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James V. Holland with the Texas Rangers September 25th, 2018. Time is now 11.13 a.m. at the

Wise County Sheriff's Department interviewing Samuel Little, AK, Samuel McDowell.

In the lead up to the trial of Sam Little in 2014, Detective Missy Roberts and Prosecutor

Beth Silverman attempted to draw the attention of law enforcement agencies across the country

to the case and to Little's suspected path of murder. Neither had any doubt that Little

was a serial killer and that there were cases out there beyond the three in Los Angeles

that he was charged with. They didn't know how many cases, but each woman's gut instinct

told her that the path of death and destruction of Sam Little was wide.

Roberts had put together an extensive timeline of where the lifelong drifter had been and

when he had been there for how long he had been there over the course of five decades

on the road. The going was tough in terms of getting investigators interested in going

back into records, sometimes decades back, to look for unsolved and long forgotten

killings that might have been committed by Little.

Ultimately, their efforts paid off in their own backyard, so to speak, when they went

to an FBI symposium on violent crime held on the campus of UCLA. There they met an

FBI analyst named Christine Palazolo and that connection would ultimately lead to identifying

Sam Little as the most prolific serial killer in American history.

I'm Michael Connolly and you're listening to Murderbook. In this chapter of the women

who stopped Sam Little, another woman joins the team and so does a Texas Ranger.

We've never gonna believe this. We've never gonna believe this.

It's the best murder you've ever seen.

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