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Frank Floyd Reed, a 36-year-old Black male, was one of the victims in a chilling series of murders that plagued the Skid Row area of Los Angeles in late 1978. On November 12 of that year, Reed was found stabbed to death in a parking lot, his murder occurring during a particularly violent stretch in which multiple victims were targeted in rapid succession. That same day, another man—49-year-old Augustine E. Luna—was also killed, suggesting a double homicide by the same assailant. The killings ...Read More
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Frank Floyd Reed
Male
Black / African American
Los Angeles
CA
1978-11-12
36
Frank
Floyd Reed
11/22/2025
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I was reading through old news clippings about the Skid Row Stabber and stumbled upon something that... ...Read More
08/08/2024
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I was just reading through some old articles about the Skid Row murders, and I can't stop thinking a... ...Read More
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