Less than dead: Samuel Little and Lonnie Franklin

Among those victims criminologist Steven Egger refers to as the "Less than Dead" female prostitutes are the most represented demographic, especially those in high risk environments such as in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver or in Los Angeles, where at the height of the crack epidemic the targeting of those in crimed sometimes referred to as NHI, or No Humans involved. Lonnie Franklin jr, now known as the Grim Sleeper, was the primary figure among over a half dozen serial killers stalking black neighborhoods in LA during this time, one of them also being Samuel Little, the most prolific serial murderer on record in US history, who got out of jail in 1987 as the crack epidemic peaked and promptly killed 10 women, though this was but a small part of a minor epidemic of predation on those whose death meant less to society than if they had never lived