A serial killer

Serial killer

A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

 is a person who murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

s two or more people, in two or more separate events over a period of time, for primarily psychological reasons. There are gaps of time between the killings, which may range from a few hours to many years. This list shows serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of victims (list of serial killers by victim before 1900). In many cases, the exact number of victims assigned to a serial killer is not known, and even if that person is convicted of a few, there can be the possibility that he/she killed many more.

Due to the complex nature of serial killers, their crimes, discrepancies caused by geographic location and/or time, and the investigations related to these persons results in difficulties in organization and ranking. To address this, multiple categories have been provided in order to more accurately describe the nature of certain serial murder. This is not a reflection of an individuals overall rank which may or may not vary depending on personal opinion concerning the nature and circumstances of their crimes.

The fourth column in the table states the number of victims definitely assigned to that particular serial killer, and thus the table is in order of that figure. The fifth column states the number of possible victims the killer could have murdered. Some of these crimes are unsolved, but were included because they are the work of a serial killer, despite nobody being caught.

Serial killers

This part of the list contains all serial killers with at least 15 proven victims that acted alone and were neither medical professionals nor contract killers.

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Notes
Luis Alfredo Garavito Luis Garavito Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, aka "La Bestia" or "Tribilín" is a Colombian rapist and serial killer. In 1999, he admitted to the rape and murder of 140 young boys...		1990s			Child-murderer, torture-killer, and rapist known as "La Bestia" ("The Beast"). Convicted of killing 138 victims but suspected of murdering over 400 victims, mostly street children. Sentenced to 1,853 years but could only be imprisoned for 30 which was reduced to 22 after aiding investigators.
Pedro Alonso López	, Peru Peru Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.... , Ecuador Ecuador Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...	1969 to 1980			Child-murderer and rapist, known as "The Monster of the Andes". Targeted young girls, between the ages of 8 and 12. Arrested in 1980 and convicted in 1983 of killing 110 young girls but confessed to killing 300, exact total unknown. Though he may be the most prolific serial killer of the 20th century, he was released in 1998 after it was declared he had been rehabilitated. Current whereabouts unknown.
Daniel Barbosa Daniel Barbosa Daniel Camargo Barbosa was a psychopathic serial killer from Colombia, South America. It is believed that he raped and killed over 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s.-Early life:...	, Ecuador Ecuador Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...	1974 to 1986			Child-murderer, believed to have possibly raped and killed over 150 victims, primarily young virgin girls. Confessed to killing 72 victims and incarcerated with Pedro Alonso Lopez. Considered to be intelligent and believed to have been motivated to kill from his stepmother abusing him as a child. He strangled young girls in Colombia and was arrested, but he escaped from prison and he started killing in Ecuador; rearrested in 1989, he was killed in jail.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho Pedro Rodrigues Filho Pedro Rodrigues Filho is a Brazilian serial killer. Nicknamed Pedrinho Matador and arrested in 1973, in 2003 he was convicted of murdering at least 71 people and sentenced to 128 years in prison.He has claimed over 100 victims, 47 of them prison inmates; he killed for "personal pleasure"...		1967 to 2003			Convicted and sentenced to 128 years, but the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years. He has claimed to have killed over 100 victims, 47 of them inmates. He also killed his father and ate a piece of his heart. He killed his first two victims at the age of 14; he was first arrested in 1973.
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...		1982 to 2000	71	71–90+	Truck painter who confessed to killing 71 women. The United States' most prolific serial killer; also known as The Green River Killer. He almost exclusively targeted escorts from Seattle. Once there, he would proposition a prostitute, drive to the banks of the Green River, and strangle her to death. After murdering his victim he would dump her body near the nearby water. Suspected of killing over 90 victims, confessed to 71, convicted of 49.
Yang Xinhai Yang Xinhai Yang Xinhai , also known as Wang Ganggang, Yang Zhiya, and Yang Liu, was a Chinese serial killer who confessed to committing 65 murders and 23 rapes between 1999 and 2003, and was sentenced to death and executed for 67. He was dubbed the "Monster Killer" by the media...		2000 to 2003	67	67	Would enter victims' homes at night and kill everyone with axes, meat cleavers, hammers, and shovels. Executed in February 2004. Known as the "Monster Killer".
Andrei Chikatilo Andrei Chikatilo Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper or The Rostov Ripper who murdered a minimum of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990...	/Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...	1978 to 1990	53	56	Known as Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper or The Rostov Ripper. Convicted of the murder of 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990. Executed in 1994. Three people were previously convicted and executed for his crimes.
Anatoly Onoprienko Anatoly Onoprienko Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko is a Ukrainian serial killer. He is also known by the nicknames "The Beast of Ukraine", "The Terminator" and "Citizen O"...	/Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...	1989 to 1996	52	52+	Known as "The Beast of Ukraine", "The Terminator" and "Citizen O". Convicted of the murders of 9 people in 1989 and 43 people in 1995–1996. Sentenced to death, later commuted to life. Traveled through Europe illegally from 1990 to 1995; whether he killed during this time is unknown.
Alexander Pichushkin Alexander Pichushkin Alexander Yuryevich "Sasha" Pichushkin , also known as The Chessboard Killer and The Bitsa Park Maniac, is a Russian serial killer...		1992 to 2006	48	61+	Known as the Chessboard Killer. Convicted of murdering 48 victims and suspected of killing 61. Claimed to have murdered 63 people out of his goal of 64 to fill a chessboard; stated goal of becoming Russia's most prolific serial killer.
Ahmad Suradji Ahmad Suradji Ahmad Suradji was a serial killer in Indonesia. Suradji, a cattle-breeder born on 10 January 1949, was executed July 10, 2008. He was also known as Nasib Kelewang, or by his alias Datuk. He admitted to killing 42 girls and women over a period of 11 years...		1986 to 1997	42	70–80+	Convicted of strangling at least 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings he believed would give him magical powers. Executed by firing squad on 11 July 2008.
Moses Sithole Moses Sithole Moses Sithole is a South African serial killer who committed the "ABC Murders", so named because they began in Atteridgeville, continued in Boksburg and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg.-Early life:...		1994 to 1995	38	38+	Preyed on unemployed women, posing as a businessman and luring his victims with the prospects of a job, before leading them to an isolated place, where he raped, tortured, and murdered them. Sentenced to 2410 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 930 years. Known as South Africa's Ted Bundy.
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...		1974 to 1978	37	50+	America's first "post-modern" serial killer due to his charisma and good looks. Estimated that he may have killed more than 50 people or up to 100. Infamous for escaping from prison twice and murdering multiple victims in one day; sometimes abducting women from the same location within hours of one another. He was executed in the electric chair in 1989.
Serhiy Tkach Serhiy Tkach Serhiy Tkach is a former Ukrainian police criminal investigator, originally from Russia, and a convicted serial killer who claimed to have killed 100 people. He suffocated girls aged between eight and 18 and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead...	/Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...	1984 to 2005	36	80–100	A former Ukrainian police criminal investigator, suffocated girls aged between 8 and 18 and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead. Claims to have killed 100.
Gennady Mikhasevich Gennady Mikhasevich Gennady Modestovich Mikhasevich was a Soviet serial killer. He murdered 36 women during the period from 1971 to 1985 in Vitebsk, Polotsk and the rural areas in the nearby regions of the Byelorussian SSR.- Biography :...		1971 to 1985	36	38–43	Strangled females.
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...		1972 to 1978	33	33	The "Killer Clown" who primarily preyed on young men and frequently raped his victims. He buried them under his Chicago home. Executed in 1994.
Vera Renczi Vera Renczi Vera Renczi was a Romanian serial killer who poisoned 35 individuals including her husbands, lovers and one son with arsenic during the 1920s and 1930s.-Early life:...		1920 to 1930	32	35	Convicted of killing 35 men through arsenic Arsenic Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As, atomic number 33 and relative atomic mass 74.92. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in conjunction with sulfur and metals, and also as a pure elemental crystal. It was first documented by Albertus Magnus in 1250.Arsenic is a metalloid...  poisoning but confessed to only killing 32 victims.
Karl Denke Karl Denke Karl Denke was a serial killer from Germany.Denke was born in Münsterberg, Silesia in the Kingdom of Prussia...	German Reich	1900 to 1924	31	40+	Cannibal mainly targeting travellers, probably striking them with an axe.
Maoupa Cedric Maake Cedric maake Maoupa Cedric Maake is a serial killer from South Africa. He committed at least 27 murders throughout 1996 and 1997.- Crimes :...		1996 to 1997	27	35+	Known as the "Wemmer Pan Killer" and "Hammer Killer". He killed his victims with guns, rocks a knife and a hammer; the authorities attributed the murders to two serial killer because of the Modus Operandi. In some cases he killed his victims with a rock, in others he shot them, and in others he murdered tailors with a hammer. Maake was arrested after Moses Sithole Moses Sithole Moses Sithole is a South African serial killer who committed the "ABC Murders", so named because they began in Atteridgeville, continued in Boksburg and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg.-Early life:...  was found guilty of 38 killings and sentenced to 27 life sentences and 1159 years which amounted to 1,340 years all together.
Juan Vallejo 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...		1971	25	25+	Corona was convicted of murdering ranch laborers and burying them in orchards. He was sentenced to 25 terms of life imprisonment.
Fritz Haarmann Fritz Haarmann Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann , also known as the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover was a German serial killer who is believed to have been responsible for the murder of 27 boys and young men between 1918 and 1924...		1919 to 1924	24	27+	Also known as the Butcher of Hannover and the Vampire of Hannover, because of his preferred method of killing by biting through his victim's throat, sometimes while sodomizing them. He would then dump the bodies in the nearby river Leine. Is believed to have been responsible for the murder of 27 boys and young men. He was convicted, found guilty of 24 murders and executed.
Béla Kiss Béla Kiss Béla Kiss was a Hungarian serial killer. He is thought to have murdered at least 24 young women and attempted to pickle them in giant metal drums that he kept on his property.-Life:...		1912 to 1916	24	24+	Convicted after the bodies of 24 women were found in his home. Escaped from prison in 1916. Fate unknown
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...		1997 to 2006	23	23+	Known locally as the Bayou Strangler and murdered victims in the Terrebonne Parish Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana Terrebonne Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Houma. Its population was 111,860... , Lafourche Parish, Iberville Parish and Jefferson Parish.
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...		1926 to 1927	22	25	Necrophiliac who targeted and strangled landladies throughout the West Coast during 1926; he was hanged on January 1928; also known as "Gorilla Killer" or "the Dark Strangler".
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...		1979 to 1980	21	36+	One of the Freeway Killer Freeway Killer The Freeway Killer was a nickname given by the media—and later police forces—to what they believed was a single serial killer claiming victims in California, USA, during the 1970s and often dumping the victims along the freeways... s. Executed in 1996.
Vasile Tcaciuc		1917 to 1935	21	26+	Romanian man who lured victims and then murdered them with an axe; he was arrested after a dog found a dead body in his house on 7 September 1935. He confessed to have committed at least 26 murders. He was shot dead by a policeman while trying to escape from prison.
Yoo Young-chul Yoo Young-Chul Yoo Young-chul is a South Korean serial killer and self-confessed cannibal. Although he admitted to murdering 21 people, mostly prostitutes and wealthy old men, the Seoul Central District Court convicted him of 20 murders . Yoo burned three and mutilated at least 11 of his victims, admitting he...		2003 to 2004	21	26	Used a hammer to murder mostly older victims, until his focus shifted to the decapitation and mutilation of escorts after being dumped by a girlfriend who worked in that profession.
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...		1965 to 1977	21	28	Would pick up young male hitch-hikers or young men from gay bars near Redondo Beach, California, and kill them.
Sergei Ryakhovsky Sergei Ryakhovsky Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky a.k.a. The Hippopotamus, The Balashikha Ripper was a Soviet serial killer and rapist who between 1988 and 1993 killed in and around Moscow at least 19 people aged 14 to 78 years including 12 women, five men and two boys...	/Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	1988 to 1993	19+		Known as the Balashikha Ripper.
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:...		1974	18	35	Killed 18 people in various states in 1974. Claimed 35 murders. Known as the "Casanova Killer"; shot dead by FBI agents.
Huang Yong Huang Yong Huang Yong was a Chinese serial killer accused of murdering 17 teenage boys between September 2001 and 2003....			17	25	Lured and murdered 17 teenage boys, although he is suspected of 25 murders between September 2001 and 2003.
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...		1989 to 1993	17	17
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...		1978 to 1991	17	17	Dahmer ate some of his victims and kept their body parts in his freezer. Was sentenced to life imprisonment; murdered in prison in 1994.
Donato Bilancia Donato Bilancia Donato "Walter" Bilancia is a serial killer who murdered 17 people – nine women and eight men – on the Italian Riviera in the seven months from October, 1997 to May, 1998. He was sentenced to 13 terms of life imprisonment, with no possibility of release.-Background:Bilancia was born in Potenza, in...		1997 to 1998	17	17	Burglar who murdered 17 people, mainly prostitutes, between 1997 and 1998, during six months. Known as the "Prostitutes Killer" and the "Liguria Monster". Sentenced to life.
Vladimir Kondratenko Nighttime Killers The Nighttime Killers is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Kiev, Ukraine between 1991 and 1997. Two men, Vladyslav Volkovich and Volodymyr Kondratenko were arrested and charged with 16 murders...			16	20+	Kondratenko and his friend Vladislav Volkovich, dubbed the Nighttime Killers, shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned 35– to 40-year-old male victims.
Randy Steven Kraft Randy Steven Kraft Randy Steven Kraft is an American serial killer. He was convicted of 16 murders and is strongly suspected of committing at least 51 others.-Early life:...		1969 to 1983	16	65–100	Convicted on 16 counts of murder but left a cryptic list of 65 murders. May have had an accomplice.
Mohammed Bijeh Mohammed Bijeh Mohammed Bijeh was an Iranian serial killer. He confessed in court to raping and killing 16 young boys between March and September 2004, and was sentenced to 100 lashes followed by execution. All the boys were between 8 and 15 years old...		2004	16	20	Raped and killed at least 16 boys and teenagers. Nicknamed the "Tehran Desert Vampire." Was convicted and executed after being lashed in front of a crowd in 2005.
Sipho Agmatir Thwala Sipho Thwala Sipho Mandla Agmatir Thwala is a South African rapist and serial killer who was convicted in 1999 for the murders of 16 women and 10 rapes and was sentenced to 506 years in prison. Thwala was known by the moniker "The Phoenix Strangler"....		1996 to 1997	16	19	Nicknamed the Phoenix Strangler after the area in which he committed his crimes; he raped and strangled 19 females; arrested, he was found guilty of 16 murders.
Elias Xitavhudzi Elias Xitavhudzi Elias Xitavhudzi was a serial killer who murdered 16 men and women in Atteridgeville, South Africa in the 1950s. Targeting only white males and females in a strictly-segregated community, his killing spree caused a local sensation during the peak years of South Africa's apartheid regime.Prior to...			16	16	Nicknamed Panga man for his use of a machete Machete The machete is a large cleaver-like cutting tool. The blade is typically long and usually under thick. In the English language, an equivalent term is matchet, though it is less commonly known...  (locally known as a "panga"). He stabbed and robbed his victims between 1953 and 1959; arrested, he was hanged on 14 November 1960.
Jimmy Maketta Jimmy Maketta Jimmy Maketta is a South African rapist and serial killer who in 2007 plead guilty and was convicted on 16 counts of murder, 19 counts of rape. A state psychologist described him as a psychopath....			16	16	Pleaded guilty to and convicted of 16 murders and 19 rapes committed over a nine-month period in 2005.
Jack Mogale Jack Mogale Jack Mogale dubbed the West-End serial killer by police is a South African serial killer who killed 16 people in 2008 and 2009. On 17 February 2011, Mogale was convicted on 52 of 61 charges related to 16 murders, 19 rapes and nine kidnappings.Mogale committed his crimes near his residence in...			16	16	Raped and strangled females in the Donnybrook Donnybrook Donnybrook may refer to:Placenames* Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland** site of the original Donnybrook Fair***donnybrook is a brawl - named for the fair** Donnybrook Stadium, Ireland, a rugby union stadium...  area.
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...		1975 to 1998	16	16	Killed prostitutes in the "Skid Row" area of E. Sprague Avenue in Spokane, Washington.
The Monster of Florence The Monster of Florence The Monster of Florence: A True Story is a 2008 true crime book by American thriller writer Douglas Preston and Italian journalist Mario Spezi...		1968 to 1985	16		Pietro Pacciani was convicted of the murders in 1994, but the decision was controversially overturned in appeal. However this last decision was overturned by the Supreme Court which order a re-trial. This couldn't be held as Pacciani died in 1998. Two of his alleged accomplices were also convicted.
Charles Ray Hatcher Charles Ray Hatcher Charles Ray Hatcher , was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 16 people between 1969 and 1982.-Childhood and youth:...		1969 to 1982	16
Jack Mogale Jack Mogale Jack Mogale dubbed the West-End serial killer by police is a South African serial killer who killed 16 people in 2008 and 2009. On 17 February 2011, Mogale was convicted on 52 of 61 charges related to 16 murders, 19 rapes and nine kidnappings.Mogale committed his crimes near his residence in...		2008 to 2009	16		Convicted of 16 murders and 19 rapes, nine kidnappings, robbery and assault.
Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega José Antonio Rodríguez Vega , nicknamed El Mataviejas , was a Spanish serial killer who raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, ranging in age from 61 to 93 years old, in and around Santander, Cantabria, between August 1987 and April 1988.-Biography:Rodríguez Vega was born in Santander,...		1987 to 1988	16		Nicknamed El Mataviejas (The Old Lady Killer), he raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, ranging in age from 61 to 93 years old, in and around Santander, Cantabria.
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...		1980 to 1983	15	21	Prostitutes he kidnapped were released into the Alaskan wilderness for him to hunt down like animals. Based on discovered remains, police suspect him of six murders in addition to the 15 for which he was convicted.
Angel Maturino Resendiz 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...			15	18	Known as the "Railroad Killer" because his killings were committed near the railroad tracks he used to traverse the country. He was charged with and/or confessed to 15 murders occurring from 1986 to 1999 in Texas, Florida, Illinois, Georgia, and Kentucky. He was also suspected in a 1997 California murder case and claimed two additional killings he refused to elaborate on.
Dennis Nilsen Dennis Nilsen Dennis Andrew Nilsen also known as the Muswell Hill Murderer and the Kindly Killer is a British serial killer who lived in London....		1978 to 1983	15	15–16	Picked up young men in London between 1978 and 1982 and dismembered them, keeping various body parts around his home.
Elifasi Msomi Elifasi Msomi Elifasi Msomi a.k.a. The Axe Killer is a South African serial killer who was convicted in 1955 of 15 murders and sentenced to death by hanging. His victims all came from the Umkomaas and Umzimkulu valleys of KwaZulu-Natal....			15	15	He killed his victims with an axe or a knife in the 1950s; hanged in 1956.

Serial killers with fewer than 15 victims

This part of the list contains all serial killers with less than 15 proven victims that acted alone and were neither medical professionals nor contract killers.
Name

Country	Years active	Proven victims*	Possible victims	Miscellaneous information
Vampire of Silesia			14	21+	Killed 14 women in 1964–1970 in Poland's region of Upper Silesia Upper Silesia Upper Silesia is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of Greater Moravia, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Piast Kingdom of Poland, again of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the Holy Roman Empire, as well as of... . Zdzisław Marchwicki (executed in 1977) was most likely the man responsible for the killings; however, his guilt remains in dispute.
Arthur Shawcross Arthur Shawcross Arthur John Shawcross was an American serial killer, also known as The Genesee River Killer in Rochester, New York...		1972 to 1989	14	14	After being arrested in 1972 for the rape and murder of two children, he was able to plead down to a sentence for manslaughter. After 14½ years of incarceration, he began targeting prostitutes. Strangled and battered his victims. Known as the "Genesee River Killer," "Genesee River Strangler," "Rochester Strangler," and "Monster of the Rivers."
Cleveland Torso Murderer Cleveland Torso Murderer The Cleveland Torso Murderer was an unidentified serial killer who killed and dismembered at least 12 victims in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the 1930s.-Murderers:...		1934 to 1938	13	40+	Unidentified serial killer, also known as The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run Cleveland Torso Murderer The Cleveland Torso Murderer was an unidentified serial killer who killed and dismembered at least 12 victims in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the 1930s.-Murderers:... , who targeted drifters and derelicts, of whom only two were identified, between 1934 and 1938 in Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border... , Ohio.
Kaspars Petrovs Kaspars Petrovs Kaspars Petrovs is a Latvian national, and a convicted serial killer. He was convicted of the murder of thirteen elderly women by the Riga Regional Court on May 12, 2005 and sentenced to life in prison....		2003	13	38+	Confessed to strangling 38 elderly residents of Riga, Latvia, in 2003. Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the robbery and murder of 13.
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...		1984 to 1985	13	20	Killed 13 people between June 28, 1984, and August 24, 1985, in Los Angeles. Known as the "Night Stalker."
Peter Sutcliffe Peter Sutcliffe Peter William Sutcliffe is a British serial killer who was dubbed "The Yorkshire Ripper". In 1981 Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attacking seven others. He is currently serving 20 sentences of life imprisonment in Broadmoor Hospital...		1975 to 1980	13	15	Killed 13 women between October 30, 1975, and November 17, 1980, mainly in Yorkshire. Was known as the "Yorkshire Ripper."
Herbert Mullin Herbert Mullin Herbert Williams Mullin is a serial killer who committed 13 murders in California in the early 1970s.- Childhood and youth :...			13	13	Despite detailed confessions, prosecutors decided not to try him for the first three crimes, instead focusing on crimes that conflicted with his insanity plea.
Boston Strangler Boston Strangler The Boston Strangler is a name attributed to the murderer of several women in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in the early 1960s. Though the crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo, investigators of the case have since suggested the murders were not committed by one person.-First Stage...		1962 to 1964	13		Although 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...  was widely thought to be the Boston Strangler, police and others analysing the case have long doubted the truth of his confession.
Vasiliy Kulik Vasiliy Kulik Vasiliy Kulik was a Soviet serial killer responsible for the murders of 13 people in Irkutsk between 1984 and 1986.-Early life:...		1984 to 1986	13		Known as the Irkutsk Monster.
Thozamile Taki Thozamile Taki Thozamile Taki also known as the Sugarcane Killer is a South African serial killer who killed 13 women aged 18–25, dumping their bodies in agricultural plantations...		2007	13		Known as the "Sugar cane serial killer".
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:...			12	22	County store clerk who raped, stabbed, strangled, and sometimes mutilated 12 or more prostitutes in Riverside County. Known as the "Riverside Prostitute Killer" and the "Lake Elsinore Killer".
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...		2000 to 2002	12	17	Killed prostitutes in the St. Louis area from 2000 to 2002. Caught when he mailed an Expedia.com map showing where to find a body to a St. Louis newspaper. Committed suicide in prison.
Kenneth Alessio Bianchi		1977 to 1978	12	15	Convicted of strangling twelve females between ages 12 and 28 and suspected in another three cases. One of the "Hillside Stranglers".
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...			11–16	25+	Strangled gay men and buried their bodies in his backyard in Indiana and Ohio; 11 men were found in the yard but only 5 were identified. Committed suicide when faced with arrest.
Sergey Golovkin Sergey Golovkin Sergey Golovkin was a Soviet serial killer known as "The Fisher" or "The Udav" who killed and butchered 11 boys in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992....	/Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	1986 to 1992	11	40+
Jack Unterweger Jack Unterweger Johann "Jack" Unterweger was an Austrian serial killer who murdered prostitutes in several countries. First convicted of a 1974 murder, he was released in 1990 due in part to a campaign by intellectuals and politicians, who regarded Unterweger as an example of rehabilitation...	, United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... , Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....	1974 to 1992	11	15	Served 14 years in Austrian prison because of a murder in 1974; killed at least 9 prostitutes after his release. Was a small media star in Austrian media in the early 1990s and was arrested in the United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... , where he may have killed another 3 prostitutes, on behalf of Austrian police. Hanged himself in 1994 after being sentenced to life in prison.
Benjamin Atkins Benjamin Atkins Benjamin Atkins , was an American serial killer who killed 11 women in Detroit, Michigan during a period of nine months between December 1991 and August 1992. All the victims were found in vacant buildings, all were raped and strangled. Many of the victims were working as prostitutes...			11	11	Raped and strangled his victims before abandoning their bodies in vacant buildings.
John Justin Bunting		1992 to 1999	11	11	Ringleader in the Snowtown murders (aka Bodies in the Barrels Murders); sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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...		1927 and 1954	11	11	Responsible for 11 deaths between 1927 and 1954. Known as the "Giggling Nanny", the "Giggling Granny," and the "Jolly Black Widow."
Clifford Olson Clifford Olson Clifford Robert Olson, Jr. was a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering two children and nine youths in the early 1980s.-Murders:...		1980 to 1981	11	11	Considered a dangerous offender Dangerous offender In Canada and England and Wales, certain convicted persons may be designated as dangerous offenders and subject to a longer, or indefinite, term of preventive detention in order to protect the public.-Canada:... , meaning that Olson may never be released from prison. Has had three parole applications rejected. Died September 30, 2011
Henri Désiré Landru Henri Désiré Landru Henri Désiré Landru was a French serial killer and real-life "Bluebeard".-Early life:Landru was born in Paris. After leaving school, he spent four years in the French Army from 1887 – 1891. After he was discharged from service, he proceeded to have a sexual relationship with his cousin...		1914 to 1918	11	Unknown	Active 1914–1918. Beheaded.
Anthony Sowell Anthony Sowell Anthony Edward Sowell is an American serial killer, identified in press reports as the "Cleveland Strangler". He was arrested in October 2009 as a suspect in the murders of eleven women whose bodies were discovered at his Cleveland, Ohio, duplex at 12205 Imperial Avenue, located in the Mt...			11	Unknown
Francisco Garcia Escalero Francisco Garcia Escalero Francisco Garcia Escalero: was a beggar Spanish serial killer who killed 11 individuals between 1987 and 1994. Also, Escalero practiced necrophilia and cannibalism.-Biography:...		1987 to 1994	11
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...		1964 to 1973	10	10	A victim of Herbert Mullin Herbert Mullin Herbert Williams Mullin is a serial killer who committed 13 murders in California in the early 1970s.- Childhood and youth :...  was attributed to him originally.
Dennis Rader Dennis Rader Dennis Lynn Rader is an American serial killer who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County , between 1974 and 1991....		1974 to 2004	10	10	Known as the BTK Killer. Murdered ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, between 1974 and 1991.
Lonnie David Franklin, Jr.		1985 to 2007	10	11	Known as the Grim Sleeper for the alleged 14 year hiatus he took from murdering between 1988 and 2002. Shot and strangled his victims, mostly women, around South Los Angeles.
Robert Joe Wagner		1992 to 1999	10	10	Secondary ringleader in the Snowtown murders and best friend of John Justin Bunting; sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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:...			10	10	Confessed to 10 murders in Charlotte, North Carolina, between 1990 and 1994.
Angelo Buono			10	10	Convicted of strangling ten females. One of the "Hillside Stranglers."
Charlene Gallego			10	10	Killed ten victims in Sacramento, California, between 1978 and 1980 together with her husband, Gerald Gallego.
David Randitsheni David Randitsheni David Randitsheni was a South African rapist and serial killer who in 2009 was convicted on 10 counts of murder, 17 counts of rape and 18 counts of kidnapping and one count of indecent assault...		2004 to 2008	10	10+	Kidnapped 19 people, raped 17, and murdered 10 from 2004 to 2008. Sentenced to 16 consecutive life sentences plus 220 years in prison; hanged himself three weeks after conviction.
Peter Kürten Peter Kürten Peter Kürten was a German serial killer dubbed The Vampire of Düsseldorf by the contemporary media. He committed a series of sex crimes, assaults and murders against adults and children, most notoriously from February to November 1929 in Düsseldorf.-Early life:Kürten was born into a...			9	79	Charged with nine murders and seven attempted murders. Dubbed "The Vampire of Düsseldorf" by the contemporary media. Executed by guillotine Guillotine The guillotine is a device used for carrying out :executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame from which an angled blade is suspended. This blade is raised with a rope and then allowed to drop, severing the head from the body...  in 1931 (age 48).
Francis Heaulme Francis Heaulme Francis Heaulme is a French serial killer dubbed the "Criminal Backpacker". He has Klinefelter's syndrome .-Biography:...		1984 to 1992	9	20
Dagmar Overbye Dagmar Overbye Dagmar Johanne Amalie Overbye was a Danish serial killer. She murdered 25 children – of which one was her own – during a seven-year period from 1913 to 1920...		1913 to 1920	9	15	She murdered between 9 and 25 children – of which one was her own – during a seven-year period. On March 3, 1921, she was sentenced to death in one of the most talked about trials in Danish history, that changed legislation on childcare. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison. Overbye was working as a professional child caretaker, caring for babies born outside of marriage, murdering her own charges. She strangled them, drowned them or burned them to death in her masonry heater. The corpses were either cremated, buried or hidden in the loft.
Ondrej Rigo Ondrej Rigo Ondrej Rigo , is a Slovak serial killer and necrophile who targeted women in Bratislava, Munich and Amsterdam from 1990 to 1992. Currently serving a life sentence for 9 murders and 1 attempted murder in Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia, Rigo is a dissocial and schizoid psychopath while also being a...			9	9	Slovak serial killer and necrophile, who committed his murders during the early 1990s in Slovakia Slovakia The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...  and Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... . He was arrested in 1992 and received a life sentence in 1994. He remains the murderer with the biggest number of victims in the modern history of Slovakia History of Slovakia This article discusses the history of the territory of Slovakia.- Palaeolithic :Radiocarbon dating puts the oldest surviving archaeological artifacts from Slovakia - found near Nové Mesto nad Váhom - at 270,000 BCE, in the Early Paleolithic era... .
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:...			9	9	Confessed to killing nine women, five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Thomas Quick Thomas Quick Thomas Quick is a convicted Swedish serial killer who has confessed to more than 30 murders, although he has only eight convictions, two of which have been overturned...			8	30+	Raped and murdered up to 30 men. Several scholars, however, have questioned if he killed anyone. As of 2008 he has withdrawn the confessions and intends to appeal.
Norman Afzal Simons Norman Afzal Simons Norman Avzal Simons, also known as the "Station Strangler", is a South African rapist and serial killer who was convicted in 1995 on one count of murder and one count of kidnapping Elroy van Rooy, age 10...	South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...	1986 to 1994	9	22	Station Strangler, convicted of only one of 22 cases of murder and sodomy of young children near Cape Town Cape Town Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality... .
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....			8–15	20	Confessed to 20 murders and several attempted murders. Still awaiting trial for most of these crimes.
Peter Manuel Peter Manuel Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel was a United States-born Scottish serial killer who is known to have murdered nine people across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and his arrest in January 1958, although he is suspected of having killed as many as eighteen...			8	18	A USA-born Scottish burglar and serial killer who is known to have killed eight people across Lanarkshire Lanarkshire Lanarkshire or the County of Lanark ) is a Lieutenancy area, registration county and former local government county in the central Lowlands of Scotland...  between 1956 and 1958 but was believed to have killed up to eighteen. Manuel was the third-last prisoner to be hung in Scotland.
Christopher Wilder Christopher Wilder Christopher Bernard Wilder was a serial killer who abducted and raped at least ten women and killed at least eight of them during a spree across the United States in early 1984...			8	13+	Killed eight women during a spree in April 1984 before accidentally killing himself; suspected in the disappearance and murder of more than 5 more.
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:...			8	9	From 1996 to 1998, he admitted to killing eight prostitutes in Poughkeepsie, New York, but denies involvement with the disappearance of a ninth prostitute.
Eric Edgar Cooke Eric Edgar Cooke Eric Edgar Cooke nicknamed The Night Caller was an Australian serial killer. From 1959 to 1963, he terrorised the city of Perth, Western Australia, by committing 22 violent crimes, eight of which resulted in deaths....			8	8	Nicknamed "The Night Caller", he terrorized the city of Perth from 1959 to 1963 by assaulting 22 people at random with various means, killing eight of them. Hanged on October 26, 1964.
Michael Bruce Ross			8	8	Ross confessed to all of the murders, and was convicted of four of them. He was executed by the state of 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...  on May 13, 2005 by lethal injection Lethal injection Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide... , making it the first execution in Connecticut and the whole of New England since 1960.
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...			8	8	She suffocated her sons during the 1970s.
Sean Vincent Gillis Sean Vincent Gillis -Louisiana's "Other" Serial Killer:Sean Vincent Gillis is a convicted serial killer that stalked, kidnapped, raped, murdered, and mutilated eight Louisiana women between 1994 and 2003 in the Baton Rouge Metro and surrounding areas. He was arrested without incident at his residence on Burgin Road...		1994 to 2004	8		Gillis kidnapped, raped, and mutilated the corpses of his victims. Between 1994 and 2003, he was killing Louisiana women at the same time as Derrick Todd Lee Derrick Todd Lee Derrick Todd Lee is a convicted serial killer, nicknamed the Baton Rouge Serial Killer.... , though neither the public nor law enforcement were aware that there was a possible serial killer on the loose. In the end, tire tracks – from a unique brand of tire – at the scene where Donna Bennett Johnston were found ended his career as a serial killer. He was arrested without incident at home on April 29, 2004 and currently resides in Louisiana State Penitentiary Louisiana State Penitentiary The Louisiana State Penitentiary is a prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is the largest maximum security prison in the United States with 5,000 offenders and 1,800 staff...  at Angola Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...  serving life in prison without the possibility of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. In August 2008, in the penalty phase of his first-degree murder trial, the jury was deadlocked over whether to sentence him to death or life for his crimes. The deadlock meant he was given an automatic life sentence. It was, however, a death sentence of sorts since Louisiana is the only state that does not have parole for lifers; Gillis will die in prison. He was so good at hiding his secret life and covering his tracks, his live-in girlfriend of 8 years, Terri Lemoine had no idea of what Gillis was doing until the day police came to arrest him.
Ivan Milat		1990s	7	23–37	Convicted of the Backpacker murders Backpacker murders The Backpacker Murders is a name given to serial killings that occurred in New South Wales, Australia during the 1990s. The bodies of seven missing young people aged 19 to 22 were discovered partly buried in the Belanglo State Forest, south west of the New South Wales town of Berrima... ; sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences plus 18 years without the possibility of parole. May have had accomplices.
Derrick Todd Lee Derrick Todd Lee Derrick Todd Lee is a convicted serial killer, nicknamed the Baton Rouge Serial Killer....			7	10	Known as the "Baton Rouge or South Louisiana Serial Killer" convicted of three murders, sentenced to death by lethal injection. Believed to have murdered several other women in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
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"...			7	8+	Boiler operator who killed prostitutes in Los Angeles during 1980. One of the "Sunset Strip Killers".
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...		1997	7	7	Reid killed the employees of restaurants he targeted for a series of robberies.
John Wayne Glover John Wayne Glover John Wayne Glover was a British-born Australian serial killer convicted for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore....			6	13	British ex-pat living in Australia. Known by the media as "The Granny Killer" as he targeted elderly women; committed suicide in 2005.
Aileen Carol 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...		1989 to 1990	6	8+	Killed strangers, all men, along Florida highways over 13 months while working as a prostitute.
Jack the Stripper Jack the Stripper Jack the Stripper was the nickname given to an unknown serial killer responsible for what came to be known as the London "nude murders" between 1964 and 1965 ....		1964 to 1965	6	8	Murdered at least six prostitutes in London and may have been responsible for the deaths of two others before that. Remains unidentified.
James Miller Truro murders The Truro murders is the name given to a series of murders uncovered with the discovery in 1978 and 1979 of the remains of two young women in bushland near the town of Truro, South Australia. After police searches, the remains of seven women were discovered in total: five at Truro, one at...			6	7	Sentenced to six consecutive terms of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 35 years. Died of cancer in 2008.
Giovanna Bonanno Giovanna Bonanno Giovanna Bonanno was an alleged Italian witch and professional poisoner.Little is known of Giovanna Bonanno's early life, though she is believed to have been the same woman as Anna Panto, mentioned in 1744 as the wife of one Vincenzo Bonanno. She was a beggar in Palermo, Sicily in the reign of...		1600s	6	6+
Richard Trenton 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...			6	6	The "Vampire of Sacramento", he was convicted of six murders. In addition to killing his victims, he often raped the women's bodies and drank their blood, or took their organs home and ate them.
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...			6	6	The "Son of Sam", he would shoot couples in their cars, killing six and wounding seven.
Aleksandr Rubel Aleksandr Rubel Aleksandr Rubel is a serial killer convicted of six murders in Tallinn, Estonia. Sentenced as a minor to the maximum punishment allowed by law — eight years of imprisonment — he was released from Tartu Prison on 8 June 2006.-Murders:Rubel, a solvent abuser, was intoxicated in...			6	6	He was intoxicated on gasoline vapour during his murders. Sentenced as a minor to the maximum punishment allowed by law — eight years imprisonment — he was released on 8 June 2006.
András Pándy András Pándy András Pándy is a convicted Belgian serial killer of Hungarian origin. He is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of his two wives and four children, after he was arrested when his daughter, Ágnes, with whom he had a long-standing incestuous relationship, confessed to being involved in...			6	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002.
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....		1983–1987	6	6	Killed street women, usually addicts, prostitutes and runaways where he would tie them, rape and kill them in a forest.
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...		1915 to 1929	5	22	From 1920 to 1928, he claimed in a posthumous autobiography to have committed over 22 killings, and sodomy of more than 1,000 young men. Hanged on September 5, 1930.
Gary C. Evans		1985 to 1998	5–8		Murdered eight victims. Met and befriended the Son of Sam killer while incarcerated. Released in 1984, proceeded to burgralize and kill while in and out of jails over 13 years. Aided investigators in a high profile murder case before dodging parole and being chased. The manhunt finally ended when he jumped to his death off a bridge.
Richard Cottingham Richard Cottingham Richard Francis Cottingham is a serial killer from New Jersey operating in New York between 1967 and 1980. He was nicknamed 'the torso killer', due to his habit of dismembering his victims, usually leaving nothing but a torso behind. In one case, he dismembered two prostitutes in a motel room,...		1977 to 1980	5	85–100	Killer operating in New York and New Jersey who often targeted prostitutes and utilized mutilation as well as dismemberment in his killings. Known as the "Torso Killer", convicted of five murders. He made claims of victim count as up to a hundred, however, there was no evidence to support this and is considered unsubstantiated.
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...			5	5–20	Bootlegger who is said to have been responsible for up to 20 deaths in South Texas between 1936 and 1938. Known as the "Alligator Man", the "Butcher of Elmendorf" and the "Bluebeard of South Texas".
John Floyd Thomas John Floyd Thomas, Jr. John Floyd Thomas, Jr. is an American serial killer convicted of the murders of seven women in the Los Angeles area during the 1970s and 1980s, and suspected by police of 10 to 15 more.-Early life:...			5	17–25	Murderer and serial killer suspect.
William Patrick Fyfe William Patrick Fyfe William Patrick Fyfe is a Canadian serial killer convicted of killing five women in the Montreal area of Quebec, although he claims to have killed four others. He allegedly killed his first victim in 1979 at age of 24.-Early life:...			5	9	Convicted of killing five women in the Montreal area of Quebec, although he claims to have killed four others. Serving a life sentence in West Canada.
David Maust			5	9	Killed teenage boys; caught when bodies of three boys were found in the concrete floor of his basement in Hammond, Indiana. Committed suicide in prison in 2006.
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...			5	8	Known as the "Gainesville Ripper"; murdered five students in August 1990. Executed on October 6, 2006.
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...			5	6	The Brooklyn Strangler.
Steve Wright Steve Wright (serial killer) Steven Gerald James Wright is an English serial killer, also known as the Suffolk Strangler. He is currently serving life imprisonment for the murder of five women who worked as prostitutes in Ipswich, Suffolk...			5	5–22	Referred to as "Suffolk murders", "Ipswich murders", "Ipswich Ripper", "Suffolk Ripper", "Suffolk Strangler", "East Anglia Ripper", "Red Light Ripper" and "the Suffolkator". Murdered Ipswich 2006 serial murders The Ipswich serial murders took place between 30 October and 10 December 2006 when the bodies of five murdered women were discovered at different locations near Ipswich, Suffolk, England. All the victims were women who worked as prostitutes in the Ipswich area. Their bodies were discovered naked,...  five prostitutes, all of whom worked in Ipswich Ipswich Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...  in 2006. There are possible links to previous Suffolk Suffolk Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...  prostitute killings.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley			5	5+	The "Moors Murderers Moors murders The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now Greater Manchester, England. The victims were five children aged between 10 and 17—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans—at least... ". Abducted children in northern England. They were found guilty of two and three murders respectively.
Caroline Grills Caroline Grills Caroline Grills, born Caroline Mickelson , was an Australian serial killer.Grills became a suspect in 1947 after the deaths of four family members: her 87-year-old stepmother Christine Mickelson; relatives by marriage Angelina Thomas and John Lundberg; and sister in law Mary Anne Mickelson...			5	5	Poisoned five family members with thallium hidden in tea and scones she had given them in Sydney between 1947 and 1953. Sentenced to five consecutive life sentences; died from peritonitis on October 6, 1960.
William MacDonald William MacDonald (serial killer) William "The Mutilator" MacDonald was classed as Australia's first true serial murderer. MacDonald was born in Liverpool, England, in 1924. Between June 1961 and April 1963, MacDonald terrorised Sydney with a string of gruesome murders....			5	5	Murdered derelicts in Sydney and Brisbane between 1960 and 1962; sentenced to five consecutive life sentences.
Marc Dutroux Marc Dutroux Marc Dutroux is a Belgian serial killer and child molester, convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 and 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein,...			5	5	Serial killer convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 and 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered; also tortured and murdered his accomplice, Bernard Weinstein.
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...			5	5	Murdered five people including 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,...  between April 1997 and July 1997 ending with his suicide.
Harry Powers Harry Powers Harry F. Powers , also known as Cornelius O. Pierson and A. R. Weaver, was a convicted serial killer who was hanged in Clarksburg, West Virginia, in 1932. He lured his victims through "Lonely Hearts" ads saying he was looking for love, but in reality intended to take his victims' money and then...			5	2	Lonely hearts swindler and conman. Killed two women and three children in Quiet Dell, West Virginia Quiet Dell, West Virginia Quiet Dell is an unincorporated community in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. Quiet Dell is located at the junction of Interstate 79 and West Virginia Route 20 southeast of Clarksburg.... . Arrested 1931 after bodies of victims found buried near his garage. Hanged March 28, 1932.
Leonard Fraser Leonard Fraser Leonard John Fraser also known as "The Rockhampton Rapist" was an Australian convicted serial killer.- Crimes :...			4	7	Serial rapist and pedophile who murdered four women in Rockhampton between 1998–1999. Sentenced to five consecutive life sentences plus 25 years without the possibility of parole; died in prison of a heart attack on January 1, 2007.
Jozef Slovák Jozef Slovák Jozef Slovák is a Slovak serial killer who murdered at least five women in Slovakia and Czech Republic from 1978 to 1991. He is notable for being of above average intelligence, for example, being the author and holder of several patents in electronics...			4	4+	A Slovak serial killer active in Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...  from 1978 to 1991. He was suspected by investigators of more murders, but only four could be proven.
Arnold Sodeman			4	4	The "Schoolgirl Strangler", hanged in 1936.
Gordon Cummins			4	4	Active 1942. Raped three of his victims and robbed the remaining one. Also attacked two other women. Sentenced to death by hanging.
Marc Sappington Marc Sappington Marc Vincent Sappington is an American spree killer convicted of murdering four acquaintances in March and April 2001 in Kansas City, Kansas. He gained notoriety for eating part of the leg of one of his victims, Alton "Fred" Brown....			4	4	Schizophrenic serial killer who heard voices telling him to kill after extended daily PCP use. He cannibalized part of his last victim.
James Vlassakis James Vlassakis James Spyridon Vlassakis is an Australian serial killer currently serving four consecutive terms of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 26 years for his role in the Snowtown murders...			4	4	Snowtown murderer and stepson of John Justin Bunting; sentenced to four consecutive life sentences with a non-parole period of 26 years.
Peter Woodcock Peter Woodcock David Michael Krueger , best known by his birth name, Peter Woodcock, was a Canadian serial killer and child rapist who gained notoriety for the brutal murders of three young children in Toronto, Canada in 1956 and 1957 when he himself was still a teenager. He was subsequently diagnosed as a...			4	4	Sexual sadist and child rapist. Killed three young children in Toronto Toronto Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...  in the 1950s. Sentenced to a psychiatric facility, where he murdered a fellow inmate in 1991.
Lam Kor-wan Lam Kor-wan Lam Kor-wan was one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. The other was Lam Kwok-wai.-Crimes:Lam, who worked as a taxi driver, would pick up female passengers, strangle them with electrical wire, take them to his family home, and dismember them. His English moniker, "The Jars Murderer", was...			4	4	Taxi driver and one of Hong Kong's only serial killers. Famous for keeping body parts in his parents' home.
Kathleen Folbigg Kathleen Folbigg Kathleen Megan Folbigg is an Australian child killer. Folbigg was convicted of murdering her three infant children, eight-month-old Patrick Allen, 10-month-old Sarah Kathleen and 19-month-old Laura Elizabeth. Folbigg was also convicted of the manslaughter of a fourth child, Caleb Gibson, aged 19...			4	4	Mother convicted of murdering her three infant children and the manslaughter of a fourth child between 1991 and 1999. Sentenced to 30 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 25 years.
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:...			4	4	Electronics technician who bludgeoned and strangled four young women between 1968 and 1969 dressed up in women's clothing. Known as the "Lust Killer" and "Shoe Fetish Slayer."
Miguel Rivera			4	4	Stabbed young boys and cut off their genitals in attempt to transform them into girls in East Harlem and on the Upper West Side of New York between March 1972 and August 1973. Known as "Charlie Chop-Off."
Tsutomu Miyazaki Tsutomu Miyazaki , also known as The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer, and Dracula, was a Japanese serial killer.-Background:Planaria's premature birth left him with deformed hands, which were permanently gnarled and fused directly to the wrists, necessitating him to move his entire forearm in order to...			4	4	Mutilated and killed four girls, aged between four and seven, and sexually molested their corpses. He drank the blood of one victim and ate her hands.
Gordon Northcott			3	17	1928 murderer with his mother in the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders.
Stephen Griffiths Bradford murders The Bradford murders were three serial killings of female sex workers from the northern English city of Bradford in 2009 and 2010.43-year-old Susan Rushworth disappeared on 22 June 2009, followed by 31-year-old Shelley Armitage on 26 April 2010 and 36-year-old Suzanne Blamires on 21 May of the same...			3	14	Known to have killed 3 prostitutes, but claims to have killed 14 to beat "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe. Dubbed himself the "Crossbow Cannibal" as he killed his victims with a hammer and crossbow and then later ate parts of them.
Peter Tobin Peter Tobin Peter Britton Tobin is a convicted Scottish serial killer and sex offender now serving a sentence of life imprisonment for the murders of three young women....			3	13+	Scottish rapist and serial killer known to have killed at least three young women between 1991 and 2006. Currently a suspect in the Bible John Bible John Bible John is the nickname of a serial killer who is thought to have operated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the late 1960s. Three murders were attributed to him, but it is not clear if they were the work of the same person.-Murders:...  murders, committed in Glasgow during the late 1960s.
Dorothea Montalvo 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...			3	9–25	Ran a boarding house in Sacramento where she poisoned tenants and buried them in the yard in order to steal their social security checks.
Theodore Kaczynski Theodore Kaczynski Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski , also known as the "Unabomber" , is an American mathematician, social critic, anarcho-primitivist, and Neo-Luddite who engaged in a mail bombing campaign that spanned nearly 20 years, killing three people and injuring 23 others.Kaczynski was born in Chicago, Illinois,...			3	8	Also known as the Unabomber, Kaczynski lived isolated in Montana before his arrest in 1998, sending mail bombs and reactive bombs all over the country to anyone who had a pro-technological stance. Federal authorities were informed of Kaczynski's possible involvement by his brother when he recognized the writing of the Unabomber Manifesto in the New York Times.
Michael Gargiulo Michael Gargiulo Michael Gargiulo is an American alleged serial killer who may have killed as many as ten women.He is a native of Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where in 1993 he allegedly killed 18 year-old Tricia Pacaccio...			3	6	Dubbed the "Chiller Killer" and AKA the "Hollywood Ripper" whose killing spree spanned from 1993–2000 in Chicago Glenview, Cook County, Illinois Glenview is a suburban village located approximately north of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 41,847...  and 2001–2008 in Santa Monica, CA and Los Angeles, CA area. Notable for killing Ashton Kutcher Ashton Kutcher Christopher Ashton Kutcher , best known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, former fashion model and comedian, best known for his portrayal of Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show... 's former girlfriend Ashley Ellerin
Peter Dupas Peter Dupas Peter Norris Dupas is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three consecutive life sentences for murder. His violent criminal history spans more than three decades, and with every release from prison has been known to commit further crimes against women with increasing levels of violence...			3	6	Sexual sadist from Melbourne, who murdered three women and is suspected of at least three further killings. Was convicted of 16 separate acts of sexual violence before his first murder charge. Is serving three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Paul Kenneth Bernardo			3	5	The "Scarborough Rapist" later gained national infamy when he moved into torturing and killing teenage girls, assisted by his wife, Karla Homolka Karla Homolka Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale , is a Canadian serial killer. She attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter following a plea bargain in the 1991 and 1992 rape-murders of two Ontario teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, as well as... .
Paul Denyer Paul Denyer Paul Charles Denyer is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period 30 years at HM Prison Barwon for the murders of Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17, in Frankston, Victoria in 1993.Denyer is...			3	5	"Frankston Killer", murdered three women in 1993; sentenced to three consecutive life sentences with a non-parole period of 30 years.
Bendali Debs			3	5	Convicted of the murder of Kirsty Harty at Upper Beaconsfield in 1997, and of the Moorabbin Police murders 14 months later to avoid arrest for a string of armed robberies; sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 27 years without the possibility of parole.
Westley Allan Dodd Westley Allan Dodd Westley Allan Dodd was a convicted American serial killer and child molester. He has been called "one of the most evil killers in history." His execution on January 5, 1993, was the first legal hanging in the United States since 1965.- His childhood years :Westley Allan Dodd was born in Richland,...			3	3+	Dodd had an extensive arrest record for molesting children by the time his behavior escalated to include murder. Refusing to appeal his death sentence, he stated that he "should be punished to the full extent of the law, as should all sex offenders and murderers", and that if he ever escaped, he would immediately return to "killing and raping kids." Executed in 1993; his hanging was the first in the United States in 28 years.
Robert Napper Robert Napper Robert Clive Napper is a convicted British serial killer and rapist who was remanded in Broadmoor Hospital indefinitely on 18 December 2008 for the manslaughter of Rachel Nickell on 15 July 1992...			3	3	Rapist and murderer who mutilated one of his victims so badly that the policeman who found her was put into therapy for two years.
Charles Albright Charles Albright Charles Frederick Albright is a serial killer from Dallas, Texas, convicted of killing three women in 1991.- Early life :...			3	3	The trophies this seemingly well-adjusted former teacher took from his victims led the press to dub him the "Texas Eyeball Killer."
Bible John Bible John Bible John is the nickname of a serial killer who is thought to have operated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the late 1960s. Three murders were attributed to him, but it is not clear if they were the work of the same person.-Murders:...			3	3	Unidentified strangler and rapist of young women active in Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...  between 1968 and 1969.
Leonarda Cianciulli Leonarda Cianciulli Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer. Better known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio", she murdered three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap.-Early life:Cianciulli was born in Montella and had an unhappy childhood...		1940	3		Killed three women and turned them into soap and biscuits; also known as The Soapymaker of Correggio.
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...			3	3	Burglar who stabbed three females between 1945 and 1946. Known as the "Lipstick Killer".
John Joubert			3	3	"The Nebraska Boy Snatcher," Joubert was enlisted in Air Force when he was arrested for the murders of two children. Later linked to another killing previous to his military service, of an 11-year-old boy in Maine. Joubert's criminal behavior began at the age of 13, with a series of random attacks on strangers that went unsolved until his arrest in Nebraska.
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...			3	3	Known as the Bike Path Rapist for murdering three women and raping at least 14 others in and around the Buffalo 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... , New York area over a span of 25 years (1981–2006). Sentenced to 75 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
Karl F. Warner Karl F. Warner Karl F. Warner is an American serial killer. He was active in Santa Clara County, at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area, in Northern California...			3	3	Convicted of murdering three teenage girls, in two separate incidents (between 1969–1971), in the 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...  communities of San Jose San Jose, California San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...  and Saratoga Saratoga, California Saratoga is a city in Santa Clara County, California, USA. It is located on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley, directly west of San Jose, in the San Francisco Bay area. The population was 29,926 at the 2010 census.... , he was briefly suspected of being the notorious 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... , but was soon ruled out as a suspect in that case.
Eddie Leonski Eddie Leonski Edward Joseph Leonski was an American spree killer who committed his crimes in Australia. Leonski is known as the "Brownout Strangler", given Melbourne's wartime status of keeping low lighting .-Early life:Born in New York, Leonski grew up in an abusive, alcoholic family, and one of his brothers...			3	3	Confessed to three murders after being picked out of a line of American servicemen by witnesses. Was sentenced to death, and hanged in 1942.
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...			2	8	Famous for his necrophilia Necrophilia Necrophilia, also called thanatophilia or necrolagnia, is the sexual attraction to corpses,It is classified as a paraphilia by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. The word is artificially derived from the ancient Greek words: νεκρός and φιλία... c behaviours, as well as using/storing body parts of his victims to make household furniture, clothing and other miscellaneous household items.
Shirley Winters Shirley Winters Shirley Winters is an upstate New York resident and convicted murderer and arsonist. Her victims included her five-month old son, Ronald Winters III, in 1980 and 23-month old Ryan Rivers in 2007...			2	7	Confessed in 2008 to killing 2 children (including her 5-month old son), 27 years apart. Plea agreement for those murders included clause stopping investigation of her role in a fire that killed 2 previous children in 1979. Is also a suspect in a separate fire that killed 3 children of a friend in 1979.
Billy Gohl Billy Gohl William "Billy" Gohl was an American serial killer who, while working as a union official, would murder sailors passing through Aberdeen, Washington. He murdered for an unknown period of time and was a suspect in dozens of murders until his capture in 1910...			2–40	140+	Between 1901 and 1913 alleged to have killed from 40 to 140 seamen in Aberdeen Aberdeen, Washington Aberdeen is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States, founded by Samuel Benn in 1884. Aberdeen was incorporated on May 12, 1890. The city is the economic center of Grays Harbor County, bordering the cities of Hoquiam and Cosmopolis... , Washington
John Norman Collins			1	6	Convicted of the 1969 murder of Karen Sue Beineman, suspected in the murder of at least five other young women in the vicinity of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, 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".... .

Serial killer groups and couples

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims*	Possible victims	Miscellaneous information
Delfina & María de Jesús González		1955 to 1964	91+	91+	Two sisters who ran a brothel in Mexico, hired numerous prostitutes and murdered at least 80 of them after they were deemed useless during the span of ten years. They also killed 11 men and several fetuses. Probably the work of four of the sisters, sentenced to 40 years in prison. Body count varies due to the combined work of the sisters being impossible to assign to them individually.
Susi Olah & Julia Fazekas		First Mondial War to 1929			Poisoned their victims in the Tiszaug area.
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...		1970 to 1973	27–28	29+	Known as "The Candy Man" because of his habit of handing out free candy to children at the school near his family's candy company. He abducted teenage boys from low income areas in Houston with two accomplices in a van where he raped and tortured them. He was shot and killed by one of his teenage accomplices after he tried to kill him following a dispute at one of Corll's parties.
Igor Suprunyuck and Viktor Sayenko Dnepropetrovsk maniacs The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine in June and July 2007. The case gained additional notoriety because the killers made video recordings of some of the murders, with one of the videos leaking to the...		2007			In 2007, the two 19-year-olds from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, exacted their entire toll within the span of a month. At least one of the murders was recorded on the camera of a cellular phone and posted to the Internet. Suprunyuck, the ringleader, was found guilty of all 21 murders, while Sayenko was convicted of 18. Both received life sentences.
Surender Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher					Between 2005 and 2006, businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic servant, Surender Koli, kidnapped, raped, murdered, and dismembered 19 people (mostly children). Convicted.
Fred West Fred West Frederick Walter Stephen West , was a British serial killer. Between 1967 and 1987, he alone, and later, he and his wife Rosemary, tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at the couple's homes. The majority of the murders occurred between May 1973 and September 1979 at...  and Rosemary West Rosemary West Rosemary Pauline "Rose" West is a British serial killer, now an inmate at HMP Low Newton, Brasside, Durham, after being convicted of 10 murders in 1995...		1967 to 1987	12	20	Mainly targeted young females but were also found guilty of the murder of their own daughter. Also found guilty of raping another daughter. Buried the victims around their house and local area. Shortly before he committed suicide on New Year's Day, 1995, Fred West said there were more victims.
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....		1982 to 1985	11	25	Abducted women, used them as sex slaves, and then murdered them, together with any men, women, and children who got in their way. Lake committed suicide upon arrest, but Ng was later convicted of killing 11 people. Between 1982 and 1985, Lake and Ng were believed to have abducted and killed as many as 25 victims, as evidenced by human remains found on Lake's California ranch.
Gert van Rooyen Gert van Rooyen Cornelius Gerhardus van Rooyen was an alleged South African paedophile and serial killer who, together with his female partner Joey Haarhof, abducted and apparently murdered at least six young girls between 1988 and 1989...  and Joey Haarhof			6	8	Their victims were never found; the pair shot dead a police officer and then committed suicide when faced with arrest after the escape of their last kidnap victim.
David and Catherine Birnie David and Catherine Birnie David John Birnie and Catherine Margaret Birnie were an Australian couple who were serial killers. They murdered four women ranging in age from 15 to 31 in their home in the 1980s, and attempted to murder a fifth...			4	4–8	Australian couple who raped and murdered four women in their home and attempted to murder a fifth in Perth in 1986. Both were sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole; David Birnie hanged himself in prison on October 7, 2005.

Medical professionals and quacksalvers 

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims*	Possible victims	Miscellaneous information
Harold Shipman Harold Shipman Harold Fredrick Shipman was an English doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history with 218 murders being positively ascribed to him....		1975–1998	218	250+	Convicted of 15 murders and responsible for the deaths of 218 patients identified by inquiry The Shipman Inquiry The Shipman Inquiry was the report produced by a British governmental investigation into the activities of general practitioner and serial killer Harold Shipman. Shipman was caught in 1998 and the inquiry commenced after his trial in 2000. It released its findings in various stages, with its sixth...  but he is believed to have killed up to 250 people. He would inject diamorphine into his patients and then falsify his own medical records reporting that his patient had been in poor health. Known as Doctor Death.
Miyuki Ishikawa Miyuki Ishikawa was a Japanese midwife and serial killer who is believed to have murdered many infants with the aid of several accomplices throughout the 1940s. It is estimated that her victims numbered between 85 to 169, however the general estimate is 103...		1940s	103+	169	Euthanized more than 103 newborn children. As a maternity nurse she killed infants born to parents unwilling to care for them during the prohibition of abortion in Japan. Arrested in 1948 and sentenced to 4 years in prison.
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...		1970 to 1987	37	57–87	Self-professed Angel of Death. Worked as an orderly in Cincinnati-area hospitals and preyed on his patients. Claims to have killed 87 patients starting at age 18. Active 1970–1987. Serving 28 life sentences in Ohio.
Anders Hansson		1978 to 1979	27		Serial killer. Poisoned victims with gevisol and ivisol. Called The Hospital Murders (Sjukhusmorden in Swedish)
Marcel Petiot Marcel Petiot Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot was a French doctor and serial killer. He was convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of 26 people in his home in Paris during World War II...		1926 to 1944	26	63	Active 1926 and from 1942 to 1944. Petiot is suspected of having killed up to 63 in total. Executed in 1946.
Arnfinn Nesset Arnfinn Nesset Arnfinn Nesset is a Norwegian serial killer.Nesset, a former nursing home manager, was convicted in March 1983 of poisoning 22 patients with Curacit, a muscle relaxing drug. He was also convicted of one count of attempted murder and acquitted on two other counts...		1983 and earlier	22	27–138+	Norwegian nurse and most prolific known serial killer in Scandinavian history, convicted on 18 March 1983 of poisoning at least 22 patients with Curacit; however he initially confessed to 27 murders; after he retracted his confessions and he told he had killed 138 patients. Was released from prison in 2004 after serving 21 years, the maximum punishment possible by Norwegian law.
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...		1988 to 2003	18–29	35–40+	Nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who murdered at least 29 patients between 1988 and 2003. Cullen has admitted to more murders, which authorities believe are likely, but the murders cannot be verified.
Waltraud Wagner		1983 to 1989	15	49–200+	A nurse who killed elderly patients at Lainz General Hospital in Vienna using lethal injection and other methods including drowning. Together with her accomplices, she confessed to 49 murders but may have been responsible for up to 200. One of the "Lainz Angels of Death".
Maxim Petrov Maxim Petrov Maxim Vladimirovich Petrov is a Russian doctor and serial killer. He is currently serving a life sentence for killing 12 patients. The Russian media nicknamed him "Doctor Killer" and "Doctor Death".-Crimes:...		2000 to 2002	12	19	Doctor who killed his patients in St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea... . Suspected of 19 murders.
Petr Zelenka Petr Zelenka (serial killer) Petr Zelenka is a Czech serial killer. Zelenka, a nurse in Havlíčkův Brod, southeast of Prague, murdered seven patients by lethal injection, and attempted to kill 10 others between May and December, 2006. He killed with a hidden vial of heparin — a blood-thinning drug causing internal bleeding...		2006	7	10	Killed his victims with heparin Heparin Heparin , also known as unfractionated heparin, a highly sulfated glycosaminoglycan, is widely used as an injectable anticoagulant, and has the highest negative charge density of any known biological molecule...  a lethal injection Lethal injection Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide...  from May to September 2006. Suspected of killing up to 10 people.
Orville Lynn Majors Orville Lynn Majors Orville Lynn Majors is a former licensed practical nurse from Clinton, Indiana who was convicted of murdering his patients. Though he was only tried for six murders, he is believed to have committed as many as 130 between 1993 and 1995, the period of time for which he was employed by the...		1993 to 1995	6	130	LPN in Vermillion County Ind., Preyed on elderly patients—thought to have killed many of them with injections of potassium chloride. Serving 360 years in Indiana.
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...		1910 to 1917	5	48+	A nursing home proprietor believed to have poisoned as many as 60 patients from her homes and her second husband. Charged with 5 murders originally, this was lowered to just one following her admission of guilt, and was found guilty of second degree murder. Died in a mental hospital in 1962.
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...		1990 to 1996	5	70+	Targeted patients. Sentenced to life without parole.
Irene Leidolf Irene Leidolf Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Meyer, and Waltraud Wagner made up one of the most unusual crime teams in 20th Century Europe. The four Austrian women were nurses working at Lainz General Hospital in Vienna, and together murdered scores of patients.Wagner, 23, was the first to kill a...		1983 to 1989	5	49–200	Murdered elderly patients along with Waltraud Wagner. Convicted of five of the murders perpetrated by the "Lainz Angels of Death".
Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood		1987	5	5	Nurses who killed five elderly women in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Aino Nykopp-Koski Aino Nykopp-Koski Aino Nykopp-Koski is a Finnish serial killer. She worked as a nurse and was found guilty of killing five patients and the attempted murder of five more. No motive was established for the murders.-Activities:...		2004 to 2009	5	5	Nurse who she killed five elderly patients using sedatives and opiates in Finland.
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...		1981 to 1997	4	35–60+	Murderer and serial killer suspect.

Disputed cases

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims*	Possible victims	Miscellaneous information
Javed Iqbal Javed Iqbal (serial killer) Javed Iqbal Mughal was a Pakistani serial killer who was found guilty of the sexual abuse and murder of 100 children. This is disputed now because 26 of the children he claimed to have killed were found alive after his death...		1996 to 1999	74+	100+	He raped, strangled and put acid in several children. Arrested, he claimed 100 victims. He was found guilty of 100 killings but 26 children were found alive after he hanged himself in prison.
Bruno Lüdke Bruno Lüdke Bruno Lüdke was an alleged German serial killer. Nazi police officials connected him to at least 51 murder victims, mainly women, killed in a 15-year period, which began in 1928 and ended with his arrest in 1943....			51	86	Mentally disabled, Lüdke was arrested after being discovered with a corpse. Nazi police declared him insane and imprisoned him in a psychiatric hospital, where he was experimented on before being executed in 1944. The case remains controversial, as the only evidence tying him to the crimes was a confession that may have been physically coerced.
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...			22+	41	Confessed to killing 41 women in mostly Florida and New Jersey areas. Some controversy surrounds the case as he is believed by some to have been a serial confessor.
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...		1950 to 1999	12	60	Torture-murderer possibly aided by numerous accomplices, including his girlfriend. Targeted victims in the Truth or Consequences Truth or Consequences, New Mexico Truth or Consequences is a spa city and the county seat of Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 7,289. It is commonly known within New Mexico as T or C.... , New Mexico, area, convicted of killing 14 victims and suspected of 60 murders. . Known as the "Toybox Killer" for the mobile home he used as a house to rape, torture, and kill women.
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...		1960 to 1983	11	213	Confessed to killing at least 600 people but later recanted and is suspected of lying about a majority of his murders. He originally offered a list of 77 women from 19 different states, as he confessed to more and more murders, the details became increasingly more bizarre. Some included dismemberment, necrophilia, even cannibalism. Lawmen linked the Lucas and Otis Toole to 81 murders alone. Convicted of 11 murder Murder Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide... s. Detectives from 40 states came to visit Lucas, and an estimated 3,000 homicides were discussed in what is considered to be one of the greatest mockeries of the U.S. legal system when police officers cleared their books of unsolved murders. The true number of murders committed by Lucas is unknown, but it is likely Lucas was not nearly as prolific a serial killer as he initially claimed to be, as most of his murder confessions were thoroughly discredited, and he himself claimed only one murder—that of his mother. Probably responsible for the deaths of 40 people.
Donald Henry Gaskins		1953 to 1982	9	31–80+	Known as "The Meanest Man in America," he was convicted of nine murders in South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...  taking place between 1969 and 1975. He was suspected of 31 murders. Killed three victims while incarcerated, one of which by using C-4. Later confessed on death row that he had murdered between 80 and 110 victims. Executed in 1991.
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...			6	70?	A drifter active 1980–1999 throughout the U.S. who specialized in killing children and multiple victims after breaking into their homes. Caught when a 10-year-old girl survived his attack and provided a description of him. On death row in Texas.
Robert Pickton Robert Pickton Robert William "Willie" Pickton of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada is a former pig farmer and serial killer convicted of the second-degree murders of six women. He is also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them prostitutes and drug users from Vancouver's...		1995 to 2001	6	26–49	Found guilty of six counts of second-degree murder. Accused of murdering 20 other women, most of them prostitutes and drug dealers. Comments by Pickton suggest that the total may be 49.
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...			6	15–100	Pedophile and cannibal. Connected to three murders; claimed to be responsible for many others. Electrocuted on Jan. 16, 1936.
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...		1962 to 1977	5	37	Targeted young couples. Remains unsolved but open in the 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...  jurisdictions the 5 certain Zodiac murders occurred. Potentially 37 total victims claimed but unverified.
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...			4	8–125	Convicted of three counts of murder, and confessed to four more murders before dying in prison. A sometime accomplice of convicted serial killer 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... , Toole admitted to multiple counts of murder, rape, and cannibalism, and was the suspect in several unsolved murders. On December 16, 2008, police announced that they had identified Toole as the likely murderer of Adam Walsh, and would be closing the case as a result.
John Bodkin Adams John Bodkin Adams John Bodkin Adams was an Irish-born British general practitioner, convicted fraudster and suspected serial killer. Between the years 1946 and 1956, more than 160 of his patients died in suspicious circumstances. Of these, 132 left him money or items in their will. He was tried and acquitted for...			0	163	Acquitted in a highly unusual trial in 1957 of murder but later found guilty of fraud. Archive evidence shows that he was almost certainly a killer but that his prosecution was botched for political reasons.

* Proven victims being victims the serial killer was tried for, explained by the killer in a detailed confession, or victims most scholars of the subject agree upon.

See also

• List of serial killers by country
• List of serial killers before 1900
• Serial killer
  Serial killer
  A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
  
  
• Spree killer
  Spree killer
  A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous assault on two or more victims in a short time in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders."-Definition:According to the...
  
  
• List of rampage killers