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history Samuel little has confessed to 93 murders she fight for her ice and I'm fight for my
pleasure it's disturbing to listen to but investigators want to hear it all and more she was
laughing when I was killing the most prolific serial killer in American history I reached over I choked her and
once she was dead I pulled her out of the car looked around jumped back in the car little says he has a photographic
memory and has drawn sketches of his bronze sketches of his Bundy gasy the Green River
Killer all topping the list of some of the most prolific serial killers of all time but the number of victims taken by
each of these monsters is dwarfed by the evil work of another killer a killer who
was so stealthy and cunning that often not only did no one know who had committed the murder in some cases no
one knew that his victims had even been murdered this man stayed under the radar
for decades killed dozens of victims in multiple States over 35-year period the only reason that we know
about most of these murders is because he decided to talk this is true crime garage and this
is the story of Sam little the killer of [Music] women when we left off yesterday Cold
Case detectives in La were working on building a case of three homicides committed by Sam little and they are
starting to connect him to other similar Cold Case homicides in other states so now in 2013 after Sam little has
continually murdered America's women for roughly four decades Sam little was indicted once again and facing trial in
California for the 1987 and 1989 murders of Carol Guadalupe and Audrey in Mississippi investigators were going
back to reopen cold cases that fit Sam's M Mo and murders that occurred during the time that he lived in Mississippi
his first arrest there was in 1977 his last was in 1982 these arrests amongst other things teach us and tell
us that he was in fact in Mississippi for a period of time a Mississippi investigator told the son heral
newspaper quote we know he left some for dead but they survived they are good Witnesses now they remember everything
that happened to them like it was yesterday they have always identified Sam little as their attacker Sam little
is a monster there's no telling how many people he's attacked were killed now that little had finally been nailed for
murders that very strongly resembled Mississippi's 1982 Cold Case murder of 24-year-old Melinda lupri detectives
started trying to put together a case against Sam little tracking down old Witnesses and retesting physical
evidence in Melinda's case but of course in the interim between the murder in 1982 and
2013 decades had passed and little had killed many women during that time the failure of Florida and Mississippi
authorities to nail Sam little in the early 80s would be replicated over and over again throughout the United States
for decades now we know that they tried to put Sam little on trial back in San Diego but that didn't work out so this
be the first real investigation into Sam little and his crimes and this starts in
2012 2013 this will be significantly different from any other investigation that took place in Sam Little's
existence so this is after Little's arrest in 2012 in California and the discovery that three unsolved murders
could definitively be linked to him by DNA California investigators put together the other attacks he had
carried out on the two San Diego women back in 1984 remember Tanya and Lori that we talked about yesterday as they
dug into little they began to realize that this guy whose background and life history was very vague and who was
nomadic potentially had as many as 40 other murder victims they started reaching out across the country to try
to get a handle on just how widespread his crimes may be and to see if he could be conclusively linked to other murders
but of course Captain this is going to be quite the challenge so they started off by searching cotus until the
computer started smoking from so much action there were no more cases in which Little's DNA could Point them to a
murder and his fingerprints turned up in police files time and time again but only for lesser crimes
Petty crimes like theft in the murder inquiries as the LA Times put it modern forensics played no role the inquiries
came down to shoe leather police work interrogations and digging through Dusty files for Clues like a Western Union
MoneyGram from 1982 a witness who spotted a yellow El Dorado a prostitutes last meal of carrots that's what a lot
of these cases are going to come down to single but very specific situations and
items Within These individual cases throughout the United States now keep in mind we are talking about many murder
victims from an error before taking DNA samples on corpses was standard if little left a trail of bodies they were
going to have a hard time following it because the victims he was suspected of killing often preceded DNA databases if
they were identified by name they still were likely to have been killed long before DNA analysis so any connection to
little would be unknown from a physical evidence standpoint and even if the victims did have names you know many of
them became Jane Do's they could still have predated DNA testing or be the type of victim that no one bothers to take a
DNA sample from many of his victims were sex workers and performing a rape kit was deemed useless in a lot of these
cases that sounds horrific and that's going to be jaw-dropping to many people to hear that statement but it is in fact
true when you have a sex worker you can't just simply say that oh we found Seaman from Sam little on this victim
therefore he must have killed her it doesn't work that way because his defense could be as simple as this
I had consensual sex with that woman I paid her and then I left and then later somebody else came along and killed that
woman and left no DNA on her or no seen on her and it's that simple it's shocking but it's true I think it's hard
to investigate somebody like sam little because he's a criminal 100% of the time
if you take somebody like BTK for example he's living part of his life as a normal obst standing citizen he
doesn't commit crimes he has his double life as a serial killer Sam little is a criminal 100% of the time he's Street
Smart too and he's going to know how to talk with police he's going to know how to dodge their questions you point out a
very good interesting fact there Captain this is somebody that has sat across the
table many times or sat in the back of a cruiser many times and his existence not
not facing murder charges not being suspected of murder this is being picked up for other crimes he's used to talking
to police now there's been a lot of piling on in Sam Little's case and I get it and I've been I've been part of that
at times as well where I go oh the atrocities how could law enforcement let this guy kill for for decades well it's
not just that simple they didn't let him kill some of these cases and I think we
need to look at this on a caseby casee basis and throw criticism where it's due but I also think that there was a lot of
good detective and police work that was done in many of these cases I think in San Diego we talked about the 1984 cases
the attempted murder cases there was a lot of good police work on that case they had the right guy in court they
just couldn't get a guilty verdict from the jury let's talk about some things that were working in Sam Little's favor
and working very much against the investigators and the detectives looking into these homicides let's start with LA
because La is very intriguing here in the Sam little case in the late 80s when Sam little killed three victims that we
know of in Los Angeles there were several serial killers all at work at the same time so think about that you
have these stranger on Stranger murders which are incredibly difficult to investigate to start with with we have
victims living a high-risk lifestyle I'm not victim blaming it's just the truth people that makes it difficult to
investigate their homicides and then you have several other active unknown serial
killers working all in the same area and all with similar victimology to their crimes ones that I can think of for
instance you have Lonnie David Franklin Jr better known as the Grim sleeper killed 10 plus in Los Angeles between
1985 and 200 7 you want to not sleep tonight look up a picture of that guy Michael Hughes is another he was
convicted of killing seven females in California mainly in Culver City during the late 80s and early 90s but three of
his victims were killed in Los Angeles Chester Turner was convicted of 11 murders in Los Angeles over the course
of about 11 years in the 80s and 90s so that's three and I guarantee you there were more so the investigators had to
start from scratch pulling all unsolved cases from around the country in which the modus operandi fit Littles to see if
they could link any to him to do this they had to have a very thorough understanding of hiso so they could use
his methods to identify his victims so what law enforcement is going to have to do is look at Sam Little's known crimes
or the ones that they believe he's responsible and use that as their template yeah this will become their
template for looking for similar victims who were killed in a similar manner maybe left or dumped in a similar way
with reviewing these they start to get a clear picture of this guy's Mo and his victimology what the LA prosecutor
called Little's blueprint and this is what they came up with here's a quick list here Captain he cleverly and
deliberately selected marginalized female victims who would not be missed or were unlikely to have families with
resources to find them he chose women addicted to drugs Andor alcohol and then used those things to lure them he
preferred sex workers because they were an easy target and they would get into his car without a second thought he
opted for the physically vulnerable often attacking skinny weak small ill or high or inebriated women who could not
defend themselves could not fight him off he used his hands as his weapon of choice this is practically untraceable
when you compare it to things like knives and guns and he often left the victims cause of death
unknown sometimes they were finding these victims decomposed later and because they were strangled it was
difficult for them to tell that they were even a homicide victim that's part of the reason why some of these cases
were not even really investigated you have a drug addict that you find dead on the streets who's been dead for 2 weeks
or stuffed in an abandoned house somewhere and been there for months you don't find any bullets in
your victim or murder weapon nearby or a skull crushed or stab marks on any of the
bones and you go well the the the hypothesis here the Assumption here would be that this person died of a drug
overdose in this abandoned building and we're just now finding her unfortunately
well and then if the victim lives it becomes he said she said and little even though he doesn't have much of a standup
character he thinks he can at least win the argument well she was a drug user she attacked me or she was a sex worker
and she was trying to steal my money yeah as some of these survivors were not reporting some of the crimes and then
you have some survivors reporting them keep in mind this dude it was not uncommon for him only to be in a city
for 3 to 10 days he didn't have a residence if he attacks somebody and they survive or he sees a notice of
there's some sexual predator on the loose and it oh it looks like me or they got a match of my vehicle he just skips
town and goes on to the next city this is from the uh FBI a direct quote from one of their reports and this goes
back to the difficulties even categorizing some of his victims as homicides when they are initially found
and it says quote with no stab marks or bullet wounds many of these deaths were not classified as homicides but
attributed to drug overdoses accidents or natural causes and quote the other thing too and look I'm
glad to here in the garage with my my buddy the captain when I'm in the garage like to have a cold beer if I were home
right now I'd be eating some Honey Nut Cheerios and I only say that to tell everybody if you are if you are eating
something put this down step aside either hit Paws or stop eating because we're going to have to get into some
gross stuff with with Sam little he's a as you already know he's a Despicable disgusting human being I don't even know
if you can call him a human being but one of his MOS that they put in his template his blueprint if you will was
that he would often masturbate while strangling his victims and then dump their bodies and in fact he told
investigators that he could not rape would not rape the women because he struggled with erectile dysfunction old
Soft Cell so his victims often times are not even appearing or or would appear to
be like a rape victim raped and then murdered and keep in mind we touched on some of his disgusting habits the other
day and really how much of a monster this guy was it's not uncommon for a murderer even if it's a one-time murder
for a male to kill a woman to cover up a rape right leave no witness but what we have with Sam little
is completely different he's he's sexually assaulting because of the killing where the the killing is the
prime motive for his excitement right not raping and then murdering to cover up the rape this is a whole different
kind of monster here well he's getting off on the fact that they can't breathe exactly it's also worth noting here that
Sam little was 6'2 in tall and was well over 200 lbs he was trained as a boxer so these women didn't stand a chance
against him one once he got the victims into his vehicle he would stun or knock them out with a Punch To The Head and
then have his way with them and strangle or suffocate them there's not a lot of pictures of Sam little online but we'll
post some of those to our Instagram and Twitter Facebook all those you can find us at truecar.com but we'll we'll post
some of his older mug shots and you can see he's he's he's a lot different of the version of the crippled old man that
you see later on and and the the same little that we've all come to know this crippled old man yeah by the time we see
him on TV and we are able to hear of his horrible crimes that he committed he's in a wheelchair and he looks like an old
a sick old man by this point and you're going to go Nick you're lying there's no
way he was 6'2 over 200 lb but trust me he was listen to this okay investigate say we know he punched one victim with
such force that when he struck this victim in the abdomen he broke her spine this is from the autopsy report of
Audrey Nelson one of Little's 1989 LA victims quote injuries throughout her body revealed pre-death blunt force
trauma consistent with having been punched repeatedly in the head Nelson suffered severe bruising underneath her
skin this bruising extended into her chest muscles stomach and abdomen in addition the hard bone of her spine was
crushed during a blow to the upper Central adomen with deep bruising to the stomach itself it was a sign of
considerable Force like many of Little's victims Audrey's body displayed drag marks very early in Little's serial
killer career he stopped bothering to bury or even hide his kill just discarding the corpses on roadsides in
alleys ditches parking lots Ravines what have you wherever he happened to find himself think about this though too his
early victims and we see this a lot of times with serial killers where they will go to Great Lengths they will put a
a great deal of effort into concealing their crimes early on and then after a while they start to get confident they
start to believe you know what I can get away with this I'm smarter than the police so I think we have a little bit
of that going on in Sam Little's case we also have the situation of he's often high or drunk or both when he's
committing these horrible acts so he might not be in such a great physical state to be able to conceal the bodies
and then factor in the location of the murders a lot of these victims were in LA or were in bigger cities where you
know what driving around with the victim in your car is a risk in itself hismo which worked time and time again often
was get rid of the body as quick as possible and get out of Dodge get as far away from the body as I can I'm so tired
of these serial killers getting like really cool names Like Son of Sam or BTK Sam little should go by Soft Serve
because he couldn't make it hard right well they did they had a here's another disgusting uh part of the case they
actually called him the choke and stroke killer for you know sometimes these guys
get weird monikers and nicknames and and sometimes it comes from the media sometimes it comes from the general
public or law enforcement I don't really know where this one came from I'm guessing it's law enforcement because
this is something that likely the media and the general public would not know from from reading the newspaper but
basically what we just went through here Captain is his blueprint what they're calling the Sam little blueprint and
they're using Little's Mo and victimology the LA authorities are to desperately try to figure out what else
little had done no matter what state it took place in but again because they couldn't match anything else up on codus
with his DNA they're kind of blindly searching in the dark for more victims so basically they had to notify every
law enforcement agency around the entire country go ahead and Google that number
to see how many uh law enforcement agencies there there are in this country and say hey do you have any violent
unsolved murders of women probably sex workers drug addicts or homeless with strangulation as the cause of death
between the years of let's say 1960 and 2012 I mean can you imagine trying to put together this list this is an
enormous task it would be easier to figure out a way to get him to talk but of course we know that when he's first
arrested he refused to cooperate he did not even cop out to the three women with
whom his DNA had been found when he did talk to detectives about his history of arrest he said they were for shoplifting
and Petty thefts no mention of nearly 100 dead women he would eventually be linked to well and they poked and
prodded him but they couldn't get him aroused after he was charged with those three counts of murder for the 87 and 89
homicides in LA in April of 2013 La homicide detectives called in the big guns they get the FBI involved
and they bring in analyst Christy palazolo from the FBI's viap they wanted help compiling cases that could be
attributed to Sam little they wanted the FBI to do some digging into his background to try to reconstruct his
life which could lead to more victims so they could have kind of a road map of his life of where he was at what times
vicap maintains a database of known crimes and categorizes Mos and other characteristics like manner of death and
victimology that can help locate similar crimes and thus link perpetrators they knew little emo so palazolo started
digging in June of 2013 she issued a vicap alert asking detectives Across the Nation to check their files for unsolved
strangulation murders of vulnerable women soon her timeline of Little's life became 150 Pages she started cross
referencing events and locations in Little's life that overlapped with crimes in the vicap database and now
years later the FBI is still digging [Music] this show is sponsored by better help do
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uh Sam's officer of little cheers to the people in the back those are the ones that count the most this is going to
take us to the 2014 trial the murder trial for the three murders that he committed in Los
Angeles now prosecutors arm themselves with information about possible other crimes and other jurisdictions lining up
witnesses to testify against Sam little such as the survivors of his attacks in Mississippi and San Diego these women
testified that they remembered him they remembered his large hands and how he beat and choked them investigators in
California were able to link Sam little to crimes in 24 States but in a 56-year life of crime he had served only about
10 years in prison he was suspected of multiple murders but never convicted of a Murder well good news captain that all
will end in 2014 well I don't want to sound like a pessimist and I guess it's better to be
caught late than never yes and this is one of those situations where it's going to be some kind of answer for the
families and we're talking about a lot of families in this case so there is some good that comes out of it you feel
like you're lost right I know that investigators and prosec feel like they lost all around in the Sam little case
but there is some good you are bringing some closure giving some answers to these many families that were just left
guessing for many years remember some of these victims were Jane Do's for a long
period of time or still are Jane do so it only took the jury two hours to convict Sam little of the murders of
Guadalupe Carol and Audrey he was sentenced to three life terms in prison without the Poss possibility of parole
as his sentence was pronounced he shouted out loud in the court that he was innocent even though they had his
DNA in all three of these cases well he's an idiot so yes yes he is now let's bring in a very important character a
very important person in this story it's Texas Ranger Jimmy Holland this is an experienced investigator with training
in psychopathy who specialized in interrogating techniques this did not mean that he was
the guy that would come into an interrogation room and physically abuse the person that he was questioning or
take out his service revolver and put it to the back of the the individual's head
or the suspect's head yeah taking his pencil and shove it in the dude's dick hole or even dropping massive folders of
daunting looking files on the desk and glaring at the suspect instead he had a whole different method with which I
think proves to be much better instead he calmly appealed to the ego and used the carrot approach bribing his suspects
with little concessions that would incentivize them to cooperate now let's think about Sam little he's locked up
for Life he's an old man three life terms in prison without the possibility of parole you are going to die in prison
sir now can you help us out at all do you want to sit in your cell all day long or do you want to sit in this room
and talk to me well in December of 2017 Jimmy Holland was teaching an interrogation class pertaining to
questioning of psychopaths and sociopaths at a police conference in Florida he started chatting with a crime
analyst this was Angela Williamson a 41-year-old Australian with a doctorate in molecular biology and expertise in
forensics she was employed by vicap and a justice department initiative to train and fund
local police and sexual assault investigations during Holland and Williamson's conversation two detectives
from Florida came up and asked them if they knew anything about a California serial killer who was refusing to talk
these detectives suspected Sam little in an unsolved Florida case maybe more than
one Holland was intrigued well yeah you'd be intrigued because a killer like this and a a nomad really his victim
list could be a significant number yes exactly you hit the nail on the head my friend and this is a situation though
Holland wants to get involved but he cannot without a Texas case so he started thinking about this Sam little
guy and the fact that he wouldn't talk and several jurisdictions seem to suspect him in many murders so then he
called Williamson in March of 2018 and asked if they could do something about this guy Williamson put Holland on hold
and asked another cubicle occupant this is our friend palazolo who we've already
introduced if she had heard of Sam little and of course boom she sure had palazolo said tell him about the Odessa
case Odessa Texas case this was a case case that she was sure would be attributed to Sam little and in fact 12
of the potential victims in the viap analyst had put on her list of potential Sam little murders were murders that
took place in the great state of Texas so Holland was definitely intrigued by the Odessa case this was 38-year-old
Denise Christie brothers who was found dead in 1994 now per the LA Times quote like
little LA victims she had been strangled and left partially clothed in a vacant lot police records showed little had
interaction with local police around the time of the killing end quote Holland believed that he could get Sam little to
talk but we we have to remind The Listener that Sam L was in prison at this point for already four years and he
was over 80 years old so Holland headed to California to assist in these investigations to see if he could get
Sam little to talk when he gets there the LA detectives inform Holland of what he was up against and they tell him that
Sam little despised law enforcement and that he was free to use that to his Advantage if he could the detectives
also said that Sam little hated being called a rapist though his seen was found on the clothing of two of his
victims and prosecutors labeled him a sexual predator perhaps Holland thought thought Sam little saw a distinction
between rape and becoming aroused during a strangulation that was something that
he thought he might be able to work with when interrogating Sam little now it's worth pointing out that one of the
detectives little despised was Mitsy Roberts who we've already talked about of the LAPD who had noted the pattern in
the 87 and 89 bodies found and made the codus connection to Sam little she and Beth Silver
the LA County Deputy district attorney were the women who finally put Sam little away so their theory was that Sam
little hated women of course but also hated being bested by two women and would be much more inclined to talk to a
man potentially about his crimes definitely seems like Sam L has some kind of intimacy issues with females and
so if he's going to open up and make himself vulnerable he's probably not going to do that
with a female well and obviously to kill this many women you have to hate women and that's what I think is part of his
emo here that he hates women in general it will be May of 2018 when Holland sits
down with Sam little of course we have the FBI listening in the Next Room now the formerly big man sam little was now
in a wheelchair and he's still sharp though at this time and was interested in the Texas Rangers motives for the
visit Holland gave little some peanut M&M's and tried to you know butter him up but little told Holland that he had
no interest in helping law enforcement close any cold cases because he had been convicted on fake evidence and
lies and so he pushed back quite a bit but we have Holland who is smart impatient and then he through
conversation and through this visit and other visits started to earn the trust of Sam little
soon they would be calling each other Sammy and Jimmy almost like their buddies this comedy duo Holland nudged
Sam little to take control of his story he pointed out that no one knew his name
but he could change that this is from the LA times has Sam little killed people yeah come on we both know that
Holland said the question is does Sam little want to talk about those killings and does he want to Define what really
happened Sam little studied the ranger quote hookers is all you are going to find Sam said Holland could
tell the killer was testing him Holland Shrugged do you see me tearing up see he's almost putting himself out there
like yeah I identify with you I agree with you that yeah you only killed people that of of a lesser value of what
that's what Sam Little's saying right and the detective here the Texas Ranger excuse me is smart enough to play along
he's playing to his ego he knows that if he can play to his ego Sam will likely open up and a whole new can of worms is
going to come out of every conversation that they have this is when Holland takes the chance to mention that Odessa
case from Texas and it seemed to motivate Sam little to start talking well don't you think a lot of these guys
want the truth to be out there or their truth to be out there well and he also has no more appeals at this time too so
it's really like he's got nothing to lose from spilling the beans he might feel like he has something to gain and
of course in any jailhouse snitch situation here he's telling on himself but of course you as a detective you
know going into that that they are only doing this for some benefit to them can I figure out what the benefit is that he
is seeking and kind of play to that in fact he opens up so much about this Odessa case he bluntly tells them
exactly what took place how he picked up this Denise Brothers what kind of car he
was driving what he used he used crack and black tar heroin for Denise to get him get her to join him he then pulls
into an alley and grabbed her by the throat and tossed her over the back seat of his vehicle like a doll where he
strangled her with one hand while masturbating with the other she fought back this is where one of his um
statements comes from that is more well known today in some of his confessions but he said that he would
make these encounters as long and slow as possible because the Act of Killing was
synonymous with sex for Sam little so he's often letting his victims repeatedly regain
Consciousness he said that the last time that Denise came too her head was in his
lap Sam little said her eyes big as marbles Sam says I told her I own you you're mine forever she cried and I
kissed her I kissed her tears from her face and then squeeze the life from her little knew exactly what vacant lot he
had dumped Denise in and they're able to take the details that he States during this interrogation during this basically
what's a conversation at this point and match these details up to the known information they have in the case
well Sam little is going to tell law enforcement that he stopped counting his killings at 84 victims and that's a very
large number of victims and then very oddly Captain he goes into detail about his first murder and his last murder and
his first murder was a woman that he met in a bar in Miami on New Year's Eve 1970
this was a victim that we spoke about yesterday Mary broley in our trailer for this week's episodes remember she
remained at Jane Doe until she was finally identified after a Florida detective had ENT Ed her information
into namus and got a match to a Massachusetts woman missing part of her pinky with a surgically repaired hip and
dyed blonde hair so even though they identified her this good detective did good work with the nameus program to
identify her through dental records they still had no idea who had killed her but
they knew it was a homicide because she was one of his victims that were buried and that it was
in this interview that they learned that broley was killed by Sam little well we've seen a lot of serial killers that
don't want to talk at all or the information that they give to law enforcement is so misleading but
everything that Sam is saying this is would give you hope I think as law enforcement that you're going to uncover
more answers for more victims and that's going to lead to closing some of these cases yes and he says that his last
murder victim was in 2005 this would be 7 years before he was identified by that
codus hit and this was a murder from Tupelo Mississippi now this is all interesting because he
gives detailed accounts of the first and last murders but we know that there's going to unfortunately be a whole lot of
Carnage between those two bookended murders now after getting him to talk of course course law enforcement's
confident at this point that Sam little is willing to talk about his other crimes his other murders so what they
end up doing here Captain is they get a letter from a Texas prosecutor pledging not to pursue the death penalty for Sam
little for any of the Texas murders that he confesses to and little agreed to start talking
about more murders but again remember he wants something in trade he wants to transfer to a Texas prison facility that
same day after these negotiations he confesses to 17 more murders all female victims he starts off
with really an emotionalist tally provided by Sam little he simply says Jackson Mississippi one victim
Cincinnati Ohio one victim Phoenix Arizona three Las Vegas one and so on and so on
most of these victims weren't on the FBI's list palazolo resorted to Google searches as they tried to keep up with
all of these Grim confessions coming from their prisoner well like I said law enforcement has to be optimistic because
they are making some Headway with this serial killer and as of mid November 2018 law enforcement has been told by
Sam little that he he's responsible for over 90 some homicides yeah that this was an announcement actually to the
general public where law enforcement is saying that Sam little is confessed to murdering dozens of women and he might
be linked to as many as 90 homicides this will be because they're probably going to need the Public's help at some
point now two weeks later the FBI announced that the vicap team have confirmed 34 of his murder
confessions saying that Sam little wasn't making any of this stuff up little claimed to have killed 93 women
between 1970 and 2005 and 18 or 19 States ranging from all the way to Florida and to California more than 30
of his confessions remained unmatched they have yet to be linked to any known victims this as of late last
year the FBI web page has a list of these and the detail and drawings which we we will get to in a minute furnished
by Sam little some of the confessions were no surprise whatsoever he confessed to the murder of Melinda lepri who we
already talked about who was murdered and he had not been indicted for after a grand jury vote he also confessed to
that old Gainesville case that he had eluded conviction on Patricia Mount was her name eventually Sam little admitted
to killing Carol gu Lupe and Audrey in LA in 87 and 89 which of course we already knew based off of DNA and other
circumstances that he did kill those women and then of course he confessed to 88 more little said to the LA Times that
he confessed in the end because he knew his time was running out and he wanted to help the families get closure and
perhaps exonerate someone wrongfully accused others said that little clearly wanted credit for what he had done the
New York Times said quote investigators who have spoken to him say he also appears to enjoy the attention he is
receiving as he recites details only a killer would know after Decades of discussing them with no one whatever his
motives Beth Silverman the LA prosecutor who locked little up for good in 2014 said that his confessions were hardly a
victory for law enforcement rather she said it's simply a tally of the Carnage he
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Bundy, Gacy, and the Green River Killer. All topping the list of some of the most prolific serial killers of all time. But the number of victims taken by each of these monsters is dwarfed by the evil work of another killer. A killer who was so stealthy and cunning that often, not only did we not know who was doing the killing but in some cases they weren’t classified as homicides. This killer of women stayed under the radar for decades, killed dozens, and murdered in multiple states. Join us for this True Crime tale, have a cold one, and listen to this serial killer profile delivered by the Garage Guys.

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Brief Summary

Samuel Little confessed to 93 murders, detailing his chilling methods and the challenges investigators faced in linking him to his crimes.

Key points

The Most Prolific Serial Killer. Samuel Little confessed to 93 murders, making him the most prolific serial killer in American history.
Investigating Sam Little's Crimes. Detectives faced immense challenges in linking Sam Little to his numerous murders due to lack of evidence and the nature of his victims.
Sam Little's Modus Operandi. Little targeted marginalized women, often sex workers, using his physical strength to overpower them.
The Sam Little Blueprint. Authorities use Sam Little's methods to identify more victims across states.
Trial and Conviction. Sam Little is convicted of three murders after years of evasion.
Confessions of a Killer. Sam Little confesses to over 90 murders, shocking law enforcement.

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