Samuel Little, the most prolific serial killer in America, has died at the age of 80.
The hulking former amateur boxer and drifter died on the anniversary of his first killing, which took place in Miami, Florida on New Year’s Eve in 1971.
Little confessed to more than 90 murders during a 40-year spree.
Upwards of six murders were committed in Louisiana, including the strangulation of a woman in New Orleans and the dumping of her body in Little Woods in 1982.
Little also reportedly confessed to the killing of a pre-teen girl in Plaquemines Parish.
After being convicted of three murders in California; Little began drawing highly detailed portraits of his victims as he recalled them from a near photographic memory.
Little opened up about his life of killing to Texas Ranger James Holland.
His life as a prisoner involved endless interrogations by police departments and prosecutors trying to close cold cases.
Almost all of Little’s victims were women, many of them prostitutes, drug addicts or poor people living on the edges of society.
In the end his once fit body, wracked by diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems and confined to a wheelchair, came to an end in a California jail near Los Angeles.
Little was the subject of a multi-part report on WWL in 2019.
Read the multi-part installments by searching Samuel Little on WWL.com
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