All three female victims had been beaten and then strangled to death.

Once he was in custody, the Los Angeles Police Department obtained his DNA and found that it matched DNA from three unsolved homicides from the 1980s.

In 2012, Little was extradited from Kentucky to California on a warrant for an outstanding narcotics charge. He kept to himself, but moved within the fringes of society in each place he lived, alongside the poverty-stricken and homeless, drug users and sex workers. Little was a drifter who moved from place to place, across dozens of states, never staying for too long. He’d been charged with multiple murders before, too, but prosecutors either couldn’t get an indictment (Mississippi) or failed to secure a conviction (Florida). Prior to his 2012 arrest for the three murders in California, Little was no stranger to law enforcement - his criminal record dates all the way back to 1956, and includes charges and prison time for crimes like shoplifting, fraud, breaking and entering, assault and false imprisonment. One big question looms: How was he able to get away with it for so long? In total, Little has confessed to killing 90 women across more than a dozen states between 19 - and thus far, according to the FBI, investigators have been able to link 34 unsolved murders to Little’s confessed crimes.

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