EVIL AMONG US: THE GRIM SLEEPER on Tubi is a true crime documentary about the serial killer The Grim Sleeper. He almost got away with it but then science finally caught up. Read our full Evil Among Us: The Grim Sleeper documentary review here!
EVIL AMONG US: THE GRIM SLEEPER is a new Tubi true crime documentary. The runtime is around 80 minutes (without commercials), so it doesn’t run for too long.
Also, like the previous installments of Evil Among Us on Tubi, it tells the story of the perpetrator. However, it doesn’t neglect at also remembering the victims. In fact, the one surviving victim (that we know of) is part of this documentary.
Continue reading our Evil Among Us: The Grim Sleeper documentary review below. Find it on Tubi from November 6, 2024.
One of the most infamous serial killers
The serial killer known as “The Grim Sleeper” was also called the “Southside Slasher” and the “25 Auto Killer” while an active serial killer. And he almost got away with murder. Well, many murders.
The recipe for this was an understaffed and overworked LAPD who could not (and frankly would not!) prioritize these murders. Why? Because the victims were usually addicts working the streets to make money. Also, they were usually black.
Somehow, it seemed that these women were expendable. Or, at the very least, no one was hounding the homicide detective for news in the investigation.
Still, with the amount of murders he committed, he ended up as one of the most infamous serial killers in the US. For this reason alone, it makes sense that the latest Evil Among Us installment is about The Grim Sleeper.
Science strikes again!
As shown in this installment of Evil Among Us, the serial killer almost got away with it. Or rather, he did manage to get away with it for a long time.
The span of his crimes was from 1984 to 2007, and he was arrested in 2010 and sentenced in 2016. Ultimately, we’re talking 10-25 victims with 1 known survivor who was able to take part in the trial.
When Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was finally caught it was thanks to science. DNA from a new victim could be linked to many previous victims.
In that sense, the case of The Grim Sleeper isn’t unlike The Golden State Killer, who was also finally caught in 2018. This was when DNA could finally be matched to Joseph James DeAngelo.
The moniker “The Grim Sleeper” came from Lonnie David Franklin Jr. having supposedly been “on a break” from killing anyone from 1988 to 2002. Of course, most people recognize that the more likely scenario is that there are many more victims of this serial killer.
Watch Evil Among Us: The Grim Sleeper on Tubi now!
The director of Evil Among Us: The Grim Sleeper is Victoria Drew. She previously produced the Tubi Originals Love You to Death: Playbook for Murder and Love You to Death: For Love or Money.
The writer is Savannah Lucas, who previously wrote on the Tubi Original Love You to Death: The Jodi Arias Story. Also, she’s a writer on the Tubi docu-series Ms. Murder which we’ve reviewed here >
If you need to watch something other than news about the US election, then this might be a nice break. This one has a “happy” and very definitive ending, which may be exactly what many people need in this time of uncertainty.
Evil Among Us: The Grim Sleeper is out on Tubi on November 6, 2024.
Plot
The Grim Sleeper, one of the nation’s most infamous serial killers, remained undetected for decades—until a shocking breakthrough changed everything.
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