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* [[Mohammed Bijeh]]: AKA the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near [[Tehran]]; executed in 2005
* [[Mohammed Bijeh]]: AKA the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near [[Tehran]]; executed in 2005
* [[Saeed Hanaei]]: AKA "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around [[Mashhad]]; executed in 2002
* [[Saeed Hanaei]]: AKA "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around [[Mashhad]]; executed in 2002

===Ireland===
* [[Lenny Murphy]]: Leader of the infamous Shankill Butchers. Committed random Cut-throat killings of Catholics in the mid 70's


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Revision as of 14:29, 31 January 2011

This is a list of notable serial killers, by the country where most of the murders were committed.

Convicted serial killers by country

Argentina

  • Cayetano Santos Godino: AKA "Petiso Orejudo" ("Big Eared Midget"); at 16, killed four children in 1912; died in prison in 1944
  • Robledo Puch: AKA "The Death Angel" and "The Black Angel" killed 11 people before his arrest in 1972; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980

Australia

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Brazil

  • Abraão José Bueno: nurse who killed four child patients
  • Pedro Rodrigues Filho: AKA "Pedrinho Matador"; convicted and sentenced to 128 years imprisonment for 70 murders; however, the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years; claimed to have killed more than 100 victims, including 40 prison inmates
  • Edson Isidoro Guimarães: nurse who killed four patients but suspected of 131 deaths in total
  • Anísio Ferreira de Sousa: gynaecologist who was convicted of the murder of three children but linked to the disappearance of a total of 19

Canada

People's Republic of China

  • Gong Runbo: found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers aged between nine and 16 from 2005 to 2006
  • Huang Yong: between September 2001 and 2003 killed at least 17 teenage boys; executed in 2003
  • Shen Changyin and Shen Changping: found guilty of the murders of 11 prostitutes
  • Yang Xinhai: confessed to killing 65 people between 2000 and 2003; executed in 2004

Colombia

  • Daniel Camargo Barbosa: AKA "The Sadist of El Charquito", who is believed to have raped and killed over 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • Luis Garavito: AKA "The Beast" admitted to murder and rape of 140 young boys.
  • Pedro López: AKA "The Monster of the Andes"; accused of raping and killing more than 300 girls across South America.

Croatia

  • Vinko Pintarić: murdered five people, including his wife, between 1973 and 1990. Escaped from custody three times, killed in a 1991 shootout with the police.

Czech Republic

Denmark

  • Peter Lundin: killed his mother in 1991, then killed his mistress and her two children 9 years later; Sentenced to prison
  • Dagmar Overbye: childcare provider who killed between nine and 25 children; sentenced to death in 1921 then reprieved

Egypt

  • Raya and Sakina: Egypt's most famous serial killers and the first Egyptian women to be executed by the modern state of Egypt

Estonia

Finland

  • Antti Taskinen: poisoner of three men; sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Matti Haapoja: convicted murderer of three people, admitted to the murders of 18 probably killed 22–25; sentenced to life imprisonment, hanged himself in a prison cell
  • Aino Nykopp-Koski: first Finnish female serial killer, convicted of 5 murders and 5 attempted murders; sentenced to life in prison

France

Germany

Ghana

Greece

  • Antonis Daglis: AKA the "Athens Ripper"; convicted in 1997 of the strangulation murders and dismemberment of three women and the attempted murder of six others

Hong Kong

Hungary

India

Indonesia

  • Ahmad Suradji: admitted to killing 42 women; sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on July 10, 2008
  • Verry Idham Henyansyah: convicted and sentenced to death for the killing of 11 people

Iran

  • Mohammed Bijeh: AKA the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran; executed in 2005
  • Saeed Hanaei: AKA "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around Mashhad; executed in 2002

Ireland

  • Lenny Murphy: Leader of the infamous Shankill Butchers. Committed random Cut-throat killings of Catholics in the mid 70's

Israel

  • Nicolai Bonner: killed four people in 2005 in Haifa, three of them homeless; sentenced to life imprisonment

Italy

Jamaica

  • Lewis Hutchinson: Scottish immigrant convicted of shooting dozens of people in the 18th century; executed in 1773

Japan

  • Sataro Fukiage: raped and killed at least seven girls in the early 20th century
  • Hiroaki Hidaka: killed four prostitutes in 1996; executed on December 25, 2006
  • Miyuki Ishikawa: murdered an estimated 103, but could have been up to 169 infants in the 1940s
  • Kiyotaka Katsuta: firefighter who shot and strangled at least eight people, some during robberies, between 1972 and 1982
  • Yoshio Kodaira: rapist thought to have killed 11 people in Japan and Chinese people as a soldier
  • Genzo Kurita: killed six women and two children and engaged in rape and necrophilia
  • Hiroshi Maeue: AKA "Suicide Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims
  • Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata: AKA "House of Horror"; tortured and killed at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Ogata's family
  • Tsutomu Miyazaki: AKA "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer" and "Dracula"; killed four preschool-age girls and ate the hand of a victim; executed in 2008
  • Seisaku Nakamura: AKA "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer", murdered at least nine people
  • Akira Nishiguchi: killed five people and engaged in fraud
  • Kiyoshi Ōkubo: raped and murdered eight young women during 41 days in 1971

Kazhakstan

  • Nikolai Dzhumagaliev: AKA "Metal Fang"; raped and hacked seven women to death with an axe in Almaty in 1980, then cannibalised them using his unusual false teeth

Latvia

Macedonia

  • Vlado Taneski: crime reporter arrested in June 2008 for the murder of three elderly women on whose deaths he had written articles; committed suicide in police custody; suspected of killing another woman

Mexico

  • Juana Barraza: AKA "Mataviejitas" ("Old Lady Killer"); operated within the metropolitan area of Mexico City until January 25, 2006
  • José Luis Calva: cannibal; police found the remains of multiple female victims in his house; committed suicide on December 11, 2007
  • Adolfo Constanzo: AKA "The Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico; committed suicide in 1989
  • Delfina and María de Jesús González: AKA "Las Poquianchis"; killed a total of 91; arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1964
  • Raúl Osiel Marroquín: AKA "El Gato Imperial"; killed four male homosexuals in Mexico City

Netherlands

New Zealand

  • Minnie Dean: Scottish immigrant baby farmer who killed at least three children by laudanum poisoning and suffocation in the 1890s

Norway

  • Arnfinn Nesset: geriatric nurse who poisoned 22 dwellers at the Orkdal Alders- og Sjukeheim institution over a period of years before being convicted in 1984

Pakistan

Poland

Portugal

  • António Luís Costa: ex-GNR officer who murdered three women between 2005 and 2006. Sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Romania

  • Vera Renczi: poisoned two husbands, one son and 32 of her suitors in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Ion Rîmaru: murdered and raped young women in Bucharest from 1970 to 1971; executed in 1971
  • Romulus Vereş: convicted of five murders, sent to a mental institution

Russia

Slovakia

Slovenia

  • Silvo Plut: killed three women; committed suicide in prison in 2007
  • Metod Trobec: raped and killed at least five women; committed suicide in prison in 2006

South Africa

South Korea

  • Yoo Young-chul: cannibal; killed 21 people from September 2003 to July 2004, mainly young women and rich men

Spain

Sweden

  • Thomas Quick: AKA "Sätermannen"; confessed and convicted of eight murders, later recanted confessions

Turkey

  • Adnan Çolak: AKA "Artvin Monster"; killed 17 elderly women in Artvan, Turkey from 1992 to 1995. Sentenced to death.
  • Özgür Dengiz: serial killer from Ankara, who killed four people and cannibalized at least one

Ukraine

  • Anatoly Onoprienko: AKA "The Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996
  • Serhiy Tkach: convicted of raping and murdering 36 women, but claims the total is 100
  • Vladislav Volkovich and Vladimir Kondratenko: AKA the "Nighttime Killers"; charged with shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning 16 victims to death in Kiev between 1991 and 1997; Kondratenko committed suicide in prison during the trial; Volkovich was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment

United Kingdom

  • Stephen Akinmurele: AKA the "Cul-de-sac killer"; committed suicide in Strangeways while awaiting trial for the murders of five elderly people in Blackpool and the Isle of Man
  • Beverley Allitt: AKA "Angel of Death"; paediatric nurse who killed four babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991
  • Robert Black: Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of three murders, suspected of many more
  • Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: AKA "Moors Murderers"; murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17 and buried them in Saddleworth Moor
  • Mary Ann Britland: poisoned her daughter, husband, and the wife of her lover in 1886
  • William Burke and William Hare: notorious body snatchers in Edinburgh in the 19th century
  • George Chapman: poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper
  • John Christie: gassed, raped and strangled at least five women from 1943 to 1953, hiding the bodies at his house in London; also strangled his wife and Timothy Evans' baby daughter
  • Robert George Clements: doctor who committed suicide when due to be arrested for poisoning his fourth wife. His other three wives all died suspiciously during the interwar period
  • Mary Ann Cotton: British Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims; hanged in 1873
  • Thomas Neill Cream: AKA "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United States then moved to London; hanged in 1892
  • Frederick Bailey Deeming: in 1891 killed his wife and four children in Britain; remarried and moved to Australia, and then murdered his new wife
  • John Duffy and David Mulcahy: AKA the "Railway Killers"; killed three women near railway stations in the 1980s
  • Amelia Dyer: murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896
  • Kenneth Erskine: AKA "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners
  • Steven Grieveson: AKA "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered three teenage boys in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in 1993 and 1994
  • Stephen Griffiths: AKA the "Crossbow Cannibal"; convicted of murdering three prostitutes in Bradford, England in 2009 and 2010
  • John George Haigh: AKA the "Acid Bath Murderer" and the "Vampire of London"; active in England during the 1940s; convicted of six murders, but claimed to have killed nine; executed in 1949
  • Archibald Hall: AKA the "Monster Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael Kitto
  • Anthony Hardy: AKA the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four
  • Trevor Hardy: AKA The Beast of Manchester killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976
  • Philip Herbert: AKA the "Infamous Earl of Pembroke"; 17th century nobleman convicted of manslaughter but discharged; later killed the prosecutor and pardoned for a third murder
  • Colin Ireland: AKA "Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s
  • Michael Lupo: AKA "Wolf Man"; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders
  • Patrick Mackay: charged with the murders of five individuals, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people
  • Peter Manuel: Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958
  • Robert Maudsley: AKA "Hannibal The Cannibal"; killer of four; killed three in prison
  • Peter Moore: businessman who killed four men at random in Wales
  • Raymond Morris: AKA the "A34 Killer"; convicted of one murder, considered to have committed at least two more
  • Robert Napper: AKA the "Green Chain Rapist"; killed two women and a child in the 1990s
  • Donald Neilson: AKA "Black Panther"; killed four people, including heiress Lesley Whittle
  • Dennis Nilsen: killer of 15 (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983
  • Colin Norris: nurse convicted of killing four patients in Leeds hospitals
  • William Palmer: AKA "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; hanged on June 14, 1856
  • Edward William Pritchard: Scottish doctor who poisoned his wife and her mother in 1865. Two years earlier their maid had died in a mysterious fire
  • Amelia Sach and Annie Walters: murdered an unknown number of babies put up for adoption
  • Harold Shipman: AKA "Dr.Death"; doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25-year period
  • George Joseph Smith: AKA "The Brides in the Bath"; killer of three women
  • John Straffen: child killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner until his death on November 19, 2007
  • Peter Sutcliffe: AKA the "Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980
  • Peter Tobin: killer of three women
  • Thomas Griffiths Wainewright: artist considered to have poisoned four people
  • Fred West and Rosemary West: AKA "House of Horrors"; she was convicted of 10 murders; both are believed to have tortured and murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987, many at the couple's home in Gloucester; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial
  • Catherine Wilson: nurse considered to have poisoned seven people in the 19th century
  • Mary Elizabeth Wilson: AKA the "Merry widow of Windy Nook"; convicted of murdering two husbands by poisoning and considered to have killed two others
  • Steve Wright: AKA "The Suffolk Strangler" killed five women in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006
  • Graham Young: AKA "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971

United States of America

  • Charles Albright: AKA "The Eyeball Killer"; convicted of murdering three prostitutes in Dallas, Texas; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991
  • Rodney James Alcala: AKA "the Dating Game Killer"; convicted rapist and serial killer
  • Amy Archer-Gilligan: poisoned a husband and four of her nursing home's residents with arsenic or strychnine in Windsor, Connecticut in the 1910s
  • Benjamin Atkins: AKA the "Woodward Corridor Killer"; mission-oriented killer who raped and strangled eleven women in Detroit in 1991 and 1992
  • Joe Ball: AKA "The Alligator Man"; killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas
  • Velma Barfield: two husbands and two boyfriends died mysteriously with two proving to be arsenic poisoning; confessed to killing three more including her mother
  • Herb Baumeister: suspected of killing 20+ men along I-70; fled and committed suicide after remains of 11 were found on his Westfield, Indiana property
  • Bloody Benders: family who killed guests at their inn in Labette County, Kansas in 1872
  • Robert Berdella: convicted of killing six men in 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri; sexually tortured and dismembered his victims
  • David Berkowitz: AKA "Son of Sam" and "The .44 Caliber Killer"; convicted of six murders in New York
  • Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr: AKA the "Hillside Strangler"; killers of 12 women and possibly involved in three other killings
  • Richard Biegenwald: convicted of killing five people in the early 1980s in the Asbury Park, New Jersey area; suspected in at least six other murders
  • Arthur Gary Bishop: Utah man who murdered five young boys; executed in 1988
  • Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris: kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered five girls in 1979
  • Terry Blair: Kansas City serial killer and rapist; active 1982–2004
  • William Bonin: AKA "The Freeway Killer"; with several accomplices, claimed the lives of 20 boys in California
  • Dallen Bounds: killed two strangers, his girlfriend and her ex-husband in 1999
  • Gary Ray Bowles: beat and strangled six men to death to steal their credit cards in 1994
  • Briley Brothers: three brothers and an accomplice responsible for 11 murders in the 1970s in Richmond, Virginia
  • Jerry Brudos: AKA "The Lust Killer" and "Shoe Fetish Slayer"; killed at least five women in Oregon
  • Judy Buenoano: poisoned her husband, boyfriend and son with arsenic in the 1970s; drowned the son in 1980 but caught in 1983 after poisoning and car bombing a fiancee
  • Ted Bundy: law student who raped and murdered more than 35 women in six states; escaped from prison twice before being executed in Florida State Prison on January 24, 1989
  • Harvey Carignan: AKA the "Want-Ad Killer"; raped and beat four young women to death in 1972 and 1973 having escaped hanging for a 1949 killing on a technicality
  • David Carpenter: AKA the "Trailside Killer"; murdered five women on San Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981
  • Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson: nomadic hippie killers involved in the counter-culture movement; suspects in 12 homicides; sentenced to life imprisonment for three San Francisco Bay Area murders in 1983
  • Dean Carter: murdered at least four women
  • Richard Chase: AKA "The Vampire of Sacramento"; murdered six people in California the 1970s
  • Thor Nis Christiansen: shot dead and committed necrophilia on four young women in Isla Vista, California in the late 1970s
  • Joseph Christopher: AKA the "Midtown Slasher"; racist who killed twelve African Americans in 1980 and 1981, mutilating two of them
  • Doug Clark: AKA "Sunset Strip Killer"; killed at least seven people during 1980
  • Cynthia Coffman: kidnapped four women by ATMs before accomplice strangled them in five weeks in 1986
  • Carroll Cole: killed 16 people between 1948 and 1980; executed in 1985
  • Alton Coleman: multi-state killer whose killings took place during two months in 1984; convicted of murder in three states
  • John Norman Collins: committed in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor between 1967 and 1969
  • Ray and Faye Copeland: oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States at the ages of 75 and 69; convicted of killing five men; modus operandi was to hire unskilled drifters as farm hands and later kill them
  • Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley: committed the Houston Mass Murders in the 1970s
  • Juan Corona: California killer convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971
  • Richard Cottingham: AKA the "Torso Killer"; convicted of murdering six women around New York City between 1967 and 1980
  • Juan Covington: shot dead three people including his cousin and a co-worker in Philadelphia in 1998 and 2005
  • Andre Crawford a convicted serial killer, who killed 11 women between 1993 to 1997
  • Charles Cullen: nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who killed as many as 40 patients through lethal injection
  • Andrew Cunanan: shot dead two friends and two strangers in two weeks in Spring 1997; killed Gianni Versace two months later before committing suicide
  • Jeffrey Dahmer: Milwaukee, Wisconsin cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment for sexual gratification; convicted of 15 murders, but believed responsible for at least two others
  • Thomas Dillon: serial sniper who killed five men in southeastern Ohio between 1989 and 1992
  • Westley Allan Dodd: raped and murdered three boys in 1989; executed on January 5, 1993
  • Ronald Dominique: confessed to raping and murdering at least 23 men in Louisiana; sentenced to eight life sentences in 2008
  • Nannie Doss: AKA "The Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow"; serial poisoner who killed 11 family members
  • Brian Dugan: convicted of murdering two girls and a woman between 1983 and 1985
  • Paul Durousseau: murdered seven in southeast United States between 1997 and 2003; may have killed while stationed in Germany with the Army
  • Mack Ray Edwards: convicted of murdering three children after confessing to the murders of six in Los Angeles County between 1953 and 1969; claimed at one point to have killed as many as 18
  • Scott Erskine: convicted of raping and murdering a woman in 1989 and the torture-murders of two boys in 1993
  • Donald Leroy Evans: convicted of two stranglings and police closed the file on another; suspected of another dozen murders but recanted confessions to over 50 more
  • Gary Evans: antique thief who shot to death two shop owners and three accomplices who he suspected of stealing from him between 1985 and 1997
  • Richard Evonitz: abducted and killed three girls in Spotsylvania County, Virginia in 1996 and 1997
  • Larry Eyler: AKA the "Interstate Killer"; convicted of murdering two young men and confessed to stabbing and mutilating 20 more in 1982 and 1983
  • Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck: AKA the "Lonely Hearts Killers"; killed at least three women and one child in the 1940s but suspected in up to 20 murders in New York and Michigan
  • Albert Fish: AKA the "Werewolf of Wisteria"; sadist and pedophile who cannibalized several children; convicted of one murder, confessed to 2 others,claimed to have molested 100 children
  • Wayne Adam Ford: AKA "Wayward Wayne"; confessed to murdering four women; believed to have killed others
  • Kendall Francois: serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York who targeted prostitutes; after strangling the women, he would store them in various crawl spaces in and around his home
  • Joseph Paul Franklin: racist serial killer who targeted interracial couples and attempted to assassinate Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordan; convicted of 11 murders and confessed to nine others
  • John Wayne Gacy: AKA "Killer Clown"; killer of at least 33 men and boys; kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
  • Gerald and Charlene Gallego: AKA the "Gallego Sex Slaves Killers"; kidnapped, raped and killed victims in the late 1970s; most of them were teenagers
  • Carlton Gary: convicted of the murders of seven elderly women in Georgia
  • Donald Henry "Peewee" Gaskins: AKA "Meanest Man in America"; convicted of nine murders; confessed to more than 200; executed on September 6, 1991
  • Ed Gein: two known victims, one suspected victim, four missing persons; elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part, the films Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and the novel/movie The Silence of the Lambs
  • Janie Lou Gibbs: Georgia poisoner who killed five family members
  • Bertha Gifford: found not guilty of three arsenic poisonings by reason of insanity and suspected of 14 other killings, mostly of children, in Missouri
  • Kristen Gilbert: AKA the "Angel of Death"; nurse convicted of killing four by epinephrine injection
  • Lorenzo Gilyard: killed up to 13 prostitutes in the Kansas City area 1977 to 1993
  • Harvey Glatman: Californian rapist and killer of three women; lured women to pose for "bondage photographs"; executed September 18, 1959
  • Billy Glaze: mission-oriented killer convicted of raping and murdering three Native American prostitutes in Minneapolis in 1986 and 1987
  • Billy Gohl: union official linked with the disappearances of over 40 sailors in Aberdeen, Washington in the early 20th century
  • Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood: Michigan duo who murdered five elderly nursing home residents in their care and claimed to have killed another
  • Dana Sue Gray: convicted of murder of three elderly women and attempted murder of a fourth in California
  • Vaughn Greenwood: convicted of nine counts of murder, including eight of the "Skid Row Slasher" killings in southern California
  • Belle Gunness: Norwegian-born murder-for-profit killer who killed her suitors and children in Indiana
  • Anna Marie Hahn: German-born murder-for-profit killer who poisoned five elderly men; executed in 1938
  • William Hance: AKA "The Forces Of Evil"; soldier who used the murders of Carlton Gary as an excuse for killing four women around military bases in 1977 and 1978
  • Robert Hansen: Alaskan baker who killed prostitutes at his cabin; convicted of four murders but admitted to 11 others
  • Donald Harvey: AKA "Angel of Death"; hospital orderly; confessed to more than 80 "mercy killings" with 37 confirmed killings
  • Charles Ray Hatcher: convicted of two child murders in 1978 and 1982 having killed another in 1969; also stabbed to death a fellow inmate and another man 20 years apart
  • Dale Hausner: Convicted of killing 6 people in random drive-by shootings in 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona
  • William Heirens: AKA "The Lipstick Killer"; confessed to three murders spanning from June 1945 to January 1946
  • Dr. H. H. Holmes: active from 1890 to 1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; convicted of only one murder but definitively tied to at least eight more and confessed to a total of 27
  • Waneta Hoyt: New York woman who murdered her five children
  • Michael Hughes: killed four women in the Los Angeles area between 1992 and 1993; charged in 2008 with raping and murdering four additional women between 1986 and 1993
  • Leslie Irvin: AKA "Mad Dog"; convicted of killing six people in Indiana in the mid-1950s; his Supreme Court case set a precedent for fair trials of highly publicized defendants
  • Phillip Carl Jablonski: killed at least four women in California and Utah
  • Keith Hunter Jesperson:AKA The Happy Face Killer killed 8 Women between 1990 and 1995
  • Martha Ann Johnson: convicted of smothering three of her children in Atlanta between 1977 and 1982
  • Vincent Johnson: AKA the "Brooklyn Strangler"; a homeless crack addict who killed at least five prostitutes
  • Genene Jones: Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care; convicted of only one murder but suspected of 10 or more others
  • John Joubert: AKA the "Nebraska Boy Snatcher"; stabbed three children to death in 1982 and 1983
  • Joseph Kallinger: with his son as an accomplice killed two children including another son in 1974; also killed a woman during a robbery in 1975
  • Patrick Kearney: necrophiliac convicted of 21 murders in California and admitted to seven other murders
  • Edmund Kemper: started killing when he was 15 years old in Santa Cruz, California; convicted of six murders and implicated in four others
  • Scott Lee Kimball: AKA "Joe Snitch"; FBI informant who pleaded guilty to two of at least four murders in Colorado including those of his uncle and three female acquaintances
  • Tillie Klimek: Chicago woman who poisoned five husbands; sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Paul John Knowles: raped and murdered 18 people
  • Randy Steven Kraft: convicted of the murders of 16 young men and boys; suspected of 51 others in California
  • Timothy Krajcir: confessed to killing more than nine women—five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania
  • Peter Kudzinowski: killed children in New Jersey in the 1920s
  • Leonard Lake and Charles Ng: ex-Marines and survivalists; killed at least 11 people and suspected of 25 in Wilseyville, California; collected and murdered female sex slaves
  • Derrick Todd Lee: AKA the "Baton Rouge Serial Killer"; convicted of two murders; linked by DNA evidence to five others
  • Henry Lee Lucas: convicted of 11 murders and confessed to approximately 3,000 others, although most of his confessions are considered outlandish; a task force set up to investigate his claims suggested that the true number of his murders may be as high as 213
  • Bobbie Joe Long: AKA the "Classified Ad Rapist"; killed 10 women in Tampa Bay, Florida in 1984
  • Kenneth McDuff: AKA the "Broomstick Killer"; death sentence for 1966 triple-murder commuted to life in prison; he started killing three days after his 1989 parole and killed ten more in Waco, Texas up until 1992
  • Orville Lynn Majors: nurse convicted of murdering six patients in Clinton, Indiana; suspected of 130 killings between 1993 and 1995
  • Lee Roy Martin: AKA the "Gaffney Strangler"; killed two women and two girls in South Carolina in 1967 and 1968
  • Rhonda Belle Martin: Alabama poisoner who murdered six family members; suspected of poisoning at least nine; executed in 1957
  • David Mason: strangled four elderly neighbours in 1980 and his cellmate in 1982 having been imprisoned on lesser charges; suspected of shooting dead his boyfriend
  • David Edward Maust: convicted of killing five teenage boys; one in Germany in 1974, another in 1981, and three he buried in his basement in Hammond, Indiana in 2003
  • David Meirhofer: killed three children and an ex-girlfriend between 1966 and 1974; first criminal apprehended by offender profiling
  • Frederick Mors: Austrian who killed 17 elderly patients by poisoning in New York
  • Herbert Mullin: schizophrenic in Santa Cruz, California who killed people to prevent earthquakes; convicted of 10 murders and confessed to three others
  • Earle Nelson: AKA "Gorilla Man"; necrophiliac convicted and hanged for one murder; implicated in about 20 others
  • Marie Noe: murdered eight of her children between 1949 and 1968
  • Gordon Stewart Northcott: AKA the "Wineville Chicken Coop Murders"; California man who confessed to kidnapping, raping and murdering young boys with the aid of his mother, Sarah Louise Northcott in the 1920s; convicted of 3 murders, suspected of perhaps 20, executed in 1930
  • Carl Panzram: murderer, rapist and arsonist; convicted of two murders; confessed to 19 others; executed in 1930
  • Gerald Parker: AKA the "Bedroom Basher" raped and murdered five women and killed the unborn baby of a sixth woman in Orange County, California
  • Louise Peete: convicted of murdering a man and woman decades apart, four other acquaintances died suspiciously and four husbands committed suicide
  • Steven Brian Pennell: AKA the "Corridor Killer"; convicted of torture-murdering two women, pleaded no contest to two more and suspected of a fifth in Delaware in 1987 and 1988
  • Christopher Peterson: AKA the "Shotgun Killer", confessed to shooting seven people with a shotgun in a killing spree spanning from October 30, 1990 to December 18, 1990 in Indiana
  • Craig Price: AKA the "Warwick Slasher"; teenager who stabbed two women and two children in Rhode Island in the late 1980s
  • Cleophus Prince Jr.: AKA the "Clairemont Killer"; raped and killed six women in San Diego in 1990
  • Dorothea Puente: convicted of three killings in Sacramento, California during the 1980s; suspected of six others
  • Dennis Rader: AKA the "BTK Killer"; killed ten people between 1974 and 1991 in Sedgwick County, Kansas
  • Richard Ramirez: AKA the "Night Stalker"; terrorized Los Angeles in 1984 and 1985; convicted of 14 murders
  • David Parker Ray: convicted of rape and torture and sentenced to 224 years in prison; FBI believes he was responsible for the deaths of 60 women in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
  • Melvin Rees: AKA the "Sex Beast"; shot and defiled a woman in 1957, torture-murdered a family of four in 1959 and suspected in four other killings
  • Paul Dennis Reid: killed seven people during armed robberies between February and April 1997
  • Ángel Maturino Reséndiz: killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois
  • Gary Ridgway: AKA the "Green River Killer"; convicted of murdering 48 women in Washington state
  • Joel Rifkin: murdered 17 women in the New York City and Long Island areas
  • Harvey Miguel Robinson: teenager who stalked, raped and killed three women in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1992 and 1993
  • John Edward Robinson: AKA the "Cyber Sex Killer"; lured victims through the internet; convicted of murdering six women in Missouri and Kansas
  • Dayton Leroy Rogers: murdered at least six women in Oregon
  • Danny Rolling: pleaded guilty to murdering five students in Florida; executed in 2006
  • Michael Bruce Ross: raped and murdered seven women in Connecticut; executed May 13, 2005
  • Efren Saldivar: respiratory therapist who killed six patients, possibly as many as 120
  • Altemio Sanchez: AKA the "Bike Path Rapist"; responsible for three murders and numerous rapes spanning a 25-year period in Buffalo, New York; currently serving three consecutive 75 years-to-life sentences for the murders
  • Gerard John Schaefer: Florida police officer who killed up to 34 women and girls
  • Charles Schmid: AKA the "Pied Piper of Tucson"; murdered three teenage girls in 1964 and 1965 and buried them in the desert
  • Heriberto Seda: New York City copycat killer of the "Zodiac Killer" active from 1990 to 1994; convicted of shooting eight individuals, killing three; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998
  • Tommy Lynn Sells: convicted of only one murder; admitted to murdering dozens of people across the United States, possibly in excess of 70 although only six are confirmed
  • Arthur Shawcross: AKA "The Genesee River Killer"; convicted of 12 murders; confessed to one more
  • Robert Shulman: convicted of murdering five prostitutes between 1991 and 1996
  • Daniel Lee Siebert: convicted of 1979 manslaughter; killed nine people across America in three months in mid-1980s including two children and two Southside Slayer victims
  • Robert Joseph Silveria, Jr.: AKA "Sidetrack"; freight train rider convicted of beating to death four fellow transients in 1995 and confessed to dozens more
  • Lemuel Smith: confessed to the murders of five people, including an on-duty female prison guard
  • Morris Solomon Jr.: handyman who killed six young women between 1986 and 1987 in Sacramento, California
  • Lyda Southard: first and fourth husbands' 'typhoid' deaths due to arsenic; first husband's brother poisoned and daughter died; two other husbands died of 'flu'
  • Timothy Wilson Spencer: AKA the "Southside Strangler"; raped and killed five women in Virginia between 1984 and 1987
  • Jack Owen Spillman: AKA the "Werewolf Butcher"; killed two girls and the mother of one of them in Washington State in 1994 and 1995
  • Gerald Stano: convicted murderer of 41 women; executed in 1998
  • Charles Starkweather: murdered 11 people throughout Nebraska in two months the late 1950's with his girlfriend; executed in 1959
  • Cary Stayner: killed four women in Yosemite, California
  • James Swann: AKA the "Shotgun Stalker"; schizophrenic who killed four people in drive-by shootings in Washington, D.C. in 1993 because he heard the voice of Malcolm X
  • William Suff: AKA the "Riverside Killer"; killed up to 19 women near Riverside, California
  • Michael Swango: physician and surgeon who poisoned over 30 of his patients and colleagues
  • Marybeth Tinning: New York woman who smothered nine of her children to death
  • Ottis Toole: Henry Lee Lucas' accomplice; convicted of six murders in Florida; confessed to but never tried for Adam Walsh's murder
  • Jane Toppan: nurse and lust murderer who poisoned at least 31 patients and relatives in Massachusetts up to the turn of the 20th century
  • Maury Travis: St. Louis area torture killer of 12–17 prostitutes from 2000 to 2002
  • Chester Turner: murderer of women in Los Angeles, California; convicted of 12 murders and linked through DNA evidence to another
  • Henry Louis Wallace: Charlotte, North Carolina killer of at least nine young women from 1992 to 1994
  • Carl Eugene Watts: convicted of two murders; admitted to killing 80 people in Texas and Michigan; possibly guilty of 100 murders
  • Nathaniel White: convicted of stabbing to death six women in the Hudson Valley, New York area from 1991 to 1992
  • Christopher Wilder: AKA the "Beauty Queen Killer"; millionaire Australian realtor who killed eight women in seven weeks in 1984
  • Scott Williams: killed and mutilated three women between 1997 and 2006
  • Wayne Williams: convicted of two murders; police claim his arrest solved 23 in the string of 28 Atlanta Child Murders
  • Randall Woodfield: AKA "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5 Bandit"; convicted of four murders; believed responsible for 14 others
  • Aileen Wuornos: shot six men dead in Florida; executed in 2002
  • Robert Lee Yates: murdered at least 13 women in Spokane County, Washington

Venezuela

Unidentified serial killers

This is a list of unidentified serial killers. It includes circumstances where a suspect has been arrested, but not convicted.

Australia

Brazil

  • Paturis Park murders: AKA the "Rainbow Maniac"; series of 13 gunshot murders of gay men between July 2007 and August 2008 in Paturis Park (Parque dos Paturis) in Carapicuiba

Canada

India

Mexico

Portugal

South Korea

United Kingdom

United States of America

See also

References

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