List of Serial Killers
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- Erzsébet Báthory - (d. 1614) with 600 victims, the recognized female record holder.
- David Berkowitz, known as the "Son of Sam"
- Paul Bernardo, Canada's most famous serial killer, who killed two teenage school girls, with his wife Karla Homolka, and was also known as the Scarborough Rapist
- Robert Black
- The Boston Strangler (allegedly Albert DeSalvo)
- Ian Brady, one of the Moors Murderers, with Myra Hindley.
- Martin Bryant, infamous for the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia.
- Ted Bundy
- Andrei Chikatilo
- John Christie the necrophile, who lived at 10 Rillington Place
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- Francisco de Assis Pereira, Brazilian serial killer, known as the maniaco do parque (the park maniac)
- Gilles de Rais - (d. 1440), French demonolator and child-killer.
- Marc Dutroux
- Kenneth Erskine
- Albert Fish
- Michel Fourniret
- John Wayne Gacy
- Ed Gein. Elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part The Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Fritz Haarmann
- Joachim Georg Kroll
- Karl Denke
- Karl Grossmann
- John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Murderer, a.k.a. the Vampire of London
- Hillside Strangler - actually two men, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr.
- Myra Hindley one of the Moors Murderers, with Ian Brady.
- Javed Iqbal, killed 100 boys in Pakistan
- Colin Ireland, the Gay Slayer or Fairy Liquidator
- Bela Kiss
- Peter Kürten
- Henri Désiré Landru
- Bruce George Peter Lee aka Peter Dinsdale, the prolific Hull arsonist
- Derrick Todd Lee, aka the Baton Rouge Serial Killer
- Eddie Leonski, the Brownout Strangler
- Pedro Lopez - Colombia, with 300 victims
- Henry Lee Lucas
- Zdzislaw Marchwicki
- Herman Mudgett, aka Dr. H. H. Holmes, "the serial killer of Murder Castle", active 1890-1894, during Chicago's 1893 World Columbian Exposition.
- Donald Neilson - the Black Panther
- Earle Leonard Nelson
- Earle Nelson- Necrophiliac serial killer dubbed "Gorilla Man"
- Dennis Nilsen - British serial killer of 15.
- Thomas Neill Cream
- Jesse Pomeroy
- Dorothea Puente
- Richard Ramirez
- Vera Renczi - The 35 bodies in her cellar may have influenced the writing of Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace
- Angel Maturino Resendiz - Killed 9 people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois
- Anatoly Onoprienko - Ukrainian serial killer known as "the Terminator." Murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996.
- Gary Ridgway - arrested in November, 2001 for The Green River Killer murders
- John Edward Robinson - United States
- Danny Rolling
- Abdul Latif Sharif - Egyptian alleged to be responsible for dozens of murders in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
- Harold Frederick Shipman - British 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.
- Charles Starkweather
- Peter Sutcliffe, aka the "Yorkshire Ripper"
- Sweeney Todd
- Otis Toole
- Jane Toppan
- Fred and Rose West
- Wayne Williams - convicted of the Atlanta Child Murders
- Aileen Wuornos - Florida
- Graham Young (1947-1990) - British killer of 3, The Teacup Poisoner
- Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists in Southeast Asia in the 1970s
Currently On Trial
Unidentified serial killers
For the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, see List of terrorist incidents.
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