Decades after his mother’s murder, Phoenix native Billy Ray Glass Jr. is sharing her memories with 12 News after learning she may be one of more than 90 victims of America's most prolific serial killer, Samuel Little.
Life hasn’t been easy for Glass. He's been in and out of jail for years and has battled addictions to both drugs and alcohol his entire life. At just eight years old, he was dealt a devastating loss that would have a ripple effect lasting decades after the death of his then 21-year-old mother Linda Sue Belcher.
“I never saw her again; it was a closed casket," said Glass. “She wouldn’t let anybody bother me because I was the baby, the only one. For some reason I wasn’t with her that night or day and because if I would have been with her I probably wouldn’t be here to talk.”
Belcher was found dead more than 40 years ago on March 1, 1974, at 59th Avenue and Broadway. At the time her death was a mystery. That was until 2018 when Billy Ray says an MCSO Det. Kristina Hiers told him his mother had been the victim of Samuel Little.
