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7/9/23 Update: FBI Investigating Cold Case Files. Unsolved murder of Joyce Malecki in Nov 1969 Glen Burnie MD has serial killer Samuel Little's paw prints all over it she was beaten, strangled, raped & left on a military base just weeks after he got out of prison in Baltimore.
and I knew his name sounded familiar - he was convicted of
TX - Denise Christie Brothers (38) (Feb. 2, 1994, Odessa) - *Samual Little, aka Samuel Little & Samual/Samuel McDowell (78) indicted (7/16/18) & arraigned (7/23/18) for 1st degree murder. Confessed to killing. Held without bail. Ector County Case# A-18-1415-CR
He was extradited from California & brought to Ector County in Texas. Little has cooperated and provided details for more than 90 murders going back to the 1970s, Wise County officials said.
He’s suspected of killing women in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, California, Indiana, Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina between 1970 & 2005. The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have also interviewed him.
Trial set for 1/7/19.
12/14/18 Update: Plead guilty to all charges. Little, who is in poor health and relies on a wheelchair, offered his confessions as a bargaining chip to be moved from the Los Angeles County prison where he was being held, the FBI said last month. It said he'll likely stay in jail in Texas until his death. Received a life sentence.
CA - Carol Alford (41) (found dead on July 13, 1987), Audrey Nelson (35) (whose body was discovered Aug. 14, 1989) & Guadalupe Apodaca (46) (found Sept. 2, 1989) -*Samual Little was arrested (9/5/12) & indicted (1/7/13) with 3 counts of 1st degree murder. Plead not guilty. Held without bail.
January, 2013: DNA evidence cases were linked to him through the California Department of Justice's DNA Combined Internet Index System (CODIS) offender databank earlier this year on the Audrey Nelson & Guadalupe Apodaca cases. Alford case DNA linked on 11/27/12.
Sept., 2014: Jurors deliberated just two hours before convicting him of three counts of first-degree murder. Sentenced 9/25/14 to three consecutive terms of life in prison without chance of parole.
Little waived extradition & was brought to Los Angeles in October, 2012. His alleged crimes were sexually motivated strangulations, targeting women with high risk life styles, some of them prostitutes.
Dec. 1976: Little is convicted of assaulting Pamela Kay Smith in Sunset Hills, Mo., with the intent to ravish-rape and is sentenced to three months in county jail.
Little was accused to two murders & two attempted murders in Gainesville, Fla., & Pascagoula, Miss. in the early 80's. Back then he was known as Samual McDowell. He avoided conviction in those cases.
Little was acquitted (Jan., 1984) by a Florida jury in the strangulation murder of 26-year-old Patricia Ann Mount, whose body was discovered Sept. 12, 1982 in rural Forest Grove, Fla.
He was never brought to trial in the three Mississippi cases, which include the strangulation death of Melinda LaPree, 24, on Sept. 14, 1982 in Gautier, Miss. cemetery. That case has been reopened by the Pascagoula Police Department in light of new evidence, authorities said. During the [Melinda LaPree] investigation two prostitutes come forward & allege Little also assaulted them in Pascagoula in 1980 & 1981.
Police are now investigating if he is connected to any other cases. Little also served two years in a San Diego prison after being convicted of assault & false imprisonment of two San Diego women in separate cases. Shortly after being paroled, he moved to Los Angeles.
Marion County Sheriffs Office detectives have solved the 1982 homicide case of 56-year-old Rosie Hill after serial killer Samuel Little confessed to her murder. He recently confessed to committing more than 90 homicides of women over four decades across the United States, including two homicides in Macon -- one near Washington Park in 1982 and another off Riverside Dr. in 1977. Deputies say Little used to frequent Macon -- and he even worked for the Macon city sanitation department in 1975 at the time of a DUI arrest where he provided officers with the fake name "William Lewis." Confessed to committing a homicide that took place on August 19, 1982, near Washington Park. A female’s body was found in the back yard of a residence on Magnolia Street. The female was found to have been strangled to death was that of Fredonia Smith.
Little provided details on two killings in Houma, Louisiana, Dorothy Richard, 59, was found dead in 1982, and the body of Daisy McGuire, 40, was discovered in 1996. Both Denise Christie Brothers was 38 years old when she vanished in the winter of 1994. She had last been seen alive in a motel parking lot in Odessa, Texas and was reported missing on Jan. 1. Her body was discovered a month later in a vacant lot only blocks away, authorities said. She had been strangled.
12/30/20 Update: Little died in prison at age 80.
7/9/23 Update: FBI Investigating Cold Case Files. Unsolved murder of Joyce Malecki in Nov 1969 Glen Burnie MD has serial killer Samuel Little's paw prints all over it she was beaten, strangled, raped & left on a military base just weeks after he got out of prison in Baltimore.
and I knew his name sounded familiar - he was convicted of
TX - Denise Christie Brothers (38) (Feb. 2, 1994, Odessa) - *Samual Little, aka Samuel Little & Samual/Samuel McDowell (78) indicted (7/16/18) & arraigned (7/23/18) for 1st degree murder. Confessed to killing. Held without bail. Ector County Case# A-18-1415-CR
He was extradited from California & brought to Ector County in Texas. Little has cooperated and provided details for more than 90 murders going back to the 1970s, Wise County officials said.
He’s suspected of killing women in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, California, Indiana, Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina between 1970 & 2005. The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have also interviewed him.
Trial set for 1/7/19.
12/14/18 Update: Plead guilty to all charges. Little, who is in poor health and relies on a wheelchair, offered his confessions as a bargaining chip to be moved from the Los Angeles County prison where he was being held, the FBI said last month. It said he'll likely stay in jail in Texas until his death. Received a life sentence.
CA - Carol Alford (41) (found dead on July 13, 1987), Audrey Nelson (35) (whose body was discovered Aug. 14, 1989) & Guadalupe Apodaca (46) (found Sept. 2, 1989) -*Samual Little was arrested (9/5/12) & indicted (1/7/13) with 3 counts of 1st degree murder. Plead not guilty. Held without bail.
January, 2013: DNA evidence cases were linked to him through the California Department of Justice's DNA Combined Internet Index System (CODIS) offender databank earlier this year on the Audrey Nelson & Guadalupe Apodaca cases. Alford case DNA linked on 11/27/12.
Sept., 2014: Jurors deliberated just two hours before convicting him of three counts of first-degree murder. Sentenced 9/25/14 to three consecutive terms of life in prison without chance of parole.
Little waived extradition & was brought to Los Angeles in October, 2012. His alleged crimes were sexually motivated strangulations, targeting women with high risk life styles, some of them prostitutes.
Dec. 1976: Little is convicted of assaulting Pamela Kay Smith in Sunset Hills, Mo., with the intent to ravish-rape and is sentenced to three months in county jail.
Little was accused to two murders & two attempted murders in Gainesville, Fla., & Pascagoula, Miss. in the early 80's. Back then he was known as Samual McDowell. He avoided conviction in those cases.
Little was acquitted (Jan., 1984) by a Florida jury in the strangulation murder of 26-year-old Patricia Ann Mount, whose body was discovered Sept. 12, 1982 in rural Forest Grove, Fla.
He was never brought to trial in the three Mississippi cases, which include the strangulation death of Melinda LaPree, 24, on Sept. 14, 1982 in Gautier, Miss. cemetery. That case has been reopened by the Pascagoula Police Department in light of new evidence, authorities said. During the [Melinda LaPree] investigation two prostitutes come forward & allege Little also assaulted them in Pascagoula in 1980 & 1981.
Police are now investigating if he is connected to any other cases. Little also served two years in a San Diego prison after being convicted of assault & false imprisonment of two San Diego women in separate cases. Shortly after being paroled, he moved to Los Angeles.
Marion County Sheriffs Office detectives have solved the 1982 homicide case of 56-year-old Rosie Hill after serial killer Samuel Little confessed to her murder. He recently confessed to committing more than 90 homicides of women over four decades across the United States, including two homicides in Macon -- one near Washington Park in 1982 and another off Riverside Dr. in 1977. Deputies say Little used to frequent Macon -- and he even worked for the Macon city sanitation department in 1975 at the time of a DUI arrest where he provided officers with the fake name "William Lewis." Confessed to committing a homicide that took place on August 19, 1982, near Washington Park. A female’s body was found in the back yard of a residence on Magnolia Street. The female was found to have been strangled to death was that of Fredonia Smith.
Little provided details on two killings in Houma, Louisiana, Dorothy Richard, 59, was found dead in 1982, and the body of Daisy McGuire, 40, was discovered in 1996. Both Denise Christie Brothers was 38 years old when she vanished in the winter of 1994. She had last been seen alive in a motel parking lot in Odessa, Texas and was reported missing on Jan. 1. Her body was discovered a month later in a vacant lot only blocks away, authorities said. She had been strangled.
12/30/20 Update: Little died in prison at age 80.
