Police link confessed serial killer’s drawing to possible Memphis victim
A self-confessed serial killer drew a portrait of a Memphis woman he says he killed after picking her up and taking her to Arkansas in 1984.
Samuel Little, 78, told authorities that he met the woman when she was between the ages of 28 and 29, and strangled her to death in West Memphis.
In May, Little began telling authorities he killed more than 90 people between 1970 and 2005. On Tuesday, the FBI released 16 drawings of women made by Little in prison, suspected to be of his victims. Each drawing identifies the possible city and year the women were killed, according to a report from USA TODAY.
One sketch linked Little to a woman’s body found in West Memphis, Arkansas, but the body has not yet been identified.
Little confessed to the killings in order to get a prison transfer, prompting local authorities across the country to re-examine cold cases. Little wasn’t arrested until 2012 while in a shelter in Kentucky. He was later extradited to California for narcotics charges, according to USA TODAY.
Los Angeles police used DNA to link Little for three unsolved murder cases in the area between 1987 and 1989.
Authorities are still meeting with Little and say they have since been able to confirm more than 30 of the killings.