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He even claims that he picked up boxing and fought for money. Little didn’t have a lot of problems adapting to prison life once he did serve time. He referred to himself as a former prizefighter

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He somehow managed to get away with lean sentences every single time, resulting in the murders gradually piling up until he became the most prolific serial killer in U.S. One of the most shocking facts about Samuel Little is that even though his crime spree lasted well over 5 decades and included dozens of rapes and murders, he only spent about 10 years of his life in prison before 2012! Little spent way less time in prison than he should have Timeline of Little’s criminal career / Wiki Commons 5. he was released in 1964 and picked up his old behavior all across the country. The first time he went to prison was at the age of 21 in the year 1961 when he was sentenced to 3 years for a string of burglaries in his hometown of Lorain. He was arrested frequently though because, by the time he was 35 in the year 1975, he had been arrested 26 times in 11 different states! Most of his arrests were for minor crimes such as shoplifting and burglaries. One of the most remarkable facts about Samuel Little is that he was hardly arrested for his nocturnal activities. He had been arrested all across the country by his mid-30s Little in the early 1970s / Photo: FBI 4. This was in the daytime, at night, he became the fearsome predator who preyed on prostitutes and drug addicts. According to police, he would travel to a certain city, steal from all major shops, and move on. This lifestyle resulted in him being arrested countless times, mainly for shoplifting, an activity that managed him to support his lifestyle. Even though he had an odd job as a cemetery worker at one point, he became a drifter who committed one crime after the other. The life of Samuel Little revolved solely around criminal activities. His criminal rap sheet is one of the most extensive in history

Samuel Little in the late 1960s / Photo: FBI 3.

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Instead of coming out rehabilitated, he simply picked up his old habits and became a professional criminal.

He was convicted of a burglary in Omaha, Nebraska, and sent to an institution for juvenile offenders. This resulted in a first arrest in the year 1956 at the age of 16. His bad grades and even worse behavior at school made him turn to a life of crime at an early age. His problems with the law started at an early age It also became clear at an early age that he had trouble with discipline as he grew up in Lorain, a relatively small town (population about 64,000 as of 2020) on Lake Erie in the northeast of Ohio.

Obviously, these aren’t the best conditions to grow up in, so his performance at the Hawthorne Junior High School suffered. Here he was raised by his grandmother while his mother was working the streets (as he claims).

He claimed that his mother was a prostitute who didn’t really want to take care of her child so shortly after his birth, they moved to Lorain, Ohio. Samuel Little is an African American serial killer who was born on June 7, 1940, in Reynolds, Georgia. He was born in Georgia and raised in Ohio

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