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By DAN COPP and The Courier - Associated Press - Saturday, May 8, 2021
HOUMA, La. (AP) - A new documentary series that explores the 35-year killing spree of a prolific serial killer has connections to Houma.
The STARZ series, “Confronting a Serial Killer,” tells the story of Samuel Little, a serial killer whose victims stretched across more than a dozen states, including Louisiana, between 1970 to 2005.
Two of Little’s victims, Dorothy Richard and Daisy McGuire, were from the Houma area, police said. Little died of natural causes Dec. 30 at in a California hospital at the age of 80.
A new documentary series that explores the 35-year killing spree of a prolific serial killer has connections to Houma.
The STARZ series, “Confronting a Serial Killer,” tells the story of Samuel Little, a serial killer whose victims stretched across more than a dozen states, including Louisiana, between 1970 to 2005.
Two of Little’s victims, Dorothy Richard and Daisy McGuire, were from the Houma area, police said. Little died of natural causes Dec. 30 at in a California hospital at the age of 80.
Houma Police Chief Dana Coleman said two of his detectives and investigators from Louisiana State Police interviewed Little at a Texas jail in 2018. Little told investigators he killed Dorothy Richard in 1982 and McGuire in 1996 while he was living in the Schriever area.
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