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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

CLASSIC: Was Samuel Little America's Most Prolific Serial Killer?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Born in 1940, Samuel Little was known in multiple states as a drifter, petty criminal and man occasionally capable of violence. Like many people living on the fringe of society, he seemed to slip through the fingers of justice despite numerous arrests. Yet intrepid investigators and improvements in DNA testing eventually proved Little was more than an itinerant drug addict and shoplifter -- according to the FBI, he is the most prolific serial killer in US history.

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0:00.0

Cast your memories back there, folks. It's 2020, January 3rd. Your faithful friends and

0:07.3

correspondence here at stuff they don't want you to know, dive into an intensely disturbing

0:14.2

case. This is not appropriate for all listeners. It is the story of a drifter, a petty criminal, a man of

0:24.7

violence, a serial killer named Samuel Little. Do you guys remember this one? I do. This guy

0:31.0

used to, well, he, yeah, he used to draw pictures, I believe, I don't, I can't remember if he was drawn or painted, but he would create visual

0:41.7

art of the women that were his victims.

0:45.4

And this is also another example of a cold case that was able to be reassessed with improvements

0:53.1

in DNA testing.

0:55.4

Yeah.

0:56.4

So with that caveat and with that description,

1:00.5

please join us for tonight's classic episode.

1:03.4

In 2020, a group of young woman in a tidy suburb of New York City

1:08.1

found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.

1:12.4

Someone was posting photos.

1:15.4

It was just me naked.

1:16.7

Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts on my body parts that looked

1:21.5

exactly like my own.

1:23.4

I wanted to throw up.

1:24.7

I wanted to scream.

1:26.2

It happened in Levittown, New York.

1:28.9

But reporting this series took us through the darkest corners of the internet

1:32.7

and to the front lines of a global battle against deep fake pornography.

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