Christine Pelisek

Guilty: L.A. 'Westside Rapist' John Floyd Thomas Jr. Admits to Strangling 7 of His 30 Supposed Victims, Gets Life Term for Each

The Westside rapist, arrested in March 2009​Of the approximately 30 middle-aged white women police believe were raped, strangled or both by L.A. County resident John Floyd Thomas, Jr., now 74, in the 1970s and '80s, seven victims saw justice today when the notoriously prolific "Westside rapist ... More >>

COMMENT: DID KILLER SLIP AWAY?

Los Angeles Has A New Serial Murderer On The Loose: Authorities Connect Three Victims Killed Within 20-Year Span

Christine Pelisek helped to bring the 'Grim Sleeper' serial murder case to light in 2008.​Leave it to Christine Pelisek, the killer reporter who used work at the Weekly, to uncover a new serial murderer who's on-the-loose in Southern California. From her new base at the Daily Beast, Pelisek ... More >>

Former LA Weekly Staffer Christine Pelisek Praised By Columbia Journalism Review For Her Coverage Of 'Grim Sleeper' Serial Murder Case

Former LA Weekly staffer Christine Pelisek continues to receive praise for her 'Grim Sleeper' coverage.​The latest edition of CJR (Columbia Journalism Review) recognizes former LA Weekly staff writer Christine Pelisek for her work on the "Grim Sleeper" case. Woman hasn't been around the office ... More >>

Grim and Grimmer

Grim Sleeper: LA Weekly Staffer Christine Pelisek To Be Honored At City Hall For Coverage Of Serial Murder Investigation

Christine Pelisek.​LA Weekly staff writer Christine Pelisek was scheduled to be honored Wednesday for her work in keeping the Grim Sleeper serial murder case on the minds of police and the public and for unearthing details of the case that had gone undiscovered. City Councilman Bernard Park ... More >>

Dept. Of Too Soon: Who Will Play Media Characters In Grim Sleeper Saga?

FishblowlLA​Local media watchers at FishbowlLA wondered aloud on Thursday who would be cast to play news media characters if the Grim Sleeper case becomes a movie. Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek doggedly pursued the story and, with editor Jill Stewart (pictured), came up with the Grim Sleep ... More >>

Grim Sleeper Sleuth Christine Pelisek Tells Daily Beast: "How I tracked Lonnie David Franklin"

Serial killer sleuth Christine Pelisek​Award-winning Los Angeles Weekly crime reporter Christine Pelisek today reveals how she tracked the Grim Sleeper serial killer, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. An excerpt is below. Read it all in the Daily Beast. That day, in January 2006, was stranger than us ... More >>

MURDER, THEY WROTE

Breaking: Lonnie David Franklin Jr. Is Suspect In Grim Sleeper Serial Killings; Arrested Today

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: ​"How they caught Grim Sleeper suspect Lonnie David Franklin Jr: His own son's DNA trail led them straight to him." ​ By Dennis Romero, J. Patrick Coolican and Gene Maddaus [Updated at 6:18 p.m. with District Attorney Steve Cooley helping to explain, after the jump, how ... More >>

Grim Sleeper survivor Enietra Margette must be happiest woman alive with suspect arrest

Orly OlivierShe laughed in Grim Sleeper's face.​When Los Angeles Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek wrote the story of the Grim Sleeper's sole survivor -- gutsy Enietra Margette -- some of us in the media wondered how the churchgoing, life-loving woman could be so brave. After all, the horribl ... More >>

LA Weekly Journalists Recognized At Southern California Journalism Awards In Downtown Los Angeles

Anderson Cooper.​LA Weekly took home several awards, including Best Website for a News Organization, at the Los Angeles Press Club's 52nd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards gala, held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel downtown Sunday night. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a speech a ... More >>

Two LA Weekly Reporters Up For 'Journalists Of The Year' At L.A. Press Club Awards

Patrick Range McDonald.​Finalists for the Los Angeles Press Club's 52nd SoCal Journalism Awards were announced Friday, and they included LA Weekly staff writers Patrick Range McDonald and Christine Pelisek for "journalists of the year" in the over-50,000-circulation category. R. Scott Moxley o ... More >>

Runaway Teens

Going to Pot: L.A. Weekly’s Journalistic Standards?

When White Writers Do “Latino” Issues

Escalante Cover Story Spurs Race Ruckus

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Newsweek's Grim Sleeper Cover Story on Christine Pelisek Gets it Right On

If you are among the 100 people left in Los Angeles who did not hear about Newsweek's special True Crime issue (now on the stands, published on Monday), check out their piece, "Eleven and Counting," about the intertwined quests of L.A.Weekly investigative reporter Christine Pelisek and LAPD Detectiv ... More >>

Trutanich's Emergency Billboard Ban Approved by Los Angeles City Council

In his first big move to address a campaign promise, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich today sent one of his top attorneys to persuade the Los Angeles City Council to enact a flat-out, no exceptions ban on new billboards in Los Angeles, the capital of the illegal billboard industry.In an emergency acti ... More >>

L.A. Weekly: Why they’re still picking it up

Michael Jackson Memorial Tickets -- This One is the Closest You'll Ever Get

More than 1 million people tried to get tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial at Staples Center this morning, and the ticket scalpers promptly descended. We feel just terrible that we here at L.A. Weekly managed to grab an extra one just by promptly calling -- and not even using our press contacts, ... More >>

"Sunset Junction": One-Sided?

The Art of the Billboard

Readers of Christine Pelisek's ongoing coverage of the Billboard Wars know how difficult it is for communities of ordinary citizens to overcome the awesome economic firepower possessed by billboard companies -- companies that can seemingly turn around the votes of City Council Members with the tug o ... More >>

LA Weekly best in Southern California Journalism Awards in news, investigative, column, feature and political reporting

It was a huge, huge night for LA Weekly at the Los Angeles Press Club's awards gala in Universal City a few hours ago. Staff writer Christine Pelisek triple-swept in the Hard News, Investigative and News Feature categories for major newspapers with more than 100,000 circulation, beating the Los Ang ... More >>

Justice for Luis Santos, and the Prop. 8 Aftermath

Bad Rap: San Francisco Burritos, and a Man Named Herbie Gonzalez

Pelisek finalist at IRE against team of 14 journalists

Veteran L.A. Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek has been awarded the finalist prize by the globally prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. for that organization's highly coveted Tom Renner Award, which honors outstanding reported on organized crime or other criminal acts.Christine's am ... More >>

Grim Sleeper Updates: 'Nightline' Interviews Christine Pelisek, Jervey Tervalon Is Haunted By an Old Tip

Last Friday ABC television's Nightline program examined the Los Angeles serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper. The report featured an interview with L.A. Weekly writer Christine Pelisek, who broke the story that South L.A. had a serial killer operating in its midst -- even though the city and LAPD ... More >>

"Grim Sleeper" Story Stirs Comment

Plus, coffee talk with Jonathan Gold

Los Angeles City Hall offers $500,000 for Grim Sleeper

By Christine Pelisek In response to a four-month investigation by the L.A. Weekly that last week revealed the existence of an active serial killer who has been slaughtering people in South Los Angeles since 1985, the Los Angeles City Council voted today to reward $200,000 to any person who supplies ... More >>

Grim Sleeper's Victims

Eleven lives stolen and one lucky survivor

“Nikki Finke Is a Badass” ... and Other Judgmental Comments

It’s the season for journalism awards, and over the past two weeks L.A. Weekly has emerged with a significant number of fresh honors in four different contests. In the AltWeekly Awards, jointly administered by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and Northwestern University’s Medill Schoo ... More >>

Clear Channel Messed with LA Weekly and Lost!

Recently, reporter Christine Pelisek asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in L.A. - an embarrassing document that will show the public all 11,000 "points of blight" allowed on local streets by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Mayo ... More >>

To Get to the Other Side

Response to articles on Southwest Museum, Obama and more

Fired Up Over Pelisek; Marking Down Cooper

Our readers write

We�re Honored

L.A. Weekly ranks high in 2007 AltWeekly Awards finalists and L.A. Press Club finalists

Skid Row Staph

Body Count

Some of the unsolved, mostly prostitution-related deaths

Pay to Play

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It Ain�t Yellowstone, But It�s Home

Father Sarducci, Please Call Home

T&A Boot Camp

SHYLOCK 2000

Gamecock Confidential

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