The Road Goes On Forever

Murder Book

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 10 - Final thoughts and reporting on the Sam Little case. The LAPD went on two ride alongs with Sam Little in an effort to clear the 17 additional murders he said he committed in the area. To date only one has been solidly identified. It leaves one investigator to question whether Little’s numbers are exaggerated. Meanwhile, all three of the partners Detective Mitzi Roberts worked with on the case have retired and Roberts has been promoted to head of the cold case unit where 6,000 unsolved cases await her attention.

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0:00.0	First, a program note.
0:03.8	The following podcast includes adult situations and language.
0:09.8	Six years after his conviction for three murders in Los Angeles, serial killer Sam Little
0:14.8	sits in an interview room at the California State Prison where he is serving a life sentence.
0:20.6	He is sitting in front of three homicide investigators who are there to hear his confessions.
0:26.6	And it seems that more than anything, Sam Little once sympathy for the devil.
0:32.1	I'm trying to help you guys because I lost and so that why not help?
0:38.6	But I lost or raised or losing no more when I tell you to.
0:43.5	And maybe get a lot of people closures and stuff.
0:47.7	No, that's right.
0:48.7	That's what I'm dedicated to do now.
0:51.3	Little once to help the investigators clear the cases he is responsible for in the LA
0:56.0	area.
0:57.0	But it's not that simple.
0:59.3	Little says he murdered more than 90 women in a five-decade killing spree that went from
1:03.3	one end of the country to the other.
1:06.4	And it also included 20 victims in Los Angeles.
1:10.1	But with rare exception, he didn't even know his victim's names.
1:14.2	His dehumanizing of his victims and his fading memory has made identifying them and bringing
1:19.6	closure to cases a difficult task.
1:24.1	There's Missy Roberts, the lead LAPD detective on the case that sent Little to prison.
1:29.9	His confessions were hard.
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