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American history Samuel little has confessed to 93 murders she fight ice and I'm fight for
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my pleasure it's disturbing to listen to but investigators want to hear it all and
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more she she was laughing when I was killing the most prolific serial killer in American
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history I reached over I choked her and once she was dead I pulled her out of the car looked around jumped back in the
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car little says he has a photographic memory and has drawn sketches of his victims drawn sketches of his
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victims hey tell me about um northern Kentucky the girl that you met in Columbus so you meet this girl I guess
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you're at a strip bar downtown Columbus no we don't want the car and this white girl come out behind
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the building you I mean my trunk she walked over to me say come on can you take me
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to Miami describe this girl to me she white black what she look like she is white blond ha dishwater dishwater blond
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go it's short short like shoulder length or no no ear a little over the ear length like a bob yeah like a bob okay
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and um how tall do you think she was she was about 57 how much she weighs she weighed about
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130 how old do you think she was oh she's about 25 okay you mentioned before that that
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uh you said she kind of had like this hippie or t her yeah she did give you a hippie feeling I think she was some kind
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of hippie here so you go to Cincinnati you mess around on buying Street and then eventually you guys both get in
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your car and you cross over the the bridge into Kentucky tell me about going into Kentucky we got to Covington and
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then we contined through Covington mhm and there was a park that they were having a festival in and she heard the
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music and [ __ ] off that band in there and by her being a hypoy you she oh she want to get to that but the police came
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over and peeed in the in a car he really wanted me to move out of so we stood of
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going in there I took her the other way right winding around they got Hills down
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in Kentucky and the road windings around the hills I seen a little short road going up mhm the hill and and up top
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there was the vegetation was no hous or nothing and so I pulled up in the and and concealed what the car in in that
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little vegetation up there on top of the hill mhm so tell me about this this road
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that goes up the hill what kind of road is it it was it was like a a dirt road okay it was like dirt the grass was
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growing in the middle between two tracks when I left her up in there in that little road up there on the side of that
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little road she would like partially conceal by the [Music] vegetation from his mouth to your ears
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that is killer Sam little describing how he picked up a hippie chick in Columbus
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Ohio and then discarded her in the foothills of Kentucky let's take a look at this guy's
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background some of what we know about Sam little and what we're going to tell you here today comes from writer Jillian
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Lauren's article about Sam little now note she is working on a book about him and these cases little was born in
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Reynolds Georgia June 7th 1940 his mother was 16 18-year-old Bessie May little his father was
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19-year-old Paul McDow one of the surnames little used throughout his life little has said that his mother worked
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as a sex worker but according to Cleveland magazine a 1940 census list her occupation as a maid according to
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him Little's mom didn't want to be pregnant and tried to abort the baby by tying a rope around her waist
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and pulling it as tight as possible some sources have reported that little was born while his mother was
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incarcerated he was raised by his paternal grandparents Henry and Fanny McDow in Lorraine Ohio he attended
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Hawthorne middle school but quit in the e8th grade he was first arrested for stealing a bike in February of
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1954 and spent some time at a boys industrial School in Lancaster Ohio a violent reform school school where he
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says the boys were regularly gang raped by the older stronger kids he was there for 18 months well what do they say hurt
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people hurt people his next arrest would be in 1956 and Omaha for burglary then we have
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him again in 1957 this time back in Lorraine Ohio he was again sent to a youth facility this time the Ohio State
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Reformatory in Mansfield which was closed by court order in 1990 due to overcrowding and inhumane conditions
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this prison is best known for the filming location for the Sha Shank Redemption he got out and was arrested
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in October of 1961 for burglarizing a Lorraine Furniture Warehouse by this point in our timeline Captain Sam little
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is 21 years of age and he's sent back to Mansfield for three more years this is where he learned to draw spend his time
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in prison sketching and painting he also was trained as a boxer at this time little fought as a competitive boxer
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until his mid 20s eventually Sam little quit boxing but he would continue to use
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his boxing skills to punch and knock out his victims who were helpless against his strength and power well there's a
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huge difference like you said he trained as a boxer so this guy understood how to
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punch and how to punch correctly and the average even amateur boxer could hit harder than the average man walking
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around on the streets the LA Times had some very thorough coverage of Sam little of course this because so many of
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his crimes took place in their city and they say quote little traced the urge to
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kill to his youth he said he got his first erection in kindergarten when he watched his his teacher touch her neck
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later in grade school he dreamed of killing a girl who stroked her neck while teasing him at age 15 he was
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flipping through a true crime magazine when he came across a photo spread depicting a strangled
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18-year-old he said that he pinned it to his wall stating she had a beautiful neck after his release from prison when
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he was 26 years of age Sam little moved to Florida to live with his mother with whom he had reconnected after she
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sent him a letter saying he should come see her in the Sunshine State according to the star
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Advertiser he worked at the Dade County Department of Sanitation and later at a cemetery after his mom died Sam hit the
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road little traveled the country not really ever holding a real job at least not for very long he got arrested time
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and time again as he traveled the underbelly of the country mingling seamlessly with the disenfranchised the
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poor the addicted and the desperate it was within this demographic that he selected his victims by the time he was
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extradited by Mitsy Roberts to La his rap sheet was over 100 Pages filled with scores of instances of brutal violence
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against women beatings sexual assaults chokings even attempted murders he escaped real prison time on all but the
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1984 San Diego assaults on Lori and Tanya according to a Texas Rangers FBI bulletin released in
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November of 2021 here are the periods of time in which little was incarcerated for 6
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months or more during which obviously he did not kill any women this would be from May 28th 1971 to March 14th
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1972 then again from November 25th 1982 to January 18th 1984 October 25th 84 to February 1 of
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887 June 5th 88 to April 11th 1989 and then again June 20th to 1990 December 9 to 1990 and then he's finally
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locked up for January 15 1998 to April 26 2002 now it's a little tedious to go through
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those dates but it's important because we sit here to this day in 2022 still asking the public and law
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enforcement agencies out there for help we have unidentified victims of Sam little we have confessions that he has
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made and we have not linked them to any victims yet they are still connecting the dots on his murder map well I
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believe these kind of criminals are actually the scariest these lifetime criminals because it's almost like
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prison becomes their second home where most people are afraid well if I do this crime I I might get caught I might go to
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prison they don't care about that so they become even more dangerous and they're going to do what they want to do
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in their daily life and this man of course has a history of violence let's review some of that information that we
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know about his life now we know that little got married in Lorraine Ohio in 1965 but he was soon divorced his first
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arrest for a crime of violence against a woman is believed to be a 1966 arrest in
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Cleveland for assault and battery on a woman if he did any time for this attack it was minimal and we don't have any
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information because frankly it was so long ago he said that he moved to Florida when he was 26 where in 1970 he
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murdered Mary broley this would be his first murder victim after he killed Mary Sam little returned to Cleveland where
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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 Jean dorsy she will be very
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important to our story one but also very important to keeping this murderer on the streets this is what happened
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Little's girlfriend at the time who was arrested with him on the armed robbery charges was planning to testify against
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him in that robbery case now little doesn't know this at the time so as she sat in jail she's in jail with this Jean
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dorsy person who little does not know at this point and she's telling her hey I'm
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going to testify against the guy that I was arrested with so then Jean meets Sam
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little also in the jail and warns him saying hey your girlfriend is going to testify against you so when the trial
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came around Sam little was prepared to fight against that to have a defense against that
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testimony and so was his new friend Jean dorsy so she testified on Sam Little's behalf pretending that the two of them
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were in a relationship together and that they were together at the time of the robbery so picture this Captain his
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girlfriend who he's locked up with and then the strange woman that neither of them know the situation is this the
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girlfriend has to admit to her being involved in the armed robbery to implicate him well she does not know
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that Sam is prepared for this so prepared that she has he has an alibi and was not there at the time of the
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robbery so this really gets turned around on Sam's girlfriend at the time what ends up happening is the jury
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returns a not- guilty verdict on the armed robbery charge this dude gets lucky time and time again well I don't
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think Sam little is a bright guy I don't think he's the sharpest tool in the shed
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but he definitely has some criminal sophistication and he's able to come up with these plausible excuses that get
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him out of these charges from time and time again so as we can imagine little and Jean become quick friends and she is
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27 years his senior they had I'm guessing they had an odd Dynamic but they traveled together they in fact were
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traveling companions for years dorsy taught little how to fence stolen goods she was a shoplifting expert and his
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traveling companion the two traveled 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 they'd buy food booze drugs and cheap motels at night after
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Jean was in bed Sam little would head out to engage in his nefarious activities in the morning Jean dorsy
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would clean out his car ridding it of all evidence of the previous night's victim
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before they took off for the next small town the writer Jillian says in confronting a serial killer that Jean
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knew about Sam Little's hobby she routinely cleaned the car of blood [ __ ] hair teeth clothing jewelry any evidence
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of Sam Little's horrific activities from the night before how sick of an individual and how much trauma has to be
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a part of your upbringing to to assist basically this Psychopathic serial killer well it turns out captain that
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Jean wasn't Little's only accomplice so now we have to introduce this Danny beckus he's a
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19-year-old who met Jean and Sam little and Little Rock in 1982 there's some kind of weird
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information here it's a little unclear exactly how this young man started traveling with this older woman in the
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psychopath Sam little my understanding is that Danny wasn't raised in the best of households and these two grifters
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come 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
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to 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 there Dany told police that
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they spent their days shoplifting fenced stolen goods and checked into Budget Motels then Sam little would head out to
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meet women sometimes not returning until late the next morning now he says that Sam little didn't talk about ladies or
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nothing because Mrs dorsy was the jealous type but Danny beas told police when the two men were alone Sam little
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would brag to him about meeting these different women it looks to me like Danny was in some ways a victim too
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there's evidence to suggest that Sam little was awfully violent with this Dany individual and there's not a lot
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that I could find to indicate that Danny while he likely may have had thoughts or
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suspicions of what Sam little was up to it doesn't seem like he had any direct firsthand knowledge of Sam's murders so
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what you're saying is Sam little is you know revisionist history and he's saying
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well I I'm just hooking up with these girls I I didn't kill them but this individual is not a complice in the
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murders but he's complice and all the other crimes that they're going to be doing in between the murders this is
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basically a a traveling band of criminals a lot of it Dany is going to witness and be part of these more Petty
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type crimes the thefts and robberies and things of that nature and I wonder if this was kind of a need for Jean dorsy
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we know that she's she's getting up there in years by this time she's the shoplifting expert remember that's what
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Sam little called her I wonder if this Danny character is somebody that they needed they needed to take somebody on
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to contribute because if they don't if they're not stealing these items and selling them or successful robbing
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somebody and getting away with it which you can tell by his rap sheet he's not so great at robbing people and getting
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away with it then their money is going to dry up and the money that they make from
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fencing these items is what's keeping their their travels going on going and they're also especially Sam
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little again he's using a good amount of alcohol and drugs at this point too so that requires some form of income and we
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know that Jean dorsy and Sam little weren't going to have an income the honest way now Jean dorsy died of an
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aneurism in 1987 we don't know if this happened when Sam little was in prison but it's worth
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noting that Sam little admitted he had beaten Jean in the past so I wonder is it possible that her brain injury was
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the result of such beatings of course it's impossible to know this Sam little has commented that whenever he was
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romantically involved with a woman remember we know he was married at least once and had two long-term
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girlfriends he would say that he purpose ly avoided looking at their necks because he was trying to resist the urge
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of killing them he told investigators that he had never killed anyone he loved but he seems to have been unable to
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resist physical violence even against those he I guess you could say cared about Jean dorsy being one of them when
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Sam little got out of prison in California in 1987 he resumed killing with a vengeance this is when he killed
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Carol Alfred in La he has confessed to six more such murders in the Los Angeles area in 1987 all of which remain
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unsolved because the identities of his victims aren't known and the victims have gotten lost in the sheer mountain
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of victims from that era in the Los Angeles area sad to think that there's murder victims out there that there's
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nobody looking for them or looking for answers to what happened to their loved one well I think there are people that
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may be looking but the problem becomes I mean obviously Los Angeles and several other major cities in the United States
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had a huge homicide problem in the late 80s and early 90s now without Jean now that Jean dorsy has passed away without
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Jean to handle the shoplifting Sam little started to get caught in 1991 he was a arrested in Lorraine Ohio for
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stealing a carton of cigarettes and hitting someone with his car for some reason although he was charged he was
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let out pending trial and shocker he skipped down it doesn't seem like anyone bothered to check his background or
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record in a lot of States when he's getting picked up on these lesser charges and so they don't realize that
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they're dealing with this career criminal they let him out because you get let out until you have your trial
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but as you pointed out captain and we've pointed out he's living this nomadic lifestyle of course he's just going to
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hop in his car and drive away well and Sam little has nothing to lose that's right now what ends up happening here is
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he gets caught for something else I'm it's not clear to me what but when he's caught for these other things years
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later he now has to face those 1991 charges that he dodged in Ohio so he pleads guilty to the new stuff that he
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gets arrested for plus the old Ohio charges and get sentenced to a 2 to 10e sentence in prison for these
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crimes after he gets out of prison for this stent this is when he kills his final victim Nancy Stevens in
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2005 He is 65 years old at this time now remember the important arrest one of the most important arrests in his case
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is the arrest that would provide the grounds for extradition extradite him from Kentucky to the state of California
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in 2012 this is when Sam little was arrested in Los Angeles for cocaine possession in 2007 he pled guilty but of
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course failed to attend a court-ordered drug rehab program so a bench warrant was issued for his arrest
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as we heard earlier and as we said earlier mity Roberts had a heck of a Time tracking him down because during
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his entire criminal career including the three and a half decade spanning The Killing years between 1970 and
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2005 Sam little didn't really live anywhere he literally spent his life as a transient preferring shelters halfway
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houses C motels even sleeping in cars he said he rar stayed in any one place for
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longer than 3 days he had no fixed address no registered vehicle no credit cards or paper trail he didn't vote he
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was a ghost 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 and another in fact in many of his
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arrests over the decades police detained and released Sam little just hoping that
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back you filthy animals crisy Cheers Cheers sir every one of the investigators who talked to Sam little
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was really taken aback at his ability to recall each distinct victim you'd think
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they would begin to blur together in his depraved mind when there are so many right if somebody committed three
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murders you might expect them to know everything every little detail but once you get past 10
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victims it seems like they would all kind like you were saying they're all blurred together and the sheer amount of
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time that has passed in a lot of these we're talking decades as well but he seemed to be able to recall the victim's
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clothing jewelry where he picked them up their final death throws what he usually could not recall
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was names and dates and even some of the exact dump sites for example he recalled
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that he picked up a girl in Memphis and dumped her in the Mississippi River but he thought that happened in 1984 it is
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actually believed to have been 1990 part of his recall process involved cars the car he was driving at the time
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figured heavily in his memories which makes sense we've talked about this with Ted Bundy we've talked about this with
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Ed keer a lot of these guys the vehicle is very much one of their killing weapons part of their Batman utility
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belt another tool in their utility belt for their life of crime or their career of killing people the problem for law
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enforcement was trying to pin down the victims because they're getting statements from Sam little like a white
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girl in Cincinnati sometime in the 80s left there in a field you know these are not exactly specific details and there
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are tens of thousands of Jane Do's in the United States going through each one to try to match a piece of jewelry or a
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dress pattern is nearly impossible even using namus as the conversations evolved
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Holland our Texas Ranger recalled at one point in his youth Sam little had painted a mural this was while little
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was in the Dade County Florida jail in 1976 six he had painted a massive mural on the jailhouse wall with permission of
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historical black figures it was so impressive it received coverage from the Miami
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News Now Ranger Holland asked Sam little the killer if he could draw some of the
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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
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members 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 victim's 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 Sam little web page and are definitely worth looking at as people looked at them they
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saw victims they recognized for example when akan Ohio detectives heard the details of a little confession in their
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town they hearkened back to an unsolved murder they showed Tanya massler one of Sam little drawings labeled akan left in
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woods 1990 or 1991 ananya 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 the
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artwork worth it as the captain pointed out so Sam Little's confessions and these portraits and the tactics they
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used they were able to solve some cases that were decades old yeah they're able to
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verify previously unsolved homicides using all of this work that they've put in and the FBI their agents Palo and
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Williamson that we've mentioned earlier they reached out to more than 200 investigators with details of crimes
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descriptions of the victims their clothing where they were dumped and so on they're trying to figure out if there
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were even more all in all over 650 hours of interviews were conducted between Sam
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little and various law enforcement officials from multiple States the FBI worked with local investigators to clear
00:36:26
these cases as they confirmed Sam Little's confessions Sam little confessed to killing women in Arizona
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Arkansas California Georgia Florida Illinois Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Nevada Ohio South Carolina Tennessee
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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 in entitled convicted killer linked to 90
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murders this from a more recent October 6th 2019 vicap release this is essentially
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an update to their original release that states the FBI confirms that Sam little
00:37:12
h79 is the most prolific serial killer in US history to date little has confessed to 93 murders and the FBI
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crime analysts believe all of his confessions are credible the FBI's violent Criminal appr attention program
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can also confirm that little has been matched to 50 cases with many more pending final confirmation well even
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though Sam is you know basically bragging I I've killed this many people it's a it's a huge number and we've see
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in several cases where serial killers you know boost their numbers by a little bit pad them a little bit so you have to
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do your due diligence to make sure there is even even a victim in that area and is it a victim that you can actually
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connect to Sam little and they're going to be able to add I believe 10 more victims to his laundry list yeah that
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will be within a year of releasing that uh 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
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he had confessed to 93 victims but at one point they only had identified 30 of them and then that number grew and grew
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and grew as they were able to finally confirm some of these confessions now like the captain pointed out this is a
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strange situation and I know that there's probably some people out there going you know what I don't know that I
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believe this guy serial killers are notorious liars and he probably just wants credit for more than he actually
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did and I can agree with a lot of that and I don't know and I'm not going to sit here today and say that I believe
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100% that he killed all 93 of these women I do think that he killed a large majority of them the others yet to be
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determined by the colonel here but the thing here with Sam L that sets him apart and this is not this is not any
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Kudos this is not an ad boy to this monster this is simply telling you why he is different than some of these other
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types of killers and I think some of the best information or the best thoughts on
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that comes from district attorney Gary rmle out of San Diego he was the guy that tried Sam little in the San Diego
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cases and he says look this guy he was not a wouldbe killer right he even though he got off in in San Diego
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and could not get a conviction Gary the district attorney said straight up I reviewed this guy's
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file he's not a wouldbe killer who's being tried for two attempted murders he goes this guy is a torture killer and
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when he gets out of his short prison stent here from these dodging these attempted murder charges he's going to
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kill again he's likely going to go elsewhere and kill again and he referred to it as the Sam little Playbook you
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know the reason why Sam little was so successful was his Playbook because his murders worked his
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Playbook worked and it was simple Sam little moved frequently he used aliases he traveled with an alibi
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witness Jean dorsy who if he did find himself in a jam would come to his rescue and say no he couldn't been over
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there doing that bad thing because he was with me he left no weapons used no weapons and sadly unfortunately he
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picked victims that would not be missed that's the Sam little Playbook that's the Playbook that worked so there's
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obviously some confessions that line up and match and make sense but then there's other cases that don't line up
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and don't make sense yeah this is not this is very messy it's it's not clean by any means so by the spring of 2020
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Sam little had been convicted of eight murders in California Ohio and Texas he was charged with several more that have
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not been adjudicated as we said earlier it's been reported that the FBI has confirmed 62 of Little's confessed
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homicides but we know that he confessed to 93 kills the FBI has created an interactive website of a US map with
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location pins reflecting scores of victims of Sam little who have not yet been identified Jane do and two murders
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described by Sam little that have not yet been definitively cooperated by law enforcement so these are unmatched
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confessions it also indicates Jane do that have been matched to Sam little but are still unidentified themselves each
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confession includes a short caption or blurb and many include a drawing done by Sam little you heard one in today's
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trailer yeah creepo the purpose of this page is to provide the public with as much information as possible about these
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unidentified murder victims and hopes that someone somewhere knows who they are even more recently in November of
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last year the FBI and the Texas Rangers issued a joint bulletin in titled Sam little case profiles that request Public
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Assistance identifying his remaining victims the bulletin contains very detailed blurs about each murder and the
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sketch for each victim if one was made all of the unidentified victims were killed between 1970 and
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1997 the bulletin is broken down by state we have 16 unidentified Los Angeles victims as well as unidentified
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victims in other states five in Florida three in Georgia one in Tennessee one in
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Ohio two in Louisiana one in Mississippi and one in Las Vegas for a total of 31 unidentified adding to the 62 that have
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been attributed to Sam little and we have 93 in total and some of the unmatched confessions the FBI has
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provided us with lots of detail and if you're interested you can go to fbi.gov and look up these portraits
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yourself and I suggest people do that Sam little confessed to 17 murders in Los Angeles in the mid to late 80s this
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is in addition to the three that he was convicted of one of the 17 is Alice Duval now believed to be resolved so
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that leaves 16 additional cases in Los Angeles as of the end of 2020 Mitsy Roberts told the Washington Post police
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have very strong leads in about five of the remaining cases but are not yet able
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to say with confidence this is him this is why the task is complicated she said because as many as half a dozen serial
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killers using similar methods were operating in Los Angeles in the 1980s the era when little was active
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there p the LA Times quote during the time period that he was convicted of murdering three women in Los Angeles we
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were in the middle of a crack cocaine epidemic prosecutor Beth Silverman said during that time period there were more
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than 100 women of color who wound up dead in Alleyways in South Los Angeles by November of 2021 so late last year
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Captain none of the 16 in Los Angeles had been definitively identified so those are still open unresolved cases
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yeah and then there are the cases that might not have yet been attributed to Sam little but they have been mistakenly
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attributed to someone else someone who is innocent there are two known cases where Sam little is believed to have
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been responsible for the murder but someone else was convicted Samuel little died December
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30th 2020 of natural causes in a California hospital by the time of his death nearly 60 of his murders were
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confirmed making him the most prolific serial killer in US history he got away with so Much Death because he knew
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exactly what he was doing when he selected victims no one would miss or fight for his own words tell the story
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of his calculated M Mo he told Cleveland magazine quote Yeah I'm not going to go
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over there in the White neighborhood and pick out a little young teenage girl he
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said I ain't going to go over there and pick out a housewife while she's out there with the shopping in her hands and
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drag her into the car that's the kind you get busted for the New York Times stated the same says quote I never
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killed no senators or Governors or fancy New York journalists nothing like that he told the reporter if I killed you
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it'd be all over the news the next day I stayed in the ghettos end quote and this
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is from The Washington Post which really did an absolutely fantastic three-part series on Sam little this says quote
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police officials acknowledge that the vast majority of murders attributed to L would never have been solved without his
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voluntary confession Little's Decades of impunity underscore a troubling truth about the US Criminal Justice System it
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is possible to get away with murder if you kill people whose lives are already devalued by Society well little admitted
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to Jillian Lauren that any apologies that he made or remorse that he had shown it was an act he didn't care
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whether the victim's families forgave him he felt nothing when he killed them except
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exhilaration and the selfish need to make them his like always Stellar research thanks for
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keeping us entertained Colonel do we have any recommended reading for the beautiful listeners yes but only for the
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