Man who says he murdered 93 is ‘deadliest serial killer’
A PRISON inmate who claims to have murdered more than 90 women across America is now considered to be the deadliest serial killer in US history, according to the FBI.
Samuel Little, 79, who has been behind bars since 2012, told investigators last year that he was responsible for 93 killings nationwide between 1970 and 2005. Now the FBI has announced that federal crime analysts believe all his confessions are credible, and officials have verified 50 killings so far.
Investigators also provided fresh information about five possible cases in Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky, Nevada and Louisiana.
Little, who is serving multiple life sentences in Los Angeles after being convicted of three killings in 2014, says he strangled most of his 93 victims, nearly all of them women.
Many were originally thought to have died from drug overdoses or accidentally. Some of their bodies were never found. The FBI showed 30 colour portraits of victims, mostly of black women, that were drawn by Little himself in prison.
It also released videos of prison interviews with Little. In one he told how he strangled a woman in 1993 and then rolled her body down a slope on a deserted road. In another he described how he met a woman in a club in New Orleans in 1982 — “she was pretty … beautiful shape and, uh, friendly” — and then drowned her. Police are still trying to match his confessions with other unsolved killings.