Samuel Little was an American serial killer and serial rapist. He claimed to have killed as many as ninety-three women, and investigators have linked him to over sixty murders. He was convicted in 2012 of the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989, and in 2018 of the murder of one woman in Texas in 1994. On November 9, 2018, Little confessed to the 1996 fatal strangulation of Melissa Thomas in Odessa, Texas.
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Samuel Little was an American serial killer and serial rapist. He claimed to have killed as many as ninety-three women, and investigators have linked him to over sixty murders. He was convicted in 2012 of the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989, and in 2018 of the murder of one woman in Texas in 1994. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed Little’s involvement in at least fifty murders, the largest number of proven cases for any serial killer in United States history. He allegedly murdered women across nineteen states over a third of a century ending around 2005. Little claimed that he took up boxing during his stints in prison, referring to himself as a former prizefighter. In total, Little was tested for involvement in 93 murders of women committed in many US states. Little was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on September 25, 2014. On November 9, 2018, Little confessed to the 1996 fatal strangulation of Melissa Thomas in Odessa, Texas. Little pleaded guilty to the 1994 murder of Christie Brothers in Texas on December 13 and received another life sentence. He is currently serving a life sentence at the California State Prison at the Los Angeles State Prison.
He has also been charged with the murder in Texas of Denise Christie Brothers, Christie Brothers’ mother. Little has been convicted of the rape and attempted rape of two women in Florida. He also admitted to the murder and attempted murder of a woman in Mississippi in 1982. He had been arrested 26 times in 11 states for crimes including theft, assault, attempted rape, fraud, and attacks on government officials. Little moved to Florida to live with his mother in his late 20s, working at various times as a cemetery worker and an ambulance attendant. He said he then “began traveling more widely and had more run-ins with the law”, being arrested in eight states. In 1956, after being convicted of breaking and entering into property in Omaha, Nebraska, he was held in an institution for juvenile offenders. In 1961, Little was sentenced to three years in prison for breaking into a furniture store in Lorain; he was released in 1964. He then moved to California, where he stayed in the vicinity of San Diego. In 1983, he moved to Los Angeles and committed more than 10 additional murders.
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