Cracks in the System

Murder Book

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 6 - An acquittal in a Florida murder case is followed by dozens and dozens of murders. In San Diego another chance to put this man away for good slips away. Little is literally caught by police officers in the act of strangling a woman. But the case goes sideways, he takes a deal and serves only two years. The officer who caught him laments the case’s outcome and the murders that could have been avoided.

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0:00.0	First, a program note.
0:03.6	The following podcast includes adult situations and language.
0:08.6	The trail of suspected serial killer Sam Little brought Detective Mitzi Roberts to San Diego
0:14.0	next.
0:15.6	Back in 1984, Little had been caught in the act.
0:18.9	Two San Diego police officers happened upon him in the backseat of a car parked in a
0:23.9	dark empty lot.
0:26.2	They lit the car up and caught Little in the midst of strangling a woman.
0:31.1	They saved her life.
0:33.5	That was the good news.
0:35.3	The bad news is what happened after.
0:37.9	There was a chance here to stop Sam Little and put him behind bars for a long, long time.
0:44.5	But that didn't happen.
0:46.3	And it seems to me that San Diego stopped on his violent path serves as a testament to
0:51.9	the cracks in the justice system, as well as the failings of society in this case.
0:58.7	To me, it's the one story that stands for the whole story.
1:02.5	It shows that in some cases, even the best efforts of good people could not keep this man from
1:08.5	killing over and over again.
1:12.5	We're going to examine the San Diego case now, both the good and the bad of it, the uplifting
1:19.2	and the sad.
1:21.2	I'm Michael Connolly, and this is Murderbook.
1:24.6	You know, when I saw where I thought she was dead.
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