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