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The following podcast includes adult situations and language.

Hello, this is Michael Connelly and you are listening to Murder Book.

This is the final episode of season two, the women who stop Sam Little.

And we're going to continue our roundtable discussion with LAPD Detective Missy Roberts,

the lead investigator in the case, best silver him in the prosecutor, and Jillian Lauren,

the journalist who Sam Little confesses to on a regular basis.

Little has been declared by the FBI as the most prolific serial killer in American history,

and these three women have all played a big part in the story.

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We'll play a chapter from the audiobook at the end of the podcast, so stay tuned for that.

Okay, let's continue with the questions from the listeners.

Conrad asked the question we already answered about whether someone might be in prison for a crime, Sam.

A murder, Sam, Sam Little committed.

So I just want to flip that around and ask in a different way.

As of now, as we're all sitting here, Little's confesses to 93 murders, and about 60 or less have been confirmed.

Do you think in other states that there could be any sort of a rush to judgment where Little became an easy way to lay off murders

by putting them on him since he's confessing over and over again, or with what you know about other investigations that are out there,

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