Samuel Little’s deadly hunt of America’s bloodiest maniac

© Irina Apraksina, 2024

ISBN 978-5-0062-7042-8

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«This man is an absolute genius.»

– These are the words of James Holland Ranger of Texas about the most massive serial killer in U.S. history

Chapter 1 The Virginity and Youth of Future Serial Killer Samuel Little

Samuel Little is the most massive serial killer in U.S. history

Samuel Little was born as Samuel McDowell on June 7, 1940, in Reynolds, Georgia. Little claimed that his mother, Bessie Mae Little, was a teenage prostitute who abandoned him; authorities believe she may have given birth to him while in prison. The census for the year of Little’s birth shows that Bessie Mae worked as a maid and his father was 19-year-old Paul McDowell.

Information about Samuel Little’s (Samuel McDowell) parents is limited, but it is known that his mother was unmarried and left him as a child. Samuel lived with relatives in Ohio and, in his own words, was abused as a child.

In Ohio, he attended Hawthorne Junior High School, where he had discipline and academic problems.

Already during this period he began committing petty crimes, such as theft and robbery, and was arrested several times.

In his own words, he had sexual fantasies about strangling women as a child when he saw his teacher touching her neck; as a teenager, he collected true-crime magazines depicting strangled women

An unstable childhood and mental illness may also have contributed to Little’s later aggressive behavior. For example, Little was forced to move from school to school and did not have a stable environment. This may have caused him to feel helpless and alienated, which he may have tried to compensate for through controlling others.

According to Samuel Little, he suffered a lot of violence from his brothers as a child, which may have affected his psychological state.

According to the information, Samuel Little, did not maintain a close relationship with his family, both as a child and as an adult. He repeatedly noted that he hated his father, who abused him as a child, and had no contact with him after he got out of prison.

Little had already committed various crimes at a young age, including theft and attacks on peers. When he was just 12 years old, he was arrested for stealing a bicycle. In the years that followed, he continued to commit crimes and was eventually sent to a juvenile detention facility. In juvie, he also continued to break the rules and find himself in conflicts with other teenagers.

In 1956, after being convicted of breaking and entering a home in Omaha, Nebraska, Little was incarcerated in a juvenile detention facility. Little moved to Florida to live with his mother in the late 1960s and, in his own words, at various times worked in a cemetery and as an ambulance attendant. During those same young years, again in his own words, he «began to travel more and encounter the law more often.»

Little was arrested in eight states for crimes such as DUI, fraud, shoplifting, solicitation, armed robbery, aggravated assault and rape. Little claimed to have boxed while in prison, calling himself a former prizefighter.

Beginning in his youth, Samuel often got into trouble.

In 1961 Little was sentenced to three years in prison for breaking into a furniture store in Lorain; he was released in 1964. From 1964 through 1975 he was arrested 26 times in eleven states for various crimes, including theft, assault on persons, attempted rape, fraud, and disobeying authority.

Source: fbi.gov

Samuel Little joined the U.S. Air Force after he was released from juvie in 1958. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1958 to 1964 as a communications and airborne intelligence specialist. After a short time, however, he was discharged due to drug problems.

After serving his sentence, Little moves to California.

Perhaps because of the lack of attention and love from his family or peers, the young Little began to exhibit aggressive traits in his attitudes toward people and women in particular.

Relationships with women, even in Little’s younger years, were very complicated and ambiguous. This can be seen in his relationship with his longtime girlfriend Aurelia «Jean.

It is known that Aurelia «Jean» Dorsey and Samuel Little were acquainted and had a long friendship. He said in one interview that they dated and she was his «main girl» for many years. In 1982, Little attacked Jean Dorsey, raped her and tried to strangle her, but she was able to escape and call the police. Her testimony helped in Little’s conviction.

She was one of the few women who survived Little’s attack on them.

Her testimony helped imprison Samuel Little for several years. After his release, however, Little continued to commit murders. In 2018, Jean Dorsey appeared at trial and testified against Little, which helped convict him of two murders in Ohio.

Unfavorable family and environment, lack of parental attention and love, poverty, early childhood aggression and psychological instability, as well as the constant violence that Little had to endure, both from his family and people around him at the time, slowly formed the young Little into a serial killer