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FBI releases Lorain serial killer's sketches in search of victim IDs

He claims he's killed more than 90 people.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday released a series of sketches drawn by one of the country's most potentially prolific serial killers.

Samuel Little, who grew up in Lorain under the name Samuel McDowell, has drawn sketches from memory of 16 potential victims. 

Little, 78, claims he has killed more than 90 people within four decades, though authorities have so far concluded he was the killer in 36 cases. He pleaded guilty to murder in December in the 1994 strangulation of a Texas woman.

Authorities say Little remembers his victims and their killings in great detail, such as where he was and what car he was driving. 

"He is less reliable, however, when it comes to remembering dates," the FBI said in a news release.

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Little was convicted in 2014 of killing three Los Angeles-area women in separate attacks in the late 1980s and was serving life sentences when authorities say he confessed this year to killing dozens more people in 20 states since 1970. 

After dropping out of high school, Little left Ohio in the late 1950s and lived a nomadic life. The FBI says his victims often included high-risk women involved in prostitution and drugs, and that he typically killed them by knocking them out with punches before he strangled them.

Little, who is in poor health and relies on a wheelchair, offered his confessions as a bargaining chip to be moved from the Los Angeles County prison where he was being held. The FBI says he'll likely stay in jail in Texas until his death.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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