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American history Samuel little has confessed to 93 murders she fight for and fight for my
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pleasure it's disturbing to listen to but investigators want to hear it all and more
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she she was laughing when I was killing her the most prolific serial killer in American
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history I reached over I choked her and once she was dead I pulled her out of the car looked around jumped back in the
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car little says he has a photographic memory and has drawn sketches of his victims drawn sketches of his
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victim Mary broley was a woman that intimately knew the real life meaning of the word
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struggle sadly she had firsthand knowledge of what it meant to struggle and she fully understood the continued
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Battle of struggling for Mary life was far from Easy her childhood was difficult and her
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early adult years were far worse she kept finding herself falling into the arms of abusive and uncaring
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men falling for and falling in love with men that just beneath the surface were anything but
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desirable they say that life is a journey and not a destination and for Mary it was a journey of hardships and
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strife the road map of that Journey was not an easy one for Mary to navigate she was broken by the husband
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and boyfriend that abused her and through injury ailment and addiction found herself unable to care for her
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children Mary's roads on her life's road map if there ever were such a thing had
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collapsed to a single dark and damp tunnel the light at the end of that tunnel was so dim that she was convinced
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that the fairy man blew out the flame on his Lantern when she wasn't looking she had many physical
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complications and challenges a physically abusive boyfriend injured her so badly that she
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had to have hip surgery which left her with metal Parts in her body and a limp there was also a self-inflicted
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injury from a kitchen accident when Mary nearly cut off her finger while chopping
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vegetables and then refused to have it treated she let the severed portion dangle until it eventually fell off
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leaving her with a stump at the end of the digit by 1970 Mary broley was 33 years old and
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she was struggling not struggling to make it she was struggling to exist some of her troubles were
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roadblocks set up by others and some were obstacles that she created herself by now she was a severe
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alcoholic she suffered from curosis of the liver it was nearly anorexic standing
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5'4 in tall and weighing a very unhealthy 80 lb she was pretty much EST strange from
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her family sometime in June of 1970 Mary walked away from her life in Massachusetts without so much as a
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single goodbye to anyone her kids were already in foster care and she didn't care for any of the
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men in her life the last reported sighting of Mary is from a story that came from a family
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member one of the very few who had not turned their back on Mary this was Mary's sister
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CLA CLA says that on June 12th 1970 she was told that the night before police picked Mary up walking along a highway
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Mary told police she was walking the highway because two men had pushed her out of their car in Palmer Massachusetts
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and she hurt her shoulder it's unclear where Mary slept that night but her family was told that
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she was planning to take a bus back to Boston where she was staying with her parents
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Mary never showed up in Boston she never returned to her parents home Claire later told the media that Mary would
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often rely on and get around by taking rides with strangers and Mary could often be found in the company of anyone
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that would provide her with alcohol Mary's family never heard from her again roughly 7 months later on January 24th
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1971 a father and son were out on a hunting Expedition what they will find certainly is not what they went out
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looking for one of the two spotted a leg sticking out of the ground they reported
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this immediately to the authorities and as you guessed it the leg was attached to the rest of a body buried in a
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shallow 6-in deep makeshift grave but the Father and Son were not hunting in Massachusetts no they were in the
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Florida Everglades 1,000 M away from from where Mary was last seen the body was badly decomposed and
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detectives could locate no form of identification from the body recovery site this was a homicide the victim was
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a female with highly probable sexual assault suspected based on the fact that the
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body was found with both legs through one leg hole of the victim's panties detectives believed that Mary's killer
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dressed her after the assault and murder before burying her body since investigators could not identify the
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victim the county gave the victim a new name one that no one wants in 1971 Mary became another Jane
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Doe Mary simply disappeared and decades passed with not one indication of her fate life moved on children grew up and
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the body remained a Jane do for 47 years but thank ful one day this Jane Doe would get her birth name back and sadly
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her family would learn what they may have feared all along Mary didn't just disappear she was taken taken far away
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and killed Mary broley was located after all of these years and her killer was too Mary might have been this killer of
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women's first kill but she was far from his last this this true crime [Music] [Music]
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garage San Diego California Thursday September 27th 1984 San Diego PD receive a complaint of
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a violent crime Lori bar called 9911 from her sister's house she told police that a man whom she did not know beat
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her up raped her and strangled her and then left her for dead on the side of the road she was able to provide police
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with a detailed description of the events that took place as well as the As salant and the vehicle he was driving at
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the time according to the report Lori told police that the man abducted her she was walking and this man pulled up
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in a large American car he got out ran up to her and he pulled her by the throat into his car once inside the
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vehicle the man threatened her repeatedly all the while driving to a more secluded location once he arrived
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at a spot that he found to be satisfactory for whatever it is that he planned to do he put the vehicle in park
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and then proceeded to brutalize the woman choking and punching her the LA Times describe portions of the attacks
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as follows quote with his arm still wrapped around her neck he drove to a deserted trash strewn lot at the top of
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a steep hill he pulled her into the back seat and tied her hands behind her back
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with her nylons he tried to kiss her and when she tried to shove him off he began
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choking her he asked her to swallow he did this over and over again Captain Lori finally played dead and the man
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opened the car door and dumped her out onto a pile of garbage she believes that the man intended to kill her and that he
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actually thought that he had succeeded when he discarded her she was not dead however but she lay right where he
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dumped her she lay still taking extremely short breaths even though she wanted to gasp for air and fill her
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lungs with the oxygen that he had just denied her she laid there not moving a muscle she was afraid he was watching as
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the minutes passed she started to convince herself that he had gone but she laid there still because now the
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fear was that he would return and find her alive and if so he would most certainly finish the job Lori believes
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that she laid there for over 30 minutes or so before she finally got up stumbled
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to the nearest pay phone there she called her sister who immediately rushed out to get her once she finally felt
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safe when she was back at her sister's house she called the police and reported that she was attacked and luckily she
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was able to provide police with the detailed description of the vehicle and her attacker that's correct a good
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amount of detail in fact in regard to the events the attack that took place the attacker and his vehicle or the
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vehicle he was driving at the time the man that she described to police she described him as African-American
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approximately 40 years of age about 6' 1 in tall 230 to 240 lb with a dark complexion dirty unshaven and he
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had a gold pinky ring with two diamonds in it now she said that the attacker was
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driving a two-door large americanmade car with a maroon colored interior the passenger side window of this vehicle
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was broken and there was white tape on the window so this making this vehicle very distinct and possibly easy for
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police to spot he had foam dice hanging from the rear view mirror she said the vehicle did not run well so that's a
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pretty good description of everything right Captain well the key thing there is the broken window with the white tape
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well that description from Lori will in fact lead us to this later event the following month on Wednesday October
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24th San Diego Patrol officers happened upon a black Thunderbird parked on a street this was in an area of the city
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known for stolen vehicles sex workers and drugs the Thunderbird fit the description of the car reported by the
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victim of the September attack the one that we just covered so of course they stopped to check it out the police now
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as the officers were shining their lights on the teabird a black man emerged from the car zipping up his
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trousers flicky flicky hands are sticky according to the officer statements the man quote appeared to be very nervous
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one officer said of the man he kept looking at us kept looking at the car then looking at us and then looking at
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the car they approached him and asked him what he was doing the story he gave was that he had had a fight with his
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wife but they had now made up and they were making love in the back of that car but the cops could see bloody scr
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scratch marks on the man's neck right they took a look inside the vehicle and saw his I'm using air quotes here
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Captain wife she was stuffed on her back behind the driver's seat legs sped on the back
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seat naked her eyes rolled back in her head bleeding and bruised the officer thought the woman was dead at first but
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then she started gasping for air so the officer could see fresh choke marks on the woman's throat and remember he saw
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the scratch marks on the man you don't have to be on the job too long to have a good idea what you think took place so
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obviously this guy's lying and obviously he's trying to choke this lady to death
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and good thing they were there to stop it and arrest him yeah there's a few things that work out here in our favor
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right first we have the great detailed description given by the first victim we have the good police work by these two
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officers by spotting this car in a area that it sounds to me like if you're looking to bus somebody or issue a
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ticket you can just drive to this area any time of day and find somebody to uh put the back of your car somebody that's
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up to no good but they check on this vehicle and like you said they they see that there's something strange going on
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here this woman appears to have been assaulted very badly this man's story doesn't make sense of course they arrest
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him and they are told by the man that his name is Samuel McDow so Sam's story well his original
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story will start to fall apart very quickly and he started to admit some truths to the officers although of
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course he was not going to be entirely truthful Sam said that he was angry because he had not gotten his money's
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worth for from his victim So This Woman's name is Tanya Jackson and she is a sex worker at this time Sam said that
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he met Tanya at a bar in downtown San Diego where the two of them agreed that she would perform a sex act for him for
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$20 he said she directed him to the location where the officers would later discover the two and his vehicle he says
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they got into the back seat of his car and Tanya started fooling around with them Sam says that he wanted more but
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then she started to refuse this upsets Sam so Sam says that he threatened her and told Tanya that she wasn't going
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anywhere until he got what he wanted Sam says Tanya attacked him and he grabbed her around the throat in self-defense
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and he's telling the officers this is why the officers are driving him back to the
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station after they arrested him they're still asking asking him what happened back there it's hard to believe him on
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anything when he said when he said the victim was his wife and not sex worker well and then you have this situation of
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he saying not yeah I grabbed her by the throat yeah I was choking her but this was in self-defense and he's I mean he's
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not making any butts about it he's telling the officers I did this and you know what she deserved it so while the
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officers are driving him back to jail Sam ask them several times quote how's the [ __ ] is she going to make it
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what a douchebag then they accused him of raping Tanya Sam continued to deny raping her
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but admitted that quote I did kick the [ __ ] out of her he also told police I should have killed that [ __ ] in both of
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these cases the September case and the October case rape exams and kits were conducted this included collecting Sam
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mcdow's DNA so Sam was quickly connected to the attack on Lori baros the previous
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month because their findings are going to match up in both of these cases and this is back in the day when police
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officers have billy clubs it would be nice if they would have just pulled over on the side of the road and he never
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made it back to the station for the attacks on Lori and Tanya Sam McDow was charged with several charges including
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attempted murder in both cases the state's best evidence in these cases were the two victims themselves of
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course right their statements to the police and then later what would be their testimony in front of a jury but
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Sam ended up only being convicted on lesser crimes this is due to some complications
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with the trial the two victims were both sex workers that complicated things and
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we'll get into that here in a minute and little argued that his only crime was hitting one of them in a payment dispute
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after after she tried to cheat him now this Sam McDow in court also produced an alibi witness this was a respectable
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looking woman carrying a Bible who said that the two of them were out of town on
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the night of one of the attacks so the one where he's caught red-handed he can't do much about other than to to
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claim that he was acting in self-defense but the one where he wasn't caught he's
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able to produce an alibi for right so what we have here Captain is the situation yes those raped kits and exams
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were conducted in both of these cases they also connect they also collected this Sam mcdow's DNA but keep
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in mind this is 1984 they're not able to go oh well this is the same guy in both
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of these cases so he can come up with a defense for the first one saying that one wasn't me even though you picked me
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up a month later for about the same thing and now this Lori bars is picking me out of a lineup I'm telling you I'm
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not this guy and on top of that I have a witness who comes in she's carrying a Bible saying you know what the two of us
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we are together we're in a relationship and we were both out of town on the night of the September attack so he's
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got a somewhat decent defense here for what should be an easy conviction of two accounts of attempted rape well and also
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you could make an argument that the second attack that he's caught red-handed that that's an attempted
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murder charge yeah but in both cases he was charged with attempted murder now per the Washington Post uh it says that
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this Sam McDow was convicted of falsely imprisoning the second victim but acquitted of kidnapping and sexually
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assaulting the woman in the first attack and the jurors were deadlocked on a host
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of other charges so this trial all of a sudden that looked like a slam dunk wasn't going so well for the prosecution
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so prosecutors were not very anxious to retry Sam so they allowed him to plead guilty to two counts of assault with
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great bodily injury and one count of false imprisonment now I want to read to you a portion of Lori bars' testimony
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this will kind of describe our attacker here and his method and what he was like
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in that attacking situation her testimony says quote he liked to feel me swallow with his thumb on my
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neck it became a game right before I'd go unconscious as my eyes started rolling back he'd let go and asked me to
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swallow again he loved when I swallowed it excited him and he had a smile on his
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face so she's talking about while this man is choking her strangling her to death that when she would start to black
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out he's letting go so she can breathe and come too so he can do it again to her and going so far that she says that
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he had his thumb right on the portion of my neck where he could feel me swallow and wanted to feel me kind of swallow
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and gag and try to gasp for air this guy is an absolute creep it's sad but the reality is especially in these types of
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crimes that the surviving victim is your best evidence this is often your best tool if you will for apprehending your
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unknown perpetrator in these crimes and the victim stories and Reporting these crimes they did get this monster off of
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the streets but not terribly long so unfortunately the way that this plays out in court again we said that it
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should have been a slam dunk and it should have been but I I'm not trying to blame this on any one or two people here
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but the victims themselves just kind of fell apart in the courtroom so the October victim who had an addiction
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problem was drunk and clearly drunk in front of the jury when she was at trial and when she was giving her testimony
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this could be from her addiction this could be from the terror that this man brutalized her and now she's got to sit
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in front of him just feet from this guy the woman from the September attack the problem end up being with her
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situation is she started to lose credibility with the jury when she first starts off her complaint to the police
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and then her testimony to the court was that she was just walking along the street this guy pulls up jumps out of
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his car grabs her throws her into his vehicle and he's abducted her and off they go to the secluded location where
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he tries to kill her well very quickly it's figured out that she wasn't just walking on the side
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of the street she's a sex worker and she has an addiction problem this caused her to lose
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credibility with the jury and now the first attack he's not looking so guilty in and the second attack they're a
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little confused as to what's going on because he's saying look I yeah I did fight with this woman I did assault her
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but I didn't try to kill her what we end up with here is Sam McDow most certainly
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attacked both of these women he most certainly tried to kill both of them but unfortunately because it fell apart at
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court for this he only serves two years in a California prison and then he's released on parole and once he's
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released on parole within months of Sam mcdow's release women in South Los Angeles started
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everybody out there listening thanks for joining us this week now we're going to
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move on here to a couple of other cases and this takes place in 1987 and then 1989 in and around the Los Angeles area
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so we're going to go back starting in July of 1987 where we have the first of three
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bodies that were found that all displayed similar characteristics they were all found within a few miles of
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each other the three bodies were dumped like trash now I know that that is a rather overused statement in True Crime
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but in this case these three bodies were actually dumped along actual refu the first victim was 41-year-old Carol
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Alfred her body was found on July 13th 1987 the other two homicide victims that were found were Audrey Nelson age 35 and
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Guadalupe abadaka Age 4 6 they were found in August and September of 1989 respectively this
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killer though unknown at the time to police his identity let's think about what we know here in the garage as
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we review those attacks that took place in San Diego he gets locked up and then he's out he's released and we have these
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three murders that take place and you go you know what this guy is he's escalating he's increasing his frequency
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of attacks but not necessarily this guy already has escalated to this level of frequency because in 1984 those two
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attacks took place one month apart just like here where we have two victims that take place just one month
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apart this guy whatever he's into he requires this type of stimulation so much that he's to the point where he's
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going out and attacking women killing them or in the 84 cases believing he had killed
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them within a month of one another obviously his crimes are sexually motivated yes now for a little more of
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the Grim details of each of the body recovery scenes all of these victims were found in the same Central Avenue
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Alam Street Corridor near downtown Los Angeles So within 5 miles of of each other Carol was in a back alley against
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a fence Audrey was found in a dumpster which was located in a nightclub parking lot Guadalupe was found in an abandoned
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creepy old commercial garage structure all three had been manually strangled and it was determined that all three
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were dead when they were dumped all had been brutally beaten with blows or punches to the head all were nude below
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the waist all had crack in their systems one victim had male DNA under her fingernails two victims had seamen
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stains on their shirts but in the 80s before cotus this was of very little help to the murder
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investigations and so the three dead women remained victims of a nameless faceless Predator their deaths not
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linked together until much much later these attacks seem similar to me of that of like Ted Bundy but again we're going
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to have another Survivor from these attacks and this is believed to be an attack connected to these others because
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it's so similar in nature or similar in belief as to what we think happened to the other three victims that did not
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survive so another La woman who narrowly escaped the same fate comes forward and reports the
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assault and per the Los Ang times we learn some details of that attack and the times reported that the
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woman reported to the city's police that a man had pulled her into his black Thunderbird here we see that similar
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vehicle again sexually assaulted her then repeatedly choked her unconscious she awoke to find herself
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lying Left for Dead amid trash and broken glass with bruising on her neck and popped blood vessels in her eyes but
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she couldn't name her attacker when she reported this to police and so just like
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the three dead victims this case to would go nowhere this investigation really had nowhere to go so now we're
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going to skip ahead to over two decades later this is going to bring us to 2012 now in 2012 homicide detective
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Mitsy Roberts was assigned to the lapd's Cold Case special section which was funded by a grant from the National
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Institute of Justice to try to solve the 9,000 La murders that remained open after 5 years her job was screening DNA
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evidence from cases long since considered lost causes many of these cases were murders of women that dated
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back to the 80s the height of the cocaine epidemic in the city good thing she gets involved cuz she's going to
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come across a codus search for two of these crimes that happened in 1989 yeah so she's working this case in
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April of 2012 and mity runs across a Cod search on the DNA that was found on the two
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women murdered in Los Angeles in 1989 this is the Audrey case and Guadalupe's case now keep in mind mit's working with
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resources that the investigators just did not have in 1989 mity arranged for the DNA testing on swabs and items found
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from those two victim's bodies now in both cases she got a hit to a man who had been arrested and required to give a
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DNA sample in connection with a previous arrest and this man's name was Samuel little yes and the officer Captain she
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was horrified at what she found when she started reviewing his record so this man
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had a rap sheet 100 pages long detailing approximately 100 arrests this from an article in New York Magazine by Jillian
00:36:01
Lauren quote over six decades he was repeatedly arrested in Ohio Maryland Florida Maine Connecticut Oregon
00:36:10
Colorado Pennsylvania New Jersey Arizona Georgia Illinois Missouri California and
00:36:17
the list goes on charges include burglary breaking and entering assault and battery assault with the intent to
00:36:24
Rob assault with a firearm armed robbery assault on a police officer solicitation
00:36:30
of prostitution DUI shoplifting Theft Grand Theft possession of marijuana unlawful flight to avoid prosecution
00:36:40
resisting arrest battery false imprisonment assault with great bodily injury robbery rape and sodomy end quote
00:36:49
and you left out being a huge douchebag yeah that's quite the wrap sheet there Captain yeah scary
00:36:56
individual scary individual not only that we didn't even name all of the states that would have been listed there
00:37:05
and so this guy is up to no good frequently up to no good he's got all kinds of nasty horrible hobbies and he's
00:37:12
fine doing them in your neighborhood my neighborhood and everybody else's all in all this Samuel little had
00:37:19
served less than 10 years in prison in total despite repeated brutal and sexually motivated attacks on an
00:37:26
attempted murders of multiple female victims so of course mity Roberts reviews this information and she freaks
00:37:34
out right why on God's name was this guy on the streets so she decided she was going to
00:37:42
be the one to put an end to this dude to stop him and put him away for good when
00:37:48
others could not now this Samuel little had an outstanding Los Angeles bench warrant for a 2007 narcotics violence
00:37:57
violation so that's good news for us in our investigation right we got this really bad guy here he's got this lesser
00:38:03
charge but it's an outstanding warrant that's a good excuse for us to go pick this guy up and have a long talk with
00:38:10
him not only are you going to be able to talk to this creep but you're probably going to be able to put him away for at
00:38:15
least a short amount of time you're hoping so now Roberts officer Roberts decided to in fact use that warrant to
00:38:23
bring him in but the problem's going to be that she couldn't locate him from her
00:38:30
information he didn't appear to be in California any longer and she discovered that this Samuel little who was
00:38:37
transient moving from place to place well there's some of you out there scratching your heads going wait didn't
00:38:44
you say Samuel McDow earlier now you're saying Samuel little well that's because
00:38:48
this guy he's got a list of aliases almost as long as the list of crimes that he's been connected to and
00:38:56
convicted icted of so he uses aliases like Samuel McDaniel Samuel McDow Willie May Clifton and willly Lewis and the
00:39:05
list goes on he was nearly impossible to locate and officer Roberts and her team
00:39:12
spent weeks dashing from town to town across the southern us as they got hits on a usage of a prepaid Walmart card to
00:39:22
which little Social Security Disability Benefits were being paid so this is one of those situations where
00:39:29
boom they get these hits on these this Walmart credit card that's directly tied to the individual that they're looking
00:39:35
for and we're only dashing from town to town or state to state looking for this guy we're through this now because we're
00:39:44
convinced that he's guilty of all kinds of other stuff in fact we've already connected him to two homicides you're
00:39:51
always a day late in a dollar short because you're you're always chasing this guy and you're getting your
00:39:56
information days after he's probably already left that town so they're running about looking for this
00:40:05
individual they were always about 2 days behind him she said Samuel little had been arrested in Kentucky for possession
00:40:12
of a crackpipe so they knew that he had been in the Bluegrass State recently finally in early September of
00:40:21
2012 he used that Walmart card as some Mini Mart in Louisville Kentucky and the Sheriff's Office was notified and in
00:40:30
turn notified the LA authorities Roberts contacted the US Marshals and gave them
00:40:36
the address of the homeless shelter that this man was registered at this was the
00:40:41
Wayside Christian Mission they had him in custody within hours this is after 60 years of committing crimes well once
00:40:50
they arrest him they're able to get a DNA swab from him so they can do a DNA test against the evidence they have in
00:40:57
these other crimes yes this DNA swab the DNA test it absolutely links this man Samuel little to the unknown male
00:41:08
profile that was found on two of our victims this is from 1989 the victims Audrey and Guadalupe so Samuel little
00:41:16
was extradited to California on the outstanding warrant for the narcotics charge and he was sentenced in November
00:41:24
of 2012 to 3 years for that crime but soon he would be termed a serial killer for the murders of Audrey and Guadalupe
00:41:34
and Carol who was the 1987 victim that was found in the same location as Audrey and Guadalupe and yes and quickly
00:41:44
they'll be able to charge him with three murder charges to Samuel little this again from Jillian Lauren who we will be
00:41:52
citing quite a bit in these episodes as she's done gang busters work on these cases and spent a lot of time working on
00:42:00
these cases she says quote Little's genetic material had been detected on the bra and fingernail kit of
00:42:08
41-year-old Carol Alford who had been found strangled in a residential South Central Alleyway in July of
00:42:17
1987 it was the Tipping Point in January of 2013 assistant district attorney Beth
00:42:24
Silverman filed three charges of murder against Samuel little end quote now at that time California investigators had
00:42:33
no idea that the three murders they were charging Samuel little with were only and this is a horrible horrible
00:42:43
statistic 3.22% of his actual murder count but once they started digging into him they
00:42:51
noted a very disturbing pattern just in his known crimes well when you see crimes like this that are so vicious and
00:43:00
you see multiple Crimes by the same disgusting individual it has to come to mind what other crimes is he involved in
00:43:09
that's correct and the situation that you have here Captain is you look at this and you go okay well we have DNA
00:43:16
evidence connecting him to these three murders that took place one in 87 to in 1989 but prior to that this dude had
00:43:25
been locked up for couple years on those two attempted murder charges and once you've secured the arrest on him and
00:43:34
he's facing three murder charges in January of 2013 this is no young man he's no spring
00:43:42
chicken at this point this is an older dude with a 100 page rap sheet two attempted murder charges that
00:43:52
he somehow dodged he got off light three pending murder charges and you're going what else could
00:44:01
this guy have been doing two turtle doves he's been out running the streets and running and hopping from state to
00:44:07
state all of his life what else has he what else has he done who else has he killed yeah because you have to look at
00:44:16
a bunch of different crimes that you know he's capable of attempted murders rape murders this is going to take us to
00:44:26
the great states of Florida and Mississippi so mity Roberts to her horror to everyone's horror actually the
00:44:35
records she says reflected that Samuel Little's name had come up in connection with two murders and two attempted
00:44:41
murders of women in the Gainesville Florida and Mississippi areas in the early 80s it's amazing how much area
00:44:51
that Sam little has covered but again we we've seen this with other kill like Ted Bundy well on these cases
00:44:59
Captain this Samuel little was never brought to trial on three Mississippi cases which were as follows one is from
00:45:07
the summer of 1980 this is a sex worker named Hilda who met little at a club the
00:45:14
two agreed on a $50 service fee and went back to her apartment as soon as the door closed he punched her in the head
00:45:23
knocking her out she awoke on her bed naked with Little's hands around her throat she passed out again he then
00:45:33
attempted to drown her in the bathtub using a scarf wrapped around her neck for leverage she passed out and woke up only
00:45:43
to have him choke her out again this goes on several times luckily Hilda had a packed with another worker Dolores
00:45:53
that if either of them left with a John and weren't back in 20 minutes then the other one would come looking for their
00:46:02
friend right Dolores knocked on the door of her apartment of her friend's apartment and then yelled through the
00:46:10
window and little let Hilda go and he took off Hilda woke up in the hospital somehow she survived this brutal attack
00:46:22
she didn't bother to report the incident though even though she spent 3 days under the care of medical Physicians and
00:46:30
staff in 1981 Samuel L hired a 20-year-old sex worker named Leela McAn who had three
00:46:40
kids when she got in his car Sam little cold cocked her while he was still clutching the steering wheel with his
00:46:49
left hand he then punched her between the eyes he beat her so badly blood ran ran from her eyes like tears each time
00:46:58
she tried to escape he grabbed her and threw her back in the car I mean just if you just close your eyes and try to
00:47:06
picture this how it's playing out what this woman is saying was done to her it's horrifying it's absolutely
00:47:12
horrifying this guy is like something out of a horror movie each time she tries to escape he gets out of the car
00:47:19
he's throwing her back in the car finally she's able to get out and she ran half naked across a highway so
00:47:29
she could get help so some Good Samaritans pick her up and take her to the hospital saving her
00:47:37
life then police did not talk to her about the incident at the time basically no one in a position of
00:47:45
authority at this time seemed to care about what happened to Hilda or Leela it's sad we've seen so many cases where
00:47:53
the victims are sex workers and doesn't seem like law enforcement works the case
00:47:58
as hard as they should I I do want to defend law enforcement a little bit here in these situations because it's unclear
00:48:06
if with the first attack it's clearly stated that this was never reported right to authorities and unfortunately
00:48:14
when you have the situation we've talked about this before uh we've talked about
00:48:19
this when we first started up the garage that you if you were to decriminalize prostitution or work or whatever you
00:48:26
want to call those titles or or escorts or what have you a lot of the time the victims will not report the crime
00:48:37
because they are committing crimes themselves and so you get into this really dicey area of we want these
00:48:47
things to be reported because the men that are up to this kind of behavior are the absolute worst these are monsters
00:48:55
these are IND individuals the guy we are describing to you right now will stop at
00:48:59
nothing to choke a loud breath and choke again until the person blacks out who knows how many times before he is done
00:49:09
and actually kills the individual and then dumps him on the side of the road so luckily in these two situations he
00:49:16
was not successful and I think that you know you have to question too this is 1981 things are different we do learn
00:49:25
from our mistakes right and I do know that in most locations if a woman shows up beaten and battered like this near
00:49:33
death to the hospital in a lot of locations I don't know if it's every state but I believe
00:49:41
that the doctor has an obligation to report this to police whether the whe whether the person in his care or her
00:49:48
care wants to report this or not this is a matter that needs to be investigated well in this episode we've already
00:49:55
talked about so many crimes but we have to finish off because we haven't got to the third attack in the Mississippi
00:50:04
cases yes and unfortunately this case here the victim does not survive the attack and this took place in September
00:50:14
of 1982 we have a 24-year-old victim her name is Melinda Lai she was a young mother she
00:50:22
unfortunately was working as a sex worker at this time similar situation to what we've seen at
00:50:28
at other attacks yeah a man drives up to the King William Motel this is where lpri was living at the time and also
00:50:37
working and Melinda gets into this man's car well she's never seen alive again in
00:50:45
fact her nude body was found on October 4th dumped in a cemetery ditch her death
00:50:51
was ruled a homicide the there was another sex worker that was at the motel as well
00:50:58
that was able to tell police that Melinda got into a pinto Woody with Alabama tags so now we're
00:51:08
getting some good information right the last time that she seen this is the kind
00:51:12
of vehicle that Melinda was getting into and by the way it has out aate plates on
00:51:18
it that car attracted attention of police when it broke down in the area on November 24th
00:51:26
and three occupants were suspected of shoplifting turkeys from a local grocer the cops put together that the
00:51:34
pinto was in fact the same one seen at the King William motel and there they arrested a Samuel McDow on suspicion of
00:51:44
murder and like we know Samuel McDow is Samuel little but he's going to get some
00:51:50
breaks again in these cases where his victims aren't so lucky he is having some luck with the criminal justice
00:51:58
system unfortunately it always seems to play out that way right if anybody's going to get lucky in one of these
00:52:04
situations it's almost always the murderer the murder victim is never lucky because of course they lost their
00:52:10
life yeah ask OJ about it the investigators in Mississippi started to put together a case against Samuel
00:52:17
little Samuel McDow bringing Hilda and Leela to end to testify these were the two surviving
00:52:27
victims we have a grand jury that's put together but unfortunately for whatever reason and you'd have to ask these
00:52:35
people I don't know but this grand jury that they put together didn't seem to take any stock in what the two female
00:52:44
sex workers had to say after all I guess you know they agreed to go with Samuel little we know that unfortunately there
00:52:53
was no physical evidence evidence linking Samuel little to the murder case Melinda
00:53:01
lupri the only witness who saw them together was another sex worker so this goes to the grand jury but it does not
00:53:10
get an indictment and because of this since they're not going to charge him with
00:53:15
murder or attempted murder or assault or anything Samuel little Samuel McDow was
00:53:21
free to go and this pattern happened over and over again except that it almost never got as far as a grand
00:53:30
jury I guess prosecutors knowing that they're only Witnesses were sex workers or addicts what seems to happen here
00:53:37
Captain is that they cut deals or reduced Sam Little's charges and he walked after doing little to no time at
00:53:54
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