Published 15:02 IST, October 7th 2019
"Most Prolific" US Serial killer Samuel Little murdered at least 50
According to a report released by the FBI, Samuel Little has been dubbed as America's most prolific serial killer accounting to 93 murders in 14 states.
- World News
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According to reports issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a 79-year-old man convicted in the states of California and Texas agreed to commit 93 murders in 14 states, that mostly had female victims, during a period between 1970-2005, making him the most prolific serial killer in US history. Even though Little's involvement in at least 50 of the homicide cases has been confirmed, authorities are of the opinion that all his confessions have considerable weight.
America's most "prolific" serial killer
Lawyers prosecuting Samuel Little stated that he suffocated his victims or choked them to death, leaving marks that in turn made the investigators believe that the victims died of natural causes or drug overdose.
The former boxer was first apprehended in the year 2012, from a shelter in Kentucky, for people who did not have a home and boarded away to the state of California in relation to a separate charge on drugs.
A change of heart due to failing health
Ector County District Attorney, Bobby Bland, stated that Little was fully cooperating with people investigating the case in relation to the murders he committed back in the 1970s, in the state of Ohio, where he is suspected of taking lives of at least 5 women, as he not keeping good health and has exhausted his maximum number of chances of tabling a guilty plea.
Little was indicted for murdering three women living in Los Angeles and accepted the allegation of slaughtering a lady living in Texas, because of which he is serving life imprisonment charges in jail in California.
Cases dating back to 1980
During Little's 2014 court trials in Los Angeles, investigators said he apparently killed at least 40 people since 1980. Experts at that time were searching for potential connects to similar cases in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Texas and that drove Little to be moved to Texas and his plea request in December in the 1994 murder case of Denise Christie Brothers in the West Texas city of Odessa.
Updated 16:23 IST, October 7th 2019