“I didn’t do it!” Little interrupted after Mary Louise Frias, the niece and goddaughter of one of the victims, told the judge at Little’s September 2014 sentencing that the convicted killer has “no conscience, no soul.” Little denied his guilt during trial, which included testimony from women who said they narrowly survived violent encounters with him.Ī three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal subsequently turned down the defense’s claims that there was insufficient evidence to prove that Little was the person who committed the murders and that the trial court erred by allowing jurors to hear evidence about similar attacks in the 1980s against four other women who survived.
Little - who had lived in the South Los Angeles area in the late 1980s and said he was a middleweight prize boxer - was arrested in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2012 on an unrelated drug charge out of Los Angeles and extradited to California, where he was charged with the murders. Little’s attorney questioned the evidence and challenged the prosecutor’s insistence that DNA proved his client’s guilt. In a sentencing memorandum, the prosecutor wrote that the evidence “established that he derived sexual gratification from the act of strangling and murdering his victims.” She said Little’s “method of killing was particularly ruthless he lured vulnerable women to him with the promise of drugs and then killed them by beating and manually strangling them.”
In court papers filed shortly before Little was sentenced, Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman described him as a “remorseless, vicious serial killer.” She told reporters he “absolutely” would have faced a potential death sentence had it not been for his age - 74 at the time. 3, 1989 - inside a South Los Angeles commercial garage.
14, 1989, in a trash bin behind East Seventh Street, and Guadalupe Apodaca, 46, who was found dead less than a month later – – Sept. Little was convicted in Los Angeles in September 2014 of the slayings of Carol Alford, 41, who was found dead on July 13, 1987, in an alley off East 27th Street Audrey Nelson, 35, who was discovered dead on Aug.
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