In the 1980’s a victim was linked to a string of murderers in the 1980’s. Lonnie Franklin is mostly known for being a serial killer, the Grim Sleeper. Throughout this documentary deviance is shown, one afternoon a man who worked for Lonnie who thought he was an insurance man received a car from Lonnie and he found splattered blood in the seats. Lonnie told his insurance man to set the car on fire and the man did so because nobody expected Lonnie to do anything that would cause harm and they never told him no. The environment Lonnie lived in influenced him, he lived in a very poor section of town, not many jobs, and bad schools. There were pictures found in Lonnie’s house of a lot of African American women more so than white, which I found interesting. I rate this documentary very highly because it shows how he took advantage of these women and …show more content…
The narration really showed how depressed the women were because they looked at the camera and you could see the pain in their eyes of how much damage it had done in their lives. This film appeals to emotion because I think it makes viewers sad to see that bad things like that actually do happen and to hear it from the victims even makes the heartbreak worse. It intends to make you realize how this man took advantage and it’s supposed to make you have empathy for the women. This film makes me more mad than it does sad because I put it in perspective and I feel so angry at Lonnie for doing that to these poor women that didn’t deserve any of that and could have had a bright future and then it made them have a dark mindset. The strengths for this film would be the way they interviewed people and showed how the people reacted to what Lonnie did. This film showed how emotional this situation made them feel, even after time had