A TIMELINE OF SERIAL KILLERS A M A N DA H O WA R D

Victims

Serial killer Where When Number Type Fate Fate

Lui Pengli China 144–121 BCE 100 indiscriminate violence exiled
Locusta Rome 54–69 unknown indiscriminate poisoned executed
Ethne the Dread Wales/Ireland ca. 200–225 unknown young males consumed unknown
Gilles De Rais France 1435–1440 80+ children violence hanged
Peter Stumpp (plus wife Germany 1564–1589 16 various various executed
and daughter)

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Christman Gniperdoliga Germany 1568–1581 964 various various executed
Gilles Garnier France 1572–1573 4+ executed
Elizabeth Bathory Hungary 1590–1610 600+ exiled
Giulia Tofana Rome ?–1633 600 poisoned executed
Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite France 1666–1676 50+ poisoned executed
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Catherine deShayes France ?–1680 1,000+

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Darya Saltykova Russia 1756–1762 100+ females various life
Micajah and Wiley Harpe USA 1790s unknown indiscriminate various Micajah killed; Wiley
executed
Anna Zwanziger Germany 1796–1810 4+ indiscriminate poisoned executed
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Samuel Green USA 1817–1822 unknown indiscriminate various executed
William Burke and William England 1827–1828 17 indiscriminate various Burke executed;
Hare Hare immunity
Delphine La Laurine USA 1833–1842 87+ Slaves various unknown
Helene Jegado France 1833–1851 23 indiscriminate poisoned executed
Servant Girl Annihilator USA 1884–1885 7 girls hacked unknown
Mary Cotton England 1851–1873 20 children and poisoned executed
husbands
Eusebius Pieydagnelle France 1870s 6+ various violence executed
Bender Family USA 1872–1873 unknown various various unknown
Maria Swanenburg Netherlands 1880–1883 27–90 indiscriminate poisoned life
Dr. Thomas Cream UK and USA 1881–1892 5 women various executed
Jack the Ripper England 1888 5+ women mutilated unknown
H. H. Holmes USA 1890–1894 8+ various various executed
Joseph Vacher France 1894–1897 11 various various executed
Henri Landru France 1914–1918 11 women and strangled and executed
one boy stabbed
Carl Panzram USA, Africa 1915–1929 22+ various various executed
Fritz Haarmann Germany 1919–1924 24 various various executed
Raya and Sakina Egypt 1920–1921 several women dismembered executed
Joe Ball USA 1936–1938 5–20 various fed to alligators suicide
John Christie England 1943–1953 6+ women and baby strangled executed
Dr. Marcel Petiot France 1944–1946 27+ various various executed

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Victims

Serial killer Where When Number Type Fate Fate

John Haigh England 1944–1949 6–9 women mainly various executed
Ed Gein USA 1944–1957 2+ women mainly various insane
Caroline Grills Australia 1947–1953 4 family thallium life
John Bodkin Adams England 1949–1956 160+
Henry Lee Lucas USA 1960–1983 189+ indiscriminate life
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley England 1963–1965 5+ children various life
Zodiac Killer USA 1963–1973? 5–37 indiscriminate various unknown
Gilbert Jordan Canada 1965–1988 8–10 women poisoned life
Fred and Rose West England 1967–1987 10+ females various Fred suicide; Rose
life
Wayne Boden Canada 1969–1971 3+ women raped and strangled life
Dead Corll USA 1970–1973 27 boys raped and strangled killed by accomplice
Arthur Shawcross USA 1972–1990 14 various various life
John Gacy USA 1972–1978 33+ boys raped and strangled executed
Ted Bundy USA 1973–1978 26+ women various executed
Peter Sutcliffe England 1975–1980 13 women bludgeoned life
Harold “Fred” Shipman England 1975–1998 218+ elderly patients overdosed suicide
Jack Unterweger International 1976–1992 10–11 prostitutes raped and strangled life
David Berkowitz USA 1976–1977 6 young couples shot life
(Son of Sam)

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Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo USA 1977–1978 10+ women strangled life
Buono (Hillside Strangler)
Richard Chase USA 1977–1978 6 women various executed (suicide)
Pedro Lopez Colombia, Ecuador, 1978–1980 300+ Young girls raped and strangled life
Peru
Andrei Chikatilo Soviet Union 1978–1990 53 indiscriminate various executed
Jeffrey Dahmer USA 1978–1990 17 males dismembered life
Leonard Lake and USA 1980–1985 12–25 various various Lake suicide; Ng
Charles Ng executed
Tylenol Killer USA 1982 7 indiscriminate poisoned unknown
Bobby Joe Long USA 1984 10+ women various executed
Richard Ramirez (Night USA 1984–1985 14 various various executed
Stalker)
John Glover Australia 1988–1991 6 elderly women strangled, life
bludgeoned
Aileen Wuornos USA 1989–1990 7 men shot executed
Ivan Milat Australia 1989–1994 7 hitchhikers shot and stabbed life
Anatoly Onoprienko Ukraine 1989–1996 59 indiscriminate various life
Alexander Pichushkin Russia 1992–2006 48–63 indiscriminate various
Marc Dutroux Belgium 1995–1996 4 mostly young various life
girls
Robert Pickton Canada 1997–2001 6–52 women various life
John Muhammad and Lee USA 2002 16 indiscriminate shot Muhammad
Malvo (Washington Sniper) executed; Malvo life

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