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it's disturbing to listen to but investigators want to hear it all and more you were laughing
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while I was killing them the most prolific serial killer in American history I reached over I choked her and once she
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was dead I pulled out of the car look around dope back to the car little says he has a photographic memory
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and has drawn sketches of his victims he brought sketches hey tell me about um northern Kentucky the girl that you
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met in Columbus so you meet this girl I guess you're at a strip bar downtown Columbus OH we
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don't want to call you know this life will come up behind the building you know I mean my trunko she walked
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over to me say uh come on y'all can you take me to Miami describe this girl to me she white
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black what she looked like she's like blonde hair dish water dishwater blonde they go it's short short like shoulder
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length or no no no Italy a little over literally like a bob yeah like a bob okay and um
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I don't call anything she was she was worth five seven how much it actually weighs she weighed
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about 1 30. how old do you think she was oh she's about 25. okay you mentioned before the the you said she kind of had
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like this hippie Aura tour yeah she didn't give you a hippie feeling I think she was some kind of hippie here
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so you go to Cincinnati you mess around on Vine Street and then eventually you guys both get in your car and you cross
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over the the bridge into Kentucky tell me about going into Kentucky we got to Covington and then we continue through
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Covington and there was a part that they were having a festival there and she heard the music and [ __ ] off the
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band in here invite her being a heavy type you know they get to that where the police came over and peeked
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into in a car he really wanted me to move out of here so we instead of going in there I took
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her the other way right winding around and they got Hills going in Kentucky and the road winds around the hills I seen a
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little short road going up the hill and in the up top that was a vegetation where no hours or nothing and so I
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pulled up in there in in conceal what the car you know in that little vegetation up
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there on top of the hill so tell me about this this road that goes up the hill what kind of road is it it was it
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was like a dirt road okay it was like the grass was growing in the middle between two tracks when I left
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her up in there in that little road up there on the side of the road she would make partially concealed but this
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kitchen [Music] foreign from his mouth to your ears that is killer Sam little describing how he
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picked up a hippie chick in Columbus Ohio and then discarded her in the foothills of Kentucky
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let's take a look at this guy's background some of what we know about Sam little
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and what we're going to tell you here today comes from writer Jillian Lauren's article about Sam little now note she is
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working on a book about him and these cases little was born in Reynolds Georgia June 7th 1940. his mother was 16
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year old Bessie May little his father was 19 year old Paul McDowell one of the surnames little used
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throughout his life little has said that his mother worked as a sex worker but according to
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Cleveland magazine a 1940 census list her occupation as a maid according to him Little's mom didn't
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want to be pregnant and try to abort the baby by tying a rope around her waist and pulling it as tight as possible some
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sources have reported that little was born while his mother was incarcerated he was raised by his paternal
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grandparents Henry and Fannie McDowell in Lorraine Ohio he attended Hawthorne middle school but
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quit in the eighth grade he was first arrested for stealing a bike in February of 1954 and spent some
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time at a boys industrial School in Lancaster Ohio a violent reform school where he says the boys were regularly
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gang raped by the older stronger kids he was there for 18 months well what do they say hurt people hurt people his
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next arrest would be in 1956 in Omaha for burglary then we have him again in 1957 this time back in Lorraine Ohio he
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was again sent to a youth facility this time the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield which was closed by court
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order in 1990 due to overcrowding and inhumane conditions this prison is best known for the filming location for the
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Shawshank Redemption he got out and was arrested in October of 1961 for a burglarizing a Lorraine Furniture
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Warehouse by this point in our timeline Captain Sam little is 21 years of age and he sent back to Mansfield for three
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more years this is where he learned to draw spend his time in prison sketching and painting he also was trained as a
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boxer at this time little fought as a competitive boxer until his mid-20s eventually Sam little quit boxing but he
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would continue to use his boxing skills to punch and knock out his victims who were helpless against his strength and
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power while there's a huge difference like you said he trained as a boxer so this guy understood how to punch and how
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to punch correctly and the average even amateur boxer could hit harder than the average man walking around on the
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streets the LA Times had some very thorough coverage of Sam little of course this because so many of his
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crimes took place in their city and they say quote little traced the urge to kill
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to his youth he said he got his first erection in kindergarten when he watched his teacher touch her neck later in
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grade school he dreamed of killing a girl who stroked her neck while teasing him
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at age 15 he was flipping through a true crime magazine when he came across a photo spread depicting a strangled 18
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year old he said that he pinned it to his wall stating she had a beautiful neck after his release from prison when he
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was 26 years of age Sam little moved to Florida to live with his mother with whom he had reconnected after she sent
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him a letter saying he should come see her in the Sunshine State according to the star Advertiser
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he worked at the Dade County Department of Sanitation and later at a cemetery after his mom died Sam hit the road
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little traveled the country not really ever holding a real job at least not for very long
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he got arrested time and time again as he traveled the underbelly of the country mingling seamlessly with the
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disenfranchised the poor the addicted and the desperate it was within this demographic that he selected his victims
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by the time he was extradited by Mitzi Roberts to La his rap sheet was over 100 pages
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filled with scores of instances of brutal violence against women beatings sexual assaults chokings even attempted
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murders he escaped real prison time on all but the 1984 San Diego assaults on Lori and Tanya according to a Texas
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Rangers slash FBI bulletin released in November of 2021 here are the periods of time in which little was incarcerated
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for six months or more during which obviously he did not kill any women this would be from May 28 1971 to March 14
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1972 then again from November 25th 1982 to January 18 1984. October 25th 84 to February 1 of 87 June 5th 88 to April 11
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1989 and then again June 20th to 1990 December 9 to 1990 and then he's finally locked up for
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January 15 1998 to April 26 2002. now it's a little tedious to go through those dates but it's important because
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we sit here to this day in 2022 still asking the public and law enforcement agencies out there for help
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we have unidentified victims of Sam little we have confessions that he has made and we have not linked them to any
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victims yet they are still connecting the dots on his murder map well I believe these kind of criminals are
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actually the scariest these lifetime criminals because it's almost like prison becomes their second home where
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most people are afraid well if I do this crime I might get caught I might go to prison they don't care about that so
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they become even more dangerous and they're going to do what they want to do in their daily life
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and this man of course has a history of violence let's review some of that information that we know about his life
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now we know that little got married in Lorraine Ohio in 1965 but it was soon divorced
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his first arrest for a crime of violence against a woman is believed to be a 1966
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arrest in Cleveland for assault and battery on a woman if he did any time for this attack it
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was minimal and we don't have any information because frankly it was so long ago he said that he moved to
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Florida when he was 26 where in 1970 he murdered Mary brosly this would be his first murder victim after he killed Mary
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Sam little returned to Cleveland where he was arrested in May of 1971 for armed robbery of a gas station while in prison
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he racked up sodomy and aggravated assault charges this is when he met or Leah Gene Dorsey she will be very
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important to our story one but also very important to keeping this murderer on the streets
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this is what happened Little's girlfriend at the time who was arrested with him on the armed robbery charges
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was planning to testify against him in that robbery case now little doesn't know this at the time
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so as she sat in jail she's in jail with this Gene Dorsey person who little does
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not know at this point and she's telling her hey I'm going to testify against the
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guy that I was arrested with so then Gene meets Sam little also in the jail and warns him saying
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hey your girlfriend is going to testify against you so when the trial came around
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Sam little was prepared to fight against that to have a defense against that testimony
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and so was his new friend Gene Dorsey so she testified on Sam Little's behalf pretending that the two of them were in
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a relationship together and that they were together at the time of the robbery so picture this Captain his girlfriend
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who he's locked up with and then the strange woman that neither of them know the situation is this the girlfriend has
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to admit to her being involved in the armed robbery to implicate him well she does not know that Sam is prepared for
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this so prepared that she has he has an alibi and was not there at the time of the robbery so this really gets turned
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around on Sam's girlfriend at the time what ends up happening is the jury returns a not guilty verdict on the
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armed robbery charge this dude gets lucky time and time again well I don't think Sam little is a bright guy I don't
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think he's the sharpest tool in the shed but he definitely has some criminal sophistication and he's able to come up
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with these plausible excuses that get him out of these charges from time and time again so as we can imagine
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little and Gene become quick friends and she is 27 years his senior they had I'm
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guessing they had an odd Dynamic but they traveled together they in fact were traveling companions for years
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Dorsey taught little how to fence stolen goods she was a shoplifting expert and his traveling companion the two traveled
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the country together in whatever car Sam little was driving at the time whenever
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they stopped in a small town they would steal stuff from stores like Walmart and then fence the items in
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crack houses and seedy parts of the town with the money that buy food booze drugs
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and cheap motels at night after Gene was in bed Sam little would head out to engage in his
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nefarious activities in the morning Gene Dorsey would clean out his car ridding it of all evidence
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of the previous night's victim before they took off for the next small town the writer Jillian says in confronting a
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serial killer that Gene knew about Sam Little's hobby she routinely cleaned the car of blood [ __ ] hair teeth clothing
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jewelry any evidence of Sam Little's horrific activities from the night before how sick of an individual and how
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much trauma has to be a part of your upbringing to assist basically this Psychopathic serial killer Well
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turns out captain that Gene wasn't Little's only accomplice so now we have to introduce this Danny beckless he's a
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19 year old who met Gene and Sam little in Little Rock in 1982. there's some kind of weird information
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here it's a little unclear exactly how this young man started traveling with this older woman and the psychopath
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Sam little my understanding is that Danny wasn't raised in the best of households and these two grifters come
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into town and say hey we we got a store down in Florida that we own and we can give your son a job if he's willing to
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travel with us and work for us so Danny gets the blessing of his parents and then travels along with these two
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Maniacs they drive all over the Gulf Coast until they are arrested in Mississippi
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there Danny told police that they spent their days shoplifting fenced stolen goods and checked into Budget Motels
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then Sam little would head out to meet women sometimes not returning until late the next morning
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now he says that Sam little didn't talk about ladies or nothing because Mrs Dorsey was the jealous type
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but Danny beckless told police when the two men were alone Sam little would brag to him about meeting these
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different women it looks to me like Danny was in some ways a victim too there's evidence to suggest that Sam
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little was awfully violent with this Danny individual and there's not a lot that I could find to indicate that Danny
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while he likely may have had thoughts or suspicions of what Sam little was up to
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it doesn't seem like he had any direct first-hand knowledge of Sam's murders so what you're saying is Sam Whittle is you
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know revisionist history and he's saying well I I'm just hooking up with these girls I
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I ain't killed them but this individual is not accomplice in the murders but he's accomplice and all the
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other crimes that they're going to be doing in between the murders this is basically a traveling band of criminals
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a lot of it Danny is going to witness and be part of these more Petty type crimes the thefts and robberies and
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things of that nature and I wonder if this was kind of a need for Gene Dorsey we know that she's she's getting up
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there in years by this time she's the shoplifting expert remember that's what Sam little called her I wonder if this
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Danny character is somebody that they needed they needed to take somebody on to contribute because if they don't if
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they're not stealing these items and selling them or successful robbing somebody and
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getting away with it which you can tell by his rap sheet he's not so great at robbing people and getting away with it
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then their money's going to dry up and the money that they make from fencing these items is what's keeping their
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their travels going ongoing and they're also especially Sam little again he's using a good amount of
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alcohol and drugs at this point too so that requires some form of income and we know that Gene Dorsey and Sam little
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weren't going to have an income the honest way now Gene Dorsey died of an aneurysm in 1987.
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we don't know if this happened when Sam little was in prison but it's worth noting that Sam little admitted he had
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beaten Gene in the past so I wonder is it possible that her brain injury was the result of such beatings of course
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it's impossible to know this Sam little has commented that whenever he was romantically involved with a woman
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remember we know he was married at least once and had two long-term girlfriends he would say that he purposely avoided
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looking at their necks because he was trying to resist the urge of killing them he told investigators that he had never
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killed anyone he loved but he seems to have been unable to resist physical violence even against those he I guess
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you could say cared about Gene Dorsey being one of them when Sam little got out of prison in
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California in 1987 he resumed killing with a Vengeance this is when he killed Carol Alford in LA
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he is confessed to six more such murders in the Los Angeles area in 1987 all of which remain unsolved because the
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identities of his victims aren't known and the victims have gotten lost in the sheer mountain of victims from that era
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in the Los Angeles area sad to think that there's murder victims out there that there's nobody looking for them or
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looking for answers to what happened to their loved one well I think there are people that may be looking but the
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problem becomes I mean obviously Los Angeles and several other major cities in the United States had a huge homicide
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problem in the late 80s and early 90s now without Gene now that Gene Dorsey has passed away
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without Gene to handle the shoplifting Sam little started to get caught in 1991 he was arrested in Lorraine Ohio
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for stealing a carton of cigarettes and hitting someone with his car for some reason although he was charged
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he was let out pending trial and shocker he skipped down it doesn't seem like anyone bothered to
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check his background or record in a lot of States when he's getting picked up on
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these lesser charges and so they don't realize that they're dealing with this career criminal they
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let him out because you get let out until you have your trial but as you pointed out captain and we pointed out
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he's living this nomadic lifestyle of course he's just gonna hop in his car and drive away well and Sam little has
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nothing to lose that's right now what ends up happening here is he gets caught for something else I'm
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it's not clear to me what but when he's caught for these other things years later
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he now has to face those 1991 charges that he dodged in Ohio so he pleads guilty to
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the new stuff that he gets arrested for plus the old Ohio charges and gets sentenced to a two to ten year
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sentence in prison for these crimes after he gets out of prison for this stint this is when he kills his final
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victim Nancy Stevens in 2005. He is 65 years old at this time now remember the important arrest one of
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the most important arrests in his case is the arrest that would provide the grounds for extradition extradite him
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from Kentucky to the state of California in 2012. this is when Sam little was arrested in
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Los Angeles for cocaine possession in 2007. he pled guilty but of course failed to attend a court-ordered drug
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rehab program so a bench warrant was issued for his arrest as we heard earlier and as we said
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earlier Mitzi Roberts had a heck of a Time tracking him down because during his entire criminal career including the
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three and a half decades spanning The Killing years between 1970 and 2005. Sam little didn't really live anywhere
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he literally spent his life as a transient preferring shelters halfway houses CD
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motels even sleeping in cars he said he rarely stayed in any one place for longer than three days he had
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no fixed address no registered vehicle no credit cards or paper trail he didn't vote he was a ghost
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and law enforcement agencies didn't cross-reference with other jurisdictions the way that they do now
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so an arrest for assaulting a woman in one state meant nothing to investigators in another
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in fact and many of his arrests over the decades police detained and released Sam
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little just hoping that he'd leave their jurisdiction [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you
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all right we are back [Music] filthy animals crispy cheers cheers sir every one of the
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investigators who talked to Sam little was really taken aback at his ability to recall each distinct victim
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you'd think they would begin to blur together in his depraved mind when there are so many right if somebody
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committed three murders you might expect them to know every little detail but once you get past 10 victims
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it seems like they would all kind of like you were saying they're all blurred together
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and the sheer amount of time that has passed in a lot of these we're talking decades as well
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but he seemed to be able to recall the victim's clothing jewelry where he picked them up their final death throws
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what he usually could not recall was names and dates and even some of the exact dump sites
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for example he recalled that he picked up a girl in Memphis and dumped her in the Mississippi River but he thought
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that happened in 1984. it is actually believed to have been 1990. part of his recall process involved cars
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the car he was driving at the time figured heavily in his memories which makes sense we've talked about this with
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Ted Bundy we've talked about this with Ed Kemper a lot of these guys the vehicle is very much one of their
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killing weapons part of their Batman utility belt another tool in their utility belt for their life of crime or
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their career of killing people the problem for law enforcement was trying to pin down the victims because they're
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getting statements from Sam little like a white girl in Cincinnati sometime in the 80s left there in a field
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you know these are not exactly specific details and there are tens of thousands of Jane does in the United States going
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through each one to try to match a piece of jewelry or a dress pattern is nearly
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impossible even using namus as the conversations evolved Holland our Texas Ranger recalled at one point in
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his youth Sam little had painted a mural this was while little was in the Dade County Florida jail in 1976. he had
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painted a massive mural on the jailhouse wall with permission of historical black
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figures it was so impressive it received coverage from the Miami News now Ranger Holland asked Sam little the
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killer if he could draw some of the victims so they could possibly identify them if he couldn't remember their names
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but could remember what they look like maybe he could draw that sketch this for law enforcement and this could help find
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these unnamed victims yeah it's a very creative approach Sam little ended up producing scores of drawings of women
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whose faces were so recognizable that in fact several of them were identified by their family members
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now authorities went through a moral struggle with this serial Killer's artwork if you will and whether to
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release them to the public or not on one hand it was considered likely based on the detail
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and the drawings that during that doing so would help identify the victims on the other hand it seemed
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almost to glorify this monster right publishing his artwork so that his victims images were as he saw them
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rather than as their loved ones remembered them law enforcement is going to release these which I think is good
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because it gives us a chance to identify these women and get some closure get some answers for the family these
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sketches are viewable on the FBI's Sam little webpage and are definitely worth looking at as people looked at them they
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saw victims they recognized for example when Akron Ohio detectives heard the details of a little confession in their
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town they hearken back to an unsolved murder they showed Tanya masler one of Sam Little's drawings labeled
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Akron left in woods 1990 or 1991. and Tanya immediately knew who it was it was her mother Roberta she had been
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found decomposed in a wooded area of Cleveland's Firestone Metro Park in September of 1991 and her cause of death
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was undetermined at that time but as soon as Tanya saw Sam Little's drawing she and the investigators now knew what
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and who had killed Roberta after nearly 30 years so stories like this made using
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the artwork worth it as the captain pointed out so Sam Little's confessions and these
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portraits and the tactics they used they were able to solve some cases that were
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decades old yeah they're able to verify previously unsolved homicides using all of this work that they've put in and the
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FBI their agents peloso and Williamson that we've mentioned earlier they reached out to more than 200
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investigators with details of crimes descriptions of the victims their clothing where they were dumped and so
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on they're trying to figure out if there were even more all in all over 650 hours
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of interviews were conducted between Sam little and various law enforcement officials from multiple States the FBI
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worked with local investigators to clear these cases as they confirmed Sam Little's confessions Sam little
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confessed to killing women in Arizona Arkansas California Georgia Florida Illinois Louisiana Maryland Mississippi
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Nevada Ohio South Carolina Tennessee Texas Kentucky Indiana Missouri and New Mexico and the agency has confirmed many
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of Little's admissions a November 2018 news release issued by vicap is entitled convicted killer linked to 90 murders
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this from a more recent October 6 2019 VI cap release this is essentially an update to their original release this
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States the FBI confirms that Sam little age 79 is the most prolific serial killer in U.S history to date little has
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confessed to 93 murders and the FBI crime analysts believe all of his confessions are credible the FBI's
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violent criminal apprehension program can also confirm that little has been matched to 50 cases with many more
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pending final confirmation when even though Sam is you know basically bragging I've killed this many people
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and it's a huge number and we've seen in several cases where serial killers you know boost their numbers by a little bit
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Pat him a little bit so you have to do your due diligence to make sure there is even a victim in that area and is it a
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victim that you can actually connect to Sam little and they're going to be able to add I believe 10 more victims to his
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laundry list yeah that will be within a year of releasing that FBI information to the public in 2019.
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so when we say confirmed 10 more cases that's not in addition to the 93 that is clearing some of the 93 right he had
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confessed to 93 victims but at one point they only had identified 30 of them and
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then that number grew and grew and grew as they were able to finally confirm some of these confessions now like the
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captain pointed out this is a strange situation and I know that there's probably some people out
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there going you know what I don't know that I believe this guy serial killers are notorious liars and he probably just
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wants credit for more than he actually did and I can agree with a lot of that and I don't know and I'm
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not going to sit here today and say that I believe 100 percent that he killed all
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93 of these women I do think that he killed a large majority of them the others yet to be determined by the
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colonel here but the thing here with Sam little that sets him apart and this is not
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this is not any Kudos this is not an attaboy to this monster this is simply telling you why he is different than
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some of these other types of killers and I think some of the best information or the best thoughts on that comes from
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district attorney Gary Rempel out of San Diego he was the guy that tried Sam little in the San
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Diego cases and he says look this guy he was not a would-be killer right he even though he got off in in San Diego
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and he could not get a conviction Gary the district attorney said straight up I reviewed this guy's file he's not a
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would-be killer who's being tried for two attempted murders he goes this guy is a torture killer and when he gets out
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of his short prison stunt here from these dodging these all attempted murder charges he's going to kill again
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he's likely going to go elsewhere and kill again and he referred to it as the Sam little Playbook you know the reason
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why Sam little was so successful was his Playbook because his murders worked his Playbook
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worked and it was simple Sam little moved frequently he used aliases he traveled with an alibi witness Gene
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Dorsey who if he did find himself in a jam would come to his rescue and say no he couldn't been over there doing that
00:38:09
bad thing because he was with me he left no weapons used no weapons and sadly unfortunately he picked victims
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that would not be missed that's the Sam little Playbook that's the Playbook that
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worked so there's obviously some confessions that line up and match and make sense but then there's other cases
00:38:32
that don't line up and don't make sense yeah this is not this is very messy it's
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it's not clean by any means so by the spring of 2020 Sam little had been convicted of eight murders in California
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Ohio and Texas he was charged with several more that have not been adjudicated as we said earlier it's been
00:38:54
reported that the FBI has confirmed 62 of Little's confessed homicides but we know that he confessed to 93 kills
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the FBI has created an interactive website of a U.S map with locational pins reflecting scores
00:39:12
of victims of Sam Littles who have not yet been identified Jane does and to murders described by Sam little that
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have not yet been definitively cooperated by law enforcement so these are unmatched confessions
00:39:28
it also indicates Jane does that have been matched to Sam little but are still unidentified themselves
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each confession includes a short caption or blurb and many include a drawing done
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by Sam little you heard one in today's trailer yeah creepo the purpose of this page is to
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provide the public with as much information as possible about these unidentified murder victims in hopes
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that someone somewhere knows who they are even more recently in November of last
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year the FBI and the Texas Rangers issued a joint bulletin entitled Sam little case profiles that request Public
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Assistance identifying his remaining victims the bulletin contains very detailed
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blurbs about each murder and the sketch for each victim if one was made all of the unidentified victims were
00:40:30
killed between 1970 and 1997. the bulletin is broken down by state we have 16 unidentified Los Angeles victims as
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well as unidentified victims in other states five in Florida three in Georgia one in Tennessee one in Ohio two in
00:40:48
Louisiana one in Mississippi and one in Las Vegas for a total of 31 unidentified
00:40:56
adding to the 62 that have been attributed to Sam little and we have 93 in total
00:41:02
and some of the unmatched confessions the FBI has provided us with lots of detail and if you're interested you can
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go to fbi.gov and look up these portraits yourself and I suggest people do that Sam little
00:41:19
confessed to 17 murders in Los Angeles in the mid to late 80s this is in addition to the three that he was
00:41:27
convicted of one of the 17 is Alice Duvall now believed to be resolved so that leaves
00:41:35
16 additional cases in Los Angeles as of the end of 2020 Mitzi Roberts told the Washington Post police have very
00:41:47
strong leads in about five of the remaining cases but are not yet able to say with confidence this is him this is
00:41:54
why the task is complicated she said because as many as half a dozen serial killers using similar methods were
00:42:03
operating in Los Angeles in the 1980s the era when little was active there per the LA Times quote during the time
00:42:12
period that he was convicted of murdering three women in Los Angeles we were in the middle of a crack cocaine
00:42:19
epidemic prosecutor Beth Silverman said during that time period there were more than 100 women of color who wound up
00:42:27
dead in Alleyways in South Los Angeles by November of 2021 so late last year Captain none of the 16 in Los Angeles
00:42:38
had been definitively identified so those are still open unresolved cases yeah and then there are the cases that
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might not have yet been attributed to Sam little but they have been mistakingly attributed to someone else
00:42:54
someone who is innocent there are two known cases where Sam little is believed to have been responsible for the murder
00:43:01
but someone else was convicted Samuel little died December 30th 2020 of natural causes in
00:43:11
a California hospital by the time of his death nearly 60 of his murders were confirmed making him
00:43:18
the most prolific serial killer in U.S history he got away with so Much Death because he knew exactly what he was
00:43:25
doing when he selected victims no one would miss or fight for his own words tell the story of his
00:43:33
calculated Mo he told Cleveland magazine quote Yeah I'm not gonna go over there in the white neighborhood and pick out a
00:43:41
little young teenage girl he said I ain't gonna go over there and pick out a housewife while she's out there with the
00:43:48
shopping in her hands and drag her into the car that's the kind you get busted for
00:43:54
the New York Times stated the same says quote I never killed no senators or Governors or fancy New York journalists
00:44:03
nothing like that he told the reporter if I killed you it'd be all over the news the next day I stayed in the
00:44:11
ghettos end quote and this is from The Washington Post which really did an absolutely fantastic three-part series
00:44:19
on Sam little this says quote police officials acknowledge that the vast majority of murders attributed to little
00:44:26
would never have been solved without his voluntary confession Little's Decades of
00:44:32
impunity underscore a troubling truth about the U.S Criminal Justice System it is possible to get away with murder if
00:44:40
you kill people whose lives are already devalued by Society well little admitted
00:44:46
to Jillian Lauren that any apologies that he made or remorse that he had shown it was an act he didn't care whether the
00:44:56
victim's families forgave him he felt nothing when he killed them except exhilaration and the selfish need to
00:45:05
make them his [Music] [Music] like always Stellar research thanks for keeping us entertained Colonel do we
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