One old murder case, in Pascagoula, Miss., already has been reopened. Now, as the 72-year-old former boxer and transient awaits trial in Los Angeles, authorities in numerous jurisdictions in California, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, Mississippi and Ohio are scouring their own cold case files for possible ties to Little. After detectives say they found yet another match, a third murder charge was soon added against Little. Little's name came up, police said, after DNA evidence collected at old crime scenes matched samples of his stored in a criminal database. But the LA investigators wanted him on far more serious charges: The slayings of two women in 1989, both found strangled and nude below the waist - victims of what police concluded had been sexually motivated strangulations.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - When Los Angeles cold case detectives caught up with Samuel Little this past fall, he was living in a Christian shelter in Kentucky, his latest arrest a few months earlier for alleged possession of a crack pipe.

LAPD detectives allege that Little could have victims going back decades.

Samuel Little is accused of preying on prostitutes%2C drug addicts and troubled women.

Authorities scour cold case files in the wake of the arrest of a suspected serial killer.

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