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Samuel Little, described by the FBI as the greatest serial killer in American history, died at the age of 80.
Samuel Little died in a California hospital on Wednesday, the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said, according to BBC News.
He was serving a life sentence for killing three women, but in prison he confessed to killing 93 women between 1970 and 2005. Little targeted vulnerable people, many of whom were sex workers or drug users, authorities say. .
An official cause of death has not yet been established, but authorities say he has been ill for some time.
A former boxer, Little beat up his victims before strangling them, which meant they didn’t always show obvious signs. For this reason, many deaths were classified as accidental or due to an overdose and were never investigated. Some bodies have yet to be discovered.
Little served three life sentences for killing three women in Los Angeles in the 1980s, but later said he had a total of 93 victims.
The confessions began in 2018, after Little was interviewed by Texas Ranger James Holland, who was seeking information about an unsolved crime in Odessa, according to the FBI.
In October 2019, FBI officials said their testimony was credible and that they had proven 50 of them.
The number of murders Little has confessed to has surpassed that of other notorious serial killers. Gary Ridgway was convicted of 49 murders and testified another 20. Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy killed more than 30 people each, but Bundy was suspected of being multiple.
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