He was ordered to spend 14 days in jail in 2006 on the shoplifting charge. Incidentally, years after the Fields murder, Little was arrested in Lubbock for shoplifting. A warrant was issued for his arrest even though he has been locked up in California on a different murder.īrewer did not believe there would be a big push to get Little from California to Lubbock for a trial. On August 27, the case was presented to a Lubbock County Grand Jury, who returned an indictment against Little for the 1993 murder of Fields. This is the official site for registering to do business with the federal government. All content from both sites is now here at SAM.gov. Little provided corroborating and very specific details to the murder of Bobbie Fields,” Brewer said. You have reached the new home of SAM.gov, an official website of the U.S. On August 20, 2019, MSCU investigators arranged an interview with Little, who was serving three life sentences in the California State Prison in Los Angeles County. (Photo from the Lubbock County Detention Center) It is set in post-World War II New Mexico and is based on the Western novel by Max Evans. He drew a sketch of this woman and it was released to the public.īrewer said an extensive search was conducted by several law enforcement agencies in an effort to locate the murder Little confessed to in the Wichita Falls area, but there were no matches. The Hi-Lo Country is a 1998 American Western drama film directed by Stephen Frears, starring Billy Crudup, Penélope Cruz, Woody Harrelson, Cole Hauser, Sam Elliott, Patricia Arquette, Enrique Castillo, and Katy Jurado. In one of these interviews, Little recalled a woman he believed he murdered in the Wichita Falls area in 1976 or 1977. Months earlier in 2018, Little spoke multiple times with Texas Ranger James Holland.
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Link - EXCLUSIVE: Nationally known serial killer now connected to murder in Lubbock Travis County is located in the greater Austin area. This unit investigates cold cases in Lubbock County, among other things.īrewer said investigators spoke with an analyst at the FBI Violent Crimes Apprehension Program (ViCAP) on November 16 and were provided a timeline of Little’s criminal history.Īccording to this timeline, Little was incarcerated in Travis County on July 30, 1993. On November 15, 2018, according to LPD, Fields’ murder case was reassigned to the Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit (MSCU). However, all leads were eventually exhausted and the case went cold. Interim Lubbock Police Chief Jerry Brewer said investigators learned she had last been seen near the Rose Hotel in the 700 block of 13th Street around 1:00 a.m. A map showing the approximate location where the body of Bobbie Fields was located