Episodes

  • Q&A - Part 2

    Q&A - Part 2
    Dec 21 2020
    Mitzi Roberts and others answer questions from listeners to the podcast. (Part 2)
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    39 mins
  • Q&A - Part 1

    Q&A - Part 1
    Dec 21 2020
    Mitzi Roberts and others answer questions from listeners to the podcast. (Part 1)
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    44 mins
  • The Road Goes On Forever

    The Road Goes On Forever
    Nov 30 2020
    Chapter 10 - Final thoughts and reporting on the Sam Little case. The LAPD went on two ride alongs with Sam Little in an effort to clear the 17 additional murders he said he committed in the area. To date only one has been solidly identified. It leaves one investigator to question whether Little’s numbers are exaggerated. Meanwhile, all three of the partners Detective Mitzi Roberts worked with on the case have retired and Roberts has been promoted to head of the cold case unit where 6,000 unsolved cases await her attention.
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    36 mins
  • The Writer

    The Writer
    Nov 23 2020
    Chapter 9 - Jillian Lauren contacts Detective Roberts about the Black Dahlia case but picks up on Sam Little. An obsession begins, a relationship between a writer and killer begins.
    Sam Little talks to Jillian and starts confessing. She starts driving around the killing fields of South L.A. – attempting to connect Little’s confessions with locations and victims, confirming murders he has confessed to.
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    38 mins
  • True Confessions

    True Confessions
    Nov 16 2020
    Chapter 8 - A Texas Ranger befriends Sam Little and the man who claimed innocence now starts confessing to murder after murder. Sam starts drawing detailed sketches of his victims. Ranger Jim Holland becomes the gatekeeper to Sam Little. The work of the women who caught and prosecuted him is all but forgotten. Sam Little becomes a celebrity. He gets hundreds of letters, several marriage proposals. He’s a star – to some.
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    40 mins
  • The Trial

    The Trial
    Nov 9 2020
    Chapter 7 - A third LA murder case is added and the trial begins, presented to the jury by prosecutor Beth Silverman. Three survivors testify.
    The verdict is guilty. At his sentencing Little protests his innocence, calls the proceedings a lynching. Detective Roberts waves goodbye; Sam Little waves right back. But it was not the end of the case.
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    32 mins
  • Cracks in the System

    Cracks in the System
    Nov 2 2020
    Chapter 6 - An acquittal in a Florida murder case is followed by dozens and dozens of murders. In San Diego another chance to put this man away for good slips away. Little is literally caught by police officers in the act of strangling a woman. But the case goes sideways, he takes a deal and serves only two years. The officer who caught him laments the case’s outcome and the murders that could have been avoided.
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    42 mins
  • The Driver

    The Driver
    Oct 26 2020
    Chapter 5 - Sam Little took a 17 year old boy off the streets and forced him to be his driver. In a textbook interview Roberts leads Danny Beckless down the path from “I don’t remember anything” to an emotional break and “Sam told me he liked to choke them.”
    Amazing, exclusive audio that shows Roberts’ character, empathy and relentless drive on the case.
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    44 mins