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This is a list of [[serial killer]]s arranged by their | This is a list of [[serial killer]]s arranged by their country of origin or activity. | ||
==Convicted serial killers by country== | ==Convicted serial killers by country== | ||
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*[[William MacDonald]] | *[[William MacDonald]] | ||
*[[Ivan Milat]] - the "backpack-murderer"; killed at least 7 tourists | *[[Ivan Milat]] - the "backpack-murderer"; killed at least 7 tourists | ||
*[[Christopher Worrell]] - the | *[[Christopher Worrell]] - the "Truro murders"; killed 7 victims | ||
*[[James Milller]] - the | *[[James Milller]] - the "Truro murders" convicted of killing 6 victims | ||
*[[John Travers]] | *[[John Travers]] | ||
*[[John Whelan]] | *[[John Whelan]] | ||
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===Canada=== | ===Canada=== | ||
*[[Paul Bernardo]] - killed three teenaged girls (including his wife's sister), with his wife | *[[Paul Bernardo]] - killed three teenaged girls (including his wife's sister), with his wife Karla Homolka, and was also known as the "Scarborough (Ontario) Rapist | ||
*[[Allan Legere]] - the "Monster of Miramichi"; killer of 5 individuals | *[[Allan Legere]] - the "Monster of Miramichi"; killer of 5 individuals | ||
*[[Earle Nelson]] | *[[Earle Nelson]] | ||
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===Colombia=== | ===Colombia=== | ||
*[[Luis Garavito]] (also killed victims in Ecuador) | *[[Luis Garavito]] (also killed victims in Ecuador) | ||
*[[Pedro Lopez]] - ''The Monster of the Andes''; apocryphal with 300 alleged victims (also killed | *[[Pedro Lopez]] - ''The Monster of the Andes''; apocryphal with 300 alleged victims (he also killed in Ecuador) | ||
===Ecuador=== | ===Ecuador=== | ||
*[[Daniel Barbosa]] - ''The Beast Of The Andes''; | *[[Daniel Barbosa]] - ''The Beast Of The Andes''; apocryphal, 71 alleged victims | ||
*[[Luis Garavito]] (also killed | *[[Luis Garavito]] (also killed in Colombia) | ||
*[[Pedro Lopez]] (also killed | *[[Pedro Lopez]] (also killed in Colombia) | ||
===France=== | ===France=== | ||
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*[[Émile Louis]] - preyed on young handicapped women | *[[Émile Louis]] - preyed on young handicapped women | ||
*[[Marcel Petiot]] - doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the [[Nazis]] | *[[Marcel Petiot]] - doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the [[Nazis]] | ||
*[[Gilles de Rais]] - [[France|French]] [[demon]]olator and child-killer (d. | *[[Gilles de Rais]] - [[France|French]] [[demon]]olator and child-killer (d. 1440) | ||
*[[Joseph Vacher]] - 19th century serial killer of 11 individuals | *[[Joseph Vacher]] - 19th century serial killer of 11 individuals | ||
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===Hungary=== | ===Hungary=== | ||
*[[Erzsébet Báthory]] | *[[Erzsébet Báthory]] – Hungarian countess who killed servant girls | ||
*[[Béla Kiss]] - escaped justice in the confusion of | *[[Béla Kiss]] - escaped justice in the confusion of World War I | ||
*[[Sylvestre Matuschka]] - the 'train killer'; derailed trains for sexual gratification | *[[Sylvestre Matuschka]] - the 'train killer'; derailed trains for sexual gratification | ||
===India=== | ===India=== | ||
*[[Charles Sobhraj]] - preyed on Western tourists in Southeast Asia in the 1970s | *[[Charles Sobhraj]] - preyed on Western tourists in Southeast Asia in the 1970s | ||
*[[Thug Behram]] - leader of a gang of | *[[Thug Behram]] - leader of a gang of Thugs in Avadh, India, who confessed to participating in 931 individual murders and to having personally strangled approximately 125 men | ||
*[[Auto Shankar]] - Indian auto rickshaw driver who preyed on teenage girls | *[[Auto Shankar]] - Indian auto rickshaw driver who preyed on teenage girls | ||
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===Iran=== | ===Iran=== | ||
*[[Mohammed Bijeh]] - known as the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near | *[[Mohammed Bijeh]] - known as the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran | ||
*[[Said Hanai]] - killed at least 16 women around | *[[Said Hanai]] - killed at least 16 women around Mashhad | ||
===Italy=== | ===Italy=== | ||
*[[Luigi Chiatti]] - both of his victims were children | *[[Luigi Chiatti]] - both of his victims were children | ||
*[[Roberto Succo]] | *[[Roberto Succo]] – after killing his parents, he moved to France keeping his crimes count high along the way | ||
===Japan=== | ===Japan=== | ||
*[[Tsutomu Miyazaki]] - aka "The | *[[Tsutomu Miyazaki]] - aka "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer", and "Dracula", he killed 4 preschool-age Japanese girls and ate two of them | ||
===Kazakhstan=== | ===Kazakhstan=== | ||
*[[Nikolai Dzhumagaliev]] - cannibal and rapist known as "Metal Fang"; thought to have killed nearly 50 individuals | *[[Nikolai Dzhumagaliev]] - cannibal and rapist known as "Metal Fang"; thought to have killed nearly 50 individuals | ||
===Mexico=== | ===Mexico=== | ||
*[[Abdul Latif Sharif]] - Egyptian alleged to be responsible for dozens of murders in | *[[Abdul Latif Sharif]] - Egyptian alleged to be responsible for dozens of murders in Ciudad Juárez | ||
===Netherlands=== | ===Netherlands=== | ||
• [[Maria Swanenburg]] - killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s | |||
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===Pakistan=== | ===Pakistan=== | ||
*[[Javed Iqbal]] - killed 100 boys | *[[Javed Iqbal]] - killed 100 boys | ||
===Poland=== | ===Poland=== | ||
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===Soviet Union=== | ===Soviet Union=== | ||
*[[Andrei Chikatilo]] - AKA "The Rostov Ripper" and "Hannibal Lecter", a name given to him by the Russian public after the character in the popular American film [[Silence of the Lambs]], which came out around the time of his arrest; killed 52 women and children throughout the many countries of the former Soviet Union before being arrested, convicted, and executed in | *[[Andrei Chikatilo]] - AKA "The Rostov Ripper" and "Hannibal Lecter", a name given to him by the Russian public after the character in the popular American film [[Silence of the Lambs]], which came out around the time of his arrest; killed 52 women and children throughout the many countries of the former Soviet Union before being arrested, convicted, and executed in 1994 | ||
===Sweden=== | ===Sweden=== | ||
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===UK=== | ===UK=== | ||
*[[Beverley Allitt]] - an ''[[Angel of Death]]''; | *[[Beverley Allitt]] - an ''[[Angel of Death]]''; Paediatric nurse who killed four patients and injured at least nine others, convicted in [[1991]] | ||
*[[Robert Black (murderer)|Robert Black]] - schoolgirl killer | *[[Robert Black (murderer)|Robert Black]] - schoolgirl killer | ||
*[[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] - the ''[[Moors Murders|Moors Murderers]]'' | *[[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] - the ''[[Moors Murders|Moors Murderers]]'' | ||
*[[George Chapman (murderer)|George Chapman]] - real name Severin Antoniovich Klosowski, poisoned three women, but suspected of being [[Jack the Ripper]] | *[[George Chapman (murderer)|George Chapman]] - real name Severin Antoniovich Klosowski, poisoned three women, but suspected of being [[Jack the Ripper]] | ||
*[[John Childs]] - burned the bodies of his six victims, jailed | *[[John Childs]] - burned the bodies of his six victims, jailed 1980 | ||
*[[John Reginald Halliday Christie|John Christie]] - the necrophile, who lived at | *[[John Reginald Halliday Christie|John Christie]] - the [[necrophile]], who lived at 10 Rillington Place | ||
*[[Mary Ann Cotton]] - British | *[[Mary Ann Cotton]] - British Victorian killer, said to have taken more than 20 victims | ||
*[[Thomas Neill Cream]] - the ''Lambeth Poisoner'', began his killing spree in the US then moved to London | *[[Thomas Neill Cream]] - the ''Lambeth Poisoner'', began his killing spree in the US then moved to London | ||
*[[Bruce George Peter Lee]] - born Peter George Dinsdale, the prolific | *[[Bruce George Peter Lee]] - born Peter George Dinsdale, the prolific Hull arsonist | ||
*[[Kenneth Erskine]] - the ''Stockwell Strangler'', jailed in | *[[Kenneth Erskine]] - the ''Stockwell Strangler'', jailed in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners | ||
*[[John George Haigh]] - the ''Acid Bath Murderer'' or ''[[Vampire]] of London'' | *[[John George Haigh]] - the ''Acid Bath Murderer'' or ''[[Vampire]] of London'' | ||
*[[Anthony Hardy]] - the Camden Ripper | *[[Anthony Hardy]] - the Camden Ripper | ||
*[[Colin Ireland]] - the ''Gay Slayer'' or ''Fairy Liquidator'' | *[[Colin Ireland]] - the ''Gay Slayer'' or ''Fairy Liquidator'' | ||
*[[Michael Lupo]] - the ''Wolf Man'', originally from | *[[Michael Lupo]] - the ''Wolf Man'', originally from Italy | ||
*[[Patrick Mackay]] - confessed to killing 11 people | *[[Patrick Mackay]] - confessed to killing 11 people | ||
*[[Robert Mawdsley]] - serial killer of four; killed three in prison and dubbed ''Hannibal the Cannibal'' | *[[Robert Mawdsley]] - serial killer of four; killed three in prison and dubbed ''Hannibal the Cannibal'' | ||
*[[Peter Moore (serial killer)|Peter Moore]] - businessman who killed men at random in | *[[Peter Moore (serial killer)|Peter Moore]] - businessman who killed men at random in Wales | ||
*[[Dennis Nilsen]] - British serial killer of 15 (possibly 16) | *[[Dennis Nilsen]] - British serial killer of 15 (possibly 16) | ||
*[[William Palmer (murderer)|William Palmer]] - the Rugeley poisoner | *[[William Palmer (murderer)|William Palmer]] - the Rugeley poisoner | ||
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*[[John Straffen]] - child-killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner (some doubt exists over his conviction) | *[[John Straffen]] - child-killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner (some doubt exists over his conviction) | ||
*[[Peter Sutcliffe]] - the ''Yorkshire Ripper'' | *[[Peter Sutcliffe]] - the ''Yorkshire Ripper'' | ||
*[[Fred West]] and [[Rosemary West]] - the ''House of Horrors'' murderers in [[Gloucester | *[[Fred West]] and [[Rosemary West]] - the ''House of Horrors'' murderers in [[Gloucester | ||
*[[Graham Frederick Young]] - the ''Teacup Poisoner'', who killed three (1947-1990) | *[[Graham Frederick Young]] - the ''Teacup Poisoner'', who killed three (1947-1990) | ||
====Northern Ireland (UK) ==== | ====Northern Ireland (UK) ==== | ||
*[[Lenny Murphy]] - leader of the [[Shankill Butchers]] | *[[Lenny Murphy]] - leader of the [[Shankill Butchers]] | ||
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===USA=== | ===USA=== | ||
*[[Charles Albright]] - killer of three; known for surgically removing the eyes of victims | *[[Charles Albright]] - killer of three; known for surgically removing the eyes of victims | ||
*[[Richard Angelo]] - nurse. | *[[Richard Angelo]] - nurse. | ||
*[[Joe Ball]] - killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas | *[[Joe Ball]] - killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas | ||
*[[David Berkowitz]] - known as the ''[[Son of | *[[David Berkowitz]] - known as the ''[[Son of sam]]'' | ||
*[[Bloody Benders]] - a family who killed guests of their inn in Labette County, Kansas, in 1872 | *[[Bloody Benders]] - a family who killed guests of their inn in Labette County, Kansas, in 1872 | ||
*[[The Boston Strangler]] - allegedly [[Albert DeSalvo]], though disputed | *[[The Boston Strangler]] - allegedly [[Albert DeSalvo]], though disputed | ||
*[[William Bonin]] - with several accomplices, claimed the lives of twenty boys in | *[[William Bonin]] - with several accomplices, claimed the lives of twenty boys in California | ||
*[[Jerry Brudos]] - killed at least 5 women and was sexually aroused by their feet | *[[Jerry Brudos]] - killed at least 5 women and was sexually aroused by their feet | ||
*[[Ted Bundy]] - law student who raped and murdered over 30 women in several states | *[[Ted Bundy]] - law student who raped and murdered over 30 women in several states | ||
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*[[Hillside Strangler]] - actually two men, [[Kenneth Bianchi]] and [[Angelo Buono, Jr.]] | *[[Hillside Strangler]] - actually two men, [[Kenneth Bianchi]] and [[Angelo Buono, Jr.]] | ||
*[[Philip Carl Jablonski]], killed at least 4 women in Utah, carved the word "Jesus" into one | *[[Philip Carl Jablonski]], killed at least 4 women in Utah, carved the word "Jesus" into one | ||
*[[H. H. Holmes]] (real name Herman Mudgett) - active 1890-1894 during Chicago's 1893 | *[[H. H. Holmes]] (real name Herman Mudgett) - active 1890-1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition | ||
*[[Genene Jones]] - Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care | *[[Genene Jones]] - Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care | ||
*[[Patrick Kearney]] - [[necrophile]] who butchered 28 men in | *[[Patrick Kearney]] - [[necrophile]] who butchered 28 men in California | ||
*[[Edmund Kemper]] - started killing when he was aged fifteen | *[[Edmund Kemper]] - started killing when he was aged fifteen | ||
*[[Sante Kimes]] - grifter and murder-for-profit killer who, along with her son Kenneth Kimes, is believed to have killed upwards of 4 people | *[[Sante Kimes]] - grifter and murder-for-profit killer who, along with her son Kenneth Kimes, is believed to have killed upwards of 4 people | ||
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*[[Dorothea Puente]] - killed and robbed nine elderly people | *[[Dorothea Puente]] - killed and robbed nine elderly people | ||
*[[Dennis Rader]] - killed ten people over 20 years as the "BTK Killer" | *[[Dennis Rader]] - killed ten people over 20 years as the "BTK Killer" | ||
*[[Richard Ramirez]] - the 'Night Stalker' who terrorized Los Angeles in | *[[Richard Ramirez]] - the 'Night Stalker' who terrorized Los Angeles in 1984 and 1985 | ||
*[[Angel Maturino Resendiz]] - killed nine people in | *[[Angel Maturino Resendiz]] - killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois | ||
*[[Gary Ridgway]] - admitted to being | *[[Gary Ridgway]] - admitted to being The Green River Killer | ||
*[[Joel Rifkin]] - murdered 17 women in the New York City and Long Island area | *[[Joel Rifkin]] - murdered 17 women in the New York City and Long Island area | ||
*[[John Edward Robinson]] - so-called 'Cyber Sex Killer' who lured victims through the | *[[John Edward Robinson]] - so-called 'Cyber Sex Killer' who lured victims through the internet | ||
*[[Danny Rolling]] - pleaded guilty to butchering five students in | *[[Danny Rolling]] - pleaded guilty to butchering five students in Florida | ||
*[[Efren Saldivar]] - | *[[Efren Saldivar]] - respiratory therapist who definitely killed six patients, and possibly as many as 120 | ||
*[[Arthur Shawcross]] - the ''Genesee River Killer'' | *[[Arthur Shawcross]] - the ''Genesee River Killer'' | ||
*[[Gerard John Schaefer]] - policeman from | *[[Gerard John Schaefer]] - policeman from Florida who killed up to thirty-four women and girls | ||
*[[Cary Stayner]] - "Yosemite Murderer" who killed four women | *[[Cary Stayner]] - "Yosemite Murderer" who killed four women | ||
*[[William Suff]] - "Riverside Killer" who killed up to 19 women near Riverside, California | *[[William Suff]] - "Riverside Killer" who killed up to 19 women near Riverside, California | ||
*[[Ottis Toole]] - Henry Lee Lucas's accomplice; convicted of six murders in Florida | *[[Ottis Toole]] - Henry Lee Lucas's accomplice; convicted of six murders in Florida | ||
*[[Coral Eugene Watts]] - killed dozens of women in Texas and Michigan | *[[Coral Eugene Watts]] - killed dozens of women in Texas and Michigan | ||
*[[Wayne Williams]] - convicted of the | *[[Wayne Williams]] - convicted of the Atlanta Child Murders (disputed) | ||
*[[Randall Woodfield]] - the " | *[[Randall Woodfield]] - the "Interstate 5|I-5 killer" | ||
*[[Aileen Wuornos]] - rare female serial killer who shot dead six men in Florida | *[[Aileen Wuornos]] - rare female serial killer who shot dead six men in Florida | ||
*[[Andrew Minotti]] - bus driver in cities in texas, involved in killing children | *[[Andrew Minotti]] - bus driver in cities in texas, involved in killing children | ||
==Unidentified serial killers== | ==Unidentified serial killers== | ||
*The [[Axeman of New Orleans]] ( | *The [[Axeman of New Orleans]] (USA) | ||
*The [[Austin Axe Murderer]], AKA the Servant Girl Annihilator ( | *The [[Austin Axe Murderer]], AKA the Servant Girl Annihilator (USA) | ||
*[[Bible John]] ( | *[[Bible John]] (UK) | ||
*The [[Cleveland Torso Murderer]], AKA "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" ( | *The [[Cleveland Torso Murderer]], AKA "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (USA) | ||
*[[Jack the Ripper]], the most famous serial killer of all, murdered prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 ( | *[[Jack the Ripper]], the most famous serial killer of all, murdered prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 (UK) | ||
*[[Jack the Stripper]] ( | *[[Jack the Stripper]] (UK) | ||
*The [[Original Night Stalker]] ( | *The [[Original Night Stalker]] (USA) | ||
*The [[Zodiac Killer]] ( | *The [[Zodiac Killer]] (USA) | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Mass murderer]] | *[[Mass murderer]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Serial killer]] | ||
*[[Spree killer]] | *[[Spree killer]] | ||
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[[Category:Human Monsters]] | [[Category:Human Monsters]] |
Revision as of 11:31, 14 August 2006
This is a list of serial killers arranged by their country of origin or activity.
Convicted serial killers by country
Australia
- Eric Edgar Cooke
- Paul Denyer - known as the "Frankston Serial Killer"
- Peter Dupas
- John Wayne Glover - known as the "North Shore Granny Killer"; found dead in his cell in 2005
- Eddie Leonski - the "Brownout Murderer"; killed at least 4
- William MacDonald
- Ivan Milat - the "backpack-murderer"; killed at least 7 tourists
- Christopher Worrell - the "Truro murders"; killed 7 victims
- James Milller - the "Truro murders" convicted of killing 6 victims
- John Travers
- John Whelan
Austria
- Jack Unterweger - author and sexual sadist; allegedly killed 12 women
Belgium
- Marie Becker
- Marc Dutroux - Belgian child molester and killer
- Michel Fourniret
Canada
- Paul Bernardo - killed three teenaged girls (including his wife's sister), with his wife Karla Homolka, and was also known as the "Scarborough (Ontario) Rapist
- Allan Legere - the "Monster of Miramichi"; killer of 5 individuals
- Earle Nelson
- Clifford Olson - murdered eleven children
- Peter Woodcock - murdered three children in 1956 and 1957, and a fellow psychiatric institute patient in 1991
China
- Hu Wanlin - self-proclaimed doctor who is believed to have killed between 100 and 190 patients
- Yang Xinhai
Colombia
- Luis Garavito (also killed victims in Ecuador)
- Pedro Lopez - The Monster of the Andes; apocryphal with 300 alleged victims (he also killed in Ecuador)
Ecuador
- Daniel Barbosa - The Beast Of The Andes; apocryphal, 71 alleged victims
- Luis Garavito (also killed in Colombia)
- Pedro Lopez (also killed in Colombia)
France
- Michel Fourniret
- Hélène Jegado - domestic servant who poisoned at least 23 people between 1833 and 1851
- Henri Désiré Landru
- Émile Louis - preyed on young handicapped women
- Marcel Petiot - doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the Nazis
- Gilles de Rais - French demonolator and child-killer (d. 1440)
- Joseph Vacher - 19th century serial killer of 11 individuals
Germany
- Jürgen Bartsch
- Karl Denke - cannibal
- Karl Grossmann - killed women and sold their flesh on the black market
- Fritz Haarmann - similar to Grossman, but preyed on boys
- Fritz Honka - killed women in Hamburg and kept the bodies in his apartment
- Joachim Kroll - claimed thirteen victims over three decades
- Peter Kürten - the Vampire of Düsseldorf
- Peter Stumpp - self-proclaimed werewolf who killed 16 people during the 1500s
- Anna Maria Zwanziger - Bavarian serial killer
Hungary
- Erzsébet Báthory – Hungarian countess who killed servant girls
- Béla Kiss - escaped justice in the confusion of World War I
- Sylvestre Matuschka - the 'train killer'; derailed trains for sexual gratification
India
- Charles Sobhraj - preyed on Western tourists in Southeast Asia in the 1970s
- Thug Behram - leader of a gang of Thugs in Avadh, India, who confessed to participating in 931 individual murders and to having personally strangled approximately 125 men
- Auto Shankar - Indian auto rickshaw driver who preyed on teenage girls
Indonesia
- Ahmad Suradji - a serial killer who admitted to killing 42 women
Iran
- Mohammed Bijeh - known as the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran
- Said Hanai - killed at least 16 women around Mashhad
Italy
- Luigi Chiatti - both of his victims were children
- Roberto Succo – after killing his parents, he moved to France keeping his crimes count high along the way
Japan
- Tsutomu Miyazaki - aka "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer", and "Dracula", he killed 4 preschool-age Japanese girls and ate two of them
Kazakhstan
- Nikolai Dzhumagaliev - cannibal and rapist known as "Metal Fang"; thought to have killed nearly 50 individuals
Mexico
- Abdul Latif Sharif - Egyptian alleged to be responsible for dozens of murders in Ciudad Juárez
Netherlands
• Maria Swanenburg - killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s •
Pakistan
- Javed Iqbal - killed 100 boys
Poland
- Julian Koltun
- Zdzislaw Marchwicki
- Władysław Mazurkiewicz - killed up to 30 women
- Stanislaw Modzieliewski
- Lucian Staniak - dubbed "The Red Spider" and "The Red Ripper"; killed 6 to 20 women
- Leszek Pękalski - killed up to 17 women
South Africa
- Daisy de Melker - poisoner
- Moses Sithole - believed to have killed at least 38 young women
South Korea
- Yoo Young-Chul - killed and ate about 20 people, mainly rich elderly men and prostitutes
Soviet Union
- Andrei Chikatilo - AKA "The Rostov Ripper" and "Hannibal Lecter", a name given to him by the Russian public after the character in the popular American film Silence of the Lambs, which came out around the time of his arrest; killed 52 women and children throughout the many countries of the former Soviet Union before being arrested, convicted, and executed in 1994
Sweden
- Thomas Quick
- Ulf Olsson - Convicted of two murders, suspected for at least two more.
- Mattias Flink
- John Ausonius
UK
- Beverley Allitt - an Angel of Death; Paediatric nurse who killed four patients and injured at least nine others, convicted in 1991
- Robert Black - schoolgirl killer
- Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - the Moors Murderers
- George Chapman - real name Severin Antoniovich Klosowski, poisoned three women, but suspected of being Jack the Ripper
- John Childs - burned the bodies of his six victims, jailed 1980
- John Christie - the necrophile, who lived at 10 Rillington Place
- Mary Ann Cotton - British Victorian killer, said to have taken more than 20 victims
- Thomas Neill Cream - the Lambeth Poisoner, began his killing spree in the US then moved to London
- Bruce George Peter Lee - born Peter George Dinsdale, the prolific Hull arsonist
- Kenneth Erskine - the Stockwell Strangler, jailed in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners
- John George Haigh - the Acid Bath Murderer or Vampire of London
- Anthony Hardy - the Camden Ripper
- Colin Ireland - the Gay Slayer or Fairy Liquidator
- Michael Lupo - the Wolf Man, originally from Italy
- Patrick Mackay - confessed to killing 11 people
- Robert Mawdsley - serial killer of four; killed three in prison and dubbed Hannibal the Cannibal
- Peter Moore - businessman who killed men at random in Wales
- Dennis Nilsen - British serial killer of 15 (possibly 16)
- William Palmer - the Rugeley poisoner
- Mark Rowntree - 19 year old psychopath who killed 4 people at random
- Harold Shipman AKA "Dr Death" - British 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 - the "Brides in the Bath" killer
- John Straffen - child-killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner (some doubt exists over his conviction)
- Peter Sutcliffe - the Yorkshire Ripper
- Fred West and Rosemary West - the House of Horrors murderers in [[Gloucester
- Graham Frederick Young - the Teacup Poisoner, who killed three (1947-1990)
Northern Ireland (UK)
- Lenny Murphy - leader of the Shankill Butchers
- William Moore - second-in-command of the Shankill Butchers
Ukraine
- Anatoly Onoprienko - Ukrainian serial killer known as "the Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996
USA
- Charles Albright - killer of three; known for surgically removing the eyes of victims
- Richard Angelo - nurse.
- Joe Ball - killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas
- David Berkowitz - known as the Son of sam
- Bloody Benders - a family who killed guests of their inn in Labette County, Kansas, in 1872
- The Boston Strangler - allegedly Albert DeSalvo, though disputed
- William Bonin - with several accomplices, claimed the lives of twenty boys in California
- Jerry Brudos - killed at least 5 women and was sexually aroused by their feet
- Ted Bundy - law student who raped and murdered over 30 women in several states
- Richard Chase - The Vampire of Sacramento murdered six people in the '70s
- Dean Corll - committed the Houston Mass Murders with Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks
- Juan Corona - Mexican immigrant who killed 25 people in the space of just six weeks
- Charles Cullen - nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who killed as many as 40 patients through lethal injection
- Jeffrey Dahmer - Milwaukee cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment
- Westley Allan Dodd - child molester and killer of 3 young boys in Seattle, Washington; hanged on January 5, 1993
- Albert Fish - sadist and pedophile who cannibalised a 12-year-old girl
- John Wayne Gacy - the Killer Clown who kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
- Ed Gein - elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part The Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Kristen Gilbert - original Angel of Death serial killer, convicted of killing 4 by injection of epinephrine while working as a nurse
- Harvey Murray Glatman - Californian rapist and killer of three women; lured women to pose for "bondage photographs" and would rape and murder them.
- Belle Gunness - murder-for-profit killer who murdered her suitors and her own children.
- Donald Harvey - hospital orderly, confessed to more than 80 "mercy killings" with 37 confirmed killings
- Gary M. Heidnik - serial killer from the Philadelphia area
- "Wild Bill" Hickman - killed in the name of religion (many of his alleged exploits are disputed)
- Hillside Strangler - actually two men, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr.
- Philip Carl Jablonski, killed at least 4 women in Utah, carved the word "Jesus" into one
- H. H. Holmes (real name Herman Mudgett) - active 1890-1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
- Genene Jones - Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care
- Patrick Kearney - necrophile who butchered 28 men in California
- Edmund Kemper - started killing when he was aged fifteen
- Sante Kimes - grifter and murder-for-profit killer who, along with her son Kenneth Kimes, is believed to have killed upwards of 4 people
- Paul John Knowles - raped and murdered 18 people
- Randy Steven Kraft - murdered as many as 68 young men in California
- Leonard Lake and Charles Ng - ex-marines and survivalists who collected female slaves
- Derrick Todd Lee - aka the "Baton Rouge Serial Killer"
- Eddie Leonski - the Brownout Strangler
- Henry Lee Lucas - confessed to hundreds of murders, although most confessions were false
- John Allen Muhammed - Washington D.C. area sniper
- Herbert Mullin - schizophrenic who killed people to prevent earthquakes
- Earle Nelson - necrophiliac serial killer dubbed "Gorilla Man"
- Carl Panzram - murderer, rapist, arsonist
- Jesse Pomeroy - teenaged psychopath who killed two children
- Dorothea Puente - killed and robbed nine elderly people
- Dennis Rader - killed ten people over 20 years as the "BTK Killer"
- Richard Ramirez - the 'Night Stalker' who terrorized Los Angeles in 1984 and 1985
- Angel Maturino Resendiz - killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois
- Gary Ridgway - admitted to being The Green River Killer
- Joel Rifkin - murdered 17 women in the New York City and Long Island area
- John Edward Robinson - so-called 'Cyber Sex Killer' who lured victims through the internet
- Danny Rolling - pleaded guilty to butchering five students in Florida
- Efren Saldivar - respiratory therapist who definitely killed six patients, and possibly as many as 120
- Arthur Shawcross - the Genesee River Killer
- Gerard John Schaefer - policeman from Florida who killed up to thirty-four women and girls
- Cary Stayner - "Yosemite Murderer" who killed four women
- William Suff - "Riverside Killer" who killed up to 19 women near Riverside, California
- Ottis Toole - Henry Lee Lucas's accomplice; convicted of six murders in Florida
- Coral Eugene Watts - killed dozens of women in Texas and Michigan
- Wayne Williams - convicted of the Atlanta Child Murders (disputed)
- Randall Woodfield - the "Interstate 5|I-5 killer"
- Aileen Wuornos - rare female serial killer who shot dead six men in Florida
- Andrew Minotti - bus driver in cities in texas, involved in killing children
Unidentified serial killers
- The Axeman of New Orleans (USA)
- The Austin Axe Murderer, AKA the Servant Girl Annihilator (USA)
- Bible John (UK)
- The Cleveland Torso Murderer, AKA "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (USA)
- Jack the Ripper, the most famous serial killer of all, murdered prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 (UK)
- Jack the Stripper (UK)
- The Original Night Stalker (USA)
- The Zodiac Killer (USA)