Washington: A 79-year-old man murdered at least 50 people, making him the most prolific serial killer in US history, the FBI said Sunday.Samuel Little confessed to 93 homicides
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Samuel Little confessed to 93 homicides – mostly of women – between 1970 and 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
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Although investigators have only confirmed his involvement in 50 of them, they believe all of Little’s confessions are credible.
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The FBI has set up a website showing his videotaped recollections of unidentified killings, alongside sketches – drawn by Little – of the people he claims to have murdered.
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“Many of his victims’ deaths, however, were originally ruled overdoses or attributed to accidental or undetermined causes. Some bodies were never found,” the FBI wrote on the website.
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He was jailed for life in 2014 after being convicted of three murders.
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“For many years, Samuel Little believed he would not be caught because he thought no one was accounting for his victims,” FBI crime analyst Christie Palazzolo said.
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“Even though he is already in prison, the FBI believes it is important to seek justice for each victim – to close every case possible.”
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The former boxer, also known as Samuel McDowell, was first arrested in 2012 at a homeless shelter in Kentucky and extradited to California to face drug charges.
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Once there, DNA evidence linked him to three cold cases, leading to his 2014 conviction for the murder of three women in Los Angeles between 1987 and 1989.
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All three had been beaten and strangled.
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