Women Too 'Insignificant' To Be Missed
"For many years, Samuel Little believed he would not be caught because he thought no one was accounting for his victims."
"Even though he is already in prison, the FBI believes it is important to seek justice for each victim -- to close every case possible."
FBI crime analyst Christie Palazzolo
"And you can tell he has this revolving carousel of victims, and it's just spinning, and he's waiting for it to stop at the one that he wants to talk about."
Texas Ranger James Holland
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| The FBI released Samuel Little's drawings in the hope that the victims could be identified. FBI |
Not.quite.to.be.believed. That over a span of 35 years and 19 States of the Union that is the United States of America, one man indulged his passion for murdering young women by disposing of no fewer than 93 vulnerable women, many of whom were sex workers or in the thralls of drug-addiction, some transgender, all of them in the dim basement of U.S. society where few would notice their absence and fewer still much cared.
And this despicable man who has never indicated any remorse for his prolonged killing spree knew his frail victims would not be missed and that gave him the assurance that he would never be caught as a serial killer, held responsible for the largest number of deaths delivered by one man in American criminal history. He was wrong.
At age 79, he finally admitted to 93 murders over 19 states and a period of 35 years. His admission did not arrive as such, but rather in the course of confidential conversations with another inmate, undercover, while incarcerated for lesser crimes such as shoplifting, armed robbery, kidnapping, rape. A Texas Ranger had been placed in a cell alongside Samuel Little, and gradually gained his confidence.
In an exchange of stories, out came one after another of fondly recalled dalliances with lovely young women, all of whose lives were cut short by this unrepentant beast of a man.
One thing he had in common with most mass murderers; a fetish for retaining something linked to each of their victims. For most murderers that would be an item of clothing, jewellery, a newspaper clipping. For Samuel Little it was a memory file, one for each of his victims, where after selective thought he could dredge up details of each of the young women he killed. And he was surprisingly adept in drawing fairly skilled facial portraits of each of those women, which he obligingly did.
He took their lives after kidnapping, abusing and raping them, and then retained for himself the details that his mind fondled as treasures. With those distinctive drawings of each of those women produced by the memory recall of Samuel Little, the FBI has embarked on a quest for the full identities of those lost women, appealing to the public for any information they may have on these women's identities, based on the drawings the FBI has published of women who disappeared after having been strangulated by this man between the years 1970 to 2005.
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| A recent mugshot of Little, Wise County Jail |
These horribly brutalized, victimized women were murdered one by one and then their bodies unceremoniously dumped in fields, canals and trash heaps, left to be discovered, some never having been found, only the cartoons of their faces drawn by their murderer, remaining. Those who were found were presumed to have died of drug overdoses, accidents of one kind or another, or from natural causes.
It has been speculated that Little had been born while his mother was in prison. A grandmother in Ohio raised him.
He was a high school dropout, one-time competitive boxer, spending his time through life crossing the United States where he indulged in various crimes.
He was charged with killing women in Mississippi and Florida in the 1980s, but escaped indictment in Mississippi, and conviction in Florida. As to how that might conceivably have occurred, only the U.S. justice system might know. And then in 2014, arrested at a Kentucky homeless shelter, he was extradited on a drug charge to California.
In custody there, Los Angeles police detectives found a DNA match to three unsolved homicides from the late 1980s where women had been beaten and strangled to death. Three life sentences resulted for those crimes. But when the FBI began searching his background, they discovered "an alarming pattern and compelling links to many more murders", even as Little claimed to be innocent, until James Holland won his trust in prison, to hear him reveal "a breathtaking number" of confessions.
Speaking of the killings in a video the FBI released over the weekend, Little spoke with huge enthusiasm over the women whose details he recalled so vividly. Not always clear on dates or venues, the FBI feels that the methods used, the frequency of his travels around the country have conspired to create identification challenges of the victims. All of which appear to have convinced authorities that this explains "how he got away with murder for decades."
Labels: Mass Murder, United States, Vulnerable Women
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, October 10, 2019
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