Regina Hall works in the world of fiction, but true crime is a passion that she has been able to incorporate into her professional life.
The actress serves as narrator on a new A&E documentary, Cold Case Files: The Grim Sleeper, which tells the story of convicted serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr., who terrorized South Central Los Angeles for more than two decades starting in the 1980s.
Hall told CNN she didn’t know much about the Grim Sleeper case before she signed on to the project, but learned a lot more about it later.
I was very happy that those victims got to speak honestly and candidly about what was happening during that time and how they felt unheard and unseen, she said about the victims who escaped and the family and friends of those who died. I really didn’t know about it. I was actually shocked. It certainly didn’t necessarily – I’m sure back then – fit the profile of what people thought a serial killer would be.
That’s because Franklin was a rare serial killer in that he was Black and also took years off in between his crimes.
Franklin, who preyed on women until his arrest in 2010, died at 67 in prison in 2020 after being found unresponsive in his cell.
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