Melvin Little

For other uses of Little, see Little (disambiguation).

Little, Melvin “Little Mel”

Mentioned in Devoted in Death (mid-January, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: Small in stature, dead
• Age at TOD: Over 70
• Weight: 120 pounds
• Address: Silby’s Pond, Arkansas
• Relationships: Unnamed parents; unnamed younger brother; unnamed sweetheart; unnamed nephew; unnamed grandnephew

Homicide Information

• Darryl Roy James and Ella-Loo Parsens tortured and killed him
  • Went missing and his belongings were jumbled up.
  • His grandnephew and Deputy Sheriff William T. Banner found his body later in a gully, all broken up.
  • He had been dead for three days.
  • Broken bones, cuts, bruises, some burns.
  • The police ruled it an accident.
• This was about a week before Noah Paston went missing.

Interesting Facts

• He served in the Urban Wars and came home broken (PTSD).
• His sweetheart was Banner’s grandmother.
• Went by “Little Mel.”
• Used about any substance he could get his hands on to muffle the nightmares, the voices, the memories.
• He slept outside in the woods.
• Banner came to New York to work with Eve to find Little’s killer.
• A nearby cabin had been broken into, lock smashed, and they found Little’s blood so they blamed him and decided he’d taken a fall.
• Morris, DeWinter, and Mira overruled the original autopsy results:
  • Injuries were caused by implements, tools - several fingers were crushed - blunt force, most likely a hammer.
  • Dehydration - the victim went at least 36 hours without water prior to death.
  • A fall would have meant he would have died instantly, not survived for more than a day.