African American Serial Killers Part 3

Samuel Little was a puny man. Sure he may have had an imposing physical presence and a mean scowl, but in his mind, he lived as a weak child. As the serial killer with the most confirmed kills in United States history, he led an existence of terror.

He began this dreadful track of terror and it ended it by being a hemophobe. In nearly all of his actions against women, he did no slashing, stabbing, cutting or shooting. He literally murdered these women with his bare hands.

Ever since he was a child, he had encountered women. In fact, in kindergarten he felt the nape of his teacher’s neck and felt titillated. Throughout his actions, he always became fascinated by the shape of a woman’s neck.

This led him to strangle dozens of women over a course of forty-five years. When it came time to offer to investigators his side of the story, he ventured in a casual way. He related how he wanted to have sex with a female and then steal her life.

As a senior citizen in jail for the remainder of his sordid life, Little drew sketches of the women he had brutalized and murdered. Over chats with various journalists and others while locked behind bars, he always attested to how he could remember “honey colored” women and “dark skinned women.”

With the best training, the authorities took in Little’s words like manna. The way he described his slayings elicited laughs at times. In their way of conducting interviews, they knew they had to disarm him and allow him to speak freely. His colorful phrasing and nonchalant demeanor spoke volumes.

It showed that he had no remorse for the pain and anguish he caused the victims and their families. It would be easy to point him out as a connoisseur in the fine art of killing. That’s giving him way too much credit. He lived a life in fear of being a rational, rights respecting human being.

He held no real positions in life other than being a homicidal monster. He had hooked up with another woman who used to shoplift. She supplied the money, clothes, and he provided her with the convenience of being a driver. That’s how he enabled himself to be a murderer.

His inability to decipher not only right from wrong but how to treat women marked him as a supreme ogre. Whether it was a belt or some other device to cease the breathing of one of his victims, Little used it.

Once it was made clear after several trials including a jury who found him innocent of two murders early in his string of killings, he continued his spree of the lethal and the macabre.

Little stood no chance of forgiveness but that didn’t stop him from confessing in 2018. Two years later he’d succumb to a number of ailments behind bars. He told everything he could because this would soften the blow of being an inmate. For decades he had proclaimed his not guilty status. He, however, jettisoned all of that to literally paint pictures of his victims.

For all his misdirection, psychologists and crime investigators will continue to study him. It should not be exclaimed that he is the number one killer in the United States (so far). Yes, that is until some other serial killer comes along, perhaps.

Let it be known that that doesn’t have to be. Let Little retain the most notorious title in the land. All of the patterns of violence and force have well been documented. There’s no reason to believe that Little could relish his crimes and let someone else become “inspired” and try to top his horrific record.

If there’s going to be any way for Little to be remembered, it will be demonstrated in classroom and law enforcement functions.

Without a definite code of morality, Little cast himself into the sea of disgustingness. Even if he had killed one woman, that would’ve been too many. He, nonetheless, racked up so many that he had displayed pleasure in his ruthless kills.

As a member of the African American community, Little will most likely be shunned, and for good reason. They will say that he has absolutely no place in their pantheon of heroes and heroines. But his acts should not be swept under the rug. They should be broadcast at the discretion of his victims’ families and what they want to do with his lame legacy.