal. the experiment is very important, i ve gotten very good feedback from scientists within the government and so on. i m hoping having the full technical proposal for their consideration they ll, too, recognize its importance and actually give me a call