'''John Wayne Glover''' (1932-September 9, 2005) was a convicted Australian [[serial killer]]. He was responsible for the North Shore Granny Murders in Sydney,
...anny Killer's Reign of Terror'' [http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Evil-Granny-Killers-Terror/dp/187547112X/ref=sr_11_1/002-5638738-9128856?ie=UTF8&qid=1175522239
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...noprienko''' (Анатолій Онопрієнко), born 1959) in Zhytomyr, Ukraine is a [[serial killer]]. He is also known by the nicknames of "The Beast of Ukraine", "The
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/495477.stm BBC: World's worst serial killers]
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[[Category: Serial killers]]
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'''Juan Vallejo Corona''' (born in 1934) is an American [[serial killer]] that was convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971.
*[[Serial killer]]
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...Andes''' (born 8 October 1948 in Santa Isabel, Colombia) is a confessed [[serial killer]] from South America, accused of killing more than 300 people. Apart
*[[List of serial killers]]
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'''Jerry Brudos''', (31 January 1939- 28 March 2006) was a [[serial killer]] and a [[necrophilia|necrophiliac]] also known as "The Lust Killer"
...ovie “Polyester” portrays a disturbed teenager named Dexter Fishpaw with a serial foot stomping fetish. It is alluded that he uses pictures of shoes as a por
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...n Judenburg, Styria, Austria, died June 29, 1994 in Graz, Austria) was a [[serial killer]] who [[murder]]ed prostitutes in several countries.
...that is still only known as "[[Jack the Ripper]]" (who remains an unknown serial killer from the 19th century). With FBI evidence against Johann Unterweger
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...slightly [[ambiguous]] term, with similarities to [[mass murder]]er and [[serial killer]].
...t two or more locations with almost no time break between murders." Serial killers are different in that they have gaps between attacks, while mass murderers
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...death over a prolonged period of time. It is often a practice of [[serial killers]].
...g of pleasure from inflicting pain on others. In the United States, those killers accused of torture murder are most often <!-- nearly always? --> charged wi
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...e than 300. He has been described by the local media as "the world's worst serial killer" because of the high number of victims.
...s demanding changes in the law in order to extend the number of years that killers like Garavito would have to stay in prison [http://www.thepetitionsite.com/
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'''Fritz Haarmann''' (October 25, 1879-April 15, 1925) was a notorious [[serial killer]] born in Hannover, Germany.
...man is mentioned by name in the film, along with another well-known German serial killer, [[Karl Grossmann]]).
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'''Peter Kürten''' (May 26, 1883-July 2, 1932) was a German [[serial killer]] dubbed '''The [[Vampire]] of Düsseldorf''' by the contemporary me
...e sane. Regardless, profiling of suspects was carried out in many cases of serial killings following the Kürten incidents.
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'''Colin Ireland''' (born March 16 1954) is a British [[serial killer]] known as the "Gay Slayer" because he specifically murdered gay men
...convictions for burglary and robbery in his twenties, decided to become a serial killer as a New Year resolution at the beginning of 1993, when he was 39. T
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*[[List of serial killers]]
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...spelled '''Otis''') was an American criminal. Though he claimed to be a [[serial killer]] and [[cannibalism|cannibal]], and was the suspect in several unsol
...significant doubt as to Lucas' guilt, Toole is still generally seen as a [[serial killer]].
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...pest") (Buenos Aires, October 31, 1896- Ushuaia, November 15, 1944), was a serial killer who terrified the Argentinian city of Buenos Aires when just sixteen
*[[List of serial killers]]
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...U.S.-born [[serial killer]] who is considered one of the most psychopathic killers in British criminal history. He was the second last person to be hanged in
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'''Joachim Kroll''' (April 17, 1933 - July 1, 1991) was a German [[serial killer]] and [[cannibal]]. He was known as the '''Ruhr Cannibal''' (''Ruhrk
*[[List of serial killers]]
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...Zucco''', (April 3, 1962-May 23, 1988) was born in Venice, Italy. He was a serial [[murder|killer]] who murdered several people in Europe in 1987 and 1988.
[[Category:Serial Killers]] [[Category:Homicidal maniacs]]
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'''Bible John''' is the nickname of an unidentified [[serial killer]] who is thought to have operated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the late
...s at Stirling University released a digitally remastered image of what the serial killer might look like today.
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'''Rosemary West''' (born November 29, 1953 as Rosemary Letts) is a British [[serial killer]]. Now an inmate at HM Prison Bronzefield, Kent.
...ers were all believed to have been carried out with her husband and fellow serial killer, [[Fred West]].
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...Teale''') (born August 27, 1964 in Scarborough, Ontario), is a Canadian [[serial killer]], known for the [[murder]]s he committed with his wife [[Karla Homo
...'' His assumed surname, "Teale," was apparently an homage to the fictional serial killer Martin Thiel played by Kevin Bacon in the film ''Criminal Law.''
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'''Herbert Williams Mullin''' (1947 -) is an American [[serial killer]] who committed 13 [[murder]]s in California in the early 1970s.
...nd, it was mistakenly thought to be a victim of [[Edmund Kemper]], another serial killer operating in the area at the time.
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...Burbank, California, also known as ''The Co-ed Killer'', is an American [[serial killer]] who was active in the early 1970s. Kemper killed and dismembered s
At the time of Kemper's murder spree in Santa Cruz, another [[serial killer]] named [[Herbert Mullin]] was also active, earning the small Califo
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'''Peter Stumpp''' (died 1589) was a German farmer and allegedly a [[serial killer]] and [[cannibalism|cannibal]], also known as the ''[[Werewolf]] of
Not only was Stumpp accused of being a serial murderer and [[Cannibalism|cannibal]], but also of having an incestuous rel
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'''Carl Panzram''' (June 28, 1891-September 5, 1930) was an American [[serial killer]].
*[[List of serial killers]]
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'''John Edward Robinson''' (born December 27, 1943) is an American [[serial killer]] convicted in 2003 of the murders of several women.
*[[List of serial killers]]
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...Utah known as the '''Green River Killer''', is one of the most egregious [[serial killer]]s n American history. On November 30, 2001, as he was leaving a Ren
...Robert Keppel and Dave Reichert, who periodically interviewed incarcerated serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] from 1984 to Bundy's execution in 1989 in the hopes of
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'''Michel Fourniret''' (born Sedan, April 4, 1942) is a French [[serial killer]] who confessed, in June and July 2004, to kidnapping, raping and mu
*[[List of serial killers]]
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...ary Leon Ridgway''' (born February 18, 1949) is one of the most prolific [[serial killer]]s in American history. He was arrested on November 30, 2001, for th
...ert D. Keppel and Dave Reichert, who periodically interviewed incarcerated serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] from 1984 to Bundy's execution in 1989 in the hopes of
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'''Albert Henry DeSalvo''' (September 3, 1931 - November 25, 1973) was a [[serial killer]] active in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1960s. Between June 1
...e of the vicious crimes (however, it is not uncommon for people who knew a serial killer to never have suspected him to be capable of such violence. In the c
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[[Category:Serial killers]] [[Category:Homicidal maniacs]]
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===Serial killers===
Necrophilia has also been a motive for some [[serial killer]]s, including murderers [[Ed Gein]], [[Richard Chase]], [[Winston M
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'''Serial killers''' are people who, on multiple occasions spread over time, murder victims w
...h, as opposed to those who are motivated by financial gain (e.g., contract killers) or ideological/political motivations (e.g., terrorism, democide). Many tim
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This is a list of [[serial killer]]s arranged by their country of origin or activity.
==Convicted serial killers by country==
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...ayne Gacy, Jr.''', (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American [[serial killer]]. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 3
...tographed with future-First Lady Rosalynn Carter[http://home.wtal.de/infos/killers/gacycarter.jpg].
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'''Joseph Paul Franklin''' (April 13, 1950-) is an American serial killer who may have killed 20 people between 1977 and 1980. He has been con
...egory:Popular culture|pop culture]] reference, unlike less prolific serial killers such as [[Charles Manson]].
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...sin, U.S.A. He died on November 28th, 1994 in Portage, Wisconsin. He was a serial killer, a [[Necrophilia|necrophile]] and [[Cannibalism|cannibal]], who is b
...head wandering around nude [http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/serial-killers/jeffrey-dahmer/]. Dahmer claimed they had an argument. After being returned
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...on January 2, 1938 in Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland) is a convicted British [[serial killer]].
Brady spent 19 years in a mainstream prison (at one point befriending serial poisoner and fellow Nazi aficionado [[Graham Frederick Young]]) before he w
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*[[List of serial killers]]
*[[Serial killer]]
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...ichard Trenton Chase''' (May 23, 1950 December 26, 1980) was an American [[serial killer]] who killed six people in the span of a month in California. He ear
...hat is known in psychiatric circles as the "triad" of the early signs of a serial killer: He wet the bed, he [[pyromania|started fires]], and he tortured ani
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...ever, he later recanted his confessions. He once flatly stated "I am not a serial killer" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady
...in the words of author Sarah L. Knox, "as one of the world's worst serial killers, even after the debunking of the majority of his confessions by the Attorne
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...sdale''' in Manchester, July 1960) became one of Britain’s most prolific [[serial killer]]s when he was convicted of 26 charges of manslaughter in 1981.
...is reason that people are reluctant to place Lee in the category of serial killers, in that it was the cause rather than effect which gave him his thrills.
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'''John George Haigh''' (July 24, 1909-August 10, 1949) was a [[serial killer]] in England in the 1940s. Authorities attributed to Haigh the murde
*Haigh has been compared to the French serial killer [[Marcel Petiot]]. It is possible that Haigh had read about the expl
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Between 1940 and 1956, a serial bomber terrorized New York City by planting bombs in public places includin
...the Boston Police to the apprehension of [[Albert DeSalvo]], the notorious serial sex murderer known as the "Boston Strangler". The media dubbed Dr. Brussel
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...rol Pittman''') (February 29th, 1956, October 9th, 2002) was an American [[serial killer]] sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992. She ultimately
...as run during the credits of the documentary ''Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer''.
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...ember 29, 1941 – January 1, 1995) was an English construction worker and [[serial killer]] who, together with his wife [[Rosemary West]], is believed to have
[[Category:Serial killers]]
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...о'' (born on October 16th 1936, dead on February 14th 1994 was a Russian [[serial killer]], nicknamed the '''Rostov Ripper'''.
...s or candy. In the USSR at the time, reports of crimes like child rape and serial murder were often suppressed by the state-controlled media, as these crimes
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