Updates on the Los Angeles “Grim Sleeper” and “Westside Rapist” Serial Murder Cases, from David in Tennessee

Updated at 1:54 a.m., on Tuesday, August 24, 2010.
Last updated at 2:02 a.m., on Tuesday, August 24, 2010.

[My reader-researcher David in Tennessee just wrote, regarding two black, alleged Los Angeles serial killers.]
 

The Grim Sleeper 
The Grim Sleeper defendant, Lonnie Franklin Jr. (charged in the murders of ten black women, and suspected in as many as 31 other murders), was arraigned in LA today, and pleaded not guilty. His next appearance is scheduled for September 14. Will a date for the preliminary hearing be set?
 

Recent picture of "Grim Sleeper" defendant Lonnie Franklin Jr., 57.
 

John Floyd Thomas Jr. (suspected in the murders of 30 elderly white women), the Westside Rapist suspect, has a court date in October. The proceedings in this case are going as slow as frozen molasses, to use a Tennessee expression.
 

April, 2009 mug shot of "Westside Rapist" defendant John Floyd Thomas Jr., now 73.