In August 1985, Franklin claimed the first of his known victims, 29-year-old Debra Jackson. “The other guys did their whole time.” Lonnie Franklin's Victims “We don’t know why he got out,” LAPD detective Daryn Dupree told the outlet in 2016. He also received a general discharge from the Army, according to People magazine. Franklin was sentenced to about three years in prison, although he would serve less than a year. The three were arrested and charged with two counts of theft, one count of misdemeanor assault and one count of battery. During the attack, the soldiers took photographs of the attack, an action that Franklin would repeat when he began killing women in the 1980s, reported Los Angeles’ ABC 7. Army, Franklin and two other men kidnapped and raped a 17-year-old girl. In 1974, while stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, as a private in the U.S. Despite his friendly demeanor, he had an arrest record and a history of sexual violence going back to the 1970s, according to the Times. He was a good mechanic, who fixed his neighbors’ cars on the cheap, and at one point, he even worked as a garage attendant at the LAPD’s 77th Street Division station nearby.
To friends and neighbors, Franklin seemed like a regular guy with a wife and two kids, reported The Los Angeles Times.
In 2003, the city would change its name to “South Los Angeles,” in order to distance itself from those troubled times. With murder rates on the rise, it was the perfect climate for a serial killer to hide in plain sight. Historically the home of Los Angeles’ Black community, South Central earned a poor reputation in the 1980s due to escalating gang activity and drug problems. Born in 1952, Franklin grew up in the same neighborhoods where he hunted for victims.
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