The "prolific serial killer" admits 90 murders including three women from Tennessee

NASHVILLE, Tennessee – A 78-year-old man arrested in Kentucky in 2012 and currently being held in a Texas jail could be responsible for three murders in Tennessee. [19659003] A new FBI report says Samuel Little could be one of the most prolific serial killers in US history. Little was arrested in a homeless shelter in Kentucky in 2012, under the charge of narcotics in California.

Once extradited, DNA evidence related to three unresolved homicides in the state, which resulted in a conviction and life imprisonment. For years, law enforcement had rarely avoided a murder charge in Mississippi and a Florida sentence in the 1980s.

Arrest Led Violent Criminal Arrest Program (ViCAP) FBI to profile Little and his story. Between the badysis and the confessions made by Little, he is now suspected of being responsible for 90 murders, of which 34 confirmed and others pending.

The FBI claims that Little chose to kill marginalized or vulnerable women often involved in prostitution or drug addicts. to drugs. A former boxer, Little struck his victims, dazed them before strangling them to death. The woman was between 25 and 30 when Little met her and killed her, leaving her body in Dade County, Georgia. However, FOX 17 News spoke with Sheriff Ray Cross, who said that Jane Doe's DNA was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and that the Little case was not compatible. Sheriff Cross said he would seek clarification on the report to the FBI.

Two other unconfirmed murders also occurred in Tennessee. Little confessed to killing a 25-year-old black woman in Knoxville in 1975 and a black woman under the age of 20 in Memphis in 1984.

California and Texas law enforcement agencies continue to conduct interviews almost daily to map and confirm his confessed murders.