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A serial killer sentenced to death for a dozen murders in Southern California more than three decades ago confessed to another killing after his DNA was linked to the victim, authorities said Tuesday. Officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department identified the victim as Cathy Small, 19. She was found unresponsive on a South Pasadena street on Feb. 22, 1986, and was later determined to have died from stab wounds and strangulation, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt.
Suff, who was convicted in 1995, became known as the 'Lake Elsinore Killer' and the 'Riverside Prostitute Killer,' references to the locations of the killings in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, Thomas said. At the time of her murder, Small, a mother of two, was living in the Lake Elsinore area. Her roommate told authorities that she left home on the night of Feb. 21 and planned on driving to Los Angeles with a man named 'Bill' for $50, Thomas said.
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