Nick Broomfield, director of the new documentary Tales of the Grim Sleeper, on police neglect in Los Angeles and its 25-year serial killer case.
By Paul Schrodt
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Nick Broomfield has made a career of going places you’re not supposed to go. Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam exposed a backdoor world of Hollywood unlike anything ever before recorded, and Kurt & Courtney, Biggie and Tupac, and the British documentarian’s other films have unearthed candid new angles on familiar stories about fame and misfortune. This time he’s tackled a decades-old serial killer case in Los Angeles, for which Lonnie Franklin Jr. was arrested in 2010 (his trial is set to begin in June, after several years of delays).