Posted on 10/04/2019 1:56:11 PM PDT by Red Badger
"60 Minutes" tells the story of the Texas Ranger who convinced Samuel Little to confess to murdering dozens of women, some of whom are still unidentified..."
James Holland has heard confessions from many, many murderers. But now one is telling the Texas Ranger he's committed 93 murders himself, making him perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. The race is on to identify all of the 93 women Samuel Little says he murdered, while the 79-year-old remains alive and continues to cooperate.
Holland tells Sharyn Alfonsi in his first television interview how he got Little to open up about his victims for a story to be broadcast on "60 Minutes" Sunday, October 6, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
Information Holland has gathered from Little has led to 50 cold case murders being solved. There are more Little says he committed that if resolved would give victims' relatives answers and exonerate any innocent people who may have been wrongly convicted for the murders.
Holland says he broke through to Little by agreeing with him that he was not a rapist, but truly a killer. This tack seemed to unlock the place where he kept detailed, almost photographic memories of every woman he killed. Holland describes Little's process, "There's indications of visualization, of when he's thinking about a crime scene. He'll start stroking his face. And as he's starting to picture a victim, you'll see him look out and up."
"And you can tell he has this revolving carousel of victims, and it's just spinning, and he's waiting for it to stop at the one that he wants to talk about," Holland says.
Little can count all of his victims, even still hear them, says Holland. A big aid in identifying victims has been Little's ability to sketch very close likenesses of the women. Holland shows Alfonsi a collection of Little's drawings, a collection he hopes will grow.
It sounds like this guy is making up stories just to impress people.
Other serial killers have “confessed” to murders they didn’t commit. This guy may be no different.
Yes, but did they provide sketches and details?.............
Did he plead guilty with an explanation?
He’s playing them. Each case will have to be investigated and he will be tried for each.
Oh, man, those sketches are creepy . . .
At 79yoa it really doesn’t matter
Henry Lee Lucas did the same thing.
Confessed to everything and while he was talking, he was treated much better.
Doesn't sound like it. Too many details he would not know, if he were not the killer.
As serial killers go, the mountain man John Jeremiah Johnston may hold the record. He is said to have murdered around 300 Crow Indians in the 1840’s and ‘50’s. He blamed the Crow for murdering his wife, a Blackfoot Indian, and swore that he would take revenge on the whole tribe. Later, he joined the Union Army during the Civil War and wound up in Santa Monica, Calif. where he died in 1900.
I don’t know if that qualifies under the modern definition of ‘serial killer’..................
H H Holmes probably killed twice that number of women.
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I thought this was going to be about the serial killer that was working nursing homes in Dallas and Plano.
Can anyone here validate, or not, Fiji Hill’s claim?
It is not uncommon for serial killers to confess to every unsolved crime that they are asked about once they are caught. They want to get their numbers up.
Henry Lee Lucas confessed to thousands of unsolved murders but was convicted of 11.
The movie Jeremiah Johnson is “family entertainment” version of the story. He was referred to as “Liver Eating Johnson”, because that what he did to his Blackfeet victims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver-Eating_Johnson
This guy had a much longer record than any known white serial killer. Impressive, given the way he had so many run-ins with the law. Whereas Ted Bundy had a list of victims half as numerous. Of course, Bundy targeted average co-eds, whereas Little sought out women on the margins - typically druggies, prostitutes, etc. An interesting profile of this guy:
https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/how-serial-killer-samuel-little-was-caught.html
Why is he still breathing?
Really?
"Information Holland has gathered from Little has led to 50 cold case murders being solved."
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