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He was convicted in 2000 in the deaths of 15.ĭuring his 2014 trial in Los Angeles, prosecutors said Little was likely responsible for at least 40 killings since 1980. John Wayne Gacy killed at least 33 boys and young men in the 1970s.Īrguably one of the deadliest globally was an English general practitioner named Harold Shipman, who an investigative panel determined was responsible for the deaths of 250. Ted Bundy confessed to 30 homicides from about 1974 to 1978.

If the number of killings Little claims to have committed proves true, it would make him one of the most prolific killers in U.S. "So far we don't have any false information coming from him."

"They're able to match up over 30 cases so far," Bland said. Little was brought to Texas in September, and investigators with law enforcement agencies in several states traveled to speak with him about unsolved homicides. Investigations are ongoing, but Little has provided details in more than 90 deaths dating to about 1970, Bland said. He was convicted in 2000 in the deaths of 15.Ector County District Attorney Bobby Bland said 78-year-old Samuel Little was booked into jail this week following his indictment in the 1994 death of a Texas woman. Little was convicted of misdemeanor larceny in 1994 in Nashville, Tennessee, and he was sentenced to 90 days in jail, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation criminal records obtained Monday by The Associated Press. Law enforcement in Tennessee had Little in custody 19 years after Cunningham's body was found.

The medical examiner's investigative report lists the probable cause of death as "unknown."Ĭunningham was a talented singer and pianist who grew up performing with her parents and her six younger siblings in a gospel group known as the Happy Home Jubilee Singers. Despite that evidence, detectives at the time attributed Cunningham's death to natural causes within a day of the discovery.