Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 06/09/1982
- Missing From:
- Missing From Los Angeles, California
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race Black
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 03/17/1950 (74)
- Age:
- Age 32 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’3, 115 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A short-sleeved white shirt, pink knit pants with white trim and blue/black footies.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Davis may use the last name Grey (may be spelled “Gray”). She may spell her first name “Catherine.”
- Details of Disappearance:
- Davis disappeared in Los Angeles on June 9, 1982. Her family thinks she might have been killed by the “Grim Sleeper,” a serial killer who murdered several African-American women in the 1980s and again starting in 2002. The Grim Sleeper, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., was caught, convicted, and sentenced to death in 2016 for ten murders, but police believe he may have killed many more. He died in prison in 2020.
Because Davis disappeared around the same time as some of the Grim Sleeper’s killings, and because she shared some characteristics with his known victims (being involved in drugs and prostitution), her family suspects a connection. Police found photos and videos of many women at Franklin’s home, and some missing women were identified through those materials. However, police haven’t confirmed Davis was one of his victims, and her disappearance remains a mystery.
- Agency:
- Los Angeles Police Department 213-485-5381
- Source Links:
This person was missing Missing Since 06/09/1982