A seven-eight
year-old prisoner has confessed to killing 90 women since 1970, according to a
shocking FBI report released this week.
The convicted
felon, Samuel Little, who is already serving multiple life sentences,
reportedly began speaking to investigators last spring in exchange for a prison
transfer after losing an appeal.
Little, who
may be “among the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history”, told
investigators he may have committed as many as 90 murders and authorities have
evidence of his ties to 36 of them so far, the FBI said.
ABC News
reports that the FBI said it is now working with the Department of Justice’s
Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Texas Rangers and dozens of other state and
local law enforcement agencies “to match Little’s confessions with evidence
from women who turned up dead in states from California to Florida between 1970
and 2005.”
Little is in
poor health and will likely die in prison, the FBI said, so investigators are
racing to identify as many of his victims as possible and help close these
unsolved cases.
Little, who
was once a competitive boxer, often knocked out his victims and then strangled
them, sometimes leaving no clear signs of a homicide, according to the FBI.
Many of their deaths were attributed to natural causes, overdoses or accidents,
officials said.
One of
Little’s confessions involves the fatal shooting of a woman in Richland County,
South Carolina, more than 40 years ago, the AP reported.
Evelyn
Weston, 19, was shot in the head in September 1978, and now-sheriff Leon Lott
of the Richland County Sheriff’s Department examined her body at the time.
Forty years later, Lott is still on the force and got the call from officials
in Texas that Little had confessed to shooting a woman in the head there, the
AP reported.
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