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List of Serial Killers

• 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

• Robert Pickton on trial in British Columbia accused in the deaths of 15 women and suspected in up to 54.

Unidentified serial killers

• the BTK killer
• The Axeman of New Orleans
• Jack the Ripper, aka "The Whitechapel Murderer"
• "Jack the Stripper"
• The Zodiac Killer
• The Cleveland Torso Murderer, aka "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"

For the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, see List of terrorist incidents.

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