Lainz Angels
of Death (Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Meyer,
Waltraud Wagner): nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in Vienna who admitted
to murdering 49 patients
Pedro Rodrigues Filho: AKA
"Pedrinho Matador"; convicted and sentenced to 128 years
imprisonment for 70 murders; however, the maximum one can serve in
Brazil is 30 years; claimed to have killed more than 100 victims,
including 40 prison inmates
Edson Isidoro
Guimarães: nurse who killed four patients but suspected of 131
deaths in total
Anísio Ferreira de
Sousa: gynaecologist who was convicted of the murder of three
children but linked to the disappearance of a total of 19
Canada
Paul Bernardo: AKA the "Scarborough Rapist"; Ontario man who
killed three teenage girls (including his wife's sister) with the
aid of his wife Karla
Homolka
Fritz Haarmann: preyed on young
men and boys; executed in 1925
Fritz Honka:
murdered four women in Hamburg and kept the bodies in his apartment
Joachim Kroll: claimed 13 victims
over three decades
Peter Kürten: AKA the "Vampire
of Düsseldorf"; executed in 1932
Stephan Letter: male nurse who
killed 29 patients; arrested in 2006
Marianne Nölle: female nurse
who was convicted of killing seven patients between 1984 and 1992;
suspected of killing 17; sentenced to life imprisonment in
1993
Antonis Daglis: AKA the "Athens
Ripper"; convicted in 1997 of the strangulation murders and
dismemberment of three women and the attempted murder of six
others
Hong Kong
Lam Kor-wan: sexual sadist who
murdered and dismembered four women in the 1980s; sentenced to life
imprisonment
Hiroshi Maeue: AKA "Suicide
Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to
kill himself with his victims
Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata: AKA "House of Horror"; tortured and
killed at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including
Ogata's family
Tsutomu Miyazaki: AKA "The
Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer" and "Dracula"; killed
four preschool-age girls and ate the hand of a victim; executed in
2008
Norio Nagayama: killed four
people with a handgun at the age of 19; a
novelist in prison
Seisaku Nakamura: AKA
"Hamamatsu Deaf Killer", murdered at least nine people
Kiyoshi Ōkubo: raped and
murdered eight young women during 41 days in 1971
Latvia
Kaspars
Petrovs: convicted of murdering 13 elderly Riga women in
2005; confessed to killing 38
Mexico
Juana Barraza:
AKA "Mataviejitas" ("Old Lady Killer"); operated within the
metropolitan area of Mexico
City until January 25, 2006
José Luis Calva: cannibal;
police found the remains of multiple female victims in his house;
committed suicide on December 11, 2007
Gregorio
Cárdenas Hernández: AKA "Goyo" and the "Strangler of Tacuba";
raped and killed four women in 1942; hailed as a successful case of
rehabilitation and
pardoned in 1976
Adolfo Constanzo: AKA "The
Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico;
committed suicide in 1989
Arnfinn Nesset: geriatric assistant nurse who poisoned 22 dwellers
at the Orkdal Alders-Og Sjukeheim institution over a period of
years before being convicted in 1984
Thomas Quick: AKA "Sätermannen";
confessed and convicted of eight murders, later recanted
confessions
Ukraine
Dnepropetrovsk maniacs
(Viktor Sayenko, Alexander Hanzha and Igor Suprunyuck): three
19-year-olds who murdered 21 people during a one-month period in
2007
Anatoly Onoprienko: AKA "The
Terminator"; murdered 59 people from 1989 until his capture in
1996
Serhiy Tkach: convicted of raping
and murdering 36 women, but claims the total is 100
Nighttime
Killers (Vladislav Volkovich and Vladimir Kondratenko): charged
with shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning 16 victims to death in
Kiev between 1991 and 1997; Kondratenko committed
suicide in prison during the trial; Volkovich was found guilty and
sentenced to life imprisonment
United Kingdom
Beverley Allitt: AKA "Angel of
Death"; paediatric nurse who killed four
babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to
life imprisonment in 1991
Robert Black:
Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of three murders, suspected
of many more
John Reginald Halliday
Christie: killed at least six women (including his wife)
between 1943 and 1953 and hid the bodies in his house. He has been
implicated in the murders of one other woman and her infant child,
of which Christie's fellow tenant, Timothy
Evans, was convicted in 1950.
Mary Ann Cotton: British
Victorian killer; said to have
poisoned more than 20 victims; hanged in 1873
Thomas Neill
Cream: AKA "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the
United
States then moved to London; hanged in 1892
John George Haigh: AKA the
"Acid Bath Murderer" and the "Vampire of London"; active in England
during the 1940s; convicted of six murders, but claimed to have
killed nine; executed in 1949
Archibald Hall: AKA the "Monster
Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael
Kitto
Anthony Hardy: AKA the "Camden
Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least
four
Trevor Hardy:
AKA "The Beast in the Night"; killed three teenage girls in
Manchester from 1974 to 1976
Colin Ireland: AKA "Gay Slayer";
killed five gay men in the early 1990s
Michael Lupo: AKA "Wolf Man";
convicted of four murders and two attempted murders
Harold Shipman AKA "Dr.Death":
doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had
killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25-year
period
Fred West and
Rosemary West: AKA "House of Horrors";
she was convicted of 10 murders; both are believed to have tortured
and murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987, many at
the couple's home in Gloucester; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting
trial
Catherine Wilson: nurse
considered to have poisoned seven people in the 19th century
Steve Wright: AKA
"The Suffolk Strangler" or "The Ipswich Ripper"; killed five women in six weeks
around Ipswich in late 2006
Graham Young: AKA "The Teacup
Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971
United States of America
Charles
Albright: convicted of murdering three prostitutes in Dallas, Texas; sentenced
to life imprisonment in 1991
Joe Ball: AKA "The Alligator Man";
killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas
Herb
Baumeister: suspected of killing 20+ men along I-70; fled and
committed suicide after remains of 11 were found on his Westfield,
Indiana property
David
Berkowitz: AKA "Son of Sam" and "The .44 Caliber Killer";
convicted of six murders in New York
Terry Blair: Kansas City serial
killer and rapist; active 1982–2004
William Bonin: AKA "The Freeway
Killer"; with several accomplices, claimed the lives of 20 boys in
California
Robert Charles Browne:
convicted of two murders in Colorado; confessed to 48 murders
Jerry Brudos: AKA "The Lust Killer"
and "Shoe Fetish Slayer"; killed at least five women in Oregon
Ted Bundy: law student who raped and
murdered more than 35 women in six states; executed in Florida
State Prison on January 24, 1989
David Carpenter:
AKA the "Trailside Killer"; murdered five women on San
Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981
Michael Bear
Carson and Suzan Carson: nomadic hippie killers involved in the
counter-culture movement; suspects in 12 homicides; sentenced to
life imprisonment for three San Francisco Bay Area murders in
1983
Richard Chase: AKA "The Vampire of
Sacramento"; murdered six people in California the 1970s
Doug Clark and Carol M.Bundy:
AKA "Sunset Strip Killers"; killed at least seven people during
1980
Carroll Cole: killed 16 people
between 1948 and 1980; executed in 1985
Alton Coleman and Debra Denise Brown: multi-state killers
whose killings took place during two months in 1984; convicted of
murder in three states
Ray Copeland and Faye Copeland:
oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States at the
ages of 75 and 69; convicted of killing five men; modus operandi
was to hire unskilled drifters as farm hands and later kill
them
Juan Corona: California killer
convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971
Charles Cullen: nurse in New
Jersey and Pennsylvania who killed as many as 40 patients through
lethal injection
Andrew Cunanan: murdered five
people, including fashion designer Gianni
Versace, in a cross-country journey during a three-month period
in 1997, ending with Cunanan's suicide, at the age of 27
Jeffrey
Dahmer: Milwaukee, Wisconsincannibal who kept heads,
skulls and body parts in his apartment for sexual gratification;
convicted of 15 murders, but believed responsible for at least two
others
Albert DeSalvo: AKA "The Boston Strangler"; convicted of
unrelated rapes; DeSalvo was never indicted for the Strangler
murders, although he did confess to them
Westley Allan Dodd: raped and
murdered three boys in 1989; executed on January 5, 1993
Ronald
Dominique: confessed to raping and murdering at least 23 men in
Louisiana; sentenced to eight life sentences in
2008
Nannie Doss: AKA "The Giggling
Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow"; serial poisoner who killed 11
family members
Paul Durousseau: murdered seven
in southeast United States between 1997 and 2003; may have killed
while stationed in Germany with the Army
Mack Ray Edwards: convicted of
murdering three children after confessing to the murders of six in
Los Angeles County between 1953 and 1969; claimed at one point to
have killed as many as 18
Raymond Fernandez
and Martha Beck: AKA the "Lonely Hearts Killers"; killed at
least three women and one child in the 1940s but suspected in up to
20 murders in New York and Michigan
Albert Fish: AKA the "Werewolf of
Wisteria"; sadist and pedophile who cannibalized several children;
convicted of one murder, confessed to 2 others,claimed to have
molested 100 children
Wayne Adam Ford: AKA "Wayward
Wayne"; confessed to murdering four women; believed to have killed
others
Kendall
Francois: serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York who targeted prostitutes; after strangling the
women, he would store them in various crawl spaces in and around
his home
Joseph Paul Franklin:
racist serial killer who targeted interracial couples and attempted
to assassinate Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordan; convicted of 11 murders and
confessed to nine others
John Wayne
Gacy: AKA "Killer Clown"; killer of at least 33 men and boys;
kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
Gerald and Charlene
Gallego: AKA the "Gallego Sex Slaves Killers"; kidnapped, raped
and killed victims in the late 1970s; most of them were
teenagers
Carlton Gary: convicted of the
murders of seven elderly women in Georgia
Donald Henry "Peewee""
Gaskins: AKA "Meanest Man in America"; convicted of nine
murders; confessed to more than 200; executed on September 6,
1991
Dana Sue Gray: convicted of murder
of three elderly women and attempted murder of a fourth in
California
Vaughn Greenwood: convicted of
nine counts of murder, including eight of the "Skid Row Slasher"
killings in southern California
Belle Gunness:
Norwegian-born murder-for-profit killer who killed her suitors and
children in Indiana
Anna Marie Hahn: German-born
murder-for-profit killer who poisoned five elderly men; executed in
1938
Robert Hansen:
Alaskan baker who killed prostitutes at his cabin;
convicted of four murders but admitted to 11 others
Donald Harvey: AKA "Angel of
Death"; hospital orderly; confessed to more than 80 "mercy
killings" with 37 confirmed killings
William Heirens: AKA "The
Lipstick Killer"; confessed to three murders spanning from June
1945 to January 1946
Dr. H.H.Holmes:
active from 1890 to 1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition; convicted of only one murder but definitively tied
to at least eight more and confessed to a total of 27
Waneta Hoyt: New York woman who
murdered her five children
Michael
Hughes: killed four women in the Los Angeles area between 1992 and 1993; charged in 2008 with
raping and murdering four additional women between 1986 and
1993
Leslie Irvin: AKA "Mad Dog";
convicted of killing six people in Indiana in the mid-1950s; his
Supreme Court case set a precedent for fair trials of highly
publicized defendants
Derrick Todd Lee: AKA the
"Baton Rouge Serial Killer"; convicted of two murders; linked by
DNA evidence to five others
Henry Lee Lucas: convicted of 11
murders and confessed to approximately 3,000 others, although most
of his confessions are considered outlandish; a task force set up
to investigate his claims suggested that the true number of his
murders may be as high as 213
Rhonda Belle
Martin: Alabama poisoner who murdered six family members; suspected
of poisoning at least nine; executed in 1957
Frederick Mors: Austrian who
killed 17 elderly patients by poisoning in New York
John Allen Muhammad and
Lee Boyd Malvo: AKA "Beltway Snipers"; Muhammad is convicted of
seven murders so far and awaiting prosecution for nine others;
Malvo was convicted of, plead guilty to, or confessed to at least
nine murders
Herbert Mullin: schizophrenic in
Santa Cruz, California who killed people to prevent earthquakes;
convicted of 10 murders and confessed to three others
Earle Nelson: AKA "Gorilla Man";
necrophiliac convicted and hanged for one murder; implicated in
about 20 others
Marie Noe: murdered eight of her
children between 1949 and 1968
Gordon Stewart
Northcott: AKA the "Wineville Chicken Coop Murders"; California
man who confessed to kidnapping, raping and murdering nine young
boys with the aid of his mother, Sarah Louise Northcott in the
1920s; suspected of the murder of nearly 30, executed in 1930
Carl Panzram: murderer, rapist and
arsonist; convicted of two murders; confessed to 19 others;
executed in 1930
Christopher
Peterson: AKA the "Shotgun Killer", confessed to shooting seven
people with a shotgun in a killing spree spanning from October 30,
1990 to December 18, 1990 in Indiana.
Dorothea Puente: convicted of
three killings in Sacramento, California during the 1980s;
suspected of six others
Danny Rolling:
pleaded guilty to murdering five students in Florida; executed in 2006
Michael Bruce Ross: raped and
murdered seven women in Connecticut; executed May 13, 2005
Efren Saldivar: respiratory
therapist who killed six patients, possibly as many as 120
Altemio
Sanchez: AKA the "Bike Path Rapist"; responsible for three
murders and numerous rapes spanning a 25-year period in Buffalo, New
York; currently serving three consecutive 75
years-to-life sentences for the murders
Heriberto
Seda: New York
City copycat killer of the "Zodiac Killer" active from 1990 to 1994;
convicted of shooting eight individuals, killing three; sentenced
to life imprisonment in 1998
Gerard John Schaefer:
Florida police officer who killed up to 34 women and girls
Tommy Lynn Sells: convicted of
only one murder; admitted to murdering dozens of people across the
United States, possibly in excess of 70 although only six are
confirmed
Colonial
Parkway Killer (USA): believed to have murdered at least eight
people in Virginia between 1986 and 1989; left three couples dead and
one couple missing and presumed dead
Frankford
Slasher (USA): allegedly responsible for nine murders in the
Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Leonard Christopher was convicted of
one murder; another murder was committed in same style while he was
incarcerated; believed to still be at large
Monster of
Florence (Italy):
murderer or murderers who targeted couples; killed 16 individuals
between 1968 and 1985 in the province of Florence, Italy
North Side Strangler (USA):
one man is in custody after DNA evidence linked him with nine
murders in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Original Night Stalker
(USA): killer and rapist who murdered six people in Southern
California from 1979 through 1986
Paturis Park
murders (Brazil): AKA the "Rainbow Maniac"; series of 13 gunshot
murders of gay men between July 2007 and August 2008 in Paturis
Park (Parque dos Paturis) in Carapicuiba
Phantom Killer
(USA): believed to have committed a number of murders in Texarkana between February 23 and May 4, 1946
Smiley face murder
theory (USA): theoretical serial killer(s) thought by some
sources to have drowned college-aged young men across the northern
part of the country since 1997; most experts suggest that the
deaths were accidental
Stoneman (India):
responsible for 13 murders in Kolkata in 1989
Zodiac Killer (USA): operated in
northern California during the 1960s; five known victims; claimed
to have killed as many as 37 people