Samuel Little who confessed to 90 murders could be the most prolific killer in the history of the United States

A 78-year-old man in prison, Texas, confessed 90

Samuel Little mainly attacked drug addicts and prostitutes during a long-running murder spree for decades from coast to coast, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Little, a former boxer also known as Samuel McDowell, was arrested in 2012 at a homeless shelter in Kentucky and extradited to California to face drug charges.

DNA evidence linked him to three recidivism cases and Little was convicted in 2014 of murdering three women in Los Angeles between 1987 and 1989.

The three men were beaten and strangled.

Sentenced to life imprisonment, he was transferred to. Texas in connection with the investigation of another murder.

Bobby Bland, Ector County Attorney where Little is being held, said he confessed to the murder of Denise Christie Brothers in 1994 in Odessa, Texas.

And after a Texas ranger named James Holland Bland confided that "little" began to confess dozens of other murders committed between 1970 and 2005.

Christina Palazzolo, crime badyst at the FBI , said in an interview with Ranger Holland the number of people he killed at each location.

"Jackson, Mississippi – A; Cincinnati, Ohio – A; Phoenix, Arizona – Three; Las Vegas, Nevada-one …" said Palazzolo.

In all, 90 murders in total, of which the law enforcement has so far confirmed 34 murders.

"Few cases will be confirmed, if it's not the most prolific serial killers in American history," Bland said in a statement.

The most deadly killer known in the United States would be Gary Ridgway, the so-called "Green River Killer" convicted of 49 murders and serving life sentence in Washington State.

The FBI announced that he was collaborating with the Department of Justice, the Texas Rangers and dozens of state and local agencies to match Little's confessions to non-homicide. resolved throughout the country.

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According to the FBI, Little "remembers in detail about his victims and murders", but he is "less reliable, however, when it's" It's about remembering dates. "

Because his victims were mainly drug addicts and prostitutes, in some cases women were never identified and their

"Little's murder method also did not leave any obvious signs that the death was a homicide, "said the FBI.

"This competitive boxer has often knocked out or knocked out his victims with powerful punches and then strangled them," he said.

"In the absence of stab wounds or gunshot wounds, many of these deaths were not clbadified as homicides, but attributed to drug overdoses, accidents or causes. "

grew up in Ohio, dropped out of high school and led a" nomadic "life, flying to the stall or flying to buy alcohol and drugs, said the FBI.

His criminal record dates back to 1956 with arrests for theft, fraud, drugs and break and enter.

He was accused of murdering women in Mississippi and Florida in the early 1980s, but was not convicted.

The FBI said his condition was poor and that he will likely spend the rest of his life in jail. Texas.

The FBI does not say what evils it would have

Sergeant Michael Mongeluzzo, a Florida inspector, told The Times that he had asked Little, during an interrogation, how he had managed to avoid arrest for all. "I can enter my world and do what I want to do," recalls Mongeluzzo. "I will not go to your world."

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