Crime & Safety
More Sketches From Prolific Serial Killer Released
The FBI originally released 16 sketches from Samuel Little, who confessed to 90 murders. On April 1, the agency released 10 more sketches.
LORAIN, OH — The FBI has released more eerie sketches of Samuel Little's unidentified victims. The Lorain-born Little has confessed to 90 murders over a decades-spanning murder spree.
The FBI believes Little murdered women in every state he stayed in: from Ohio to California to Florida. Law enforcement is desperately trying to untangle the web of killings connected to Little before the ailing 78-year-old dies.
At this time, investigators have connected Little to 36 killings. That number of murders, alone, would make him one of the deadliest serial killers in history.
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Little's victims were usually marginalized women, namely prostitutes and women battling drug addiction. Their bodies would frequently go unidentified and their deaths uninvestigated, the FBI noted. That has made confirming Little's claims of killing 90 people difficult to confirm.
To aid investigators, Little has been sketching his unidentified victims. The FBI have released many of those sketches in the hope they may jar someone's memory. All of the sketches — including the newly released images — have been shared online by the FBI.
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The FBI began releasing Little's sketches in February 2019. At that time, Patch did a deep-dive into the case and Little's history. That story can be read online.
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