Twenty-two years after Lonnie Franklin Jr. shot her, Enietra Washington was shown a Polaroid photograph. It was her — twenty-seven years old, unconscious, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest, slumped in the passenger seat of an orange Ford Pinto. Franklin had taken it as a trophy and stored it in his garage alongside over a thousand other photos of women.

The Grim Sleeper killed at least ten women in South LA between 1985 and 2007. He was caught through familial DNA in 2010 — twenty-five years after his first confirmed kill. The LAPD had known about the serial pattern since 1988 and concealed it from the public for two decades.

Enietra's words from the witness stand in 2016: "You are truly a piece of evil. You're right up there with Manson." Her words from 2022: "I don't consider myself a survivor. I'm a conqueror." The final episode of Surviving Serial Killers on History's Hidden Killers — the most damning institutional failure in the entire series.

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