Samuel Little's alleged victims were found just south of downtown LA (Omar Bárcena via Flickr)

Officials suspect that Little was involved with the sexually-motivated strangulations of Carol Alford in 1987 and Audrey Nelson and Guadalupe Apodaca in 1989. All three women were found near downtown Los Angeles.

Detectives Mitzi Roberts and Rick Jackson have publicly disclosed little about the ongoing investigation except to state that they have found DNA evidence implicating Little in the killings. 

Little has a decades-long record of arrest for drunk driving, burglary, robbery and assault ranging across 24 states. He was accused but not convicted of attempted murder in Gainesville, Florida and Pascagoula, Mississippi. According to Detective Roberts, "We believe he is good for many more crimes -- including murders -- throughout the United States."

Read more about the LAPD's arrest of Samuel Little here.

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