Christine Pelisek

A 34-year-old woman was found burned to death inside her home in Valley Village, and police are asking for the public's help in solving the strange caper. According to police reports, firefighters were called to the 11500 block of Riverside Drive at approximately 7 p.m. Saturday. The Fire Department extinguished......

A 24-year-old man who was shot to death as he was getting into his car in Harbor City July 23 has been identified as Sergio Gamboa-Padilla. The shooting occurred around 7:15 p.m. Friday on Senator Avenue near West 256th Street. According to police reports, Gamboa-Padilla was entering his car when......

A man who was fatally shot in a Hollywood T-shirt store July 19 has been identified as 50-year-old Marc Douglas Bayar. Bayar, who was the property owner of the store located at 5400 Sunset Boulevard, allegedly was killed by his tenant in a dispute over unpaid rent. The tenant, who......

Los Angeles Police Department detectives recently released the name of a 16-year-old male who was killed in a drive by shooting on July 10. Raymond Bailey was shot on June 23 around 3 p.m. as he was standing in the area of 60th Street and San Pedro in South Los......

Los Angeles Police Department detectives are investigating an early-morning shooting that claimed the life of 35-year-old Jody Heard. The shooting in Skid Row occurred in the 600 block of South Maple Street, just a few feet from the LAPD's Central Police Station. According to police reports, an argument between Heard,......

Los Angeles Police Department detective Paul Coulter wrote in a search warrant released today that: "I believe there are additional, as yet unidentified, victims of Lonnie David Franklin Jr." Detectives admitted earlier this week that the alleged Grim Sleeper Franklin could be responsible for as many as 30 additional murders......

The Los Angeles County District Attorney released the search warrant in the case of the Grim Sleeper. The 23-page search warrant detailed the 11 alleged murders dating back to 1985 committed by 57-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr. The warrant also portrayed Franklin, a former army officer, as a lifetime crook......

A Los Angeles sex offender was sentenced today to 110 years for the sexual assault and murder of Alyssa Gomez, a 15-year-old runaway and foster kid who went by the street name Raven. Pitre was convicted in May of her murder. Pitre had only been out of prison for four......

His own son's DNA trail led directly to Grim Sleeper suspect Lonnie David Franklin Jr. Sources tell Los Angeles Weekly that the serial killer was caught through familial DNA testing after his son was arrested and had to give up a DNA swab. A month ago, LAPD detective Dennis Kilcoyne......