Calgary Herald

U.S. SERIAL KILLER CLAIMS TO HAVE MURDERED 90

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A convicted murderer has confessed to 90 murders spanning four decades, which would make him one of America’s most prolific serial killers.

Samuel Little, 78, is already serving a life sentence for killing three women in 2014 but is now being investigat­ed in connection with dozens more unsolved cases.

In a report released this week, the FBI said Little was able to evade detection by preying mainly on drug addicts and prostitute­s in a coast-to-coast murder spree.

A former boxer, Little would stun his victims before strangling them, so many deaths were attributed to overdoses or natural causes, the agency said.

Many of the murders were also committed in the ’70s and early ’80s, before DNA profiling was common. The FBI is now working to match his confession­s to 34 women’s deaths from 1970 to 2005. Little was arrested in 2012, and DNA evidence linked him to three murders in L.A. He was convicted and transferre­d to a Texas prison in connection with another murder.

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