I began reading a book on serial killers (it was on sale at Border’s) and began following up my reading by doing further research on the subject on the internet. Anyway, I came upon the following list and thought the information and further reading might be interesting, especially to people in police work and/or psychology/psychiatry. TGO
Refer to information below. Source: Wikipedia
| Name | Proven victims | Possible victims | Miscellaneous information | |
| Harold Shipman | 218 | 250+ | A doctor who targeted his patients, the majority of whom were elderly women. Killed his patients with lethal injections of diamorphine. | |
| Luis Garavito | 138 | 300 | Targeted young boys. Arrested in 1999. | |
| Thug Behram | 125 | 931 | Born 1765, died 1840. Leader of the Thuggee cult. | |
| Pedro Alonso López | 110 | 350 | Targeted young girls. Arrested in 1980. Though he may be the most prolific serial murderer of modern times, he was released after it was declared he had been rehabilitated. Current whereabouts unknown. | |
| Erzsébet Báthory | 80 | 650 | Born 1560, died 1614. Accused of murdering 600 or so people; however, no public trial was held. Was imprisoned in a room of her own castle until her death. | |
| Gilles de Rais | 80 | 600 | Breton nobleman fought alongside Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years War. His confession was gained under torture and threat of torture, as was customary. | |
| Pedro Rodrigues Filho | 71 | 100+ | 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, 40 of them inmates. | |
| Yang Xinhai | 67 | 67 | Would enter victims’ homes at night and kill everyone with axes, meat cleavers, hammers, and shovels. | |
| Andrei Chikatilo | 53 | 56 | Convicted of the murder of 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990. Three people were previously convicted and executed for his crimes. | |
| Anatoly Onoprienko | 52 | 52+ | Convicted of the murders of 9 people in 1989 and 43 people in 1995–1996. Traveled through Europe illegally from 1990 to 1995; whether he killed during this time is unknown. | |
| Bruno Lüdke | 51 | 51 | 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. | |
| Alexander Pichushkin | 49 | 61+ | Convicted of murdering 49 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. | |
| Gary Leon Ridgway | 48 | 90 | Truck painter who confessed to killing 71 women and dumping their bodies along the Green River near Seattle, Washington. The man with the most murder convictions in U.S. history, he pleaded guilty to 48 and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for each. | |
| Ahmad Suradji | 42 | 42 | Convicted of killing 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. | |
| Gerald Stano | 41 | 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. | |
| Belle Gunness | 40? | 60? | Active 1900 to 1908. | |
| Moses Sithole | 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 nonparole period of 930 years. Known as South Africa’s Ted Bundy. | |
| Donald Harvey | 36 | 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. | |
| Serhiy Tkach | 36 | 100 | Former police investigator claims to have killed 100. | |
| Ted Bundy | 35 | 100+ | Claimed that he may have killed more than 100. | |
| John Wayne Gacy | 33 | 33 | The “Killer Clown” who kept bodies of young men and boys buried under his Chicago home. | |
| Jane Toppan | 31 | 31 | Cambridge lust murderer who poisoned 31 victims between 1895 and 1901. | |
| Dean Corll | 27 | 30 | The “Candyman” raped, tortured, and murdered adolescent boys and young men in the 1970s, crimes that came to be known as the “Houston Mass Murders.” Had his victims delivered to him by paid accomplices David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. After shooting and killing Corll in self-defense, Henley himself brought the murders to police attention. | |
| Cedric Maake | 27 | 27 | Known as the “Wemmer Pan Killer”. | |
| Dr. Marcel Petiot | 26 | 63 | Active 1926 and from 1942 to 1944. Executed in 1946. | |
| Juan Corona | 25 | ? | Corona was convicted of murdering ranch laborers and burying them in orchards. He was sentenced to 25 terms of life imprisonment. | |
| Fritz Haarmann | 24 | 27 | Also known as the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover 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 | 24 | ? | Convicted after the bodies of 24 women were found in his home. Escaped from prison in 1916. Fate unknown. | |
| Matti Haapoja | 22 | 25 | His last victim was the prison warden where he was serving his life sentence. Hanged himself in his cell in Kakola prison, Turku. | |
| Igor Suprunyuck and Viktor Sayenko | 21 | 31 | Two 19-year-olds in Ukraine randomly slaughtered 21 people in the course of a single month in 2007. Both are serving life sentences. | |
| Vampire of Silesia | 21 | ? | Killed 21 women in 1964–1970 in Poland’s region of Upper Silesia. Zdzisław Marchwicki (executed in 1977) was most likely the man responsible for the killings; however, his guilt remains in dispute. | |
| Earle Nelson | 20 | 20+ | Necrophiliac who targeted landladies throughout the West Coast during 1926. | |
| Mary Ann Cotton | 20 | 20 | Killed up to 20 of her husbands and offspring in County Durham in the 19th century. | |
| Surender Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher | 19 | 30+ | Between 2005 and 2006, businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic servant, Surender Koli, kidnapped, raped, murdered, and dismembered 19 people (mostly children). Convicted. | |
| Charles Cullen | 18 | 40 | Nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who murdered 40 patients between 1988 and 2003. | |
| Paul John Knowles | 18 | 35 | Killed 18 people in various states in 1974. Claimed 35 murders. Known as the “Casanova Killer”. | |
| Huang Yong | 17 | 25 | Lured and murdered 17 teenage boys, although he is suspected of 25 murders between September 2001 and 2003. | |
| Jeffrey Dahmer | 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 | 17 | 17 | Burglar who murdered 17 people between 1997 and 1998. Known as the “Prostitutes Killer” and the “Liguria Monster”. | |
| Vladimir Kondratenko | 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 | 16 | 65–100 | Convicted on 16 counts of murder but left a cryptic list of 65 murders. May have had an accomplice. | |
| Mahanand Naik | 16 | ? | Sources said that most of his victims were aged between 19 and 30. Strangled them through their dupattas. It also revealed that it was the lure of gold that led Naik to commit brutal killings. | |
| Mohammed Bijeh | 16 | 16 | 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 Thwala | 16 | 16 | Nicknamed the Phoenix Strangler after the area in which he committed his crimes. | |
| Elias Xitavhudzi | 16 | ? | Nicknamed Panga man for his use of a machete (locally known as a “panga”). | |
| Jimmy Maketta | 16 | 16 | Pleaded guilty and convicted of 16 murders and 19 rapes committed over a nine-month period in 2005. | |
| John Allen Muhammad | 16 | 16 | Carried out the Beltway sniper attacks together with Lee Boyd Malvo. | |
| Lee Boyd Malvo | 16 | 16 | Carried out the Beltway sniper attacks together with John Allen Muhammad. | |
| Robert Lee Yates | 16 | 16 | Killed prostitutes in the “Skid Row” area of E. Sprague Avenue in Spokane, Washington. | |
| Waltraud Wagner | 15 | 49-200 | Nurse who killed elderly at Lainz General Hospital in Vienna in 1983. 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”. | |
| Robert Hansen | 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 | 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 | 15 | 15 | Picked up young men in London between 1978 and 1982 and dismembered them, keeping various body parts around his home. | |
| Coral Eugene Watts | 14 | 80–100 | Was granted immunity for a dozen murders as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors in 1982 and was given 60 years in prison. In 2007 he was found guilty of the murders of Helen Dutcher (which brought a life sentence) and later that year was found guilty of the murder of Gloria Steele. Died of prostate cancer on September 21, 2007. | |
| Arthur Shawcross | 14 | 14 | After being arrested 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.” | |
| Richard Ramirez | 13 | 20+ | Killed 13 people between June 28, 1984, and August 24, 1985, in Los Angeles. Known as the “Night Stalker.” | |
| Peter Sutcliffe | 13 | 17 | Killed 13 women between October 30, 1975, and November 17, 1980, mainly in Yorkshire. Was known as the “Yorkshire Ripper.” | |
| Cleveland Torso Murderer | 13 | 40+ | Unidentified serial killer, also known as The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, who targeted drifters and derelicts, of whom only two were identified, between 1934 and 1938 in Cleveland, Ohio. | |
| Kaspars Petrovs | 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. | |
| Herbert Mullin | 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. | |
| David Parker Ray | 12 | 60 | Torture-murderer possibly aided by numerous accomplices, including his girlfriend. Targeted victims in the Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, area. Known as the “Toybox Killer” for the mobile home he used as a house to rape, torture, and kill women. | |
| Dr. Maxim Petrov | 12 | 19 | Doctor who killed his patients in St. Petersburg. Suspected of 19 murders. | |
| William Suff | 12 | 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 | 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 Bianchi | 12 | 15 | Convicted of strangling twelve females between ages 12 and 28 and suspected in another three cases. One of the “Hillside Stranglers”. | |
| Fred West and Rosemary West | 12 | 12+ | 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. | |
| Benjamin Atkins | 11 | 11 | Raped and strangled his victims before abandoning their bodies in vacant buildings. | |
| Bloody Benders | 11 | Unknown | Active 1872 and 1873. Fate unknown. | |
| John Justin Bunting | 11 | 11 | Ringleader in the Snowtown murders; sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. | |
| Nannie Doss | 11 | 11 | Responsible for 11 deaths between 1927 and 1954. Known as the “Giggling Nanny”, the “Giggling Granny,” and the “Jolly Black Widow.” | |
| Leonard Lake and Charles Ng | 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. | |
| Henry Lee Lucas | 11 | 600 | Convicted of 11 murders. 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. | |
| Clifford Olson | 11 | 11 | Considered a dangerous offender, meaning that Olsen may never be released from prison. Has had three parole applications rejected. | |
| Anthony Sowell | 11 | Unknown | see Wikipedia article | |
| Jack Unterweger | 10 | 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, where he may have killed another 3 prostitutes, on behalf of Austrian police. Hanged himself in 1994 after being sentenced to life in prison. | |
| David Randitsheni | 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. | |
| Edmund Kemper | 10 | 10 | A victim of Herbert Mullin was attributed to him originally. | |
| Dennis Rader | 10 | 10 | Known as the BTK Killer. Murdered at least ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. | |
| Robert Joe Wagner | 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 | 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. | |
| Gerald Gallego | 10 | 10 | Killed ten victims in Sacramento, California, between 1978 and 1980 together with his wife, Charlene Gallego. | |
| Donald Henry Gaskins (a.k.a. “Pee Wee” Gaskins) |
9 | 181 | Known as “The Meanest Man in America,” he was convicted of nine murders in South Carolina taking place between 1969 and 1975. He was suspected in over 80 murders of mainly young boys and girls. He admitted to 181 killings in his final memoirs. | |
| Herman Mudgett (a.k.a. H.H. Holmes) | 9 | 27–350+ | Active 1888–1894. Targeted mostly younger women during the Chicago World’s Fair in the 1890s and killed them by enticing them to his custom-built “murder castle,” which was tailor-made to kill large numbers of people using a wide variety of premeditated methods. To keep this secret, he fired all his builders and hired new ones before any one set of builders could ever finish one part of the “house.” He sometimes murdered his victims on a day-to-day basis but usually slept with the victim first and devised a method in the morning. Actual body count is unknown, but it is possible that there could have been more than 230 victims, as the majority of the victims were completely dissolved into acid housed in a gigantic pit built into his basement. | |
| Patrick Lynch | 9 | 10 | Irish convict transported to Australia who killed nine people in the town of Berrima over a three-day period in February 1841 but denied involvement in a tenth murder in 1835 when he was a bushranger. Dubbed “The Berrima Axe Murderer”; hanged on April 22, 1842. | |
| Peter Kürten | 9 | 9 | Charged with nine murders and seven attempted murders. Dubbed “The Vampire of Düsseldorf” by the contemporary media. Executed by guillotine in 1931 (age 48). | |
| Ondrej Rigo | 9 | 9 | Slovak serial killer and necrophile, who committed his murders during the early 1990s in Slovakia, Germany and Netherlands. 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. | |
| Dagmar Overbye | 9 | 15 | She murdered between 9 and 25 children – of which one was her own – during a seven-year period from 1913 to 1920. 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. | |
| Thomas Quick | 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. | |
| Joseph Paul Franklin | 8 | 20 | Confessed to 20 murders and several attempted murders. Still awaiting trial for most of these crimes. | |
| Peter Manuel | 8 | 18 | A USA-born Scottish burglar and serial killer who is known to have killed eight people across Lanarkshire 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 on May 13, 2005 by lethal injection, making it the first execution in Connecticut and the whole of New England since 1960. | |
| Alexander Pearce | 8 | 8 | Irish convict transported to Australia who killed and cannibalized his fellow escapees in two separate escapes in four months in 1822. Hanged on July 9, 1824. | |
| Jean-Baptiste Troppmann | 8 | 8 | Born October 5, 1849 in Brunstatt (Haut-Rhin), he murdered 8 members of the unrelated Kinck family over a period of several months in 1869. His execution on January 19, 1870, in Paris, became the subject of an essay by Ivan Turgenev. | |
| Ivan Milat | 7 | 23–37 | Convicted of the Backpacker murders; sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences plus 18 years without the possibility of parole. May have had accomplices. | |
| Derrick Todd Lee | 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 | 7 | 8+ | Boiler operator who killed prostitutes in Los Angeles during 1980. One of the “Sunset Strip Killers”. | |
| Christopher Worrell | 7 | 7 | Died in car accident before capture. | |
| Orville Lynn Majors | 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. | |
| Albert Fish | 6 | 100(?) | Pedophile and cannibal. Connected to three murders; claimed to be responsible for many others. Electrocuted on Jan. 16, 1936. | |
| Tommy Lynn Sells | 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 | 6 | 20–49(?) | Found guilty of six counts of second-degree murder. Accused of murdering 20 other women, most of them prostitutes and drug dealers. | |
| John Wayne Glover | 6 | 13 | British ex-pat living in Australia. Known by the media as “The Granny Killer” as he targeted elderly women. | |
| Aileen Wuornos | 6 | 8+ | Killed strangers, all men, along Florida highways over 13 months in 1989 and 1990 while working as a prostitute. | |
| Mary Cowan | 6 | 6+ | Cowan killed 3 daughters and first husband, then killed a second husband, and a stepson by a third husband before she was stopped. | |
| Jack the Stripper | 6 | 8 | Murdered at least six prostitutes in London between 1964 and 1965, and may have been responsible for the deaths of two others before that. Remains unidentified. | |
| Gert van Rooyen 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. | |
| James Miller | 6 | 7 | Sentenced to six consecutive terms of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 35 years. Died of cancer in 2008. | |
| Richard Chase | 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 | 6 | 6 | The “Son of Sam”, he would shoot couples in their cars, killing six and wounding seven. | |
| Aleksandr Rubel | 6 | 6 | He was intoxicated with gasoline vapours during all his murders. Sentenced as a minor to the maximum punishment allowed by law — eight years of imprisonment — he was released on 8 June 2006. | |
| Allen Thompson | 6 | 6 | Convicted of the murders of a family of four in Richardson in March 1984, and of two of the family’s aunts who had died in a car accident in Canberra in December 1981; sentenced to six consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. | |
| András Pándy | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002. | |
| Billy Cook | 6 | 6 | Executed December 12, 1952. | |
| Richard Cottingham | 5 | 85-100 | Killer operating in New York between 1977 and 1980. Convicted of five murders but selfmade claims of victim count as up to a hundred. Known as the “Torso Killer”. | |
| Irene Leidolf | 5 | 49-200 | Nurse who killed elderly at Lainz General Hospital in Vienna in 1983. Together with her accomplices she confessed to 49 murders but may have been responsible to up to 200. One of the “Lainz Angels of Death”. | |
| Amy Archer-Gilligan | 5 | 48? | Active 1910 to 1917; died in mental hospital in 1962. | |
| Zodiac Killer | 5 | 37 | Targeted young couples. Was never apprehended. | |
| Joe Ball | 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 | 5 | 17–25 | Murderer and serial killer suspect. | |
| Jack The Ripper | 5 | 4–16 | Nobody was ever caught for the murders, and the identity of the killer has never been discovered. Preyed on prostitutes in Whitechapel, London, in 1888. Arguably the most infamous serial killer in history. | |
| Steve Wright | 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 five prostitutes, all of whom worked in Ipswich in 2006. There are possible links to previous Suffolk prostitute killings. | |
| Kristen Gilbert | 5 | 70? | Targeted patients. Sentenced to life without parole. | |
| Carl Panzram | 5 | 22 | From 1920 to 1928, he claimed in a posthumous autobiography to have committed over 22 killings. Hanged on September 5, 1930. | |
| Carl Williams | 5 | 14 | Gangland hitman; sentenced to four consecutive sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 35 years. Williams died in 2010 after being attacked by a fellow inmate. | |
| Lindsay Robert Rose | 5 | 10 | Contract killer who operated between 1984 and 1994; sentenced to five consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. | |
| William Patrick Fyfe | 5 | 9 | Convicted of killing five women in the Montreal area of Quebec, although he claims to have killed four others. He serve 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 | 5 | 8 | Known as the “Gainesville Ripper”; murdered five students in August 1990. Executed on October 6, 2006. | |
| Vincent Johnson | 5 | 6 | The Brooklyn Strangler. | |
| Ian Brady and Myra Hindley | 5 | 5 | The “Moors Murderers“. Abducted children in northern England. They were found guilty of two and three murders respectively. | |
| Caroline Grills | 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. | |
| Thomas Dillon | 5 | 5 | Ohio Sniper. | |
| William MacDonald | 5 | 5 | Murdered derelicts in Sydney and Brisbane between 1960 and 1962; sentenced to five consecutive life sentences. | |
| Queho | 5 | 1? | Active 1910/1911 and 1919. Found dead in a cave in 1940. | |
| Alfred Packer | 5 | 5 | Murderer and cannibal. | |
| Marc Dutroux | 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 | 5 | 5 | Murdered five people including Gianni Versace between April 1997 and July 1997 ending with his suicide. | |
| Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood | 5 | 5 | Nurses who killed five elderly women in Grand Rapids, Michigan. | |
| Harry Powers | 5 | 2 | Lonely hearts swindler and conman. Killed two women and three children in Quiet Dell, West Virginia. Arrested 1931 after bodies of victims found buried near his garage. Hanged March 28, 1932. | |
| Ottis Toole | 4 | 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, 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. | |
| Leonard Fraser | 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. | |
| Arnold Sodeman | 4 | 4 | The schoolgirl strangler, hanged in 1936. | |
| David and Catherine Birnie | 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. | |
| Jozef Slovák | 4 | 4+ | A Slovak serial killer active in Slovakia and Czech republic from 1978 to 1991. He was suspected by his investigators of more murders, but only four could be proven. | |
| 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 | 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 | 4 | 4 | Snowtown murderer and stepson of John Justin Bunting; sentenced to four consecutive life sentences with a non-parole period of 26 years. | |
| Mark Jeffries | 4 | 4 | Convict transported from Ireland who cannibalized his fellow escapees in 1824; hanged in 1826. | |
| Peter Woodcock | 4 | 4 | Sexual sadist and child rapist. Killed three young children in Toronto in the 1950s. Sentenced to a psychiatric facility, where he murdered a fellow inmate in 1991. | |
| Lam Kor-wan | 4 | 4 | Taxi driver and one of Hong Kong’s only serial killers. Famous for keeping body parts in his parents’ home. | |
| Kathleen Folbigg | 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 | 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.” | |
| Tsutomu Miyazaki | 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. | |
| Robert Napper | 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 | 3 | 3 | The trophies this seemingly well-adjusted former teacher took from his victims led the press to dub him the “Texas Eyeball Killer.” | |
| 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. | |
| Bible John | 3 | 3 | Unidentified strangler and rapist of young women active in Glasgow between 1968 and 1969. | |
| Bendali Debs | 3 | 3–5 | Convicted of the murder of Kirsty Harty at Upper Beaconsfield in 1997 and of the Moorabbin Police murders 14 months later; sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 27 years without the possibility of parole. | |
| Paul Denyer | 3 | 5 | Serial killer known as the “Frankston Killer” who murdered three women in 1993; sentenced to three consecutive life sentences with a non-parole period of 30 years. | |
| Westley Allan Dodd | 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 almost thirty years. | |
| Peter Dupas | 3 | 6 | Sexual sadist from Melbourne, who murdered three women and is suspected of at least three further killings. Serving three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Was convicted of 16 separate acts of sexual violence before his first murder charge. | |
| William Heirens | 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. | |
| Eddie Leonski | 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. | |
| Gordon Northcott | 3 | 17 | 1928 murderer with his mother in the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. | |
| Altemio Sanchez | 3 | 3 | Known as the Bike Path Rapist for murdering three women and raping at least 14 others in and around the Buffalo, New York area over a span of 25 years (1981–2006). Sentenced to 75 years in prison with no chance of parole. | |
| Dr. Michael Swango | 3 | 30+ | Murderer and serial killer suspect. | |
| Peter Tobin | 3 | 48 | 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 murders, committed in Glasgow during the late 1960s. | |
| Stephen Griffiths | 3 | 14 | English serial killer known to have killed 3 prostitutes but says he’s killed 14 to beat yorkshire ripper peter sutcliffe.He killed his victims with a hammer and crossbow and then later ate parts of them which was why he was later dubbed crossbow cannibal. | |
| Javed Iqbal | 2 | 100+ | Killed young and poor children from all across Pakistan along with three teenage accomplices. Surrendered himself to the police after his 100th kill, but committed suicide before being executed. |
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