California serial killer on death row confessed to 1986 cold case homicide, authorities say [Video]

Following a happenstance case break, detectives in Southern California found the person responsible for an unsolved 1986 homicide of a 19-year-old woman – a serial killer already on death row, Los Angeles county sheriff’s officials said Tuesday.Cathy Small was working as a prostitute in February 1986 when she was killed, her roommate told law enforcement at the time, sheriff’s Lt. Patty Thomas said at a news conference. Small told her roommate she was meeting a man named Bill who would give her $50 to drive with him from Lake Elsinore to Los Angeles, and she left their home that night wearing a nightgown, Thomas said.Reading a newspaper days later, her roommate learned of a woman stabbed to death in South Pasadena. Fearing it might be Small, the roommate contacted police and was able to identify her. Investigators were not able to solve the crime, however, and the case went cold.Some …