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Who is Samuel Little? Samuel Little Bio/Wiki
Samuel Little was an American serial killer and serial rapist who was convicted of the 1987-1989 murders of three women in California in 2012 and the 1994 murder of one woman in Texas in 2018. He was born on June 7, 1940, in Reynolds, Georgia, U.S.
Little died in a Los Angeles County area hospital on December 30, 2020, because of an undisclosed health condition.
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— André Senior (@andresenior) December 31, 2020
He claimed to have murdered as many as ninety-three women, and more than sixty murders have been connected to him by investigators. Little’s involvement in at least fifty killings, the highest number of proven cases for any serial killer in the United States history, has been confirmed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). For a third of a century, about 2005, he reportedly assassinated women in nineteen states.
He attended Junior High School in Hawthorne, where he had discipline and achievement issues.
Little was placed in an institution for juvenile criminals in 1956, after he was accused of breaking and entering the property in Omaha, Nebraska.
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— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 4, 2019
Age
He was 80 years old.
Girlfriend
Since his death, Little had a long-term girlfriend named Jean, who helped them both for years by shoplifting.
Crimes
In 1961, for breaking into a furniture store in Lorain, Little was sentenced to three years in jail, he was released in 1964.
By 1975, for crimes including burglary, robbery, attempted rape, bribery, and attacks on government officials, he had been arrested 26 times in 11 states. He was extradited to Los Angeles, where, on January 7, 2013, he was indicted. A few months later, the police said that Little was being prosecuted for having engaged in three dozen murders committed in the 1980s, which had been unrevealed until then.
The LaPree murder case was revived in connection with the current circumstances in Mississippi. In total, Little was checked in 93 murders of women committed in several US states for involvement.
Arrested
Little was arrested at a homeless shelter in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 5, 2012, and extradited to California for drug charges, during which investigators used DNA testing to determine that he was involved in the murders of Carol Ilene Elford, murdered on July 13, 1987, Guadalupe Duarte Apodaca, murdered on September 3, 1987, and Audrey Nelson Everett, murdered on August 14, 1989. They murdered all three women and were later found on the streets of Los Angeles.
Confessions And Charge
Little admitted to the 1996 fatal strangulation of Melissa Thomas on November 9, 2018. After confessing the crime to a Texas Ranger in May 2018.
Little was charged with the 1994 murder of Denise Christie Brothers in Odessa, Texas on November 13, 2018. Little pled guilty to the December 13 murder of Brothers and was handed another life sentence.
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On November 13, the Ector County, Texas District Attorney, and Wise County Sheriff’s Office also reported that Little had admitted to dozens of murders and may have committed more than 90 between 1970 and 2005 across 14 states.
Little admitted to two Florida murders in November 2020, one of which was wrongfully convicted by another man.
Death Cause
The Corrections and Recovery Department of California said he died at a hospital early Wednesday morning. An official cause of death is expected to be determined by the Los Angeles County medical examiner.
Vicky Waters, a spokeswoman for the California corrections department, said there was no evidence of foul play, and his cause of death would be decided by a coroner.