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Florida prisoner pleads guilty to unsolved 1991 murder

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A man already imprisoned in Florida, US, for another killing has pleaded guilty today to the long-unsolved 1991 slaying of a woman he met at a bar.

Michael Townson, 53, was sentenced by a judge to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years, state prosecutors said in a news release.

Townson admitted striking and fatally choking Linda Lois Little after meeting her at a Daytona Beach nightspot in October 1991. Little’s body was never found.

Linda Lois Little was kidnapped and killed in 1991. Her body was never found. (Daytona Beach Police)
Michael Townson, already jailed, has admitted to killing her. (AP)

Prosecutors said Townson told them he drove north on Interstate 95 and left Little’s body near a dumpster in rural Camden County, Georgia. Checks of unidentified bodies in that county turned up no match for Little.

Townson was already serving a life prison sentence for beating Sherri Carmanto to death with a steel pipe in 2007 at her home in Titusville, Florida.

“This defendant is a confessed serial killer. It is gratifying to solve a cold case such as this,” State Attorney RJ Larizza said in the news release.

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