A 70-year-old convicted serial killer from Lake Elsinore has confessed to the murder of a woman in a decades-long cold case, authorities announced Tuesday.
A 70-year-old convicted serial killer from Lake Elsinore has confessed to another slaying in Southern California, putting an end to a decades-old cold case, authorities announced Tuesday. William Lester Suff, known as the 'Riverside Prostitute Killer' and the 'Lake Elsinore Killer,' confessed to killing 19-year-old Cathy Small in 1986, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide Lt. Patricia Thomas said at a news conference.
21 and told him that a man named Bill was picking her up and giving her $50 to drive with him to L.A., Thomas said. Detectives followed up on several leads throughout the decades but never solved the case. Authorities later discovered that a sexual assault kit from the case and Small's clothing were never tested for DNA; on Aug. 20, 2020, DNA analysis linked the case to two males. One of them was Suff.
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