The American confessed to the killings of a 90 man for whom no one was looking for him.

Samuel Little, 78, was expected to spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of killing three people. But his name suddenly surfaced in the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) in connection with a number of unsolved murders across the country.

Photo: Wise County Jail

One of these murders in Odessa, Texas, turned out to be relevant to his profile, so two criminal analyst of the FBI and James Holland of the Texas Rangers went to visit Little in prison to try to get him talking, writes CNN.

According to the FBI, the prisoner was more than ready to talk about his crimes.

“During this interrogation in May 2018, Little identified the cities and states in which he committed the murders, and also gave James Holland the number of people killed in each of those places. Jackson, Mississippi - one; Cincinnati, Ohio - one, Phoenix, Arizona - three, Las Vegas, Nevada - one...” said ViCAP crime analyst Christina Palazzolo.

In total, during this and several subsequent interrogations, Little confessed to approximately 90 murders. He committed crimes across the country - from Los Angeles to Miami, from Houston to Cleveland - between 1970 and 2005.

Investigators confirmed the 34 killings, which Little confessed to. Many are still awaiting confirmation, therefore the exact total number of crimes committed by a man remains unspecified.

The places where Little committed the killings
Map: FBI

However, stunning confessions can make Little, if convicted for them, the most widespread serial killer in US history. According to the police, at the moment law enforcement agencies of different states are cooperating in verifying the truth of Little’s confessions.

The victims of the murderers were predominantly marginalized and vulnerable women who engaged in prostitution or had drug addiction. According to representatives of the FBI, who conducted the interrogations, Little still remembers the details of many murders.

He remembered where the murder occurred, on what car he was driving, and even managed to draw the faces of the women he killed, but the man does not remember the exact dates of the murders.

At the moment, Little is serving a life sentence for the three murders he committed in Los Angeles County. Prior to that, he was prosecuted for store robberies, fraud, drug addiction, extortion and hacking.

In September, 2012, he was arrested at a Kentucky homeless shelter and extradited to California, where he was wanted on drug charges. After his arrest, Los Angeles police detectives obtained DNA test results that indicated that Little had been responsible for three unsolved murders in Southern California in 1987-1989. He was charged, and 2014 was convicted, although he denied his guilt.

According to the FBI, all three victims were women; first they were beaten, and then strangled, the man hid the body in an alley, dumpster and garage.

Los Angeles authorities donated the ViCAP criminal's DNA to obtain full information about him, and ViCAP then turned to Texas law enforcement officers, since traces of the criminal's DNA were found at the scene of the Denise Christie Brothers murder in Odessa.

Little gave details of the fact that it was he who killed the Brothers, whose body was found in an empty parking lot in January 1994, the woman was strangled.

Little was extradited to Texas and charged with the murder of Brothers, in December a hearing will begin in this case.

After that, Little, also known as Samuel McDowell, began working with law enforcement officers and provided them with information about the 90 murders he committed.

Currently, Little is in prison in Odessa, he is interrogated almost every day in order to get the most complete picture of his crimes.

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