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.
“led to 50 cold case murders being solved”
As long as they did not precondition him by asking about particular crime scenes or show him pics of missing women, he may actually be legit as opposed to the type that confess to everything thrown at them.
I wonder if he murdered the 8 prostitutes in Jeff Davis parish in Louisiana? I was just watching a documentary about it a few nights ago.
Reasonable estimates of the number of murders of babies OUTSIDE the womb and VIABLE by Dr. Kermit Gosnell are around 1800.
HE...HE is the biggest serial killer in US history.
Hands down, no doubt about it.
A book on the subject that has won critical acclaim is Crow Killer by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker (New York: New American Library, 1972)
Thank you.
I’m sure there are dr.’s who have more than that guy. He was just in the public eye.
Did you mean “because that what he did to his Blackfeet victims.” ?
“But now one is telling the Texas Ranger he’s committed 93 murders himself...”
Judge Bonemaker would like to know if they were democrat women?
Actually they were Crow I mistyped!
The doc in Indianapolis supposedly had 2500....................
There are always a few predators in society, but I think there was a period in time from the late 60s through the early 1990s where it was possible for these kind of serial killers to go undetected for long periods.
Prior to the late 60s, tighter community bonds and social conventions allowed people to ask questions. Police officers, hotel clerks, gas station attendants, and servers at the local diner would all ask: “where are you from?”, “what’s your business here in town?”, “how long are you staying for?”. Part of this was friendliness, but part was also to be on the lookout for trouble. And they would ask those questions both of potential troublemakers and potential victims.
After the mid-60s, a lot of traditional social structures broke down and it became considered invasive, rude and possibly discrimantory to inquire too much about other people’s business. This made it easy for predators to travel about the country and blend in unnoticed, and for their victims to go mostly unnoticed as they disappeared.
From the 1990s onward, technology has made it much more difficult to remain anonymous. DNA testing has become so sophisticated that it’s highly unlikely that killer leaves no evidence. Credit card receipts, GPS, toll booth, and video cameras make it almost impossible to travel without creating a record.
I think these types of killers still exist, but they are now usually caught after far fewer victims.
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