![]() ![]() Little was finally captured in 2012 when Roberts, who now leads the LAPD’s cold case unit, obtained a warrant for his arrest based on DNA evidence. He would kill two women in Los Angeles that same year. He was convicted of assaulting a woman in San Diego in the 1980s but was released from prison in 1987. Little was arrested for murder in Florida in the early 1980s but acquitted. And even in cases in which Little’s DNA was found on a woman’s body, Roberts said his choice of victims could make it hard to pin a killing on him since genetic material from multiple men was sometimes found on the bodies of women working as prostitutes. As a result, he was less likely to leave DNA evidence at a crime scene. His crimes rarely elicited a public outcry, significant media attention or a major police response.Īlthough Little is believed to have attained sexual gratification from killing, Roberts said he rarely sexually assaulted his victims. Many of the lives he claimed belonged to “women that wouldn’t be missed,” as Roberts once put it. ![]() Operating largely in the Southeast and California, Little was able to stay undetected for decades partly because of his choice of victim. Samuel Little photographed after his arrest in May 1972 in Washington. ![]()
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