S. LITTLE

Samuel Little was born in the rough outskirts of Brooklyn in the 1950s. As a child he witnessed and was the victim of numerous episodes of domestic violence in his family. He committed his first rape at age 16 when he broke into the home of a 14-year-old minor and engaged in carnal intercourse with her. Samuel Little was apprehended, prosecuted and convicted and after serving a few years of sentence in a measure aimed at rehabilitation, he received the opportunity to spend a weekend in freedom. On that same date, he raped again. Considered by the directors of the prison establishment as "extremely hardworking", he displayed exemplary behavior which always resulted in the granting of legal benefits by the judiciary, but his attitudes when he was free showed that Little was not suited to living in society; While he was serving his custodial sentence, he told the other inmates that he was there for having avenged his sister's death, which earned him the respect of the other inmates. After a few years, again on temporary leave, his 1st act was to rape his neighbor and always with the same modus operandi; he followed victims to secluded areas, threatened them with machetes, and practiced forced intercourse. In 1988 at the age of 38 he received the benefit of parole and with only 3 days back on the streets he made his first fatal victims. On the morning of October 5, 1988, police officer Silvia Nogaledo returned to her home after a tiring 10-hour work shift. She took with her some snacks to celebrate her birthday together with her roommate Maria Aurora Rodriguez who was also a police officer (they were of Castilian nationalities). Upon entering her building, however, she was attacked by Samuel Little, who subdued her using his usual machete. After entering the apartment, the victims had their hands and feet tied with belts and were also gagged with apples. Little as diagnosed was a misogynistic psychopath who satisfied himself by torturing and raping his victims. Already aware that the victims were police officers, Little understood that sexual torture alone would not be enough and used his machete to take the lives of Silvia Nogaledo and Maria Aurora Rodriguez, slitting their throats. After the double homicide, the victims were immersed in a bathtub with water so that possible remnants of the illicit act could be eliminated, but Little thought that the bathtub water would not be enough to erase the traces of the crime and decided to set fire to the apartment right after the bath. of blood; while fire consumed the properties, Little fled the scene wearing the clothes of one of the victims and went to her sisters' house, where she justified her clothes by saying that they belonged to a new girlfriend. The next day he drove to Los Angeles in a stolen car where he stayed at the infamous Hotel Cecil but was still disguised in sunglasses and scarves. During investigations, the NYPD found at the crime scene a bill from Little's phone (which he dropped during the commission of the crimes) which contained all of his personal data and luckily was not consumed by the flames. With all the media repercussions surrounding the investigation, the NYPD made an alliance with the LAPD, thus managing to arrest Little when he was sleeping inside his apartment. There were some memories of his victims with him inside his apartment. Psychological and psychiatric tests showed that Samuel Little had the highest levels of psychopathy in addition to having a pathological need to control and hurt women. During the evidentiary instruction, his fingerprints were found on the buckles of the belts used to tie the victims, in addition to the fact that the "footprints" left on the floor of the apartment were compatible with the sole of his sneakers. Little was sentenced to the macaw stick on March 20, 2018 until he died from lack of blood in the brain. His last words were "Before I executed these 2 police officers I had 54 victims. I executed them and I will proudly die with 56 victims in my luggage. This is my real number. Bye cruel world." Little is believed to have executed 56 police officers (men and women) during his entire criminal career.