EXCERPT
For two decades he brutally murdered dozens of prostitutes and other women on the society’s margins. Here's a look at Christine Pelisek's book about the manhunt and the victims.
Christine Pelisek is a staff reporter for The Daily Beast, covering crime. She was previously a reporter at the LA Weekly, where she covered crime for the last five years. In 2008 she won three Los Angeles Press Club awards, one for her investigative story on the Grim Sleeper.
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