May 2020
Samuel Little is probably the worst US serial killer ever. He has admitted over 90 murders between 1970 and 2005, across 14 states. He was convicted in 2014 of three murders: women he had strangled in Los Angeles in the 1980s. He then confessed to the other murders in return for a transfer to another prison.
However, in the 1980s he was charged with the murder of Patricia Ann Mount. At the time, the prosecution said Little met Mount in a bar in Gainesville, Florida, and strangled her to death in a field. A witness said they had seen Little leaving the murder scene, but the jury acquitted Little after less than 30 minutes.
But now he has admitted that he did in fact kill Mount in a murder that went exactly the way the prosecution said it had.