The Trial

Murder Book

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 7 - A third LA murder case is added and the trial begins, presented to the jury by prosecutor Beth Silverman. Three survivors testify.
The verdict is guilty. At his sentencing Little protests his innocence, calls the proceedings a lynching. Detective Roberts waves goodbye; Sam Little waves right back. But it was not the end of the case.

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0:00.0	First, a program note. The following podcast includes adult situations and language.
0:07.0	After crossing the country twice in a painstaking effort to build a murder case
0:12.0	against Sam Little, Los Angeles police detective, Mitzi Roberts, returned home to learn she had caught a lucky break.
0:20.0	The ongoing review of co-cases for secondary DNA evidence had connected another case to Little.
0:28.0	Carol Alfred's body had been found discarded in an alley in 1987.
0:33.0	She had been strangled and the case was never solved.
0:37.0	But now DNA found on her clothing, doing a re-examination of the evidence, had been matched to Little.
0:45.0	This brought the number of murders he was now linked to in Los Angeles to three.
0:52.0	In Roberts' mind, that meant one thing, game over.
0:58.0	So when the hit came in on Carol Alfred, obviously I'm extremely happy and excited to get it because I know beyond any doubt now that I'm going to take this to the DA's office.
1:10.0	And this case is going to be filed and finally we're going to get murder charges filed on Sam Little.
1:18.0	I know the case is strong because all the work we've done on the front end of the case, there's no doubt my mind not only is it going to be filed but that he's never getting out.
1:34.0	I'm Michael Connolly and you're listening to Murderbook. This season our story is called The Women Who Stop Sam Little.
1:41.0	So far we've been on the road trip with Detective Roberts as she's crossed the country on Sam Little's trail.
1:47.0	But now we've reached the end of the road, the point where Sam Little goes to trial and faces a judge, a jury, and a prosecutor as relentless as Roberts.
1:59.0	He had gotten away with everything for so long.
2:05.0	All I've felt at that moment was pure evil.
2:10.0	At the end of the day it took a bunch of women to bring them back.
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2:51.0	Carol Alfred was 41 years old and had a family. She fell into Sam Little's orbit only because she had a drug problem.
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