Serial Killers

Argentina Cayetano Santos Godino: also known as "Petiso Orejudo" ("Big Eared Midget"); at 16, killed four children in 1912; died in prison in 1944 Robledo Puch: also known as "The Death Angel" and "The Black Angel" killed 11 people before his arrest in 1972; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980 Australia David and Catherine Birnie: also known as "Moorhouse murders"; couple from the suburban Perth area responsible for the murders of four women Gregory Brazel: shot dead a woman in 1982 armed robbery and murdered two prostitutes in 1990 John Bunting, Robert Wagner and James Vlassakis: also known as "Bodies in the Barrels Murders"; convicted of the Snowtown murders of 11 people between 1992 and 1999 Eric Edgar Cooke: also known as "The Night Caller"; killed at least 8 people; last person to be hanged in Western Australia Paul Denyer: also known as "Frankston Killer"; murdered three women in 1993 in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston Peter Dupas: serving three life sentences for multiple murders and rape charges Kathleen Folbigg: murdered four of her infants Leonard Fraser: also known as "The Rockhampton Rapist"; convicted of killing four women in Rockhampton, Queensland John Wayne Glover: also known as "The Granny Killer"; killed six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore; committed suicide in 2005 Caroline Grills: also known as "Auntie Thally"; serial poisoner of five family members Matthew James Harris: strangled a friend's brother, a female friend and a male neighbour to death over five weeks in 1998 in Wagga Wagga Thomas Jeffries: Tasmanian penal colony escapee responsible for the murders of four people; executed in 1826 William MacDonald: also known as "the Mutilator"; killed at least five men between June 1961 and April 1963 John and Sarah Makin: late 19th century baby farmers who killed and buried 12 children at a succession of their homes Ivan Milat: killed at least seven tourists in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales; suspected in similar disappearances in Newcastle Martha Rendell: killed three stepchildren with hydrochloric acid in the 20th century; last woman to be hanged in Western Australia Arnold Sodeman: also known as the "School-girl Strangler"; killed four children in Melbourne in the 1930s Christopher Worrell and James Miller: convicted of killing six victims Austria Elfriede Blauensteiner: poisoner of three individuals Jack Unterweger: author and sexual sadist; convicted of 10 murders; believed to have killed 12 women Waltraud Wagner and Irene Leidolf: also known as the "Lainz Angels of Death"; nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in Vienna who admitted to murdering 49 patients Belarus Gennady Mikhasevich: police volunteer who investigated his own mission-oriented murders of 36 women between 1971 and 1985 Belgium Marc Dutroux: child molester and killer András Pándy: also known as "Vader Blauwbaard" (Father Bluebeard); convicted of the murder and rape of his two wives and four children Brazil Abraão José Bueno: nurse who killed four child patients Pedro Rodrigues Filho: also known as "Pedrinho Matador"; convicted and sentenced to 128 years imprisonment for 70 murders; however, the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years; claimed to have killed more than 100 victims, including 40 prison inmates Edson Isidoro Guimarães: nurse who killed four patients but suspected of 131 deaths in total Anísio Ferreira de Sousa: gynaecologist who was convicted of the murder of three children but linked to the disappearance of a total of 19 Canada Paul Bernardo: also known as "the Scarborough Rapist"; a Toronto man who killed three teenage girls (including his wife's sister) with the aid of his wife Karla Homolka Wayne Boden: also known as "the Vampire Rapist" killed 4 women between 1968–1971 John Martin Crawford: convicted in 1996 for the murders of three women Léopold Dion: also known as "Monster of Pont-Rouge"; raped and killed four young boys in 1960; murdered in 1972 William Patrick Fyfe: convicted of killing five women in Montreal; suspect in several other murders Gilbert Paul Jordan: killed between eight and 10 women by alcohol poisoning Allan Legere: also known as "Monster of the Miramichi"; killer of five individuals Clifford Olson: murdered 11 children in British Columbia Robert Pickton: charged with the first degree murders of 26 women; allegedly confessed to 49 murders; convicted December 9, 2007 of six charges; reduced to second degree murder Peter Woodcock: murdered three children in 1956–1957 and a fellow psychiatric institute patient in 1991 People's Republic of China Gong Runbo: found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers aged between nine and 16 from 2005 to 2006 Huang Yong: between September 2001 and 2003 killed at least 17 teenage boys; executed in 2003 Shen Changyin and Shen Changping: found guilty of the murders of 11 prostitutes Yang Xinhai: confessed to killing 65 people between 2000 and 2003; executed in 2004 Colombia Daniel Camargo Barbosa: also known as "The Sadist of El Charquito", who is believed to have raped and killed over 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s. Luis Garavito: also known as "The Beast" admitted to murder and rape of 140 young boys. Pedro López: also known as "The Monster of the Andes"; accused of raping and killing more than 300 girls across South America. Croatia Vinko Pintarić: murdered five people, including his wife, between 1973 and 1990. Escaped from custody three times, killed in a 1991 shootout with the police. Czech Republic Marie Fikáčková: female nurse who was executed by hanging in 1961 for the murders of 10 babies Václav Mrázek: convicted of the murders of seven women; executed in 1957 Hubert Pilčík: killed at least 5 people who he had to get across the border from the Czech Republic into Germany. In 1951 he committed suicide in prison. Petr Zelenka: male nurse convicted of seven murders to "test" doctors Denmark Peter Lundin: killed his mother in 1991, then killed his mistress and her two children 9 years later; Sentenced to prison Dagmar Overbye: childcare provider who killed between nine and 25 children; sentenced to death in 1921 then reprieved Egypt Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour: also known as "Al-Tourbini"; gang leader who raped and murdered homeless children by throwing them off trains in the 2000s, sometimes burying them alive Raya and Sakina: Egypt's most famous serial killers and the first Egyptian women to be executed by the modern state of Egypt Estonia Aleksandr Rubel: convicted murderer of six people Finland Matti Haapoja: convicted murderer of three people, admitted to the murders of 18; possibly killed 22–25; sentenced to life imprisonment, hanged himself in a prison cell Aino Nykopp-Koski: first Finnish female serial killer, convicted of 5 murders and 5 attempted murders; sentenced to life in prison France Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers: French poisoner; executed in 1676 Pierre Chanal: serial killer of 17 boys between 1980 and 1987 who committed suicide in 2003 Michel Fourniret: also known as Ogre of Ardennes confessed to nine murders of young girls; allegedly killed 10 more between 1987 and 2001 Guy Georges: also known as the "Beast of the Bastille"; serving a life sentence for seven murders between 1991 and 1997 Francis Heaulme: serving a life sentence for 20 murders between 1984 and 1992 Hélène Jégado: domestic servant who poisoned at least 23 people between 1833 and 1851; executed in 1852 Henri Désiré Landru: killed 11 people; inspired the character of Monsieur Verdoux played by Charlie Chaplin Émile Louis: preyed on young handicapped women (seven murders) in 1970s Christine Malèvre: nurse sentenced for the murders of at least 30 terminally ill patients Thierry Paulin: also known as the "Beast of Montmartre"; preyed on the elderly in the 1980s and Murderer of 21 old women Marcel Petiot: doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the Nazis; executed in 1946 Gilles de Rais: 15th century satanist and child killer (400 killed) Joseph Vacher: also known as "The French Ripper"; 19th century serial killer of 11 people Jeanne Weber: convicted of the murders of 10 children Eugen Weidmann: German who strangled and robbed American dancer Jean de Koven, shot a former accomplice, and shot dead and robbed four other people around Paris in 1937 Germany Jürgen Bartsch: killed four, one escaped; died by wrongful overdose during castration surgery Karl Denke: cannibal; allegedly killed 30–40 people in the 1920s Volker Eckert: accused of 19 murders between 1974 and 2006 Gesche Gottfried: serial poisoner who murdered 15 people in Hanover and Bremen; publicly executed in 1831 Karl Grossmann: killed women and sold their flesh on the black market Fritz Haarmann: preyed on young men and boys; executed in 1925 Fritz Honka: murdered four women in Hamburg and kept the bodies in his apartment Joachim Kroll: claimed 13 victims over three decades Peter Kürten: also known as the "Vampire of Düsseldorf"; executed in 1932 Stephan Letter: male nurse who killed 29 patients; arrested in 2006 Marianne Nölle: female nurse who was convicted of killing seven patients between 1984 and 1992; suspected of killing 17; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993 Paul Ogorzow: also known as the "S-Bahn murderer"; SA sergeant convicted of raping and murdering eight women by throwing them off trains in Berlin during blackouts in 1941 and 1942 Norbert Poehlke, also known as 'The Hammer-Killer': police officer, bank robber and serial killer Peter Stumpp: self-proclaimed werewolf who killed 16 people during the 16th century Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus: Berlin aristocrat convicted of poisoning her aunt with arsenic at the turn of the 19th century; boyfriend and husband died similarly Elisabeth Wiese: also known as the "Angel Maker of St. Pauli"; baby farmer who poisoned her grandchild and four others with morphine and burned their bodies in a stove in 1902 and 1903 Anna Maria Zwanziger: Bavarian poisoner; killer of four people; executed in 1811 Ghana Charles Quansah: convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women in Accra; suspected of killing 34; sentenced to death in 2003 Greece Antonis Daglis: also known as the "Athens Ripper"; convicted in 1997 of the strangulation murders and dismemberment of three women and the attempted murder of six others Hong Kong Lam Kor-wan: sexual sadist who murdered and dismembered four women in the 1980s; sentenced to life imprisonment Lam Kwok-wai: murdered three women Charles Sobhraj: killed at least 12 Western tourists in Southeast Asia during the 1970s Hungary Erzsébet Báthory: countess who killed servant girls; rumored to have killed more than 600 Béla Kiss: murdered at least 24 women, escaped justice in the confusion of World War I India Joshi-Abhyankar Serial Murders: quartet committed around 10 murders Thug Behram: alleged to have killed over 900 people; executed in 1840 Surender Koli: convicted of raping and murdering four children in Delhi in 2005 and 2006 with another 12 cases pending Raman Raghav: killed homeless people and others in their sleep Auto Shankar: murdered nine teenage girls in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai during a six-month period in 1988; executed in 1995 Indonesia Verry Idham Henyansyah: convicted and sentenced to death for the killing of 11 people Ahmad Suradji: admitted to killing 42 women; sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on July 10, 2008 Iran Mohammed Bijeh: also known as the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran; executed in 2005 Saeed Hanaei: also known as "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around Mashhad; executed in 2002 Israel Nicolai Bonner: killed four people in 2005 in Haifa, three of them homeless; sentenced to life imprisonment Italy Wolfgang Abel and Mario Furlan: German-Italian duo found guilty of 10 of 27 counts of murder in 1987 Donato Bilancia: murdered 17 people in seven months between 1997 and 1998 Leonarda Cianciulli: also known as "Soap-Maker of Correggio"; murderess of three women Giancarlo Lotti and Mario Vanni: also known as "The Monster of Florence"; convicted of eight murders of couples in a series of 16 between 1968 and 1985 Roberto Succo: murdered at least five people, including his parents Jamaica Lewis Hutchinson: Scottish immigrant convicted of shooting dozens of people in the 18th century; executed in 1773 Japan Sataro Fukiage: raped and killed at least seven girls in the early 20th century Hiroaki Hidaka: killed four prostitutes in 1996; executed on December 25, 2006 Miyuki Ishikawa: murdered an estimated 103, but could have been up to 169 infants in the 1940s Kiyotaka Katsuta: firefighter who shot and strangled at least eight people, some during robberies, between 1972 and 1982 Yoshio Kodaira: rapist thought to have killed 11 people in Japan and Chinese people as a soldier Genzo Kurita: killed six women and two children and engaged in rape and necrophilia Hiroshi Maeue: also known as "Suicide Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata: also known as "House of Horror"; tortured and killed at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Ogata's family Tsutomu Miyazaki: also known as "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer" and "Dracula"; killed four preschool-age girls and ate the hand of a victim; executed in 2008 Seisaku Nakamura: also known as "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer", murdered at least nine people Akira Nishiguchi: killed five people and engaged in fraud Kiyoshi Ōkubo: raped and murdered eight young women over a period of 41 days in 1971 Kazhakstan Nikolai Dzhumagaliev: also known as "Metal Fang"; raped and hacked seven women to death with an axe in Almaty in 1980, then cannibalised them using his unusual false teeth Latvia Kaspars Petrovs: convicted of murdering 13 elderly Riga women in 2005; confessed to killing 38 Macedonia Vlado Taneski: crime reporter arrested in June 2008 for the murder of three elderly women on whose deaths he had written articles; committed suicide in police custody; suspected of killing another woman Mexico Juana Barraza: also known as "Mataviejitas" ("Old Lady Killer"); operated within the metropolitan area of Mexico City until January 25, 2006 José Luis Calva: cannibal; police found the remains of multiple female victims in his house; committed suicide on December 11, 2007 Adolfo Constanzo: also known as "The Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico; committed suicide in 1989 Delfina and María de Jesús González: also known as "Las Poquianchis"; killed a total of 91; arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1964 Raúl Osiel Marroquín: also known as "El Gato Imperial"; killed four male homosexuals in Mexico City Netherlands Maria Swanenburg: killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s New Zealand Minnie Dean: Scottish immigrant baby farmer who killed at least three children by laudanum poisoning and suffocation in the 1890s Norway Arnfinn Nesset: manager of a geriatric nursing home who poisoned 22 dwellers at the Orkdal Alders- og Sjukeheim institution over a period of years before being convicted in 1983 Pakistan Javed Iqbal: believed to have killed 100 boys Poland Zdzisław Marchwicki: also known as "Zagłębie Vampire"; convicted of murdering 14 women; executed in 1976 Władysław Mazurkiewicz: also known as "The Gentleman Killer"; killed up to 30 women Stanisław Modzelewski: murdered seven women in Łódź during the 1960s; executed in 1970 Andrzej Nowocień: also known as the "Skin Hunters"; paramedic in Łódź who killed patients for profit Leszek Pękalski: also known as the "Vampire of Bytów"; killed up to 17 women Portugal António Luís Costa: ex-GNR officer who murdered three women between 2005 and 2006. Sentenced to 25 years in prison. Romania Vera Renczi: poisoned two husbands, one son and 32 of her suitors in the 1920s and 1930s Ion Rîmaru: murdered and raped young women in Bucharest from 1970 to 1971; executed in 1971 Romulus Vereş: convicted of five murders, sent to a mental institution Russia Valeriy Asratyan: arrested in 1990 and convicted of three murders and dozens of cases of sexual abuse; executed Andrei Chikatilo: also known as "The Rostov Ripper"; killed 52 women and children throughout the Soviet Union; arrested, convicted and executed in 1994 Sergey Golovkin: also known as "The Fisher" killed 11 boys between 1986 and 1992, executed 1996. Vasiliy Kulik: killed 13 people aged between seven months and 75 years; executed Maxim Petrov: also known as "Doctor Killer" and "Doctor Death"; doctor who killed 12 patients Alexander Pichushkin: also known as "Bitsa Maniac", "The Chessboard Killer"; convicted of 48 murders; confessed to killing 63 Sergei Ryakhovsky: also known as "The Hippopotamus"; convicted of the murders of 19 people aged between 14 and 78 Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova: 18th century noblewoman who tortured and killed serfs on her estate Anatoly Slivko: convicted of killing seven young boys; executed Alexander Spesivtsev: cannibal convicted of the murders of 19 women Slovakia Ondrej Rigo: killed, raped and mutilated 9 women in Amsterdam, Munich and Bratislava, always wearing socks on his hands; he remains the Slovak murderer with the highest number of victims and he is also the most prolific serial killer in modern Slovak history. Jozef Slovák: after serving just 8 years for his first murder from 1978, Slovák killed at least 4 other women in Slovakia and Czech Republic in the early 1990s; highly intelligent, holder of numerous patents in electronics. Slovenia Silvo Plut: killed three women; committed suicide in prison in 2007 Metod Trobec: raped and killed at least five women; committed suicide in prison in 2006 South Africa Sibusiso Duma: murdered 7 people in the Pietermaritzburg area of KwaZulu Natal in 2007 Cedric Maake: also known as also known as the "Wemmer Pan Killer"; serial rapist; murdered at least 27 people from 1996–1997 Jimmy Maketta: also known as "Jesus Killer" convicted on 16 counts of murder, 19 counts of rape from 1996–1999 Johannes Mashiane: also known as "The Beast of Atteridgeville" 13 counts of murder, 12 counts of sodomy from 1982–1989 Daisy de Melker: poisoner; killed two husbands and one son from 1923–1932 Jack Mogale: also known as the "West-End serial killer"; convicted of raping and murdering 16 women in Johannesburg in 2008 and 2009 Elifasi Msomi: also known as "The Axe Killer" murdered 15 people under the influence of the Tokoloshe from 1953–1955 Nicholas Lungisa Ncama: murdered 6 people in the Eastern Cape, 1997 David Randitsheni: also known as "Modimolle Serial Killer" raped and murdered 10 children (kidnapped and raped more) from 2004–2008 Gert van Rooyen: allegedly abducted and murdered at least six girls from across South Africa from 1988–1989 Samuel Sidyno: also known as "Capital Hill Serial Killer" murdered 7 people in Pretoria from 1998–1999 Norman Afzal Simons: also known as "Station Strangler" raped, sodomised and murder 22 children on the Cape Flats from 1986–1994 Moses Sithole: also known as "ABC Killer"and The South African Strangler raped and killed at least 38 young women in Atteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland from 1994 - 1995 Thozamile Taki also known as the "Sugarcane Serial Killer"; robbed and killed 10 women in KwaZulu Natal and three in Eastern Cape, dumping their bodies in sugarcane and tea plantations Sipho Thwala: also known as the "Phoenix Strangler"; raped and murdered 19 women in the sugarcane fields of KwaZulu Natal from 1996 to 1997. Stewart Wilken: also known as "Boetie Boer"; raped, sodomised and murdered at least 7 victims from 1990–1997 Elias Xitavhudzi: also known as "Pangaman" murdered 16 people in Atteridgeville in the 1960s Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode: also known as also known as "Donnybrook Serial Killer" murdered 18 people in Donnybrook KwaZulu Natal from 1994–1995 South Korea Yoo Young-chul: cannibal; killed 21 people from September 2003 to July 2004, mainly young women and rich men Spain Francisca Ballesteros: between 1990 and 2004 killed her family and attempted to kill her surviving son Francisco Garcia Escalero: beggar convicted of 11 murders Enriqueta Martí: self-proclaimed witch who murdered and cannibalized six children in Barcelona; executed in 1912 José Antonio Rodriguez Vega: raped and killed at least 16 women Manuel Delgado Villegas: 48 alleged murders; convicted of eight Sweden Thomas Quick: also known as "Sätermannen"; confessed and convicted of eight murders Turkey Adnan Çolak: also known as "Artvin Monster"; killed 17 elderly women in Artvin, Turkey from 1992 to 1995. in 2000 he was sentenced to death six times, and 40 years in prison. However, since October 1984, Turkey has not executed any prisoners, and as of 2004, Turkey does not have capital punishment (death penalty). Özgür Dengiz: serial killer from Ankara, who killed four people and cannibalized at least one. Ukraine Anatoly Onoprienko: also known as "The Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996 Serhiy Tkach: convicted of raping and murdering 36 women, but claims the total is 100 Vladislav Volkovich and Vladimir Kondratenko: also known as the "Nighttime Killers"; charged with shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning 16 victims to death in Kiev between 1991 and 1997; Kondratenko committed suicide in prison during the trial; Volkovich was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment United Kingdom England Stephen Akinmurele: also known as the "Cul-de-sac killer"; committed suicide in Strangeways while awaiting trial for the murders of five elderly people in Blackpool and the Isle of Man Beverley Allitt: also known as also known as "Angel of Death"; paediatric nurse who killed four babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991 Levi Bellfield: also known as the "Bus Stop Stalker"; convicted of the 2002 Murder of Amanda Dowler and two fatal hammer attacks on young women in South West London in 2003 and 2004 Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: also known as "Moors Murderers"; murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17 and buried them in Saddleworth Moor Mary Ann Britland: poisoned her daughter, husband, and the wife of her lover in 1886 Peter Bryan: institutionalized for fatal hammer attack on woman in 1993; reapprehended for cannibalizing a friend in 2004 but able to batter a fellow patient to death months later George Chapman: poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper John Christie: gassed, raped and strangled at least five women from 1943 to 1953, hiding the bodies at his house in London; also strangled his wife and Timothy Evans' wife and baby daughter Robert George Clements: doctor who committed suicide when due to be arrested for poisoning his fourth wife. His other three wives all died suspiciously during the interwar period Mary Ann Cotton: British Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims; hanged in 1873 Thomas Neill Cream: also known as "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United States then moved to London; hanged in 1892 Frederick Bailey Deeming: in 1891 killed his wife and four children in Britain; remarried and moved to Australia, and then murdered his new wife John Duffy and David Mulcahy: also known as the "Railway Killers"; killed three women near railway stations in the 1980s Amelia Dyer: murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896 Kenneth Erskine: also known as "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners Steven Grieveson: also known as "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered three teenage boys in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in 1993 and 1994 Stephen Griffiths: also known as the "Crossbow Cannibal"; convicted of murdering three prostitutes in Bradford, England in 2009 and 2010 John George Haigh: also known as also known as the "Acid Bath Murderer" and the "Vampire of London"; active in England during the 1940s; convicted of six murders, but claimed to have killed nine; executed in 1949 Anthony Hardy: also known as the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four Trevor Hardy: also known as The Beast of Manchester killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976 Philip Herbert: also known as the "Infamous Earl of Pembroke"; 17th century nobleman convicted of manslaughter but discharged; later killed the prosecutor and pardoned for a third murder Colin Ireland: also known as "Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s Robin Ligus: drug addict convicted of robbing and bludgeoning three men to death with an iron bar in Shropshire in 1994 Michael Lupo: also known as "Wolf Man"; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders Patrick Mackay: charged with the murders of five individuals, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people Robert Maudsley: also known as "Hannibal The Cannibal"; killer of four; killed three in prison Raymond Morris: also known as the "A34 Killer"; convicted of one murder, considered to have committed at least two more Robert Napper: also known as the "Green Chain Rapist"; killed two women and a child in the 1990s Donald Neilson: also known as "Black Panther"; killed four people, including heiress Lesley Whittle Dennis Nilsen: killer of 15 (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983 Colin Norris: nurse convicted of killing four patients in Leeds hospitals William Palmer: also known as "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; hanged on June 14, 1856 Amelia Sach and Annie Walters: murdered an unknown number of babies put up for adoption Harold Shipman: also known as "Dr.Death"; 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: also known as "The Brides in the Bath"; killer of three women John Straffen: child killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner until his death on November 19, 2007 Peter Sutcliffe: also known as the "Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980 Thomas Griffiths Wainewright: artist considered to have poisoned four people Fred West and Rosemary West: also known as "House of Horrors"; she was convicted of 10 murders; both are believed to have tortured and murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987, many at the couple's home in Gloucester; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial Catherine Wilson: nurse considered to have poisoned seven people in the 19th century Mary Elizabeth Wilson: also known as the "Merry widow of Windy Nook"; convicted of murdering two husbands by poisoning and considered to have killed two others Steve Wright: also known as "The Suffolk Strangler" killed five women in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006 Graham Young: also known as "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971 Scotland Robert Black: Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of four murders, suspected of many more William Burke and William Hare: notorious body snatchers in Edinburgh in the 19th century Archibald Hall: also known as the "Monster Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael Kitto Peter Manuel: Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958 Edward William Pritchard: English doctor who poisoned his wife and her mother in 1865. Two years earlier their maid had died in a mysterious fire Peter Tobin: killer of three women Wales John Cooper: also known as "The Wildman"; and "The Bullseye Killer" Pembrokeshire burglar responsible for the robbery and shotgun double-murders of a brother and sister in 1985 and a couple in 1989 Peter Moore: businessman who killed four men at random in Wales United States of America Main article: List of serial killers in the United States Venezuela Dorangel Vargas: killed and cannibalized at least 10 men Unidentified serial killers

This is a list of unidentified serial killers. It includes circumstances where a suspect has been arrested, but not convicted. Australia Bowraville Murders: murders of three Aboriginal children in between 1990 and 1991 Claremont serial murders: murders of two young women and the disappearance of a third in 1996 and 1997 The Family Murders: murder and mutilation of five young men and boys between 1979 and 1983. Bevan Spencer von Einem was convicted of one murder. Brazil Paturis Park murders: also known as the "Rainbow Maniac"; series of 13 gunshot murders of gay men between July 2007 and August 2008 in Paturis Park (Parque dos Paturis) in Carapicuiba Canada Highway of Tears: death and disappearance of around 40 young women in British Columbia since 1969 Toronto Hospital Murders: digoxin poisonings of at least eight babies at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 1980 and 1981 India Beer Man: murdered seven people in south Mumbai between October 2006 and January 2007 Stoneman: responsible for 13 murders in Kolkata in 1989 Mexico Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez: also known as "The dead women of Juárez"; the violent deaths of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez Peru Lima Ripper: In early 1986, in landfills appeared legs and disfigured heads of women. The newspapers headlined their numbers "Lima Ripper!". He is accused of at least 7 murders. A possible suspect was Ángel Díaz Balbín but it was never proved because he was murdered by Mario Poggi Extremadoyro. Portugal Lisbon Ripper: murdered three women in Lisbon between 1992 and 1993 South Korea Hwaseong serial murders: series of murders between 1986 and 1991 in Hwaseong; ten women were found raped, bound, and murdered United Kingdom Bible John: thought to be responsible for the deaths of three women in Glasgow, Scotland in the late 1960s Jack the Ripper: murdered prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 Jack the Stripper: responsible for the London "nude murders" between 1964 and 1965 This scheme is used by the Deathrow Cluster, a series of machines providing OpenVMS shell accounts to the public at large. United States Alphabet murders: AKA "The Double Initial Murders"; murders of three young girls in the Rochester, New York area during the early 1970s. Ann Arbor Hospital Murders: pavulon poisonings of ten patients at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in 1975 Axeman of New Orleans: killer of at least eight people in the New Orleans area from May 1918 to October 1919 Boston Strangler: 1960s deaths of 13 women (five young, eight older), mostly with their own stockings as ligature. Albert DeSalvo confessed to the murders, but was never indicted, and DNA evidence has suggested his innocence in one of the cases Charlie Chop-off: murders of five boys in Manhattan in 1972 and 1973. A mental patient confessed to one slashing death. Four stabbings also involving mutilation remain unsolved Cincinnati Strangler: raped and strangled seven mostly elderly women in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1965 and 1966 Cleveland Torso Murderer: AKA "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"; responsible for 12–13 murders in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the 1930s Colonial Parkway Killer: believed to have murdered at least eight people in Virginia between 1986 and 1989; left three couples dead and one couple missing and presumed dead Connecticut River Valley Killer: stabbed at least six women to death in New England in the 1980s, severely injured one [3] Daytona Beach killer: murdered four, possibly five, women in Daytona Beach, Florida between 2005 and 2007 The Doodler: sketched then stabbed to death 14 gay men in San Francisco in the 1970s Edgecombe County Serial Killer: murders of nine women and disappearance of another since 2005 around Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Antwan Pittman has been convicted in one case Frankford Slasher: allegedly responsible for nine murders in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Leonard Christopher was convicted of one murder; another murder was committed in same style while he was incarcerated; believed to still be at large Freeway Phantom: raped and strangled six young women and girls in Washington, D.C. in the early 1970s, dumping their bodies by freeways Grim Sleeper: AKA "The Strawberry murders"; one man has been charged after DNA evidence linked him with ten murders in Los Angeles since 1985. Honolulu Strangler: raped and strangled five young women in Hawaii in 1985 and 1986 Long Island serial killer: suspected of killing eight women, a man and a child since 1996 and dumping their bodies along remote beaches in Suffolk and Nassau County, New York. The killer has been referred to as the Gilgo Beach killer because of the location where the first bodies were found.[4] New Bedford Highway Killer: murders of nine women and disappearance of two others between 1988 and 1989 Oakland County Child Killer: AKA "The Babysitter"; responsible for the murders of four or more children in Oakland County, Michigan in 1976 and 1977 Original Night Stalker: AKA "The East Area Rapist"; killer and rapist who murdered ten people in Southern California from 1979 through 1986 Phantom Killer: believed to have committed the Texarkana Moonlight Murders in Texas between February 23 and May 4, 1946 Servant Girl Annihilator: AKA "The Austin Axe Murderer"; responsible for at least seven murders in Austin, Texas between 1884 and 1885 Smiley face murder theory: theoretical serial killer(s) thought by some sources to have drowned college-aged young men across the northern part of the country since 1997; most experts suggest that the deaths were accidental West Mesa murders: remains of 11 women, who disappeared between 2003 and 2005, found buried in desert in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2009 and attributed to a bone collector Zodiac Killer: operated in northern California during the 1960s; five known victims; claimed to have killed as many as 37 people