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1961, Little was sentenced to three years in prison for breaking into a furniture store in Lorain; he was released in 1964. By 1975, he had been arrested 26 times in 11 states for crimes including theft, assault, attempted rape, fraud and attacks on government officials.

1982, Little was arrested in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and charged with the murder of Melinda Rose LaPree (22), who had gone missing in September of that year. A grand jury declined to indict Little for the murder of LaPree. 

However, while under investigation, Little was transferred to Florida to be brought to trial for the murder of Patricia Ann Mount (26), whose body was found in September 1982. Prosecution witnesses identified Little in court as a person who spent time with Mount on the night before her disappearance. Due to mistrust of witness testimonies, Little was acquitted in January 1984. 

October 1984, he was arrested for kidnapping, beating and strangling Laura Barros (22), who survived. One month later, he was found by police in the backseat of his car with an unconscious woman, also beaten and strangled, in the same location as the attempted murder of Barros. Little served two and a half years in prison for both crimes. Upon his release in February 1987, he immediately moved to L.A. and committed more than 10 additional murders. 

He was arrested on September 5 2012, at a homeless shelter in Kentucky, and extradited to California to face a narcotics charge, during with authorities tied Little’s DNA to three murders between 1987 and 1989. He was charged on January 7 2013.

Bittersweet Linings: Since his incarceration, Little has been linked to 93 murders in total, meaning the families of the victims are closer to closure.