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    Samuel Little, most prolific serial killer in US history, dead

    Investigators said they believe he knocked out his victims with a punch before strangling them

    By Michael Ruiz
    Fox News

    Samuel Little, the country's most prolific serial killer who confessed to more than 90 slayings, has died. He was 80.

    The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said he died early Wednesday morning at a hospital. The Los Angeles County medical examiner is expected to determine an official cause of death.

    Little spent weeks in interviews with Texas Ranger James Holland, divulging details about the killings and offering corroborating evidence. He also drew portraits of more than 30 of the victims, describing where he met them, what they were wearing, how he killed them and where he hid their bodies.

    He told investigators that he strangled all of them. His first killing was in 1970 and the last in 2005. The crimes took place in 19 states, with most of his victims in California and Florida.

    The FBI named Little "the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history" last year, and its analysts believe all of his confessions are credible, although some of the deaths originally were ruled accidents or overdoses. Some victims were never found.

    He was a former boxer, and investigators said they believe he knocked out his victims with a punch before strangling them while masturbating. The victims were mostly prostitutes, drug addicts and women living on the margins of society. At least one was transgender.

    Prior to getting caught for the slayings, he was in and out of prison. California authorities said he served four years for assault with a deadly weapon in the mid-1980s and was given probation in 2012 for possession of a controlled substance.

    DNA samples taken while he was in custody linked him to three unsolved homicide cases dating back to the 1980s. In 2014, he was sentenced to three life sentences without parole.

    The FBI posted some of Little’s confessions in his own words to YouTube. In 1984, he said he met a 25-year-old "hippie"-looking woman outside a strip club who asked him for a ride from Cincinnati to Miami.

    He drove her to Kentucky and killed her there, leaving the body on a hill.

    "I seen a little short toad going up the hill, and up top, there was vegetation – wasn’t no houses or nothing," he confessed on video. "And so I pulled up in there and concealed the car in that little vegetation up there."

    In an interview in 2018 with The Cut a web-based subsidiary of New York magazine, he said that killing his victims "felt like heaven."

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    Mississippi’s Escatawpa Jane Doe ID’d 44 years after her murder; She was murdered by serial killer, police say

    By Magnolia State Live

    More than four decades after an unidentified woman’s body was found murdered, Mississippi law enforcement investigators say they’ve discovered her identity and they say America’s most prolific serial killer murdered her.


    Jackson County Sheriff’s Investigators said Tuesday they have identified the skeletal remains of a woman found in December 1977.


    The woman known as “Escatawpa Jane Doe,” is now identified as Clara Birdlong, investigators said.

    They believe she was murdered by the late serial killer Samuel Little.

    Birdlong’s body was found by hunters on Dec. 27, 1977, near Highway 613 and what is now Interstate 10.

    Medical investigators at the time could only say she was a small in stature African-American woman with a distinctive front gold tooth and possibly wearing a wig. The body was found three or four months after she was killed, they said.

    Her identity remained a mystery for decades, but investigators never gave up on finding out who she was.

    In 2012, Pascagoula Police Investigator Darren Versiga uploaded the victim’s information to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, (NamUS). Early attempts to identify her through DNA analysis were unsuccessful.

    A few years later in 2018, convicted serial killer Samuel Little confessed to numerous murders across the Southeast, including the murder of Escatawpa Jane Doe, whom he did not know by name.

    Investigators confirmed Samuel Little was in Jackson County in 1977, during the approximate time frame of the woman’s death.

    Little confessed to killing 93 people, nearly all women, between 1970 and 2005. He died in prison in 2020.

    Investigators working with the Mississippi State Crime Lab and DNA research facility Othram Inc., began making a family tree based on Jane Doe’s DNA.

    They eventually located two distant relatives, one of whom was Birdlong’s 93-year-old cousin. The woman told investigators that Birdlong, who was born around 1933, disappeared from Leflore County, Mississippi in the the 1970s.

    Another cousin also remembers Birdlong, describing her as a small woman with a gold front tooth and said she wore a wige.

    DNA testing proved the cousins were related to the body found in 1977, giving investigators the confirmation that they’d finally put a name for the woman who went nameless for more than four decades.

    Samuel Little was arrested for theft in the area in 1977, meaning he was in the area at the time of the murder.

    https://www.magnoliastatelive.com/20...-police-say-1/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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