He drove her to Kentucky and killed her there, leaving the body on a hill. In 1984, he said he met a 25-year-old "hippie"-looking woman outside a strip club who asked him for a ride from Cincinnati to Miami. The FBI posted some of Little’s confessions in his own words to YouTube. In 2014, he was sentenced to three life sentences without parole. California authorities said he served four years for assault with a deadly weapon in the mid-1980s and was given probation in 2012 for possession of a controlled substance.ĭNA samples taken while he was in custody linked him to three unsolved homicide cases dating back to the 1980s. Prior to getting caught for the slayings, he was in and out of prison.
MOST PROLIFIC UNSOLVED SERIAL KILLERS SERIAL
SAMUEL LITTLE MOST PROLIFIC SERIAL KILLER IN US HISTORY, FBI SAYS The victims were mostly prostitutes, drug addicts and women living on the margins of society.
He was a former boxer, and investigators said they believe he knocked out his victims with a punch before strangling them while masturbating. history" last year, and its analysts believe all of his confessions are credible, although some of the deaths originally were ruled accidents or overdoses. The FBI named Little "the most prolific serial killer in U.S. NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILLER PLEADS GUILTY TO 4 OHIO MURDERS The crimes took place in 19 states, with most of his victims in California and Florida.
His first killing was in 1970 and the last in 2005. He told investigators that he strangled all of them.
He also drew portraits of more than 30 of the victims, describing where he met them, what they were wearing, how he killed them and where he hid their bodies. Little spent weeks in interviews with Texas Ranger James Holland, divulging details about the killings and offering corroborating evidence. The Los Angeles County medical examiner is expected to determine an official cause of death. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said he died early Wednesday morning at a hospital. Samuel Little, the country's most prolific serial killer who confessed to more than 90 slayings, has died. Fox News Flash top headlines for December 30įox News Flash top headlines are here.
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