Samuel Little, described as America's most prolific serial killer, who was responsible for murder of 93 people,?has died aged 80.
According to various news reports citing?the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,?Little died in a California hospital on Wednesday.
He was serving a life sentence for the murder of three women. But by the time of his death, he had confessed to killing 93 women between 1970 and 2005. It is being said that he slaughtered dozens of innocent women during a horrific 56-year crime wave throughout the US.??
A former competitive boxer, Little would knock his victims out with punches before strangling them; after admitting to his sadistic crimes years later, he went on to draw all of their faces from memory, to help in police investigations.?
Many of his victims' deaths were incorrectly determined to be overdoses or accidental and were never investigated. Some bodies have never been found, as per the Federal Bureau of Investigation.?
Last year, the FBI said its analysts believed all of his confessions were "credible."?They also released images of the victims he drew while in prison in an attempt to trace those he killed.
The killer, who at one time served as an ambulance attendant, appeared bemused or smiling as he recounted the circumstances of the murders in FBI videotapes from prison.
Little was arrested in 2012 on a drugs charge in Kentucky and extradited to California, where officers carried out DNA testing on him.
He already had an extensive criminal record, with offences from armed robbery to rape, across the US.
He never showed any remorse for his crimes, even raising his fist in a triumphant gesture in front of victims' families during a murder hearing in 2014.
Little reportedly once told a detective how "God put him on this Earth to do what he was doing."