Samuel Little is imprisoned in a Texas prison where he reported having committed nearly 90 murders
His name is Samuel Little, but for seasoned detective Tim Marcia, this 79-year-old man is “the sheer evil.”
The American, sentenced to three life terms for the murder of three women in Los Angeles, is currently in a Texas penitentiary where he decided to talk about his criminal past.
He claims to have killed at least 90 people between 1970 and 2013. If the confession is true, Little would be the doomed serial killer who killed the most in modern American history.
The amount of detail about the killings Little said she had committed, mostly against women, shocked police and prosecutors.
“It scares the clarity he has about certain things after all this time. It reminds him of names and faces,” said Detective Michael Mongeluzzo, of Marion County, Fla., Where one of the murders reported by Little had occurred.
Samuel Little (right) was sentenced to three life terms in 2014 for the murder of three women in California.
Samuel Little (right) was sentenced to three life terms in 2014 for the murder of three women in California.
So far, investigators around the United States have identified evidence linking Samuel Little to nine of the murders he confessed.
Many unsolvable cases, which were filed in at least 14 American states, are being desecrated and reexamined in the light of his revelations.
The victims: poor women or drug addicts
Little has been jailed since 2013 in Los Angeles for the murder of three women between 1987 and 1989, crimes for which he is serving three life sentences.
But in July DNA samples confirmed his connection to the death of Denise Christie Brothers, which led to the transfer to a prison in Ector County, Texas.
There, a detective identified by The Washington Post as James Holland gained Little’s confidence and managed to get him to talk about other crimes he had committed in the past.
The former boxer has accumulated, over five decades, a hundred arrests on charges of crimes such as kidnapping, rape and armed robbery.
But several times he was able to leave the prison, reports Beth Silverman, a Los Angeles prosecutor responsible for the lawsuit leading to three convictions.
Samuel Little was arrested in Kentucky shortly after DNA samples proved his relationship with a murder in California
The confessions show that the victims were mostly poor women or with problems with addiction to alcohol or other drugs, researchers say.
Cases involving this type of victim often have a lower settlement rate in the United States, which may have contributed to Samuel Little’s impunity over the years.
The bottleneck as a trademark
According to the Washington Post and The New York Times, the criminal earned the trust of the victims and then assaulted them, raped them and strangled them to death.
Prosecutor Beth Silverman said the crimes were sexually motivated, but Samuel Little is offended when he is called a rapist. He claimed problems with erection, but researchers found semen on bodies and clothing of his victims.
The way he reaches sexual satisfaction is during the strangulation, Silverman told the New York newspaper.
One of Little’s recently confessed cases involves Melissa Thomas, 24, whose naked body was found in 1996 in an Opelousas graveyard in the state of Louisiana.
Samuel Little was described by investigators as a “charismatic psychopath”
Little told police he met the victim on the street and invited her to use drugs in his car. They parked next to the graveyard and when the sexual relationship began, he says stroked her neck.
“Why are you touching my neck? Are you a serial killer?” She asked, as Little reported to police officer in charge of the case, Crystal LeBlanc. Annoyed at Melissa Thomas’s question, he killed her.
For LeBlanc, it’s amazing how little one remembers street names, bars and the location of the cemetery of the small church of Opelousas.
Their methods also shock researchers. The criminal used so much force that he even broke the spinal column of a victim by striking it in the abdomen.
‘God knew everything’
In modern-day United States history, Gary Ridgway, the murderer of Green River, is arrested for the deaths of 49 people in the 1980s and 1990s.
Randy Kraft said he killed at least 65 people but was convicted of killing 16 people.
Gary Ridgway, known as Green River Assassin, was convicted for 49 murders
“When the investigations are over, we estimate that Samuel Little will be confirmed as one of the serial killers with the most casualties in US history,” Bobby Bland, Ector district attorney in Texas, told The New York Times.
According to the investigators, Little speaks with excitement of its crimes, arriving to laugh when it remembers details. “He’s a charismatic psychopath,” police officers said.
Detective Michael Mongeluzzo of Florida asked Little how he had managed to avoid being caught by the police. “I can go into my world and do what I want,” he replied, referring to the poor neighborhoods with drug problems in which he chose victims.
The sister of one of the victims of the so-called ‘Green River Killer’, Debra Estes, testifies during trial of Gary Ridgway
He also gives no remorse. To police officer Crystal LeBlanc, he said, “God made me that way, so why should I ask for forgiveness?” And he added, according to the New York Times: “God knew everything I did.”
The hope of her and other investigators is that dozens of archived cases will find a solution, now that Little has decided to talk about her past.
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