Ina Wilson first encounters L.F., ( later known as the Grimm Sleeper, convicted and sentenced to death serial killer Lonnie Franklin)as a teenage crack dealer as he cruised the streets of the West Side of South Central, Los Angeles, looking for victims. As Ina Wilson's life descends into drug addiction and repeated incarceration over a twenty year period, she indirectly has contact with the Grimm Sleeper, who kills many of her friends and colleagues, until 2006 when she finds herself directly in the Grimm Sleeper's grasp, and barely escapes with her life .