Authorities have confirmed his role in at least nine cases, including Critchfield, Hill and Thomas. Since Little’s confession, he has already been linked to 30 unsolved crimes. “If all of these are confirmed, I mean, he’ll be the most prolific serial killer, with confirmed killings, in American history,” Bland said.
If the those numbers prove true, the serial killer’s run would be historic. Little claimed he was responsible for more than 90 murders nationwide between 19. “People for years have been trying to get a confession out of him and James Holland is the one who finally got him to give that information,” Bobby Bland, the Ector County district attorney, told the Associated Press. According to a release from the Ector County District Attorney’s Office, a Texas Ranger named James Holland struck up a rapport with Little, and the elderly man began talking. In July, Little was indicted on a charge of the crime, and transferred to Texas. He was given three life sentences, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.īut last summer, Little’s DNA also connected him to the unsolved 1994 murder of an Odessa, Texas, woman named Denise Christie Brothers - another young woman strangled and dumped. DNA evidence linked Little - also known as Samuel McDowell - to the slayings.
In September 2014, Samuel Little was convicted in Los Angeles of the cold-case murders of three women between 19. Authorities learned about the link only this summer, when a 78-year-old serial killer began talking in his Texas jail cell. Unbeknown to anyone, there was an invisible thread running through each murder - and possibly many more. A local television station might run a story to mark a grim anniversary. Over the years, cold-case detectives would try to kick loose new information. Family members mourned publicly, then sank into the private ritual of grieving for the victim of an unsolved crime. Evidence sat in storage, or was misplaced, or swallowed up by hurricanes. The passing years chipped away at witnesses’ memories. Eventually, the crimes slid into obscurity. The three cases - separated by hundreds of miles and spread over three decades - each stumped local law enforcement.
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