Ohio man who killed three says he has ‘evil thoughts’

Associated Press

BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio

A man sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering his girlfriend’s daughter and an elderly couple said in his videotaped confession that he constantly has “evil thoughts” and thinks about killing.

Samuel K. Littleton II, of western Ohio, pleaded guilty to three counts each of aggravated murder and gross abuse of a corpse in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty for the three February slayings.

He shed some light on his thinking during hours of taped interrogations after he was arrested in West Virginia, The Columbus Dispatch reported Sunday.

“I think evil thoughts all the time. I mean, there ain’t one minute that I don’t say or think about how to snap somebody’s neck, crush their head,” Littleton, 37, told investigators. “Why would a person have that kind of thoughts all the time?”

Littleton lowered his head and sobbed as investigators showed him pictures of 84-year-old Richard Russell and 85-year-old wife Gladis Russell and then pleaded with him to reveal where their bodies were. Authorities believe he killed the Russells at their rural Lewiston home, put their bodies in the trunk of their car and drove south. Their bodies later were found in Tennessee and Georgia. Their car was found in Princeton, W.Va., where Littleton has relatives.

When investigators asked about Littleton’s girlfriend’s daughter, he replied that he “snapped.” The body of Tiffany Brown, 26, was found in the basement of the Bellefontaine home that Littleton bought from the Russells.