✝️ Rosie Hill, age 20 – August 16 1982, Ocala, Florida, USA 🇺🇸 💔
Rosie grew up in Arkansas. She got good grades in school and her mother never had any problems with her. Rosie was the fourth of her six children.
She became pregnant during high school and moved to Florida to live with her grandparents and give birth to her daughter. She later moved to Ocala.
A few days before her disappearance she told her mother, Minnie, that she wanted to return home to Tennessee—but then, she stopped checking in.
After Rosie was killed, her mother raised her baby girl, who was 3 at the time Rosie died.
Her mother holds closely to the memories of her daughter — the picture owns a prominent place in her living room. She described her daughter as well-behaved in school and a good student.
“She got along with just about everybody. She always kept us laughing and cutting up. She used to love to dance. Sometimes we’d just be sitting around, have music on, she’d be the clown.”
Rosie was picked up at a bar and after having sex she was strangled, her body left next to a pig pen in 1982.
“She got in that little gully where the seats fold down (between the front seat and the back seat) and I choked her to death down there”
The case was not resolved until 2018.
Serial killer Samuel Little, who already had been convicted of eight slayings in California, Texas and Ohio, has confessed to 93 killings across the country between 1970 and 2005, recounting the crimes in astonishing detail. Police have confirmed 50 cases after a Texas Ranger opened a floodgate of confessions in 2018.
“He’s proud of his work. He’s not sad or feeling guilty. He sees himself as a killer. That’s his identity,” said Marina Sorochinski, an investigative psychology researcher at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “Victim closure, he couldn’t care less about that. It’s about him, getting attention.”
Little said during the interrogation that Rosie “was a big fighter, but I won the fight.”
