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Samuel Little is America’s worst serial killer with 93 confessed murders. His victims were mostly women. He killed most in Los Angeles.
Samuel Little is considered America’s worst serial killer. He has confessed to 93 murders.
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Samuel Little had a photographic memory and chronicled over 50 of his victims in great detail.
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In countless interrogations, he confessed to more than 93 murders of women, most of whom were prostitutes or drug addicts.
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The prosecutors elicited the confessions from the serial killer thanks to pizza and soft drinks, among other things.
His victims were mostly helpless. Drug addicts, prostitutes or women looking for a ride. Samuel Little confessed to 93 murders in 19 states. He strangled most of his victims and drowned two women.
The notorious serial killer died in December 2020 at the age of 80. So far, the American authorities have been able to identify 62 of his 93 victims. Now the FBI published on December 1, 2021 Portraits of 31 other women, which Little have fallen victim to. The serial killer drew the portraits himself, commissioned by Texas Ranger James Holland.
Holland, who specializes in interrogating serial killers, spent more than 700 hours interviewing Little over two years. During that time, he elicited 93 confessions from the serial killer. Texas Ranger Holland received help from Christie Palazzolo of the FBI and Angela Williamson of the Justice Department in uncovering the murders. They helped correlate Little’s confessions with unsolved cases across the country.
“He was highly talented, almost a genius”
The first confession was the Denise Brothers murder in Odessa, Texas. In video format «60 Minutes» from CBS News, Holland spoke about working with the serial killer. The moderator of the format asks Texas Ranger Holland why Samuel Little got away scot-free for so long, he murdered for over 50 years? “He was just too good at what he did. He was highly talented, almost a genius. He had a photographic memory,” Holland said.
During the interrogations, even 30 years after the murders, he was able to describe every single detail of the crime scene with pinpoint accuracy. “Everything he said in the interrogations about the crime scenes or the victims later turned out to be correct,” explains James Holland in “60 Minutes”.
During one of the countless interrogations, Holland asked Little what one of his victims looked like. “She had buck teeth and this little gap in her teeth,” the serial killer recalls. It had been more than 35 years since the murder at the time of the interrogation. “I remember a black girl. she was so nice She was still smiling when I killed her,” Little says calmly. After this statement, there was an oppressive silence in the interrogation room.
He is considered the worst serial killer in America.
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His victims were mainly prostitutes and women addicted to drugs.
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Investigators used Little’s photographic memory to their advantage
Through the countless interrogations that Texas Ranger James Holland conducted with Samuel Little, he learned that Little loved to draw. And Holland also knew that the serial killer had a photographic memory. “I thought we’d give him pen and paper and he should sketch his victims,” says the Texas Ranger. The result was more than 50 detailed sketches. A note was noted on countless pictures of the victims, where and how Little had killed them.
But the interrogations were very sluggish at first. When James Holland first traveled from Texas to California to interrogate Little, Little threw a tantrum. “I called him a rapist. He completely freaked out for 30 minutes,” Holland told 60 Minutes. But then he confronted him that they both knew he was a killer. ‘ He stopped abruptly. He looked at me and I saw it in his eyes. That was what he saw himself as. a killer From then on I had him, »said Holland.
Samuel Little detailed detailed sketches of over 50 of his victims.
Texas Police Department
With pizza and Dr. Made Pepper talk
Because Little also committed three murders in Texas, Holland wanted to bring him to his state to interrogate him there. But in Cowboy State, murder carries the death penalty. But because there was a great chance of uncovering so many unsolved murder cases, the responsible authorities spared Little from the death penalty. This allowed Holland to interrogate Little for 48 consecutive days. To elicit the confessions from Little, the serial killer was given pizza and Dr. Pepper. Why would you treat a serial killer like this? Many people felt this was too good a treatment. “I always said we can have a confession or we can extract 93 confessions from him,” Holland said.
The Texas Ranger knew that if Little was comfortable, he would spill the beans. “It was also in our interest to learn as much as possible from him.” But why did the serial killer confide in Holland of all places? “I can’t say exactly, but I could tell that he liked me,” explains the ranger.
But why was Little chatting all of a sudden? Why did he confess to 93 murders? Speaking to 60 Minutes, Little said: “There are so many innocent people in prison because of me. My murders were framed on them. If I get innocent people out of jail with my confessions, maybe God will smile on me a little more.”
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