“I say if I can help get somebody out of jail, you know, then God might smile a little bit more on me,” he said.Ī transient who traveled the country when he wasn’t in jail for larceny, assault, drugs or other crimes, Little said he started killing in Miami on New Year’s Eve 1970. He told “60 Minutes” he hoped his confessions might exonerate anyone wrongly convicted of his crimes. Holland would address Little by his childhood nickname, Sammy, while Little called Holland Jimmy and once told the Los Angeles Times he’d “found a friend in a Texas ranger.” He also gave Little assurances that he wouldn’t be executed.
Pepper and grits and discussing their mutual interest in sports. The ranger did work tirelessly to create and maintain a bond with the killer during their hundreds of hours of interviews, bringing him favorite snacks such as pizza, Dr. Although known as an expert interrogator, Holland himself said he could only guess at why Little opened up to him. Holland has described Little as both a genius and a sociopath, adding the killer could never adequately explain to him why he did what he did. Once a strong, strapping boxer who used his powerful hands to strangle his victims, he was now using a wheelchair to get around. He was nearly 80, in failing health and serving a life sentence in a California prison when he began confiding to Holland in May 2018, after years of refusing to talk to other authorities.
He drowned one, a woman he met at a nightclub in 1982.
Little strangled most of his victims, usually soon after meeting them during chance encounters. Indeed, local authorities in states across the country initially classified many of the deaths as accidents, drug overdoses or the result of unknown causes. They were individuals, he said he believed, who would leave few people behind to look for them and not much evidence for police to follow. The numbers dwarf those of Green River killer Gary Ridgeway (49), John Gacy (33) and Ted Bundy (36).Īlmost all of Little’s victims were women, many of them prostitutes, drug addicts or poor people living on the edges of society.
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