1. Samuel Little was an American serial killer who was convicted of eight murders and confessed to committing 93 murders between 1970 and 2005.
41 Facts About Samuel Little
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Samuel Little's mother, Bessie Mae Little, was a teenage prostitute who had abandoned him; authorities believe that she might have given birth to him while she was in jail.
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The census from the year Samuel Little was born said Bessie Mae worked as a maid and that his father was 19-year-old Paul McDowell.
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In 1956, after being convicted of breaking and entering into property in Omaha, Nebraska, Samuel Little was held in an institution for juvenile offenders.
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Samuel Little took up boxing during his time in prison, referring to himself as a former prizefighter.
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In 1961, Samuel Little was sentenced to three years in prison for breaking into a furniture store in Lorain; he was released in 1964.
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In 1982, Samuel Little was arrested in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and he faced charges for the murder of 22-year-old Melinda Rose LaPree, who had gone missing in September of that year.
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However, while under investigation, Samuel Little was extradited to Florida and tried for the murder of 26-year-old Patricia Ann Mount, whose body had been found in September 1982.
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Samuel Little moved to California, where he stayed in the vicinity of San Diego.
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Samuel Little served two and a half years in prison for both crimes.
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Samuel Little was arrested on September 5,2012, at a homeless shelter in Louisville, Kentucky, and extradited to California to face a narcotics charge, after which authorities used DNA testing to establish that he was involved in the murders of Linda Alford, killed on July 13,1987; Guadalupe Duarte Apodaca, killed on September 3,1987; and Audrey Nelson Everett, killed on August 14,1989.
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Samuel Little was extradited to Los Angeles, where he was charged on January 7,2013.
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Samuel Little was tried for the murders of Alford, Nelson, and Apodaca in September 2014.
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On November 9,2018, Samuel Little confessed to the 1996 fatal strangulation of Melissa Thomas.
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On November 13,2018, Samuel Little was charged with the 1994 murder of Denise Christie Brothers in Odessa, Texas after having confessed the crime to a Texas Ranger in May 2018.
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The Ector County, Texas District Attorney and Wise County, Texas Sheriff's Office announced on November 13 that Samuel Little had confessed to dozens of murders and may have committed more than 90 across fourteen states between 1970 and 2005.
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On November 15,2018, the Russell County, Alabama District Attorney announced that Samuel Little had earlier that month confessed to the 1979 murder of 23-year-old Brenda Alexander, whose body was found in Phenix City, Alabama.
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On November 16,2018, Macon, Georgia sheriffs announced that Samuel Little had credibly confessed to the 1977 strangling murder of an unidentified woman and the 1982 strangling murder of 18-year-old Fredonia Smith.
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On November 19,2018, Harrison County, Mississippi sheriff Troy Peterson said that Samuel Little had confessed to strangling 36-year-old Julia Critchfield in the Gulfport area in 1978 and dumping her body off a cliff.
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On November 20,2018, Lee County, Mississippi law enforcement officials announced that Samuel Little had admitted to killing 46-year-old Nancy Carol Stevens in Tupelo, Mississippi in 2005 and that the case would be presented to a grand jury in January 2019.
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On November 21,2018, Richland County, South Carolina authorities announced that Samuel Little had confessed to murdering 19-year-old Evelyn Weston, whose body was found near Fort Jackson, South Carolina in 1978.
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Samuel Little confessed to having killed 20-year-old Rosie Hill in Marion County, Florida in 1982.
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Samuel Little began making the confessions in exchange for a transfer out of the Los Angeles County prison in which he was being held.
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In December 2018, Samuel Little was indicted for strangling Linda Sue Boards, 23, to death in May 1981 in Warren County, Kentucky.
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Samuel Little's body was found on May 15,1981, near US Route 68.
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One of Samuel Little's victims was identified in December 2018 as Martha Cunningham of Knox County, Tennessee, who was 34 when Samuel Little murdered her in 1975.
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On May 31,2019, Cuyahoga County, Ohio prosecutors announced indictments, with four counts of aggravated murder and six counts of kidnapping, that accuse Samuel Little of killing Mary Jo Peyton in 1984 and Rose Evans in 1991 in Cleveland.
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Samuel Little picked up Peyton at a bar near East 105th and Euclid avenues.
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Samuel Little described her as a short, plump woman in her twenties with brown hair.
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Samuel Little confessed to killing another Cleveland woman in 1977 or 1978.
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Samuel Little was likely Black and somewhere between 17 and 35.
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Samuel Little killed the other woman between 1980 and 1999.
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Samuel Little was Black, slender, wore glasses and lived in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati with a "heavy female Hispanic".
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On June 7,2019, Samuel Little was indicted in Hamilton County, Ohio for murdering the two women killed in Cincinnati.
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In November 2020, Samuel Little confessed to two Florida murders, one of which another man had been wrongfully convicted.
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Samuel Little admitted to 93 different murders in total, and 60 deaths have been formally connected to him by the police.
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Samuel Little claimed that he thought these persons would leave fewer clues for authorities to find and leave fewer persons to search for them.
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Samuel Little had a long-term girlfriend, Orelia Dorsey, since deceased, who supported them both through shoplifting for years.
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Dorsey and Samuel Little were together until she died of natural causes in Los Angeles in 1988.
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Samuel Little died on December 30,2020, in a Los Angeles County area hospital.
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Jillian Lauren investigated Samuel Little and interviewed him at length in prison.