Samuel Little, deadliest US serial killer, dies at 80 with many victims unknown

Little was jailed in 2014 for killing three women and later admitted killing a total of 93 people

America's deadliest serial killer, Samuel Little, who confessed to strangling 93 people, has died in California aged 80 with the identity of almost half of his victims still unknown.

Little said he targeted disadvantaged and mostly black women, including sex workers, in the belief that this would draw less attention from a disjointed law enforcement system that had little apparent interest in such victims - a calculation that proved grimly correct. His death means families of many of the victims may never have closure.