The Texas Rangers interviewed Little extensively for the next two years until just before he died at age 80 in a California hospital. Little confessed his crimes to Texas Ranger James Holland in 2018 while authorities were investigating the murder of Odessa resident Denise Christine Brothers. On : Missing woman named after unidentified body found in Comal County Little was convicted of the murders and given four life sentences without the possibility of parole. In 2012, he was arrested at a homeless shelter in Kentucky on drug charges, and investigators were able to link his DNA to several unsolved murders. He targeted high-risk victims such as sex workers and drug addicts. There are additional unmatched cases in Texas - Wichita Falls and Houston - and in Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Arkansas and Arizona.īorn in Georgia, Little was a drifter who traveled around the country picking up victims, according to Newsweek. 16 in Los Angeles one in Las Vegas one in Charleston, S.C. The murders that Little confessed to but that have not been resolved occurred from 1970 to 1977, including five in Florida two in Louisiana one in Cincinnati one in Knoxville, Tenn.

So far, more than 60 of his confessions have been matched to victims through DNA or extensively corroborated interviews, officials said.

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