Nearly 44 years after hunters discovered human remains near a Mississippi highway, authorities have identified the victim as Clara Birdlong — who they believe was killed by Samuel Little, America's most prolific serial killer. He died last year at age 80.
The announcement was made Tuesday by the Jackson County Sheriff's Department. Little died last year at age 80 while serving three consecutive life-without-parole sentences for the deaths of three women in the late 1980s -- but he had confessed to 93 other killings between 1970 and 2005, according to the FBI.
A medical exam back then found the remains belonged to a"small in stature African American woman, with a distinctive front gold tooth and possibly wearing a wig" who was likely killed three or four months prior, according to the sheriff's department. How investigators identified the victimOver the years, there were several attempts to identify the woman -- including with the help of facial reconstructions, computer composites and DNA analysis.
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