Los Angeles serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper,” who preyed on destitute and vulnerable black women for over three decades, was convicted on Thursday of murdering 10 people. His victim’s families can now reconcile with the memory of their loved ones. Christian Science Monitor reports: It took decades for an arrest to occur, and even more time passed before a conviction was reached. But on Thursday a jury in Los Angeles County convicted Lonnie Franklin Jr., a former garbage man and mechanic, guilty of 10 murders. Mr. Franklin earned the “Grim Sleeper” moniker for a spate of killings that occurred between 1985 and 1988, and another group of murders that happened 14 years later, between 2002 and 2007. Police have also collected evidence that links Franklin to at least six other killings that happened during that gap that are still unresolved. “It took all this time, but we got him,” Porter Alexander Jr., the father of one of the victims, told The Associated Press. Members of the community complained that police didn’t thoroughly investigate the killings because of the victims’ racial and socioeconomic standing. Franklin preyed on young, black women, some of whom were prostitutes and drug users, at [...]