44 years later, they identified a new victim of the most prolific serial killer in American history

The Mississippi Sheriff’s Department has identified the skeletal remains of a woman found almost 44 years ago, and investigators believe she was a victim of the deceased. Samuel Little, the most prolific serial killer in American history.

In December 1977, hunters discovered human remains made from skeletons near a road then under construction in the community of Escatawpa in coastal Jackson County, Mississippi.

Investigators determined that the remains belonged to a petite African-American woman. He had a gold tooth on his front and may have been wearing a wig. At the time, an autopsy had estimated that the woman could have died 3 or 4 months before the discovery of her body. Over the years, various facial reconstructions and computer composites have been created in an attempt to identify it. Without any viable clue as to her identity, she became known as “Escatawpa Jane Doe”.

But not only was his identity a mystery, but the reason for his death and the perpetrator of his murder, until 2018, convicted serial killer Samuel Little confessed to being the perpetrator of Escatawpa Jane Doe’s murder.

Little said he did not remember the name of his victim and did not provide further details on why he had killed her, but reiterated that it was on his list of deaths which were extended. between 1979 and 2005 and made a total of 93 victims of which the police were able to partially confirm about fifty.

This exhilarating balance of murdered bodies makes Little, who died in prison in December last year, America’s deadliest serial killer.

After Little’s confession in 2018, Investigators were able to confirm that the killer was in Jackson County in 1977 at the approximate time of the mysterious woman’s death.

However, they had not yet been able to fully identify the corpse of “Escatawpa Jane Doe”, until now.

Sheriff Mike Ezell said in a press release Tuesday that investigators used DNA to identify remains like those of Clara Birdlong, who was born in 1933 in Leflore County, Mississippi, which is nearly 483 miles northwest of Jackson County. A relative told investigators earlier this year that Birdlong went missing from Leflore County in the 1970s.

Also, another distant relative of the deceased who was found thanks to genetic tests, confirmed to authorities the disappearance of ‘Nuttin’, as Birdlong was known to his relatives, and described his cousin as a petite woman who had a gold front tooth and wore a wig, give investigators more information to confirm the identification of the remains.

“Although he is now deceased, Samuel Little is considered the prime suspect in Clara Birdlong’s death,” a press release from Ezell’s office said Tuesday. “His cause of death is undetermined.”

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