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A prolific serial killer who was only convicted of murdering three women confessed to have killed 90 more before his death.
Samuel Little is considered to be one of 'America's worst serial killers', but just the sheer quantity of people he murdered didn't come out until after he had served four years of his life sentence.
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His murder spree is believed to have ran from 1970 till 2005, but there are claims he even murdered in 2012 - the year he was finally apprehended.
Well, that's not completely true - by 1975, when he was roughly 35 years old, he had already been arrested 26 times across 11 states, and those arrests kept coming but each time he was let go.
In 1982, he was arrested and charged with the murder of Melinda LaPree in Pascagoula, Mississippi, but a grand jury found him not guilty.
He was then extradited to Alachua County, Florida and tried for the murder of Patricia Mount.
Again, he was acquitted in 1984 of the 26-year-old's murder - though the 80-year-old later confessed to murdering both women.
That same year cops arrested him after Laurie Barros lived to tell the tale of how Little kidnapped, beat and strangled her.
After being let go, he was caught by police again this time with an unconscious woman in the back of his car.
It was found that he beat and strangled her in the exact same location as he did Barros. He was finally locked up but only served two-and-a-half years in prison.
Incredibly, the FBI collated a series of 15 mugshots taken of Little between 1966 and 1994, but it wasn't until September 2012 that he was finally arrested for murder.
In 2019, the agency released 16 pictures of women drawn by the despicable killer in a bid for families and relatives of his victims to help identify the women.
Spokesperson for the authority Shayne Buchwald said: "We are hoping that someone – family member, former neighbor, friend – might recognize the victim and provide that crucial clue in helping authorities make an identification.
"We want to give these women their names back and their family some long awaited answers.
"It’s the least we can do.”
So far only 60 of the 93 women Little claimed to have killed have been confirmed.
Little died on December 30, 2020. His cause of death was never made public, although it is understood he had diabetes and heart problems, among other conditions.