The serial killer Samuel Little pleads guilty to the death of a woman in Texas in 1994

ODESSA, Texas – A 78-year-old prisoner who claims to have killed about 90 people for nearly four decades while pleading guilty to assassination Thursday in the strangulation of a Texas woman in 1994.

Samuel Little pleaded his case in Odessa, West Texas, where the body of Denise Christie Brothers was discovered in a vacant place about one months after his disappearance. Ector County District Attorney Bobby Bland said in a statement that his counterpart had been killed in 1965 as part of a written statement.

In the late 1980s, he was serving a life sentence when authorities claim to have confessed to killing dozens this year other people in 20 states since 1970.

These confessions, which often included a level of detail and a reminder recalled by the authorities as being strange and motivated from Florida to California to examine the old cases of murder . Until now, they concluded that Little had been the murderer in 36 cases, including the murder of Brothers and the three homicides that have prevailed in the Los Angeles area.

More recently, police in Tennessee have linked Little to Martha's death. Cunningham, a Knoxville woman whose body was found in a wooded area near a road in 1975. Even though Cunningham was bruised and bare belly until death, detectives attributed his death to natural causes, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel.

million. Little, who is in poor health and rests on a wheelchair, presented his confessions as currency and transferred them from the Los Angeles County jail where he was being held, the FBI announced last month. He indicated that he would likely remain in prison in Texas until his death.

million. Little, also known as Samuel McDowell, has targeted vulnerable women, often involved in prostitution and drug addicts, according to authorities. Formerly a competitive boxer, he knocked out or knocked out his victims with powerful punches before strangling them while masturbating.

"Without stab wounds or gunshot wounds, many of these deaths were not considered homicides, but attributed to overdoses, accidents, or natural causes," the FBI said.