The case of Los Angeles’ notorious “Grim Sleeper” serial killer is getting a TV movie treatment with Lifetime‘s The Grim Sleeper starring Dreama Walker (Don’t Trust The B—-) and co-starring actress-singer Macy Gray (Training Day), Ernie Hudson (Call Me Crazy), and Michael O’Neill (Dallas Buyers Club). It will be directed by Stanley M. Brooks in the veteran TV movie producer’s return to the genre.

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THE GRIM SLEEPER is written by Robert Nathan (Law & Order) and Teena Booth (The Drew Peterson Story) and follows the victims and lone survivor of the ‘Grim Sleeper’, a serial killer responsible for murders of women in Los Angeles between 1985 and 2009. One suspect, Lonnie David Franklin, was arrested in 2010 but has yet to stand trial.

The movie will follow LA Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek, played by Walker, and her in-depth investigations into the ‘Grim Sleeper’ – a term the journalist coined. Enietra ‘Margette’ Washington, who will be played by Gray, is the only known survivor of the killer. Hudson and O’Neill will portray officers investigating the case.

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