Samuel Little in prison in the United States , October 8 2019. – FBI / Cover Images
The man who just died at the age of 93 years confessed a total of 93 murders. Samuel Little, qualified by the federal police as the worst serial killer of United States history, died Wednesday, announced the prison administration of
California. The cause of his death must be officially determined during an autopsy to be performed in Los Angeles County, where he was incarcerated.
The FBI confirms at least 50 murders
If Samuel Little confessed to having murdered 80 people, the FBI has for its part confirmed its responsibility in at least fifty of these murders. This former boxer killed his victims, often isolated women from minorities, by striking them violently and strangling them.
Samuel Little had been serving a life sentence since 2012, when he was convicted and sentenced for the murder of three women, but has since claimed responsibility for dozens more between and 2005, in about fifteen American states, most of which had gone unnoticed. Police believe that all of Little’s confessions are credible and have posted a site on which we can see the filmed confessions of the killer who recounts, in a very precise way and sometimes with a smile, the murders for which the victims have not yet been identified.
Some bodies never found Portraits drawn from memory by the criminal were also distributed in an attempt to find his victims. “Many of these deaths were initially classified as overdoses or accidental or unspecified death. Some bodies have never been found ”, specifies the FBI on the website.
Samuel Little, also known as Samuel McDowell, was first arrested in 2005 at a Kentucky homeless center. He was then transferred to California in connection with a drug case. Once there, traces of DNA allowed the authorities to make the connection with three unresolved cases, and made it possible to convict him in 2012 for the murders of three women in Los Angeles between 1987 and 1989. All three had been beaten and strangled.