Those detectives determined that Little often delivered a knockout punch to women and then proceeded to strangle them while masturbating, dumping the bodies and soon after leaving town.
His criminal history includes offenses committed in 24 states spread over 56 years - mostly assault, burglary, armed robbery, shoplifting and drug violations. Los Angeles cold-case detectives at the time suspected Little was a serial killer, a transient and former boxer who traveled the country preying on drug addicts, troubled women and others. DNA evidence collected from old crime scenes was used to match samples of his stored in a criminal database. Little was brought to Texas for questioning in the case from California, where he was convicted in 2014 in the deaths years earlier of the three women in Los Angeles County. He has a court appearance scheduled for Nov. Jail records don’t indicate whether he has an attorney. Little was being held without bond Thursday in the Ector County jail on a murder charge relating to Brothers’ death. DPS did not respond to requests Thursday to speak with Holland. The rangers are an elite team of investigators within the Texas Department of Public Safety. Holland eventually elicited a confession from Little and admissions to dozens of other killings from about 1970 to 2005, Bland said. Her body was found about a month later in a vacant lot. Authorities at the time were looking for possible links to deaths in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Texas.īland said Little recently provided details to Texas Ranger James Holland that showed Little was in Odessa, Texas, when Denise Christie Brothers was last seen in 1994.
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He was convicted in 2000 in the deaths of 15.ĭuring his 2014 trial in Los Angeles, prosecutors said Little was likely responsible for at least 40 killings since 1980. John Wayne Gacy killed at least 33 boys and young men in the 1970s.Īrguably one of the deadliest globally was an English general practitioner named Harold Shipman, who an investigative panel determined was responsible for the deaths of 250. Ted Bundy confessed to 30 homicides from about 1974 to 1978. If the number of killings Little claims to have committed proves true, it would make him one of the most prolific killers in U.S. “So far we don’t have any false information coming from him.” “They’re able to match up over 30 cases so far,” Bland said. Little was brought to Texas in September, and investigators with law enforcement agencies in several states traveled to speak with him about unsolved homicides.
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