Following a happenstance case break, detectives in Southern California found the person responsible for an unsolved 1986 homicide of a 19-year-old woman – a serial killer already on death row, Los Angeles county sheriff's officials said.
found the person responsible for an unsolved 1986 homicide of a 19-year-old woman – a serial killer already on death row, Los Angeles county sheriff's officials said.
Some 33 years later, in October 2019, a coroner investigator was checking out the death of a man just across the street from the scene of Small's killing when he found in the man's home several items that raised concern, Thomas said. But upon examining Small's case file due to the article found in the man's home, sheriff's investigators learned that items of evidence in Small's case, including a sexual assault kit, had never been DNA-tested.
Suff was on California's death row at the San Quentin prison, having been convicted of 12 murders in Riverside County.In May 2022, Suff was transported from San Quentin to Los Angeles, where he confessed to killing Small, Thomas said.
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