Way back in a serial killer’s memory, there is a victim.
Some details, including her name, are lost to time, to the decades come and gone since he killed her somewhere around Atlanta. But Samuel Little, the 78-year-old Middle Georgia native who's recently confessed to 93 murders across America since 1970, says he does remember some things about this particular woman, according to a statement released Tuesday by the FBI.
Agents, who have been taking confessions from Little in a Texas jail, hope the information the killer recalls jogs the memory of someone who can identify her. The FBI also released a sketch Little drew of the victim.
She was a heavyset white woman of medium height. Little said he thinks she worked as a topless dancer or prostitute. The failed boxer turned drifter claims to have killed seven women across Georgia.
He told agents he met this one at some strip club in 1983 or 1984, though he has often been wrong about dates, sometimes off by years. His trouble with dates notwithstanding, the FBI has found Little typically accurate in his retellings of his crimes.
Credit: Bob Chamberlin
Credit: Bob Chamberlin
Little said the woman was from Griffin. She had a son.
The killer said he drove the woman in his black Ford Thunderbird to a large wooded median between two roads, according to the FBI. Before he strangled her, she begged him to give a message to her son. The FBI didn’t say what that message was, and it appears Little, who tended to target sex workers and drug addicts, never followed through on the woman’s dying wish.
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Little said he left her there naked, possible with her clothes nearby.
“So far, law enforcement has found no missing persons reports that fit the description of the victim,” the FBI said in a news release. But the unit investigating Little “believes many of the victim’s cases may have gone unreported.”
Little was sentenced in 2014 to life in California for three murders. Originally from Taylor County in rural Georgia, Little is now in custody in Texas, where he is accused of murder and has been meeting regularly with authorities to discuss his killings. Detectives from local police agencies across the U.S., including Georgia, have been flying in to meet with him to get more information and match his confessions to known homicides. But some cases, including five of the seven he confessed to in Georgia, haven’t been matched.
The two that have been matched were women in Dade and Bibb counties.
Anyone with information can contact the FBI at 1-800-634-4097 or vicap@leo.gov.
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