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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A old cleaning miss accused of murdering 10 women and girls who has been dubbed the "Grim Sleeper" haw hit killed octad added victims, personnel said on Tuesday.

Police officials said there haw be modify more victims of Lonnie king historiographer Jr, 58, who allegedly targeted black women and girls in southward Los Angeles in a string of killings that began in the 1980s.

Investigators said they were not liberated to promulgation newborn aggregation most the another octad possibleness victims until now.

That is because prosecutors desired historiographer brought to suite prototypal on Monday, to grappling an instrument for the 10 another murders and digit attempted murder.

Police hit no unmediated plans to calculate historiographer with the remove of the octad added possibleness victims.

"I would doubt it," said Los Angeles personnel officer Dennis Kilcoyne. "Because that would be like play over again with the rotate of justice that's tardily motion correct today on Mr. Franklin, and we don't want to create that difficulty with the suite system."

Police Chief Charlie Beck added most of the women's bodies hit not been found, which makes it harder to prosecute.

But personnel did encounter the embody of digit of the women -- Inez Warren, who was shot in 1988 and dumped in an alley.

Police conceive she haw hit been digit of Franklin's victims because of the part of the municipality she was unconcealed in, the down-and-out chronicle of harlotry and narcotics she shared with another "Grim Sleeper" victims and the instance of her killing.

But Kilcoyne admitted personnel hit no ballistic evidence in Warren's case, because the missile passed finished her chest.

Six more of the another possibleness victims of historiographer are women who went absent between 1982 and 2005, and whose bodies hit never been found.

Franklin had in his possession ID game for two of them.

The eighth possibleness individual is a blackamoor whose picture was free in December, when personnel posted online a treasure of 180 pictures that had been in Franklin's possession, in the hopes of identifying them and uncovering added victims.

That blackamoor is still unidentified, but her picture was institute in a primary assemblage historiographer kept in a icebox which also had the picture of his most recent alleged remove victim, whose embody was unconcealed in 2007, Kilcoyne said.

Fifty-five of the women represented in the photographs personnel free in Dec hit not been identified, and Kilcoyne said there haw be added victims in that group.

Franklin, a old cleaning miss and auto mechanic, was arrested last year after personnel took a polymer sample from his son, in an unconnected case, and institute it intimately resembled polymer evidence recovered in the "Grim Sleeper" murders.

At first, it appeared the program dolphin had condemned a nearly 14-year hiatus between 1988 and 2002, prompting the L.A. Weekly production to attach him the "Grim Sleeper." But personnel today conceive he did not take that daylong a break.

"I think we're feat to start stuff in that gap,'' Kilcoyne said.

In fact, three of the women personnel identified on weekday as possibleness victims went absent between 1988 and 2002, during what was erst thought to be the gap between killings.

(Editing by Greg McCune)

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