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Ruby Dean Lane

Case from Perry, FL dated May 11, 1993

Victim Details

Ruby Dean Lane

Female

Black / African American

Perry

FL

1993-05-11

19

Ruby

Dean Lane

07/07/2026

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Ruby Dean Lane, a 19-year-old woman from Perry, Florida, was tragically murdered on May 11, 1993. Her case remained unsolved for years until investigators linked her death to Samuel Little, a notorious serial killer who confessed to numerous murders across the United States. Lane disappeared after meeting Little near a house in Perry during a party. Seven years later, in 2000, skeletal remains were discovered in a wooded area in Greenville, a small town in neighboring Madison County. It took ano ...
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