The lone known survivor of an attack by notorious Los Angeles serial killer the ‘Grim Sleeper’ has recounted how she was shot and raped after accepting a ride from him in 1988.
Enietra Washington, 57, opened up about her ordeal on Thursday during the trial of Lonnie Franklin Jr., 63, the man police accuse of being the Grim Sleeper.
Franklin is facing the death penalty for the murders of nine women and one 14-year-old between 1985 and 2007, though investigators now believe he may have killed up to 180 women.
Taking to the stand, Washington recalled the day she was attacked after being offered a ride by a man in an orange Ford Pinto while walking to a party at a friend’s house, the LA Times reports.
Washington said she initially turned the ride down, but the man kept up alongside her, asking her again and again to get into his car.
Eventually he told her ‘That’s what’s wrong with you black women. Men can’t be men to you.’ It was at that point she gave up, and got into the vehicle.
Washington recalled being taken to a house that the driver claimed belonged to his uncle in order to get some cash.
She said the man went inside and when he came back out he told her to toss her cigarette out the window before heading off in the wrong direction.
Washington said the man seemed confused, calling her Brenda, a name that police believe may have referred to a sex worker in the area that bears a resemblance to her.
Sensing something was amiss, Washington turned to her driver and said: ‘That’s not my name.’
The man turned to her, and Washington said she remembers a silence falling over the car before noticing blood spreading on to her top.
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