Super Cereal

[RPM 26433]

DECATUR, Texas - A suspected serial killer who was housed in the Wise County jail may be linked to more than 90 murders across the country.

The Wise County Sheriff’s Department said 78-year-old Samuel Little was in the county’s jail facility for 50 days while investigators interviewed him about a cold case from the 1980s.

Little was convicted in 2014 for the murdering three women in Los Angeles in the 1980s. According to an Associated Press article from the time, he lured his victims with dope and then beat and strangled them for his sexual pleasure. Then he dumped their half-naked bodies in the garbage.

Over the summer, he was indicted for murdering a woman in Odessa in 1994. He was extradited from California and brought to Ector County in Texas.

Wise County officials said they made an agreement with Ector County to house Little while investigating their own unsolved case. During that time, law enforcement officials from all over the country traveled to Wise County to talk to Little about other cases.

Little has cooperated and provided details for more than 90 murders going back to the 1970s, Wise County officials said.

He’s suspected of killing women in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, California, Indiana, Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina. The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have also interviewed him.

As far as Wise County goes, Little claims he wasn’t responsible. The sheriff’s office is inclined to believe him.

WCSO Deputy Chief Craig told the Wise County Messenger that Little didn’t have any trouble explaining his role to investigators who were inquiring about murders in other parts of the country.

“Mostly we were just facilitators,” Johnson told the newspaper. “We had a case that fit his M.O. (modus operandi) but it turns out he wasn’t responsible.”

Little has since been transferred back to the jail in Ector County.

[Deej 77296]

Meh, seems a bit Henry Lee Lucas. I'd be willing to bet his total is in single digits.

 

[Your Mom 4884]

I can never read “Ector County” without thinking of Hi-C Ectoplasm Cooler. 

[deadshank 24653]

No surprise this guy is jailed in Decatur. US 287 from Ft. Worth through Vernon always seemed to be the natural habitat and home of serial killers.  Just a creepy, soul-less stretch of highway, especially in winter. 

[DejaVu 39]

2 hours ago, Deej said:

Meh, seems a bit Henry Lee Lucas. I'd be willing to bet his total is in single digits.

 

You seem super disappointed that he probably didn’t kill lots more people. 

[Deej 77296]

No, just that when law enforcement starts parading all their unsolved cases in front of one guy, who's getting better treatment than a normal prisoner while it's going on, I tend to lean towards the guy telling them what they want to hear.

[MissingInAction 25330]

Thanks for taking the heat, Sam.

[Ben Tobin 374]

2 hours ago, Deej said:

No, just that when law enforcement starts parading all their unsolved cases in front of one guy, who's getting better treatment than a normal prisoner while it's going on, I tend to lean towards the guy telling them what they want to hear.

[El Diablo 4232]

3 hours ago, Deej said:

No, just that when law enforcement starts parading all their unsolved cases in front of one guy, who's getting better treatment than a normal prisoner while it's going on, I tend to lean towards the guy telling them what they want to hear.

The first thing that came to mind was Lucas when I saw the story. I don't recall how many cases LEO's cleared by interviewing him but the number was way up there. Then he recanted. All of them. I don't know if they bothered to reopen any of those "solved" cases or if they just stuck with "we had a confession, case closed!". Lucas enjoyed the attention he was getting and I'm sure this old sad sack is enjoying his as well.

[SuingToGetAMessageBoard? 3861]

16 minutes ago, Ben Tobin said:

came to post same.

[Deej 77296]

At one point, someone did the math, and Lucas would have had to travel 11,000 miles a month in a beat up, piece of shit car, to have carried out the 600 murders to which he confessed. He just liked the extra attention and the time out of his cell that was afforded him by the sheer number of law enforcement officers trying to tidy up their unsolved case files. 

He also seemed to just enjoy fucking with law enforcement.

Quote

In 1999, Mr. Lucas became fascinated by the case of Angel Maturino Resendiz, a drifter known as the Railroad Killer who was linked to at least eight murders in Texas, Kentucky and Illinois.

''If this was 1983, I'd claim these murders, too,'' Mr. Lucas told The Houston Chronicle. ''I made the police look stupid. I was out to wreck Texas law enforcement.''

 

[Steamboat1874 4183]

[clapclapclap 9000]

14 hours ago, RPM said:

He’s suspected of killing women in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, California, Indiana, Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina....