Serial killer possibly connected to 'multitude' of murders after giving details to investigators

WEBVTT , NOVEMBER 6, GOOD ENOUGH TO COUNT. MICHELLE: PROSECUTORS SAY A MAN BEING HELD IN TEXAS HAS CONFESSED TO AT LEAST 90 OTHER MURDERS IN MORE THAN A DOZEN STATES, INCLUDING A COLD CASE HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. JASON: THE MARION COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAID TODAY THIS LED THEM TO CLOSE A MURDER CASE FROM THE 1980’ THE ECTOR COUNTY DISTRIC ATTORNEY IN TEXAS SAYS 78-YEAR-OLD SAMUEL LITTLE CONFESSED TO KILLING A TEXAS WOMAN IN 1994, BUT THE D.A. SA OF THE 90 MURDERS LITTLE TOLD THEM HE WAS BEHIND, ONLY 30 HA BEEN CONFIRMED SO FA ONE OF THOSE IS IN FLORIDA. THE MURDERS SPAN 1970-2005 LITTLE IS CURRENTLY SERVING THREE LIFE SENTENCES FOR STRANGLING THREE WOMEN IN LOS ANGELES IN THE 1980’S. HE MAY BE A SERIAL KILLER, BUT WHEN YOU START TO COUNT NUMBERS THAT START TO RUN INTO ALMOST 3 DIGITS, THEN I THINK WE NEED A HEALTHY DOSE OF SKEPTICISM JASON: MAJOR CRIMES DETECTIVES WITH THE MARION COUNTY SHERIFF’S 36-YEAR-OLD MURDER OF ROSIE HI AFTER LITTLE CONFESSED. INVESTIGATORS SAY LITTLE HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN A SUSPECT WHEN HILL’S BODY WAS FOUND IN AUGUST OF 1982 IN A WOODED AREA OFF COUNTY ROAD 326 IN MARION COUNTY. WITNESSES TOLD DEPUTIES 21-YEAR-OLD HILL LEFT A BAR WITH A MAN MATCHING THE DESCRIPTION OF LITTLE AND HIS VEHICLE. AT THE TIME, AUTHORITIES DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CHARGE LITTLE, BUT HIS RECENT CONFESSION BRINGS CLOSUR

A man who has provided investigators with details from more than 90 murders across the nation is said to have confessed to a cold case murder in Florida, according to investigators. Samuel Little, 78, has been convicted of murdering three women in California and was recently charged with killing a woman in Texas. Investigators gathered information from him on a "multitude" of murders he may have committed from 1970 to 2005 in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, California, Indiana, Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina, according to the Wise County Sheriff’s Office. The 1982 slaying of Rosie Hill in Ocala is one of the murders Little confessed to, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. Rosie Hill’s remains were discovered in a wooded area off County Road 326 on Aug. 16, 1982. During the investigation, it was determined that Hill was either strangled or suffocated by an attacker. Several witnesses came forward and told deputies that Hill left a bar with an unknown man and was not seen again.The witnesses gave investigators a description of the man she was with and his vehicle, which matched Little’s. In December 1982, Little was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, aggravated assault and rape of two prostitutes in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Marion County detectives interviewed Little and he claimed that he did not know Rosie and he invoked his right to an attorney. Detectives did not have enough evidence at the time to charge Little with Rosie’s murder and, ultimately, he was never charged in the case.In July 2018, Little was charged in the 1994 murder of Denise Christie Brothers in Ector County, Texas, and extradited from California. A Texas investigator said they were able to use the case as a catalyst to continue to gain trust and information from Little in order to solve dozens of other cases.During an interview Little said he killed Hill because God put him on this earth to do it, according to investigators.Due to his three life sentences and recent indictment in the state of Texas for murder, the Marion County Sheriff's Office in Florida said it won't be pursuing murder charges against Little.If Little is found guilty of the murders he's provided information about then he "will be confirmed as one of, if not the most, prolific serial killers in U.S. history," said Ector County, Texas, District Attorney Bobby Bland in a statement.

A man who has provided investigators with details from more than 90 murders across the nation is said to have confessed to a cold case murder in Florida, according to investigators.

Samuel Little, 78, has been convicted of murdering three women in California and was recently charged with killing a woman in Texas.

Investigators gathered information from him on a "multitude" of murders he may have committed from 1970 to 2005 in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, California, Indiana, Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina, according to the Wise County Sheriff’s Office.

The 1982 slaying of Rosie Hill in Ocala is one of the murders Little confessed to, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.

Rosie Hill’s remains were discovered in a wooded area off County Road 326 on Aug. 16, 1982. During the investigation, it was determined that Hill was either strangled or suffocated by an attacker. Several witnesses came forward and told deputies that Hill left a bar with an unknown man and was not seen again.

The witnesses gave investigators a description of the man she was with and his vehicle, which matched Little’s.

In December 1982, Little was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, aggravated assault and rape of two prostitutes in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Marion County detectives interviewed Little and he claimed that he did not know Rosie and he invoked his right to an attorney.

Detectives did not have enough evidence at the time to charge Little with Rosie’s murder and, ultimately, he was never charged in the case.

In July 2018, Little was charged in the 1994 murder of Denise Christie Brothers in Ector County, Texas, and extradited from California. A Texas investigator said they were able to use the case as a catalyst to continue to gain trust and information from Little in order to solve dozens of other cases.

During an interview Little said he killed Hill because God put him on this earth to do it, according to investigators.

Due to his three life sentences and recent indictment in the state of Texas for murder, the Marion County Sheriff's Office in Florida said it won't be pursuing murder charges against Little.

If Little is found guilty of the murders he's provided information about then he "will be confirmed as one of, if not the most, prolific serial killers in U.S. history," said Ector County, Texas, District Attorney Bobby Bland in a statement.

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