List of serial killers

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This is a list of serial killers, by their country of origin or activity. Note that some confessions and convictions have been disputed as inaccurate.

List by country

Australia

• Edward Joseph Leonski, the "singing strangler" killed at least 4
• Ivan Robert Marko Milat, the "backpack-murderer" killed at least 7 tourists

Belgium

• Marc Dutroux - Belgian child molester and killer

Brazil

• Francisco de Assis Pereira, Brazilian serial killer, known as the maniaco do parque (the park maniac)

Canada

• Paul Bernardo, Canada's most famous serial killer, who killed two teenage school girls, with his wife Karla Homolka, and was also known as the Scarborough Rapist

Colombia

• Pedro Lopez - Colombia, with 300 victims

France

• Michel Fourniret
• Henri Désiré Landru
• Émile Louis - preyed on young handicapped women
• Gilles de Rais - (d. 1440), French demonolator and child-killer

Germany

• Karl Denke
• Karl Grossmann
• Fritz Haarmann
• Joachim Georg Kroll
• Peter Kürten

Hungary

• Erzsébet Báthory, believed to have killed 600 victims
• Bela Kiss

India

• Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists in Southeast Asia in the 1970s

Japan

• Tsutomu Miyazaki - the "Otaku Killer", killed 4 preschool-age Japanese girls

Mexico

• Abdul Latif Sharif - Egyptian alleged to be responsible for dozens of murders in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

Pakistan

• Javed Iqbal, killed 100 boys in Pakistan

Poland

• Zdzislaw Marchwicki

Romania

• Vera Renczi - The 35 bodies in her cellar may have influenced the writing of Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace

Russia

• Lavrenty Beria, (1899 - 1953) Russian official and alleged serial killer
• Andrei Chikatilo

UK

• Beverley Allitt - The Angel Of Death. Paediatric nurse who killed 13 patients and injured others in 1991
• Robert Black - schoolgirl killer
• Ian Brady - one of the Moors Murderers, with Myra Hindley
• 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
• Peter George Dinsdale - aka Bruce Lee, 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
• Myra Hindley - (d. 2002) one of the Moors Murderers, with Ian Brady
• Colin Ireland - The Gay Slayer or Fairy Liquidator
• 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.
• Donald Neilson - The Black Panther
• Dennis Nilsen - British serial killer of 15 (possibly 16)
• Mark Rowntree - 19 year old psychopath who killed 4 people at random
• Harold Frederick Shipman - 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
• John Straffen - child-killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner.
• Peter Sutcliffe - the Yorkshire Ripper
• Fred and Rose West - the House of Horrors murderers in Gloucester
• Graham Young - The Teacup Poisoner, (1947-1990) who killed three

Ukraine

• Anatoly Onoprienko - Ukrainian serial killer known as "the Terminator." Murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996

USA

• David Berkowitz, known as the "Son of Sam"
• The Boston Strangler (allegedly Albert DeSalvo, though disputed)
• Ted Bundy
• Dr. Thomas Neil Cream
• Jeffrey Dahmer
• Glennon Engleman - mediocre St. Louis dentist who shot and bombed his way to financial success
• Albert Fish
• John Wayne Gacy
• Ed Gein. Elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part The Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Hillside Strangler - actually two men, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr.
• 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, disputed
• Peter Moore - Kimnel Bay serial killer
• Herman Mudgett, aka Dr. H. H. Holmes, "the serial killer of Murder Castle", active 1890-1894, during Chicago's 1893 World Columbian Exposition.
• Herbert Mullin
• Earle Nelson- Necrophiliac serial killer dubbed "Gorilla Man"
• Jesse Pomeroy
• Dorothea Puente
• Richard Ramirez
• Angel Maturino Resendiz - Killed 9 people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois
• Gary Ridgway - arrested in November, 2001 for The Green River Killer murders
• John Edward Robinson - United States
• Danny Rolling
• Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, "Natural Born Killers"
• Otis Toole, disputed
• Jane Toppan
• Coral Eugene Watts
• Wayne Williams - convicted of the Atlanta Child Murders, disputed
• Aileen Wuornos - Florida

Currently on trial

• Robert Pickton on trial in British Columbia accused in the deaths of 15 women and suspected in up to 54.
• Greg Westann currently on trial in Myanmar for the killing of 14 black women.

Unidentified serial killers

• The Axeman of New Orleans (USA)
• the BTK killer (USA)
• Bible John (UK)
• The Cleveland Torso Murderer, aka "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (USA)
• Jack the Ripper, aka "The Whitechapel Murderer" (UK)
• Jack the Stripper (UK)
• The Zodiac Killer (USA)

For the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, see List of terrorist incidents.