The Los Angeles Police Department was inundated with hundreds of phone calls, e-mails and other tips a day after detectives released photographs of unidentified women found in a trailer belonging to alleged serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr.
“The information coming in is voluminous,” said Det. Dennis Kilcoyne, who headed the task force that searched for Franklin. Officers, he said, have fielded “hundreds upon hundreds” of phone calls, as well as e-mails and text messages that flooded in through various hotlines and online accounts the department uses.
When Franklin, who is accused of sexually assaulting and murdering 10 African American women in South L.A., was arrested in July, authorities found a disturbing trove of about 1,000 photographs and hundreds of hours of video of women. Some of the images appeared to be innocent snapshots, but most showed the women in various states of undress and striking sexual poses.
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