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Associated Press

The inmate who claims to have killed more than 90 women across the country is now considered to be the most prolific serial killer in US history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
Samuel Little, who has been behind bars since 2012, told investigators last year that he was responsible for about 90 killings nationwide between 1970 and 2005.
In a news release, the FBI announced that federal crime analysts believe all of his confessions are credible, and officials have been able to verify 50 confessions so far.
Investigators also provided new information and details about five cases in Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky, Nevada and Louisiana.
The 79-year-old Little is serving multiple life sentences in California. He says he strangled his 93 victims, nearly all of them women.

Some of his victims were on the margins of society. Many were originally deemed overdoses, or attributed to accidental or undetermined causes. Some bodies were never found.
The FBI provided 30 drawings of some of his victims – colour portraits that were drawn by Little himself in prison. They are haunting portraits, mostly of black women.
The agency also provided videos taken during prison interviews with Little. He described how he spoke about a woman he strangled in 1993 – and how he rolled her down a slope on a desolate road.
“I heard a secondary road noise and that meant she was still rolling,” he said.
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In another video, he described a victim in New Orleans.
“She was pretty. Light coloured, honey brown skin,” he said with a small smile.
“She was tall for a woman. Beautiful shape. And, uh, friendly.”
It was 1982, and they met in a club. She left with him in his Lincoln, and they parked by a bayou.
“That’s the only one that I ever killed by drowning,” he said.
Investigators around the country are still trying to piece together his confessions with unidentified remains and unsolved cases from decades past.

In August, he pleaded guilty to murdering four women in Ohio. He was convicted in California of three slayings in 2013 and pleaded guilty to another killing last year in Texas.
Authorities in Knox County, Tennessee, said Monday that a woman named Martha Cunningham was likely a victim of Little’s.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reported in December that a cold case investigator with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office had identified the victim who Little called “Martha”.
The Knoxville mother’s body was found in a wooded area in eastern Knox County in 1975.
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Cunningham’s body was found by a pair of hunters on the afternoon of January 18, 1975. She was bruised and nude from the waist down; her pantyhose and girdle bunched around her knees.
Her purse and some of her jewellery were missing. Her body appeared to have been dragged into the woods and dumped behind a pine tree, authorities said at the time.
Despite that evidence, detectives at the time attributed Cunningham’s death to natural causes within a day of the discovery. The medical examiner’s investigative report lists the probable cause of death as “unknown”.
Cunningham was a talented singer and pianist who grew up performing with her parents and her six younger siblings in a gospel group known as the Happy Home Jubilee Singers.


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FBI says Samuel Little is the most prolific serial killer in US history, after he admitted strangling 93 women

Confessed serial killer Samuel Little painted portraits of some of his victims. Photo: FBI

Samuel Little's mugshot from 1977, where he was arrested in Pascagoula for selling stolen clothes out of the trunk of his car. He now claims he's America's deadliest serial killer with 90 victims.

Samuel Little strangled all his victims and dumped their bodies, often in wooded areas. Photo: AP

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Yang Xinhai was executed in China in 2004, aged 35, after murdering 67 people in a three-year rampage. File photo: China Foto Press

Alexander Pichushkin, accused of killing dozens of people, looks on from behind a glass security cage during the first day of his trial in Moscow, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007. After his arrest last year, Alexander Pichushkin claimed that he had killed more than 60 people in a Moscow park over several years marking his slayings on a chessboard, with the goal to fill all 64 squares, but prosecutors said they had only gathered evidence to charge him with 49 murders. (AP Photo)

Gary Ridgway listens to the plea agreement being read into the record while in court on November 5, 2003 in the King County Courthouse in Seattle. The 54-year-old truck painter pleaded guilty Wednesday to being the infamous Green River Killer and said in a chilling confession read in court that he murdered 48 women because they were prostitutes, he hated them and knew they would not be missed. REITERS/POOL/Elaine Thompson

German serial killer nurse gets life sentence for 85 hospital murders

Former nurse Niels Hoegel, believed to be the worst serial killer in modern German history. Photo: AFP

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 30, 2018 police officers stand in front of the Weser-Ems-Hallen building where the trial of former nurse Niels Hoegel, who is accused of killing more than 100 patients in his care, started in Oldenburg, northern Germany. - The German court in Oldeburg will deliver its verdict on June 6, 2019 in the case of nurse Niels Hoegel, 42, suspected of killing around 100 patients in his care. (Photo by Patrik STOLLARZ / AFP)

Daniela Schiereck-Bohlmann, German State prosecutor in the case of former nurse Niels Hoegel, accused of killing more than 100 patients in his care, takes part in a hearing in his trial on May 16, 2019 in Oldenburg, northern Germany. - Some investigators believe Niels Hoegel, 42, may have killed as many as 300 people by injecting them with deadly drugs while they were in his care. Prosecutors say at least 36 patients were killed at a hospital in Oldenburg where he worked, and about 64 more at a clinic in nearby Delmenhorst, between 2000 and 2005. (Photo by Hauke-Christian Dittrich / POOL / AFP)

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 16, 2019 Former nurse Niels Hoegel, accused of killing more than 100 patients in his care, talks to his lawyers Ulrike Baumann (C) and Kirsten Huefken during a hearing in his trial, in Oldenburg, northern Germany. - The German court in Oldeburg will deliver its verdict on June 6, 2019 in the case of nurse Niels Hoegel, 42, suspected of killing around 100 patients in his care. (Photo by Hauke-Christian Dittrich / POOL / AFP)

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Samuel Little began confessing in May to killing 93 people over 35 years, starting in 1970
He strangled all his victims and dumped their bodies, often in wooded areas



Samuel Little, the inmate who claims to have killed more than 90 women across America, is now considered to be the most prolific serial killer in US history.


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FBI says Samuel Little is the most prolific serial killer in US history, after he admitted strangling 93 women

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;} Samuel Little began confessing in May to killing 93 people over 35 years, starting in 1970 He strangled all his victims and dumped their bodies, often in wooded areas

Samuel Little began confessing in May to killing 93 people over 35 years, starting in 1970

He strangled all his victims and dumped their bodies, often in wooded areas