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American history Samuel little has confessed to 93 murders she fight ice and I'm fight for
my pleasure it's disturbing to listen to but investigators want to hear it all and
more she 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 victims drawn sketches of his
victims 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 no we don't want the car and this white girl come out behind
the building you I mean my trunk she walked over to me say come on can you take me
to Miami describe this girl to me she white black what she look like she is white blond ha dishwater dishwater blond
go it's short short like shoulder length or no no ear a little over the ear length like a bob yeah like a bob okay
and um how tall do you think she was she was about 57 how much she weighs she weighed about
130 how old do you think she was oh she's about 25 okay you mentioned before that that
uh you said she kind of had like this hippie or t her yeah she did give you a hippie feeling I think she was some kind
of hippie here so you go to Cincinnati you mess around on buying 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 contined through Covington mhm and there was a park that they were having a festival in and she heard the
music and [ __ ] off that band in there and by her being a hypoy you she oh she want to get to that but the police came
over and peeed in the in a car he really wanted me to move out of so we stood of
going in there I took her the other way right winding around they got Hills down
in Kentucky and the road windings around the hills I seen a little short road going up mhm the hill and and up top
there was the vegetation was no hous or nothing and so I pulled up in the and and concealed what the car in in that
little vegetation up there on top of the hill mhm so tell me about this this road
that goes up the hill what kind of road is it it was it was like a a dirt road okay it was like dirt 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 that
little road she would like partially conceal by the [Music] vegetation 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 18-year-old Bessie May little his father was
19-year-old Paul McDow 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 tried 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 Fanny McDow in Lorraine Ohio he attended
Hawthorne middle school but quit in the e8th 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 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 and 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 Sha Shank Redemption he got out and was arrested
in October of 1961 for burglarizing a Lorraine Furniture Warehouse by this point in our timeline Captain Sam little
is 21 years of age and he's 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 well 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 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 Mitsy 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 FBI bulletin released in
November of 2021 here are the periods of time in which little was incarcerated for 6
months or more during which obviously he did not kill any women this would be from May 28th 1971 to March 14th
1972 then again from November 25th 1982 to January 18th 1984 October 25th 84 to February 1 of
887 June 5th 88 to April 11th 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 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 he 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 broley 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 Jean dorsy 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 Jean
dorsy 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 Jean 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 Jean dorsy 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 Jean 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 dorsy 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 they'd buy food booze drugs and cheap motels at night after
Jean was in bed Sam little would head out to engage in his nefarious activities in the morning Jean dorsy
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 Jean
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 to assist basically this Psychopathic serial killer well it turns out captain that
Jean wasn't Little's only accomplice so now we have to introduce this Danny beckus he's a
19-year-old who met Jean and Sam little and 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 in 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 Dany 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 dorsy was the jealous type but Danny beas 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 Dany 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 firsthand knowledge of Sam's murders so
what you're saying is Sam little is you know revisionist history and he's saying
well I I'm just hooking up with these girls I I didn't kill them but this individual is not a complice in the
murders but he's complice and all the other crimes that they're going to be doing in between the murders this is
basically a a traveling band of criminals a lot of it Dany 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 Jean dorsy
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 is going to dry up and the money that they make from
fencing these items is what's keeping their their travels going on going 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 Jean dorsy and Sam little weren't going to have an income the honest way now Jean dorsy died of an
aneurism 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 Jean 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 purpose ly 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 Jean dorsy 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 Alfred in La he has 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 Jean now that Jean dorsy has passed away without
Jean to handle the shoplifting Sam little started to get caught in 1991 he was a 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've pointed out he's living this nomadic lifestyle of course he's just going to
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 get sentenced to a 2 to 10e sentence in prison for these
crimes after he gets out of prison for this stent 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 mity Roberts had a heck of a Time tracking him down because during
his entire criminal career including the three and a half decade 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 C motels even sleeping in cars he said he rar stayed in any one place for
longer than 3 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 and another in fact in many of his
arrests over the decades police detained and released Sam little just hoping that
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back you filthy animals crisy 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 everything every little detail but once you get past 10
victims it seems like they would all kind 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 keer 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 Do's 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 six 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 victim's 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 Sam little web page and are definitely worth looking at as people looked at them they
saw victims they recognized for example when akan Ohio detectives heard the details of a little confession in their
town they hearkened back to an unsolved murder they showed Tanya massler one of Sam little drawings labeled akan left in
woods 1990 or 1991 ananya 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 Palo 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 in entitled convicted killer linked to 90
murders this from a more recent October 6th 2019 vicap release this is essentially
an update to their original release that states the FBI confirms that Sam little
h79 is the most prolific serial killer in US 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 appr attention program
can also confirm that little has been matched to 50 cases with many more pending final confirmation well even
though Sam is you know basically bragging I I've killed this many people it's a it's a huge number and we've see
in several cases where serial killers you know boost their numbers by a little bit pad them a little bit so you have to
do your due diligence to make sure there is even 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 uh 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% 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 L that sets him apart and this is not this is not any
Kudos this is not an ad boy 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 rmle 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 wouldbe killer right he even though he got off in in San Diego
and could not get a conviction Gary the district attorney said straight up I reviewed this guy's
file he's not a wouldbe 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 stent here from these dodging these 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 Jean dorsy 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 US map with
location pins reflecting scores of victims of Sam little who have not yet been identified Jane do and two murders
described by Sam little that have not yet been definitively cooperated by law enforcement so these are unmatched
confessions it also indicates Jane do 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 and 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 in titled Sam little case profiles that request Public
Assistance identifying his remaining victims the bulletin contains very detailed blurs 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 Duval now believed to be resolved so
that leaves 16 additional cases in Los Angeles as of the end of 2020 Mitsy 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 p 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 mistakenly
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 US 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 M Mo he told Cleveland magazine quote Yeah I'm not going to go
over there in the White neighborhood and pick out a little young teenage girl he
said I ain't going to 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 L would never have been solved without his
voluntary confession Little's Decades of impunity underscore a troubling truth about the US 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 like always Stellar research thanks for
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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's life and confessions reveal a chilling portrait of America's most prolific serial killer, linked to 93 murders across multiple states.

Key points

The Most Prolific Serial Killer. Samuel Little has confessed to 93 murders, making him the most prolific serial killer in American history.
Sam Little's Disturbing Upbringing. Little's childhood was marked by violence and trauma, shaping his future as a criminal.
Sam Little's Criminal Sophistication. Despite his lack of intelligence, Little displayed a criminal sophistication that allowed him to evade justice.
Jean Dorsy's Complicity. Jean Dorsy, Sam Little's accomplice, helped him evade capture and clean up after his crimes.
The Unsolved Murders. Many of Little's victims remain unidentified, lost in the sheer mountain of unsolved cases.
Art as Evidence. Sam Little's drawings helped identify some of his victims, raising ethical questions about releasing them.

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