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FBI Announces Convicted Murderer Confessed To Three Phoenix Murders

Currently behind bars for strangling three women in California, the FBI has announced that suspected serial killer Samuel Little has confessed to three murders in Phoenix.

Now 78 years old, Little confessed to investigators in a May interview. Little has confessed to 90 murders, but investigators have so far only confirmed 36 of them.

“Over the course of that interview in May, (Little) went through city and state and gave Ranger (James) Holland the number of people he killed in each place,” Violent Criminal Apprehension Program Crime Analyst Christina Palazzolo said. “Jackson, Mississippi — one; Cincinnati, Ohio — one; Phoenix, Arizona — three; Las Vegas, Nevada — one.” 


The FBI also announced that one of the Phoenix murders has been matched to Little. The other two murders in the city were committed in 1988 or 1996 and in 1997. 

The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance, Texas Rangers and multiple state and local agencies are all assisting the FBI in its effort to pair Little’s confessions with evidence from deceased women in states from California to Florida that occurred between 1970 and 2005. 

Little has a long criminal history that dates back to 1956, included in that past is murder charges that he escaped in Mississippi and Florida in the early 1980s.

Little, who has been behind bars for four years, has had run-ins with the law that date back to 1956. 

Having been behind for four years in California, Little has previously served time for assaulting women in Missouri and San Diego.

In 2012, Little was arrested at a homeless shelter in Kentucky and extradited to California, a state where he was wanted for a narcotics charge. While in custody, Little’s DNA was matched by Los Angeles law enforcement with three unsolved homicide cases between 1987 and 1989. 

Soon after in 2014, Little was charged, convicted and sentenced to those murders with three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.