List of serial killers by country
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This is a list of notable serial killer
s, by the country
where most of the murders were committed.
Serial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
s, by the country
Country
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where most of the murders were committed.
Argentina
- Cayetano Santos GodinoCayetano Santos GodinoCayetano Santos Godino , also known as "Petiso Orejudo" , was an Argentinian serial killer who terrified Buenos Aires at the age of 16...
: also known as "Petiso Orejudo" ("Big Eared Midget"); at 16, killed four children in 1912; died in prison in 1944 - Robledo PuchRobledo PuchCarlos Eduardo Robledo Puch , also known as "The Death Angel" and "The Black Angel", is an Argentinian serial killer. He was convicted for 11 murders, one attempted murder, 17 robberies, one rape, one attempted rape, one count of sexual abuse, two kidnappings and two thefts...
: also known as "The Death Angel" and "The Black Angel" killed 11 people before his arrest in 1972; sentenced to life imprisonmentLife imprisonmentLife imprisonment is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime under which the convicted person is to remain in jail for the rest of his or her life...
in 1980
Australia
- David and Catherine BirnieDavid and Catherine BirnieDavid John Birnie and Catherine Margaret Birnie were an Australian couple who were serial killers. They murdered four women ranging in age from 15 to 31 in their home in the 1980s, and attempted to murder a fifth...
: also known as "Moorhouse murders"; couple from the suburban Perth area responsible for the murders of four women - Gregory BrazelGregory BrazelGregory John 'Bluey' Brazel is a convicted Australian arsonist, armed robber and multiple murderer, currently serving three consecutive life sentences for the murders of prostitutes Sharon Taylor and Roslyn Hayward in 1990, and the murder of Mordialloc hardware store owner Mildred Hanmer during an...
: shot dead a woman in 1982 armed robbery and murdered two prostitutes in 1990 - John BuntingJohn Bunting (serial killer)John Justin Bunting is an Australian serial killer from Brisbane, Queensland, currently serving eleven consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for his role in the murder of 11 victims of the Snowtown murders....
, Robert WagnerRobert Wagner (serial killer)Robert Joe Wagner is an Australian serial killer, currently serving ten consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for his role in the murder of ten victims of the Snowtown murders...
and James VlassakisJames VlassakisJames Spyridon Vlassakis is an Australian serial killer currently serving four consecutive terms of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 26 years for his role in the Snowtown murders...
: also known as "Bodies in the Barrels Murders"; convicted of the Snowtown murdersSnowtown murdersThe Snowtown murders, also known as the Bodies in Barrels murders, were the murders of 11 people in South Australia, Australia between August 1992 and May 1999...
of 11 people between 1992 and 1999 - Eric Edgar CookeEric Edgar CookeEric Edgar Cooke nicknamed The Night Caller was an Australian serial killer. From 1959 to 1963, he terrorised the city of Perth, Western Australia, by committing 22 violent crimes, eight of which resulted in deaths....
: also known as "The Night Caller"; killed at least 8 people; last person to be hanged in Western AustraliaWestern AustraliaWestern Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east... - Paul DenyerPaul DenyerPaul Charles Denyer is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period 30 years at HM Prison Barwon for the murders of Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17, in Frankston, Victoria in 1993.Denyer is...
: also known as "Frankston Killer"; murdered three women in 1993 in the MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
suburb of FrankstonFrankston, VictoriaFrankston is a suburb within the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area in Victoria, Australia. It is located 40 km southeast of the state capital Melbourne at the southernmost edge of Greater Melbourne, near the beginnings of the Mornington Peninsula... - Peter DupasPeter DupasPeter Norris Dupas is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three consecutive life sentences for murder. His violent criminal history spans more than three decades, and with every release from prison has been known to commit further crimes against women with increasing levels of violence...
: serving three life sentences for multiple murders and rape charges - Kathleen FolbiggKathleen FolbiggKathleen Megan Folbigg is an Australian child killer. Folbigg was convicted of murdering her three infant children, eight-month-old Patrick Allen, 10-month-old Sarah Kathleen and 19-month-old Laura Elizabeth. Folbigg was also convicted of the manslaughter of a fourth child, Caleb Gibson, aged 19...
: murdered four of her infants - Leonard FraserLeonard FraserLeonard John Fraser also known as "The Rockhampton Rapist" was an Australian convicted serial killer.- Crimes :...
: also known as "The Rockhampton Rapist"; convicted of killing four women in Rockhampton, QueenslandRockhampton, QueenslandRockhampton is a city and local government area in Queensland, Australia. The city lies on the Fitzroy River, approximately from the river mouth, and some north of the state capital, Brisbane.... - John Wayne GloverJohn Wayne GloverJohn Wayne Glover was a British-born Australian serial killer convicted for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore....
: also known as "The Granny Killer"; killed six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore; committed suicide in 2005 - Caroline GrillsCaroline GrillsCaroline Grills, born Caroline Mickelson , was an Australian serial killer.Grills became a suspect in 1947 after the deaths of four family members: her 87-year-old stepmother Christine Mickelson; relatives by marriage Angelina Thomas and John Lundberg; and sister in law Mary Anne Mickelson...
: also known as "Auntie Thally"; serial poisoner of five family members - Matthew James HarrisMatthew James HarrisMatthew James Harris is an Australian serial killer from Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, currently serving two sentences of life imprisonment plus 40 years imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the murder of three people in and around Wagga Wagga in October and November 1998.-Robbery...
: strangled a friend's brother, a female friend and a male neighbour to death over five weeks in 1998 in Wagga Wagga - Mark JefferiesMark JefferiesMark Jefferies was a bushranger, serial killer and cannibal in the early 19th century in Van Diemen's Land . Jefferies was transported as a convict from Scotland, and had there been granted a reprieve from death as he was willing to act as an executioner and scourger...
: Tasmanian penal colonyPenal colonyA penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory...
escapee responsible for the murders of four people; executed in 1826 - William MacDonaldWilliam MacDonald (serial killer)William "The Mutilator" MacDonald was classed as Australia's first true serial murderer. MacDonald was born in Liverpool, England, in 1924. Between June 1961 and April 1963, MacDonald terrorised Sydney with a string of gruesome murders....
: also known as "the Mutilator"; killed at least five men between June 1961 and April 1963 - John and Sarah MakinJohn and Sarah MakinJohn Makin and Sarah Jane Makin were Australian baby farmers who were convicted in New South Wales of the murder of infant Horace Murray. Both were tried and found guilty in March 1893 and sentenced to death. John was hanged on 15 August 1893, but Sarah's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment...
: late 19th century baby farmers who killed and buried 12 children at a succession of their homes - Ivan MilatBackpacker murdersThe Backpacker Murders is a name given to serial killings that occurred in New South Wales, Australia during the 1990s. The bodies of seven missing young people aged 19 to 22 were discovered partly buried in the Belanglo State Forest, south west of the New South Wales town of Berrima...
: killed at least seven tourists in Belanglo State ForestBelanglo State ForestBelanglo State Forest is a planted forest in the Australian state of New South Wales; its total area is about 3800 hectares. The Belanglo State Forest is located south of Berrima in the Southern Highlands, three kilometres west of the Hume Highway between Sydney and Canberra...
, New South WalesNew South WalesNew South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
; suspected in similar disappearances in Newcastle - Martha RendellMartha RendellMartha Rendell was the last of three women to be hanged in Western Australia. She was convicted of murdering her de facto husband's son, Arthur Morris, in 1908. She was also suspected of killing his two daughters, Annie and Olive by swabbing their throats with hydrochloric acid...
: killed three stepchildren with hydrochloric acid in the 20th century; last woman to be hanged in Western Australia - Arnold SodemanArnold SodemanArnold Karl Sodeman , also known as the School-girl Strangler, was a serial killer who targeted children. He confessed to four killings before being executed at Pentridge Prison, Victoria in 1936. Sodeman was the second of eleven people to be hanged at Pentridge Prison after the closure of...
: also known as the "School-girl Strangler"; killed four children in Melbourne in the 1930s - Christopher Worrell and James MillerTruro murdersThe Truro murders is the name given to a series of murders uncovered with the discovery in 1978 and 1979 of the remains of two young women in bushland near the town of Truro, South Australia. After police searches, the remains of seven women were discovered in total: five at Truro, one at...
: convicted of killing six victims
Austria
- Elfriede BlauensteinerElfriede BlauensteinerElfriede Blauensteiner , dubbed the "Black Widow", was an Austrian serial killer who murdered at least three victims by poison. In each case, she inherited the victim's possessions.-External links:*...
: poisoner of three individuals - Waltraud Wagner and Irene Leidolf: also known as the "Lainz Angels of Death"; nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
who admitted to murdering 49 patients - Jack UnterwegerJack UnterwegerJohann "Jack" Unterweger was an Austrian serial killer who murdered prostitutes in several countries. First convicted of a 1974 murder, he was released in 1990 due in part to a campaign by intellectuals and politicians, who regarded Unterweger as an example of rehabilitation...
: author and sexual sadist; convicted of 10 murders; believed to have killed 12 women
Belarus
- Gennady MikhasevichGennady MikhasevichGennady Modestovich Mikhasevich was a Soviet serial killer. He murdered 36 women during the period from 1971 to 1985 in Vitebsk, Polotsk and the rural areas in the nearby regions of the Byelorussian SSR.- Biography :...
: police volunteerVoluntary People's DruzhinaVoluntary People's Druzhina variously translated as Voluntary People’s Guard, People’s Volunteer Squads, People's Volunteer Militia, etc. were voluntary detachments for maintaining public order in the Soviet Union similar to the Neighborhood Watch...
who investigated his own mission-oriented murders of 36 women between 1971 and 1985
Belgium
- Marc DutrouxMarc DutrouxMarc Dutroux is a Belgian serial killer and child molester, convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 and 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein,...
: child molester and killer - András PándyAndrás PándyAndrás Pándy is a convicted Belgian serial killer of Hungarian origin. He is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of his two wives and four children, after he was arrested when his daughter, Ágnes, with whom he had a long-standing incestuous relationship, confessed to being involved in...
: also known as "Vader Blauwbaard" (Father Bluebeard); convicted of the murder and rape of his two wives and four children
Brazil
- Abraão José BuenoAbraão José BuenoAbraão José Bueno is a Brazilian nurse and serial killer. In 2005 he was sentenced to 110 years imprisonment for the murder of four children and the attempted murder of another four.-Crimes:...
: nurse who killed four child patients - Pedro Rodrigues FilhoPedro Rodrigues FilhoPedro Rodrigues Filho is a Brazilian serial killer. Nicknamed Pedrinho Matador and arrested in 1973, in 2003 he was convicted of murdering at least 71 people and sentenced to 128 years in prison.He has claimed over 100 victims, 47 of them prison inmates; he killed for "personal pleasure"...
: also known as "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 GuimarãesEdson Isidoro GuimarãesEdson Isidoro Guimarães is a Brazillian nursing assistant and convicted serial killer. He confessed to five murders of which he was convicted of four, but is suspected of committing up to 131 in total...
: nurse who killed four patients but suspected of 131 deaths in total - Anísio Ferreira de SousaAnísio Ferreira de SousaAnísio Ferreira de Sousa is a Brazilian doctor and serial killer who ran a satanic ring that killed boys in Altamira, Brazil. He was convicted of the murder of three boys and the attempted murder of two others. In total, the deaths of 19 boys have been linked to the ring.-Crimes:Between 1989 and...
: gynaecologist who was convicted of the murder of three children but linked to the disappearance of a total of 19
Canada
- Paul BernardoPaul BernardoPaul Kenneth Bernardo, also known as Paul Jason Teale , is a Canadian serial killer and rapist, known for the sexual assaults and murders he committed with his wife Karla Homolka and the serial rapes he committed in Scarborough.-Early life:Bernardo's mother, Marilyn, was the adopted daughter of a...
: also known as "the ScarboroughScarborough, OntarioScarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...
Rapist"; a TorontoTorontoToronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
man who killed three teenage girls (including his wife's sister) with the aid of his wife Karla HomolkaKarla HomolkaKarla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale , is a Canadian serial killer. She attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter following a plea bargain in the 1991 and 1992 rape-murders of two Ontario teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, as well as... - Wayne BodenWayne BodenWayne Clifford Boden was a Canadian serial killer and rapist active between 1969 and 1971. He was raised in Dundas, Ontario, near Hamilton. He earned the nickname "The Vampire Rapist" because he had the penchant of biting the breasts of his victims, a modus operandi that led to his conviction due...
: also known as "the Vampire Rapist" killed 4 women between 1968–1971 - John Martin CrawfordJohn Martin CrawfordJohn Martin Crawford is a Canadian serial killer.-Crimes:Crawford was sentenced in 1981 to 10 years imprisonment for manslaughter in the killing of Mary Jane Serloin, in Lethbridge, Alberta....
: convicted in 1996 for the murders of three women - Léopold DionLéopold DionLéopold Dion was a Canadian sex offender and serial killer who was active in Quebec in the 1960s. He was nicknamed the “Monster of Pont-Rouge”....
: also known as "Monster of Pont-Rouge"; raped and killed four young boys in 1960; murdered in 1972 - William Patrick FyfeWilliam Patrick FyfeWilliam Patrick Fyfe is a Canadian serial killer convicted of killing five women in the Montreal area of Quebec, although he claims to have killed four others. He allegedly killed his first victim in 1979 at age of 24.-Early life:...
: convicted of killing five women in MontrealMontrealMontreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
; suspect in several other murders - Gilbert Paul JordanGilbert Paul JordanGilbert Paul Jordan , known as the "Boozing Barber", was a Canadian serial killer who is believed to have committed the so-called "alcohol murders" in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-General Criminal Background:...
: killed between eight and 10 women by alcohol poisoning - Allan LegereAllan LegereAllan Legere is a Canadian murderer and arsonist, also known as the Monster of the Miramichi. On May 3, 1989, Legere escaped from RCMP custody while serving a life sentence at the Atlantic Institution for the murder of shopkeeper John Glendenning, of Black River Bridge, New Brunswick, on the...
: also known as "Monster of the Miramichi"; killer of five individuals - Clifford OlsonClifford OlsonClifford Robert Olson, Jr. was a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering two children and nine youths in the early 1980s.-Murders:...
: murdered 11 children in British ColumbiaBritish ColumbiaBritish Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858... - Robert PicktonRobert PicktonRobert William "Willie" Pickton of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada is a former pig farmer and serial killer convicted of the second-degree murders of six women. He is also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them prostitutes and drug users from Vancouver's...
: charged with the first degree murders of 26 women; allegedly confessed to 49 murders; convicted December 9, 2007 of six charges; reduced to second degree murder - Peter WoodcockPeter WoodcockDavid Michael Krueger , best known by his birth name, Peter Woodcock, was a Canadian serial killer and child rapist who gained notoriety for the brutal murders of three young children in Toronto, Canada in 1956 and 1957 when he himself was still a teenager. He was subsequently diagnosed as a...
: murdered three children in 1956–1957 and a fellow psychiatric institute patient in 1991
People's Republic of China
- Gong RunboGong RunboGong Runbo was a Chinese serial killer who, between March 2005 and February 2006, murdered six children between the ages of 9 and 16.Gong was imprisoned in October 1996 for the rape of a 15-year-old girl. He was released in 2004 after serving an eight-year sentence. He sexually assaulted and...
: found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers aged between nine and 16 from 2005 to 2006 - Huang YongHuang YongHuang Yong was a Chinese serial killer accused of murdering 17 teenage boys between September 2001 and 2003....
: between September 2001 and 2003 killed at least 17 teenage boys; executed in 2003 - Shen Changyin and Shen Changping: found guilty of the murders of 11 prostitutes
- Yang XinhaiYang XinhaiYang Xinhai , also known as Wang Ganggang, Yang Zhiya, and Yang Liu, was a Chinese serial killer who confessed to committing 65 murders and 23 rapes between 1999 and 2003, and was sentenced to death and executed for 67. He was dubbed the "Monster Killer" by the media...
: confessed to killing 65 people between 2000 and 2003; executed in 2004
Colombia
- Daniel Camargo Barbosa: also known as "The Sadist of El Charquito", who is believed to have raped and killed over 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s.
- Luis GaravitoLuis GaravitoLuis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, aka "La Bestia" or "Tribilín" is a Colombian rapist and serial killer. In 1999, he admitted to the rape and murder of 140 young boys...
: also known as "The Beast" admitted to murder and rape of 140 young boys. - Pedro López: also known as "The Monster of the Andes"; accused of raping and killing more than 300 girls across South America.
Croatia
- Vinko PintarićVinko PintarićVinko Pintarić was a Croatian serial killer and outlaw who murdered five people over the course of 17 years and escaped from prisons and police stakeouts on multiple occasions...
: murdered five people, including his wife, between 1973 and 1990. Escaped from custody three times, killed in a 1991 shootout with the police.
Czech Republic
- Václav MrázekVáclav MrázekVáclav Mrázek was a Czech serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven people. All of his victims were women. His murders were primarily sexually motivated, although he also burgled his victims' homes...
: convicted of the murders of seven women; executed in 1957 - Marie FikáčkováMarie FikáckováMarie Fikáčková was a Czech serial killer.-Early life:Fikáčková grew up in a dysfunctional family and her marriage had failed. She worked as a nurse in the hospital in Sušice, in its obstetrics department....
: female nurse who was executed by hangingHangingHanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...
in 1961 for the murders of 10 babies - Petr ZelenkaPetr Zelenka (serial killer)Petr Zelenka is a Czech serial killer. Zelenka, a nurse in Havlíčkův Brod, southeast of Prague, murdered seven patients by lethal injection, and attempted to kill 10 others between May and December, 2006. He killed with a hidden vial of heparin — a blood-thinning drug causing internal bleeding...
: male nurse convicted of seven murders to "test" doctors
Denmark
- Peter LundinPeter LundinBjarne Skounborg , born Peter Kenneth Bostrøm Lundin, and more commonly known as Peter Lundin, is a Danish convicted serial killer.- Early life :...
: killed his mother in 1991, then killed his mistress and her two children 9 years later; Sentenced to prison - Dagmar OverbyeDagmar OverbyeDagmar Johanne Amalie Overbye was a Danish serial killer. She murdered 25 children – of which one was her own – during a seven-year period from 1913 to 1920...
: childcare provider who killed between nine and 25 children; sentenced to death in 1921 then reprieved
Egypt
- Ramadan Abdel Rehim MansourRamadan Abdel Rehim MansourRamadan Abdel Rehim Mansour , also known as "al-Tourbini" , is a street gang leader and serial killer who raped and murdered at least 30 children in the course of seven years, throughout several locations in Egypt including Cairo, Alexandria, Qalyoubeya and Beni Sueif. All of his victims were 10 to...
: also known as "Al-Tourbini"; gang leader who raped and murdered homeless children by throwing them off trains in the 2000s, sometimes burying them alive - Raya and SakinaRaya and SakinaRaya and Sakina , Egypt's most infamous serial killers, began killing women in the Labban neighborhood of Alexandria in the early days of the 20th century. The police were plagued by increasing reports of missing women...
: Egypt's most famous serial killers and the first Egyptian women to be executed by the modern state of Egypt
Finland
- Matti HaapojaMatti HaapojaMatti Haapoja was a Finnish murderer, much covered by the press at the time of the murders....
: convicted murderer of three people, admitted to the murders of 18 probably killed 22–25; sentenced to life imprisonment, hanged himself in a prison cell - Aino Nykopp-KoskiAino Nykopp-KoskiAino Nykopp-Koski is a Finnish serial killer. She worked as a nurse and was found guilty of killing five patients and the attempted murder of five more. No motive was established for the murders.-Activities:...
: first Finnish female serial killer, convicted of 5 murders and 5 attempted murders; sentenced to life in prison
France
- Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de BrinvilliersMarie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de BrinvilliersMarie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers was a French serial killer.-Crimes:Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray conspired with her lover, army captain Godin de Sainte-Croix to poison her father Antonine Dreux d'Aubray in 1666 and two of her brothers, Antoine d'Aubray and...
: French poisoner; executed in 1676 - Pierre ChanalPierre ChanalPierre Chanal was a French soldier and suspected serial killer. He was convicted of the rape and kidnapping of a young Hungarian man whom he picked up hitch-hiking in 1988. He received a 10-year sentence for the attack, and was released in 1995 on probation...
: serial killer of 17 boys between 1980 and 1987 who committed suicide in 2003 - Michel FourniretMichel FourniretMichel Fourniret is a convicted French serial killer who confessed, in June and July 2004, to kidnapping, raping and murdering 9 girls in a span of 14 years during the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s. He was also accused of 10 additional murders, nine in France and one in Belgium, and was found...
: also known as Ogre of Ardennes confessed to nine murders of young girls; allegedly killed 10 more between 1987 and 2001 - Guy GeorgesGuy GeorgesGuy Georges is a French serial killer, dubbed "The Beast of the Bastille", who was convicted of murdering seven women between 1991 and 1997.- Biography :...
: also known as the "Beast of the Bastille"; serving a life sentence for seven murders between 1991 and 1997 - Francis HeaulmeFrancis HeaulmeFrancis Heaulme is a French serial killer dubbed the "Criminal Backpacker". He has Klinefelter's syndrome .-Biography:...
: serving a life sentence for 20 murders between 1984 and 1992 - Hélène JégadoHélène JegadoHélène Jégado was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years...
: domestic servant who poisoned at least 23 people between 1833 and 1851; executed in 1852 - Henri Désiré LandruHenri Désiré LandruHenri Désiré Landru was a French serial killer and real-life "Bluebeard".-Early life:Landru was born in Paris. After leaving school, he spent four years in the French Army from 1887 – 1891. After he was discharged from service, he proceeded to have a sexual relationship with his cousin...
: killed 11 people; inspired the character of Monsieur VerdouxMonsieur VerdouxMonsieur Verdoux is a 1947 black comedy film directed by and starring Charles Chaplin. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, William Frawley, and Marilyn Nash.-Plot:...
played by Charlie ChaplinCharlie ChaplinSir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I... - Émile LouisÉmile LouisÉmile Louis is a retired French bus driver and prime suspect in the disappearance of seven young women in the département of Yonne, Burgundy, in the late 1970s...
: preyed on young handicapped women (seven murders) in 1970s - Christine MalèvreChristine MalevreChristine Malèvre is a French serial killer.A former nurse, she was arrested in 1998 on suspicion of having killed as many as 30 patients. She confessed to some of the murders, but claimed she had done so at the request of the patients, who were all terminally ill. France, however, does not...
: nurse sentenced for the murders of at least 30 terminally ill patients - Thierry PaulinThierry PaulinThierry Paulin was a French serial killer active in the 1980s.-Childhood and teenage years:Paulin was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique. His father flew to France just after his birth, leaving his teen-aged mother to fend for herself and the baby...
: also known as the "Beast of Montmartre"; preyed on the elderly in the 1980s and Murderer of 21 old women - Marcel PetiotMarcel PetiotMarcel André Henri Félix Petiot was a French doctor and serial killer. He was convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of 26 people in his home in Paris during World War II...
: doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the Nazis; executed in 1946 - Gilles de RaisGilles de RaisGilles de Montmorency-Laval , Baron de Rais, was a Breton knight, a leader in the French army and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known as a prolific serial killer of children...
: 15th century satanist and child killer (400 killed) - Joseph VacherJoseph VacherJoseph Vacher was a French serial killer, sometimes known as "The French Ripper" or "L'éventreur du Sud-Est" due to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England in 1888...
: also known as "The French Ripper"; 19th century serial killer of 11 people - Jeanne WeberJeanne WeberJeanne Weber was a French serial killer. She strangled 10 children, including her own. She was convicted of murder in 1908, and declared insane. She hanged herself two years later.-Early life:...
: convicted of the murders of 10 children - Eugen WeidmannEugen WeidmannEugen Weidmann was the last person to be publicly executed in France. Executions by guillotine in France continued in private until September 10, 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi was the last person to be executed....
: German who strangled and robbed American dancer Jean de KovenJean de KovenJean de Koven was a dancer from Boston, Massachusetts who was murdered in Paris, France in 1937. She had been stayingwith her aunt, Ida Sackheim, in a hotel on the Left Bank, where she disappeared on the afternoon of July 23. Her body was discovered beneath the front porch of a villa at La...
, shot a former accomplice, and shot dead and robbed four other people around Paris in 1937
Germany
- Jürgen BartschJürgen BartschJürgen Bartsch was a German serial killer who murdered four children and attempted to kill another....
: killed four, one escaped; died by wrongful overdose during castrationCastrationCastration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testicles or a female loses the functions of the ovaries.-Humans:...
surgery - Karl DenkeKarl DenkeKarl Denke was a serial killer from Germany.Denke was born in Münsterberg, Silesia in the Kingdom of Prussia...
: cannibal; allegedly killed 30–40 people in the 1920s - Volker EckertVolker EckertVolker Eckert was a German truck driver and serial killer who confessed to the murders of six women, five of whom were prostitutes. He was accused of committing 19 murders in France, Spain and Germany between 1974 and 2006....
: accused of 19 murders between 1974 and 2006 - Gesche GottfriedGesche Gottfriedthumb|Gesche Gottfried Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, born Gesche Margarethe Timm , was a serial killer who murdered 15 people by arsenic poisoning in Bremen and Hanover, Germany, between 1813 and 1827...
: serial poisoner who murdered 15 people in HanoverHanoverHanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
and BremenBremenThe City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
; publicly executed in 1831 - Karl GrossmannKarl Grossman (Murderer)Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann, who commonly called himself just Carl Großmann , was a German serial killer...
: killed women and sold their flesh on the black market - Fritz HaarmannFritz HaarmannFriedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann , also known as the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover was a German serial killer who is believed to have been responsible for the murder of 27 boys and young men between 1918 and 1924...
: preyed on young men and boys; executed in 1925 - Fritz HonkaFritz HonkaFritz Honka was a German serial killer. Between 1970 and 1975, he killed at least four prostitutes from Hamburg's red light district, keeping the bodies in his flat....
: murdered four women in HamburgHamburg-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
and kept the bodies in his apartment - Joachim KrollJoachim KrollJoachim Georg Kroll was a German serial killer and cannibal. He was known as the Ruhr Cannibal , Ruhr Hunter and the Duisburg Man-Eater...
: claimed 13 victims over three decades - Peter KürtenPeter KürtenPeter Kürten was a German serial killer dubbed The Vampire of Düsseldorf by the contemporary media. He committed a series of sex crimes, assaults and murders against adults and children, most notoriously from February to November 1929 in Düsseldorf.-Early life:Kürten was born into a...
: also known as the "Vampire of Düsseldorf"; executed in 1932 - Stephan LetterStephan LetterStephan Letter is a German serial killer known to be responsible for the killings of at least 29 elderly patients while he was working at a hospital as a nurse in Sonthofen, Bavaria. In December 2006, Stephan Letter was found guilty for at least 29 murders and was sentenced to life...
: male nurse who killed 29 patients; arrested in 2006 - Marianne NölleMarianne NölleMarianne Nölle is a German serial killer from Cologne. She was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993 for seven murders.-Crimes:Nölle was a nurse and between 1984 and 1992 killed patients in her care using Truxal. Police think she killed a total of 17 and attempted 18 other murders, but she was...
: female nurse who was convicted of killing seven patients between 1984 and 1992; suspected of killing 17; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993 - Paul OgorzowPaul OgorzowPaul Ogorzow , also known as the S-Bahn murderer, was a Berlin-based serial killer and rapist in Nazi Germany, responsible for several deaths and attempted murders during a ten-month period between September 1940 and July 1941, when he was finally apprehended and executed at Plötzensee...
: also known as the "S-Bahn murderer"; SASturmabteilungThe Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
sergeantSergeantSergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent....
convicted of raping and murdering eight women by throwing them off trains in BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
during blackoutBlackout (wartime)A blackout during war, or apprehended war, is the practice of collectively minimizing outdoor light, including upwardly directed light. This was done in the 20th century to prevent crews of enemy aircraft from being able to navigate to their targets simply by sight, for example during the London...
s in 1941 and 1942 - Norbert PoehlkeNorbert PoehlkeNorbert Poehlke, Der Hammermörder , was a German police officer who was found, after his suicide in 1985, to have committed several bank robberies and murders...
, also known as 'The Hammer-Killer': police officer, bank robber and serial killer - Peter StumppPeter StumppPeter Stumpp was a German farmer, accused of being a serial killer and a cannibal, also known as the "Werewolf of Bedburg"....
: self-proclaimed werewolfWerewolfA werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...
who killed 16 people during the 16th century - Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth UrsinusSophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinusthumb|right|Portrait of Charlotte Ursinus - until 1945 in the Museum of Kłodzku, now in a private collectionSophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus was a German serial killer who is believed to have been responsible for poisoning her husband, aunt and lover, and of attempting to poison her servant...
: Berlin aristocrat convicted of poisoning her aunt with arsenic at the turn of the 19th century; boyfriend and husband died similarly - Elisabeth WieseElisabeth WieseElisabeth Wiese was a German serial killer from Hamburg, convicted and executed for the killing of five children.- Early life :...
: also known as the "Angel Maker of St. PauliSt. PauliSt. Pauli , located in the Hamburg-Mitte borough, is one of the 105 quarters of the city of Hamburg, Germany. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the Landungsbrücken are a northern part of the port of Hamburg. St. Pauli contains a world famous red light district around the street Reeperbahn...
"; baby farmer who poisoned her grandchild and four others with morphine and burned their bodies in a stove in 1902 and 1903 - Anna Maria ZwanzigerAnna Maria ZwanzigerAnna Margaretha Zwanziger was a Bavarian serial killer. She used arsenic, which she referred to as "her truest friend"....
: BavariaBavariaBavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
n poisoner; killer of four people; executed in 1811
Ghana
- Charles QuansahCharles QuansahCharles Papa Kwabena Ebo Quansah is a convicted Ghanaian serial killer who was arrested in February 2000 for the murder of his girlfriend Joyce Boateng....
: convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women in AccraAccraAccra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...
; suspected of killing 34; sentenced to death in 2003
Greece
- Antonis DaglisAntonis DaglisAntonis Daglis is a Greek serial killer who was convicted of the murders of three women and attempted murder of six others in Athens on January 23, 1997. Referred to as the "Athens Ripper", he was sentenced to thirteen terms of life imprisonment, plus 25 years.Daglis, a truck driver preyed upon...
: also known as 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-wanLam Kor-wanLam Kor-wan was one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. The other was Lam Kwok-wai.-Crimes:Lam, who worked as a taxi driver, would pick up female passengers, strangle them with electrical wire, take them to his family home, and dismember them. His English moniker, "The Jars Murderer", was...
: sexual sadist who murdered and dismembered four women in the 1980s; sentenced to life imprisonment - Lam Kwok-waiLam Kwok-waiLam Kwok-wai is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers.He was convicted of 10 rapes and three murders. His murder weapon was his bare hands; he referred to his right hand as his "fork".- Victims :...
: murdered three women - Charles SobhrajCharles SobhrajHatchand Bhaonani Gurumukh Charles Sobhraj , better known as Charles Sobhraj, is a serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese origin, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s. Nicknamed "the Serpent" and "the Bikini killer" for his skill at deception and evasion, he...
: killed at least 12 Western tourists in Southeast AsiaSoutheast AsiaSoutheast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...
during the 1970s
Hungary
- Erzsébet Báthory: countess who killed servant girls; rumored to have killed more than 600
- Béla KissBéla KissBéla Kiss was a Hungarian serial killer. He is thought to have murdered at least 24 young women and attempted to pickle them in giant metal drums that he kept on his property.-Life:...
: murdered at least 24 women, escaped justice in the confusion of World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
India
- Joshi-Abhyankar Serial MurdersJoshi-Abhyankar serial murdersRajendra Jakkal, Dilip Dhyanoba Sutar, Shantaram Kanhoji Jagtap and Munawar Harun Shah were commercial art students of the Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya , Tilak Road, Pune, India who committed 10 murders between January 1976 and March 1977, and were hanged to death on 27 November 1983. The quartet...
: quartet committed around 10 murders - Thug BehramThug BehramThug Behram of the Thuggee cult in India, was one of the world's most prolific killers. He may have murdered up to 931 victims by strangulation between 1790–1840 with the ceremonial cloth , used by his cult...
: alleged to have killed over 900 people; executed in 1840 - Surender Koli: convicted of raping and murdering four children in DelhiDelhiDelhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
in 2005 and 2006 with another 12 cases pending - Raman RaghavRaman RaghavRaman Raghav , also known as Psycho Raman, was a psychopathic serial killer who operated in the city of Mumbai, India in the mid-1960s. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia after his arrest...
: killed homeless people and others in their sleep - Auto ShankarAuto ShankarAuto Shankar is the nickname of an Indian serial killer.-Murders:Shankar and his gang were found guilty of six murders, committed over a period of two years in 1988–1989. They were tried for the murders of Lalitha, Sudalai, Sampath, Mohan, Govindaraj and Ravi...
: murdered nine teenage girls in ThiruvanmiyurThiruvanmiyur-Transport:The area is easily accessible by Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses and has a sprawling bus terminus. Bus Routes connecting Thiruvanmiyur with other places in Chennai are: 1, 1A, 1C, 1D, 6D, 22A, 23C Extn., 29M,29C Extn., 41C, A47, 47A, 47D, M1, M49, M7, C51, T51, M23, M19, M70,...
, ChennaiChennaiChennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
during a six-month period in 1988; executed in 1995
Indonesia
- Verry Idham HenyansyahVerry Idham HenyansyahVerry Idham Henyansyah, also known as Ryan, is an Indonesian convicted serial killer. Verry confessed to killing 11 people and was sentenced to death by the Indonesia criminal court. Verry is awaiting execution at Kesambi Penitentiary in Cirebon. He was arrested in 2008.This case achieved notoriety...
: convicted and sentenced to death for the killing of 11 people - Ahmad SuradjiAhmad SuradjiAhmad Suradji was a serial killer in Indonesia. Suradji, a cattle-breeder born on 10 January 1949, was executed July 10, 2008. He was also known as Nasib Kelewang, or by his alias Datuk. He admitted to killing 42 girls and women over a period of 11 years...
: admitted to killing 42 women; sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on July 10, 2008
Iran
- Mohammed BijehMohammed BijehMohammed Bijeh was an Iranian serial killer. He confessed in court to raping and killing 16 young boys between March and September 2004, and was sentenced to 100 lashes followed by execution. All the boys were between 8 and 15 years old...
: also known as the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near TehranTehranTehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
; executed in 2005 - Saeed HanaeiSaeed HanaeiSaeed Hanaei or Said Hanai was an Iranian serial killer.-Crimes:Hanaei targeted female prostitutes in the eastern city of Mashhad...
: also known as "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around MashhadMashhadMashhad , is the second largest city in Iran and one of the holiest cities in the Shia Muslim world. It is also the only major Iranian city with an Arabic name. It is located east of Tehran, at the center of the Razavi Khorasan Province close to the borders of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. Its...
; executed in 2002
Israel
- Nicolai BonnerNicolai BonnerNicolai Bonner is a serial killer from Moldavia that emigrated to Israel as an adult, who murdered four immigrants from the former Soviet Union, three of them homeless, in industrial area of Haifa. The victims were all beaten, and their bodies set on fire...
: killed four people in 2005 in HaifaHaifaHaifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
, three of them homeless; sentenced to life imprisonment
Italy
- Wolfgang Abel and Mario FurlanWolfgang Abel and Mario FurlanWolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan were arrested for a series of murders in Italy between 1977 and 1984. They claimed innocence, saying they were scapegoats for a police force that could not find the real criminals.-The crimes:...
: German-Italian duo found guilty of 10 of 27 counts of murder in 1987 - Donato BilanciaDonato BilanciaDonato "Walter" Bilancia is a serial killer who murdered 17 people – nine women and eight men – on the Italian Riviera in the seven months from October, 1997 to May, 1998. He was sentenced to 13 terms of life imprisonment, with no possibility of release.-Background:Bilancia was born in Potenza, in...
: murdered 17 people in seven months between 1997 and 1998 - Leonarda CianciulliLeonarda CianciulliLeonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer. Better known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio", she murdered three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap.-Early life:Cianciulli was born in Montella and had an unhappy childhood...
: also known as "Soap-Maker of Correggio"; murderess of three women - Giancarlo Lotti and Mario VanniMonster of FlorenceThe Monster of Florence, also known as Il Mostro, is an epithet commonly used for the perpetrator, or the perpetrators, of 16 murders that took place between 1968 and 1985 in the province of Florence, Italy...
: also known as "The Monster of Florence"; convicted of eight murders of couples in a series of 16 between 1968 and 1985 - Roberto SuccoRoberto SuccoRoberto Succo , was an Italian serial killer who murdered several people in Europe in 1987 and 1988.-Murders:Succo committed his first known murders on April 9, 1981 when he fatally stabbed his...
: murdered at least five people, including his parents
Jamaica
- Lewis HutchinsonLewis HutchinsonLewis Hutchinson, a Scottish immigrant to Jamaica, was the first recorded serial killer in Jamaica's history and one of its most prolific.Hutchinson, better known as the Mad Master and Mad Doctor of Edinburgh Castle, was born in Scotland in 1733 where he is believed to have studied medicine. In the...
: Scottish immigrant convicted of shooting dozens of people in the 18th century; executed in 1773
Japan
- Sataro FukiageSataro Fukiagewas a Japanese rapist and serial killer. He killed at least seven girls. He murdered his first victim in 1906, and killed six girls between 1923 and 1924. He was tried for three out of six cases, but his exact number of victims is unknown....
: raped and killed at least seven girls in the early 20th century - Hiroaki HidakaHiroaki Hidakawas a Japanese serial killer.-Early life:Hidaka was born in the Miyazaki Prefecture. He was originally an excellent student, but he failed to enter the University of Tsukuba, his target college. He entered the Fukuoka University instead, but eventually dropped out. He often borrowed money, drank...
: killed four prostitutes in 1996; executed on December 25, 2006 - Miyuki IshikawaMiyuki Ishikawawas a Japanese midwife and serial killer who is believed to have murdered many infants with the aid of several accomplices throughout the 1940s. It is estimated that her victims numbered between 85 to 169, however the general estimate is 103...
: murdered an estimated 103, but could have been up to 169 infants in the 1940s - Kiyotaka KatsutaKiyotaka Katsutawas a Japanese serial killer and thief.-Biography:Katsuta committed several murders and robbed several houses before being apprehended. The exact number of murders he committed is unknown. He killed his victims by strangling and shooting them....
: firefighterFirefighterFirefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car incidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations...
who shot and strangled at least eight people, some during robberies, between 1972 and 1982 - Yoshio KodairaYoshio Kodairawas a Japanese rapist and serial killer. He killed one person in 1932 and was later sentenced to death after being convicted of killing seven others in 1945 and 1946.- Life as a soldier :...
: rapist thought to have killed 11 people in Japan and Chinese people as a soldier - Genzo KuritaGenzo Kuritawas a Japanese serial killer, who murdered eight people.- Murders :Kurita murdered two girlfriends in February 1948. On August 8, 1951, he raped and murdered a 24-year-old woman beside her baby. He then had sex with her corpse....
: killed six women and two children and engaged in rape and necrophiliaNecrophiliaNecrophilia, also called thanatophilia or necrolagnia, is the sexual attraction to corpses,It is classified as a paraphilia by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. The word is artificially derived from the ancient Greek words: νεκρός and φιλία... - Hiroshi MaeueHiroshi Maeue, aka "Suicide Website Murderer", was a Japanese serial killer, who lured his victims via the internet and killed three people in 2005.Maeue suffered from a paraphilic psychosexual disorder which translated into being unable to achieve sexual release absent of performing an act of...
: also known as "Suicide Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims - Futoshi MatsunagaFutoshi Matsunagais a Japanese serial killer who both defrauded and tortured his victims. He was convicted of six murders and one manslaughter, including two children, between the years 1996 and 1998. He murdered his victims with an accomplice, Junko Ogata....
and Junko OgataJunko Ogatais a Japanese woman who acted as an accomplice to serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga.-Early life and murders:Ogata was born on Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, and grew up in a wealthy family. She was Matsunaga's schoolmate in high school, but she did not know him very well, and he transferred to another...
: also known as "House of Horror"; tortured and killed at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Ogata's family - Tsutomu MiyazakiTsutomu Miyazaki, also known as The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer, and Dracula, was a Japanese serial killer.-Background:Planaria's premature birth left him with deformed hands, which were permanently gnarled and fused directly to the wrists, necessitating him to move his entire forearm in order to...
: also known as "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer" and "Dracula"; killed four preschool-age girls and ate the hand of a victim; executed in 2008 - Seisaku NakamuraSeisaku Nakamurawas a Japanese man convicted for serial killings in his teenage years. He is also known as Hamamatsu Deaf Killer. He was convicted of stabbing to death at least nine people, including several teenagers, in the Shizuoka Prefecture. The book, , which included the subject of the incident, was...
: also known as "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer", murdered at least nine people - Akira NishiguchiAkira Nishiguchiwas a Japanese serial killer and fraudster. He is most known for being able to confuse Japanese police into believing that he was only connected to fraud rather than the murders. While engaging in confidence scams, he murdered two people, was put on the most wanted list, and killed three others...
: killed five people and engaged in fraud - Kiyoshi ŌkuboKiyoshi Okubowas a Japanese serial killer. Between March 31, 1971 and May 10, 1971, he raped and murdered eight women, ages 16 to 21. He used a pen name, Tanigawa Ivan .- Early life :...
: raped and murdered eight young women over a period of 41 days in 1971
Kazhakstan
- Nikolai DzhumagalievNikolai DzhumagalievNikolai Dzhumagaliev is a Kazakhstani serial killer. Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev made it his mission to rid the world of prostitutes and was known to have killed seven women before he was caught. Dzhumagaliev is said; however, to have killed somewhere between 50 to 100 women...
: also known as "Metal Fang"; raped and hacked seven women to death with an axe in AlmatyAlmatyAlmaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...
in 1980, then cannibalised them using his unusual false teeth
Latvia
- Kaspars PetrovsKaspars PetrovsKaspars Petrovs is a Latvian national, and a convicted serial killer. He was convicted of the murder of thirteen elderly women by the Riga Regional Court on May 12, 2005 and sentenced to life in prison....
: convicted of murdering 13 elderly RigaRigaRiga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...
women in 2005; confessed to killing 38
Macedonia
- Vlado TaneskiVlado TaneskiVlado Taneski was a Macedonian crime reporter and serial killer. A career journalist for over 20 years, Taneski was arrested in June 2008 for the murder of two women on whose death he had also written articles. These articles on the murders had aroused the suspicion of the police, since they...
: crime reporter arrested in June 2008 for the murder of three elderly women on whose deaths he had written articles; committed suicide in police custody; suspected of killing another woman
Mexico
- Juana BarrazaJuana BarrazaJuana Barraza is a Mexican professional wrestler and serial killer dubbed La Mataviejitas sentenced to 759 years in jail for killing eleven elderly women. The first murder attributed to Mataviejitas has been dated variously to the late 1990s and to a specific killing on 17 November 2003...
: also known as "Mataviejitas" ("Old Lady Killer"); operated within the metropolitan area of Mexico CityMexico CityMexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
until January 25, 2006 - José Luis CalvaJosé Luis CalvaJosé Luis Calva Zepeda was a Mexican writer and serial killer. Calva has been accused of murder in up to eight separate cases, all involving women. Calva had also confessed to cannibalism.- Early life :...
: cannibal; police found the remains of multiple female victims in his house; committed suicide on December 11, 2007 - Adolfo ConstanzoAdolfo ConstanzoAdolfo de Jesús Constanzo was an American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader. His nickname was El Padrino de Matamoros .- Early years :...
: also known as "The Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico; committed suicide in 1989 - Delfina and María de Jesús González: also known as "Las Poquianchis"; killed a total of 91; arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1964
- Raúl Osiel MarroquínRaúl Osiel MarroquínRaúl Osiel Marroquín Reyes is a Mexican serial killer.-Crimes:Marroquin confessed to luring gay men from bars in order to kill them. He tortured his four victims by hanging or choking them, but in two cases it is said that he released men he had kidnapped once he had received a ransom...
: also known as "El Gato Imperial"; killed four male homosexuals in Mexico City
New Zealand
- Minnie DeanMinnie DeanWilliamina "Minnie" Dean was a New Zealander who was found guilty of infanticide and hanged. She was the only woman to receive the death penalty in New Zealand....
: Scottish immigrant baby farmer who killed at least three children by laudanum poisoning and suffocation in the 1890s
Norway
- Arnfinn NessetArnfinn NessetArnfinn Nesset is a Norwegian serial killer.Nesset, a former nursing home manager, was convicted in March 1983 of poisoning 22 patients with Curacit, a muscle relaxing drug. He was also convicted of one count of attempted murder and acquitted on two other counts...
: manager of a geriatric nursing home who poisoned 22 dwellers at the Orkdal Alders- og Sjukeheim institution over a period of years before being convicted in 1983
Poland
- Zdzisław Marchwicki: also known as "Zagłębie Vampire"; convicted of murdering 14 women; executed in 1976
- Władysław Mazurkiewicz: also known as "The Gentleman Killer"; killed up to 30 women
- Stanisław Modzelewski: murdered seven women in Łódź during the 1960s; executed in 1970
- Andrzej NowocieńSkin HuntersThe "Skin Hunters" is the media nickname for four hospital casualty workers from the Polish city of Łódź, who were convicted of murdering at least five patients and selling information regarding their deaths to funeral homes. They were apprehended in 2002...
: also known as the "Skin Hunters"; paramedic in Łódź who killed patients for profit - Leszek PękalskiLeszek PekalskiLeszek Pękalski, also known as the Vampire of Bytów is a Polish serial killer. He is believed to have killed at least 17 people between 1984 and 1992...
: also known as the "Vampire of Bytów"; killed up to 17 women
Portugal
- António Luís CostaAntónio Luís CostaAntónio Luís Costa is an ex-GNR soldier and serial killer from Santa Comba Dão, Portugal. He was convicted in 2007 for the murders of three young women between May 2005 and May 2006.-Murders:...
: ex-GNRPortuguese National Republican GuardThe Portuguese National Republican Guard is the gendarmerie of Portugal. Members of the GNR are soldiers, who, unlike the agents of the Public Security Police , are subject to military law and organisation...
officer who murdered three women between 2005 and 2006. Sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Romania
- Vera RencziVera RencziVera Renczi was a Romanian serial killer who poisoned 35 individuals including her husbands, lovers and one son with arsenic during the 1920s and 1930s.-Early life:...
: poisoned two husbands, one son and 32 of her suitors in the 1920s and 1930s - Ion RîmaruIon RîmaruIon Rîmaru was a Romanian serial killer dubbed "The Vampire of Bucharest". He terrorized Bucharest in 1970-1971.-Early life:...
: murdered and raped young women in BucharestBucharestBucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
from 1970 to 1971; executed in 1971 - Romulus VereşRomulus VeresRomulus Vereş was a notorious serial killer, better known as "the man with the hammer".During the 1970s, he was charged with five murders and several attempted murders, but never imprisoned on grounds of insanity: he suffered from schizophrenia, blaming the Devil for his actions...
: convicted of five murders, sent to a mental institution
Russia
- Valeriy AsratyanValeriy AsratyanValery Asratyan was a Russian serial killer who killed three people and raped dozens of women in Moscow between 1988 and 1990.In 1990, he was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death.-References:...
: arrested in 1990 and convicted of three murders and dozens of cases of sexual abuse; executed - Andrei ChikatiloAndrei ChikatiloAndrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper or The Rostov Ripper who murdered a minimum of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990...
: also known as "The Rostov Ripper"; killed 52 women and children throughout the Soviet UnionSoviet UnionThe Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
; arrested, convicted and executed in 1994 - Sergey GolovkinSergey GolovkinSergey Golovkin was a Soviet serial killer known as "The Fisher" or "The Udav" who killed and butchered 11 boys in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992....
: also known as "The Fisher" killed 11 boys between 1986 and 1992, executed 1996. - Vasiliy KulikVasiliy KulikVasiliy Kulik was a Soviet serial killer responsible for the murders of 13 people in Irkutsk between 1984 and 1986.-Early life:...
: killed 13 people aged between seven months and 75 years; executed - Maxim PetrovMaxim PetrovMaxim Vladimirovich Petrov is a Russian doctor and serial killer. He is currently serving a life sentence for killing 12 patients. The Russian media nicknamed him "Doctor Killer" and "Doctor Death".-Crimes:...
: also known as "Doctor Killer" and "Doctor Death"; doctor who killed 12 patients - Alexander PichushkinAlexander PichushkinAlexander Yuryevich "Sasha" Pichushkin , also known as The Chessboard Killer and The Bitsa Park Maniac, is a Russian serial killer...
: also known as "Bitsa Maniac", "The Chessboard Killer"; convicted of 48 murders; confessed to killing 63 - Sergei RyakhovskySergei RyakhovskySergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky a.k.a. The Hippopotamus, The Balashikha Ripper was a Soviet serial killer and rapist who between 1988 and 1993 killed in and around Moscow at least 19 people aged 14 to 78 years including 12 women, five men and two boys...
: also known as "The Hippopotamus"; convicted of the murders of 19 people aged between 14 and 78 - Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova: 18th century noblewoman who tortured and killed serfSERFA spin exchange relaxation-free magnetometer is a type of magnetometer developed at Princeton University in the early 2000s. SERF magnetometers measure magnetic fields by using lasers to detect the interaction between alkali metal atoms in a vapor and the magnetic field.The name for the technique...
s on her estate - Anatoly SlivkoAnatoly SlivkoAnatoly Yemelianovich Slivko was a Soviet serial killer who was convicted of the murders of seven boys between the ages of seven and seventeen in and around the Russian city of Stavropol between 1964 and 1985...
: convicted of killing seven young boys; executed - Alexander Spesivtsev: cannibal convicted of the murders of 19 women
Slovakia
- Ondrej RigoOndrej RigoOndrej Rigo , is a Slovak serial killer and necrophile who targeted women in Bratislava, Munich and Amsterdam from 1990 to 1992. Currently serving a life sentence for 9 murders and 1 attempted murder in Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia, Rigo is a dissocial and schizoid psychopath while also being a...
: killed, raped and mutilated 9 women in AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
and BratislavaBratislavaBratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...
, always wearing socks on his hands; he remains the SlovakSlovaksThe Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...
murderer with the highest number of victims and he is also the most prolific serial killer in modern Slovak history. - Jozef SlovákJozef SlovákJozef Slovák is a Slovak serial killer who murdered at least five women in Slovakia and Czech Republic from 1978 to 1991. He is notable for being of above average intelligence, for example, being the author and holder of several patents in electronics...
: after serving just 8 years for his first murder from 1978, Slovák killed at least 4 other women in SlovakiaSlovakiaThe Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
and Czech RepublicCzech RepublicThe Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
in the early 1990s; highly intelligent, holder of numerous patents in electronics.
Slovenia
- Silvo PlutSilvo PlutSilvo Plut was a Slovenian serial killer. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of Ljubica Ulčar and the attempted murder of her husband Miro Ulčar on February 24, 2006. Plut had been released on probation after 13 years in prison for the 1990 rape and murder of a former...
: killed three women; committed suicide in prison in 2007 - Metod TrobecMetod TrobecMetod Trobec was a serial killer in Slovenia who raped, killed, and cremated at least five women. He committed suicide while in prison.-References:...
: raped and killed at least five women; committed suicide in prison in 2006
South Africa
- Sibusiso DumaSibusiso DumaSibusiso Duma is a South African serial killer who was twice convicted in 2007 and 2009 of 2 and 5 murders and sentenced to 8 Life Sentences in prison. He was mostly active around the town of Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal....
: murdered 7 people in the PietermaritzburgPietermaritzburgPietermaritzburg is the capital and second largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838, and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. Its "purist" Zulu name is umGungundlovu, and this is the name used for the district municipality...
area of KwaZulu Natal in 2007 - Cedric MaakeCedric maakeMaoupa Cedric Maake is a serial killer from South Africa. He committed at least 27 murders throughout 1996 and 1997.- Crimes :...
: also known as also known as the "Wemmer Pan Killer"; serial rapist; murdered at least 27 people from 1996–1997 - Jimmy MakettaJimmy MakettaJimmy Maketta is a South African rapist and serial killer who in 2007 plead guilty and was convicted on 16 counts of murder, 19 counts of rape. A state psychologist described him as a psychopath....
: also known as "Jesus Killer" convicted on 16 counts of murder, 19 counts of rape from 1996–1999 - Johannes MashianeJohannes MashianeJohannes Mashiane AKA The Beast of Atteridgeville is a South African sodomist and serial killer who accounted for 13 victims before committing suicide in 1989. Mashiane was being chased by police in the Pretoria suburb of Marabastad when he jumped underneath a bus.Mashiane started his murderous...
: also known as "The Beast of AtteridgevilleAtteridgevilleAtteridgeville, part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, is a township located on the west of Pretoria, South Africa. It is bordered to the west by Saulsville, to the east by Proclamation Hill; to the south by Laudium and to the north by Lotus Gardens.-History:Atteridgeville was...
" 13 counts of murder, 12 counts of sodomy from 1982–1989 - Daisy de MelkerDaisy de MelkerDaisy Louisa C. De Melker , simply known as Daisy de Melker, was a trained nurse who poisoned two husbands with strychnine for their life insurance while living in Germiston in the central Transvaal , and then poisoned her only son with arsenic for reasons which are still unclear...
: poisoner; killed two husbands and one son from 1923–1932 - Jack MogaleJack MogaleJack Mogale dubbed the West-End serial killer by police is a South African serial killer who killed 16 people in 2008 and 2009. On 17 February 2011, Mogale was convicted on 52 of 61 charges related to 16 murders, 19 rapes and nine kidnappings.Mogale committed his crimes near his residence in...
: also known as the "West-End serial killer"; convicted of raping and murdering 16 women in JohannesburgJohannesburgJohannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
in 2008 and 2009 - Elifasi MsomiElifasi MsomiElifasi Msomi a.k.a. The Axe Killer is a South African serial killer who was convicted in 1955 of 15 murders and sentenced to death by hanging. His victims all came from the Umkomaas and Umzimkulu valleys of KwaZulu-Natal....
: also known as "The Axe Killer" murdered 15 people under the influence of the Tokoloshe from 1953–1955 - Nicholas Lungisa NcamaNicholas Lungisa NcamaNicholas Lungisa Ncama is a South African serial killer who was convicted in 1997 of 3 murders and sentenced to life in prison. His victims all came from the Port Elizabeth area of the Eastern Cape....
: murdered 6 people in the Eastern CapeEastern CapeThe Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...
, 1997 - David RanditsheniDavid RanditsheniDavid Randitsheni was a South African rapist and serial killer who in 2009 was convicted on 10 counts of murder, 17 counts of rape and 18 counts of kidnapping and one count of indecent assault...
: also known as "Modimolle Serial Killer" raped and murdered 10 children (kidnapped and raped more) from 2004–2008 - Gert van RooyenGert van RooyenCornelius Gerhardus van Rooyen was an alleged South African paedophile and serial killer who, together with his female partner Joey Haarhof, abducted and apparently murdered at least six young girls between 1988 and 1989...
: allegedly abducted and murdered at least six girls from across South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
from 1988–1989 - Samuel SidynoSamuel SidynoSamuel Sidyno is a South African serial killer who was convicted in 2000 of 7 murders and sentenced to 7 Life Sentences in prison. His victims all came from the Pretoria area of Gauteng....
: also known as "Capital Hill Serial Killer" murdered 7 people in PretoriaPretoriaPretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...
from 1998–1999 - Norman Afzal SimonsNorman Afzal SimonsNorman Avzal Simons, also known as the "Station Strangler", is a South African rapist and serial killer who was convicted in 1995 on one count of murder and one count of kidnapping Elroy van Rooy, age 10...
: also known as "Station Strangler" raped, sodomised and murder 22 children on the Cape FlatsCape FlatsThe Cape Flats is an expansive, low-lying, flat area situated to the southeast of the central business district of Cape Town. To many people in Cape Town, the area is known simply as 'The Flats'....
from 1986–1994 - Moses SitholeMoses SitholeMoses Sithole is a South African serial killer who committed the "ABC Murders", so named because they began in Atteridgeville, continued in Boksburg and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg.-Early life:...
: also known as "ABC Killer"and The South African Strangler raped and killed at least 38 young women in AtteridgevilleAtteridgevilleAtteridgeville, part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, is a township located on the west of Pretoria, South Africa. It is bordered to the west by Saulsville, to the east by Proclamation Hill; to the south by Laudium and to the north by Lotus Gardens.-History:Atteridgeville was...
, Boksburg and Cleveland from 1994 - 1995 - Thozamile TakiThozamile TakiThozamile Taki also known as the Sugarcane Killer is a South African serial killer who killed 13 women aged 18–25, dumping their bodies in agricultural plantations...
also known as the "SugarcaneSugarcaneSugarcane refers to any of six to 37 species of tall perennial grasses of the genus Saccharum . Native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South Asia, they have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar, and measure two to six metres tall...
Serial Killer"; robbed and killed 10 women in KwaZulu Natal and three in Eastern CapeEastern CapeThe Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...
, dumping their bodies in sugarcane and tea plantationPlantationA plantation is a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption...
s - Sipho ThwalaSipho ThwalaSipho Mandla Agmatir Thwala is a South African rapist and serial killer who was convicted in 1999 for the murders of 16 women and 10 rapes and was sentenced to 506 years in prison. Thwala was known by the moniker "The Phoenix Strangler"....
: also known as the "Phoenix Strangler"; raped and murdered 19 women in the sugarcane fields of KwaZulu Natal from 1996 to 1997. - Stewart WilkenStewart WilkenStewart Wilken AKA "Boetie Boer" is a convicted serial killer from South Africa. Wilken is regarded as a highly unusual serial killer, having killed individuals from two distinct victim types, female prostitutes and young boys . Wilken killed from 1990 until he was arrested in January 1997...
: also known as "Boetie Boer"; raped, sodomised and murdered at least 7 victims from 1990–1997 - Elias XitavhudziElias XitavhudziElias Xitavhudzi was a serial killer who murdered 16 men and women in Atteridgeville, South Africa in the 1950s. Targeting only white males and females in a strictly-segregated community, his killing spree caused a local sensation during the peak years of South Africa's apartheid regime.Prior to...
: also known as "Pangaman" murdered 16 people in AtteridgevilleAtteridgevilleAtteridgeville, part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, is a township located on the west of Pretoria, South Africa. It is bordered to the west by Saulsville, to the east by Proclamation Hill; to the south by Laudium and to the north by Lotus Gardens.-History:Atteridgeville was...
in the 1960s - Christopher Mhlengwa ZikodeChristopher Mhlengwa ZikodeChristopher Mhlengwa Zikode is a South African rapist and serial killer who was convicted in 1995 on 8 counts of murder, 5 counts of rape, 5 counts of attempted murder and 2 counts of indecent assault. Zikode is however considered responsible for at least 18 murders and 11 attempted murders.Zikode...
: also known as also known as "Donnybrook Serial Killer" murdered 18 people in Donnybrook KwaZulu Natal from 1994–1995
South Korea
- Yoo Young-chulYoo Young-ChulYoo Young-chul is a South Korean serial killer and self-confessed cannibal. Although he admitted to murdering 21 people, mostly prostitutes and wealthy old men, the Seoul Central District Court convicted him of 20 murders . Yoo burned three and mutilated at least 11 of his victims, admitting he...
: cannibal; killed 21 people from September 2003 to July 2004, mainly young women and rich men
Spain
- Francisca BallesterosFrancisca BallesterosFrancisca Ballesteros is a Spanish serial killer who between 1990 and 2004 killed her two daughters and her husband and attempted to kill her son.-Crimes history:Francisca Ballesteros was born in Valencia. A few years later, she moved to Melilla....
: between 1990 and 2004 killed her family and attempted to kill her surviving son - Francisco Garcia EscaleroFrancisco Garcia EscaleroFrancisco Garcia Escalero: was a beggar Spanish serial killer who killed 11 individuals between 1987 and 1994. Also, Escalero practiced necrophilia and cannibalism.-Biography:...
: beggar convicted of 11 murders - Enriqueta Martí: self-proclaimed witch who murdered and cannibalized six children in BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
; executed in 1912 - José Antonio Rodriguez VegaJose Antonio Rodriguez VegaJosé Antonio Rodríguez Vega , nicknamed El Mataviejas , was a Spanish serial killer who raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, ranging in age from 61 to 93 years old, in and around Santander, Cantabria, between August 1987 and April 1988.-Biography:Rodríguez Vega was born in Santander,...
: raped and killed at least 16 women - Manuel Delgado VillegasManuel Delgado Villegas* Adolfo Folch Muntaner - A 49 year-old chef. He was killed on a beach in Llorac as he slept.* Margaret Hélène Thelese Boudrie - A 21 year-old French student from Lyon. She was staying at Can Plana, a holiday home five kilometres from Ibiza, along with a friend.* Venancio Hernández Carrasco - A...
: 48 alleged murders; convicted of eight
Sweden
- Thomas QuickThomas QuickThomas Quick is a convicted Swedish serial killer who has confessed to more than 30 murders, although he has only eight convictions, two of which have been overturned...
: also known as "Sätermannen"; confessed and convicted of eight murders
Turkey
- Adnan ÇolakAdnan ÇolakAdnan Çolak is a Turkish serial killer known as the "Artvin Monster". In the Turkish district of Artvin, from 1992 to 1995, Çolak killed eleven elderly women between the ages of 68 and 95 and raped six others within the same age bracket. After being captured in 1995, Çolak's trial in the Zonguldak...
: also known as "Artvin Monster"; killed 17 elderly women in ArtvinArtvin-History:See Artvin Province for the history of the region.-Places of interest:* Artvin or Livana castle, built in 937There are a number of Ottoman Empire houses and public buildings including:* Salih Bey mosque, built in 1792...
, Turkey from 1992 to 1995. in 2000 he was sentenced to death six times, and 40 years in prison. However, since October 1984, Turkey has not executed any prisoners, and as of 2004, Turkey does not have capital punishment (death penalty). - Özgür DengizÖzgür DengizÖzgür Dengiz is a Turkish serial killer and cannibal. Captured on September 14, 2007 in Ankara, he admitted killing two men, attempting to murder another man and cannibalising one of his victims...
: serial killer from AnkaraAnkaraAnkara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
, who killed four people and cannibalized at least one.
Ukraine
- Anatoly OnoprienkoAnatoly OnoprienkoAnatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko is a Ukrainian serial killer. He is also known by the nicknames "The Beast of Ukraine", "The Terminator" and "Citizen O"...
: also known as "The Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996 - Serhiy TkachSerhiy TkachSerhiy Tkach is a former Ukrainian police criminal investigator, originally from Russia, and a convicted serial killer who claimed to have killed 100 people. He suffocated girls aged between eight and 18 and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead...
: convicted of raping and murdering 36 women, but claims the total is 100 - Vladislav Volkovich and Vladimir KondratenkoNighttime KillersThe Nighttime Killers is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Kiev, Ukraine between 1991 and 1997. Two men, Vladyslav Volkovich and Volodymyr Kondratenko were arrested and charged with 16 murders...
: also known as the "Nighttime Killers"; charged with shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning 16 victims to death in KievKievKiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
between 1991 and 1997; Kondratenko committed suicide in prison during the trial; Volkovich was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment
England
- Stephen AkinmureleStephen AkinmureleStephen Akinmurele was a suspected serial killer, of Nigerian descent, charged with murdering five people between 1995 and 1998. The case is noted for Akinmurele's long-standing hatred of elderly people. Akinmurele committed suicide before his trial though confessed to a number of the murders...
: also known as the "Cul-de-sac killer"; committed suicide in Strangeways while awaiting trial for the murders of five elderly people in BlackpoolBlackpoolBlackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...
and the Isle of ManIsle of ManThe Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is... - Beverley Allitt: also known as also known as "Angel of Death"; paediatric nurse who killed four babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991
- Levi BellfieldLevi BellfieldLevi Bellfield is a British serial killer. A former nightclub bouncer and manager of a car clamping business, he was convicted on 25 February 2008 of murdering Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy...
: also known as the "Bus Stop Stalker"; convicted of the 2002 Murder of Amanda Dowler and two fatal hammer attacks on young women in South West LondonSouth West LondonSouth West London could refer to:*SW postcode area*South West *Western part of South London*South West...
in 2003 and 2004 - Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: also known as "Moors MurderersMoors murdersThe Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now Greater Manchester, England. The victims were five children aged between 10 and 17—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans—at least...
"; murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17 and buried them in Saddleworth MoorSaddleworth MoorSaddleworth Moor is an area of the South Pennines in northern England. It is a sparsely populated moorland and millstone grit divided between the metropolitan boroughs of Oldham and Kirklees, in Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire respectively.... - Mary Ann BritlandMary Ann BritlandMary Ann Britland of Ashton-under-Lyne was the first woman to be executed by hanging at Strangeways Prison, Manchester, England by James Berry on 9 August 1886.-Early life:...
: poisoned her daughter, husband, and the wife of her lover in 1886 - Peter BryanPeter Bryan-Early life:Bryan was born In London on 4 October 1969, his parents were immigrants from Barbados. He was the youngest of seven children. He left school aged 14 or 15 and obtained employment at a clothes stall.-Background:...
: institutionalizedInstitutionalizedInstitutionalized may refer to:* The act of being placed in a psychiatric hospital* "Institutionalized" , a song on Suicidal Tendencies 1983 titular album* Institutionalized , a 2005 rap album by American rapper Ras Kass...
for fatal hammer attack on woman in 1993; reapprehended for cannibalizing a friend in 2004 but able to batter a fellow patient to death months later - George ChapmanGeorge Chapman (murderer)George Chapman was a Polish serial killer known as the Borough Poisoner. Born Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski in Poland, he moved as an adult to England, where he committed his crimes...
: poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the RipperJack the Ripper"Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer, that was disseminated in the... - John ChristieJohn Christie (murderer)John Reginald Halliday Christie , born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, was a notorious English serial killer active in the 1940s and '50s. He murdered at least eight females – including his wife Ethel – by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London...
: gassed, raped and strangled at least five women from 1943 to 1953, hiding the bodies at his house in London; also strangled his wife and Timothy EvansTimothy EvansTimothy John Evans was a Welshman accused of murdering his wife and daughter at their residence in Notting Hill, London in November 1949. In January 1950 Evans was tried and convicted of the murder of his daughter, and he was sentenced to death by hanging...
' wife and baby daughter - Robert George ClementsRobert George ClementsRobert George Clements was a physician and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is suspected of the murder of his fourth wife, who died of morphine poisoning. His first three wives also predeceased him, raising suspicions that he murdered them as well...
: doctor who committed suicide when due to be arrested for poisoning his fourth wife. His other three wives all died suspiciously during the interwar period - Mary Ann CottonMary Ann CottonMary Ann Cotton was an English woman convicted of murdering her children and believed to have murdered up to 21 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning.-Early life:...
: British VictorianVictorian eraThe Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims; hanged in 1873 - Thomas Neill CreamThomas Neill CreamDr. Thomas Neill Cream , also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-born serial killer, who claimed his first proven victims in the United States and the rest in England, and possibly others in Canada and Scotland...
: also known as "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
then moved to London; hanged in 1892 - Frederick Bailey DeemingFrederick Bailey DeemingFrederick Bailey Deeming was an English-born Australian gasfitter and murderer.Deeming was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, son of Thomas Deeming, brazier, and his wife Ann, née Bailey. He was a "difficult child" according to writers Maurice Gurvich and Christopher Wray...
: in 1891 killed his wife and four children in Britain; remarried and moved to Australia, and then murdered his new wife - John Duffy and David MulcahyJohn Duffy and David MulcahyJohn Duffy and David Mulcahy are two British rapists and serial killers who together attacked numerous women at railway stations in the south of England through the 1980s...
: also known as the "Railway Killers"; killed three women near railway stations in the 1980s - Amelia DyerAmelia DyerAmelia Elizabeth Dyer née Hobley was the most prolific baby farm murderer of Victorian England. She was tried and hanged for one murder, but there is little doubt she was responsible for many more similar deaths—possibly 400 or more—over a period of perhaps twenty years.-Background:Unlike many of...
: murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896 - Kenneth ErskineKenneth ErskineKenneth Erskine is an English serial killer who became known as the Stockwell Strangler.-Early life:Erskine was born in July 1963 to an English mother and Antiguan father...
: also known as "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners - Steven GrievesonSteven GrievesonSteven John Grieveson is an English serial killer who was convicted on 28 February 1996 of the murders of three teenage boys in the city of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear from 1993 to 1994....
: also known as "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered three teenage boys in SunderlandCity of SunderlandThe City of Sunderland is a local government district of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough...
, Tyne and WearTyne and WearTyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in north east England around the mouths of the Rivers Tyne and Wear. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972...
in 1993 and 1994 - Stephen GriffithsBradford murdersThe Bradford murders were three serial killings of female sex workers from the northern English city of Bradford in 2009 and 2010.43-year-old Susan Rushworth disappeared on 22 June 2009, followed by 31-year-old Shelley Armitage on 26 April 2010 and 36-year-old Suzanne Blamires on 21 May of the same...
: also known as the "Crossbow Cannibal"; convicted of murdering three prostitutes in BradfordBradfordBradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
, EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
in 2009 and 2010 - John George HaighJohn George HaighJohn George Haigh , commonly known as the "Acid Bath Murderer" , was an English serial killer during the 1940s. He was convicted of the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine...
: also known as also known as 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 - Anthony HardyAnthony Hardy-Early life:Born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, Anthony Hardy had an apparently uneventful childhood and excelled in school and college, particularly in engineering....
: also known as the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four - Trevor HardyTrevor HardyTrevor Joseph Hardy , also known as the Beast of Manchester, is a convicted British serial killer who murdered three teenage girls in the Manchester area between December 1974 and March 1976...
: also known as The Beast of Manchester killed three teenage girls in ManchesterManchesterManchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
from 1974 to 1976 - Philip HerbertPhilip Herbert, 7th Earl of PembrokePhilip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, 4th Earl of Montgomery was an English nobleman who succeeded to the titles and estates of two earldoms on 8 July 1674 on the death of his brother William Herbert, 6th Earl of Pembroke...
: also known as the "Infamous Earl of Pembroke"; 17th century nobleman convicted of manslaughter but discharged; later killed the prosecutor and pardoned for a third murder - Colin IrelandColin IrelandColin Ireland is a British serial killer known as the "Gay Slayer" because he specifically murdered gay men. His victims were five men....
: also known as "Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s
- Robin LigusRobin LigusRobin Stanislaw Ligus, is a serial killer, who operated in Shropshire, killing three men in 1994. In 2011 he was ordered to be detained indefinitely in a secure mental hospital, as he is suffering from the effects of a stroke.- Victims :...
: drug addict convicted of robbing and bludgeoning three men to death with an iron bar in ShropshireShropshireShropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
in 1994 - Michael LupoMichael LupoMichael Lupo was a homosexual serial killer originally from Italy, operating in Britain. He was based at the YSL boutique in Brompton Road, London during the 1980s.- History :...
: also known as "Wolf Man"; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders - Patrick MackayPatrick MackayPatrick Mackay is a serial killer who confessed to murdering eleven people in England in the mid 1970s.-Early life:...
: charged with the murders of five individuals, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people - Robert MaudsleyRobert MaudsleyRobert John Maudsley is a British serial killer responsible for the murders of four people. He committed three of these murders in prison after receiving a life sentence for a single murder...
: also known as "Hannibal The Cannibal"; killer of four; killed three in prison - Raymond MorrisCannock Chase murdersThe Cannock Chase murders were the murders of three young school girls that occurred in Staffordshire, England, during the late 1960s...
: also known as the "A34 Killer"; convicted of one murder, considered to have committed at least two more - Robert NapperRobert NapperRobert Clive Napper is a convicted British serial killer and rapist who was remanded in Broadmoor Hospital indefinitely on 18 December 2008 for the manslaughter of Rachel Nickell on 15 July 1992...
: also known as the "Green Chain Rapist"; killed two women and a child in the 1990s - Donald NeilsonDonald NeilsonDonald Neilson is a British multiple murderer and armed robber...
: also known as "Black Panther"; killed four people, including heiress Lesley Whittle - Dennis NilsenDennis NilsenDennis Andrew Nilsen also known as the Muswell Hill Murderer and the Kindly Killer is a British serial killer who lived in London....
: killer of 15 (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983 - Colin NorrisColin NorrisColin Campbell Norris was a Scottish nurse and convicted serial killer from the Milton area in Glasgow who was convicted of murdering four elderly patients in a hospital in Leeds, England, in 2002. He was sentenced in 2008 to serve a minimum of 30 years in prison...
: nurse convicted of killing four patients in LeedsLeedsLeeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
hospitals - William PalmerWilliam Palmer (murderer)William Palmer was an English doctor who was convicted of murder in one of the most notorious cases of the 19th century.-Early life:...
: also known as "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; hanged on June 14, 1856 - Amelia Sach and Annie WaltersAmelia Sach and Annie WaltersAmelia Sach and Annie Walters were two British serial killers better known as the Finchley baby farmers.-Crimes:...
: murdered an unknown number of babies put up for adoption - Harold ShipmanHarold ShipmanHarold Fredrick Shipman was an English doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history with 218 murders being positively ascribed to him....
: also known as "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 - George Joseph SmithGeorge Joseph SmithGeorge Joseph Smith was an English serial killer and bigamist. In 1915 he was convicted and subsequently hanged for the slayings of three women, the case becoming known as the "Brides in the Bath Murders". As well as being widely reported in the media, the case was a significant case in the...
: also known as "The Brides in the Bath"; killer of three women - John StraffenJohn StraffenJohn Thomas Straffen was a British serial killer who was the longest-serving prisoner in British legal history. Straffen killed two young girls in the summer of 1951. He was found to be unfit to plead and committed to Broadmoor Hospital; during a brief escape in 1952 he killed again. This time he...
: child killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner until his death on November 19, 2007 - Peter SutcliffePeter SutcliffePeter William Sutcliffe is a British serial killer who was dubbed "The Yorkshire Ripper". In 1981 Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attacking seven others. He is currently serving 20 sentences of life imprisonment in Broadmoor Hospital...
: also known as the "Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980 - Thomas Griffiths WainewrightThomas Griffiths WainewrightThomas Griffiths Wainewright was an English artist, writer and criminal, widely believed to have been a multiple poisoner.-Early life:...
: artist considered to have poisoned four people - Fred WestFred WestFrederick Walter Stephen West , was a British serial killer. Between 1967 and 1987, he alone, and later, he and his wife Rosemary, tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at the couple's homes. The majority of the murders occurred between May 1973 and September 1979 at...
and Rosemary WestRosemary WestRosemary Pauline "Rose" West is a British serial killer, now an inmate at HMP Low Newton, Brasside, Durham, after being convicted of 10 murders in 1995...
: also known as "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 GloucesterGloucesterGloucester is a city, district and county town of Gloucestershire in the South West region of England. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, and on the River Severn, approximately north-east of Bristol, and south-southwest of Birmingham....
; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial - Catherine WilsonCatherine WilsonCatherine Wilson was a British woman who was hanged for one murder, but was generally thought at the time to have committed six others. She worked as a nurse and poisoned her victims after encouraging them to leave her money in their wills...
: nurse considered to have poisoned seven people in the 19th century - Mary Elizabeth WilsonMary Elizabeth WilsonMary Elizabeth Wilson , also known as the Merry widow of Windy Nook, was a serial killer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Durham, in 1958. However the sentence was not carried out as it was commuted to a prison sentence....
: also known as the "Merry widow of Windy Nook"; convicted of murdering two husbands by poisoning and considered to have killed two others - Steve WrightSteve Wright (serial killer)Steven Gerald James Wright is an English serial killer, also known as the Suffolk Strangler. He is currently serving life imprisonment for the murder of five women who worked as prostitutes in Ipswich, Suffolk...
: also known as "The Suffolk Strangler" killed five womenIpswich 2006 serial murdersThe Ipswich serial murders took place between 30 October and 10 December 2006 when the bodies of five murdered women were discovered at different locations near Ipswich, Suffolk, England. All the victims were women who worked as prostitutes in the Ipswich area. Their bodies were discovered naked,...
in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006 - Graham Young: also known as "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971
Scotland
- Robert BlackRobert Black (serial killer)Robert Black is a Scottish paedophile serial killer convicted of the kidnap and murder of four girls between the ages of 5 and 11 between 1981 and 1986 in the United Kingdom. He was convicted of sexually assaulting one of the girls and of raping the other three...
: Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of four murders, suspected of many more - William Burke and William Hare: notorious body snatchers in EdinburghEdinburghEdinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
in the 19th century - Archibald HallArchibald HallArchibald Thomson Hall , 17 June 1924 - 16 September 2002, was a British serial killer and thief. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he became known as the Killer Butler or the Monster Butler after committing crimes while working in service to members of the British aristocracy...
: also known as the "Monster Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael Kitto - Peter ManuelPeter ManuelPeter Thomas Anthony Manuel was a United States-born Scottish serial killer who is known to have murdered nine people across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and his arrest in January 1958, although he is suspected of having killed as many as eighteen...
: Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958 - Edward William PritchardEdward William PritchardDr Edward William Pritchard was an English doctor who was convicted of murdering his wife and mother-in-law by poisoning. He was also suspected of a third murder, of a servant, but was never tried for it. He was the last person to be publicly executed in Glasgow.-Early years:Pritchard was born in...
: English doctor who poisoned his wife and her mother in 1865. Two years earlier their maid had died in a mysterious fire - Peter TobinPeter TobinPeter Britton Tobin is a convicted Scottish serial killer and sex offender now serving a sentence of life imprisonment for the murders of three young women....
: killer of three women
Wales
- John CooperJohn Cooper (serial killer)John William Cooper is a serial killer from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. On the 26th May 2011 he was given four life sentences for the 1985 double murder of brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas, and the 1989 double murder of Peter and Gwenda Dixon...
: also known as "The Wildman"; and "The Bullseye Killer" PembrokeshirePembrokeshirePembrokeshire is a county in the south west of Wales. It borders Carmarthenshire to the east and Ceredigion to the north east. The county town is Haverfordwest where Pembrokeshire County Council is headquartered....
burglar responsible for the robbery and shotgun double-murders of a brother and sister in 1985 and a couple in 1989 - Peter MoorePeter Moore (serial killer)Peter Moore is a Welsh serial killer who owned and managed a number of cinemas in Bagillt, North Wales. He murdered four men in 1995. Due to his attire he was dubbed the "man in black".-Crimes:...
: businessman who killed four men at random in WalesWalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
Unidentified serial killers
This is a list of unidentified serial killers. It includes circumstances where a suspect has been arrested, but not convicted.Australia
- Bowraville MurdersBowraville MurdersThe Bowraville Murders were a series of serial killings that took place over a period of five months from September 1990 to February 1991 in Bowraville, New South Wales, Australia.-The Murders:...
: murders of three AboriginalIndigenous AustraliansIndigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....
children in between 1990 and 1991 - Claremont serial murders: murders of two young women and the disappearance of a third in 1996 and 1997
- The Family MurdersThe Family MurdersThe Family Murders was the name given to an alleged high society conspiracy involving the kidnap, torture, and murder of teenagers, particularly young men and teenaged boys, in Adelaide, Australia and surrounding areas in the late 1970s to the mid 1980s...
: murder and mutilation of five young men and boys between 1979 and 1983. Bevan Spencer von EinemBevan Spencer von EinemBevan Spencer von Einem , also known as Bevan von Einem , is a convicted child murderer from Adelaide, South Australia...
was convicted of one murder.
Brazil
- Paturis Park murdersPaturis Park murdersThe Paturis Park murders are a series of 13 murders of gay men between February 2007 and August 2008. The murders took place in Paturis Park in Carapicuíba, Brazil and perpertrated by an unknown killer dubbed the "Rainbow Maniac"....
: also known as 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
Canada
- Highway of Tears: death and disappearance of around 40 young women in British ColumbiaBritish ColumbiaBritish Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
since 1969 - Toronto Hospital Murders: digoxin poisonings of at least eight babies at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 1980 and 1981
India
- Beer ManBeer ManBeer Man is the name given to a suspected serial killer who murdered seven people in south Mumbai, India, between October 2006 and January 2007. The nickname was gained due to beer bottles left beside each body, which was the only link between the deaths....
: murdered seven people in south MumbaiMumbaiMumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
between October 2006 and January 2007 - StonemanStonemanThe Stoneman was a name given by the popular English language print media of Kolkata to an alleged serial killer who menaced the streets of that city in 1989....
: responsible for 13 murders in KolkataKolkataKolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
in 1989
Mexico
- Female homicides in Ciudad JuárezFemale homicides in Ciudad JuárezThe phenomenon of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, called in Spanish the feminicidios and las muertas de Juárez , involves the violent deaths of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El...
: also known as "The dead women of Juárez"; the violent deaths of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad JuárezCiudad JuárezCiudad Juárez , officially known today as Heroica Ciudad Juárez, but abbreviated Juárez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez's estimated population is 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande...
South Korea
- Hwaseong serial murdersHwaseong serial murdersThe Hwaseong serial murders were a series of unsolved serial murders that occurred in the South Korean city of Hwaseong between 1986 and 1991. Ten women were found bound, raped, and murdered. The murders are considered to be the most infamous in the modern history of South Korea. The Korean film...
: series of murders between 1986 and 1991 in HwaseongHwaseong CityHwaseong is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It has the largest area of farmland of any city or county in Gyeonggi province. Seoul Subway Line 1 passes through Hwaseong, stopping at Byeongjeom Station. Famous people from Hwaseong include soccer player Cha Bum-Kun.-Climate:Hwaseong city...
; ten women were found raped, bound, and murdered
United Kingdom
- Bible JohnBible JohnBible John is the nickname of a serial killer who is thought to have operated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the late 1960s. Three murders were attributed to him, but it is not clear if they were the work of the same person.-Murders:...
: thought to be responsible for the deaths of three women in GlasgowGlasgowGlasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
in the late 1960s - Jack the RipperJack the Ripper"Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer, that was disseminated in the...
: murdered prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 - Jack the StripperJack the StripperJack the Stripper was the nickname given to an unknown serial killer responsible for what came to be known as the London "nude murders" between 1964 and 1965 ....
: responsible for the London "nude murders" between 1964 and 1965
United States of America
See also
- List of serial killers before 1900
- List of serial killers by number of victims
- List of terrorist incidents (includes Unabomber, Theodore KaczynskiTheodore KaczynskiTheodore John "Ted" Kaczynski , also known as the "Unabomber" , is an American mathematician, social critic, anarcho-primitivist, and Neo-Luddite who engaged in a mail bombing campaign that spanned nearly 20 years, killing three people and injuring 23 others.Kaczynski was born in Chicago, Illinois,...
) - Mass murderMass murderMass murder is the act of murdering a large number of people , typically at the same time or over a relatively short period of time. According to the FBI, mass murder is defined as four or more murders occurring during a particular event with no cooling-off period between the murders...
- Spree killerSpree killerA spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous assault on two or more victims in a short time in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders."-Definition:According to the...