Police Actually Believe US Inmate Who Claims He Killed More Than 90 Women

A 78-year-old American prison inmate has confessed to the murder of more than 90 women, and police say they believe him.

Samuel Little was already serving three life sentences for murders he committed in Los Angeles in the 1980s when he began to recount his other alleged crimes to a Texas Ranger called James Holland earlier this year. The New York Times says Holland had gained Little’s confidence after visiting him in jail.

The stories that Little began to tell about his many alleged murders – mostly women, and most by strangulation – are almost unbelievable. A former boxer, he would beat his victims before strangling them, in one case punching a woman so hard in the stomach that he broke her spine.

According to his confessions, Little, who is in a wheelchair and suffers from heart disease and diabetes, strangled dozens of vulnerable women he picked up in bars, clubs and on the streets. His attacks stretch back almost half a century.

Authorities already suspected Little of killing women in at least 14 states, and have connected him to about 30 of the murders he’s claimed so far. Investigators say they have pretty much no reason to doubt his confessions.

Ector County district attorney Bobby Bland told the New York Times:

By the time we are done, we anticipate that Samuel Little will be confirmed as one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.

Little’s victims were mostly poor women suffering from drug and alcohol addictions, which police say could be why he managed to get away with so many murders over so many years – people are less likely to report addicts as missing, and the cases regularly receive less attention.

Little has a meticulous memory for his crimes, reportedly describing in detail where he left women’s bodies. His interviewers say he shows no sign of remorse.

One detective said:

It’s scary the clarity he has about certain things after all this time. He remembers names and faces.

DNA evidence is what originally connected Little to some of his victims, resulting in his life sentences. It was DNA collected via genetic ancestry databases that lead to the capture of another long-evasive serial killer, Joseph James DeAngelo a.k.a.the Golden State Killer, earlier this year.

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