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Little samuel, described by the FBI as the most prolific serial killer in American history, died at age 80 in a California hospital. The BBC reports.
Little was serving a life sentence for the murder of three women, but to date the man had confessed to killing 93 between 1970 and 2005. All the victims were vulnerable people, many prostitutes or drug addicts.
A former competitive boxer, Little allegedly knocked out his victims by hitting them before strangling them, meaning there weren’t always obvious signs, such as gunshot wounds, that it was murder. As a result, many deaths have been incorrectly classified as due to overdose or accidental and have never been investigated. Some bodies were never found, the FBI said. Little’s confessions were deemed “credible” by analysts who also released images of the victims drawn by Little himself while in prison.
Little was arrested in 2012 for drugs in Kentucky and extradited to California, where he underwent a DNA test. His criminal record was already long, with crimes ranging from armed robbery to rape.
The DNA findings linked him to three unsolved murders between 1987 and 1989 in Los Angeles County. At trial he pleaded not guilty, but was eventually sentenced to three consecutive life sentences, without the possibility of parole.
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