Samuel Little - Portraits of Murder /// Part 3 /// 587 | Forensic Files

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it's disturbing to listen to but investigators want to hear it all and more you were laughing
while I was killing them the most prolific serial killer in American history I reached over I choked her and once she
was dead I pulled out of the car look around dope back to the car little says he has a photographic memory
and has drawn sketches of his victims he brought sketches hey tell me about um northern Kentucky the girl that you
met in Columbus so you meet this girl I guess you're at a strip bar downtown Columbus OH we
don't want to call you know this life will come up behind the building you know I mean my trunko she walked
over to me say uh come on y'all can you take me to Miami describe this girl to me she white
black what she looked like she's like blonde hair dish water dishwater blonde they go it's short short like shoulder
length or no no no Italy a little over literally like a bob yeah like a bob okay and um
I don't call anything she was she was worth five seven how much it actually weighs she weighed
about 1 30. how old do you think she was oh she's about 25. okay you mentioned before the the you said she kind of had
like this hippie Aura tour yeah she didn't give you a hippie feeling I think she was some kind of hippie here
so you go to Cincinnati you mess around on Vine Street and then eventually you guys both get in your car and you cross
over the the bridge into Kentucky tell me about going into Kentucky we got to Covington and then we continue through
Covington and there was a part that they were having a festival there and she heard the music and [ __ ] off the
band in here invite her being a heavy type you know they get to that where the police came over and peeked
into in a car he really wanted me to move out of here so we instead of going in there I took
her the other way right winding around and they got Hills going in Kentucky and the road winds around the hills I seen a
little short road going up the hill and in the up top that was a vegetation where no hours or nothing and so I
pulled up in there in in conceal what the car you know in that little vegetation up
there on top of the hill so tell me about this this road that goes up the hill what kind of road is it it was it
was like a dirt road okay it was like the grass was growing in the middle between two tracks when I left
her up in there in that little road up there on the side of the road she would make partially concealed but this
kitchen [Music] foreign from his mouth to your ears that is killer Sam little describing how he
picked up a hippie chick in Columbus Ohio and then discarded her in the foothills of Kentucky
let's take a look at this guy's background some of what we know about Sam little
and what we're going to tell you here today comes from writer Jillian Lauren's article about Sam little now note she is
working on a book about him and these cases little was born in Reynolds Georgia June 7th 1940. his mother was 16
year old Bessie May little his father was 19 year old Paul McDowell one of the surnames little used
throughout his life little has said that his mother worked as a sex worker but according to
Cleveland magazine a 1940 census list her occupation as a maid according to him Little's mom didn't
want to be pregnant and try to abort the baby by tying a rope around her waist and pulling it as tight as possible some
sources have reported that little was born while his mother was incarcerated he was raised by his paternal
grandparents Henry and Fannie McDowell in Lorraine Ohio he attended Hawthorne middle school but
quit in the eighth grade he was first arrested for stealing a bike in February of 1954 and spent some
time at a boys industrial School in Lancaster Ohio a violent reform school where he says the boys were regularly
gang raped by the older stronger kids he was there for 18 months well what do they say hurt people hurt people his
next arrest would be in 1956 in Omaha for burglary then we have him again in 1957 this time back in Lorraine Ohio he
was again sent to a youth facility this time the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield which was closed by court
order in 1990 due to overcrowding and inhumane conditions this prison is best known for the filming location for the
Shawshank Redemption he got out and was arrested in October of 1961 for a burglarizing a Lorraine Furniture
Warehouse by this point in our timeline Captain Sam little is 21 years of age and he sent back to Mansfield for three
more years this is where he learned to draw spend his time in prison sketching and painting he also was trained as a
boxer at this time little fought as a competitive boxer until his mid-20s eventually Sam little quit boxing but he
would continue to use his boxing skills to punch and knock out his victims who were helpless against his strength and
power while there's a huge difference like you said he trained as a boxer so this guy understood how to punch and how
to punch correctly and the average even amateur boxer could hit harder than the average man walking around on the
streets the LA Times had some very thorough coverage of Sam little of course this because so many of his
crimes took place in their city and they say quote little traced the urge to kill
to his youth he said he got his first erection in kindergarten when he watched his teacher touch her neck later in
grade school he dreamed of killing a girl who stroked her neck while teasing him
at age 15 he was flipping through a true crime magazine when he came across a photo spread depicting a strangled 18
year old he said that he pinned it to his wall stating she had a beautiful neck after his release from prison when he
was 26 years of age Sam little moved to Florida to live with his mother with whom he had reconnected after she sent
him a letter saying he should come see her in the Sunshine State according to the star Advertiser
he worked at the Dade County Department of Sanitation and later at a cemetery after his mom died Sam hit the road
little traveled the country not really ever holding a real job at least not for very long
he got arrested time and time again as he traveled the underbelly of the country mingling seamlessly with the
disenfranchised the poor the addicted and the desperate it was within this demographic that he selected his victims
by the time he was extradited by Mitzi Roberts to La his rap sheet was over 100 pages
filled with scores of instances of brutal violence against women beatings sexual assaults chokings even attempted
murders he escaped real prison time on all but the 1984 San Diego assaults on Lori and Tanya according to a Texas
Rangers slash FBI bulletin released in November of 2021 here are the periods of time in which little was incarcerated
for six months or more during which obviously he did not kill any women this would be from May 28 1971 to March 14
1972 then again from November 25th 1982 to January 18 1984. October 25th 84 to February 1 of 87 June 5th 88 to April 11
1989 and then again June 20th to 1990 December 9 to 1990 and then he's finally locked up for
January 15 1998 to April 26 2002. now it's a little tedious to go through those dates but it's important because
we sit here to this day in 2022 still asking the public and law enforcement agencies out there for help
we have unidentified victims of Sam little we have confessions that he has made and we have not linked them to any
victims yet they are still connecting the dots on his murder map well I believe these kind of criminals are
actually the scariest these lifetime criminals because it's almost like prison becomes their second home where
most people are afraid well if I do this crime I might get caught I might go to prison they don't care about that so
they become even more dangerous and they're going to do what they want to do in their daily life
and this man of course has a history of violence let's review some of that information that we know about his life
now we know that little got married in Lorraine Ohio in 1965 but it was soon divorced
his first arrest for a crime of violence against a woman is believed to be a 1966
arrest in Cleveland for assault and battery on a woman if he did any time for this attack it
was minimal and we don't have any information because frankly it was so long ago he said that he moved to
Florida when he was 26 where in 1970 he murdered Mary brosly this would be his first murder victim after he killed Mary
Sam little returned to Cleveland where he was arrested in May of 1971 for armed robbery of a gas station while in prison
he racked up sodomy and aggravated assault charges this is when he met or Leah Gene Dorsey she will be very
important to our story one but also very important to keeping this murderer on the streets
this is what happened Little's girlfriend at the time who was arrested with him on the armed robbery charges
was planning to testify against him in that robbery case now little doesn't know this at the time
so as she sat in jail she's in jail with this Gene Dorsey person who little does
not know at this point and she's telling her hey I'm going to testify against the
guy that I was arrested with so then Gene meets Sam little also in the jail and warns him saying
hey your girlfriend is going to testify against you so when the trial came around
Sam little was prepared to fight against that to have a defense against that testimony
and so was his new friend Gene Dorsey so she testified on Sam Little's behalf pretending that the two of them were in
a relationship together and that they were together at the time of the robbery so picture this Captain his girlfriend
who he's locked up with and then the strange woman that neither of them know the situation is this the girlfriend has
to admit to her being involved in the armed robbery to implicate him well she does not know that Sam is prepared for
this so prepared that she has he has an alibi and was not there at the time of the robbery so this really gets turned
around on Sam's girlfriend at the time what ends up happening is the jury returns a not guilty verdict on the
armed robbery charge this dude gets lucky time and time again well I don't think Sam little is a bright guy I don't
think he's the sharpest tool in the shed but he definitely has some criminal sophistication and he's able to come up
with these plausible excuses that get him out of these charges from time and time again so as we can imagine
little and Gene become quick friends and she is 27 years his senior they had I'm
guessing they had an odd Dynamic but they traveled together they in fact were traveling companions for years
Dorsey taught little how to fence stolen goods she was a shoplifting expert and his traveling companion the two traveled
the country together in whatever car Sam little was driving at the time whenever
they stopped in a small town they would steal stuff from stores like Walmart and then fence the items in
crack houses and seedy parts of the town with the money that buy food booze drugs
and cheap motels at night after Gene was in bed Sam little would head out to engage in his
nefarious activities in the morning Gene Dorsey would clean out his car ridding it of all evidence
of the previous night's victim before they took off for the next small town the writer Jillian says in confronting a
serial killer that Gene knew about Sam Little's hobby she routinely cleaned the car of blood [ __ ] hair teeth clothing
jewelry any evidence of Sam Little's horrific activities from the night before how sick of an individual and how
much trauma has to be a part of your upbringing to assist basically this Psychopathic serial killer Well
turns out captain that Gene wasn't Little's only accomplice so now we have to introduce this Danny beckless he's a
19 year old who met Gene and Sam little in Little Rock in 1982. there's some kind of weird information
here it's a little unclear exactly how this young man started traveling with this older woman and the psychopath
Sam little my understanding is that Danny wasn't raised in the best of households and these two grifters come
into town and say hey we we got a store down in Florida that we own and we can give your son a job if he's willing to
travel with us and work for us so Danny gets the blessing of his parents and then travels along with these two
Maniacs they drive all over the Gulf Coast until they are arrested in Mississippi
there Danny told police that they spent their days shoplifting fenced stolen goods and checked into Budget Motels
then Sam little would head out to meet women sometimes not returning until late the next morning
now he says that Sam little didn't talk about ladies or nothing because Mrs Dorsey was the jealous type
but Danny beckless told police when the two men were alone Sam little would brag to him about meeting these
different women it looks to me like Danny was in some ways a victim too there's evidence to suggest that Sam
little was awfully violent with this Danny individual and there's not a lot that I could find to indicate that Danny
while he likely may have had thoughts or suspicions of what Sam little was up to
it doesn't seem like he had any direct first-hand knowledge of Sam's murders so what you're saying is Sam Whittle is you
know revisionist history and he's saying well I I'm just hooking up with these girls I
I ain't killed them but this individual is not accomplice in the murders but he's accomplice and all the
other crimes that they're going to be doing in between the murders this is basically a traveling band of criminals
a lot of it Danny is going to witness and be part of these more Petty type crimes the thefts and robberies and
things of that nature and I wonder if this was kind of a need for Gene Dorsey we know that she's she's getting up
there in years by this time she's the shoplifting expert remember that's what Sam little called her I wonder if this
Danny character is somebody that they needed they needed to take somebody on to contribute because if they don't if
they're not stealing these items and selling them or successful robbing somebody and
getting away with it which you can tell by his rap sheet he's not so great at robbing people and getting away with it
then their money's going to dry up and the money that they make from fencing these items is what's keeping their
their travels going ongoing and they're also especially Sam little again he's using a good amount of
alcohol and drugs at this point too so that requires some form of income and we know that Gene Dorsey and Sam little
weren't going to have an income the honest way now Gene Dorsey died of an aneurysm in 1987.
we don't know if this happened when Sam little was in prison but it's worth noting that Sam little admitted he had
beaten Gene in the past so I wonder is it possible that her brain injury was the result of such beatings of course
it's impossible to know this Sam little has commented that whenever he was romantically involved with a woman
remember we know he was married at least once and had two long-term girlfriends he would say that he purposely avoided
looking at their necks because he was trying to resist the urge of killing them he told investigators that he had never
killed anyone he loved but he seems to have been unable to resist physical violence even against those he I guess
you could say cared about Gene Dorsey being one of them when Sam little got out of prison in
California in 1987 he resumed killing with a Vengeance this is when he killed Carol Alford in LA
he is confessed to six more such murders in the Los Angeles area in 1987 all of which remain unsolved because the
identities of his victims aren't known and the victims have gotten lost in the sheer mountain of victims from that era
in the Los Angeles area sad to think that there's murder victims out there that there's nobody looking for them or
looking for answers to what happened to their loved one well I think there are people that may be looking but the
problem becomes I mean obviously Los Angeles and several other major cities in the United States had a huge homicide
problem in the late 80s and early 90s now without Gene now that Gene Dorsey has passed away
without Gene to handle the shoplifting Sam little started to get caught in 1991 he was arrested in Lorraine Ohio
for stealing a carton of cigarettes and hitting someone with his car for some reason although he was charged
he was let out pending trial and shocker he skipped down it doesn't seem like anyone bothered to
check his background or record in a lot of States when he's getting picked up on
these lesser charges and so they don't realize that they're dealing with this career criminal they
let him out because you get let out until you have your trial but as you pointed out captain and we pointed out
he's living this nomadic lifestyle of course he's just gonna hop in his car and drive away well and Sam little has
nothing to lose that's right now what ends up happening here is he gets caught for something else I'm
it's not clear to me what but when he's caught for these other things years later
he now has to face those 1991 charges that he dodged in Ohio so he pleads guilty to
the new stuff that he gets arrested for plus the old Ohio charges and gets sentenced to a two to ten year
sentence in prison for these crimes after he gets out of prison for this stint this is when he kills his final
victim Nancy Stevens in 2005. He is 65 years old at this time now remember the important arrest one of
the most important arrests in his case is the arrest that would provide the grounds for extradition extradite him
from Kentucky to the state of California in 2012. this is when Sam little was arrested in
Los Angeles for cocaine possession in 2007. he pled guilty but of course failed to attend a court-ordered drug
rehab program so a bench warrant was issued for his arrest as we heard earlier and as we said
earlier Mitzi Roberts had a heck of a Time tracking him down because during his entire criminal career including the
three and a half decades spanning The Killing years between 1970 and 2005. Sam little didn't really live anywhere
he literally spent his life as a transient preferring shelters halfway houses CD
motels even sleeping in cars he said he rarely stayed in any one place for longer than three days he had
no fixed address no registered vehicle no credit cards or paper trail he didn't vote he was a ghost
and law enforcement agencies didn't cross-reference with other jurisdictions the way that they do now
so an arrest for assaulting a woman in one state meant nothing to investigators in another
in fact and many of his arrests over the decades police detained and released Sam
little just hoping that he'd leave their jurisdiction [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you
all right we are back [Music] filthy animals crispy cheers cheers sir every one of the
investigators who talked to Sam little was really taken aback at his ability to recall each distinct victim
you'd think they would begin to blur together in his depraved mind when there are so many right if somebody
committed three murders you might expect them to know every little detail but once you get past 10 victims
it seems like they would all kind of like you were saying they're all blurred together
and the sheer amount of time that has passed in a lot of these we're talking decades as well
but he seemed to be able to recall the victim's clothing jewelry where he picked them up their final death throws
what he usually could not recall was names and dates and even some of the exact dump sites
for example he recalled that he picked up a girl in Memphis and dumped her in the Mississippi River but he thought
that happened in 1984. it is actually believed to have been 1990. part of his recall process involved cars
the car he was driving at the time figured heavily in his memories which makes sense we've talked about this with
Ted Bundy we've talked about this with Ed Kemper a lot of these guys the vehicle is very much one of their
killing weapons part of their Batman utility belt another tool in their utility belt for their life of crime or
their career of killing people the problem for law enforcement was trying to pin down the victims because they're
getting statements from Sam little like a white girl in Cincinnati sometime in the 80s left there in a field
you know these are not exactly specific details and there are tens of thousands of Jane does in the United States going
through each one to try to match a piece of jewelry or a dress pattern is nearly
impossible even using namus as the conversations evolved Holland our Texas Ranger recalled at one point in
his youth Sam little had painted a mural this was while little was in the Dade County Florida jail in 1976. he had
painted a massive mural on the jailhouse wall with permission of historical black
figures it was so impressive it received coverage from the Miami News now Ranger Holland asked Sam little the
killer if he could draw some of the victims so they could possibly identify them if he couldn't remember their names
but could remember what they look like maybe he could draw that sketch this for law enforcement and this could help find
these unnamed victims yeah it's a very creative approach Sam little ended up producing scores of drawings of women
whose faces were so recognizable that in fact several of them were identified by their family members
now authorities went through a moral struggle with this serial Killer's artwork if you will and whether to
release them to the public or not on one hand it was considered likely based on the detail
and the drawings that during that doing so would help identify the victims on the other hand it seemed
almost to glorify this monster right publishing his artwork so that his victims images were as he saw them
rather than as their loved ones remembered them law enforcement is going to release these which I think is good
because it gives us a chance to identify these women and get some closure get some answers for the family these
sketches are viewable on the FBI's Sam little webpage and are definitely worth looking at as people looked at them they
saw victims they recognized for example when Akron Ohio detectives heard the details of a little confession in their
town they hearken back to an unsolved murder they showed Tanya masler one of Sam Little's drawings labeled
Akron left in woods 1990 or 1991. and Tanya immediately knew who it was it was her mother Roberta she had been
found decomposed in a wooded area of Cleveland's Firestone Metro Park in September of 1991 and her cause of death
was undetermined at that time but as soon as Tanya saw Sam Little's drawing she and the investigators now knew what
and who had killed Roberta after nearly 30 years so stories like this made using
the artwork worth it as the captain pointed out so Sam Little's confessions and these
portraits and the tactics they used they were able to solve some cases that were
decades old yeah they're able to verify previously unsolved homicides using all of this work that they've put in and the
FBI their agents peloso and Williamson that we've mentioned earlier they reached out to more than 200
investigators with details of crimes descriptions of the victims their clothing where they were dumped and so
on they're trying to figure out if there were even more all in all over 650 hours
of interviews were conducted between Sam little and various law enforcement officials from multiple States the FBI
worked with local investigators to clear these cases as they confirmed Sam Little's confessions Sam little
confessed to killing women in Arizona Arkansas California Georgia Florida Illinois Louisiana Maryland Mississippi
Nevada Ohio South Carolina Tennessee Texas Kentucky Indiana Missouri and New Mexico and the agency has confirmed many
of Little's admissions a November 2018 news release issued by vicap is entitled convicted killer linked to 90 murders
this from a more recent October 6 2019 VI cap release this is essentially an update to their original release this
States the FBI confirms that Sam little age 79 is the most prolific serial killer in U.S history to date little has
confessed to 93 murders and the FBI crime analysts believe all of his confessions are credible the FBI's
violent criminal apprehension program can also confirm that little has been matched to 50 cases with many more
pending final confirmation when even though Sam is you know basically bragging I've killed this many people
and it's a huge number and we've seen in several cases where serial killers you know boost their numbers by a little bit
Pat him a little bit so you have to do your due diligence to make sure there is even a victim in that area and is it a
victim that you can actually connect to Sam little and they're going to be able to add I believe 10 more victims to his
laundry list yeah that will be within a year of releasing that FBI information to the public in 2019.
so when we say confirmed 10 more cases that's not in addition to the 93 that is clearing some of the 93 right he had
confessed to 93 victims but at one point they only had identified 30 of them and
then that number grew and grew and grew as they were able to finally confirm some of these confessions now like the
captain pointed out this is a strange situation and I know that there's probably some people out
there going you know what I don't know that I believe this guy serial killers are notorious liars and he probably just
wants credit for more than he actually did and I can agree with a lot of that and I don't know and I'm
not going to sit here today and say that I believe 100 percent that he killed all
93 of these women I do think that he killed a large majority of them the others yet to be determined by the
colonel here but the thing here with Sam little that sets him apart and this is not
this is not any Kudos this is not an attaboy to this monster this is simply telling you why he is different than
some of these other types of killers and I think some of the best information or the best thoughts on that comes from
district attorney Gary Rempel out of San Diego he was the guy that tried Sam little in the San
Diego cases and he says look this guy he was not a would-be killer right he even though he got off in in San Diego
and he could not get a conviction Gary the district attorney said straight up I reviewed this guy's file he's not a
would-be killer who's being tried for two attempted murders he goes this guy is a torture killer and when he gets out
of his short prison stunt here from these dodging these all attempted murder charges he's going to kill again
he's likely going to go elsewhere and kill again and he referred to it as the Sam little Playbook you know the reason
why Sam little was so successful was his Playbook because his murders worked his Playbook
worked and it was simple Sam little moved frequently he used aliases he traveled with an alibi witness Gene
Dorsey who if he did find himself in a jam would come to his rescue and say no he couldn't been over there doing that
bad thing because he was with me he left no weapons used no weapons and sadly unfortunately he picked victims
that would not be missed that's the Sam little Playbook that's the Playbook that
worked so there's obviously some confessions that line up and match and make sense but then there's other cases
that don't line up and don't make sense yeah this is not this is very messy it's
it's not clean by any means so by the spring of 2020 Sam little had been convicted of eight murders in California
Ohio and Texas he was charged with several more that have not been adjudicated as we said earlier it's been
reported that the FBI has confirmed 62 of Little's confessed homicides but we know that he confessed to 93 kills
the FBI has created an interactive website of a U.S map with locational pins reflecting scores
of victims of Sam Littles who have not yet been identified Jane does and to murders described by Sam little that
have not yet been definitively cooperated by law enforcement so these are unmatched confessions
it also indicates Jane does that have been matched to Sam little but are still unidentified themselves
each confession includes a short caption or blurb and many include a drawing done
by Sam little you heard one in today's trailer yeah creepo the purpose of this page is to
provide the public with as much information as possible about these unidentified murder victims in hopes
that someone somewhere knows who they are even more recently in November of last
year the FBI and the Texas Rangers issued a joint bulletin entitled Sam little case profiles that request Public
Assistance identifying his remaining victims the bulletin contains very detailed
blurbs about each murder and the sketch for each victim if one was made all of the unidentified victims were
killed between 1970 and 1997. the bulletin is broken down by state we have 16 unidentified Los Angeles victims as
well as unidentified victims in other states five in Florida three in Georgia one in Tennessee one in Ohio two in
Louisiana one in Mississippi and one in Las Vegas for a total of 31 unidentified
adding to the 62 that have been attributed to Sam little and we have 93 in total
and some of the unmatched confessions the FBI has provided us with lots of detail and if you're interested you can
go to fbi.gov and look up these portraits yourself and I suggest people do that Sam little
confessed to 17 murders in Los Angeles in the mid to late 80s this is in addition to the three that he was
convicted of one of the 17 is Alice Duvall now believed to be resolved so that leaves
16 additional cases in Los Angeles as of the end of 2020 Mitzi Roberts told the Washington Post police have very
strong leads in about five of the remaining cases but are not yet able to say with confidence this is him this is
why the task is complicated she said because as many as half a dozen serial killers using similar methods were
operating in Los Angeles in the 1980s the era when little was active there per the LA Times quote during the time
period that he was convicted of murdering three women in Los Angeles we were in the middle of a crack cocaine
epidemic prosecutor Beth Silverman said during that time period there were more than 100 women of color who wound up
dead in Alleyways in South Los Angeles by November of 2021 so late last year Captain none of the 16 in Los Angeles
had been definitively identified so those are still open unresolved cases yeah and then there are the cases that
might not have yet been attributed to Sam little but they have been mistakingly attributed to someone else
someone who is innocent there are two known cases where Sam little is believed to have been responsible for the murder
but someone else was convicted Samuel little died December 30th 2020 of natural causes in
a California hospital by the time of his death nearly 60 of his murders were confirmed making him
the most prolific serial killer in U.S history he got away with so Much Death because he knew exactly what he was
doing when he selected victims no one would miss or fight for his own words tell the story of his
calculated Mo he told Cleveland magazine quote Yeah I'm not gonna go over there in the white neighborhood and pick out a
little young teenage girl he said I ain't gonna go over there and pick out a housewife while she's out there with the
shopping in her hands and drag her into the car that's the kind you get busted for
the New York Times stated the same says quote I never killed no senators or Governors or fancy New York journalists
nothing like that he told the reporter if I killed you it'd be all over the news the next day I stayed in the
ghettos end quote and this is from The Washington Post which really did an absolutely fantastic three-part series
on Sam little this says quote police officials acknowledge that the vast majority of murders attributed to little
would never have been solved without his voluntary confession Little's Decades of
impunity underscore a troubling truth about the U.S Criminal Justice System it is possible to get away with murder if
you kill people whose lives are already devalued by Society well little admitted
to Jillian Lauren that any apologies that he made or remorse that he had shown it was an act he didn't care whether the
victim's families forgave him he felt nothing when he killed them except exhilaration and the selfish need to
make them his [Music] [Music] like always Stellar research thanks for keeping us entertained Colonel do we
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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

Sam Little's life as the most prolific U.S. serial killer is examined, detailing his methods, accomplices, and the impact of his confessions on cold cases.

Key points

Introducing Sam Little. Sam Little, the most prolific serial killer in American history, shares his chilling confessions.
The Troubling Upbringing of Sam Little. Sam Little's traumatic childhood and early criminal history shaped his violent tendencies.
The Role of Gene Dorsey. Gene Dorsey, a significant figure in Little's life, aided him in his criminal activities.
Identifying Victims Through Art. Sam Little's drawings helped identify several of his victims, leading to closure for families.
Sam Little's Confessions. Sam Little confessed to 93 murders, making him the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history.
The Sam Little Playbook. Sam Little's methodical approach to killing involved moving frequently and using aliases.

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