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America’s most prolific serial killer Samuel Little, who confessed to murdering 93 people over 30 years, dies in prison aged 80 on Wednesday as police continue to search for victims using his sketches all over the country, authorities have confirmed.
Little, who had diabetes, heart trouble and other ailments, died at a California hospital, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation?
He was serving a life sentence after being convicted of multiple counts of murder in 2014.
California corrections department spokeswoman Vicky Waters said there was no sign of foul play, and his cause of death will be determined by a coroner. Little, a career criminal that had been in and out jail for decades, had denied for years he’d ever killed anyone.
Then, in 2018, he opened up to Texas Ranger James Holland, who had been asked to question him about a killing it turned out Little didn’t commit.
During approximately 700 hours of interviews, however, Little provided details of scores of slayings only the killer would know.
A skilled artist, he even provided Holland with dozens of paintings and drawings of his victims, sometimes scribbling their names when he could remember them, as well as details such as the year and location of the murder and where he’d dumped the body.
By the time of his death, Little had confessed to killing 93 people between 1970 and 2005. Most of the slayings took place in Florida and Southern California.
Authorities, who continue to investigate his claims, said they have confirmed nearly 60 killings and have no reason to doubt the others.
‘Nothing he’s ever said has been proven to be wrong or false,’ Holland told the CBS’ 60 Minutes in 2019.
The numbers dwarf those of Green River killer Gary Ridgeway (49), ‘Killer Clown’ John Wayne Gacy (33) and Ted Bundy (36).
Almost all of Little’s victims were women, many of them prostitutes, drug addicts or poor people living on the edges of society.
