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Two murders, 20 days and two miles apart in Los Angeles in 1989.

DNA from the same man found on both of the dead women's bodies.

LAPD Detective Missy Roberts believed she had the makings of a slam dunk case,

but what she didn't have was the killer.

Identified as Samuel Little in 2012, the suspect was in the wind,

and it was up to Detective Roberts and the members of the cold case unit

to find him and get him off the street.

It was a task easier said than done.

In a life of crime, Little had been arrested more than 100 times in 24 different states.

Where do you even start looking for a man like that?

A Michael Connolly, and this is Murderbook.

This is episode two of Season Two, the women who stop Sam Little.

Okay, so DNA matching links Sam Little to the murders of Audrey Nelson and Guadalupe, Apidaca,

both women who were caught up in the crack epidemic that swept Los Angeles

and many other cities in the late 1980s.

That same period was a time of predators in LA.

There were at least four separate serial killers targeting women on the fringe.

Drug users, street prostitutes, women who would trade sex for drugs.

The demise of these women did not get much attention from the police, the media, or society.

But two decades later, the Nelson and Apidaca cases were connected to Sam Little,

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