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==Convicted serial killers by country== | ==Convicted serial killers by country== | ||
===Argentina=== | |||
*[[Cayetano Santos Godino]] - aka ''Petiso Orejudo''; killed 4 individuals before he turned 17 | |||
===Australia=== | ===Australia=== | ||
*[[Eric Edgar Cooke]] | *[[Eric Edgar Cooke]] | ||
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*[[Henri Désiré Landru]] | *[[Henri Désiré Landru]] | ||
*[[Émile Louis]] - preyed on young handicapped women | *[[Émile Louis]] - preyed on young handicapped women | ||
*[[Marcel Petiot]] - doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the | *[[Marcel Petiot]] - doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the Nazis | ||
*[[Gilles de Rais]] - French [[demon]]olator and child-killer (d. 1440) | *[[Gilles de Rais]] - French [[demon]]olator and child-killer (d. 1440) | ||
*[[Joseph Vacher]] - 19th century serial killer of 11 individuals | *[[Joseph Vacher]] - 19th century serial killer of 11 individuals | ||
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===Italy=== | ===Italy=== | ||
*[[Luigi Chiatti]] - | *[[Luigi Chiatti]] - aka the ''Monster of Foligno''; victims were children | ||
*[[Roberto Succo]] | *[[Leonarda Cianciulli]] - aka ''Soap-Maker of Correggio''; murderess of 3 women | ||
*[[Pietro Pacciani]] - aka the ''Monster of Florence''; victims were young couples | |||
*[[Roberto Succo]] - murdered at least five individuals, including his parents | |||
===Japan=== | ===Japan=== | ||
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===Netherlands=== | ===Netherlands=== | ||
*[[Maria Swanenburg]] - killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s | *[[Maria Swanenburg]] - killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s | ||
===Pakistan=== | ===Pakistan=== | ||
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*[[Beverley Allitt]] - an ''[[Angel of Death]]''; Paediatric nurse who killed four patients and injured at least nine others, convicted in [[1991]] | *[[Beverley Allitt]] - an ''[[Angel of Death]]''; Paediatric nurse who killed four patients and injured at least nine others, convicted in [[1991]] | ||
*[[Robert Black (murderer)|Robert Black]] - schoolgirl killer | *[[Robert Black (murderer)|Robert Black]] - schoolgirl killer | ||
*[[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] - the ''[[Moors | *[[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] - the ''[[Moors murders|Moors Murderers]]'' | ||
*[[George Chapman (murderer)|George Chapman]] - real name Severin Antoniovich Klosowski, poisoned three women, but suspected of being [[Jack the Ripper]] | *[[George Chapman (murderer)|George Chapman]] - real name Severin Antoniovich Klosowski, poisoned three women, but suspected of being [[Jack the Ripper]] | ||
*[[John Childs]] - burned the bodies of his six victims, jailed 1980 | *[[John Childs]] - burned the bodies of his six victims, jailed 1980 | ||
*[[John Reginald Halliday Christie|John Christie]] - the [[necrophile]], who lived at 10 Rillington Place | *[[John Reginald Halliday Christie|John Christie]] - the [[necrophilia|necrophile]], who lived at 10 Rillington Place | ||
*[[Mary Ann Cotton]] - British Victorian killer, said to have taken more than 20 victims | *[[Mary Ann Cotton]] - British Victorian killer, said to have taken more than 20 victims | ||
*[[Thomas Neill Cream]] - the ''Lambeth Poisoner'', began his killing spree in the US then moved to London | *[[Thomas Neill Cream]] - the ''Lambeth Poisoner'', began his killing spree in the US then moved to London | ||
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*[[Jeffrey Dahmer]] - Milwaukee cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment | *[[Jeffrey Dahmer]] - Milwaukee cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment | ||
*[[Westley Allan Dodd]] - child molester and killer of 3 young boys in Seattle, Washington; hanged on January 5, 1993 | *[[Westley Allan Dodd]] - child molester and killer of 3 young boys in Seattle, Washington; hanged on January 5, 1993 | ||
*[[Albert Fish]] - sadist and pedophile who cannibalised a 12-year-old girl | *[[Albert Fish]] - sadist and pedophile who [[cannibal|cannibalised]] a 12-year-old girl | ||
*[[John Wayne Gacy]] - the ''Killer Clown'' who kept bodies buried under his Chicago home | *[[John Wayne Gacy]] - the ''Killer Clown'' who kept bodies buried under his Chicago home | ||
*[[Ed Gein]] - elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'' and ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' | *[[Ed Gein]] - elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'' and ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' | ||
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*[[Eddie Leonski]] - the ''Brownout Strangler'' | *[[Eddie Leonski]] - the ''Brownout Strangler'' | ||
*[[Henry Lee Lucas]] - confessed to hundreds of murders, although most confessions were false | *[[Henry Lee Lucas]] - confessed to hundreds of murders, although most confessions were false | ||
*[[Charles Manson]] - most famous for his participation in the Tate-LaBianca murders of the late 1960s | |||
*[[John Allen Muhammed]] - Washington D.C. area sniper | *[[John Allen Muhammed]] - Washington D.C. area sniper | ||
*[[Herbert Mullin]] - [[schizophrenic]] who killed people to prevent earthquakes | *[[Herbert Mullin]] - [[schizophrenia|schizophrenic]] who killed people to prevent earthquakes | ||
*[[Earle Nelson]] - [[necrophilia]]c serial killer dubbed "Gorilla Man" | *[[Earle Nelson]] - [[necrophilia|necrophilia]]c serial killer dubbed "Gorilla Man" | ||
*[[Carl Panzram]] - murderer, rapist, arsonist | *[[Carl Panzram]] - murderer, rapist, arsonist | ||
*[[Jesse Pomeroy]] - teenaged psychopath who killed two children | *[[Jesse Pomeroy]] - teenaged psychopath who killed two children | ||
Latest revision as of 19:12, 28 February 2009
This is a list of serial killers arranged by their country of origin or activity.
Convicted serial killers by country
Argentina
- Cayetano Santos Godino - aka Petiso Orejudo; killed 4 individuals before he turned 17
Australia
- Eric Edgar Cooke
- Paul Denyer - known as the "Frankston Serial Killer"
- Peter Dupas
- John Wayne Glover - known as the "North Shore Granny Killer"; found dead in his cell in 2005
- Eddie Leonski - the "Brownout Murderer"; killed at least 4
- William MacDonald
- Ivan Milat - the "backpack-murderer"; killed at least 7 tourists
- Christopher Worrell - the "Truro murders"; killed 7 victims
- James Milller - the "Truro murders" convicted of killing 6 victims
- John Travers
- John Whelan
Austria
- Jack Unterweger - author and sexual sadist; allegedly killed 12 women
Belgium
- Marie Becker
- Marc Dutroux - Belgian child molester and killer
- Michel Fourniret
Canada
- Paul Bernardo - killed three teenaged girls (including his wife's sister), with his wife Karla Homolka, and was also known as the "Scarborough (Ontario) Rapist
- Allan Legere - the "Monster of Miramichi"; killer of 5 individuals
- Earle Nelson
- Clifford Olson - murdered eleven children
- Peter Woodcock - murdered three children in 1956 and 1957, and a fellow psychiatric institute patient in 1991
China
- Hu Wanlin - self-proclaimed doctor who is believed to have killed between 100 and 190 patients
- Yang Xinhai
Colombia
- Luis Garavito (also killed victims in Ecuador)
- Pedro Lopez - The Monster of the Andes; apocryphal with 300 alleged victims (he also killed in Ecuador)
Ecuador
- Daniel Barbosa - The Beast Of The Andes; apocryphal, 71 alleged victims
- Luis Garavito (also killed in Colombia)
- Pedro Lopez (also killed in Colombia)
France
- Michel Fourniret
- Hélène Jegado - domestic servant who poisoned at least 23 people between 1833 and 1851
- Henri Désiré Landru
- Émile Louis - preyed on young handicapped women
- Marcel Petiot - doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the Nazis
- Gilles de Rais - French demonolator and child-killer (d. 1440)
- Joseph Vacher - 19th century serial killer of 11 individuals
Germany
- Jürgen Bartsch
- Karl Denke - cannibal
- Karl Grossmann - killed women and sold their flesh on the black market
- Fritz Haarmann - similar to Grossman, but preyed on boys
- Fritz Honka - killed women in Hamburg and kept the bodies in his apartment
- Joachim Kroll - claimed thirteen victims over three decades
- Peter Kürten - the Vampire of Düsseldorf
- Peter Stumpp - self-proclaimed werewolf who killed 16 people during the 1500s
- Anna Maria Zwanziger - Bavarian serial killer
Hungary
- Erzsébet Báthory – Hungarian countess who killed servant girls
- Béla Kiss - escaped justice in the confusion of World War I
- Sylvestre Matuschka - the 'train killer'; derailed trains for sexual gratification
India
- Charles Sobhraj - preyed on Western tourists in Southeast Asia in the 1970s
- Thug Behram - leader of a gang of Thugs in Avadh, India, who confessed to participating in 931 individual murders and to having personally strangled approximately 125 men
- Auto Shankar - Indian auto rickshaw driver who preyed on teenage girls
Indonesia
- Ahmad Suradji - a serial killer who admitted to killing 42 women
Iran
- Mohammed Bijeh - known as the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran
- Said Hanai - killed at least 16 women around Mashhad
Italy
- Luigi Chiatti - aka the Monster of Foligno; victims were children
- Leonarda Cianciulli - aka Soap-Maker of Correggio; murderess of 3 women
- Pietro Pacciani - aka the Monster of Florence; victims were young couples
- Roberto Succo - murdered at least five individuals, including his parents
Japan
- Tsutomu Miyazaki - aka "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer", and "Dracula", he killed 4 preschool-age Japanese girls and ate two of them
Kazakhstan
- Nikolai Dzhumagaliev - cannibal and rapist known as "Metal Fang"; thought to have killed nearly 50 individuals
Mexico
- Abdul Latif Sharif - Egyptian alleged to be responsible for dozens of murders in Ciudad Juárez
Netherlands
- Maria Swanenburg - killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s
Pakistan
- Javed Iqbal - killed 100 boys
Poland
- Julian Koltun
- Zdzislaw Marchwicki
- Władysław Mazurkiewicz - killed up to 30 women
- Stanislaw Modzieliewski
- Lucian Staniak - dubbed "The Red Spider" and "The Red Ripper"; killed 6 to 20 women
- Leszek Pękalski - killed up to 17 women
South Africa
- Daisy de Melker - poisoner
- Moses Sithole - believed to have killed at least 38 young women
South Korea
- Yoo Young-Chul - killed and ate about 20 people, mainly rich elderly men and prostitutes
Soviet Union
- Andrei Chikatilo - AKA "The Rostov Ripper" and "Hannibal Lecter", a name given to him by the Russian public after the character in the popular American film Silence of the Lambs, which came out around the time of his arrest; killed 52 women and children throughout the many countries of the former Soviet Union before being arrested, convicted, and executed in 1994
Sweden
- Thomas Quick
- Ulf Olsson - Convicted of two murders, suspected for at least two more.
- Mattias Flink
- John Ausonius
UK
- Beverley Allitt - an Angel of Death; Paediatric nurse who killed four patients and injured at least nine others, convicted in 1991
- Robert Black - schoolgirl killer
- Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - the Moors Murderers
- George Chapman - real name Severin Antoniovich Klosowski, poisoned three women, but suspected of being Jack the Ripper
- John Childs - burned the bodies of his six victims, jailed 1980
- John Christie - the necrophile, who lived at 10 Rillington Place
- Mary Ann Cotton - British Victorian killer, said to have taken more than 20 victims
- Thomas Neill Cream - the Lambeth Poisoner, began his killing spree in the US then moved to London
- Bruce George Peter Lee - born Peter George Dinsdale, the prolific Hull arsonist
- Kenneth Erskine - the Stockwell Strangler, jailed in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners
- John George Haigh - the Acid Bath Murderer or Vampire of London
- Anthony Hardy - the Camden Ripper
- Colin Ireland - the Gay Slayer or Fairy Liquidator
- Michael Lupo - the Wolf Man, originally from Italy
- Patrick Mackay - confessed to killing 11 people
- Robert Mawdsley - serial killer of four; killed three in prison and dubbed Hannibal the Cannibal
- Peter Moore - businessman who killed men at random in Wales
- Dennis Nilsen - British serial killer of 15 (possibly 16)
- William Palmer - the Rugeley poisoner
- Mark Rowntree - 19 year old psychopath who killed 4 people at random
- Harold Shipman AKA "Dr Death" - British doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25 year period
- George Joseph Smith - the "Brides in the Bath" killer
- John Straffen - child-killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner (some doubt exists over his conviction)
- Peter Sutcliffe - the Yorkshire Ripper
- Fred West and Rosemary West - the House of Horrors murderers in [[Gloucester
- Graham Frederick Young - the Teacup Poisoner, who killed three (1947-1990)
Northern Ireland (UK)
- Lenny Murphy - leader of the Shankill Butchers
- William Moore - second-in-command of the Shankill Butchers
Ukraine
- Anatoly Onoprienko - Ukrainian serial killer known as "the Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996
USA
- Charles Albright - killer of three; known for surgically removing the eyes of victims
- Richard Angelo - nurse.
- Joe Ball - killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas
- David Berkowitz - known as the Son of sam
- Bloody Benders - a family who killed guests of their inn in Labette County, Kansas, in 1872
- The Boston Strangler - allegedly Albert DeSalvo, though disputed
- William Bonin - with several accomplices, claimed the lives of twenty boys in California
- Jerry Brudos - killed at least 5 women and was sexually aroused by their feet
- Ted Bundy - law student who raped and murdered over 30 women in several states
- Richard Chase - The Vampire of Sacramento murdered six people in the '70s
- Dean Corll - committed the Houston Mass Murders with Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks
- Juan Corona - Mexican immigrant who killed 25 people in the space of just six weeks
- Charles Cullen - nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who killed as many as 40 patients through lethal injection
- Jeffrey Dahmer - Milwaukee cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment
- Westley Allan Dodd - child molester and killer of 3 young boys in Seattle, Washington; hanged on January 5, 1993
- Albert Fish - sadist and pedophile who cannibalised a 12-year-old girl
- John Wayne Gacy - the Killer Clown who kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
- Ed Gein - elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part The Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Kristen Gilbert - original Angel of Death serial killer, convicted of killing 4 by injection of epinephrine while working as a nurse
- Harvey Murray Glatman - Californian rapist and killer of three women; lured women to pose for "bondage photographs" and would rape and murder them.
- Belle Gunness - murder-for-profit killer who murdered her suitors and her own children.
- Donald Harvey - hospital orderly, confessed to more than 80 "mercy killings" with 37 confirmed killings
- Gary M. Heidnik - serial killer from the Philadelphia area
- "Wild Bill" Hickman - killed in the name of religion (many of his alleged exploits are disputed)
- Hillside Strangler - actually two men, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr.
- Philip Carl Jablonski, killed at least 4 women in Utah, carved the word "Jesus" into one
- H. H. Holmes (real name Herman Mudgett) - active 1890-1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
- Genene Jones - Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care
- Patrick Kearney - necrophile who butchered 28 men in California
- Edmund Kemper - started killing when he was aged fifteen
- Sante Kimes - grifter and murder-for-profit killer who, along with her son Kenneth Kimes, is believed to have killed upwards of 4 people
- Paul John Knowles - raped and murdered 18 people
- Randy Steven Kraft - murdered as many as 68 young men in California
- Leonard Lake and Charles Ng - ex-marines and survivalists who collected female slaves
- Derrick Todd Lee - aka the "Baton Rouge Serial Killer"
- Eddie Leonski - the Brownout Strangler
- Henry Lee Lucas - confessed to hundreds of murders, although most confessions were false
- Charles Manson - most famous for his participation in the Tate-LaBianca murders of the late 1960s
- John Allen Muhammed - Washington D.C. area sniper
- Herbert Mullin - schizophrenic who killed people to prevent earthquakes
- Earle Nelson - necrophiliac serial killer dubbed "Gorilla Man"
- Carl Panzram - murderer, rapist, arsonist
- Jesse Pomeroy - teenaged psychopath who killed two children
- Dorothea Puente - killed and robbed nine elderly people
- Dennis Rader - killed ten people over 20 years as the "BTK Killer"
- Richard Ramirez - the 'Night Stalker' who terrorized Los Angeles in 1984 and 1985
- Angel Maturino Resendiz - killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois
- Gary Ridgway - admitted to being The Green River Killer
- Joel Rifkin - murdered 17 women in the New York City and Long Island area
- John Edward Robinson - so-called 'Cyber Sex Killer' who lured victims through the internet
- Danny Rolling - pleaded guilty to butchering five students in Florida
- Efren Saldivar - respiratory therapist who definitely killed six patients, and possibly as many as 120
- Arthur Shawcross - the Genesee River Killer
- Gerard John Schaefer - policeman from Florida who killed up to thirty-four women and girls
- Cary Stayner - "Yosemite Murderer" who killed four women
- William Suff - "Riverside Killer" who killed up to 19 women near Riverside, California
- Ottis Toole - Henry Lee Lucas's accomplice; convicted of six murders in Florida
- Coral Eugene Watts - killed dozens of women in Texas and Michigan
- Wayne Williams - convicted of the Atlanta Child Murders (disputed)
- Randall Woodfield - the "Interstate 5|I-5 killer"
- Aileen Wuornos - rare female serial killer who shot dead six men in Florida
- Andrew Minotti - bus driver in cities in texas, involved in killing children
Unidentified serial killers
- The Axeman of New Orleans (USA)
- The Austin Axe Murderer, AKA the Servant Girl Annihilator (USA)
- Bible John (UK)
- The Cleveland Torso Murderer, AKA "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (USA)
- Jack the Ripper, the most famous serial killer of all, murdered prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 (UK)
- Jack the Stripper (UK)
- The Original Night Stalker (USA)
- The Zodiac Killer (USA)