LOS ANGELES (AP) – Samuel Little has a rap sheet across half the continental U.S., but has very little time in prison to show for it.
That is likely to change Thursday.
Little, 74, faces life in prison without parole for murdering three women in the late 1980s during the crack cocaine scourge when several serial killers prowled the streets of South Los Angeles and preyed on drug users and prostitutes.
Little lured his victims with dope and then beat them and strangled them for his sexual pleasure, prosecutors said. He dumped their half-naked bodies in garbage.
“He has never shown any empathy or remorse, but instead has continued to perpetuate his cycle of violence and terror,” Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman wrote in her court papers calling for three consecutive life terms.