A reporter gets to see how a detective built trust and said just about anything to get a killer to confess.
Texas Ranger James Holland got Samuel Little to admit he strangled 93 women during a decades-long, coast-to-coast rampage.Behind the Story: I wanted to know how a Ranger got a serial killer to spill his secretsI emailed and called Holland over the next six months asking to sit down with him. In June he invited me to Texas. “We can visit for a bit,” he told me. In July and August, I interviewed him over the course of four days.
He also let me watch videos of him questioning Little and walked me through how he got Little to start talking.In the process of trimming the piece, I had to delete a few nuggets and compelling stories. This one says a lot about how Holland was able to confirm so many of Little’s confessions:When Holland first got Little to confess, the serial killer mentioned having strangled a prostitute in a town south of Wichita Falls, Texas.
Wichita Falls police and others in the area had no cases like it. Over more than 650 hours of interviewing Little, Holland returned to this case at least 30 times, trying to find a detail that might lead to a victim. Little initially placed the killing in the 1970s. But Holland knew Little was terrible at dates. He spent much of his time interrogating Little by trying to narrow down the time frames of slayings.
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