CA CA- LA County, BlkFem, 20s, Serial killer Sam Little claims he left her body draped over a rail near a convenience store. Likely killed in 1987

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Little had a photographic memory and was able to describe where he met and killed the victims, where he left their bodies and what the victims looked like. Little lacked the ability to accurately judge timeframes and distance. At times, Little was proven to be off by more than 10 years and 40 miles. Therefore, years and distances provided in the linked narratives should not be considered definitive. Little stated he strangled all of his victims, with the exception of two who were drowned, and was adamant he never shot or stabbed them. Investigators say the manner in which Little killed his victims was more reminiscent to suffocation then strangulation, in that several of his victims did not have broken or fractured hyoid bones in the throat. Multiple victims' deaths were misclassified in autopsy reports and listed as drug overdoses or natural deaths.

Los Angeles, California, Black Female: In approximately February, March, or April of 1987, while driving his black Thunderbird, Little met a slender 5’ 7” to 5’ 10” tall, 120 pound, “pretty yellow skinned” black female that was a “crackhead,” at Tams Hamburger stand located at 51st Street and Central Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The woman lived in the motel next to the hamburger stand. The black female was wearing a mini skirt style sun dress. The woman got into Little’s vehicle and they drove to a laundry matt on Central Avenue, closer to downtown (possibly at the intersection of Martin Luther King). Little parked near vegetation in the parking lot of the laundromat. Little and the black female both climbed onto the back seat and he strangled the woman until she passed out. After the woman came to, Little strangled her again. Little drove “all the way-out Central Avenue past Imperial Avenue” until he got to a Seven Eleven type convenient store (possibly he took a right off Central Avenue). Little pulled the black female into the vacant lot next to the convenient store and dragged the woman to a rail. The woman became “hung up on the rail,” and Little left her on the iron pipe rail next to the convenient store. Little left the woman clothed in a dress and shoes. Facing the convenient store, Little left the woman on the right side of the store, approximately 20 feet away from the store. There were trees and vegetation in the vacant lot next to a big field. Little thought he was in the county.

TRANSCRIPT INFO: Little killed a black female in Los Angeles and left her body on a rail next to a convenient store. Little met the woman at 51st and Central in a motel next store to Tam’s Hamburgers. The woman walked from the motel to the Tam’s parking lot. Little described the woman as being approximately 5’ 5” to 5’ 6” tall with light “honey colored” skin. The woman weighed approximately 120 to 125 pounds and was approximately 23 years old. After Little met the woman at Tam’s, he rode around with her for a while “way down Central Avenue off of Martin Luther King, I think it was, that’s where I killed her at right there.” Little drove the woman’s body “straight out Central Avenue somewhere or another, I got off Central Avenue, I guess, cause I didn’t see it no more…one of those

7-11’s with a rail on there in front of …it was late at night…I laid her right there on the rail, I thought she was gonna fall over, a little car rail, but she didn’t, she fell half way, that’s the way they found, half standing up on that rail.” Little stated he drove down Central Avenue way past Imperial, and it “was a mystery how I got off Central.” Little mentioned he could have been in “Long Beach.” Little left the woman’s body on the rail at 2:00 or 3:00 AM, and he thought he killed this woman in 1987.

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