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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This list does not include serial killers active only before the year 1900.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for
completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, in two or more
separate events over a period of time, for primarily psychological reasons. [1][2] There are
gaps of time between the killings, which may range from a few days to months, or many
years.[2]
This list shows all known serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number
of victims, then possible victims, then date. For those from previous centuries, see List
of serial killers before 1900. In many cases, the exact number of victims assigned to a
serial killer is not known, and even if that person is convicted of a few, there can be the
possibility that they killed many more.
Organization and ranking of serial killings is made difficult by the complex nature of
serial killers and incomplete knowledge of the full extent of many killers' crimes. To
address this, multiple categories have been provided in order to more accurately
describe the nature of certain serial murders. This is not a reflection of an individual's
overall rank, which may or may not vary depending on personal opinion concerning the
nature and circumstances of their crimes. The fourth column in the table states the
number of victims definitely assigned to that particular serial killer, and thus the table is
in order of that figure. The fifth column states the number of possible victims the killer
could have murdered. Some of these crimes are unsolved, but are included because
they are the work of a serial killer, despite nobody being caught.
This list does not include mass murderers, spree killers, war criminals, members
of democidal governments, or major political figures, such as Adolf Hitler, Francisco
Franco, Hideki Tojo, Suharto, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, or Pol Pot.

Serial killers with the highest known victim count

The most prolific modern serial killer is arguably doctor Harold Shipman, with 218
probable murders and possibly as many as 250 (see "Medical professionals", below).
However, he was actually convicted of a sample of 15 murders. Excluding these
"Medical professionals and pseudo-medical professionals", with their ability to kill simply
and in plain sight, and Serial killer groups and couples (below), this list is a compilation
of modern serial killers currently with the highest verifiable murder count.

Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

Child-murderer, torture-killer, and

rapist known as "La Bestia" ("The
Beast"). Garavito confessed to
killing 140 boys between six and
sixteen years old, from October
1992 to April 1999 in Colombia
and neighboring countries.[3] He is
 Colombia
Luis 1992– suspected of murdering over 300
 Ecuador[3] 193 193–300+
Garavito 1999[3] victims, mostly street children.
 Venezuela[3] Garavito was originally sentenced
to 1,853 years in prison, but this
was later reduced to 22 years, after
he led police to many of the bodies
of his victims.[4][5] He is scheduled
to become eligible for parole in
2023.[6]

Pedro  Colombia 1969– 110 300+ Child-murderer and rapist, known

López  Peru 1980 as "The Monster of the Andes".
 Ecuador López targeted young girls,
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

between the ages of eight and

twelve. Arrested in 1980 and
convicted in 1983 of killing three
young girls, but claimed to have
killed hundreds. Despite being
believed to be one of the most
prolific serial killers of the
twentieth century, he was released
in the late 1990s.[7]

Child-murderer and rapist, known

as "Kukri", Iqbal murdered exactly
100 street children by strangling
them and covering up his crimes
by dissolving the bodies with acid.
He was arrested in December 1999
after sending a letter to a
newspaper, and was set to be
1998– executed in the manner described
Javed Iqbal  Pakistan 100 100
1999 by the judge who stated, "You will
be strangled to death in front of the
parents whose children you killed,
Your body will then be cut into
100 pieces and put in acid, the
same way you killed the
children."[8] However, he died in
custody before he could be
executed.[9]

Serial rapist-killer nicknamed

"The Werewolf", who was active
for two decades
in Angarsk, Irkutsk and Vladivost
ok. After being convicted of 22
Mikhail 1992– murders in 2015, he confessed to
 Russia 78 83+
Popkov 2010 an additional 59 murders, of which
he was convicted of 56 in 2018.[10]
[11]
 In July 2020, Popkov confessed
to more killings, bringing the total
number of admitted victims to 83.
[12]
 He was sentenced to life.
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

Child and woman murderer,

believed to have possibly raped
and killed over 150 victims,
primarily targeting female
children, as they were more likely
to be virgins. Confessed to killing
72 victims. He strangled young
Daniel  Colombia girls in Colombia and was
1974– arrested, but he escaped from
Camargo  Ecuador 72 180[13]
1986 prison, and started killing in
Barbosa  Brazil (alleged)[13] Ecuador. He was rearrested in
1986, and was allegedly
incarcerated in the same
Ecuadorian prison as 300+ serial
killer Pedro López.[citation
needed]
 Camargo was killed in jail by
the nephew of one of his victims.[13]
[14]

Rodrigues Filho claimed to have

killed over 100 victims, 47 of them
inmates. He also killed his father
(who had killed his mother) and
ate a piece of his heart. He killed
Pedro his first two victims at the age of
1967–
Rodrigues  Brazil 71 100+ 14. He was first arrested in 1973;
2003
Filho he was convicted and sentenced to
128 years, but the maximum one
can serve in Brazil is 30 years.
[15]
 He was released in 2018. He
was murdered by two men in
2023.

Shankariya was an Indian serial

killer who used a hammer to kill
over 70 men and women between
Kampatima
1977– 1978 and 1979. He was hanged in
r  India 70 70+
1978 1979; his last words were, "I have
Shankariya
murdered in vain", he declared.
"Nobody should become like
me."[16][17][18][19]
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

Known as the "Monster Killer".

Yang would enter victims' homes
Yang 1999– at night and kill using axes, meat
 China 67 67
Xinhai 2003 cleavers, hammers, and shovels.
He was executed by gunshot in
2004.[20]

Little was convicted of killing

three women, but later
investigations linked 31 other
murders to him. He is now thought
to be America's most prolific serial
Samuel 1970– killer. He claimed he killed as
 United States 60 93
Little 2005 many as 93 victims total, three
above his initial confession of 90;
the FBI later confirmed a total of
60 murders linked to Little. The
investigations into his crimes are
ongoing.[21][22]

Unek was a police constable who

murdered 21 people with an axe in
less than two hours before fleeing.
Three years later, Unek, armed
William  Belgian Congo 1954–
57 57 with rifle and axe, murdered 36
Unek  Tanganyika 1957
more people in the village of
Malampaka before being mortally
wounded by police with a smoke
bomb that caught fire.[23]

Bijeh raped and killed at least 54

male children and teenagers. On
November 27, 2004, he was
Mohammed 2002– sentenced to be executed. Bijeh
 Iran 54 54
Bijeh 2004 said that if he was not arrested, he
would kill 100 children. He was
executed after being lashed in
front of a crowd in 2005.
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

Known as "The Butcher

of Rostov", "The Red Ripper" or
"The Rostov Ripper". Chikatilo
was convicted of the murder of 53
Andrei 1978–
 Soviet Union 53 56 women and children between 1978
Chikatilo 1990
and 1990. One man was
previously convicted and executed
for his first murder. Chikatilo was
executed by gunshot in 1994.[24]

Known as "The Beast of Ukraine",

"The Terminator", and "Citizen
O". Onoprienko was convicted of
the murders of nine people in
1989, and 43 people in 1995–
 Soviet Union 1996. He travelled throughout
Anatoly 1989–
52 52+ Europe illegally from 1990 to
Onoprienko  Ukraine 1996
1995; whether he killed during this
time is unknown. He was
sentenced to death, and was later
commuted to imprisonment for
life. He died from heart failure in
2013.[24]

Known as "Cabo Bruno"; de

Oliveira was a former police
Florisvaldo 1982– officer and vigilante who
 Brazil 50 50+
de Oliveira 1983 murdered criminals in the outskirts
of São Paulo. He was murdered by
unknown assailants in 2012.[25]

Gary  United States 1982– 49 71–90+ Ridgway was a truck painter who
Ridgway 2000 confessed to killing 71 women. He
was also known as The "Green
River Killer". He almost
exclusively targeted sex
workers from Seattle. Ridgway
was suspected of killing over 90
victims; he confessed to 71, and
was convicted of 49.[26] He was
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

sentenced to life without parole.[27]

Pichushkin was also known as the

"Chessboard Killer". He was
convicted of murdering 49 victims,
and suspected of killing 60. He
claimed to have murdered 62
Alexander 1992–
 Russia 49 60 people, because he did not know
Pichushkin 2006
that two of his victims had
survived; he stated that his goal
was becoming Russia's most
prolific serial killer.[28] He was
sentenced to life imprisonment.

Wang killed 45 and raped 10 from

Wang 1995–
 China 45 60+ 1995 to 2003.[29] He was executed
Qiang 2003
by firing squad in 2005.

Suradji was convicted of

strangling at least 42 women and
Ahmad 1986– girls in a series of ritual slayings
 Indonesia 42 42
Suradji 1997 he believed would give him
magical powers. He was executed
by firing squad in 2008.[30]

In the late 1960s, Raghav went on

a violent rampage in Mumbai,
Raman 1965– India. He bludgeoned 41 people to
 India 41 41
Raghav 1968 death inside their huts while they
slept. He died of kidney failure in
1995.

Moses  South Africa 1994– 38 76 Known as South Africa's Ted

Sithole 1995 Bundy. Sithole preyed on
unemployed women, posing as a
businessman and luring his victims
with the prospects of a job, before
leading them to an isolated place,
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

where he raped, tortured, and

murdered them. He was sentenced
to 2,410 years imprisonment, with
a non-parole period of 930 years.[31]

After being released from prison in

Omar 2013 for his involvement in the
Abdul deaths of 23 people during a
2008–
Razeq  Egypt 38 38 domestic dispute, he opened fire in
2013
Abdullah his village with a rifle, killing 15
Rifai people before being shot dead by
other villagers.[32]

A former Ukrainian police

criminal investigator, Tkach
suffocated girls aged between
 Soviet Union eight and eighteen, and performed
Serhiy 1984–
37 100+ sexual acts on their bodies after
Tkach  Ukraine 2005
they were dead. He claimed to
have killed 100. He was sentenced
to life imprisonment, and died
from heart failure in 2018.[33]

Mikhasevich killed women by

strangling them. Besides killing,
Gennady he also robbed his victims of
1971–
Mikhasevic  Soviet Union 36 43–55+ money and valuable items (that he
1985
h would sometimes give to his wife
as a gift). He was executed by
firing squad in 1987.[34]

Known as "Marrakesh Arch-
Hadj 1906 Killer"; Mesfewi drugged,
Mohammed  Morocco and 36 36+ mutilated and murdered women;
Mesfewi earlier he was executed
by immurement (walling) in 1906.

Vera  Kingdom of 1920– 35 ~35 Romanian serial killer nicknamed,

 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

"The Black Widow". Renczi was

convicted of killing 35 men
through arsenic poisoning, but
confessed to only killing 32
victims. Renczi is one of the
world's most prolific female serial
Romania killers. However, there is very
 Yugoslavia little information about Renczi and
Renczi 1930
 Hungary (allege her crimes, because personal
d) information (criminal history,
academic records, etc.) were not
cataloged as well as they are
today, making some criminologists
believe she was a figure of
Romanian folklore, rather than an
actual person.[35]

Hernández Leyva confessed to 100

murders and six kidnappings at the
time of his arrest in 1999 (he had
been arrested previously in 1982
and 1986, the second time for
murder, but escaped from prison),
but later retracted, and claimed
that he had been beaten by the
police and his family threatened in
Fernando
1982– order to force him to confess. He
Hernández  Mexico 33 137
1999 was accused of as many as 137
Leyva
murders in five southern Mexican
states, was convicted of 33
murders, and was sentenced to 50
years in prison. He tried
unsuccessfully to commit suicide
in prison. If his claim of 100+
victims were true, then Leyva
would be Mexico's most prolific
documented serial killer.[36]

John  United States 1972– 33 34-45+ Gacy is known to have murdered a

Wayne 1978 minimum of 33 teenage boys and
Gacy young men between 1972 and
1978, 26 of whom he buried in
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

the crawl space of
his Chicago home. He was known
as the "Killer Clown", due to the
fact he often entertained children
at social events dressed in a self
devised clown costume. Executed
by lethal injection in 1994.[37]

Known as "Asghar the Murderer".

 Ottoman Empire
Ali Asghar 1907– Borujerdi killed 33 young adults in
 Iraq 33 33
Borujerdi 1934 Iraq and Iran. He was executed by
 Iran
hanging in 1934.[38]

Known as "The Wolf of Moscow";

Vasili 1921– Komaroff was a horse trader who
 Soviet Union 33 33
Komaroff 1923 killed 33 men. He was executed by
firing squad in 1923.

Mansour was a gang leader known

as "al-Tourbini" ("The Express
Train"). He had raped and tortured
homeless children, mostly boys
aged 10 to 14 years old, aboard the
Ramadan trains
Abdel 1999– between Cairo, Alexandria, Qalyu
 Egypt 32 32+
Rehim 2006 bia, and Beni Sueif. The victims
Mansour were usually thrown off the
moving train when they were dead
or in agony; other times, they were
thrown into the Nile or buried
alive. Mansour was executed in
2010.[39]

Serial killers with 15 to 30 proven victims

This part of the list contains all serial killers with 15 to 30 proven victims who acted
alone and were neither medical professionals nor contract killers.
 Yea Prov Possi
rs en ble
Name Country Notes
acti victi victi
ve ms ms

Killed and cannibalized poor travelers

and homeless vagrants. Kept a ledger
recording his murders with at least 31
names in it (including Vincenz Olivier,
his only surviving victim), thus
1900–
Karl Denke  Germany 30 42+ confirming at least 30 victims. But due
1924
to the massive amount of human remains
found in his apartment, his kill count is
suspected by many to exceed 42 victims.
Killed himself by hanging in his holding
cell before he could be tried.[40]

Francisco Serial killer of children, who also

das Chagas 1989– sexually abused and mutilated children
 Brazil 30 42
Rodrigues 2003 in Maranhão and Pará; sentenced to 217
de Brito years imprisonment.[41]

Unidentified serial killer(s) who

Monster of
1963– kidnapped, tortured, raped, and
the  Colombia 30 38
1970s murdered at least 30 boys in Cali,
Mangones
Colombia.

Known as "The Lusaka Strangler"; A

soldier who raped and murdered women
Milton and girls in Lusaka. While awaiting trial,
 Zambia 1980 30 31
Sipalo he jumped off of the roof of the police
station he was being interrogated at,
killing himself.[42]

Luis
Killed motorists in various
Gregorio 2010–
 Colombia 30 30 municipalities before his 2012 capture.
Ramírez 2013 [43]
 Was sentenced to 34 years in prison.
Maestre

David Sexually assaulted women he befriended

2000–
Thabo  Swaziland 28 45 in forests, stabbing or strangling them
2001
Simelane afterward; sentenced to death.[44]
 Yea Prov Possi
rs en ble
Name Country Notes
acti victi victi
ve ms ms

Robbed 22 stores in several Chinese

1993–
Zhang Jun  China 28 28 provinces, killing 28 people in the
2000
process. Executed in 2001.[45]

Known as
"Mother Rasputin"; abbess believed to
have murdered wealthy women and
children who came into her abbess. The
true number of her victims is a matter of
debate, but she was found guilty of 177
Mariam 1939–
 Greece 27 177+ murders—150 through negligence
Soulakiotis 1951
(fraudulently claiming to offer
free tuberculosis treatment when the
'treatment' only consisted of abiding in
her high altitude convent) and 27
through starvation. Died in prison in
1954.[46][47]

Known as the "Wemmer Pan Killer" and

"Hammer Killer". He killed his victims
with different instruments such as guns,
rocks, a knife, and a hammer.
Authorities attributed the murders to two
serial killers because of the inconsistent
Cedric 1996–
 South Africa 27 35+ modus operandi. In some cases he killed
Maake 1997
his victims with a rock, in others he shot
them, and in others he murdered tailors
with a hammer. Maake was arrested
after Moses Sithole was found guilty of
38 killings and sentenced to 1,340 years
in prison.[48]

Volga 2011– Murdered elderly women in several

 Russia 26 32
Maniac 2012 Russian regions.[49]

Bruce  United 1973– 26 26 Epileptic arsonist who killed people in

George Kingdom 1979 the city of Hull; sentenced to life
Peter Lee imprisonment, but was later
 Yea Prov Possi
rs en ble
Name Country Notes
acti victi victi
ve ms ms

institutionalized.[50]

12 homeless people were murdered in

their sleep in Bombay between 1985 and
1987, and 13 in Calcutta in 1989—in all
The 1985– cases, by dropping a large rock over
 India 25 25+
Stoneman 1989 their head (an additional victim escaped,
but could not identify the attacker). No
one was ever charged with any of the
murders.[51]

Corona was convicted of murdering

ranch laborers and burying them in
Juan
 United States 1971 25 25+ orchards. He was sentenced to 25 terms
Corona
life imprisonment.[52] Died from natural
causes in 2019.

Also known as the Butcher

of Hanover and the Vampire of
Hanover, because of his preferred
method of killing by biting through his
victim's throat, sometimes while
Fritz 1918– sodomizing them. He would then dump
 Germany 24 27+
Haarmann 1924 the bodies in the nearby river Leine.
Believed to have been responsible for
the murder of 27 boys and young men,
he was convicted, found guilty of 24
murders and executed by guillotine in
1925.[53]

Béla Kiss  Austria- 1912– 24 24+ Evaded arrest and conviction after the
Hungary 1916 discovery of 24 bodies hidden in large
metal drums on his property in 1916. At
that time he was serving in the Austro-
Hungarian Army, and deserted when the
military was notified of the murders by
civilian authorities. His final
whereabouts and fate are unknown, as is
 Yea Prov Possi
rs en ble
Name Country Notes
acti victi victi
ve ms ms

his final victim count.[54]

Killed mainly women he considered

Majid
unfaithful to their husbands, sometimes
Salek 1981–
 Iran 24 24 the children accompanying them too;
Mohamma 1985
killed himself before he could be
di
sentenced.[55]

 France Known as the "Pillow Killer"; killed and

robbed old women in
 Germany (susp
Yvan 1989– France's Alsace region, but also
ected) 23 150
Keller 2006 confessed to up to 150 murders,
 Switzerland (sus including in Germany and Switzerland;
pected) killed himself before trial.[56]

Louisianian serial killer, known locally

as the Bayou Strangler and murdered
Ronald 1997– victims in the Terrebonne
 United States 23 23+
Dominique 2006 Parish, Lafourche Parish, Iberville
Parish and Jefferson Parish. Sentenced
to eight life terms.[57]

Known as "Niño del Terror"; youth gang

Juan leader who murdered mostly taxi drivers
1991–
Fernando  Ecuador 23 23 and homosexuals in Quito; murdered on
1992
Hermosa his 20th birthday by unknown assailants.
[58]

Necrophiliac who primarily
targeted boarding house landladies on
the US West Coast during 1926; he was
 United States also known as "Gorilla Killer" or "the
Earle 1926–
22 25 Dark Strangler". Captured after two
Nelson  Canada 1927
murders in a small (now ghost) town in
southern Manitoba. Found guilty,
hanged by Canadian authorities in
January 1928.[59]
 Yea Prov Possi
rs en ble
Name Country Notes
acti victi victi
ve ms ms

Known as the "Necrophile Rebel"; killed

Mikhail  Soviet Union his victims with blows from heavy
1977–
Novosyolo  Russia 22 22 objects, then had sexual intercourse with
1995
v  Tajikistan their corpses; sentenced to civil
commitment.[60]

Colombian child rapist and serial killer.

Known as "El Monstruo de los
Manuel
1999– Cañaduzales" (The Monster of the Cane
Octavio  Colombia 21 50+
2003 Fields). He confessed to killing 21
Bermúdez
children in remote areas of Colombia.
[61]
 Sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Would pick up young male hitch-hikers

or young men from gay bars
Patrick 1965–
 United States 21 43+ near Redondo Beach, California, and kill
Kearney 1977
them.[62] Sentenced to imprisonment for
life.

Bonin and three accomplices are known

to have murdered a minimum of 21
youths aged between 12 and 19 in and
around Los Angeles. As the majority of
William 1979– his victims were discarded alongside
 United States 21 36+
Bonin 1980 various southern California freeways,
Bonin became known as the Freeway
Killer. Convicted of 14 of the freeway
murders, he was executed by lethal
injection in 1996.[63]

Romanian man who lured victims and

then murdered them with an axe. He was
arrested in 1935 after a dog found a dead
Vasile 1917–
 Romania 21 26+ body in his house. He confessed to
Tcaciuc 1935
having committed at least 26 murders.
He was shot dead by a policeman while
trying to escape from prison.[64]
 Yea Prov Possi
rs en ble
Name Country Notes
acti victi victi
ve ms ms

Used a hammer to murder mostly older

victims, until his focus shifted to the
decapitation and mutilation of escorts
Yoo 2003–
 South Korea 21 26 after being dumped by a girlfriend who
Young-chul 2004
worked in that profession.[65] Was
sentenced to death and currently
incarcerated.[66][67]

Known as "El Chaquero"; the first

Francisco captured serial killer in Mexico, who
1880–
Guerrero  Mexico 21 21 killed prostitutes in Mexico City; died in
1908
Pérez 1910 from cerebral thromboembolism
and another, unspecified cause.[68]

Bundy was an American serial killer

known for his charisma and good looks.
He officially confessed to 30 homicides,
but had confessed to killing 35–36
women in the past, and some estimates
1974– 35– run upwards of 100 or more. He was
Ted Bundy  United States 20
1978 100+ infamous for escaping from prison twice
and murdering multiple victims in one
day; sometimes abducting women from
the same location within hours of one
another.[69] He was executed by electric
chair in 1989.[70][71]

Between 2005 and 2006, a domestic

servant of Indian businessman Moninder
Singh Pandher, Surinder Koli,
Surinder 2005–
 India 19 30+ kidnapped, raped, murdered, and
Koli 2006
dismembered 19 people, mostly
children. Convicted and sentenced to
life.[72]

Larry Eyler  United States 1982– 19 23+ Known as "The Interstate Killer";
1984 sentenced to death for the 1984 murder
and dismemberment of 15-year-old
Daniel Bridges. He confessed to other
 Yea Prov Possi
rs en ble
Name Country Notes
acti victi victi
ve ms ms

homicides of young men and boys in

five separate states. Died
of AIDS complications in 1994.[73]

Unidentified serial killer who, on rainy

nights, picked up prostitutes and
Cape Town
1992– domestic workers in his vehicle,
Prostitute  South Africa 19 20
1996 strangled them in parking lots, and
Killer
dumped their bodies in rural, preselected
spots.[74]

("The Psychopath") Unidentified serial

killer who killed 19 people with an M3
"El 1986–
 Costa Rica 19 19+ submachine gun in three Costa Rican
Psicópata" 1996
towns, always south of the Florencio del
Castillo Highway.[75]

Sergei Known as the Balashikha Ripper, he was

 Soviet Union 1988– convicted for the murders of at least 19
Ryakhovsk 19 19+
 Russia 1993 victims. Died from tuberculosis in 2005.
y [76]

Known as the "Novosibirsk Maniac";

killed prostitutes in Novosibirsk; despite
Yevgeny 1998– extensive police search and the capture
 Russia 19 19+
Chuplinsky 2006 of another serial killer, he was only
arrested in 2016; sentenced to life
imprisonment.[77]

Accused of killing at least 19 women.

Charged with 13 murders, he escaped
during a trial transport. Killed eight
M. 2008– more people in two months before he
 India 19 19+
Jaishankar 2011 was recaptured. Sentenced to 27 years.
Killed himself by slashing his wrists
with a shaving blade in prison on 27
February 2018.[78]
 Yea Prov Possi
rs en ble
Name Country Notes
acti victi victi
ve ms ms

Army deserter who committed 30

Ansis 1920– robberies and killed 19 people; one of
 Latvia 19 19
Kaupēns 1926 the most infamous Latvian criminals;
executed by hanging in 1927.[79]

Known as the "Krasnoyarsk Beast";

committed 70 crimes around the
Vadim 1992– Krasnoyarsk area, including 19 murders
 Russia 19 19
Ershov 1995 and eight attempted murders; sentenced
to death, commuted to life
imprisonment.[80]

Known as "The Saloon Killer"; robber

Velaphi
who murdered people around
Ndlangama  South Africa 1998 19 19
Mpumalanga in his crime spree;
ndla
sentenced to 137 years imprisonment.[81]

Known as "The Barnaul Chikatilo";

Valery 2000–
 Russia 19 19 homeless man who killed other
Kopytov 2004
homeless people in Altai Krai.[82]

Known as "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5

Randall 1979– Bandit." Suspected of as many as 44
 United States 18 44
Woodfield 1981 murders.[83] Sentenced to imprisonment
for life.

Killed in various cities of Turkey. 18

Yavuz 1994– murders proven and accused of more
 Turkey 18 40
Yapıcıoğlu 2002 than 40 by eyewitnesses and relatives.
[84]
 Was sentenced to 74 years in prison.

Killed 18 people in various states in

Paul John 1974. Claimed 35 murders. Known as
 United States 1974 18 35+
Knowles the "Casanova Killer"; shot dead by FBI
agents.[85]
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Known as "The monster of

Thierry 1984– Montmartre". Killed and robbed elderly
 France 18 21
Paulin 1987 women. Died of AIDS in 1989 in prison
before trial.[86]

Known as "The Quarry Murderer";

bludgeoned, beat, strangled, and stabbed
Richard 2002–
 South Africa 18 19 16 women and two unborn children to
Nyauza 2006
death and left their bodies in or around a
quarry. Given 16 life sentences.[87]

Umesh 1996– Confessed to 18 rapes and murders.

 India 18 18+
Reddy 2002 Sentenced to death.[88]

Known as "Donnybrook Serial Killer"

Christopher murdered 18 people
1994–
Mhlengwa  South Africa 18 18+ in Donnybrook, KwaZulu Natal from
1995
Zikode 1994 to 1995.[89] Was given 140 years (5
life sentences).

Killed 18 people in three months,

Asande including a family of four; given 19 life
 South Africa 2001 18 18
Baninzi sentences and 189 years of
imprisonment.[90]

17 mysterious murders of women nearby

area in the Rathnapura district of Sri
Kotakethan 2008– Lanka. (2007 to 2015) One middle age
 Sri Lanka 18 18+
a murders 2015 man suspect was arrested in 2015 and
his DNA matched with six murders.
Nine other cases remain unsolved.[91][92]

Richard  United States 1967– 17 85–100 Killer operating in New York and New
Cottingham 1980 Jersey who often targeted prostitutes and
utilized mutilation as well as
dismemberment in his killings. Known
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as the "Torso Killer", with 17 confirmed

homicide victims[93] including nine
convictions and a further eight official
confessions. He has made
unsubstantiated claims of up to a
hundred victims.[94]

Lured and murdered 17 teenage boys,

Huang 2001– although he is suspected of 25 murders
 China 17 25
Yong 2003 between September 2001 and 2003.
[95]
 Executed by firing squad in 2003.

Pedro Known as "El Apóstol de la Muerte"

Pablo 2005– ("The Apostle of Death"). Convicted of
 Peru 17 25
Nakada 2006 17 murders and claimed 25. Sentenced
Ludeña to 35 years in prison.[96]

Sexually assaulted and then murdered

Darbara children of non-Punjabi immigrants;
 India 2004 17 23
Singh died in 2018 from an illness while
serving a life sentence.[97]

Prostitutes he kidnapped were released

into the Alaskan wilderness for him to
hunt down like animals. Based on
Robert 1971– discovered remains, police suspect him
 United States 17 21
Hansen 1983 of six murders in addition to the 17 for
which he was convicted. Sentenced to
461 years plus life. Died from
unspecified health problems in 2014.[98]

Killed people because they were

Sergei 1992–
 Ukraine 17 19 "mocking" him; sentenced to life
Dovzhenko 2002
imprisonment.[99]

Donato  Italy 1997– 17 17 Burglar who murdered 17 people,

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mainly prostitutes, between 1997 and

1998, during a six-month period. Known
Bilancia 1998 as the "Prostitutes Killer" and the
"Liguria Monster". Sentenced to
imprisonment for life.[100]

Irina Known as "Satan in a skirt". Killed 17

2002–
Gaidamach  Russia 17 17 elderly women between 2002 and 2010.
2010
uk Sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Convicted of 16 counts of murder but

Randy
1971– left a cryptic "score card" referring to at
Steven  United States 16 67
1983 least 65 victims. May have had an
Kraft
accomplice.[101] Sentenced to death.

late Mexican female wrestler who

Juana
 Mexico 1990s 16 49 bludgeoned or strangled elderly women
Barraza
–2006 to rob them. Sentenced to 759 years.

Known as the Ogre or Beast

of Ardennes. He was caught after a
Michel  France 1987–
16 19 failed kidnapping in 2003.[102] Sentenced
Fourniret  Belgium 2001
to life and died of respiratory problems
while in prison in 2021.

Nicknamed the Phoenix Strangler after

Sipho the area in which he committed his
1996–
Agmatir  South Africa 16 19 crimes; he raped and strangled 19
1997
Thwala women; arrested, he was found guilty of
16 murders and sentenced to life.[103]

Saeed  Iran 2000– 16 19 Confessed to luring 16 prostitutes to his

Hanaei 2001 home and killing them in an attempt to
"cleanse" the city of Mashhad. His
actions were dubbed "The Spider
Murders". Executed by hanging in 2002.
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[104]

Convicted of murdering 16 women

between 2003 and 2013 during three
Maina 2003–
 India 16 18 separate murder sprees. He was released
Ramulu 2020
from prison in 2020, and allegedly
murdered two more women.[105]

Dahmer ate some of his victims and kept

Jeffrey 1978– their body parts in his freezer. Was
 United States 16 17
Dahmer 1991 sentenced to life imprisonment;
murdered in prison in 1994.

Nicknamed El Mataviejas (The Old

Lady Killer), he raped and killed at least
16 elderly women, aged from 61 to 93
years old, in and
around Santander, Cantabria. He went
unrecognized for over a year because he
moved his victims into their beds after
José
they were killed; no autopsies were
Antonio 1987–
 Spain 16 16+ made and the deaths were attributed to
Rodríguez 1988
natural causes. He also took trophies
Vega
from his victims that he held in a
particular room of his home; about 10
percent of these trophies remained
unclaimed, implying the existence of
other victims.[106] He was stabbed to
death by two inmates while incarcerated
in 2002.

Killed 16 people in California, Nevada,

Carroll 1948–
 United States 16 16 and Texas.[107] Executed by lethal
Cole 1980
injection in 1985.

Elias  South Africa 1950s 16 16 Nicknamed Panga man for his use of

Xitavhudzi a machete (locally known as a "panga").
He stabbed and robbed his victims
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between 1953 and 1959; arrested, he

was executed by hanging in 1960.[108]

A habitual criminal, confessed to the

rape and murder of over 20 young and
Charles adolescent males. Escaped from prison
1969–
Ray  United States 16 16 several times and was declared a
1982
Hatcher "manipulative institutionalized sociopath
".[109] Sentenced to life; killed himself by
hanging himself in prison in 1984.

Known as the "Ust-

Yuri 1974– Kamenogorsk Maniac"; Kazakhstani
 Soviet Union 16 16 rapist who killed girls and women who
Ivanov 1987
spoke negatively of men; executed 1987.
[110]

Killed prostitutes in the "Skid Row" area

of E. Sprague Avenue
Robert Lee 1975–
 United States 16 16 in Spokane, Washington. Sentenced to
Yates 1998
408 years in prison and two death
sentences.[111]

Known as "The Strangler"; raped and

Vladimir 2003– strangle women in Moscow, also killing
 Russia 16 16
Mirgorod 2004 one of the victims' son; sentenced to life
imprisonment.[112]

Known as the "Cyclist killer"; murdered

Farid 2004–
 Iran 16 16 15 women and 1 boy. Executed by
Baghlani 2008
hanging on November 13, 2010.[113]

Pleaded guilty to and convicted of 16

Jimmy murders and 19 rapes committed over
 South Africa 2005 16 16
Maketta the nine-month period of April to
December 2005.[114]
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Raped and strangled women in

Jack 2008– the Donnybrook area. Convicted of 16
 South Africa 16 16
Mogale 2009 murders and 19 rapes, nine kidnappings,
robbery and assault.[115]

Known as "The Meanest Man in

America", Gaskins was convicted of
nine murders committed in South
Carolina between 1973 and 1975. He
Donald was suspected of 31 murders. Two
1953–
Henry  United States 15 100+ victims had been murdered while
1982
Gaskins Gaskins had been incarcerated—one
while Gaskins had been on death row.
Later claimed on death row that he had
murdered between 100 and 110 victims.
Executed by electric chair in 1991.

Ravinder 2008– Serial rapist who killed children of poor

 India 15 30+
Kumar 2015 families.[116]

Unidentified serial killer(s) who killed at

Atlanta
 United States 1911 15 21 least 15 Atlanta women in 1911,
Ripper
possibly as many as 21 in total.[117]

Known as the "Railroad Killer" because

his killings were committed near the
railroad tracks he used to traverse the
country. He was charged with and/or
confessed to 15 murders occurring from
Ángel  United States 1986– 1986 to 1999
Maturino 15 18
 Mexico 1999 in Texas, Florida, Illinois, Georgia,
Reséndiz
and Kentucky. He was also suspected in
a 1997 California murder case and
claimed two additional killings he
refused to elaborate on. Executed by
lethal injection in 2006.[118]

Chester  United States 1987– 15 15+ Convicted of killing 15 people in Los

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Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s.

Turner 1998
Sentenced to death.[119]

Known as the "One-Armed Bandit";

Alexander 1933– killed people in the forest near the
 Soviet Union 15 15
Labutkin 1935 Prigorodny settlement using a revolver;
executed 1935.[120]

Stalked his victims, then would beat and

Florencio bite them while they were asleep. Died
 Argentina 1950s 15 15
Fernández from natural causes a few years after his
1960 arrest.

Killed his victims with an axe or a knife

Elifasi 1953–
 South Africa 15 15 in the 1950s; executed by hanging in
Msomi 1956
1956.[121]

Killed five prostitutes; imprisoned and

Maurizio 1978–
 Italy 15 15 released, after which he killed 10 more;
Minghella 2001
sentenced to life imprisonment.[122]

Robber who killed 15 people while

Bai 1983–
 China 15 15 robbing several police stations; executed
Baoshan 1997
by gunshot in 1998.

Lee Choon-  South Korea 1986– 15 15 Also known as the Hwaseong serial
jae 1994 murders. Most of the victims were
bound, gagged, and strangled to death
with their own clothes. It sparked the
largest criminal case in South Korea
with two million officers mobilized and
over 21,000 suspects investigated.[123] A
suspect was identified in 2019, but he
could not be prosecuted due to the
statute of limitations. He later confessed
to killing 15 people, in addition to the
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murder of his sister-in-law.

Serial killers with 5 to 14 proven victims

This part of the list contains all serial killers with five to fourteen proven victims who
acted alone and were neither medical professionals nor contract killers.

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Believed to have killed over 80 women in

multiple states, in 1982 Watts accepted a
plea bargain in Texas in which he would
plead guilty to a lesser charge and be
granted immunity from murder charges in
exchange for providing information on
his victims; as a result he confessed to 12
Carl murders and was sentenced to 60 years in
1974–
Eugene  United States 14 100+ prison on the lesser charge. He was
1982
Watts sentenced to life imprisonment in
separate trials in Michigan in 2004 and
2007, and died of cancer a week after the
2007 sentence was handed down.
[124]
 Watts is now suspected to have killed
more than 100 women, which would
make him the most prolific serial killer in
American history.[125]

Belle  United States 1884– 14 40 Norwegian-born murder-for-profit killer

Gunness 1908 who murdered her suitors and relatives in
Indiana. High possibility of committing
over 40 murders. May have faked her
own death in the fire that destroyed her
home in 1908; her children had died
of strychnine poisoning before the fire,
and the woman's body found next to them
was decapitated and, reportedly, smaller
than Gunness' own.[126] Ultimate fate
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unknown.

Known as the "Leningrad Maniac" and

Philipp 1945– the "Hellraiser"; murdered people for
 Soviet Union 14 29
Tyurin 1946 monetary reasons at his hut in Leningrad;
executed 1947.[127]

Also known as Vampire of Zagłębie.

Killed 14 women in 1964–1970 in
Zdzisław Poland's region of Dąbrowa Basin.
1964–
Marchwic  Poland 14 21+ Zdzisław Marchwicki was most likely the
1970
ki man responsible for the killings;
however, his guilt remains in dispute.
Executed in 1977.[128]

Unidentified killer who shot couples in

lovers lanes and mutilated the women,
taking their sexual organs and in the last
two cases, also their left breast. 69-year-
old farmer Pietro Pacciani was
controversially convicted of 14 crimes in
1994 and sentenced to life in prison, but
he was released following allegations that
the scant evidence had been planted in an
attempt to close the case, which was by
then the largest and most mediatic in
Monster of 1968–
 Italy 14 16 Italy's criminal history. Pacciani was
Florence 1985
scheduled for retrial in 1998 when he
died after taking medication
contraindicated to his heart problems.
Pacciani's two alleged accomplices,
Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti, were
sentenced to life and 30 years in prison,
respectively. Some believe that none of
the accused were guilty, and that Lotti
incriminated himself and the other two
because he was homeless and wanted to
live in prison.[129][130]
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Known as The Psychopath from Alto

Julio Pérez 1998–
 Chile 14 14+ Hospicio; killed 14 women. Sentenced to
Silva 2001
life imprisonment in 2004.[131]

Known as the "Ruhr Cannibal" and "The

Joachim 1955–
 West Germany 14 14 Duisburg Man-Eater"; died from a heart
Kroll 1976
attack in prison in 1991.[132]

Committed arson and burglary, served

two years of a five-year sentence. Within
a year of his release, he raped and
murdered two children in 1972. Under a
plea bargain, he was sentenced to 25
years. Released after serving 141/2  years,
Arthur 1972– he began killing again a year later,
 United States 14 14
Shawcross 1989 targeting prostitutes. Known as the
"Genesee River Killer", "Genesee River
Strangler", "Rochester Strangler", and
"Monster of the Rivers", he strangled and
battered his victims. Sentenced to life
without parole. Died of cardiac arrest in
2008.[133]
Raped and killed minors in
Naceur 1980–
 Tunisia 14 14 the Nabeul region; executed by hanging
Damergi 1988
in 1990.[134]
Known as The Vampire of Niterói. Raped
Marcelo and killed 14 children in Rio de
Costa de  Brazil 1991 14 14 Janeiro and Niterói. Drank the blood of
Andrade his victims. Found not guilty by reason of
insanity.
Known as the "Velsk Chikatilo"; killed
Sergey 1995– female hitchhikers in the town of Velsk,
 Russia 14 14
Shipilov 1999 most of them while out on prison leave;
sentenced to life imprisonment.[135]
Dorángel  Venezuela 1997– 14 14 Homeless cannibal known as "The People
Vargas 1999 Eater" (El Comegente) and
"The Hannibal Lecter of the Andes".
Murdered a homeless man and was
institutionalized. After escaping the
institution, he went on to kill ten other
men and was arrested. In 2016, he and
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several other inmates killed three others

and Vargas fed their remains to them.[136]
[137]

Hua 1998– Was responsible for the murders of 14

 China 14 14 prostitutes in Beijing's Chaoyang District.
Ruizhuo 2001 [138]

Known at the "Shivering Creature";

Denis 2002– robbed and killed elderly people around
 Russia 14 14
Pischikov 2003 the Moscow Oblast and Vladimir Oblast;
sentenced to life imprisonment.[139]
Killed people out of personal hostility;
Abdufatto 2002–
 Russia 14 14 also raped two young girls; sentenced to
Zamanov 2004
life imprisonment.[140]
Jeong 2004– Kidnapped, raped and murdered people;
 South Korea 14 14
Nam-gyu 2006 killed himself.[141]
Known as "The brick killer". Killed 14
Amir homeless men with rocks or bricks when
 Pakistan 2005 14 14
Qayyum they were asleep. Sentenced to death in
May 2006.[142]
Sentenced to death for the murders of two
people; confessed to 44 other murders; 11
1930–
Jake Bird  United States 13 46 were substantiated and he was suspected
1947
in the others.[143] Executed by hanging in
1949.
Unidentified serial killer, also known as
Cleveland "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run",
1934–
Torso  United States 13 40+ who targeted drifters and derelicts, of
1938
Murderer whom only two were identified, between
1934 and 1938 in Cleveland, Ohio.[144]
Confessed to strangling 38 elderly
residents of Riga, Latvia, in 2003.
Kaspars
 Latvia 2003 13 38+ Convicted and sentenced to life
Petrovs
imprisonment for the robbery and murder
of 13.[145]
Peter  United 1975– 13 33 Killed at least 13 women between 30
Sutcliffe Kingdom 1980 October 1975 and 17 November 1980.
Most victims were killed by a
combination of bludgeoning and
stabbing, and all but two were killed in
the county of Yorkshire. Owing to
the modus operandi and location of the
murders, Sutcliffe became known as the
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"Yorkshire Ripper."[146] Sentenced to 20
concurrent life sentences. After three
years he was sent to a secure psychiatric
facility, where he served 25 years before
being found "fit to leave" in 2009.
Government officials and courts ruled in
2010 that he would never be released. In
2015, he was declared "no longer
mentally ill", and transferred to a
maximum security prison. After his 1981
conviction police investigated 60
unsolved murders and attempted murders
across Britain they thought Sutcliffe
could be responsible for, but were able to
eliminate him from 40.[147] He has since
also been linked by several investigators
to the murder of Carol Wilkinson, for
which an innocent man spent many years
in prison for.[148][149] Sutcliffe died in
hospital on 13 November 2020 at age 74,
after being diagnosed with COVID-19.[150]
Kidnapped, bound, and strangled at least
Fosaville
1999– 13 women in Fosaville, South Africa. He
Serial  South Africa 13 26
2003 may also be responsible for the
Killer
"Riverman" murders.[151]
Killed 13 people between 28 June 1984,
and 24 August 1985, in Los Angeles.
Richard 1984– Known as the "Night Stalker".[152]
 United States 13[152] 20
Ramirez 1985 [153]
 Ramirez was sentenced to death in
1989, and died of B-cell lymphoma in
2013 while still on death row.
Sleepy Raped and murdered women, mostly sex
1990s
Hollow  South Africa 13 16+ workers, around Pietermaritzburg and
–2007
Killer the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal.[154]
Francisco Raped 15 women in San Isidro, killing 13
1974–
Antonio  Argentina 13 13+ of them. Shot and killed during a firefight
1975
Laureana with police.[155]
Joseph  United States 1979– 13 13+ Known as the "Golden State Killer",
James 1986 "Original Night Stalker", and "East Area
DeAngelo Rapist". Committed at least 13 murders,
50 rapes, and 120 burglaries across
California in the 1970s and 1980s. He
was identified and arrested in 2018 after
DNA evidence confirmed it was him.[156]
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 In 2020, he pleaded guilty and was

[157]

sentenced to life in prison without parole.

[158]

Known as the "Granny Ripper"; killed

Tamara
1995– and allegedly cannibalized people in her
Samsonov  Russia 13 13+
2015 apartment; committed to a psychiatric
a
clinic.[159][160]
Although Albert DeSalvo was widely
thought to be the Boston Strangler, police
and others analysing the case have long
doubted the truth of his confession.
[161]
 Sentenced to life for a series of rapes,
he was murdered in prison. DeSalvo's
body was exhumed for DNA testing, and
Boston 1962–
 United States 13 13 compared to a substance found on the
Strangler 1964
exhumed body of the Boston Strangler's
last victim. In 2001, it was declared not to
match, but in 2013 officials announced
that improvements in DNA extraction
technology produced viable samples from
the degraded evidence. DeSalvo's body
was reexhumed and found to match.
Despite detailed confessions, prosecutors
decided not to try him for the first three
Herbert 1972–
 United States 13 13 crimes, instead focusing on crimes that
Mullin 1973
conflicted with his insanity plea.
Sentenced to imprisonment for life.[162]
Known as the "Smolensky Strangler";
Vladimir tortured and murdered women for sexual
1978–
Storozhen  Soviet Union 13 13 pleasure; four other innocent men were
1981
ko initially convicted for his crimes;
executed 1982.[163]
Known as "The Beast of Atteridgeville",
he was found guilty of 13 counts of
Johannes 1982– murder and 12 counts of sodomy from
 South Africa 13 13
Mashiane 1989 1982 to 1989. Killed himself by throwing
himself under a bus while being pursued
by police in 1989.[164]
Known as the Irkutsk Monster;[165] killed
Vasiliy 1984–
 Soviet Union 13 13 at least 13 victims from 1984 to 1986.
Kulik 1986
Executed by firing squad in 1989.
Nikolai  Soviet Union 1987– 13 13 Known as the "Grim Maniac"; killed his
Dudin  Russia 2002 father in 1987, and after release, killed 12
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more people while intoxicated; sentenced

to life imprisonment.[166]
Known as "The Limpopo Serial Killer";
Mukosi escaped convict, originally responsible
1990–
Freddy  South Africa 13 13 for two murders, who murdered 11 more
2006
Mulaudzi after his prison escape; given 11 life
sentences.[167]
Nicknamed "The Red-dress killer" or
"The Red-dress slasher" because his
victims were lone women walking alone
Duan 1999– either wearing red-dresses or another type
 China 13 13
Guocheng 2001 of red. He sparked panic among women
in Central China, with public officials
warning them to stop wearing red during
the years which he was at large.[168]
Paranoid schizophrenic who killed people
Nikolay 2004–
 Russia 13 13 who beat him in chess games; sentenced
Shubin 2006
to compulsory treatment.[169]
Known as the "Sugar cane serial killer",
Thozamile
 South Africa 2007 13 13 [170]
 he murdered 13 women. Convicted in
Taki
2010.
Unidentified serial killer who shot gay
"Rainbow 2007– men in the head (except one, who was
 Brazil 13 13
Maniac" 2008 bludgeoned) in the Paturis Park
of Carapicuiba.[171]
Known as the "Sandman"; sexually
abused young boys in their sleep, then
Adolf 1908–
 Germany 12 100 poisoned them; suspected of 100 murders
Seefeldt 1935
in total.[172] Executed by guillotine in
1936.
French con man known as "The Bikini
Killer" or "The Serpent" that targeted
 Thailand Western tourists in vacation spots of
South-east Asia, often with the help of
Charles    Nepal 1975–
12 30 female accomplices. Imprisoned in India
Sobhraj  India 1976
from 1976 to 1997, and sentenced to life
 Malaysia imprisonment in Nepal in 2004.[173] He
was released from prison in Nepal in
2022.[174]
William  United States 1986– 12 22 Previously served 10 years of a 70-year
Suff 1992 sentence for beating his baby daughter to
death. Beginning two years after his
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release, this county store clerk raped,

stabbed, strangled, and sometimes
mutilated 12 or more prostitutes in
Riverside County, California. Known as
the "Riverside Prostitute Killer" and the
"Lake Elsinore Killer." Sentenced to
death.[175]
Known as the "Kaliningrad Maniac"; a
Vladimir  Soviet Union 1991– child rapist who murdered girls and
12 20
Romanov  Russia 2005 young women in the Kaliningrad Oblast;
killed himself while imprisoned.[176]
Killed prostitutes in the St. Louis area
from 2000 to 2002. Caught when he
Maury 2000– mailed an Expedia.com map showing
 United States 12 17
Travis 2002 where to find a body to a St. Louis
newspaper. Killed himself by hanging in
prison.[177]
Picked up young men in London between
1978 and 1983 and dismembered them,
Dennis  United 1978– 15–
12 keeping various body parts around his
Nilsen Kingdom 1983 16[178]
home.[179] Died from surgical
complications in 2018.
Convicted of strangling 12 female
victims aged 12 to 28 and suspected in
Kenneth 1977–
 United States 12 15 another three cases. One of the "Hillside
Bianchi 1978
Stranglers".[180] Sentenced to
imprisonment for life.
Self-proclaimed witch that abducted,
prostituted, murdered and made potions
with the bodies of small children that she
sold in Barcelona. Remains of 12
different children were identified in her
home, but she is believed to have
murdered more. Murdered in prison by
fellow immates while awaiting trial in
Enriqueta c.1900
 Spain 12 12+ 1913.[181]
Martí –1912
Recent investigations by writer Jordi
Corominas and historian Elsa Plaza
question the popular version of the black
legend of Enriqueta Martí and warned
about multiples misinformation, because
Enriqueta "was never formally charged
with murder nor was any corpse of a
child found in her home".[182][183]
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Killed seven people after Yemeni

unification; fled prison, then proceeded to
Abdallah 1990–
 Yemen 12 12 kill a young couple and three more
al-Hubal 1998
people; killed during a shootout with
police.[184]
Known as the "Luberetsky Maniac";
Nikolai truck driver who raped and killed girls
 Soviet Union 1975 12 12
Shestakov and young women; supposedly executed
in 1977.[185]
Known as "The Midtown Slasher"; racist
who killed 12 people, all but one of them
Joseph African Americans, in 1980 and 1981,
1980–
Christophe  United States 12 12 between upstate New York and Georgia,
1981
r mutilating two of them. Sentenced to life
imprisonment, died in prison age 33 of
breast cancer.[186]
"Paraquat Unidentified serial killer who carried out
murders"  Japan 1985 12 12 a series of indiscriminate poisonings in
killer Japan in 1985 that killed 12.
Killed at least 11 boys in the Moscow
 Soviet Union area between 1986 and 1992.[187] Executed
Sergey 1986–
11 40+ by gunshot in 1996; last person executed
Golovkin  Russia 1992
in Russia before the death penalty was
abolished.
Gomes da Rocha was a Brazilian security
Tiago
guard who confessed to the murders of 39
Henrique 2011–
 Brazil 11 39 people. He was sentenced to 25 years in
Gomes da 2014
prison for 11 murders, and attempted
Rocha
suicide while incarcerated.[188]
Strangled gay men and buried their
Herb bodies in his backyard in Indiana and
1990– Ohio; 11 men were found in the yard but
Baumeiste  United States 11 23
1996 only five were identified. Died after
r
shooting himself when faced with arrest.
[189]

Zhang 2008– Sold flesh of his victims as 'ostrich meat'

 China 11 17–20
Yongming 2012 and kept eyeballs in wine. Executed.[190]
Jack  Austria 1974– 11 15 Served 14 years in Austrian prison
Unterwege  United States 1992 because of a murder in 1974; killed at
r  Czechoslovakia least nine prostitutes after his release.
Was a small media star in Austrian media
in the early 1990s and, on behalf of
Austrian police, was arrested in the US,
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where he may have killed another three

prostitutes. Hanged himself in 1994 after
being sentenced to life in prison.[191]
Known as the "Skid Row Slasher". Killed
Vaughn 11 people, suspected of two more. Cut
1964–
Greenwoo  United States 11 13 victims' throats from ear to ear and may
1975
d have drunk their blood. Sentenced to
imprisonment for life.[192]
Known as The Cleveland Strangler, he
was convicted of killing 11 women
between 2007 and 2009, and is suspected
Anthony 2007–
 United States 11 11+ in another series of murders in the 1980s,
Sowell 2009
with the two sets of killings separated by
a 15-year stint in prison. Sentenced to
death.[193]
Nicknamed "Bluebeard", he put notes in
the lonely hearts section of newspapers
under different aliases, presenting himself
Henri as a widower that wanted to marry a war
1915–
Désiré  France 11 11 widow. He killed at least 10 women and
1919
Landru the teenage son of one of them, and
burned their bodies after he had gained
access to their assets. Executed by
guillotine in 1922.[194]
Responsible for 11 deaths between 1927
and 1954. Known as the "Giggling
Nannie 1927– Nanny", the "Giggling Granny", and the
 United States 11 11
Doss 1954 "Jolly Black Widow". Sentenced to
imprisonment for life. Died
of leukemia in 1965, age 59.[195]
Marie
1933– Poisoned wealthy clients while working
Alexandri  Belgium 11 11
1936 as a seamstress. Died in prison in 1942.
ne Becker
Teenage serial killer known as the
"Hamamatsu Deaf Killer" for having
been born deaf. Murdered 11 people
Seisaku 1938–
 Japan 11 11 (including his brother) and attacked many
Nakamura 1942
others, among them his father, sister,
brother-in-law and nephew. Tried as an
adult and executed by hanging.[196]
Robledo  Argentina 1971 11 11 Convicted of 11 murders and multiple
Puch other crimes including attempted murder
and sexual assault. Sentenced to life
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imprisonment in 1980.[197]
Considered a dangerous offender,
meaning that Olson could never have
Clifford 1980–
 Canada 11 11 been released from prison. He had three
Olson 1981
parole applications rejected.[198] Died from
cancer in 2011.
Known as "The Killer Beggar".
A necrophilic, schizophrenic homeless
Francisco
1987– man found insane and confined to a
García  Spain 11 11
1994 psychiatric hospital after killing 11
Escalero
prostitutes and other homeless people
between 1987 and 1994.[199] Died in 2014.
Henry Murdered 11 black women in Charlotte,
1990–
Louis  United States 11 11 North Carolina. The victims were all
1994
Wallace women that he knew.
Known as "The Woodward Corridor
Killer". Raped and strangled his victims
Benjamin 1991–
 United States 11 11 before abandoning their bodies in vacant
Atkins 1992
buildings. Died in prison in 1997, age 29,
from AIDS.[200]
Killed 11 elderly women aged 68 to 95
and raped six others. Sentenced to death
Adnan 1992–
 Turkey 11 11 but commuted to life in prison after
Çolak 1995
Turkey abolished the death penalty in
2004.
Andre 1993– Murdered 11 women between 1993 and
 United States 11 11
Crawford 1999 1999. Sentenced to life in prison.[201]
Rapist and serial killer, known as "O
Maníaco do Parque" (The Park Maniac).
He was arrested for the torture, rape and
Francisco
1997– death of 11 women and for assaulting
de Assis  Brazil 11 11
1998 nine in a park in São Paulo, Brazil during
Pereira
the 1990s. Pereira found his victims by
posing as a talent scout for a modeling
agency. Sentenced to 268 years.[202]
The Barnaul Maniac was an unidentified
Russian serial killer who murdered nine
women and two girls in the city
Barnaul 1997–
 Russia 11 11 of Barnaul and the village of Buranovo.
Maniac 2000
The main suspect was arrested in October
2000 but killedhimself in jail in
November that year.
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Gao Known as "Chinese Jack the Ripper";

1998–
Chengyon  China 11 11 killed women and then mutilated their
2002
g corpses.[203] Executed in 2019.
Known as the "Novouralsk Ripper"; a
child rapist who kidnapped and killed
Yevgeny 1998– young girls around Novouralsk,
 Russia 11 11
Petrov 2003 mutilating and burning their corpses
afterwards; sentenced to life
imprisonment.[204]

Ruslan 2000– Seduced, raped and then killed women in

 Ukraine 11 11 his home; sentenced to life imprisonment.
Khamarov 2003 [205]

Remains of 11 women, who disappeared

West between 2003 and 2005, were found
2003–
Mesa  United States 11 11 buried in the desert in Albuquerque, New
2005
Killer Mexico in 2009 and attributed to a bone
collector.[206]
Known as the "singing serial killer" and
"Ryan", the artistic name he adopted
while awaiting his execution in prison,
Very where he recorded an album and wrote
Idham 2006– his autobiography. "Ryan" confessed to
 Indonesia 11 11
Henyansy 2008 murdering 11 people including a toddler;
ah 10 of his victims were buried in his
parents' home backyard while the last one
was butchered and hidden in a suitcase.
Sentenced to death.[207]
Raped and murdered garment workers
Roshu
 Bangladesh 2008 11 11 after being rejected by his lover.
Kha
Sentenced to death.[208]
Known as the "Grim Sleeper" for the
alleged 14-year hiatus he took from
Lonnie
murdering between 1988 and 2002. Shot
David 1985–
 United States 10 25+ and strangled his victims, mostly women,
Franklin 2007
around South Los Angeles. Sentenced to
Jr.
death.[209][210] On March 28, 2020, Franklin
was found dead in his cell.[211]
Known as Der Totmacher ("The
Deadmaker"). Convicted of killing a
Rudolf 1946–
 West Germany 10 25 salesman and nine women. Claimed to
Pleil 1947
have killed 25.[212] Killed himself by
hanging in 1958.
Milton  United States 1983 10 17 Known as "The Weekend Murderer"
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killed up to 17 people.[213] Sentenced to
Johnson
life without parole.
Unidentified serial killer also known as
Long
"The Gilgo Beach Killer". Believed to
Island 1996–
 United States 10 16 have murdered 10 to 14 people associated
serial 2010
with the sex trade over a period of 15
killer
years.[214]
Convicted of a 1979 manslaughter; killed
10 people across America in three months
Daniel Lee 1979– in mid-1980s including two children and
 United States 10 13
Siebert 1986 a Southside Slayer victim.[215] Sentenced
to death; died from cancer in prison in
2008.
Strangled women around Smolensk;
suspected of the drowning death of
Sergey
 Russia 1999 10 11 another woman; died in 2001
Cherny
from pneumonia while in a special
psychiatric hospital.[216]
Transient baby-sitter who strangled
Jeanne 1905–
 France 10 10+ children in her care. Declared insane.
Weber 1908
Hanged herself in prison in 1918.[217]
Lured women in a park at night and
hacked them with an axe as part of a plan
to rid the world of prostitution. Also
Nikolai
1979– cooked parts of his victims and ate them
Dzhumaga  Soviet Union 10 10+
1991 himself or served them to other people as
liev
part of ethnic dishes. Found innocent by
reason of insanity and interned in a
mental institution.
Known as "The Classified Ad Rapist";
Bobby Joe killed 10 women in Tampa Bay, Florida
 United States 1984 10 10+
Long in 1984. Sentenced to death. Executed by
lethal injection on 23 May 2019.[218]
Known as "Boetie Boer"; raped,
Stewart 1990– sodomised and murdered 10 victims from
 South Africa 10 10+
Wilken 1997 1990 to 1997. Sentenced to seven life
terms.[219]
Viktor  Russia 1996– 10 10+ Known as the "Grandfather Ripper";
Fokin 2000 pensioner who lured, killed and then
dismembered prostitutes and alcohol
abusers in his home, disposing of the
remains in garbage containers after; died
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while imprisoned at a corrective labor

colony.
Kidnapped 19 people, raped 17, and
David murdered 10. Sentenced to 16
2004–
Randitshe  South Africa 10 10+ consecutive life sentences plus 220 years
2008
ni in prison; hanged himself three weeks
after conviction.[220]
Known as "The Co-ed Butcher." At age
15, he confessed to murdering his
grandparents and served six years as a
criminally insane juvenile. He was
Edmund 1964–
 United States 10 10 released in 1969. In 1972 and 1973, he
Kemper 1973
murdered and dismembered six young
women, then killed his mother and her
friend. He was sentenced to eight counts
of seven years to life.[221]
Known as the BTK Killer. Murdered 10
people in Sedgwick County (in and
Dennis 1974–
 United States 10 10 around Wichita), Kansas, between 1974
Rader 2004
and 1991. Sentenced to life imprisonment
with no parole for 175 years.[222]
Known as "Agent 000"; killed and raped
women, managing to avoid capture
Stanislav 1980–
 Soviet Union 10 10 through suspected knowledge of the
Rogolev 1982
investigation against him; executed by
firing squad in 1984.[223]
 Soviet Union Robbed, raped and killed people around
Oleg 1991–
 Russia 10 10 Russia and Ukraine; sentenced to death
Kuznetsov 1992
 Ukraine but commuted to life imprisonment.[224]
Secondary ringleader in the Snowtown
murders and best friend of John Justin
Robert 1992–
 Australia 10 10 Bunting; sentenced to 10 consecutive life
Wagner 1999
sentences without the possibility of
parole.[225]
Killed 10 girls who were between the
1995– ages of five and nine. He was arrested
Satish  India 10 10
1998 from Bahadurgargh, Haryana after a long
chase by Haryana police.[226]
Eduard  Russia 1996– 10 10 Known as the "Resort Maniac";
Shemyako 1998 Ukrainian who raped, killed and
v dismembered women in St. Petersburg,
supposedly cannibalizing one of the
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victims; sentenced to compulsory

treatment.[227]
1997– Known as "The Baby Faced Killer";
Ali Kaya  Turkey presen 10 10 responsible for 10 murders. Escaped from
t prison and later recaptured.[228]
Known as "The Butcher"; killed and
dismembered 10 people at his house in
Chen
 China 2003 10 10 the city of Wenzhou in
Yongfeng
the Zhejiang province within the span of
a few months.[229]
A former soldier who targeted ATM
users. He killed 10 people and evaded the
Zhou 2004–
 China 10 10 law for eight years, before being shot in a
Kehua 2012
shootout with police after a year-long
manhunt.[230]
Sentenced to death in 2010 for killing 10
Kang Ho- 2006–
 South Korea 10 10 women, including his wife and mother-
sun 2008
in-law.[231]
Described as a "bloodthirsty vampire";
confessed to killing and drinking the
blood of multiple children in Nairobi and
Masten 2015– led police to the bodies of some of the
 Kenya 10 10
Wanjala 2021 victims.[232] Wanjala escaped from police
custody while awaiting trial, but was later
found in Bungoma and murdered by
angry locals.[233]
Former security guard who was convicted
of seven murders and two assassinations,
Louis van 1986– but confessed to a reporter that he
 South Africa 9 100
Schoor 1989 murdered 100 people; sentenced to 20
years in prison and released on parole in
2004.[234]
Charged with nine murders and seven
 German attempted murders. Dubbed "The
Peter 1913–
Empire 9 79 Vampire of Düsseldorf" by the
Kürten 1930
 Germany contemporary media. Executed
by guillotine in 1931.[235]
Killed nine people in two states,
Roger including a family of three; his wife
1974–
Dale  United States 9 34 implicated him in 34 total murders in
1978
Stafford different states; executed by lethal
injection in 1995.[236]
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Known as the "Station Strangler",

Norman convicted of only one of 22 cases of
1986–
Afzal  South Africa 9 22 murder and sodomy of young children
1994
Simons near Cape Town.[237] Sentenced to
imprisonment for life.
Convicted of killing nine people, but
suspected in the murder of dozens. He is
Francis 1984–
 France 9 20 known as the "Criminal Backpacker" due
Heaulme 1992
to his travels throughout France. He left a
trail of bodies wherever he went.[238]
Known as "The Drifter",[239] killed
prostitutes in New York City, most of
them drug addicts. Convicted of nine
1989– murders but believed to have committed
Joel Rifkin  United States 9 17
1993 17; also suspected of being the
unidentified Long Island serial killer.
Sentenced to 203 years to imprisonment
for life.
Murdered between nine and 25 children
—of which one was her own—during a
seven-year period. In 1921, she was
sentenced to death in one of the most
talked about trials in Danish history, that
changed legislation on childcare. The
sentence was later commuted to life in
Dagmar 1913–
 Denmark 9 15 prison. Overbye was working as a
Overbye 1920
professional child minder, caring for
babies born outside of marriage,
murdering her charges. She strangled
them, drowned them or burned them to
death in her masonry heater. The corpses
were either cremated, buried or hidden in
the loft.[240] Died in prison in 1929.
Known as "The Broomstick Killer";
death sentence for 1966 triple-murder
Kenneth 1966– was commuted. Killed again three days
 United States 9 14+
McDuff 1992 after 1989 parole and 10 further times in
Waco, Texas until 1992. Executed by
lethal injection in 1998.[241]
Known as "The Boxcar Killer"; freight
Robert
1981– train rider convicted of beating to death
Joseph  United States 9 14+
1996 fellow transients and confessed to dozens
Silveria Jr.
more.[242]
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Supposedly murdered prostitutes and

1981– exotic dancers; his first victim was
Dr. No  United States 9 12
1990 Marcia King, who was identified in 2018.
[243][244]

Known as "The Thrill Killer". Killed at

Richard least nine people in Monmouth County,
1958–
Biegenwal  United States 9 11+ New Jersey and is suspected in at least
1983
d two other murders.[245] Died of respiratory
and kidney failure in 2008.
New
Unidentified serial killer who killed nine
Bedford 1988–
 United States 9 11 women and disappearance of two others
Highway 1989
between 1988 and 1989.[246]
Killer
Described in his personal diary how he
killed 11 men who were alcoholics and
Alexander 2009–
 Russia 9 11 tramps. Confessed to eating body parts of
Bychkov 2012
his victims. Found guilty of nine murders
and sentenced to life imprisonment.[247]
Motorist who shot 12 people in separate
Maryvale events in Phoenix, Arizona, killing nine.
2015–
serial  United States 9 11 Aaron Saucedo was charged with the
2016
shooter shootings and two additional murders in
2017.[248]
Unidentified serial killer who killed nine
Edgecomb
women and possibly another who
e County
 United States 2000s 9 10 disappeared since 2005 around Rocky
Serial
Mount, North Carolina. Antwan Pittman
Killer
was convicted in one case.[249]
Known as "The Phantom Hobo Killer";
Lloyd 1950– homeless man who killed other homeless
 United States 9 9
Gomez 1951 men across California in the early 1950s.
[250]

Killed nine women

Timothy across Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky a
 United States 2000s 9 9
Krajcir nd Missouri (five in Cape Girardeau) in
the 1970s and 1980s.[251]
Keith Dubbed the "Happy Face Killer",
1990–
Hunter  United States 8 160 Jesperson was convicted of killing eight
1995
Jesperson women by strangulation.[252]
Rodney  United States 1971– 8 130+ Known as the "Dating Game Killer" for
Alcala 1979 appearing on the game show The Dating
Game in the middle of his killing years.
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Was convicted of at least five murders,

though his actual total is estimated to be
much higher.
Known as the "Psycopath of Meiggs".
Illegal Colombian immigrant who has
been living in Chile since 2013, often
Diego resorting to robbing and killing homeless
Alexánder 2018– people. Although he has had only 8
 Chile 8 28
Ruiz 2020 confirmed victims, he is currently being
Restrepo investigated for 20 more, which, if
confirmed, would turn him into the most
murderous serial killer in Chilean history.
[253]

Strangled or shot people to rob them,

Kiyotaka 1982– using a gun he had stolen from a
 Japan 8 22
Katsuta 1983 policeman after running him over with
his car. Hanged in 2000.[254]
White supremacist shooter who confessed
Joseph
1977– to 20 murders and several attempted
Paul  United States 8 20+
1980 murders. Executed by lethal injection in
Franklin
2013.[255]
Military instructor suspected of killing
Pierre 1980–
 France 8 17 boys and men in Marne; killed himself
Chanal 1988
before trial.[256]
Killed eight women during a spree before
Christophe accidentally shooting himself; suspected
 United States 1984 8 13+
r Wilder in the disappearance and murder of more
than five more.[257]
Axeman Unidentified serial killer of at least eight
1918–
of New  United States 8 12+ people in the New Orleans area from
1919
Orleans May 1918 to October 1919.[258]
Known as the "Povorinsky Maniac";
kidnapped, raped and killed hitchhikers in
Vladimir 1990– his hometown of Povorino, possibly
 Russia 8 12
Retunsky 1996 abusing their corpses; initially sentenced
to death, but later reduced to 15 years
imprisonment and released in 2015.[259]
Gilbert  Canada 1965– 8 10 Known as the "Boozing Barber", he
Paul 1987 would typically find alcoholic women in
Jordan bars in Vancouver's destitute Downtown
Eastside, buy them drinks or pay them for
sex and encourage them to drink with
him. When they passed out, he would
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pour more liquor down their throats. The

resulting deaths were reported as alcohol
poisoning and generally ignored by
police as the intentional murders blended
in with the common occurrence in that
neighbourhood. Died in 2006.[260]
A serial rapist, Kodaira killed his father-
in-law in 1932 and seven to 10 women in
Japan between 1945 and 1946, engaging
in necrophilia after the fifth murder.
Yoshio  China 1932–
8 8+ Previously (1920s) he had been deployed
Kodaira  Japan 1946
to Northern China as a sailor in
the Imperial Japanese Navy, where he
was free to target the locals. Hanged in
1949.
Serial killer and alleged necrophile active
during the 1940s and early 1950s. He
murdered at least eight people—including
his wife, Ethel—by strangling them in his
flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting
Hill, London. The bodies of three of
Christie's victims were found in a
John  United 1943–
8 8+ wallpaper-covered kitchen alcove soon
Christie Kingdom 1953
after Christie moved out of Rillington
Place during March 1953. The remains of
two more victims were discovered in the
garden, and his wife's body was found
beneath the floorboards of the front room.
Christie was arrested and convicted of his
wife's murder, for which he was hanged.
Known as the "Night Caller" and later the
"Nedlands Monster"; killed at least eight
Eric Edgar 1958– people and attempted to kill at least
 Australia 8 8+
Cooke 1963 fourteen in and around Perth between
1959 and 1963; he was the last person to
be hanged in Western Australia.[261]
Unidentified serial killer from the late
1960s to early 1970s. Based on the
Forest 1969-
 Canada 8 8+ number of unsolved murders of women in
City Killer 1970
the era, there is probably at least one
other victim.[262]
Elizabeth  Canada 2007– 8 8 Confessed to murdering eight senior
Wettlaufer 2018 citizens and attempting to murder six
others in southwestern Ontario.[263] With a
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total of fourteen victims either killed or

injured by her actions, she is described as
one of the worst serial killers in Canadian
history.[264]
One of the oldest known serial killers,
active at 65, he lured men to secret sexual
Bruce 2010–
 Canada 8 8 encounters involving drugs and bondage,
McArthur 2017
killed them and dismembered their bodies
which he hid in garden planters.[265]
Wandering criminal known as El
Arropiero ("The Arrope Trader") and El
Estrangulador del Puerto ("The Strangler
of Puerto"). Confessed to the impulsive
murders of 48 people of different sex,
age, wealth and sexual orientation in
three countries (including his girlfriend,
Manuel  Spain whom he strangled during sex), but
1964–
Delgado  France (claimed) 7 48 police only investigated him for 22
1971
Villegas  Italy (claimed) murders in Spain and was considered
proven author of seven. Some of his
victims were killed with hand to hand
combat techniques that he had learned in
the Spanish Foreign Legion. Diagnosed
with XYY syndrome and interned in a
mental institution until his death in 1998.
[266]

Career criminal and corrupt politician

Ershad 1991– responsible for numerous torture murders
 Bangladesh 7 43+
Sikder 1999 in the 1990s; convincted on seven counts
and executed 2004.[267]
Convicted of the Backpacker murders;
sentenced to seven consecutive life
Ivan Milat  Australia 1990s 7 23–37 sentences plus 18 years without the
possibility of parole. May have had
accomplices.[268]
Nursing assistant who killed elderly
2017– military veterans at a VA hospital
Reta Mays  United States 7 20
2018 in Clarksburg, West Virginia by injecting
them with lethal doses of insulin.[269]
Michael  Canada 1985– 7 18+ Convicted of the murder of six people in
Wayne  United States 1988 the late 1990s, including a woman and
McGray her 11-year-old daughter. Claims to have
killed 11 others, including murders
committed while on parole and while on
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a three-day pass from prison. Finally

imprisoned for life, killed a cellmate in
2010.[270]
Unidentified serial killer who killed gay
Łódź Gay 1988–
 Poland 7 7 men in Łódź, estimated to have killed 7
Murderer 1993
people.[271]
John
Floyd 1957– Serial murderer and rapist with one of the
 United States 7 15+
Thomas 2009 longest criminal careers in the US.
Jr.
Known as "The Stockwell Strangler", he
Kenneth  United was a burglar who raped and strangled at
1986 7 11
Erskine Kingdom least seven elderly women after breaking
into their homes.[272]
Known as "The Trailside Killer";
David 1979– murdered women on San Francisco-area
 United States 7 11
Carpenter 1981 hiking trails between 1979 and 1981.
Sentenced to death.[273]
Raped, murdered and robbed mostly
young boys and men in Moscow; assisted
Vladimir
 Russia 1997 7 11 in his first two murders by Denis
Kuzmin
Kalistratov; sentenced to life
imprisonment.[274]
Murdered his godfather in 1960; after
Tommy 1960– release, killed six cashiers in two separate
 France 7 10
Recco 1980 store raids; also suspected of murdering a
trio of German tourists.[275]
Known as the "Baton Rouge or South
Louisiana Serial Killer" convicted of
Derrick three murders. Believed to have murdered
 United States 2002 7 10
Todd Lee several other women in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama. Sentenced to
death, died in 2016.[276]
Tomás Known as "The Satanist"; killed people in
2002–
Maldonad  Colombia 7 10 Barranquila for the purpose of satanic
2018
o Cera rituals.[277]
Hanged in 1958 after being convicted of
Peter  United 1956-
7 9 seven murders at a sensational trial in
Manuel Kingdom 1958
Glasgow, may have committed two more.
Paul  United States 1997– 7 7+ A former soldier who strangled several
Duroussea 2003 women between the ages of 17 and 26 in
u the southeastern United States. He had
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the moniker of the Jacksonville Ripper

and had the reputation of being a lewd
womanizer.
A registered sex offender; Shot up a
motorcycle shop in 2003, killing 4; killed
Todd 2003–
 United States 7 7+ 3 more victims in 2015 and 2016; is
Kohlhepp 2016
currently serving 7 life sentences for the
crimes.[278]
Aileen 1989– Sex worker that shot her victims at point
 United States 7 7
Wuornos 1990 blank range.[279] Executed in 2002.
Career criminal who, following a jail
Hu 2003–
 China 7 7 escape in 1998, killed seven people
Daoping 2005
during robberies.[280]
A 35-year-old Cypriot Army officer who
killed five women and two children
Nikos 2016– between September 2016 and August
 Cyprus 7 7
Metaxas 2018 2018. These became known as the
"Mitsero murders." Sentenced to 7 life
sentences.[281][282]
Drifter active throughout the United
States who specialized in killing children
Tommy 1980– and multiple victims after breaking into
 United States 6 22–70
Lynn Sells 1999 their homes. Caught when a 10-year-old
girl survived his attack and provided a
description of him. Executed in 2014.[283]
Canadian serial killer convicted of
Robert 1983– murdering six women. Twenty further
 Canada 6 49 charges were stayed in 2010.
Pickton 2002 [284]
 Reportedly claimed to have killed 49.
[285]

 East Germany German trucker who confessed to having

 Germany abducted, tortured and killed five
 France prostitutes through his route in Western
 Spain Europe, plus strangling a 14-year-old girl
Volker 1974–
 Czech 6 19+ in his native West Germany in 1974,
Eckert 2006
Republic (suspected when he was 15. Police considered him
) perpetrator of nine murders (with four
 Italy (suspected more being possible); he hanged himself
) in prison before being convicted.

Lorenzo  United States 1977– 6 13+ Known as "The Kansas City Strangler".
Gilyard 1993 Killed up to 13 prostitutes in the Kansas
City area from 1977 to 1993. Sentenced
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to life in 2007.[286]
Władysła Known as "The Gentleman Killer".
w Indicted of, and confessed to having
 Poland 1950s 6 30
Mazurkie committed 30 murders; convicted of six
wicz and hanged in 1957.[287]
Found guilty of the murders of six
Gong 2005– children and teenagers aged between nine
 China 6 20+
Runbo 2006 and 16 from 2005 to 2006; executed in
2007.[288]
Unidentified serial killer who sketched
The 1974– then stabbed to death 14 gay men in San
 United States 6 16 Francisco. Surviving victims did not wish
Doodler 1975
to testify, so the killer was not identified.
[289]

Known as "The Soulless"; killed between

Cristopher
1990s 6 and at least 15 people starting from the
Chávez  Colombia 6 15+
–2015 1990s, including 4 underage brothers;
Cuellar
sentenced to 40 years imprisonment.[290]
Former clergyman nicknamed "Father
Bluebeard", killed his two wives and four
of his children with the help of a fifth he
András 1986–
 Belgium 6 14+ was having an incestuous affair with, and
Pándy 1990
whom denounced him to the authorities
seven years later. Sentenced to life
imprisonment in 2002.[291]
British ex-pat living in Australia. Known
John
1989– by the media as "The Granny Killer" as
Wayne  Australia 6 13
1990 he targeted elderly women; killed himself
Glover
while in prison in 2005.[292]
Alexander Killed between six and 12 people under
2000–
Sergeychi  Belarus 6 12 the influence of alcohol. Executed in
2006
k 2007.[293]
Known as "The Southern Psychopath";
Adrián
2014– raped and strangled drug-addicted
Arroyo  Costa Rica 6 11
2015 prostitutes in San José; sentenced to 110
Gutiérrez
years imprisonment.[294]
A freelance photographers who raped and
strangled to death women in California.
Joseph 1977– Arrested in 2011 and sentenced to death
 United States 6 10
Naso 1994 two years later. Known as "The Double
Initial Killer" since first four victims to
be identified bore double initials.[295]
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Terry
Known as the "Chameleon Killer"; main
Peder 1978–
 United States 6 6+ suspect in the Bear Brook murders, as
Rasmusse 2002
well as other murders.[296]
n
Murdered six men in Los Angeles
Juan 1986–
 United States 6 6+ County in what he claimed was a
Chavez 1990
retaliation against the AIDS epidemic.[297]
Known as "Son of Sam", he went after
young women and couples killing 6
people and wounding 7 others with a .44
David 1976– caliber Bulldog revolver. He was caught
 United States 6 6
Berkowitz 1977 when an eyewitness to his last murder
saw he had a parking ticket on his car. He
was sentenced to life in prison with
parole in 1978.[298]
Known as "The Vampire of Sacramento"
because he drank his victims'
blood and cannibalized their remains. He
Richard 1977–
 United States 6 6 killed six people in the span of a month
Chase 1978
in Sacramento, California.[299] The 1987
film Rampage was loosely based on
based on Chase's crimes.[300]
Murdered six men in Atlanta, Georgia in
Michael 1985– a 10-month period, via stabbing or
 United States 6 6
Terry 1986 shooting. Sentenced to life
imprisonment in 1988.[301]
Convicted of a double murder in 2007;
Lázaro
2006– later escaped from prison and murdered a
Barbosa  Brazil 6 6
2021 family of 4 before dying in a shootout
de Sousa
with the police.[302]
Targeted young couples. Remains
unsolved but open in
Zodiac 1968– the California jurisdictions where the five
 United States 5 37
Killer 1969 certain Zodiac murders occurred.
Potentially 37 total victims claimed but
unverified.[303]
From 1920 to 1928, he claimed in a
 United States posthumous autobiography to have
Carl 1915–
 Portuguese 5 22 committed over 22 killings, and sodomy
Panzram 1929
Angola of more than 1000 young men. Executed
in 1930 by hanging.[304]
Steve  United 2006 5 22 Referred to as "Suffolk murders",
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"Ipswich murders", "Ipswich Ripper",

"Suffolk Ripper", "Suffolk Strangler",
"East Anglia Ripper", "Red Light Ripper"
and "the Suffolkator". Murdered five
Wright Kingdom
prostitutes, all of whom worked
in Ipswich in 2006. There are possible
links to previous East Anglia prostitute
killings.[305][306]
Nigerian man who killed himself after
being charged for the murders of 5
Stephen
 United 1995– elderly people in Blackpool and Isle of
Akinmurel 5 15
Kingdom 1998 Man. He confessed to the murders. Links
e
to 10 other unsolved murders in the areas
were investigated by police.[307]
Butchered his victims, then served them
Joe 1976–
 United States 5 13 at BBQs at his roadside stand; died in
Metheny 1996
prison.[308]
 Switzerland
 France Known as the "Sadist of Romont"; Swiss
 United States soldier who sexually abused and
Michel 1981–
 Yugoslavia (su 5 11 murdered at least 5 hitchhikers in several
Peiry 1987
spected) countries; sentenced to life imprisonment.
[309]
 Italy (suspected
)
Made money smuggling people across
Hubert 1948– the Czechoslovakia-Germany border, but
 Czechoslovakia 5 10+
Pilčík 1951 killed most of his customers. Total
number of his victims is unknown.
Dutch serial killer known as "Het Beest
van Harkstede" (The Beast
of Harkstede). All proven victims he
killed were all prostitutes. Sentenced to
Willem 1971– 18 years imprisonment for his first two
 Netherlands 5 8
van Eijk 2001 murders and killed 3 more after his
release. Sentenced to life imprisonment in
2002 and died in 2019 in prison.
Suspected of having killed 3 more
prostitutes.
Killed outdoorsmen in rural Ohio by
Thomas 1989–
 United States 5 5+ sniping them from afar with a hunting
Dillon 1992
rifle.
Marc  Belgium 1995– 5 5+ Child molester who killed 4 of possibly
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11 victims. He was also convicted for

Dutroux 1996
murdering one of his partners in crime.
Sek Kim Wah, who was of Chinese
Singaporean descent, was 19 years old
when he killed five victims in two
separate robbery cases, using raffia string
to strangle them. Other methods
employed were hitting their heads with a
heavy object (like a wooden stool) and
electrocution (which was unsuccessful).
Sek Kim He robbed and killed a couple before
 Singapore 1983 5 5
Wah abandoning their corpses at Seletar
Reservoir on 30 June 1983 and then, on
23 July 1983, killed three more people at
Andrew Road with an accomplice who
did not take part in the killings. He was
arrested and indicted for murder six days
later and was sentenced to death on 14
August 1985; he lost an appeal and he
was hanged on 9 December 1988.[310]
Jerome 1991– Killed Newark women while on parole.
 United States 5 5
Dennis 1992 [311]

The Belize Ripper was an
Belize 1998– unidentified Belizean serial killer who
 Belize 5 5
Ripper 2000 abducted and murdered five young girls
in Belize City between 1998 and 2000.

Serial killers with fewer than five proven victims

This part of the list contains all serial killers with fewer than five proven victims who
acted alone and were neither medical professionals nor contract killers.

Years Proven Possible

Name Country Notes
active victims victims

Alexander  Russia 1991– 4 82+ Cannibal known as "The

Spesivtsev 1996 Novokuznetsk Monster";
admitted to 19 murders,
but 82 bloody sets of
clothes were found in his
home, along with jewels
and photographs of
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

possibly unidentified
victims. Found insane and
interned in a mental
hospital. His mother was
sentenced to 16 years in
prison for luring
Spesivtsev's victims to
their home.[312]

Killed himself by hanging

after murdering his wife
and niece. The latter was
also decapitated and
eviscerated in a manner
strongly similar to 26
unsolved murders of
women in Florida, starting
in 1973, the year Brandt
moved to the state. Brandt
was later considered the
culprit in one of these
murders, due to his strong
resemblance to a suspect
Charlie 1971–
 United States 4 29 who was filmed by a traffic
Brandt 2004
camera near the place
where one body was found.
He could not be officially
tied to the other crimes due
to lack of evidence.
Previously, when he was
13 years old in 1971, he
attempted to murder his
whole family with a gun,
for no apparent reason. His
mother (who was pregnant)
died in this attack, but his
father survived, and his
sister escaped.[313]

Robert  United Kingdom 1981– 4 18+ Convicted of kidnapping,

Black  Ireland (suspected) 1986 raping and murdering four
 West girls aged between five and
Germany (suspected) 11. Suspect in other earlier
child murders in the UK
 Netherlands (suspected)
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

and other European

countries. Died weeks
 France (suspected) before he was to be
charged with a fifth child
murder.[314]

Poisoned and drowned four

1946–
Max Gufler  Austria 4 18 women, but suspected of
1958
killing 18 in total.

1949 Murdered people who

Ernesto
 Italy and 4 16 approached his home; died
Picchioni
earlier of cardiac arrest in 1967.

Child rapist who killed

young boys; initially
1993–
Baekuni  Indonesia 4 14 sentenced to life
2010
imprisonment, but changed
to the death sentence.[315]

Known as the "Evil Spirit

of Kaukjarvi"; Ukrainian
Igor 1985– soldier who raped and
 Soviet Union 4 13 killed women in Kamenka,
Chernat 1986
selling their stolen items
afterwards; executed 1987.
[316]

Bisexual drifter who killed

Ricky Lee 1985– people he met in bars; his
 United States 4 12 wife assisted in two of the
Green 1986
murders; executed in 1997.
[317]

Robert  United Kingdom 1912 4 11+ Bigamist who murdered

Hicks and his wife and three children
Murray earlier in a murder-suicide;
posthumously revealed to
have killed previous wives
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

as well.[318]

Known as "The American

Jack the Ripper"; murdered
and mutilated three women
and one man; Canadian
William  United States 1982– and US authorities also
Dean 4 10+
 Canada 1983 investigated him as a
Christensen
suspect in a total of ten
murders, but he died before
any of these claims could
be confirmed.[319]

Scottish man who was

originally convicted of
murdering a 7-year-old girl
when he was 16. As well
as being convicted of the
murders of three women in
1961,
Angus 1977 and 1978, police
 United Kingdom 1967– 4 10
Sinclair suspect he was responsible
1982
for four other murders of
women in Glasgow in
these years.[320] Also a
suspect in two other
murders in 1970 and 1979
respectively.[321][322]

John  United Kingdom 1985– 4 9 Psychopathic Welsh

Cooper 1998 burglar who was convicted
in 2011 of the double
shotgun murders of a
couple on
the Pembrokeshire coast in
1989 and another during a
botched burglary nearby in
1985. Police believed he
killed at least one other
woman in 1989, and
investigated the possibility
he could also have been
responsible for another
double shotgun murder
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

in Bridgend in 1993. A
forensic pathologist also
claimed to police that he
could have been
responsible for two
murders of elderly siblings
in Pembrokeshire in 1976.
[323][324][325]

Convicted for the June

1989 murders of Joan
Rogers and her two
daughters, whose bodies
were found floating
in Tampa Bay,
Florida with their hands
and feet bound. Autopsies
showed the victims had
been thrown into the water
Oba 1989– while still alive, with ropes
 United States 4 4+
Chandler 1990 tied to a concrete block
around their necks.
Chandler was executed in
2011. In February 2014,
DNA evidence also
identified Chandler as the
murderer of Ivelisse
Berrios-Beguerisse, who
was found dead in Coral
Springs, Florida, on
November 27, 1990.

Murdered a Radio Shack

manager, and a florist at
their respective places of
business. Then murdered
Dallen two acquaintances before
 United States 1999 4 4+
Bounds taking two others hostage
and committing suicide.
Suspected of additional
murders in the Pacific
Northwest.
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

Scottish man who shot

dead a teacher at his
Robert 1967– former school in Dundee in
 United Kingdom 4 4
Mone 1976 1967. Later escaped from a
secure hospital in 1976 and
killed three more.[326]

Brudos was
a necrophiliac who had a
Jerry 1968– fascination with women's
 United States 4 4
Brudos 1969 shoes, and would often
dress his victims' corpses
in women's clothing.[327]

Sentenced to life without

parole in 1974 for
murdering a man who had
shown him pictures of
young boys he had
sexually abused.
Robert 1974– Subsequently, killed
 United Kingdom 4 4
Maudsley 1978 another child sex offender
in Broadmoor high-
security hospital and two
more, including a child sex
offender, in prison. Has
been held in solitary
confinement since 1983.

Aalt  Netherlands 1978– 4 4 Dutch criminal and serial

Mondria 1997 killer who committed four
murders and was
responsible for a large
number of assaults.
Mondria was considered
extremely violent and
aggressive. After a
notorious murder of his
girlfriend's 10-year-old
son, he was sentenced to
18 years imprisonment in
1998, after initially
receiving life
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

imprisonment for three

murders in 1978, for which
he also received 15 years
imprisonment.

Japanese man who

murdered four young girls
between August 1988 and
Tsutomu 1988– June 1989 popularly
 Japan 4 4
Miyazaki 1989 known as the Otaku Killer.
He was active
in Tokyo and Saitama
Prefecture.

Canadian serial killer

convicted in 2014 by
the British Columbia
Supreme Court of
murdering three women
Cody 2009– and one teenage girl,
 Canada 4 4
Legebokoff 2010 between 2009 and 2010, in
or near the city of Prince
George, British Columbia.
He is one of Canada's
youngest convicted serial
killers.

Nicknamed "The Grindr

Killer", Port met his
victims via online gay
social networks. He used
gamma-Hydroxybutyric
Stephen 2014–
 United Kingdom 4 4 acid (GHB), a date rape
Port 2015
drug, adding it to drinks
given to his victims, raped
them, and murdered four of
them in his flat in Barking,
east London.

Seminole  United States 2017 4 4 A serial killer who is

Heights believed to have murdered
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

four people in the

Seminole Heights
neighborhood of Tampa,
Florida, in October and
November 2017. All four
victims were shot dead
seemingly at random.
Howell Donaldson was
indicted on the charges on
December 7, 2017. He
pleaded not guilty to all
charges five days later. On
serial killer
January 23, 2018,
Hillsborough State
Attorney Andrew Warren
announced that the state
would seek the death
penalty against Donaldson.
[328]
 On May 1, 2023,
Donaldson pleaded guilty
in the murders and was
sentenced to four
consecutive life sentences
without parole.[329][330]

American serial killer and

child rapist who confessed
1924–
Albert Fish  United States 3 9–100+ to three murders for which
1932
he was convicted and
sentenced to death.[331]

Convicted of murdering
three women in Texas and
Robert Ben 1989–
 United States 3 50+ Illinois between 1989 and
Rhoades 1990
1990. Sentenced to life
imprisonment.[332]

Peter Tobin  United Kingdom 1991– 3 48 Scottish rapist and serial

2006 killer known to have killed
at least three young
women. Was also
previously a suspect in
the Bible John murders
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

committed in Glasgow
during the late 1960s,
although police have now
dismissed the theory.[333][334]

Killed three women in

1986; fled to the US but
Pedro
recaptured and deported
Padilla  Mexico 1986 3 30
back to Mexico; main
Flores
suspect in the Ciudad
Juárez Murders.[335]

Convicted of murdering
three women within a
Stephen
 United States 1981 3 30[336] period of five weeks in
Morin
1981. Sentenced to the
death penalty.[337]

Ran a boarding house in

Sacramento where she
Dorothea 1982– poisoned tenants and
 United States 3 9–25
Puente 1988 buried them in the yard in
order to steal their social
security checks.[338]

Known as "Butcher Knife

Billy". Killer convicted of
1986– raping and murdering three
Billy Glaze  United States 3 20+
1987 Native American
prostitutes in Minneapolis
in 1986 and 1987.[339]

Sidney  United Kingdom c. 1960– 3 20 Described by The

Cooke 1989 Guardian newspaper in
1999 as "Britain's most
notorious paedophile",
Cooke and his infamous
paedophile ring were
convicted of the murder of
14-year-old Jason Swift in
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

1984. They were also

known by police to have
been responsible for the
abductions and murders of
children Barry Lewis
and Mark Tildesley. Cooke
was the ringleader of the
gang, who are believed to
have murdered up to 20
children, possibly
including Vishal
Mehrotra and Martin
Allen.[340][341]

Found not guilty by reason

of insanity of three arsenic
Bertha 1909–
 United States 3 17 poisonings and suspected
Gifford 1928
of 14 other killings, mostly
children, in Missouri.[342]

 Allied-occupied Killed women near

Bernhard 1947–
Germany 3 16 highways; confessed to a
Prigan 1952
 West Germany total of 16 murders.[343]

Burglar suspect of 12
violent murders during
robberies, charged with
five, convicted of three.
The two other cases were
left to lie on file, and proof
was later found by police
that he had killed one of
Patrick 1973–
 United Kingdom 3 13 these victims.[344] Confessed
Mackay[a] 1975
to police that he had killed
13 people.[345][344] Has been
eligible for parole since
1995 and since 2017 has
been held in an open
prison with day release
provisions.[346] Now known
as 'David Groves'.[346]
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

Dutch serial killer

convicted of abducting,
torturing, raping and
Koos 1979– killing three girls.
 Netherlands 3 12
Hertogs 1980 Suspected of killing a
further three to nine girls
and young women in the
1970s.

Dubbed "The Hollywood

Ripper", Gargiulo stabbed
3 women to death, and
Michael 1993–
 United States 3 10 tried to kill a fourth
Gargiulo 2008
woman. Sentenced to death
in 2021 but still on death
row.

Poisoned her husband and

Chisako 2007– two other men to death, but
 Japan 3 10 suspected in another seven
Kakehi 2013
deaths; sentenced to death.
[347]

Considered to be a copycat
of the Zodiac Killer.
Claimed to have killed
Heriberto 1990–
 United States 3 8+ people based on their
Seda 1996
zodiac signs, and only
killed when certain star
formations were out.

Anthony  United Kingdom 2002 3 8 Known as the "Camden

Hardy Ripper", killed and
dismembered three
prostitutes in Camden,
London in 2002. Police
believe he could be
responsible for the murders
of three other prostitutes in
London in the 1990s and
two others
in Nottinghamshire. One
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

other unsolved murder he

was linked to was solved in
2011 when her former
partner John Sweeney was
convicted of her murder.[348]
[349][350]

Known to have killed three

prostitutes, but claimed to
police to have killed 6.
[351]
 Has been a suspect
Stephen 2009– in one other murder.
 United Kingdom 3 6 [352]
 Dubbed himself the
Griffiths 2010
"Crossbow Cannibal" as he
killed his victims with a
hammer and crossbow and
then later ate parts of them.
[353]

After the relationship

between Hans van Zon and
his girlfriend ended in
April 1967, van Zon
alleged that she continued
to impose on him. To put
an end to this, he went into
her house and killed her
with a self-made lead pipe.
He also killed an 80-year-
Hans van
 Netherlands 1967 3 5+ old shopkeeper, and a
Zon
milkman in robberies. In
addition to the murders he
was tried for, van Zon was
also suspected of several
other murders, including
the lust murder of Elly
Segov in 1964 and the
murder of the English
homosexual film director
Claude Berkeley in 1965.

Levi  United Kingdom 2002– 3 5 West London serial killer

Bellfield convicted of two fatal
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

hammer attacks on women

and the murder of Milly
Dowler. Also a suspect in
the murder of his
2004 childhood girlfriend Patsy
Morris in 1980 and of
another woman, Judith
Gold, who was hit over the
head in 1990.[354][355]

Slit the throats of three

confirmed victims before
Özkan dumping the bodies in
 Turkey 2008 3 4
Zengin wells. Reportedly
confessed to an additional
murder.[356]

American serial killer

from Orange, New Jersey,
Wheeler-Weaver lured his
victims using dating apps
and murdered three women
Khalil
and attempted to kill a
Wheeler-  United States 2016 3 4
fourth between August
Weaver
2016 and November 2016.
One of the victim's friends
created a fake account and
lured him to a meeting
before notifying police.[357]

François  France 1986– 3 3–9+ Nicknamed "Le Grêlé"

Vérove 1994 ("the pockmarked man"),
Verove a former police
officer is blamed for four
murders and a series of
rapes since 1986. His
confessed was found on his
suicide note alongside
body after he killed
himself in 2021. The
crimes include the 1986
murder of an 11-year-old
child, Cécile Bloch, in
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

Paris.[358][359]

(Birth name John Martin

Scripps, alias Simon James
Davis) While on the run
after escaping Britain,
Martin killed at least three
tourists between 8 and 14
March 1995 and robbed
them of their possessions
and money: one in
Singapore and two in
Thailand. He also
dismembered their bodies
and dumped them in
various areas, such as the
sea or abandoned places.
Martin was also alleged to
have killed at least three
John
 United Kingdom 1995 3 3+ more people in other
Martin
countries, such as the US,
but these were
unconfirmed. He was
arrested in Changi
Airport when he returned
to Singapore on 19 March
1995, and was charged
with murder. Martin was
found guilty of the one
murder he committed in
Singapore and thus
sentenced to death in
November 1995. Martin
was executed on 19 April
1996, after he declined to
appeal against his
sentence.[360]

Harvey  United States 1949– 3 3+ Serving a life sentence at

Carignan 1974 the Minnesota Correctional
Facility – Faribault for the
murders of two women. He
had been previously
convicted for a 1949 rape
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

and murder he committed

while stationed in the U.S.
Army, in Anchorage,
Alaska.

Joubert killed a young boy

in Maine and two boys in
John 1982–
 United States 3 3+ Nebraska. He was
Joubert 1983
executed by the State of
Nebraska in 1996.

Unidentified serial killer

who murdered three
women in Glasgow,
Scotland.[361] Convicted
"Bible 1968–
 United Kingdom 3 3 serial killer Peter
John" 1969
Tobin was suspected in the
murders, but has since
been eliminated as a
suspect.[334]

Murdered three women in

the town
Leonarda 1939– of Correggio, Reggio
 Italy 3 3
Cianciulli 1940 Emilia, and turned their
bodies into soap and cakes.
[362]

Sociopathic serial killer

that murdered romantic
Sharon 1960– partners with a handgun.
 United States 3 3
Kinne 1964 Currently still at large
since her escape from
prison in 1969.

Ted  United States 1978– 3 3 Domestic terrorist and

Kaczynski 1995 serial bomber known as the
"Unabomber", Kaczynski
was responsible for more
than two dozen bombings
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

of universities and one

airline bombing from 1978
to 1996, justified by
Kaczynski by his
philosophy that
technological
advancements would
destroy humanity. Arrested
in 1996 due to his brother
David recognizing the then
unidentified Unabomber's
manifesto titled Industrial
Society and Its Future as
the work of Kaczynski.
Currently imprisoned at
ADX Florence.[363]

Murdered three people

from 4 April-11 September
1994. He was serving 60
years for the murder of
an Ellis
County convenience store
Leon employee when
 United States 1994 3 3
Dorsey surveillance camera
footage linked him to the
murders of two other
people. He was convicted
and sentenced to death in
June 2000, and executed
on 12 August 2008.

Jebson, a prolific child

molester, was convicted of
raping and killing the
eight-year-old daughter of
Ronald 1970- acquaintances in 1974.
 United Kingdom 3 3
Jebson 1974 While serving his sentence
he pled guilty to molesting
and murdering two other
children, Susan Blatchford
and Gary Hanlon, in 1970.
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

Hall traveled around the

American Midwest as part
of his interest in historical
reenactments, which he
would also use as a cover
for stalking, raping, and
murdering teenage girls. It
is believed his first
murders were committed
when he was 18 years old.
Although he was convicted
1980–
Larry Hall  United States 2 50+ of kidnapping 15-year-old
1994
Jessica Roach, Hall has
never been charged with
murder. Authorities have
tied 15 murders to Hall,
though only been able to
confirm two, he has
admitted to (and recanted)
committing 39, though the
FBI believes he could have
committed as many as 50
in at least three states.[364]

Medical professionals and pseudo-medical professionals

Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

Convicted of 15 murders and

responsible for the deaths of 218
patients identified by inquiry, but is
believed to have killed around 250
Harold  United 1975–
218 250[365] people.[366][367] He
Shipman Kingdom 1998
injected diamorphine into his patients
and then falsified the medical records,
reporting that his patient had been in
poor health. Hanged himself in prison.

Niels Högel  Germany 1999– 85+ 300[368] Nurse who was sentenced to life
 Year Prove
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Name Country e Notes
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victims
e s

imprisonment for the murder of more

than 85 people.[369][370] In November
2017, German prosecutors said that the
number of victims was at least 106,
[371]
 with Högel admitting, in October
2005
2018, to murdering 100 patients.[13] By
May 2019, he was believed to be the
most prolific serial killer in peacetime
Germany with up to 300 victims over
fifteen years.[368]

Anujka was an accomplished amateur

chemist from the village
of Vladimirovac, Yugoslavia (modern
day Serbia). She poisoned at least 50
Baba  Kingdom c.1890s
50 150 people and possibly as many as 150 in
Anujka of Yugoslavia –1928
the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Was sentenced to 15 years in prison in
1929 but released after eight years due
to old age.[372]

Medical doctor found to have killed 43

Louay Omar
2005– wounded policemen, soldiers and
Mohammed  Iraq 43
2006 officials in Kirkuk; was a member of
al-Taei
an insurgent cell.[373]

Self-professed Angel of Death.

Worked as an orderly in Cincinnati-
area hospitals and preyed on his
Donald  United 1970–
37 57–87 patients. Claimed to have killed 87
Harvey States 1987
patients starting at age 18. Active
1970–1987. Sentenced to 28 life
sentences in Ohio.[374]

Nurse that confessed to poisoning 31

 United 1885– patients. Found not guilty by reason of
Jane Toppan 31
States 1901 insanity and interned in a mental
institution until her death in 1938.[375]
 Year Prove
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s n
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victims
e s

Nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

who murdered at least 29 patients
between 1988 and 2003, but experts
Charles  United 1988– believe the number could be as high as
29 400+
Cullen States 2003 400. Cullen has admitted to more
murders, which authorities believe are
likely, but the murders cannot be
verified due to lack of records.[376]

Stephan 2003– Nurse who killed 29 patients;

 Germany 29 29+ sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006.
Letter 2004 [377]

A Nurse Aide who poisoned victims

Anders 1978– with gevisol and ivisol. His actions
 Sweden 27
Hansson 1979 were called "The Hospital Murders"
(Swedish: Sjukhusmorden).[378]

Active 1926 and from 1942 to 1944.

Marcel 1926–
 France 26 63 Petiot is suspected of having killed up
Petiot 1944
to 63 in total. Executed in 1946.[379]

Norwegian nurse and most prolific

known serial killer in Scandinavian
history, convicted in 1983 of poisoning
at least 22 patients with Curacit;
1983 however he initially confessed to 27
Arnfinn
 Norway and 22 27–138+ murders; later he retracted his
Nesset
earlier confessions and claimed he had killed
138 patients. Was released from prison
in 2004 after serving 21 years, the
maximum punishment possible by
Norwegian law.[380]

Roger  Switzerland 1995– 22 22 Known as the "Death-Keeper

Andermatt 2001 of Lucerne"; nurse who killed 22
patients; most prolific Swiss serial
killer in history; sentenced to life
 Year Prove
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s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

imprisonment.[381]

Maxim 2000– Doctor who killed his patients in St.

 Russia 12 19 Petersburg. Suspected of 19 murders.
Petrov 2002 [382]

Poisonings of 10 patients at the

Ann Arbor Veteran's Administration Hospital in
 United
Hospital 1975 10 10 1975. Filipino nurses Filipina Narciso
States
Killer and Leonora Perez were tried for the
crimes.[383]

Known as "The Poisoner of

Ludivine 2012– Chambéry"; nurse's aide who poisoned
 France 10 10
Chambet 2013 elderly patients; sentenced to 25 years
imprisonment.[384]

Killed his victims with a lethal

injection of heparin from May to
 Czech
Petr Zelenka 2006 7 21[385] September 2006. Ten people survived
Republic
his murder attempt. Suspected of up to
14 additional murders.

LPN in Vermillion County Ind., Preyed

Orville on elderly patients—thought to have
 United 1993–
Lynn 6 130 killed many of them with injections of
States 1995
Majors potassium chloride. Sentenced to 360
years in Indiana.[386]

Efren  United 1989– Respiratory therapist who killed six

6 50+
Saldivar States 1997 patients, possibly as many as 120.[387]

Christine  France 1998 6 30 Nurse who killed terminally ill patients

Malèvre and claiming that they had asked her to
earlier help them die, something denied by
 Year Prove
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victims
e s

their families. Sentenced to 12 years in

prison for six murders and suspect of
30.[388]

Nurse who poisoned her elderly

Antoinette 1924– patients. Death sentence was
 France 6 12+
Scieri 1925 commuted to life in prison and she died
in prison.[389]

Responsible for killing political

Ahmad  Imperial 1931–
6 prisoners at Qasr prison during the
Ahmadi State of Iran 1944
reign of Reza Shah.

Nurse who was convicted for killing

Frans five patients at a hospital in Kerkrade,
 Netherland 1970–
Hooijmaijer 5 259 the Netherlands from 1970 to 1975, but
s 1975
s was suspected to have killed
approximately 259 people.

Killed 84 newborn children at

maximum. As a midwife, she killed
infants born to parents unwilling to
Miyuki 1946– care for them during the prohibition
 Japan 5 84
Ishikawa 1948 of abortion in Japan.[390] Arrested in
1948, and sentenced to four years
imprisonment in 1953 as final decision.
[391]

Nurse at a Massachusetts Veterans
Medical Center who injected male
Kristen  United 1990–
5 70+ patients with epinephrine,
Gilbert States 1996
causing heart attacks. Sentenced to life
without parole.[392]

Amy  United 1910– 5 48+ A nursing home proprietor believed to

Archer- States 1917 have poisoned as many as 60 patients
Gilligan from her homes and her second
 Year Prove
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s n
Name Country e Notes
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victims
e s

husband. Charged with five murders

originally, this was lowered to just one
following her admission of guilt, and
was found guilty of second degree
murder. Died in a mental hospital in
1962.[393]

Nurse who poisoned terminally-ill

Sonya 2003–
 Italy 5 18 patients; sentenced to 20 years
Caleffi 2004
imprisonment.[394]

 United
Michael 1981–
States 4 35–60+ Medical Doctor who killed patients.[395]
Swango 1997
 Zimbabwe

Gosnell, who ran an abortion clinic,

was charged with eight and convicted
of four murders. Three babies were
born alive, then killed by cutting the
Kermit  United 1989?–
4 100+ infant's spine with scissors. One mother
Gosnell States 2010
died due to complications. Testimony
indicated hundreds of similar
procedures carried out by Gosnell and
his staff.

Nurse who injected patients

with potassium chloride or removed
their oxygen mask. Confessed to five
murders which he claimed to be mercy
Edson 1999 killings and was convicted of four in
Izidoro  Brazil and 4 131 2000; sentenced to 76 years in prison.
Guimarães earlier He may have killed as many as 131
patients for money, as he was paid $60
for informing local funeral homes of a
patient's death so that they could
contact the deceased's relatives first.[396]

Richard  United 1987 4 25 Known as "The Angel of Death". New

 Year Prove
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s n
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victims
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York nurse convicted of four murders,

Angelo States linked to six other deaths. Suspected of
killing up to 25 people.[397]

Convicted of murdering four elderly

women and attempting to murder
another in two Leeds hospitals during
2002 while working as a nurse. He had
 United
Colin Norris 2002 4 18 injected the women, who were only in
Kingdom
hospital due to broken hips, with
massive overdoses of insulin. He was
sentenced to life imprisonment with a
minimum term of 30 years in 2008.[398]

Convicted of murdering four children

and attacking another six in
Beverley  United
1991 4 the Lincolnshire hospital where she
Allitt Kingdom
worked as a nurse. Given 13 life
sentences.[399]

Andrés Known as "The Chihuahua Ripper";

Ulises 2009– drugged, raped and then killed men
 Mexico 3 12+
Castillo 2015 in Chihuahua; sentenced to 120 years
Villarreal imprisonment.[400]

Elfriede Known as "The Black Widow";

1981–
Blauensteine  Austria 3 10+ poisoned people for material gain; died
1995
r from a brain tumor in 2003.[401]

Benjamin  United 2003– 2 12 Nurse convicted in 2006 of murdering

Geen Kingdom 2004 two patients and causing grievous
bodily harm to another 15 at Horton
General
Hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire betw
een 2003 and 2004.[402] Induced illness
in the patients with overdoses of drugs,
in order to enjoy the 'thrill' of
resuscitating them.[403] Given 17 life
 Year Prove
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s n
Name Country e Notes
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victims
e s

sentences and ordered to serve at least

30 years imprisonment.[404] 9 other cases
were originally investigated.[403]

Victorino  United Poisoned several patients at Stepping

2011 2 5
Chua Kingdom Hill Hospital with Insulin.

Serial killer groups and couples

Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

Murder Incorporated or
Murder Inc. for short was a
large criminal enterprise of
small contract-killing groups
that were collectively known
as Murder Inc. Run by Albert
"The Mad Hatter"
Anastasia and his close
associates, the organization
was responsible for the
Murder  United 1920s–
400 1000+ assassinations of key
Incorporated States 1940
witnesses of early Cosa
Nostra activities, so as to
make them 'disappear' and
break the case against the lead
mobsters whenever they went
to trial. In 1941 the group was
exposed by former
member Abe "Kid Twist"
Reles and subsequently ceased
to exist.

Philadelphia poison  United 1931– 114 Gang of 16 that poisoned

States 1938 Italian immigrants
 Year Prove
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s n
Name Country e Notes
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victims
e s

with arsenic in order to collect

their life insurance. The
leaders, cousins Herman and
ring Paul Petrillo, were executed in
the electric chair in 1941
while the rest were given life
sentences.[405]

Two sisters who ran a brothel

Delfina and María
 Mexico
de Jesús González
in Mexico, hired numerous
prostitutes and murdered at
least 80 of them after they
were deemed useless during
the span of 10 years. They
1955–
91+ also killed 11 men. Probably
1964
the work of four of the sisters,
sentenced to 40 years in
prison. Body count varies due
to the combined work of the
sisters being impossible to
assign to them individually.[24]

Fleeing to Shaanxi, Jiangsu,

Anhui, and Henan provinces
Peng Miaoji, Ding and 21 provinces and cities 33
1998–
Yunjia and Su  China 77 84 administrative villages; during
1999
Xiaoping 38 burglaries, killed 77
people, seriously injured three
others.[406][407]

Sex servant gang who robbed

David Avendaño
1997– and then poisoned their
Ballina and his  Mexico 70 70
2007 clients; the leader Ballina was
followers
arrested in 2008.[408]

Angel Makers of  Hungary 1911– 50 300+ 26 women who poisoned their

Nagyrév 1929 husbands (sometimes also
their parents, lovers and
children) with arsenic under
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

the guidance of midwife Júlia

Fazekas and her accomplice,
Susi Oláh.[409]

Shaanxi Province Wang Shou

Long Zhimin and 1983– villagers Long Zhimin and
 China 48 48+
Yan Shuxia 1985 Yan Shuxia in the home has
killed 48 people.[410]

Manufacturing 51 cases of
Bian Kuang, Fu
2001– murder, robbery, rape, killing
Xinyuan and Luo  China 41
2002 41 people. Bian Kuang
Lianshun
personally killed 39 people.[411]

A mother and daughter who

used accomplices to lure
Ivanova and Olga victims to their home;
 Russia 1909 40 130 Tortured, murdered, and
Tamarin
cannibalized at least 40 people
before they were apprehended.
[412]

Racist skinhead gang, led by

Artur Ryno and Pavel
Skachevsky, who killed
Ryno-Skachevsky 2006–
 Russia 37 people from non-European
gang 2007
ethnicities or backgrounds;
both sentenced to 10 years of
penal labour.[413]

Family of robbers and serial

2003– killers, led by the parents
Gang of Amazons  Russia 30
2013 Inessa Tarverdiyeva and
Roman Podkopaev.[414]

Dean Corll, David  United 1970– 28 29+ Corll, known as "The Candy

Owen Man", killed at least 28
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

teenage boys and young men

in Houston between 1970 and
1973. Corll was then shot and
killed by one of the two
teenage accomplices he
Brooks and Elmer recruited to assist him in the
States 1973
Wayne Henley abductions of the victims on 8
August 1973. This
accomplice, Elmer Wayne
Henley, informed the police of
the trio's murders the same
day Corll was murdered.[415][416]

Gang made up by at least

three extremely violent
robbers, none of whom was
ever identified or
apprehended. Their bloodlust
 Belgium 1982– increased dramatically in their
Brabant killers 28 40+
 France 1985 last year of activity, when they
began shooting passersby
before a robbery, including
children, for no seeming
reason. Some have theorized
links to Operation Gladio.[417]

"The Godparents
of Matamoros". Leader and
Adolfo
1986– second-in-command of a drug-
Constanzo and Sara  Mexico 25+
1989 smuggling cult that abducted
Aldrete
men to perform human
sacrifices.[418]

Ulster Loyalist gang led

 United 1975–
Shankill Butchers 23 23+ by Lenny Murphy, who killed
Kingdom 1982
people in sectarian attacks.[419]

Viktor Sayenko and  Ukraine 2007 21 "The Dnepropetrovsk

Igor Suprunyuk Maniacs". A pair of 19-year-
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

olds who, over the course of

less than a month, attacked
and murdered passersby while
out on walks. They recorded
videos of some of the
murders, including one which
subsequently leaked to the
Internet.[420]

Brazilian man convicted of 20

counts of murder, robbery,
drug trafficking and death
Marcelo de Jesus
squad. As he had 1.28m in
Silva and his death  Brazil ?–2010 20+
height, he was nicknamed
squad
Chucky and Pigmeu.
Murdered in 2010 by rivals
traffickers.

Killed soldiers using various

Wang Zongfang
 China 1983 19 arms in three provinces.
and Wang Zongwei
Executed in 1983.[421]

Satanic ring that abducted,

mutilated and sacrificed
Anísio Ferreira de children in Altamira, Brazil.
1989–
Sousa and  Brazil 19 The leader, Ferreira de Sousa,
1992
followers was convicted to 77 years in
prison for four murders and
two attempted murders.[422]

Abducted women, mostly

 United 1981– prostitutes, then raped,
Ripper Crew 18
States 1982 tortured and killed them
in Chicago, Illinois.[423]

John Allen  United 2002 17 Killed seven people from

Muhammad and Le States February to September 2002
e Boyd Malvo and 10 in the Beltway sniper
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

attacks of October 2002.

Muhammad was executed in
2009, while Malvo received
life imprisonment.

Vladyslav "The Nighttime Killers".

Volkovich and 1991– Murdered homeless men and
 Ukraine 16 20+
Volodymyr 1997 lone drivers with a variety of
Kondratenko weapons.[424]

Four African-Americans who

killed 16 white people and
 United 1973–
Death Angels 16 injured between eight and 10
States 1974
in San Francisco (Zebra
murders).[425]

Known as the "Lainz Angels

of Death"; Waltraud Wagner,
Irene Leidolf, Stephanija
Lainz Angels of 1983– Mayer, and Maria Gruber
 Austria 15 49–200+
Death 1989 were nurses at the Lainz
General Hospital in Vienna
who admitted to murdering 49
patients.[426]

Neo-Nazi gang, led by Pavel

Voitov and Elena Lobacheva,
who murdered alcoholic
2014–
The Cleaners  Russia 15 15+ tramps and beggars; Voitov
2015
sentenced to life imprisonment
and Lobacheva to 13 years in
a penal colony.[427]

Fred  United 1967– 12 30 Mainly targeted young women

West and Rosemary Kingdom 1987 but were also found guilty of
West murdering two of their own
daughters. Also found guilty
of raping another daughter.
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
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victims
e s

Buried the victims around

their house and local area
of Gloucester. Shortly before
he killed himself in 1995, Fred
West said there were more
victims.[428] At one point he
confessed to killing up to 30.
[429]

Three brothers and an

 United 1971– accomplice responsible for 12
Briley Brothers 12
States 1979 murders in the 1970s in
Richmond, Virginia.[430]

The bodies of eight victims

were found in plastic barrels
in a disused bank vault
John Justin
in Snowtown, South Australia.
Bunting, Robert Joe 1992–
 Australia 12 Bunting was found guilty of
Wagner and James 1999
11 murders, Wagner pleaded
Spyridon Vlassakis
guilty to three and was
convicted of a further seven
murders.[225]

Three brothers who killed at

2007– least 12 people from 2007 to
Mailoni Brothers  Zambia 12
2013 2013. Killed by Zambia
Army Commandos in 2013.[431]

Leonard  United 1982– 11 25 Abducted women, used them

Lake and Charles States 1985 as sex slaves, and then
Ng murdered them, together with
any men, women, and children
who got in their way. Lake
killed himself upon arrest, but
Ng was later convicted of
killing 11 people. Between
1982 and 1985, Lake and Ng
were believed to have
abducted and killed as many
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
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victims
e s

as 25 victims, as evidenced by
human remains found on
Lake's California ranch.[432]

Found guilty of the murders of

Shen Changyin and 1999–
 China 11 11 prostitutes.[433] They were
Shen Changping 2004
executed in 2006.[citation needed]

Raped, robbed and murdered

Polatbay  Uzbekistan women along desolate roads;
2011–
Berdaliyev and 11 both sentenced to life
 Kazakhstan 2012
Abduseit Ormanov imprisonment in both
countries.[434]

The victims, seemingly

chosen at random and killed
by different methods, were
found next to letters written in
Italian, signed "Ludwig" and
containing Nazi imagery, that
 Italy
gave a reason for why the
 West
Wolfgang Abel and 1977– murder had been committed.
Germany 10 27
Marco Furlan 1984 Abel and Furlan were arrested
 Netherland in Castiglione delle
s Stiviere while dousing a
crowded discothèque with
gasoline and sentenced in
1987 to 30 years in prison for
all crimes (later reduced to
27).[435]

Known as the "Monsters

Juan Carlos
2012– of Ecatepec"; couple who
Hernández and  Mexico 10 20
2018 raped, murdered and
Patricia Martínez
cannibalized women.[436]

Hillside Stranglers  United 1977– 10 10 Initially believed to be one

States 1979 person, two perpetrators were
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

eventually discovered to be
cousins Kenneth
Bianchi and Angelo Buono
Jr. Convicted of kidnapping,
raping, torturing and
murdering 10 women and girls
ranging in age from 12 to 28.

Four Pune commercial
art students (Rajendra Jakkal,
Dilip Sutar, Shantaram
Kanhoji Jagtap and Munawar
Joshi-Abhyankar 1976–
 India 10 Harun Shah) that broke into
serial murderers 1977
random people's homes and
businesses and strangled them
with a nylon rope. Executed
by hanging in 1983.[437]

Killed 10 victims in
Sacramento, California.
Gerald Gallego died of cancer
Gerald and  United 1978–
10 before his death sentence
Charlene Gallego States 1980
could be carried out. Charlene
Gallego was released July
1997.[438]

Jorge Sagredo and Carlos

Topp committed 10 murders
and four rapes from 5 August
Viña del Mar 1980– 1980 to 1 November 1981 in
 Chile 10
psychopaths 1981 the city of Viña del Mar.
Executed by firing squad in
1985, they became the last
people executed in Chile.[439]

Yevgeny  Russia 1998 10 Killed clients with expensive

Nagorny and Sergei cars in their autoshop in order
Stavitsky to sell them; sentenced to life
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

imprisonment.[440]

Neo-Nazi group who killed

10 ethnic Turks in
the Bosphorus serial
murders from 2000 to 2007.
Most victims were small
National Socialist 2000–
 Germany 10 business owners killed in
Underground 2007
broad daylight with a gunshot
to the face. Two of the
suspects killed themselves and
a third, Beate Zschäpe, was
apprehended in 2011.[441]

Robbed and killed women

in Beijing out of revenge for
Song Jinghua and 2005–
 China 9 Song's brother, who was
Yan Jinguang 2007
previously executed for an
unrelated crime.[442]

Robbed and killed people in

Tadeusz
1991– several Polish voivodeships,
Grzesik and the  Poland 8 20+
2007 mainly owners of exchange
Bureaucrats Gang
offices.[443]

Edgar Álvarez Cruz Kidnapped, drugged, raped

1993–
and Francisco  Mexico 8–10 14+ and then killed women in
2003
Granados cotton fields.[444]

Gang of serial killers, led by

Sergio Armendáriz Diaz and
The Ciudad Juárez 1995– Juan Contreras Jurado, who
 Mexico 8 10–14
Rebels 1996 killed women in Ciudad
Juárez; claimed to work for
Abdul Latif Sharif.[445]
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

A California desert cult

formed by Charles Manson in
1967, the 'Manson Family'
The Manson  United 1967– committed a series of murders
7 7
Family cult killings States 1969 in name of promoting
Manson's goal of causing
a race war that he called
Helter Skelter.

Known as the "Truro

Murderers"; Worrell was
Christopher Worrell 1976– killed in a car accident and the
 Australia 7
and James Miller 1977 killings stopped. Later Miller
was convicted of killing seven
people in 1976–1977.[446]

A series of murders
perpetrated by three Neo-
Nazis (with an accomplice
István Csaba Csontos) against
Kiss brothers and 2008– people of Roma ethnicity,
 Hungary 6
Zsolt István Pető 2009 occurring between July 2008
and August 2009. It is
regarded as one of the worst
crimes in the country's history
after the war.

Oldest couple ever sentenced

to death in the United States at
the ages of 75 and 69;
Ray and Faye  United 1986–
5 12 convicted of killing five men;
Copeland States 1989
modus operandi was to hire
unskilled drifters as farmhands
and later kill them.[447]

Ian Brady and Myra  United 1963– 5 12 Responsible for the "Moors

Hindley Kingdom 1965 murders": they abducted,
raped, tortured and murdered
at least five children in the
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

Manchester area before

burying their victims
on Saddleworth Moor as part
of an experiment in
"existential experience". The
case attracted much media
coverage long after the two
were sentenced, especially in
the United Kingdom, as
Hindley sought release from
prison from the 1980s but was
refused and died in prison.
Five victims were identified
although Brady periodically
claimed that there were up to
twelve.

Hospital crew that killed

patients in order to get bribes
from nearby funeral homes.
Two doctors and two
paramedics were convicted for
the murder of five patients,
2002 but the investigation is
40–
The Skin Hunters  Poland and 5 continuing, with over 40
1200+[448]
earlier remaining suspects. There are
also suspicions that due to the
heavy use of pancuronium
bromide, scoline and potassiu
m chloride in 1998-2001, the
number of victims could be as
high as 1200.[449][450]

Known as the "Speed Freak

Loren Herzog and
 United 1984– Killers"; California duo
Wesley 4 19[451]

States 1999 initially convicted of four

Shermantine
murders from 1984 to 1999.[452]

Raymond  United 1947– 3 20 Known as the "Lonely Hearts

Fernandez and States 1949 Killers", Fernandez and Beck
Martha Beck extorted women Fernandez
 Year Prove
Possibl
s n
Name Country e Notes
activ victim
victims
e s

met through lonely hearts

advertisements. Both were
arrested in Michigan in 1949
for the murders of a woman
and her two-year-old
daughter, but Michigan
authorities waived prosecution
and extradited the pair to New
York to face trial for a murder
that occurred there because
New York had the death
penalty while Michigan did
not. They were convicted of
that murder and executed in
1951.[453]

Cult members responsible for

1998– ritualistic murders, and are
Beasts of Satan  Italy 3 18
2004 suspected in other cases,
including suicides.[454]

Texas duo convicted of three

murders from 1980 to 1981,
and both subsequently
James Paster and  United 1980–
3 5 executed. Shortly before his
Stephen McCoy States 1981
execution Paster confessed to
having committed two
additional murders.[455][456][457]

Sach and Walters, known as

the "Finchley baby farmers",
would take in unwanted
babies from young women,
Amelia Sach and  United 1900–
1[note 1] 300+[458] collect a fee and then
Annie Walters Kingdom 1903
discreetly murder the children.
They were executed in 1903,
the only double hanging of
women in British history.
Disputed cases
Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

Mentally disabled, Lüdke was

arrested after being discovered with a
corpse. Police declared him insane
and imprisoned him in a psychiatric
hospital, where he died when he was
Bruno 1928–
 Germany 51 86 experimented on. The only evidence
Lüdke 1943
tying him to the crimes was a
confession that may have been
physically coerced. He was never
given a trial and he is generally[by
whom?]
 considered innocent.[459]

Confessed to killing 41 women in

mostly Florida and New Jersey areas.
Gerald  United 1969–
22+ 41 Some controversy surrounds the case
Stano States 1980
as he is believed by some to have
been a serial confessor.[460]

All the victims were young women

and were last seen on Highway
16 in British
Columbia between Prince
George and Prince Rupert. If they
were all victims of the same person, it
"Highway would be one of the most prolific
1980–
of Tears"  Canada 18 83 serial killers in Canada and one with
present
Killer the longest career in the world. Some
of the murders have been linked to
American criminal Bobby Jack
Fowler, although he was in prison at
the time others were committed.[461]
[462]

Orlando  Brazil 1966?– 12 Suspected of murdering 12 people

Sabino 1971? in Minas Gerais and Goiás, as well as
mutilating several animals; sentenced
to 38 years imprisonment and died
from a heart attack in 2013. There are
many theories that he was actually
framed by the Military Dictatorship in
Brazil, who did the murders for
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

political reasons.[463]
Quansah, who had been in prison for
rape twice, was held as a suspect in
the deaths of 34 women across the
country, including his girlfriend who
was strangled in 2000, and eventually
confessed to eight murders. He later
denied the killings, claiming that the
Charles 1993– confessions had been extracted under
 Ghana 8 34
Quansah 2001 torture, and that the police had also
tried unsuccessfully to force him to
implicate a number of politicians
including former president Jerry
Rawlings, his wife Nana Konadu
Agyeman and an unidentified
member of president John Kufuor's
administration.[464][465]
Initially convicted of three counts of
murder, later pleading guilty to four
more murders before dying in prison.
A sometime accomplice of convicted
serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, Toole
admitted to—and retracted multiple
 United 1980– times—over 100 counts of murder,
Ottis Toole 7 100–125
States 1983 rape, arson and cannibalism, and was
the suspect in several other unsolved
murders. In 2008, police announced
that they had identified Toole as the
likely murderer of Adam Walsh, and
would be closing the case as a result.
[466]

Brazilian mass murderer who killed

three people and wounded thirteen
others on 22 April 1904. Killed his
Pedro Rosa
1904– cellmate and a guard in 1911, and is
da  Brazil 5 17
1911 said to have murdered a family of
Conceição
twelve people in an unspecified date
and year. Died in 1919. The family
murders are not verified.
Henry Lee  United 1960– 3 600+ Confessed to killing 3,000[467][468] and
Lucas States 1983 later 600 people but later recanted and
is suspected of lying about a majority
of the murders. He originally offered
a list of 77 women from 19 different
states, but as he confessed to more
and more murders, the details became
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

increasingly more bizarre. Some

included dismemberment,
necrophilia, even cannibalism.
Lawmen linked Lucas and Ottis
Toole to 81 murders only. Convicted
of 11 murders.[469] The true number of
murders committed by Lucas is
unknown, but it is likely Lucas was
not nearly as prolific a serial killer as
he initially claimed to be, as most of
his murder confessions were
thoroughly discredited, and he
himself claimed only one murder—
that of his mother.[470][471][472]
Believed to have perpetrated
the Atlanta murders of 1979–1981.
After being convicted of two murders
and sentenced to life imprisonment,
Wayne  United 1979–
2 24–31 authorities closed 22 other unsolved
Williams States 1981
murders, declaring Williams to have
been the perpetrator. Williams has
maintained his innocence and the case
was reopened in 2005.[473]
Irish vagrant who operated in
London, England. He was convicted
of two murders but confessed to many
more, claiming he used a variety of
methods from pushing people in front
of trains to setting them on fire to
poisoning them, and said he had been
murdering for a period of some thirty
years. In 2015 former detective
Kieran George Platt published a book about
 United c. 1953– Kelly claiming he could be
Patrick 2 31
Kingdom 1983 responsible for 31 murders,
Kelly
prompting the chief of
the Metropolitan Police Bernard
Hogan Howe to promise a re-
investigation into his crimes.
However, in 2019 Irish journalist
Robert Mullhern published a book
raising serious questions about Platt's
claims, concluding that Kelly was
only responsible for 5 or 6 murders.
[474][475]

Allan  United 1986– 2 22 Homosexual Royal Navy sailor

Grimson Kingdom 1998 Grimson was convicted of the
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

partially sexually-motivated murders

of two other (non-homosexual) Royal
Navy sailors while docked
in Portsmouth on 12 December 1997
and 12 December 1998. Strongly
suspected of being responsible for up
to 20 other murders across different
navy bases of the world, including
in Gibraltar and New Zealand.[476] Also
the prime suspect in
the disappearance of fellow Royal
Navy sailor Simon Parkes from
Gibraltar in 1986, in part because he
disappeared on 12 December, the date
when Grimson was known to have
always killed his victims on, and
because Grimson was docked in
Gibraltar with the navy at this time.
Grimson's 2001 trial judge told him
that he was "a serial killer in nature if
not in number". His release from
prison is imminent and he is currently
being held in an open prison with day
release provisions.[477]
Reid was arrested in 2006 after a
successful DNA profiling test proved
his responsibility in the murders of
two prostitutes in 1989
in Denver, Colorado.[478] It is thought
Billy  United
1989 2 21 he might have been responsible for
Edwin Reid States
many murders, some of which from
the Denver Prostitute Killer - an
unidentified single, or multiple serial
killers responsible 17–27 murders
between 1975 and 1995.[479]
Joe Ball  United 1937– 2 20 Bootlegger and barman known as the
States 1938 "Butcher of Elmendorf", the
"Bluebeard of South Texas", and "the
Alligator Man" because of
the alligator pit he had in the back of
his bar and where he entertained
clients by throwing live animals to the
reptiles. Ball killed two barmaids but
he shot himself fatally in the chest
when police came to question him
and was never arrested or
interrogated. Yellow press and pulp
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

magazines later exaggerated his

exploits, claiming that he had killed
up to 20 women and fed them to the
alligators, but this was never proven
and caused some of Ball's relatives to
sue such publications. Police
investigated about a dozen women
that had worked at Ball's place and
were missing at the time of his
suicide; some were found alive in San
Antonio, but others could not be
accounted for.[480]
Stone, who was convicted of the 1996
double murder of Lin and Megan
Russell, is suspected of two other
murders.[481][482] His conviction is
Michael  United 1976- controversial and his legal team
2 4
Stone Kingdom 1996 blame confirmed serial killer Levi
Bellfield for the 1996 murders,
[483]
 although members of Stone's
family believe he is guilty of one of
the additional murders.[484]
Halliwell pleaded guilty in 2012 to
abducting and murdering Sian
O'Callaghan the previous year. He
also confessed to the 2003 murder of
Becky Godden-Edwards, but his
confession was ruled inadmissible
Christopher  United 1985-
2 28-60 and he could not be convicted until
Halliwell Kingdom 2011
2016, when new evidence was found.
Halliwell is a person of interest in 26
other murders, and a collection of
articles of women's clothing which
included some taken from his victims
may link him to up to 60 murders.
Pam Hupp  United 2011- 1-2 3 Hupp is the prime suspect in the 2011
States 2016 murder of cancer patient Betsy Faria,
who was stabbed to death shortly
after making Hupp the sole
beneficiary of a sizable life insurance
policy. Faria's husband Russ was
wrongfully convicted of her murder
but was exonerated in 2015 and
mobile data placed Hupp at the scene
of the crime. After Russ was released,
Hupp murdered a man named Louis
Gumpenberger in 2016 and attempted
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

to frame Russ for hiring him to kill

her, but was caught and sentenced to
life imprisonment for the murder.
Hupp is currently awaiting trial for
the murder of Betsy Faria, and is also
suspected of having murdered her
mother Shirley Neumann for
inheritance in 2013.
Barnabet was convicted of one
murder but confessed as a total of 35.
[485]
 She was believed to have
Clementine  United murdered entire families in their
1911 1 35
Barnabet States sleep, but doubt has been cast on the
extent of her involvement.
[486]
 Sentenced to life imprisonment but
released in 1923.
British nurse who was convicted in
1974 of the murder of a patient
with insulin after being inspired by
the plot of A Man Called Ironside.
She was released on appeal in 1975,
despite three appeal court judges
saying there was ample evidence to
support the conviction, as the trial
judge had inadvertently misled the
jury in his final summary.[487] The
appeal court judges said that it was an
omission that "a few words could
Jessie  United
1974 1[b] 24 have cured".[487] Apart from the case
McTavish Kingdom
prosecuted, another 23 cases were
deemed suspicious by investigators.
[488]
 Although acquitted, McTavish's
case often is mentioned in lectures at
medical colleges in Britain, and is
cited in textbooks and academic
papers about forensic science and
medical malpractice.[489][490]
[491]
 McTavish, now known as Jessie
Gordon, is believed to have been the
inspiration for serial killer nurse Colin
Norris.[487]
Abdul Latif  Mexico 1995 1 18–20 Egyptian chemist known as
Sharif "The Jackal of Ciudad Juárez". After
migrating to the United States in the
1970s, Sharif served 14 years in
prison for several rapes but fled to
Mexico when he was about to be
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

deported to his home country. There,

he was accused of up to 20 of
the female homicides in Ciudad
Juárez but was convicted of only one,
to 30 years in prison, where he died of
natural causes in 2006. As the high
rate of female murders has continued
to this day in Ciudad Juárez, it has
been claimed that Sharif was used as
a scapegoat by the Mexican police.[492]
Nurse that was sentenced to life
2000 imprisonment for one murder but
Daisuke suspected of killing at least 10 others.
 Japan and 1 11+
Mori He might have confessed to some of
earlier
the murders in order to protect others.
[493]

Arrested for three and convicted of

one of "The Family Murders", where
four teenagers and one young adult,
all male, were drugged, kidnapped,
raped and mutilated for several weeks
before their bodies were abandoned in
the countryside near Adelaide. Police
believed that von Einem had several
accomplices, none of whom was
Bevan publicly identified or detained, and at
1979–
Spencer  Australia 1 10 the time of his trial it was widely
1983
von Einem reported that the murders had been
committed by a group of four to 12
high-profile Australian men; von
Einem himself claimed to be the
victim of a conspiracy. He has also
been considered a suspect in the
disappearance of two girls near
the Adelaide Oval in 1973 and the
high-profile Beaumont children
disappearance in 1966.[494]
Smith was jailed for life in 1999 for
murdering sex worker Amanda
Walker. It was widely reported that he
David  United 1988- had previously been acquitted of the
1 4
Smith Kingdom 1999 almost identical murder of another
sex worker, Sarah Crump, and he was
linked to two more murders after his
conviction.[495]
Brian Field  United 1968- 1 5 Field raped and murdered 13-year-old
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

Roy Tutill in 1968, but was not

convicted until 2001, in the interim
serving time in prison for sex
offences against children. He is the
prime suspect in the disappearance of
Kingdom 1996
Patrick Warren and David Spencer in
1996, and a person of interest in the
1985 disappearance of Lee Boxell and
the murder of another child, Mark
Billington, in 1984.
Wife of one of the 7/7 London
bombers, Germaine Lindsay, and one
of the world's most wanted terrorist
suspects. She is suspected of killing
up to 400 people, including three
people in an attack at a
Samantha  United 2011– bar Mombasa in 2012 which she is
0–3 400 suspected of carrying out
Lewthwaite Kingdom present
with grenades. She is wanted by
police for this attack and has also
been linked to the 2013 Nairobi
Westgate shopping mall attack, but
she has not been apprehended and her
current whereabouts are unknown.[496]
[497][498]

British doctor who was prosecuted for

the "euthanasia" of a patient. He was
found not guilty, but then admitted in
a press interview to having "helped"
300 people to die. Some press reports
David  United 1970s– referred to him as "Britain's greatest
0 300[c]
Moor Kingdom 1999 serial killer" and "Doctor Death". If
the 300 victims are accepted as
murder victims, he would have killed
more than the most prolific serial
killer known to the world, fellow
British doctor Harold Shipman.[499]
Self-confessed hitman and serial
killer claiming to have killed people
Edgar 1988–
 Philippines 0 Hundreds as part of the Davao Death Squad; his
Matobato 2013
claims' authenticity has been
challenged.[500]
John  United 1946– 0 163 Acquitted in a highly unusual trial in
Bodkin Kingdom 1956 1957 of murder but later found guilty
Adams of fraud. Archive evidence shows that
he was almost certainly a killer but
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

that his prosecution was sabotaged for

political reasons.[501][failed verification]
Murdered entire families in their
sleep, arriving and departing by train.
Existence (and probable but not
The Man proven identity) discovered more than
 United 1898–
from the 0 40–100+ 100 years after the murders, by
States 1912
Train analysis of contemporary records,
showing a markedly common modus
operandi for many previously
unconnected murders.[502]
Confessed to killing 67 children by
strangling them with a bedsheet.
Killed himself, "probably in late
1940s or in early 1950s". As
information on this serial killer was
Ivomoku  Ruanda-
1940s 0 67 only revealed by a police officer in
Bakusuba Urundi
2018 during a conversation with a
Brazilian writer, and there is no
information on his conviction, the
confirmation that he was a serial
killer is debatable.
Torture-murderer possibly aided by
numerous accomplices, including his
girlfriend. Targeted victims in
the Truth or Consequences, New
Mexico, area. Convicted of attempted
David  United 1950–
0 60 killing of three victims and is
Parker Ray States 1999
suspected of 60 murders, even though
no bodies were ever found. Known as
the "Toybox Killer" for the self-built
mobile home he used in the rape,
torture, and killing of women.[503]
British doctor who was prosecuted in
2005 for the deaths of three patients
but was acquitted. However, the
Howard  United 1977– General Medical Council then struck
0 18+[d]
Martin Kingdom 2010 him off as a doctor in 2010 for
"hastening" the death of 18 people.
He admitted to a newspaper to have
killed two of these individuals.[504]
Marie  France 1927– 0 13 Charged with the murders of 13
Besnard 1949 relatives with arsenic, all of whom
had Besnard as their sole designated
heir, but acquitted of all charges after
three high-profile trials that lasted a
 Years Proven Possible
Name Country Notes
active victims victims

decade.[505]
Suspected of poisoning his eight
wives and one man with sedative-
Alfred laced buttermilk. Not enough
 United 1930-
Leonard 0 9 evidence could be found to prosecute
States 1945
Cline him for murder, but he was convicted
of forging his victim's wills and died
in prison in 1948.

* Proven victims being either victims the serial killer was convicted of killing, victims
declared by the killer in a detailed confession, or those whose status as a victim most
scholars of the subject agree upon.

See also
 List of serial killers by country
 List of serial rapists by number of victims

Explanatory notes
1. ^ Now known as 'David Groves'
2. ^ McTavish was convicted of the murder in 1974, but later acquitted on appeal in 1975 on a
technicality.
3. ^ Number of victims Moor himself said he had claimed
4. ^ Martin was acquitted in court for three murders, but was then struck off by the General Medical
Council for "hastening" the deaths of 18 people. He later confessed to "bringing forward" the deaths of
two of these people.

1. ^ Other victims are known to have been killed but only one case was brought to trial

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