Murderers

Alaska / Hawaii

• Martha Ann Johnson
  Martha Ann Johnson
  Martha Ann Johnson is an American serial killer from Georgia convicted of smothering to death three of her children between 1977 and 1982.- Murders :...
  
  
• Sarah Marie Johnson
  Sarah Marie Johnson
  The murder of Diane and Alan Scott Johnson occurred on September 2, 2003. They were shot to death in their Bellevue, Idaho home by Sarah Marie Johnson, their daughter.-History:...
  
  
• Genene Jones
  Genene Jones
  Genene Anne Jones is a former pediatric nurse who killed somewhere between 11 and 46 infants and children in her care. She used injections of digoxin, heparin and later succinylcholine to induce medical crises in her patients, with the intention of reviving them afterward in order to receive...
  
  
• Winnie Ruth Judd
  Winnie Ruth Judd
  Winnie Ruth McKinnell Judd was a Phoenix, Arizona medical secretary found guilty of murdering one of her two former roommates and later sentenced to death...
  
  
• Lois Jurgens
  Lois Jurgens
  Lois Jurgens was subject of one of the most unusual child murder cases in history in Minnesota. She was the adoptive mother of six children in the 1960s and 1970s, and brutally abused them all, killing one of them, three-year-old Dennis Jurgens, in 1965.-Early life:Jurgens was one of 16 children...
  
  
• Sante Kimes
  Sante Kimes
  Sante Kimes is an American felon who has been convicted of two murders, along with robbery, violation of anti-slavery laws, forgery and numerous other crimes. Many of these crimes were committed with assistance from her children, especially her son Kenneth...
  
  
• Lizzie Lloyd King
  Lizzie Lloyd King
  Elizabeth "Lizzie" Lloyd King was the infamous alleged murderer of Charles Goodrich, whom she is said to have shot three times in the head on 20 March 1873 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The murder was headline news in the city, until her capture more than three months after the event...
  
  
• Tillie Klimek
  Tillie Klimek
  Ottilie "Tillie" Klimek was a Polish American serial killer, active in Chicago. She pretended to have precognitive dreams, accurately predicting the dates of death of her victims. Actually she was merely scheduling their deaths.Tillie married her original husband John Mitkiewicz, c. 1890...
  
  
• Theresa Knorr
  Theresa Knorr
  Theresa Knorr is an American woman convicted of torturing and murdering two of her children while using the others to facilitate and cover up her crimes.- Early life :...
  
  
• Patricia Krenwinkel
  Patricia Krenwinkel
  Patricia Dianne Krenwinkel is an American convicted killer and a former member of Charles Manson's murderous commune, known as "the Family". During her time with Manson's group, she was known by various aliases such as "Big Patty", "Yellow", and "Mary Ann Scott", but to The Family she was most...
  
  
• Stacey Lannert
  Stacey Lannert
  Stacey Ann Lannert was serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole for the murder of her father, Tom Lannert....
  
  
• Deanna Laney
  Deanna Laney murders
  The Deanna Laney murders were the killings, by Deanna Laney, of her two oldest sons by stoning.On 3 April 2004, a jury acquitted her of all charges by reason of insanity.- Details :...
  
  

Midwest

• Rosie Alfaro
  Rosie Alfaro
  Rosie Alfaro is an American female murderer currently on California's death row for the 1990 murder of 9 year old Autumn Wallace in Anaheim, California. Autumn Wallace, the victim, allowed Alfaro inside the home as she recognized Alfaro as a past guest on numerous occasions, and an acquaintance of...
  
  
• Wanda Jean Allen
  Wanda Jean Allen
  Wanda Jean Allen was sentenced to death in 1988 for the murder of Gloria Jean Leathers, 29. Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. She was the sixth woman to be executed since executions resumed in 1977...
  
  
• Amy Archer-Gilligan
  Amy Archer-Gilligan
  "Sister" Amy Duggan Archer-Gilligan was a Windsor, Connecticut nursing home proprietor and serial killer who systematically murdered at least five people by poison; one was her second husband, Michael Gilligan, and the rest were residents of her nursing home...
  
  
• Marie Dean Arrington
  Marie Dean Arrington
  Marie Dean Arrington is an American criminal. In 1969 she became one of the first women to be placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives...
  
  
• Susan Atkins
  Susan Atkins
  Susan Denise Atkins was a convicted American murderer who was a member of the "Manson family", led by Charles Manson. Manson and his followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California, over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969...
  
  
• Lena Baker
  Lena Baker
  Lena Baker was an African American maid who was executed for murder by the State of Georgia in 1945 for killing her employer, Ernest Knight, 67, in 1944. At her trial she claimed that he had imprisoned and threatened to shoot her should she attempt to leave, whereupon she took his gun and shot him...
  
  
• Gertrude Baniszewski
  Gertrude Baniszewski
  Gertrude Nadine Baniszewski , also known as Gertrude Wright and Nadine van Fossan, was an Indiana divorcée who, with the aid of most of her own children and neighborhood children, such as Ricky Hobbs and Coy Hubbard, oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of...
  
  
• Jeffrey Dahmer
  Jeffrey Dahmer
  Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was an American serial killer and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His murders involved rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism...
  
  

Mountainwest

• Celeste Beard
  Celeste Beard
  Celeste Beard Johnson, is a convicted American murderer currently serving a life sentence at the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas...
  
  
• Betty Lou Beets
  Betty Lou Beets
  Betty Lou Beets was a murderer executed in the U.S. state of Texas. She was convicted of shooting her fifth husband, Jimmy Don Beets, on August 6, 1983.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ann Bilansky
  Ann Bilansky
  Ann Bilansky was an American housewife convicted in 1859 of poisoning her husband with arsenic. She is the only woman to receive the death penalty and the first White person executed in Minnesota...
  
  
• Bloody Benders
  Bloody Benders
  The Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers who owned a small general store and inn in Osage township, Labette County, Kansas from 1872 to 1873. The inn was a dingy place called the Wayside Inn. The alleged family consisted of John Bender, his wife Kate, son John Jr. and daughter Kate...
  
  
• Cordelia Botkin
• Kathy Boudin
  Kathy Boudin
  Kathy Boudin is a former American radical who was convicted in 1984 of felony murder for her participation in an armed robbery that resulted in the killing of three people. She later became a public health expert while in prison...
  
  

Northeast

• Rosie Alfaro
  Rosie Alfaro
  Rosie Alfaro is an American female murderer currently on California's death row for the 1990 murder of 9 year old Autumn Wallace in Anaheim, California. Autumn Wallace, the victim, allowed Alfaro inside the home as she recognized Alfaro as a past guest on numerous occasions, and an acquaintance of...
  
  
• Wanda Jean Allen
  Wanda Jean Allen
  Wanda Jean Allen was sentenced to death in 1988 for the murder of Gloria Jean Leathers, 29. Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. She was the sixth woman to be executed since executions resumed in 1977...
  
  
• Amy Archer-Gilligan
  Amy Archer-Gilligan
  "Sister" Amy Duggan Archer-Gilligan was a Windsor, Connecticut nursing home proprietor and serial killer who systematically murdered at least five people by poison; one was her second husband, Michael Gilligan, and the rest were residents of her nursing home...
  
  
• Marie Dean Arrington
  Marie Dean Arrington
  Marie Dean Arrington is an American criminal. In 1969 she became one of the first women to be placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives...
  
  
• Susan Atkins
  Susan Atkins
  Susan Denise Atkins was a convicted American murderer who was a member of the "Manson family", led by Charles Manson. Manson and his followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California, over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969...
  
  
• Lena Baker
  Lena Baker
  Lena Baker was an African American maid who was executed for murder by the State of Georgia in 1945 for killing her employer, Ernest Knight, 67, in 1944. At her trial she claimed that he had imprisoned and threatened to shoot her should she attempt to leave, whereupon she took his gun and shot him...
  
  
• Gertrude Baniszewski
  Gertrude Baniszewski
  Gertrude Nadine Baniszewski , also known as Gertrude Wright and Nadine van Fossan, was an Indiana divorcée who, with the aid of most of her own children and neighborhood children, such as Ricky Hobbs and Coy Hubbard, oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of...
  
  
• Robert John Bardo
  Robert John Bardo
  Robert John Bardo is an American man serving life imprisonment without parole after being convicted in October 1991 for the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer on July 18, 1989, whom he had stalked for several years beforehand....
  
  
• Velma Barfield
  Velma Barfield
  Margie Velma Barfield was a serial killer, convicted of six murders. She was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment and the first since 1962...
  
  
• Celeste Beard
  Celeste Beard
  Celeste Beard Johnson, is a convicted American murderer currently serving a life sentence at the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas...
  
  
• Betty Lou Beets
  Betty Lou Beets
  Betty Lou Beets was a murderer executed in the U.S. state of Texas. She was convicted of shooting her fifth husband, Jimmy Don Beets, on August 6, 1983.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ann Bilansky
  Ann Bilansky
  Ann Bilansky was an American housewife convicted in 1859 of poisoning her husband with arsenic. She is the only woman to receive the death penalty and the first White person executed in Minnesota...
  
  
• Bloody Benders
  Bloody Benders
  The Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers who owned a small general store and inn in Osage township, Labette County, Kansas from 1872 to 1873. The inn was a dingy place called the Wayside Inn. The alleged family consisted of John Bender, his wife Kate, son John Jr. and daughter Kate...
  
  
• Cordelia Botkin
• Kathy Boudin
  Kathy Boudin
  Kathy Boudin is a former American radical who was convicted in 1984 of felony murder for her participation in an armed robbery that resulted in the killing of three people. She later became a public health expert while in prison...
  
  
• Betty Broderick
  Betty Broderick
  Elisabeth Anne "Betty" Broderick is a former American socialite convicted of the November 5, 1989 murder of her former husband Dan Broderick and his second wife, Linda Kolkena...
  
  
• Judy Buenoano
  Judy Buenoano
  Judias "Judy" Buenoano , was a convicted murderer who was executed for the 1971 murder of her husband James Goodyear. She was also convicted for the 1980 murder of her son Michael Goodyear, and of the 1983 attempted murder of her fiancé John Gentry...
  
  
• Carol M. Bundy
  Carol M. Bundy
  Carol M. Bundy was an American serial killer.Bundy and Doug Clark became known as "The Sunset Strip Killers" after being convicted of a series of murders in Los Angeles during the late spring and early summer of 1980...
  
  
• Lavinia Burnett
  Lavinia Burnett
  Lavinia Burnett was the first woman to be executed in the state of Arkansas.Burnett, her husband Crawford, and their son John, were arrested, tried, and convicted of the murder of Jonathan Selby, who lived near Fayetteville, Arkansas, and who allegedly kept large sums of money at his residence....
  
  
• Mark David Chapman
  Mark David Chapman
  Mark David Chapman is an American prison inmate who murdered former Beatles member John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He committed the crime as Lennon and Yoko Ono were outside of The Dakota apartment building in New York City. Chapman aimed five shots at Lennon, hitting him four times in his back...
  
  
• Cynthia Coffman
  Cynthia Coffman
  Cynthia Coffman was the partner in crime of James Gregory Marlow. She was born St. Louis, Missouri.Coffman and Marlow were accused of killing four women in October–November 1986. They were arrested on November 14, 1986, following which Coffman confessed to the murders...
  
  
• Tiffany Cole
  Tiffany Cole
  Tiffany Ann Cole was found guilty of the kidnapping and first-degree murder of a Duval County, Florida husband and wife and sentenced to death. Also found guilty in the case were three men: Alan Wade, Bruce Nixon, and Cole's boyfriend Michael Jackson...
  
  
• Eva Coo
  Eva Coo
  Eva Coo was an American-Canadian murderer who was executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison.Born Eva Curry in Haliburton, Ontario, Canada, she moved to Toronto while a teenager...
  
  
• Paula Cooper
  Paula Cooper
  Paula Cooper was sentenced to death by electrocution on July 11, 1986 for the murder of 78-year-old Ruth Pelke. Because Cooper was only 15 at the time of the murder, her sentence attracted an international uproar, including a condemnation from Pope John Paul II...
  
  
• Faye Copeland
  Faye Copeland
  Ray Copeland and Faye Della Copeland became, at the ages of 76 and 69 respectively, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. They were convicted of killing five drifters and are believed to have killed at least seven more, though no bodies were recovered...
  
  
• Nicole Diar
  Nicole Diar
  Nicole Diar is an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death in November 2005 for the 2003 murder of her 4-year-old son, Jacob. She was removed from death row on December 11, 2008, due to a court error...
  
  
• Nannie Doss
  Nannie Doss
  Nannie Doss was a serial killer responsible for the deaths of eleven people between the 1920s and 1954.She finally confessed to the murders in October 1954, when her fifth husband had died in a small hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma...
  
  
• Diane Downs
  Diane Downs
  Elizabeth Diane Frederickson Downs is an American convicted murderer. She shot her three children, killing one, and then told police a stranger had attempted to carjack her and had shot the children. After her conviction in 1984, she was sentenced to life in prison.Downs briefly escaped in 1987...
  
  
• Roxana Flowers
• Antoinette Frank
  Antoinette Frank
  Antoinette Frank is a former New Orleans police officer who was convicted of one of the most notorious crimes in recent New Orleans history: the robbery of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard, and the murders of three people, including her partner on the police force, who was also a...
  
  
• Caril Ann Fugate
  Caril Ann Fugate
  Caril Ann Fugate was the adolescent girlfriend and accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather. She is the youngest female in United States history to have been tried for first-degree murder....
  
  
• Oreste Fulminante
  Arizona v. Fulminante
  Arizona v. Fulminante, was a decision issued by the United States Supreme Court clarifying the standard of review of a criminal defendant's allegedly coerced confession....
  
  
• Margaret Garner
  Margaret Garner
  Margaret Garner was an enslaved African American woman in pre-Civil War America who was notorious - or celebrated - for killing her own daughter rather than allow the child to be returned to slavery. She and her family had escaped in January 1856 across the frozen Ohio River to Cincinnati, but...
  
  
• Janie Lou Gibbs
  Janie Lou Gibbs
  Janie Lou Gibbs was a serial killer from Cordele, Georgia, who killed her three sons, a grandson, and her husband, by poisoning them with rat poison in 1966 and 1967.-Murders:...
  
  
• Kristen Gilbert
  Kristen Gilbert
  Kristen Gilbert is an American serial killer who was convicted for three first-degree murders, one second-degree murder, and two attempted murders of patients admitted for care at the VAMC in Northampton, Massachusetts...
  
  
• Helen Golay
  Black Widow murders
  On April 18, 2008, Helen Golay of Santa Monica, California and Olga Rutterschmidt of Hollywood, California were convicted of the murders of two homeless men...
  
  
• Barbara Graham
  Barbara Graham
  Barbara Graham was an American criminal and convicted murderess. She was executed in the gas chamber on the same day as two convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins. Nicknamed "Bloody Babs" by the press, Graham was the third woman in California to die by gas.-Early life:Graham was born...
  
  
• Debora Green
  Debora Green
  Dr. Debora Green was a former oncologist living in Prairie Village, Kansas, married to Michael Farrar, a cardiologist. After previously trying to poison Michael using ricin, on October 24, 1995 she murdered two of her children, Kelly and Tim Farrar, ages 6 and 13, by setting fire to the family...
  
  
• Amy Grossberg
• Anna Marie Hahn
  Anna Marie Hahn
  Anna Marie Hahn was a German-born American serial killer....
  
  
• Jean Harris
  Jean Harris
  Jean Harris was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia who made national news in 1980 as the defendant in a high-profile murder case of her lover Dr...
  
  
• Penelope Henry
  Penelope Henry
  Penelope Kenny was the servant of widow Sarah Simpson. They were both executed by hanging for the murder of a child in New Hampshire.-External links:*...
  
  
• Toni Jo Henry
  Toni Jo Henry
  Toni Jo Henry , , was the only woman executed in Louisiana's electric chair .-Early life:...
  
  
• Richard Herrin
  Bonnie Garland murder case
  -Details of the crime:In the early morning hours of July 7, 1977 Yale graduate Richard Herrin bludgeoned Yale college senior Bonnie Garland to death with a hammer as she lay sleeping in her parents' Scarsdale, New York home. The two college students had been dating for several years. Herrin showed...
  
  
• Audrey Marie Hilley
  Audrey Marie Hilley
  Audrey Marie Hilley was an American murderer. Her life and spree are the subjects of the 1991 telefilm Wife, Mother, Murderer. The movie starred Judith Light in the title role, with Whip Hubley and David Ogden Stiers....
  
  
• Brittany Holberg
  Brittany Holberg
  Brittany Marlowe Holberg is a woman currently on death row in the U.S. state of Texas. On Friday, March 27, 1998, Holberg was convicted of the November 13, 1996, robbery and murder of 80-year-old A.B. Towery Sr. in his southwest Amarillo home, and was sentenced to death by 251st state District...
  
  
• Waneta Hoyt
  Waneta Hoyt
  Waneta Ethel Hoyt was an American serial killer. She was born in Richford, New York and died at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women....
  
  
• Eleanor Jarman
  Eleanor Jarman
  Eleanor Jarman was an American runaway, fugitive from justice, and robber who was jailed, escaped from jail in 1940, was placed on the FBI ten most wanted fugitives list, and remains missing.-Early life and crime career:...
  
  
• Angela Johnson
  Angela Johnson
  Angela Johnson is the first woman sentenced to death by a United States Federal jury since the 1950s. Forty-nine women have been executed under state laws since 1900....
  
  
• Martha Ann Johnson
  Martha Ann Johnson
  Martha Ann Johnson is an American serial killer from Georgia convicted of smothering to death three of her children between 1977 and 1982.- Murders :...
  
  
• Sarah Marie Johnson
  Sarah Marie Johnson
  The murder of Diane and Alan Scott Johnson occurred on September 2, 2003. They were shot to death in their Bellevue, Idaho home by Sarah Marie Johnson, their daughter.-History:...
  
  
• Genene Jones
  Genene Jones
  Genene Anne Jones is a former pediatric nurse who killed somewhere between 11 and 46 infants and children in her care. She used injections of digoxin, heparin and later succinylcholine to induce medical crises in her patients, with the intention of reviving them afterward in order to receive...
  
  
• Winnie Ruth Judd
  Winnie Ruth Judd
  Winnie Ruth McKinnell Judd was a Phoenix, Arizona medical secretary found guilty of murdering one of her two former roommates and later sentenced to death...
  
  
• Lois Jurgens
  Lois Jurgens
  Lois Jurgens was subject of one of the most unusual child murder cases in history in Minnesota. She was the adoptive mother of six children in the 1960s and 1970s, and brutally abused them all, killing one of them, three-year-old Dennis Jurgens, in 1965.-Early life:Jurgens was one of 16 children...
  
  
• Sante Kimes
  Sante Kimes
  Sante Kimes is an American felon who has been convicted of two murders, along with robbery, violation of anti-slavery laws, forgery and numerous other crimes. Many of these crimes were committed with assistance from her children, especially her son Kenneth...
  
  
• Lizzie Lloyd King
  Lizzie Lloyd King
  Elizabeth "Lizzie" Lloyd King was the infamous alleged murderer of Charles Goodrich, whom she is said to have shot three times in the head on 20 March 1873 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The murder was headline news in the city, until her capture more than three months after the event...
  
  
• Tillie Klimek
  Tillie Klimek
  Ottilie "Tillie" Klimek was a Polish American serial killer, active in Chicago. She pretended to have precognitive dreams, accurately predicting the dates of death of her victims. Actually she was merely scheduling their deaths.Tillie married her original husband John Mitkiewicz, c. 1890...
  
  
• Theresa Knorr
  Theresa Knorr
  Theresa Knorr is an American woman convicted of torturing and murdering two of her children while using the others to facilitate and cover up her crimes.- Early life :...
  
  
• Patricia Krenwinkel
  Patricia Krenwinkel
  Patricia Dianne Krenwinkel is an American convicted killer and a former member of Charles Manson's murderous commune, known as "the Family". During her time with Manson's group, she was known by various aliases such as "Big Patty", "Yellow", and "Mary Ann Scott", but to The Family she was most...
  
  
• Stacey Lannert
  Stacey Lannert
  Stacey Ann Lannert was serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole for the murder of her father, Tom Lannert....
  
  
• Deanna Laney
  Deanna Laney murders
  The Deanna Laney murders were the killings, by Deanna Laney, of her two oldest sons by stoning.On 3 April 2004, a jury acquitted her of all charges by reason of insanity.- Details :...
  
  
• Mechele Linehan
  Mechele Linehan
  Kent Leppink died by gunshot in 1996. His former fiancée, Mechele Linehan, was convicted of murdering him, but the judgment was reversed on appeal. After originally being sentenced to 99 years in prison, Linehan is currently free on bail awaiting a new trial....
  
  
• Awilda Lopez
  Awilda Lopez
  Awilda Lopez gained infamy in late 1995 as the mother and killer of her daughter, 6-year-old Elisa Izquierdo.When Elisa was born addicted to cocaine on February 11, 1989, she was placed in the custody of her father, Gustavo Izquierdo. It has been the source of much debate whether Lopez initially...
  
  
• Lynda Lyon Block
  Lynda Lyon Block
  Lynda Cheryl Lyon Block was an American convicted murderess....
  
  
• Karen McCarron
• Ruby McCollum
  Ruby McCollum
  Ruby McCollum was the subject of a notorious murder trial in 1952. She was convicted of killing Dr. C. Leroy Adams, whom she accused of forcing her to submit to sex and bear his child....
  
  
• Rhonda Belle Martin
  Rhonda Belle Martin
  Rhonda Bell Martin was an American serial killer.A 49-year-old waitress in Montgomery, Alabama, she confessed in March 1956 to poisoning her mother, two husbands, and three of her children. She denied killing two other children....
  
  
• Florence Maybrick
  Florence Maybrick
  Florence Elizabeth Maybrick was an American woman convicted in Great Britain of murdering her considerably older husband, James Maybrick.-Early life:...
  
  
• Lyle and Erik Menendez
  Lyle and Erik Menendez
  Joseph Lyle Menendez and Erik Galen Menendez are brothers who are known for their conviction in a highly publicized trial for the shotgun murders in 1989 of their wealthy parents, entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Mary "Kitty" Menendez , residents of Beverly Hills, California...
  
  
• Lisa M. Montgomery
  Lisa M. Montgomery
  Lisa Marie Montgomery, is a woman from Melvern, Kansas who confessed to the 2004 murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, an expectant mother, in an attempt to kidnap her unborn baby....
  
  
• Blanche Taylor Moore
  Blanche Taylor Moore
  Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore is a convicted murderer and probable serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina. She was convicted of killing her boyfriend by slipping arsenic into his food, and is suspected of killing three other people and nearly killing another in the same manner.-Early...
  
  
• Frances Newton
  Frances Newton
  Frances Elaine Newton was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas for the April 7, 1987 murder of her husband, Adrian, 23, her son, Alton, 7, and daughter, Farrah, 21 months....
  
  
• Stella Nickell
  Stella Nickell
  Stella Maudine Nickell is a Seattle-area woman who was sentenced to 90 years in prison for product tampering after she allegedly poisoned Excedrin capsules with lethal cyanide, which resulted in the deaths of her husband Bruce and of Susan Chapman Snow...
  
  
• Marie Noe
  Marie Noe
  Marie Noe is an American woman who was convicted in June 1999 of murdering eight of her children. Between 1949 and 1968, eight of the ten Noe children died of mysterious causes which were then attributed to sudden infant death syndrome. All eight children were healthy at birth and were developing...
  
  
• Hannah Ocuish
  Hannah Ocuish
  Hannah Ocuish was executed at the age of twelve years and nine months, being hanged on 20 December 1786, in New London, Connecticut. She is believed to be the youngest person legally executed in America....
  
  
• Louise Peete
  Louise Peete
  Lofie Louise Preslar was a convicted American serial killer...
  
  
• Christa Pike
  Christa Pike
  Christa Gail Pike , is the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. She was 20 when convicted for a torture and murder she committed at age 18....
  
  
• Martha M. Place
  Martha M. Place
  Martha M. Place was the first woman to die in the electric chair. She was executed on March 20, 1899 at age 44, in Sing Sing prison for the murder of her stepdaughter Ida Place.-Background:...
  
  
• Susan Polk
  Susan Polk
  Susan Polk is an American woman convicted in June 2006 of second degree murder in connection with the 2002 death of her husband, Dr. Frank "Felix" Polk. Polk's trial, described by one Associated Press correspondent as "circus-like", drew extensive media attention with its sensationalist...
  
  
• Dorothea Puente
  Dorothea Puente
  Dorothea Helen Puente was a convicted American serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and cashed the Social Security checks of her elderly and mentally disabled boarders...
  
  
• Christina Marie Riggs
  Christina Marie Riggs
  Christina Marie Riggs was a murderer executed in Arkansas by lethal injection. She was convicted of the November 4, 1997, murder of her two preschool-aged children, Justin and Shelby Alexis Riggs, in their beds at the family's Sherwood, Arkansas, home...
  
  
• Donna Roberts
  Donna Roberts
  Donna Roberts is an American convicted of accomplice to murder is the only woman on death row in the state of Ohio.Roberts was convicted in 2003 of recruiting Nate Jackson while he was still in prison to kill her common law husband Robert Fingerhut, which he did on December 11, 2001, in the house...
  
  
• Kristin Rossum
  Kristin Rossum
  Kristin Margrethe Rossum , is currently serving a life sentence in California for poisoning her husband Greg deVillers with fentanyl she stole from her job and attempting to pass off his death as a suicide....
  
  
• Darlie Routier
  Darlie Routier
  Darlie Lynn Routier is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted of murdering her young son Damon, and is currently on death row awaiting execution by lethal injection. Two of her three children, Damon and Devon, were stabbed to death in the family's home on June 6, 1996...
  
  
• Olga Rutterschmidt
  Black Widow murders
  On April 18, 2008, Helen Golay of Santa Monica, California and Olga Rutterschmidt of Hollywood, California were convicted of the murders of two homeless men...
  
  
• Jennifer San Marco
  Jennifer San Marco
  Jennifer San Marco was a former US Postal Service employee and mass murderer who killed seven people in Goleta, California.- San Marco's background :...
  
  
• Dorothy Sherwood
  Dorothy Sherwood
  Dorothy Sherwood was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1908. She was a burlesque dancer and Salvation Army worker who was convicted of first-degree murder for killing her two year old son.-Early life and marriage:...
  
  
• Sarah Simpson
  Sarah Simpson
  Sarah Simpson was a widow executed by hanging for the murder of a child in New Hampshire.-External links:*...
  
  
• Pamela Smart
  Pamela Smart
  Pamela Ann Smart is serving a life sentence for accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and witness tampering in New Hampshire...
  
  
• Susan Smith
  Susan Smith
  Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith is an American woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering her children. Born in Union, South Carolina, and a former student of the University of South Carolina Union, she was convicted on July 22, 1995 of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith, born...
  
  
• Ruth Snyder
  Ruth Snyder
  Ruth Brown Snyder was an American murderess. Her execution, in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, for the murder of her husband, Albert, was captured in a well-known photograph.-The crime:...
  
  
• Lyda Southard
  Lyda Southard
  Lyda Southard was an American serial killer. She was suspected of killing her brother-in-law, four husbands and a daughter, but was only convicted of killing her fourth husband, Edward Meyer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bathsheba Spooner
  Bathsheba Spooner
  Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner was the first woman to be executed in the United States by Americans rather than the British....
  
  
• Barbara Stager
  Barbara Stager
  Barbara Stager is an American woman who was convicted in 1989 of murdering her husband, Russell Stager in 1988. Stager is also suspected of the earlier murder of her first husband, Larry Ford, who died in nearly identical circumstances....
  
  
• Joel Steinberg
  Joel Steinberg
  Joel Steinberg , a former New York criminal defense attorney, attracted international media attention when he was accused of murder and convicted of manslaughter in the November 1, 1987, death of a six-year-old girl, Elizabeth , whom he and his live-in partner Hedda Nussbaum had illegally adopted...
  
  
• Charles Stuart
  Charles Stuart (murderer)
  Charles "Chuck" Stuart was a man from Reading, Massachusetts who murdered his pregnant wife and inflamed racial tensions in the Boston area by concocting a fictitious African-American assailant.-Murders:...
  
  
• Mary Surratt
  Mary Surratt
  Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt was an American boarding house owner who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Sentenced to death, she was hanged, becoming the first woman executed by the United States federal government. She was the mother of John H...
  
  
• Marybeth Tinning
  Marybeth Tinning
  Marybeth Tinning is an American serial killer currently serving a 20 years to life sentence after being convicted of the murder of one of her children. Her case is held to be one of the most extreme cases of Münchausen syndrome by proxy.-Early life:Marybeth Roe was born in Duanesburg, a small town...
  
  
• Jane Toppan
  Jane Toppan
  Jane Toppan , born Honora Kelley, was an American female serial killer. She confessed to 11 murders in 1901. She is quoted as saying that her ambition was "to have killed more people — helpless people — than any other man or woman who ever lived...".-Early life:Though scant records...
  
  
• Karla Faye Tucker
  Karla Faye Tucker
  Karla Faye Tucker was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and put to death in 1998. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984, and the first in Texas since 1863...
  
  
• Leslie Van Houten
  Leslie Van Houten
  Leslie Louise Van Houten is a former member of Charles Manson's "Family" who was convicted of the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.-Life with Manson:...
  
  
• Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh
  Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh
  Elizabeth van Valkenburgh was an early American murderer who was hanged for poisoning her husband.-Background:Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh was born in Bennington, Vermont...
  
  
• Reetika Vazirani
  Reetika Vazirani
  Reetika Vazirani was an American poet and educator. On July 16, 2003, Vazirani was housesitting in the Chevy Chase, Maryland home of novelist Howard Norman and his wife, the poet, Jane Shore. There, Vazirani took the life of her two-year-old son, Jehan, and then her own.-Life:She was born in...
  
  
• Carolyn Warmus
  Carolyn Warmus
  Carolyn Warmus is serving a 25-year sentence for the murder of her lover's wife. The murder case attracted national attention and led to comparisons with the movie Fatal Attraction.-Early life:...
  
  
• Aileen Wuornos
  Aileen Wuornos
  Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990, claiming they raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute...
  
  
• Mechele Linehan
  Mechele Linehan
  Kent Leppink died by gunshot in 1996. His former fiancée, Mechele Linehan, was convicted of murdering him, but the judgment was reversed on appeal. After originally being sentenced to 99 years in prison, Linehan is currently free on bail awaiting a new trial....
  
  
• Awilda Lopez
  Awilda Lopez
  Awilda Lopez gained infamy in late 1995 as the mother and killer of her daughter, 6-year-old Elisa Izquierdo.When Elisa was born addicted to cocaine on February 11, 1989, she was placed in the custody of her father, Gustavo Izquierdo. It has been the source of much debate whether Lopez initially...
  
  
• Lynda Lyon Block
  Lynda Lyon Block
  Lynda Cheryl Lyon Block was an American convicted murderess....
  
  
• Karen McCarron
• Ruby McCollum
  Ruby McCollum
  Ruby McCollum was the subject of a notorious murder trial in 1952. She was convicted of killing Dr. C. Leroy Adams, whom she accused of forcing her to submit to sex and bear his child....
  
  
• Rhonda Belle Martin
  Rhonda Belle Martin
  Rhonda Bell Martin was an American serial killer.A 49-year-old waitress in Montgomery, Alabama, she confessed in March 1956 to poisoning her mother, two husbands, and three of her children. She denied killing two other children....
  
  
• Florence Maybrick
  Florence Maybrick
  Florence Elizabeth Maybrick was an American woman convicted in Great Britain of murdering her considerably older husband, James Maybrick.-Early life:...
  
  
• Lyle and Erik Menendez
  Lyle and Erik Menendez
  Joseph Lyle Menendez and Erik Galen Menendez are brothers who are known for their conviction in a highly publicized trial for the shotgun murders in 1989 of their wealthy parents, entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Mary "Kitty" Menendez , residents of Beverly Hills, California...
  
  
• Lisa M. Montgomery
  Lisa M. Montgomery
  Lisa Marie Montgomery, is a woman from Melvern, Kansas who confessed to the 2004 murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, an expectant mother, in an attempt to kidnap her unborn baby....
  
  
• Blanche Taylor Moore
  Blanche Taylor Moore
  Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore is a convicted murderer and probable serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina. She was convicted of killing her boyfriend by slipping arsenic into his food, and is suspected of killing three other people and nearly killing another in the same manner.-Early...
  
  
• Frances Newton
  Frances Newton
  Frances Elaine Newton was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas for the April 7, 1987 murder of her husband, Adrian, 23, her son, Alton, 7, and daughter, Farrah, 21 months....
  
  
• Stella Nickell
  Stella Nickell
  Stella Maudine Nickell is a Seattle-area woman who was sentenced to 90 years in prison for product tampering after she allegedly poisoned Excedrin capsules with lethal cyanide, which resulted in the deaths of her husband Bruce and of Susan Chapman Snow...
  
  
• Marie Noe
  Marie Noe
  Marie Noe is an American woman who was convicted in June 1999 of murdering eight of her children. Between 1949 and 1968, eight of the ten Noe children died of mysterious causes which were then attributed to sudden infant death syndrome. All eight children were healthy at birth and were developing...
  
  
• Hannah Ocuish
  Hannah Ocuish
  Hannah Ocuish was executed at the age of twelve years and nine months, being hanged on 20 December 1786, in New London, Connecticut. She is believed to be the youngest person legally executed in America....
  
  
• Louise Peete
  Louise Peete
  Lofie Louise Preslar was a convicted American serial killer...
  
  
• Christa Pike
  Christa Pike
  Christa Gail Pike , is the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. She was 20 when convicted for a torture and murder she committed at age 18....
  
  
• Martha M. Place
  Martha M. Place
  Martha M. Place was the first woman to die in the electric chair. She was executed on March 20, 1899 at age 44, in Sing Sing prison for the murder of her stepdaughter Ida Place.-Background:...
  
  
• Susan Polk
  Susan Polk
  Susan Polk is an American woman convicted in June 2006 of second degree murder in connection with the 2002 death of her husband, Dr. Frank "Felix" Polk. Polk's trial, described by one Associated Press correspondent as "circus-like", drew extensive media attention with its sensationalist...
  
  
• Dorothea Puente
  Dorothea Puente
  Dorothea Helen Puente was a convicted American serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and cashed the Social Security checks of her elderly and mentally disabled boarders...
  
  
• Christina Marie Riggs
  Christina Marie Riggs
  Christina Marie Riggs was a murderer executed in Arkansas by lethal injection. She was convicted of the November 4, 1997, murder of her two preschool-aged children, Justin and Shelby Alexis Riggs, in their beds at the family's Sherwood, Arkansas, home...
  
  
• Donna Roberts
  Donna Roberts
  Donna Roberts is an American convicted of accomplice to murder is the only woman on death row in the state of Ohio.Roberts was convicted in 2003 of recruiting Nate Jackson while he was still in prison to kill her common law husband Robert Fingerhut, which he did on December 11, 2001, in the house...
  
  
• Kristin Rossum
  Kristin Rossum
  Kristin Margrethe Rossum , is currently serving a life sentence in California for poisoning her husband Greg deVillers with fentanyl she stole from her job and attempting to pass off his death as a suicide....
  
  
• Darlie Routier
  Darlie Routier
  Darlie Lynn Routier is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted of murdering her young son Damon, and is currently on death row awaiting execution by lethal injection. Two of her three children, Damon and Devon, were stabbed to death in the family's home on June 6, 1996...
  
  
• Olga Rutterschmidt
  Black Widow murders
  On April 18, 2008, Helen Golay of Santa Monica, California and Olga Rutterschmidt of Hollywood, California were convicted of the murders of two homeless men...
  
  
• Yolanda Saldívar
  Yolanda Saldívar
  Yolanda Saldívar is a Mexican American woman who was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Tejano music singer Selena at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas on March 31, 1995.- Early life :...
  
  
• Jennifer San Marco
  Jennifer San Marco
  Jennifer San Marco was a former US Postal Service employee and mass murderer who killed seven people in Goleta, California.- San Marco's background :...
  
  
• Dorothy Sherwood
  Dorothy Sherwood
  Dorothy Sherwood was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1908. She was a burlesque dancer and Salvation Army worker who was convicted of first-degree murder for killing her two year old son.-Early life and marriage:...
  
  
• Sarah Simpson
  Sarah Simpson
  Sarah Simpson was a widow executed by hanging for the murder of a child in New Hampshire.-External links:*...
  
  
• Pamela Smart
  Pamela Smart
  Pamela Ann Smart is serving a life sentence for accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and witness tampering in New Hampshire...
  
  
• Susan Smith
  Susan Smith
  Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith is an American woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering her children. Born in Union, South Carolina, and a former student of the University of South Carolina Union, she was convicted on July 22, 1995 of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith, born...
  
  
• Ruth Snyder
  Ruth Snyder
  Ruth Brown Snyder was an American murderess. Her execution, in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, for the murder of her husband, Albert, was captured in a well-known photograph.-The crime:...
  
  
• Lyda Southard
  Lyda Southard
  Lyda Southard was an American serial killer. She was suspected of killing her brother-in-law, four husbands and a daughter, but was only convicted of killing her fourth husband, Edward Meyer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bathsheba Spooner
  Bathsheba Spooner
  Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner was the first woman to be executed in the United States by Americans rather than the British....
  
  
• Barbara Stager
  Barbara Stager
  Barbara Stager is an American woman who was convicted in 1989 of murdering her husband, Russell Stager in 1988. Stager is also suspected of the earlier murder of her first husband, Larry Ford, who died in nearly identical circumstances....
  
  
• Joel Steinberg
  Joel Steinberg
  Joel Steinberg , a former New York criminal defense attorney, attracted international media attention when he was accused of murder and convicted of manslaughter in the November 1, 1987, death of a six-year-old girl, Elizabeth , whom he and his live-in partner Hedda Nussbaum had illegally adopted...
  
  
• Charles Stuart
  Charles Stuart (murderer)
  Charles "Chuck" Stuart was a man from Reading, Massachusetts who murdered his pregnant wife and inflamed racial tensions in the Boston area by concocting a fictitious African-American assailant.-Murders:...
  
  
• Mary Surratt
  Mary Surratt
  Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt was an American boarding house owner who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Sentenced to death, she was hanged, becoming the first woman executed by the United States federal government. She was the mother of John H...
  
  
• Marybeth Tinning
  Marybeth Tinning
  Marybeth Tinning is an American serial killer currently serving a 20 years to life sentence after being convicted of the murder of one of her children. Her case is held to be one of the most extreme cases of Münchausen syndrome by proxy.-Early life:Marybeth Roe was born in Duanesburg, a small town...
  
  
• Jane Toppan
  Jane Toppan
  Jane Toppan , born Honora Kelley, was an American female serial killer. She confessed to 11 murders in 1901. She is quoted as saying that her ambition was "to have killed more people — helpless people — than any other man or woman who ever lived...".-Early life:Though scant records...
  
  
• Karla Faye Tucker
  Karla Faye Tucker
  Karla Faye Tucker was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and put to death in 1998. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984, and the first in Texas since 1863...
  
  
• Leslie Van Houten
  Leslie Van Houten
  Leslie Louise Van Houten is a former member of Charles Manson's "Family" who was convicted of the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.-Life with Manson:...
  
  
• Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh
  Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh
  Elizabeth van Valkenburgh was an early American murderer who was hanged for poisoning her husband.-Background:Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh was born in Bennington, Vermont...
  
  
• Reetika Vazirani
  Reetika Vazirani
  Reetika Vazirani was an American poet and educator. On July 16, 2003, Vazirani was housesitting in the Chevy Chase, Maryland home of novelist Howard Norman and his wife, the poet, Jane Shore. There, Vazirani took the life of her two-year-old son, Jehan, and then her own.-Life:She was born in...
  
  
• Carolyn Warmus
  Carolyn Warmus
  Carolyn Warmus is serving a 25-year sentence for the murder of her lover's wife. The murder case attracted national attention and led to comparisons with the movie Fatal Attraction.-Early life:...
  
  
• Aileen Wuornos
  Aileen Wuornos
  Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990, claiming they raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute...
  
  
• Diane Zamora
  Diane Zamora
  Diane Michelle Zamora , is a former United States Naval Academy midshipman who is serving a life sentence for her role in the December 4, 1995 murder of Adrianne Jones, a girl Zamora believed was a romantic rival for her boyfriend, David Graham..-Relationship with Graham:Friends and family of the...
  
  

Northwest

• Nannie Doss
  Nannie Doss
  Nannie Doss was a serial killer responsible for the deaths of eleven people between the 1920s and 1954.She finally confessed to the murders in October 1954, when her fifth husband had died in a small hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma...
  
  
• Diane Downs
  Diane Downs
  Elizabeth Diane Frederickson Downs is an American convicted murderer. She shot her three children, killing one, and then told police a stranger had attempted to carjack her and had shot the children. After her conviction in 1984, she was sentenced to life in prison.Downs briefly escaped in 1987...
  
  
• Roxana Flowers
• Antoinette Frank
  Antoinette Frank
  Antoinette Frank is a former New Orleans police officer who was convicted of one of the most notorious crimes in recent New Orleans history: the robbery of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard, and the murders of three people, including her partner on the police force, who was also a...
  
  
• Caril Ann Fugate
  Caril Ann Fugate
  Caril Ann Fugate was the adolescent girlfriend and accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather. She is the youngest female in United States history to have been tried for first-degree murder....
  
  
• Oreste Fulminante
  Arizona v. Fulminante
  Arizona v. Fulminante, was a decision issued by the United States Supreme Court clarifying the standard of review of a criminal defendant's allegedly coerced confession....
  
  
• Margaret Garner
  Margaret Garner
  Margaret Garner was an enslaved African American woman in pre-Civil War America who was notorious - or celebrated - for killing her own daughter rather than allow the child to be returned to slavery. She and her family had escaped in January 1856 across the frozen Ohio River to Cincinnati, but...
  
  
• Janie Lou Gibbs
  Janie Lou Gibbs
  Janie Lou Gibbs was a serial killer from Cordele, Georgia, who killed her three sons, a grandson, and her husband, by poisoning them with rat poison in 1966 and 1967.-Murders:...
  
  
• Kristen Gilbert
  Kristen Gilbert
  Kristen Gilbert is an American serial killer who was convicted for three first-degree murders, one second-degree murder, and two attempted murders of patients admitted for care at the VAMC in Northampton, Massachusetts...
  
  

South

• Helen Golay
  Black Widow murders
  On April 18, 2008, Helen Golay of Santa Monica, California and Olga Rutterschmidt of Hollywood, California were convicted of the murders of two homeless men...
  
  
• Barbara Graham
  Barbara Graham
  Barbara Graham was an American criminal and convicted murderess. She was executed in the gas chamber on the same day as two convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins. Nicknamed "Bloody Babs" by the press, Graham was the third woman in California to die by gas.-Early life:Graham was born...
  
  
• Debora Green
  Debora Green
  Dr. Debora Green was a former oncologist living in Prairie Village, Kansas, married to Michael Farrar, a cardiologist. After previously trying to poison Michael using ricin, on October 24, 1995 she murdered two of her children, Kelly and Tim Farrar, ages 6 and 13, by setting fire to the family...
  
  
• Amy Grossberg
• Anna Marie Hahn
  Anna Marie Hahn
  Anna Marie Hahn was a German-born American serial killer....
  
  

Southeast

• Jean Harris
  Jean Harris
  Jean Harris was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia who made national news in 1980 as the defendant in a high-profile murder case of her lover Dr...
  
  
• Penelope Henry
  Penelope Henry
  Penelope Kenny was the servant of widow Sarah Simpson. They were both executed by hanging for the murder of a child in New Hampshire.-External links:*...
  
  
• Toni Jo Henry
  Toni Jo Henry
  Toni Jo Henry , , was the only woman executed in Louisiana's electric chair .-Early life:...
  
  
• Richard Herrin
  Bonnie Garland murder case
  -Details of the crime:In the early morning hours of July 7, 1977 Yale graduate Richard Herrin bludgeoned Yale college senior Bonnie Garland to death with a hammer as she lay sleeping in her parents' Scarsdale, New York home. The two college students had been dating for several years. Herrin showed...
  
  
• Audrey Marie Hilley
  Audrey Marie Hilley
  Audrey Marie Hilley was an American murderer. Her life and spree are the subjects of the 1991 telefilm Wife, Mother, Murderer. The movie starred Judith Light in the title role, with Whip Hubley and David Ogden Stiers....
  
  
• Brittany Holberg
  Brittany Holberg
  Brittany Marlowe Holberg is a woman currently on death row in the U.S. state of Texas. On Friday, March 27, 1998, Holberg was convicted of the November 13, 1996, robbery and murder of 80-year-old A.B. Towery Sr. in his southwest Amarillo home, and was sentenced to death by 251st state District...
  
  
• Waneta Hoyt
  Waneta Hoyt
  Waneta Ethel Hoyt was an American serial killer. She was born in Richford, New York and died at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women....
  
  
• Eleanor Jarman
  Eleanor Jarman
  Eleanor Jarman was an American runaway, fugitive from justice, and robber who was jailed, escaped from jail in 1940, was placed on the FBI ten most wanted fugitives list, and remains missing.-Early life and crime career:...
  
  
• Angela Johnson
  Angela Johnson
  Angela Johnson is the first woman sentenced to death by a United States Federal jury since the 1950s. Forty-nine women have been executed under state laws since 1900....
  
  

Serial killers

• Gerald Stano
  Gerald Stano
  Gerald Eugene Stano was an American convicted serial killer. He killed at least 22 women; he confessed killing 41-Early life:He was born in Schenectady, New York. His given name at birth was Paul Zeininger...
  
   – convicted murderer of 41 women; executed in 1998.
• Randall Woodfield
  Randall Woodfield
  Randall Brent "Randy" Woodfield is an American serial killer who was dubbed The I-5 Killer or The I-5 Bandit by law enforcement due to the crimes he allegedly committed along the Interstate 5 corridor running through Washington, Oregon, and California. Before his capture, the I-5 Killer was...
  
   – aka "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5 Bandit"; convicted of four murders; believed responsible for 14 others.
• Robert Shulman – convicted of murdering five prostitutes between 1991 and 1996.
• Tommy Lynn Sells
  Tommy Lynn Sells
  -Early life:Sells and his twin sister, Tammy Jean, contracted meningitis when they were 18 months old. While Sells suffered a high fever, he survived. His sister, however, died from the inflammation. Shortly thereafter, Sells was sent to live with his aunt Bonnie Woodall in Holcomb, Missouri...
  
   – convicted of only one murder; admitted to murdering dozens of people across the United States, possibly in excess of 70 although only six are confirmed.
• Efren Saldivar
  Efren Saldivar
  Efren Saldivar is an American serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist.-Early life:...
  
   – respiratory therapist who killed six patients, possibly as many as 120.
• Arthur Shawcross
  Arthur Shawcross
  Arthur John Shawcross was an American serial killer, also known as The Genesee River Killer in Rochester, New York...
  
   – aka "The Genesee River Killer"; convicted of 12 murders; confessed to one more.
• Lemuel Smith
  Lemuel Smith
  Lemuel Warren Smith , is a convicted serial killer and rapist from Upstate New York who was the first convict ever to kill an on-duty female corrections officer.-Trouble from the beginning:...
  
   – confessed to the murders of five people, including an on-duty female prison guard.
• Wayne Williams
  Wayne Williams
  Wayne Bertram Williams is an American serial killer who committed most of the Atlanta Child Murders that occurred in 1979 through 1981. In January 1982, Williams was found guilty of the murder of two adult men...
  
   – convicted of two murders; police claim his arrest solved 23 others in a string of 29.
• Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood
• Donald Harvey
  Donald Harvey
  Donald Harvey is an American serial killer who claims to have murdered 87 people. The official estimates of the number of people he murdered range anywhere from at least 37 to 57 deaths. Donald Harvey received some type of sadistic pleasure from killing his patients, although he claims he started...
  
   – aka "Angel of Death"; hospital orderly; confessed to more than 80 "mercy killings" with 37 confirmed killings.
• William Heirens
  William Heirens
  William George Heirens is a convicted American serial killer who confessed to three murders in 1946. Heirens has been called The Lipstick Killer due to a notorious message scrawled in lipstick at a crime scene...
  
   – aka "The Lipstick Killer"; confessed to three murders spanning from June 1945 to January 1946.
• Michael Swango
  Michael Swango
  Joseph Michael Swango is an American serial killer and former licensed physician. It is estimated that Swango has been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues, though he admitted to only causing four deaths...
  
   – physician and surgeon who poisoned over 30 of his patients and colleagues.
• Henry Lee Lucas
  Henry Lee Lucas
  Henry Lee Lucas was an American criminal, convicted of murder in 189 cases and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer; he later recanted his confessions, despite professing information only the assailant would know and flatly stating "I'm a liar" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady...
  
   – convicted of 11 murders and confessed to approximately 3000 others, although most of his confessions are considered outlandish; a task force set up to investigate his claims suggested that the true number of his murders may be as high as 213.
• Leonard Lake
  Leonard Lake
  Leonard Lake was an American serial killer. He often used the alias Leonard Hill. The crimes he committed with Charles Ng became known when Lake committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill shortly after being arrested for a firearms offense.-Life:Lake was born in San Francisco, California...
  
   and Charles Ng
  Charles Ng
  Charles Chi-Tat Ng is a serial killer. With Leonard Lake, he is suspected of murdering between 11 and 25 victims at Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California, United States....
  
   – ex-Marines and survivalists; killed at least 11 people and suspected of 25; collected and murdered female sex slaves.
• John Allen Muhammad
  John Allen Muhammad
  John Allen Muhammad was a spree killer from the United States. He, along with his younger partner, Lee Boyd Malvo, carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing at least 10 people. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24, 2002, following tips from alert...
  
   and Lee Boyd Malvo
  Lee Boyd Malvo
  Lee Boyd Malvo , is a spree killer convicted, along with John Allen Muhammad, of murders in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks, which took place in the Washington Metropolitan Area over a three-week period in October 2002...
  
   – aka "Beltway Snipers
  Beltway sniper attacks
  The Washington sniper attacks took place during three weeks in October 2002 in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Ten people were killed and three others critically injured in various locations throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia...
  
  "; Muhammad is convicted of seven murders so far and awaiting prosecution for nine others; Malvo was convicted of, plead guilty to, or confessed to at least nine murders.
• Donald Henry Gaskins – aka "Meanest Man in America"; convicted of nine murders; confessed to more than 200; executed on September 6, 1991.
• Ed Gein
  Ed Gein
  Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein - July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes...
  
   – two known victims, one suspected victim, four missing persons; elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part, the films Psycho
  Psycho (1960 film)
  Psycho is a 1960 American suspense/psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. The film is based on the screenplay by Joseph Stefano, who adapted it from the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch...
  
  and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film directed and produced by Tobe Hooper, who cowrote it with Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen, who respectively portray Sally Hardesty, Franklin Hardesty, the...
  
  , and the novel/movie The Silence of the Lambs
  The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
  The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris. First published in 1988, it is the sequel to Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon. Both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, this time pitted against FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling.- Plot summary :The novel takes...
  
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• Kristen Gilbert
  Kristen Gilbert
  Kristen Gilbert is an American serial killer who was convicted for three first-degree murders, one second-degree murder, and two attempted murders of patients admitted for care at the VAMC in Northampton, Massachusetts...
  
   – aka the "Angel of Death"; nurse convicted of killing four by epinephrine injection.
• Earle Nelson
  Earle Nelson
  Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Killer was an American serial killer.Nelson's childhood was a difficult one. His mother and father both died of syphilis before Nelson turned two. He was subsequently sent to be raised by his maternal grandmother, a devout Pentecostal...
  
   – aka "Gorilla Man"; necrophiliac convicted and hanged for one murder; implicated in about 20 others.
• Marie Noe
  Marie Noe
  Marie Noe is an American woman who was convicted in June 1999 of murdering eight of her children. Between 1949 and 1968, eight of the ten Noe children died of mysterious causes which were then attributed to sudden infant death syndrome. All eight children were healthy at birth and were developing...
  
   – murdered eight of her children between 1949 and 1968.
• Carl Panzram
  Carl Panzram
  Carl Panzram was an American serial killer, arsonist and burglar. He is known for his confession to prison guard and only friend, Henry Lesser. In graphic detail, Panzram confessed to 22 murders, and to having sodomized over 1,000 males...
  
   – murderer, rapist and arsonist; convicted of two murders; confessed to 19 others; executed in 1930.
• Keith Hunter Jesperson
  Keith Hunter Jesperson
  Keith Hunter Jesperson is a Canadian-born American serial killer known as the "Happy Face Killer" for the smiley face he drew on his many letters to the media and prosecutors. He had a violent and troubled childhood under a domineering, alcoholic father...
  
   – Canadian serial killer convicted in the United States.
• Dr. Jack Kevorkian
  Jack Kevorkian
  Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian , commonly known as "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, composer and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he said he assisted at least 130 patients to...
  
   - Dr. Kevorkian became famous in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a supporter of assisted suicide, and was lucky enough to have three acquittals and a mistrial before being convicted of the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk in 1999.
• Dennis Rader
  Dennis Rader
  Dennis Lynn Rader is an American serial killer who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County , between 1974 and 1991....
  
   – aka the "BTK Killer"; killed ten people between 1974 and 1991.
• Carroll Cole
  Carroll Cole
  Carroll Edward Cole , was an American serial killer who was executed in 1985.-Early life:Carroll Cole was born in Sioux City, Iowa. While his father went to fight in World War II, Cole was taken along by his mother and forced to watch as she had sexual encounters with men. She would often beat him...
  
   – killed 16 people between 1948 and 1980; executed in 1985.
• Alton Coleman
  Alton Coleman
  Alton Coleman was an African-American spree killer. He was executed by the state of Ohio for the murder of 44-year-old Marlene Walters of Norwood, Ohio during a six-state killing spree in 1984.-Overview:...
  
   – multi-state killer whose killings took place during two months in 1984 aided by Debra Denise Brown; was convicted of murder in three states.
• Andrew Cunanan
  Andrew Cunanan
  Andrew Phillip Cunanan was an American serial killer who murdered at least five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, during a three-month period in 1997, ending with Cunanan's suicide, at age 27...
  
   – murdered five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace
  Gianni Versace
  Gianni Versace was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Gianni Versace S.p.A., an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, makeup and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films, and was a friend of Madonna, Elton John,...
  
  , in a cross-country journey during a three-month period in 1997, ending with Cunanan's suicide, at the age of 27.
• Nannie Doss
  Nannie Doss
  Nannie Doss was a serial killer responsible for the deaths of eleven people between the 1920s and 1954.She finally confessed to the murders in October 1954, when her fifth husband had died in a small hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma...
  
   – aka "The Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow"; serial poisoner who killed 11 family members.
• Albert Fish
  Albert Fish
  Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac and The Boogey Man. A child rapist and cannibal, he boasted that he "had children in every state," and at one time put the figure at...
  
   – aka the "Werewolf of Wisteria"; sadist
  Sadism and masochism as medical terms
  In psychiatry, the terms sadism and masochism describe a personality type characterized by the actor or actrix deriving pleasure and gratification from inflicting physical pain and humiliation ; and from suffering pain and humiliation upon the self ; such pleasure often is sexual, but not...
  
   and pedophile who cannibalized several children; convicted of one murder, confessed to two others
• Wayne Adam Ford
  Wayne Adam Ford
  Wayne Adam Ford is an American serial killer.He was arrested after he walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff Department in Eureka, California in November 1998 with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He confessed to having killed four women, and is thought to have killed others...
  
   – aka "Wayward Wayne"; confessed to murdering four women; believed to have killed others.
• Joseph Paul Franklin
  Joseph Paul Franklin
  Joseph Paul Franklin is an American serial killer. He has been convicted of several murders, and has confessed to the attempted assassinations of two prominent people — the 1978 shooting of magazine publisher Larry Flynt and Flynt's attorney, and the 1980 shooting of Vernon Jordan, Jr....
  
   – racist serial killer who targeted interracial couples and attempted to assassinate Larry Flynt
  Larry Flynt
  Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. is an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications . In 2003, Arena magazine listed him as the number one on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list....
  
   and Vernon Jordan; convicted of 11 murders and confessed to nine others.
• Paul Dennis Reid
  Paul Dennis Reid
  Paul Dennis Reid, Jr. is an American serial killer, convicted and sentenced to death for seven murders during three fast food restaurant robberies in Metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee and Clarksville, Tennessee between the months of February and April 1997...
  
   – killed seven people during armed robberies between February and April 1997.
• Gerald Gallego Jr. and Charlene Williams
  Gallego sex slave killers
  Gerald Armond and Charlene Adelle Gallego are two American serial killers who terrorized Sacramento, California between 1978 and 1980...
  
   – aka the "Gallego Sex Slaves Killers"; kidnapped, raped and killed victims in the late 1970s; most of them were teenagers.
• Julio González
  Julio Gonzalez (arsonist)
  Julio González is a Cuban-born warehouse worker and arsonist responsible for the Happy Land Fire that killed 87 people in the Bronx, New York City, on March 25, 1990. It is one of the largest mass murders in United States history....
  
   - convicted of arson and murder of 87 people in the Happy Land Fire
  Happy Land Fire
  The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that killed 87 people trapped in an unlicensed social club called "Happy Land" in the West Farms section of The Bronx, New York, on March 25, 1990. Most of the victims were young ethnic Hondurans celebrating Carnival...
  
  .

Alaska / Hawaii

• Robert Hansen
  Robert Hansen
  Robert Christian Hansen is an American serial killer. Between 1980 and 1983, Hansen murdered between 17 and 21 women near Anchorage, Alaska.- Early life :Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa to Christian and Edna Hansen...
  
   – Alaska
  Alaska
  Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
  
  n baker who killed prostitutes at his cabin; convicted of four murders but admitted to 11 others.

Midwest

• Belle Gunness
  Belle Gunness
  Belle Sorenson Gunness was a Norwegian-American serial killer....
  
   – murder-for-profit killer who murdered her suitors and children in Indiana
  Indiana
  Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
  
  .
• Tillie Klimek
  Tillie Klimek
  Ottilie "Tillie" Klimek was a Polish American serial killer, active in Chicago. She pretended to have precognitive dreams, accurately predicting the dates of death of her victims. Actually she was merely scheduling their deaths.Tillie married her original husband John Mitkiewicz, c. 1890...
  
   – Chicago woman who poisoned five husbands; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Herb Baumeister
  Herb Baumeister
  Herbert Richard "Herb" Baumeister was an alleged American serial killer from suburban Westfield, Indiana outside of Indianapolis. Baumeister committed suicide before he could be brought to trial, and never confessed to the crimes he was alleged to have committed.- Early life :The oldest of four...
  
   – suspected of killing 20+ men along I-70; fled and committed suicide after remains of eleven were found on his Westfield, Indiana property .
• Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez
  Raymond Fernandez
  Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" after their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949. Between 1947 and 1949 they are believed to have killed as many as twenty women...
  
   – the "Lonely Hearts Killers"; killed at least three women and one child in the 1940s but suspected in up to 20 murders in New York and Michigan
  Michigan
  Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
  
  .
• Bloody Benders
  Bloody Benders
  The Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers who owned a small general store and inn in Osage township, Labette County, Kansas from 1872 to 1873. The inn was a dingy place called the Wayside Inn. The alleged family consisted of John Bender, his wife Kate, son John Jr. and daughter Kate...
  
   – family who killed guests at their inn in Labette County, Kansas
  Labette County, Kansas
  Labette County is a county located in southeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 21,607. Its county seat is Oswego, and its most populous city is Parsons...
  
   in 1872 .
• Richard Biegenwald
  Richard Biegenwald
  Richard Fran Biegenwald was an American serial killer, who committed his crimes in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Between 1958 and 1983, Biegenwald killed at least nine people, and he is suspected in at least two other murders.-Early life:Born in Rockland County, New York, Biegenwald was frequently...
  
   – convicted of killing five people in the early 1980s in the Asbury Park, New Jersey
  Asbury Park, New Jersey
  Asbury Park is a city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, located on the Jersey Shore and part of the New York City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 16,116. The city is known for its rich musical history, including its association with...
  
   area; suspected in at least six other murders.
• Terry Blair – Kansas City serial killer and rapist; active 1982–2004.
• Jeffrey Dahmer
  Jeffrey Dahmer
  Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was an American serial killer and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His murders involved rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism...
  
   – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...
  
   cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment for sexual gratification; convicted of 15 murders, but believed responsible for at least two others.
• John Wayne Gacy
  John Wayne Gacy
  John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was an American serial killer, rapist and clown who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawlspace of his home, buried three others elsewhere on his property, and discarded the...
  
   – aka "Killer Clown"; killer of at least 33 men and boys; kept bodies buried under his Chicago
  Chicago
  Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
  
   home.
• Lorenzo Gilyard
  Lorenzo Gilyard
  Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard, Jr. is an American serial killer. A former trash company supervisor, Gilyard is considered to have raped and murdered 13 women and girls from 1977 to 1993...
  
   – killed up to 13 prostitutes in the Kansas City
  Kansas City Metropolitan Area
  The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is a fifteen-county metropolitan area that is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri and is bisected by the border between the states of Missouri and Kansas. As of the 2010 Census, the metropolitan area has a population of 2,035,334. The metropolitan area is the...
  
   area 1977 to 1993.
• Jeffrey Gorton
  Jeffrey Gorton
  Jeffrey Wayne Gorton is an American murderer and rapist, who was convicted in 2002 of the rape and murder of flight attendant Nancy Ludwig on February 17, 1991 at the Hilton hotel in Romulus, Michigan...
  
   – convicted of two rape-murders in Michigan, suspected of more.
• Herman Mudgett – better known as H.H. Holmes; active from 1890 to 1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
  World's Columbian Exposition
  The World's Columbian Exposition was a World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Chicago bested New York City; Washington, D.C.; and St...
  
  ; convicted of only one murder but definitively tied to at least 8 more and confessed to a total of 27.
• Timothy Krajcir
  Timothy Krajcir
  Timothy Wayne Krajcir is a convicted American serial killer from West Mahanoy Township, Pennsylvania who has confessed to killing over nine women, five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania.-Background:...
  
   – confessed to killing more than nine women—five in Missouri and four others in Illinois
  Illinois
  Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
  
   and Pennsylvania.
• Michigan murders
  Michigan murders
  John Norman Collins is a serial killer who was found guilty for one of the "Michigan Murders", as they came to be called by various media sources and locals. He is allegedly responsible for all but one of the other murders...
  
   (John Norman Collins and Gary Leiterman) – committed separately in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor between 1967 and 1969.
• Leslie Irvin
  Leslie Irvin (serial killer)
  Leslie "Mad Dog" Irvin was an American serial killer whose killing spree in the early 1950s terrorized residents of southwestern Indiana and whose Supreme Court case set a precedent for ensuring a fair trial for defendants even in the wake of a great deal of pretrial publicity.He was apprehended...
  
   – aka "Mad Dog"; convicted of killing six people in Indiana
  Indiana
  Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
  
   in the mid-1950s; his Supreme Court case set a precedent for fair trials of highly publicized defendants.
• Christopher Peterson
  Christopher Peterson (serial killer)
  Christopher Peterson , dubbed the "Shotgun Killer" is an American serial killer who confessed to shooting seven people with a shotgun, in a killing spree spanning from October 30, 1990 to December 18, 1990 in Indiana. Peterson was convicted to two death sentences because of his confession...
  
   – aka the "Shotgun Killer", confessed to shooting seven people with a shotgun in a killing spree spanning from October 30, 1990 to December 18, 1990 in Indiana.
• John Edward Robinson
  John Edward Robinson (serial killer)
  John Edward Robinson is a convicted serial killer, con man, embezzler, kidnapper, and forger who was found guilty in 2003 of three murders and received the death sentence for two of them...
  
   – aka the "Cyber Sex Killer"; lured victims through the internet; convicted of murdering six women in Missouri and Kansas.
• Maury Travis
  Maury Travis
  Maury Troy Travis was an American serial killer who committed suicide in a St. Louis county jail, after being arrested for murder. Travis murdered at least 12 prostitutes, and claimed to have killed 17, all in separate incidents between 2000 and 2002 in his home in Ferguson, Missouri...
  
   – St. Louis area torture killer of 12-17 prostitutes from 2000 to 2002.
• Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood – Michigan duo who murdered five elderly nursing home residents in their care and claimed to have killed another.
• Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
  Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
  Angel Maturino Reséndiz, aka The Railroad Killer/The Railway Killer , was an itinerant Mexican serial killer responsible for as many as thirty murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s. Some also involved sexual assault...
  
   – killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky
  Kentucky
  The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
  
  , and Illinois.
• Coral Eugene Watts
  Coral Eugene Watts
  Carl Eugene Watts , also known by his nickname Coral, was an American serial killer dubbed "The Sunday Morning Slasher"...
  
   – convicted of two murders; admitted to killing 80 people in Texas and Michigan; possibly guilty of 100 murders.

Mountainwest

• Phillip Carl Jablonski – killed at least four women in California and Utah.
• Arthur Gary Bishop
  Arthur Gary Bishop
  Arthur Gary Bishop was a convicted American child molester and serial killer. He confessed to the murders of five young boys in 1983, as a result of a routine police investigation.-Early life:...
  
   – Utah
  Utah
  Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
  
   man who murdered five young boys; executed in 1988.
• Robert Charles Browne
  Robert Charles Browne
  Robert Charles Browne is an American murderer serving a double-life sentence Minnesota Department of Corrections.Browne was born in Coushatta, Louisiana. According to a Red River Parrish Sheriff, Browne grew up as one of nine children in a hardscrabble family...
  
   – convicted of two murders in Colorado
  Colorado
  Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
  
  ; confessed to 48 murders.

Northeast

• David Berkowitz
  David Berkowitz
  David Richard Berkowitz , also known as Son of Sam and the .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer and arsonist whose crimes terrorized New York City from July 1976 until his arrest in August 1977.Shortly after his arrest in August 1977, Berkowitz confessed to killing six people and...
  
   – aka "Son of Sam" and "The .44 Caliber Killer"; convicted of six murders in New York.
• Kendall Francois
  Kendall Francois
  Kendall Francois is a serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York, convicted of killing eight women, from 1996 to 1998. He is currently serving life in prison for his crimes.-Life:...
  
   – serial killer from Poughkeepsie
  Poughkeepsie (city), New York
  Poughkeepsie is a city in the state of New York, United States, which serves as the county seat of Dutchess County. Poughkeepsie is located in the Hudson River Valley midway between New York City and Albany...
  
  , New York who targeted prostitutes; after strangling the women, he would store them in various crawl spaces in and around his home.
• Robert Berdella
  Robert Berdella
  Robert Andrew "Bob" Berdella was an American serial killer in Kansas City, Missouri who raped, tortured and killed at least six men between 1984 and 1987.-Early life:...
  
   – convicted of killing six men in 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri
  Kansas City, Missouri
  Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
  
  ; sexually tortured and dismembered his victims.
• Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr.
  Angelo Buono, Jr.
  Angelo Buono, Jr. was an American serial killer. Buono and his cousin Kenneth Bianchi together are known as the Hillside Stranglers.-Early life:...
  
   – aka the "Hillside Strangler
  Hillside Strangler
  The Hillside Strangler is the media epithet for two men, cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who were convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and killing girls and women ranging in age from 12 to 28 years old during a four-month period from late 1977 to early 1978...
  
  "; killers of 13 women and possibly involved in three other killings.
• Joel Rifkin
  Joel Rifkin
  Joel David Rifkin is an American serial killer convicted of the murder of nine women , mostly drug addicted prostitutes, between 1989 and 1993 in New York City...
  
   – murdered 17 women in the New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
   and Long Island areas.
• Peter Kudzinowski
  Peter Kudzinowski
  Peter Kudzinowski was a Polish-born American serial killer who committed his crimes in New Jersey.-Biography:...
  
   – killed children in New Jersey in the 1920s.
• Frederick Mors
  Frederick Mors
  Frederick Mors was an Austrian serial killer who, while employed in a nursing home in New York City, killed seventeen elderly patients by poisoning. When questioned by police he was very cooperative, readily admitting to the murders...
  
   - Austrian who killed seventeen elderly patients by poisoning in New York.
• Vincent Johnson
  Vincent Johnson
  Vincent Johnson , is an American serial killer popularly known as the Brooklyn Strangler.-History:Between the summers of 1999 and 2000, a series of murders of prostitutes in the Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods of Brooklyn led police to arrest a Brooklyn homeless man, one of...
  
   – aka the "Brooklyn Strangler"; a homeless crack addict who killed at least five prostitutes.
• Paul John Knowles
  Paul John Knowles
  Paul John Knowles , also known as The Casanova Killer, was an American serial killer tied to the deaths of 18 people in 1974, though he claimed to have taken 35 lives.-Early life:...
  
   – raped and murdered 18 people.
• Nathaniel White
  Nathaniel White
  Nathaniel White is an African American serial killer. Active in the Hudson Valley region of New York during the early 1990s, White confessed to beating and stabbing six women to death while on parole.-Killings:...
  
   – convicted of stabbing to death six women in the Hudson Valley
  Hudson Valley
  The Hudson Valley comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in New York State, United States, from northern Westchester County northward to the cities of Albany and Troy.-History:...
  
  , New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   area from 1991 to 1992.
• Marybeth Tinning
  Marybeth Tinning
  Marybeth Tinning is an American serial killer currently serving a 20 years to life sentence after being convicted of the murder of one of her children. Her case is held to be one of the most extreme cases of Münchausen syndrome by proxy.-Early life:Marybeth Roe was born in Duanesburg, a small town...
  
   – New York woman who smothered nine of her children to death.
• Michael Bruce Ross – raped and murdered seven women in Connecticut
  Connecticut
  Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
  
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• Altemio Sanchez
  Altemio Sanchez
  Altemio C. Sanchez is an American serial killer who murdered at least three women and raped at least 14 others in and around Buffalo, New York, over a span of 25 years . He is also known as The Bike Path Rapist...
  
   – aka the "Bike Path Rapist"; responsible for three murders and numerous rapes spanning over a 25-year period in Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
  
  ; currently serving three consecutive 75 years-to-life sentences for the murders.
• Heriberto Seda
  Heriberto Seda
  Heriberto "Eddie" Seda is an American serial killer who struck New York City from 1990 to 1993. Before being caught on June 18, 1996, Seda killed three people and critically wounded four. Seda is believed to have admired San Francisco’s Zodiac Killer for avoiding capture. Seda was convicted in...
  
   – New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
   copycat killer of the "Zodiac Killer
  Zodiac Killer
  The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The killer's identity remains unknown. The Zodiac murdered victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. Four men and three women...
  
  " active from 1990 to 1994; convicted of shooting eight individuals, killing three; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998.
• Lawrence Bittaker
  Lawrence Bittaker
  Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris AKA The ToolBox Killers are two American serial killers who together kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered five young women over a period of five months in California in 1979.-Lawrence Bittaker:...
  
   and Roy Norris - kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered five girls in 1979.
• William Bonin
  William Bonin
  William George Bonin was an American serial killer and a twice-paroled sex offender, also known as the Freeway Killer, a nickname he shares with two other serial killers. Between 1979 and 1980, Bonin tortured, raped and killed a minimum of 21 boys and young men, and is suspected of committing a...
  
   – aka "The Freeway Killer"; with several accomplices, claimed the lives of 20 boys in California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
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• Waneta Hoyt
  Waneta Hoyt
  Waneta Ethel Hoyt was an American serial killer. She was born in Richford, New York and died at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women....
  
   – New York woman who murdered her five children.
• Albert DeSalvo
  Albert DeSalvo
  Albert Henry DeSalvo was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area. DeSalvo was not imprisoned for these murders, however, but for a series of rapes...
  
   – aka "The Boston Strangler"; convicted of unrelated rapes; DeSalvo was never indicted for the Strangler murders, although he did confess to them.
• Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson
  Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson
  James Clifford Carson James Clifford Carson (aka Michael Bear Carson) James Clifford Carson (aka Michael Bear Carson) ((born 1950) and Suzan Barnes Carson (born 1942) were serial killers reported to have been active at several countries and regions in the late 1970s and early 1980s - particularly,...
  
   – nomadic hippie killers involved in the counter-culture movement; suspects in 12 homicides; sentenced to life imprisonment for three San Francisco Bay Area
  San Francisco Bay Area
  The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
  
   murders in 1983.
• Charles Cullen
  Charles Cullen
  Charles Edmund Cullen is a former nurse who is the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history, and suspected to be the most prolific serial killer in American history. Cullen told authorities in December 2003 that he could specifically recall the murder of perhaps 40 patients during the 16...
  
   – nurse in New Jersey
  New Jersey
  New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
  
   and Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
   who killed as many as 40 patients through lethal injection.

• Jerry Brudos
  Jerry Brudos
  Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos was an American serial killer and necrophiliac, also known as "The Lust Killer" and "The Shoe Fetish Slayer".-Early life:...
  
   – aka "The Lust Killer" and "Shoe Fetish Slayer"; killed at least five women in Oregon
  Oregon
  Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
  
  .

Northwest

• Gary Ridgway
  Gary Ridgway
  Gary Leon Ridgway is an American serial killer known as the Green River Killer. He murdered numerous women in Washington during the 1980s and 1990s, earning his nickname when the first five victims were found in the Green River. He strangled them, usually with his arm but sometimes using ligatures...
  
   – aka the "Green River Killer"; convicted of murdering 48 women in Washington state.
• Dayton Leroy Rogers
  Dayton Leroy Rogers
  Dayton Leroy Rogers is a serial killer presently residing on Oregon's death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary for six murders....
  
   – murdered at least six women in Oregon.
• Robert Lee Yates
  Robert Lee Yates
  Robert Lee Yates, Jr. is an American serial killer from Spokane, Washington. From 1996 to 1998, Yates is known to have murdered at least 16 women, all of whom were prostitutes working on Spokane's "Skid Row" on E. Sprague Avenue. Yates also confessed to two murders committed in Walla Walla in 1975...
  
   – murdered at least 13 women in Spokane County, Washington
  Spokane County, Washington
  Spokane County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington, named after the Spokane tribe. As of the 2010 census the population was 471,221, making it the fourth most populous county in Washington state. The largest city and county seat is Spokane, the second largest city in the state,...
  
  .
• David Carpenter
  David Carpenter
  David Carpenter may refer to:*David Carpenter, early Texas settler and namesake of Carpenters Bayou*David Aaron Carpenter, violist, *David Carpenter , British historian*David Carpenter , Canadian novelist...
  
   – aka the "Trailside Killer"; murdered five women on San Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981.
• Richard Chase
  Richard Chase
  Richard Trenton Chase was a United States serial killer who killed six people in the span of a month in Sacramento, California...
  
   – aka "The Vampire of Sacramento"; murdered six people in California the 1970s.
• Cary Stayner
  Cary Stayner
  Cary A. Stayner is an American serial killer currently on death row for the 1999 murders of four women in Mariposa County near Yosemite, California.-Early life:Stayner was born and raised in Merced, California...
  
   – killed four women in Yosemite, California.
• Morris Solomon Jr. – handyman who killed six young women between 1986 and 1987 in Sacramento
  Sacramento
  Sacramento is the capital of the state of California, in the United States of America.Sacramento may also refer to:- United States :*Sacramento County, California*Sacramento, Kentucky*Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta...
  
  , California.
• Dorothea Puente
  Dorothea Puente
  Dorothea Helen Puente was a convicted American serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and cashed the Social Security checks of her elderly and mentally disabled boarders...
  
   – convicted of three killings in Sacramento, California
  Sacramento, California
  Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
  
   during the 1980s; suspected of six others
• Dean Carter
  Dean Carter
  Dean Phillip Carter is an inmate at San Quentin, California's Death row. He has been convicted of the murder of four women: Susan Knoll, Jillette Mills, Bonnie Guthrie, and Janette Cullins....
  
   – murdered at least four women.
• Ray Copeland and Faye Copeland
  Faye Copeland
  Ray Copeland and Faye Della Copeland became, at the ages of 76 and 69 respectively, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. They were convicted of killing five drifters and are believed to have killed at least seven more, though no bodies were recovered...
  
   – oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States at the ages of 75 and 69; convicted of killing five men; modus operandi was to hire unskilled drifters as farm hands and later kill them.

South

• Henry Louis Wallace
  Henry Louis Wallace
  Henry Louis Wallace is an American serial killer who killed 10 women in Charlotte, North Carolina and is awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh.-Early life:...
  
   – Charlotte, North Carolina
  Charlotte, North Carolina
  Charlotte is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2010, Charlotte's population according to the US Census Bureau was 731,424, making it the 17th largest city in the United States based on population. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a 2009...
  
   killer of at least nine young women from 1992 to 1994.
• Janie Lou Gibbs
  Janie Lou Gibbs
  Janie Lou Gibbs was a serial killer from Cordele, Georgia, who killed her three sons, a grandson, and her husband, by poisoning them with rat poison in 1966 and 1967.-Murders:...
  
   – Georgia poisoner who killed five family members.
• Carlton Gary
  Carlton Gary
  Carlton Michael Gary is an American serial killer convicted of the murders of elderly women in Columbus, Georgia from 1977-1978. He is believed responsible for several more in Albany and Syracuse, New York....
  
   – convicted of the murders of seven elderly women in Georgia
  Georgia (U.S. state)
  Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
  
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• Ronald Dominique
  Ronald Dominique
  Ronald Joseph Dominique is an American serial killer from the Bayou Blue area of Houma, Louisiana.Dominique was investigated following a police report by a man who refused to let Dominique tie him up...
  
   – confessed to raping and murdering at least 23 men in Louisiana; sentenced to eight life sentences in 2008.
• Derrick Todd Lee
  Derrick Todd Lee
  Derrick Todd Lee is a convicted serial killer, nicknamed the Baton Rouge Serial Killer....
  
   – aka the "Baton Rouge Serial Killer"; convicted of two murders; linked by DNA evidence to five others.
• Rhonda Belle Martin
  Rhonda Belle Martin
  Rhonda Bell Martin was an American serial killer.A 49-year-old waitress in Montgomery, Alabama, she confessed in March 1956 to poisoning her mother, two husbands, and three of her children. She denied killing two other children....
  
   – Alabama poisoner who murdered six family members; suspected of poisoning at least nine; executed in 1957.

Southeast

• Gerard John Schaefer
  Gerard John Schaefer
  Gerard John Schaefer was an American serial killer from Florida. He was imprisoned in 1973 for murders he committed as a Martin County, Florida Sheriff's deputy....
  
   – Florida police officer who killed up to 34 women and girls.
• Danny Rolling
  Danny Rolling
  Daniel Harold Rolling , also known as The Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer who murdered five students in Gainesville, Florida. Rolling later confessed to raping several of his victims, committing an additional 1989 triple homicide in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to murder...
  
   – pleaded guilty to murdering five students in Florida
  Florida
  Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
  
  ; executed in 2006.
• Ottis Toole
  Ottis Toole
  Ottis Elwood Toole was an American serial killer, arsonist and cannibal. Toole was an accomplice of convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas...
  
   – Henry Lee Lucas' accomplice; convicted of six murders in Florida; confessed to but never tried for Adam Walsh's murder.
• Aileen Wuornos
  Aileen Wuornos
  Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990, claiming they raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute...
  
   – shot six men dead in Florida; executed in 2002.
• Ted Bundy
  Ted Bundy
  Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women during the 1970s, and possibly earlier...
  
   – law student who raped and murdered more than 35 women in six states; executed in Florida State Prison
  Florida State Prison
  Florida State Prison , formerly known as the Union Correctional Institution—East Unit, is a correctional institution located in unincorporated Bradford County, Florida. It is located on Florida State Road 16 right across the border from Union County. The institution opened in 1961, even though...
  
   on January 24, 1989.
• Paul Durousseau
  Paul Durousseau
  Paul Durousseau is an American serial killer who murdered seven young women in the southeast United States between 1997 and 2003. German authorities suspect he may have killed several local women when he was stationed there with the Army during the early 1990s...
  
   – murdered 7 in southeast United States between 1997 and 2003; may have killed while stationed in Germany with the Army.

Southwest

• David Parker Ray
  David Parker Ray
  David Parker Ray was a suspected American serial killer and known torturer of women; though no bodies were found, he was accused by his accomplices of killing several people, and suspected by police to have murdered as many as 60 people in the town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico...
  
   – convicted of rape and torture and sentenced to 224 years in prison; FBI believes he was responsible for the deaths of 60 women in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

• William Suff
  William Suff
  William Lester Suff , also known as the Riverside Prostitute Killer and the Lake Elsinore Killer, is a Californian serial killer.-Early crimes:...
  
   – aka the "Riverside Killer"; killed up to 19 women near Riverside, California
  Riverside, California
  Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
  
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• Gordon Stewart Northcott – aka the "Wineville Chicken Coop Murders"; California man who confessed to kidnapping, raping and murdering nine young boys with the aid of his mother, Sarah Louise Northcott in the 1920s; suspected of the murder of nearly 30, executed in 1930.
• Harvey Glatman – Californian rapist and killer of three women; lured women to pose for "bondage photographs"; executed September 18, 1959.
• Mack Ray Edwards
  Mack Ray Edwards
  Mack Ray Edwards was an American serial killer. He murdered at least six children in Los Angeles County, California between 1953 and 1970.-Biography:...
  
   – convicted of murdering three children after confessing to the murders of six in Los Angeles County between 1953 and 1969; claimed at one point to have killed as many as 18.
• Doug Clark
  Doug Clark (criminal)
  Douglas Daniel Clark is an American serial killer. Clark and his accomplice Carol M. Bundy are known as the "Sunset Strip Killers"...
  
   and Carol M. Bundy
  Carol M. Bundy
  Carol M. Bundy was an American serial killer.Bundy and Doug Clark became known as "The Sunset Strip Killers" after being convicted of a series of murders in Los Angeles during the late spring and early summer of 1980...
  
   – aka "Sunset Strip Killers"; killed at least seven people during 1980.
• Juan Corona
  Juan Corona
  Juan Vallejo Corona is a Mexican-born serial killer in the United States.He was convicted of the 1971 murders of 25 itinerant laborers; men who had been found buried in shallow graves in the orchards of fruit ranches in Sutter County, California, along the Feather River north of Yuba City, where...
  
   – California killer convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971.
• Dana Sue Gray
  Dana Sue Gray
  Dana Sue Gray is an American serial killer who murdered three elderly women in 1994. She was caught after her fourth victim survived and identified her. Gray says she committed these murders to support her spending habits. She is now imprisoned in the California Women's Prison in Chowchilla...
  
   – convicted of murder of three elderly women and attempted murder of a fourth in California.
• Michael Hughes – killed four women in the Los Angeles area between 1992 and 1993; charged in 2008 with raping and murdering four additional women between 1986 and 1993.
• Patrick Kearney
  Patrick Kearney
  Patrick Wayne Kearney is an American serial killer who preyed on young men in California during the 1970s. He is sometimes referred to as "The Freeway Killer", a nickname he shares with two other separate serial killers, William Bonin and Randy Steven Kraft.-Early life:He was the youngest of three...
  
   – necrophiliac convicted of 21 murders in California and admitted to seven other murders.
• Edmund Kemper
  Edmund Kemper
  Edmund Emil "Big Ed" Kemper III , also known as "The Co-ed Killer", is an American serial killer who was active in California in the early 1970s. He started his criminal life by shooting both his grandparents when he was 15 years old. Kemper later killed and dismembered six female hitchhikers in...
  
   – started killing when he was 15 years old in Santa Cruz, California; convicted of six murders and implicated in four others.
• Herbert Mullin
  Herbert Mullin
  Herbert Williams Mullin is a serial killer who committed 13 murders in California in the early 1970s.- Childhood and youth :...
  
   – schizophrenic in Santa Cruz
  Santa Cruz, California
  Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...
  
  , California who killed people to prevent earthquakes; convicted of 10 murders and confessed to three others.
• Randy Kraft – convicted of the murders of 16 young men and boys; suspected of 51 others in California.
• Chester Turner
  Chester Turner
  Chester Dewayne Turner is a convicted serial killer. On April 30, 2007, he was convicted of the murders of 10 women in Los Angeles, and was also found guilty in the death of the unborn child of one of his victims. Prosecutors have called Turner "one of the most prolific serial killers in the...
  
   – murderer of women in Los Angeles, California; convicted of 12 murders and linked through DNA evidence to another.
• Richard Ramirez
  Richard Ramirez
  Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramírez is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison...
  
   – aka the "Night Stalker"; terrorized Los Angeles
  Los Ángeles
  Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
  
   in 1984 and 1985; convicted of 14 murders.

• Joe Ball
  Joe Ball
  Joseph D. Ball was an American serial killer, sometimes referred to as "The Alligator Man", the "Butcher of Elmendorf" and the "Bluebeard of South Texas". He is said to have killed at least 20 women in the 1930s...
  
   – aka "The Alligator Man"; killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas
  Texas
  Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
  
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• Dean Corll
  Dean Corll
  Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer, also known as the "Candy Man", who, together with two youthful accomplices named David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, raped, tortured and murdered a minimum of 28 boys in a series of killings spanning from 1970 to 1973 in Houston, Texas...
  
  , Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks – committed the Houston Mass Murders in the 1970s.
• Genene Jones
  Genene Jones
  Genene Anne Jones is a former pediatric nurse who killed somewhere between 11 and 46 infants and children in her care. She used injections of digoxin, heparin and later succinylcholine to induce medical crises in her patients, with the intention of reviving them afterward in order to receive...
  
   – Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care. Convicted of only one murder but suspected of 10 or more others.

Northeast

• Michael Milken
  Michael Milken
  Michael Robert Milken is an American business magnate, financier, and philanthropist noted for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds during the 1970s and 1980s, for his 1990 guilty plea to felony charges for violating US securities laws, and for his funding of medical...
  
  
• Dennis Levine
  Dennis Levine
  Dennis B. Levine was a prominent player in merger and acquisition business and the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the mid-1980s...
  
  
• Ivan Boesky
  Ivan Boesky
  Ivan Frederick Boesky is an American stock trader who is notable for his prominent role in a Wall Street insider trading scandal that occurred in the United States in the mid-1980s.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Joseph Nacchio
  Joseph Nacchio
  Joseph P. Nacchio , was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International from 1997 to 2002. He was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007. On July 27, 2007, he was sentenced to six years in federal prison...
  
  
• Jeffrey Skilling
  Jeffrey Skilling
  Jeffrey Keith "Jeff" Skilling is the former president of Enron Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas. In 2006 he was convicted of multiple federal felony charges relating to Enron's financial collapse, and is currently serving a 24-year, four-month prison sentence at the Federal...
  
  
• Roger Blackwell
  Roger Blackwell
  Roger Blackwell is an American recognized marketing expert and public speaker. He has a reputation throughout that country.He has written several books on marketing including Consumer Behavior , From Mind to Market : Reinventing the Retail Supply Chain and Customers Rule! .Blackwell was a...
  
  
• Martha Stewart
  Martha Stewart
  Martha Stewart is an American business magnate, author, magazine publisher, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, and merchandising...
  
  
• Eugene Plotkin
  Eugene Plotkin
  Eugene Plotkin, formerly a research analyst at Goldman Sachs, was convicted of insider trading, and sentenced on January 4, 2008 to 57 months in jail. He was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and to forfeit up to $6.7 million, the amount of the scheme's illegal profits...
  
  
• Troy Eid
• Samuel D. Waksal
  Samuel D. Waksal
  Samuel D. Waksal is the founder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems, which developed the drug Erbitux...
  
  

See also

• List of serial killers by country
• List of United Kingdom criminals