Samuel Little, America’s most prolific serial killer, with nearly 60 confirmed victims, dies at 80
In 2018, he opened up to a Texas Ranger about scores of murders from 1970 to 2005. Most were in Florida and California, but several occurred in Texas.
Samuel Little, who often went by the name Samuel McDowell, leaves the Ector County Courthouse on Nov. 26, 2018, after attending a pre-trial hearing in Odessa.(Mark Rogers / AP)
LOS ANGELES — Samuel Little, who authorities say was the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, with nearly 60 confirmed victims, including several in Texas, died Wednesday in California. He was 80.
Little, who had diabetes, heart trouble and other ailments, died at a California hospital, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He was serving a life sentence for multiple murders.