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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerica's Most Prolific Serial Killer Is Dead
https://www.newser.com/story/300699/americas-worst-serial-killer-is-dead.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_topSamuel Little, America's deadliest serial killer, died early Wednesday at a California hospital. Litle, who was serving multiple life sentences at a California state prison, was 80. No cause of death was immediately released, but the AP reports he suffered from various ailments including diabetes and heart problems. Little was convicted of three murders in 2014, but in recent years he started confessing to dozens more slayingshe claimed to have killed 93 people across 19 states between 1970 and 2005, in many cases recalling details so specific that authorities have definitively tied him to 60 murders so far.
In many cases, he even drew his victims for authorities, and could often recall where their bodies had been dumped. With his death, they fear the victims that are as yet unidentified may remain so for even longer, the Washington Post reports. Little targeted victims who would not be missed; many of their deaths were initially attributed to accidents or drug overdoses. He was a career criminal in and out of prison for decades, and denied murdering anyone until 2018. (The Post recently took a long look at how Little got away with it for so long.)
https://www.newser.com/story/299452/it-is-possible-to-get-away-with-murder.html
How Worst Serial Killer in US Got Away With It for Decades
Samuel Little enjoyed decades of impunity by targeting the unmissed: Washington Post
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America's Most Prolific Serial Killer Is Dead (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Dec 2020
OP
+1, and the M$M continues to claim covid-19 killed that many people vs Trump's response to it
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#11
Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)1. "whose deaths either went unnoticed or stirred little outrage..."
"I'm not going to go over there into the white neighborhood and pick out a little teenage girl," Little told investigators. If he had, "this would have been the biggest story in the history of the United States," criminologist Scott Bonn tells the Post. Little instead targeted sex workers, addicts, runaways, women with mental disabilities, and other women, mostly Black, "whose deaths either went unnoticed or stirred little outrage," per the Post. While several cold-case murders have been attributed to Little in recent months, per ABC News and the AP, some deaths weren't even classified as murders at the time. When bodies surfaced, officials wrongly concluded the victims were struck by lightning or dropped dead from alcohol. All this illustrates that "it is possible to get away with murder if you kill people whose lives are already devalued by society," per the Post. (Read more Samuel Little stories.)
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)2. yep.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)11. +1, and the M$M continues to claim covid-19 killed that many people vs Trump's response to it
diane in sf
(3,918 posts)6. tRump has beat his record by hundreds of thousands.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,473 posts)3. Trump's dead?
malaise
(269,157 posts)7. My first thought when I saw this thread
I thought my IHDY had finally been answered/
Sad story
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)8. My thoughts exactly
retread
(3,763 posts)12. My first reaction also. However, I was going to make a case for DimSon.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)4. I was going to make a sarcastic comment saying he was somewhere between Mar-a-Lago and DC
but this shut me up. This is awful. All those people...
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,754 posts)5. But your first instict was right
He made a choice to not do what only he could have done to keep them alive. Its murder in my book.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)10. Absolutely. He is responsible.
❤️~✿~❧~🌿~❧~✿~❤️
cwydro
(51,308 posts)9. That man's eyes are scary as hell.
Dead. And evil at the same time.