America's Most Prolific Serial Killer Is Dead

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1. "whose deaths either went unnoticed or stirred little outrage..."

"I'm not going to go over there into the white neighborhood and pick out a little teenage girl," Little told investigators. If he had, "this would have been the biggest story in the history of the United States," criminologist Scott Bonn tells the Post. Little instead targeted sex workers, addicts, runaways, women with mental disabilities, and other women, mostly Black, "whose deaths either went unnoticed or stirred little outrage," per the Post. While several cold-case murders have been attributed to Little in recent months, per ABC News and the AP, some deaths weren't even classified as murders at the time. When bodies surfaced, officials wrongly concluded the victims were struck by lightning or dropped dead from alcohol. All this illustrates that "it is possible to get away with murder if you kill people whose lives are already devalued by society," per the Post. (Read more Samuel Little stories.)