Samuel Little, the country’s most productive serial killer who has confessed to more than 90 murders, has died. He was 80.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said he died in a hospital early Wednesday morning. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner is expected to determine an official cause of death.
Few spent weeks interviewing James Ranger James Holland to divulge details about the murders and provide corroborating evidence. He also drew portraits of more than 30 of the victims and described where he met them, what they wore, how he killed them and where he hid their bodies.
He told investigators he had strangled everyone. His first murder was in 1970 and the last in 2005. The crimes took place in 19 states, with most of his victims in California and Florida.
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The FBI named Little last year as “the most productive serial killer in American history,” and its analysts believe all his confessions are credible, although some of the deaths were originally accidents or overdoses. Some victims were never found.
He was a former boxer, and investigators said they believe he punched his victims before strangling them while masturbating. The victims were mostly prostitutes, drug addicts and women living on the fringes of society. At least one was transgender.
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Before he was caught for manslaughter, he was in and out of jail. Authorities in California say he served four years for assault with a deadly weapon in the mid-1980s and was tried in 2012 for possession of a controlled substance.
DNA samples he detained linked him to three unsolved manslaughter cases dating back to the 1980s. In 2014, he was sentenced without parole to three life sentences.
The FBI has posted some of Little’s confessions in its own words on YouTube. In 1984, he said he met a 25-year-old “hippie” woman outside a strip club who asked him to drive from Cincinnati to Miami.
He drove her to Kentucky and killed her there, leaving the body on a hill.
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“I saw a small short path up the hill, and on top of it there was vegetation – there were no houses or anything,” he admitted on video. “And then I pulled in there and hid the car in that little vegetation up there.”
In an interview in 2018 with The Cut, a web affiliate of New York magazine, he said the deaths of his victims “felt like heaven.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.