Christine Pelisek

Christine Pelisek is an awardwinning journalist who has been covering crime for almost 15 years most recently as a senior writer for People Magazine She previously worked at NewsweekDaily Beast and LA Weekly In 2008 while at the LA Weekly she broke the story that a serial killer who murdered women in South Los Angeles for decades had struck again in 2007 In 2009 she received a Finalist Prize Tom Renner Award for her Grim Sleeper investigation by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc That same year she won first place in Investigative Series Category for the Grim Sleeper stories at the 2009 Southern California Journalism Awards In March of 2014 Lifetime aired a feature movie about her role in the Grim Sleeper case She also wrote a book on the same case titled The Grim Sleeper Shes been profiled in the Los Angeles Times Newsweek Columbia Journalism Review and the Ottawa Sun and has been interviewed as a crime expert by CNN MSNBC Headline News and the Nancy Grace Show She is known for Mind of a Monster 2019 People Magazine Investigates 2016 and Thinking Sideways Podcast 2013