Elderly Man Revealed to be Worst Known Serial Killer in History

A 78-year-old man named Samuel Little confessed to over 90 murders. If confirmed, that makes him the most prolific serial killer in history. 

Little is currently serving three life sentences for just three of the muders, but he confessed in prison over the summer to nearly 100 killings–and police think the confession is legitimate.

Chicago Tribune has more: 

In September 2014, Samuel Little was convicted in Los Angeles of the cold-case murders of three women between 1987 and 1989. DNA evidence linked Little — also known as Samuel McDowell — to the slayings. He was given three life sentences, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.

But 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. In July, Little was indicted on a charge of the crime, and transferred to Texas. 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.

“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.

His words delivered a shock. Little claimed he was responsible for more than 90 murders nationwide between 1970 and 2013. If those numbers prove true, the serial killer’s run would be historic.