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Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

“The Most Prolific” Pt. 1: Samuel Little

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

True Crime, Education, History

4.730.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, he was serving a life sentence for the murders of three women in California—when he confessed to another. Then, another and another. Soon, Samuel Little had confessed to 93 murders across the U.S. over a period of 30 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes, listener discretion is advised.

0:04.8

This episode includes discussions of murder and assault that some people may find offensive.

0:10.2

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

0:14.0

As the sun rises over the state prison in Los Angeles County, a 79-year-old man, hair white and body confined to a wheelchair, is rolled into an interview room.

0:32.0

The old man is weak,

0:34.0

his joints creak, atrophied muscles sag,

0:38.0

even as breathing as he sits is ragged.

0:41.0

Waiting in the interview room is Texas ranger James Holland, handsome, tall and broad

0:46.8

shouldered.

0:47.9

He greets the elderly inmate and they sit down to eat breakfast.

0:52.1

Their conversation is polite, friendly even. This has been their daily

0:56.6

ritual for years.

0:59.0

Once they're finished with breakfast, Holland and the old man get down to business.

1:03.6

A guard brings a sketch pad and a set of crayons.

1:06.6

Though the old man's hands are gnarled with age,

1:09.2

he can still wield a crayon with some skill.

1:12.1

Holland asks questions to jog the old man's memory.

1:16.0

Where was he in 1986?

1:18.0

Who did he meet in Cleveland?

1:20.0

What did she look like?

1:22.0

What color was her hair? What was the shape of her jaw? Her nose? Was it long or short?

1:28.0

Before long a face appears on the page, a woman long dead, her killer, the very man drawing her portrait, a man who

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