Sheriff IDS woman found in 1977 as victim of serial killer
PASCAGOULA, Miss. – A Mississippi sheriff’s department said Tuesday that it has identified the skeletal remains of a woman found nearly 44 years ago, and investigators believe she was a victim of the now-deceased Samuel Little, the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history.
Hunters found the woman’s remains in December 1977 in the small community of Escatawpa in coastal Jackson County, Mississippi, and investigators had referred to her since then as “Escatawpa Jane Doe.” An autopsy determined that the woman, who had a distinctive gold tooth, had been dead about three or four months before her remains were found.