In 2014, Samuel Little was convicted of the murders of three women in Los Angeles. DNA had linked him to cold cases committed between 1987 to 1989. He received three life sentences. Authorities suspected he had probably committed other murders, but they never imagined what would be the final number once he decided to confess.
Samuel Little's birth name was Samuel McDowell. He said his mother, a teenage prostitute abandoned him, however police believe she gave birth to him while she was in jail. The 1940 census shows that his mother Bessie Mae Little worked as a maid, and his father was Paul McDowell, 19.
