Samuel Little, The Nation’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, Dies At 80

The most prolific serial killer in U.S. history died Wednesday at the age of 80. Samuel Little had confessed to 93 murders in more than a dozen states over 35 years.

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Samuel Little, a convicted murderer who the FBI says is the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, died Wednesday at the age of 80.

Little was serving three consecutive life-without-parole sentences for the deaths of three women in the late 1980s in Los Angeles, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in its announcement of his death.

Little died at 4:53 a.m. An official cause will be determined by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office.