Samuel Little (June 7, 1940 – December 30, 2020) was an American serial killer and serial rapist. He was convicted in 2012 of the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989 as well as in 2018 of the murder of a woman in Texas in 1994.
Little was an African American who was born in Reynolds, Georgia. He was raised in Lorain, Ohio.
He claimed to have killed as many as 93 women, and investigators had evidence that related him to 60 murders.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Little's killed at least 50 people, the largest number of proven cases for any serial killer in United States history. He allegedly murdered women across 19 states over a third of a century ending around 2005. Little was born in Reynolds, Georgia.
Little died in prison in Los Angeles County, California on December 30, 2020 at the age of 80.
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