{{unreferenced, date=April 2022 The Southside Slayer was a collective

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used by the media and police to what was initially believed to be a single serial killer who killed upwards of a hundred predominantly black prostitutes in the

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area from the 1980s to the 1990s. It later turned out that the killings were committed by several different, unrelated murderers who coincidentally operated in the same area and timeframe.

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Louis Craine Louis Craine (January 6, 1957 – November 3, 1989) was an American serial killer who committed at least four rape-murders in South Los Angeles, in the period between 1985 and 1987. He was convicted for these crimes in 1989, and was sentenced to ...

(1957–1989): two out of his four confirmed murders, from 1984 to 1987, were linked to the case; guilt has been questioned *

Ivan Hill Ivan Jerome Hill (born March 30, 1961), also known by his nickname The 60 Freeway Killer, is an American serial killer who raped and murdered at least eight women in Los Angeles between 1986 and 1994. Hill dumped his victims' corpses along the Ea ...

(born 1961): committed at least one of the killings, linked to a total of eight unrelated murders from 1979 to 1994; suspect in others * Michael Hughes (born 1958): committed at least one of the killings, linked to a total of six unrelated murders from 1986 to 1993; suspect in others, including in the states of

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and

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* Lonnie Franklin (1952–2020): committed at least one of the killings, linked to a total of nine unrelated murders from 1984 to 2007; suspect in others *

Daniel Lee Siebert Daniel Lee Siebert (June 17, 1954 – April 22, 2008) was an American serial killer on Alabama's death row. He was convicted of three murders and confessed to at least five. During questioning he indicated that he was responsible for at least 1 ...

(1954–2008): committed at least one of the killings, linked to a total of nine unrelated murders across multiple states from 1979 to 1986; suspect in three others *

Chester Turner Chester Dewayne Turner (born November 5, 1966) is an American serial killer and sex offender who was sentenced to death for sexually assaulting and murdering fourteen women in Los Angeles between 1987 and 1998. Turner spent much of his adult li ...

(born 1966): committed at least one of the killings, linked to a total of fourteen unrelated murders from 1987 to 1998; suspect in others

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