Murder Book

About Murder Book

Sam Little, the FBI’s most prolific serial killer roamed free for five decades, murdering women at will. But in 2012 he came to the attention of Detective Mitzi Roberts and everything changed. This opportunistic killer had long stayed below law enforcement’s radar because of the victims he chose: Women from the fringe — drug users and sex workers paid little attention to by society. Murder Book Season 2: The Women Who Stopped Sam Little follows this Los Angeles Police Department cold case investigator's relentless hunt for Little across the country to capture and convict him with the help of a group of equally fierce women that included a prosecutor, a writer and several women who survived brutal attacks from Little.

Publisher

Michael Connelly

Category

society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

23 Oct 2018

Latest episode

23 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 30 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   23 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Michael Connelly's new podcast: Killer In The Code

   Killer In The Code: Solving The Black Dahlia & Zodiac Cases, a new podcast from bestselling author Michael Connelly. Self-styled cold case consultant Alex Baber believes he has a set of life skills that allow him to find the hidden beneath the hidden. These skills took him down a two-year path to solving two of the most infamous murder cases in history, The Black Dahlia and Zodiac killer cases. With no badge and no law enforcement training, has Baber closed the cases that have baffled law enforcement for more than half a century? Some of the top minds in homicide and code-breaking work believe so and stand by his findings. Killer In The Code follows Baber on his investigative journey across the country as he uses cryptology, genealogy, reflectography, and finally long hours of basic gumshoe work to identify a suspect that has taunted and eluded authorities for decades. Along the way startling new evidence in both cases is discovered, all of it pointing unequivocally toward one man who lived in a dark world and may have intentionally left a “smoking gun” behind so that one day he would be discovered by someone who viewed the open cases as one puzzle missing just a few key pieces. Alex Baber found those pieces and solved the puzzle. Killer In The Code tells the story. Listen to the first 2 episodes now. Visit KillerintheCode.com for more information, videos, and photos.

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   21 Dec 2020

   Q&A - Part 2

   Mitzi Roberts and others answer questions from listeners to the podcast. (Part 2)

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   21 Dec 2020

   Q&A - Part 1

   Mitzi Roberts and others answer questions from listeners to the podcast. (Part 1)

Inside a recent episode

Michael Connelly's new podcast: Killer In The Code

Published 23 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Mitsy Roberts, who ran the Los Angeles Police Department's co -case unit until her retirement last year, says that not a week went by that she didn't feel inquiries and unsolicited solutions to the mystery of who killed Elizabeth's short. I mean, I would get correspondence from people via email or phone calls every week, for sure, every week. None of the theories or suspects help promise. Most were rejected by known facts of the case before the phone call was even over. In Roberts' view, the case would never be solved and there would be no justice for Elizabeth's short. That is until she met Alex Babor, a self -styled citizen sleuth who carries no badge and no law enforcement training. […]

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