Samuel Little, the man who the FBI has called the most prolific serial killer in United States history, died Wednesday at the age of 80, a law enforcement source confirmed “60 Minutes.” The cause of death has not yet been determined.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed Little’s death in a press release later Wednesday.
Little, who confessed to 93 murders in more than three decades in 2018, had been in prison since 2014 for the murders of three women he strangled to death. He confessed to the other murders questioned by Ranger James Holland – the story of those confessions was told by “60 minutesin October 2019.
“There are probably countless people who … have been convicted and sent to prison on my behalf,” Little told “60 Minutes” when asked why he confessed to the murders. “I say if I can help get someone out of jail, you know, maybe God would smile at me a little more.”
Little told authorities he targeted prostitutes, drug addicts, and other women on the outskirts who he thought the police wouldn’t work too hard for.
“They were broke and homeless and they walked right into my spider web,” Little said in 2019. “I don’t think there was another person who did what I liked to do. I think I’m the only one in the world. no honor. That’s a curse. “