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A man has confessed to 90 murders across the United States, and federal agents said he may be one of the most prolific serial killers of all time.Two of those confessed killings allegedly happened in the Cincinnati area, federal officials said Tuesday, releasing pinpointed locations to findings released earlier this month.Samuel Little, 78, is currently sitting in a Texas prison. So far, he has only been convicted of murdering three women in California and was recently charged with killing a woman in Texas.But Little claims there are dozens more victims. He admitted to killing 90 people across the country between 1970 and 2005, officials said, adding that his claims are credible and likely.Thus far, federal investigators said a team has confirmed 34 of those killings, with many more pending confirmation.There are still a number of Little's confessions that remain uncorroborated, federal agents said, and investigators are working with state and local agencies across the country to match Little's confessions with evidence from women who turned up dead in states from California to Florida between 1970 and 2005. Among the dozens of alleged victims, Little has confessed to killing a woman -- whom he described only as a black female -- in the city of Cincinnati in 1974. Additionally, Little confessed to killing a white female in 1984. Little claims he met that woman in Columbus, Ohio, federal investigators said, but disposed of her body somewhere in Covington, Kentucky.Little also confessed to killing a woman in Cleveland (in 1978 or 1979), and another in Akron (in 1991 or 1992), according to the new report. All of the alleged killings in Ohio and Kentucky are what investigators are calling "unmatched confessions," meaning they have not been definitively corroborated by law enforcement agencies. Samuel Little’s Confessions: Murder Locations and VictimsLittle has a lengthy criminal history, with run-ins with the law dating back to 1956. But the extent of his crimes was largely unknown until he was arrested at a Kentucky homeless shelter in 2012.When arrested in Kentucky, he was extradited to California, where he was wanted on a narcotics charge. While in custody, investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department said they obtained DNA evidence tying Little to three unsolved homicides from 1987 and 1989.For these crimes, Little was convicted and sentenced in 2014 to three consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole.In all three cases, federal officials said the women had been beaten and then strangled, their bodies dumped in an alley, a dumpster and a garage. Little asserted his innocence throughout his trial.In the early 1980s, Little had also been charged with killing women in Mississippi and Florida but escaped indictment in Mississippi and conviction in Florida. He had, however, served time for assaulting a woman in Missouri and for the assault and false imprisonment of a woman in San Diego.When Los Angeles authorities got the DNA hit on Little, they asked the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) to work up a full background on him.The FBI found an alarming pattern and compelling links to many more murders, investigators said.Federal investigators interviewed Little earlier this year. The convicted killer was hoping to move prisons at the time, officials said, and in exchange for a move, he was willing to talk.During the interview, federal officials said Little seemed to remember his victims and the killings in great detail."He remembers where he was, and what car he was driving. He draws pictures of many of the women he killed. He is less reliable, however, when it comes to remembering dates," federal agents wrote in Tuesday's report.Little said he chose to kill marginalized and vulnerable women who were often involved in prostitution and addicted to drugs, agents said, and their bodies sometimes went unidentified and their deaths without investigation.According to Tuesday's report, "Little's method of killing also didn't always leave obvious signs that the death was a homicide. The one-time competitive boxer usually stunned or knocked out his victims with powerful punches and then strangled them. With no stab marks or bullet wounds, many of these deaths were not classified as homicides but attributed to drug overdoses, accidents, or natural causes."Investigators also said DNA profiling was not part of the law enforcement toolbox in the 1970s and early 1980s. In addition, agents said the victims' work as prostitutes complicated the ability of police to gather telling evidence.Little is in poor health and will likely stay in prison in Texas until his death, authorities said. The goal now is to identify his victims and provide closure and justice in unsolved cases.