Convicted serial killer Samuel Little in recent months has confessed to law enforcement that he’s strangled as many as 90 women in at least 19 states – a criminal career that would represent the largest homicidal series in U.S. history.





Little's confessions represent less than 3 percent of the 3,150 unsolved female strangulations reported by local police to the FBI over the past 42 years. Yet the location of his claims match many of the highest geographic concentrations of unsolved strangulations.

California leads the nation with a reported 587 unsolved female strangulations and also has the largest number of cases claimed by Little. He was convicted in 2014 for the murders of three California women and later confessed to 16 other California victims whom police have yet to match to specific homicide cases.



