Samuel Little is best known as the choke and stroke killer. He was an American serial killer who was convicted in 2012 for the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989. He was also convicted in 2018 for the murder of a woman he killed in Texas in 1994. Samuel Little had the highest number of proven cases for any serial killer in American history, and he confessed to having killed as many as 93 women. Investigators have linked him to about 60 of the murders. He supposedly murder... moreSamuel Little is best known as the choke and stroke killer. He was an American serial killer who was convicted in 2012 for the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989. He was also convicted in 2018 for the murder of a woman he killed in Texas in 1994. Samuel Little had the highest number of proven cases for any serial killer in American history, and he confessed to having killed as many as 93 women. Investigators have linked him to about 60 of the murders. He supposedly murdered women across 19 states until 2005. If all the murders he claimed to have committed were confirmed, Samuel Little would be the most prolific serial killer in United States history.
Samuel Little was born in Reynolds, Georgia, where his grandmother raised him and schooled at Hawthorne Junior High school. However, at an early age, Samuel Little was sent to Juvenile offenders' institution after being caught and convicted for breaking into a private property in Omaha.
On 9th November 2018, Samuel Little confessed to the fatal killing of Melissa Thomas and had kept portraits of all the women he had killed. He died in a hospital in Los Angelis on 30th December 2020.