* 8 OF HISTORYS

MOST NOTORIOUS
SERIAL KILLERS *
 8) H.H HOLMES

• Herman Webster Mudgett better known under the name of Dr. Henry
Howard Holmes or more commonly H. H. Holmes, was one of the first
documented serial killers in the modern sense of the term.While he
confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, he may have killed
as many as 200 people. He brought an unknown number of his victims to his
World's Fair Hotel, located about 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the 1893 Chicago
World's Fair.
 7) JACK THE RIPPER

• From August 7 to September 10 in 1888, "Jack the Ripper" terrorized the

Whitechapel district in London's East End. He killed at least five prostitutes
and mutilated their bodies in an unusual manner, indicating that the killer
had a knowledge of human anatomy. Jack the Ripper was never captured,
and remains one of England's, and the world's, most infamous criminals.
 6) ED GEIN

• Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein, also known as The Butcher of Plainfield,

was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed
around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread
notoriety after authorities discovered that Gein had exhumed corpses from
local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones
and skin.
 5) HARVEY GLATMAN

• Harvey Murray Glatman was an American serial killer active during the
late 1950s. He was known in the media as "The Lonely Hearts Killer" and
"The Glamour Girl Slayer". He would use several pseudonyms, posing as a
professional photographer to lure his victims with the promise of a
modelling career.
 4)TED BUNDY

• Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial

killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile who assaulted and
murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s, and possibly
earlier. Shortly before his execution, after more than a decade of denials, he
confessed to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and
1978. The true victim count remains unknown, and could be much higher.
 3) THE ZODIAC KILLER

• The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in northern California in
the late 1960s and early 1970s. The killer's identity remains unknown. The
Zodiac murdered victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San
Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. Four men and three
women between the ages of 16 and 29 were targeted. The killer originated
the name "Zodiac" in a series of taunting letters sent to the local Bay
Area press. These letters included four cryptograms (or ciphers). Of the four
cryptograms sent, only one has been definitively solved
 2) JEFFREY DAHMER

• Jeffrey Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was an

American serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder,
and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.
Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the
permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeletal
structure
 1) GILLES DE RAIS

• Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, more commonly known as Gilles de Rais, was

a 15 th century French nobleman, Breton baron, and marshal of France. He
was known as an accomplished lieutenant to Joan of Arc during the sieges of
Orléans and Paris and experienced significant renown and prestige before
his eventual downfall, when he was arrested, and later executed, for
Satanism, along with the abduction, rape, mutilation, and murder of more
than 150 children