Samuel Little is the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Samuel Little had confessed to 93 murders in more than a dozen states over 35 years. Little was in trouble with the law from...
Samuel Little is the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Samuel Little had confessed to 93 murders in more than a dozen states over 35 years. Little was in trouble with the law from a very early age, and by 1975 he had been arrested more than 26 times across 11 different states with crimes ranging from fraud, armed robbery to rape, and had been in and out of jail for many years.
In the early 1980s, Samuel Little beat two separate murder charges, before being jailed for two and a half years for attempting to strangle two women. After he was released from prison, he moved to Los Angeles and left a trail of victims in his wake, but was not caught until 2012.
In 2012, Little was arrested at a homeless shelter in the southern state of Kentucky on a drug-related charge, and was then extradited to California. In California, decades on developments In DNADNA, or Deoxyribonucleic Acid, is the genetic material found in cells, composed of a double helix structure. It serves as the genetic blueprint for all living organisms. evidence linked him to three unsolved killings from 1987 and 1989 in Los Angeles county. At the trial, Little pleaded not guilty, but was convicted and sentenced to three consecutive life sentences, without parole.
In 2018, while still in jail, Little opened about to breathtaking number of murder confessions.- The FBI confirmed that he had killed at least 60 women from 1970-2005, and have so far linked him to 93 murders in total. It is suspected that he may have killed more than 200 people.
Little, a drifter, conman, and one-time amateur boxer, preyed on vulnerable women on the fringes of society. His frequent target included prostitutes, drug addicts, and others down on their luck, who he believed would have few people looking for them. Some of his victims were hapless hitch-hikers and trusting college students.
Then, in October 2019, the FBI confirmed Little to be the “most prolific” serial killer in US history.
On December 1, 2021, the FBI, the Department of Justice and the Texas Rangers released profiles of 31 additional, unidentified victims of Little. The detailed descriptions span killings in 9 states from 1970 to 1997. Many of the profiles include portraits of the victims drawn by Little himself before his own death in 2020, while serving three life sentences for murder in California. He was 80 years old.
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