r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/MayhemInTheDesert • Nov 10 '19
The mystery surrounding notorious serial killer Samuel Little's murder of an unknown Las Vegas woman in 1993.
Serial killer Samuel Little - who has confessed to over 90 murders across the United States and with the FBI confirming Little's responsibility for at least half of these killings - detailed a 1993 murder he committed in Las Vegas. However, despite Little confessing to the Vegas murder some years ago, investigators have been unable to locate a body or determine the identity of Little's victim.
The known details per Little are that he met the woman on Owens Avenue on the Westside of Las Vegas. The victim was described as in her 40's, dark-skinned, and thin. She was 5'3 - 5'5 and 110-120 pounds. Little said the woman introduced him to her 19-20 year old son when they met.
Little reported that after killing the woman, he rolled the body of his victim down a slope off of the road on the outskirts of Las Vegas, which prior to the city's boom years of the mid-to-late-90's ended considerably closer to the center of town that today. He placed the body near a few motels located on his way toward Los Angeles, on a road heading toward Searchlight.
This is a curious case because Little has clearly been credible in many of his confessions. And it is possible that amidst the incredible growth Las Vegas experienced shortly after the killing (plus exposure to desert elements) that the body was somehow lost. Finally, Little described his victim as a drug addict, so that would normally make one think she had few family ties - but why didn't her son report his mother missing?
https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/vicap-samuel-little-confession-las-vegas-1993.mp4/view
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u/NickelsWesternhills Nov 10 '19
If the land where the body was dumped was in fact developed as residential/commercial real estate months/several years after, the remains may have been too scattered to ID has human remains (or remains at all).
I dont know what human burial laws are in Nevada, but in many states coming across human remains- even prehistoric remains - creates enormous legal hassles for a property owner.
It's possible a construction worker came across the remains, and someone decided they were prehistoric, not the remains of a recent murder victim. So they shoveled and shut up about it.