Name | Victims | Dates | Places | Notes |
Pedro Alonso Lopez "The Monster of the Andes" | 300+ | 1978 | Peru, Colombia and Ecuador | young girls |
Dr. Harold Shipman | 250+ | 1970-99 | England | Mostly Elderly Women Story |
Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole | 200+ | 1976-83 | TX, VA + 18 Other states | hitchhikers, Story |
H.H. Holmes | 200+ | 1890- | Chicago | Story |
Gilles de Rais
"The Original Bluebeard" | 140+ | 1430- | Brittany, France |
Pee Wee Gaskins | 100+ | 1969-76 | American South | Went on a hunting spree every 6 seeks while driving costal highways for his stolen car fencing business. Some were stabbed, some shot, and others drowned.
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Delfina & Maria de Jesus Gonzales | 91+ | 1964 | Guanajuato, Mexico | bordello owners |
Bruno Ludke | 80 | 193?-43 | Germany |
Andrei Chikatilo
"Rostov Ripper" | 52+ | 1970-82 | Rostov, Russia. (The Soviet Hannibal Lecter) |
Anatoly Onoprienko | 52 | 1989-1995 | Ukraine |
"The Green River Killer" | 48+ | 1982-1984 | Seattle-Tacoma | Young women. Story |
Gerald Stano | 41 | 1969 | NJ, PA, FL | |
Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski | 40+ | 1983- | NJ | Mafia Hit Man and scam artist. He claimed to have killed between 100 and 200. Stories at CrimeLibrary and wikipedia |
Charles Cullen | 40 | 1993-2003 | PA, NJ |
Hospital Nurse. Story |
Elizabeth Bathory | 40+ | | Hungary |
Moses Sithole & David Selepe | 40+ | |
South Africa |
Zodiac Killer | 37+ | 1966-69 | CA | Story |
Donald Harvey "Angel of Death" | 34+ | 1983-86 | OH | Hospital Orderly |
"Twin Cities Killer" | 34 | 1986-94 | MN |
John Wayne Gacy The Killer Clown | 33 | 1978 | Chicago | Story |
Vasili Komaroff | 33 | | Moscow |
The I-45 Killer(s) | 32 | 1970-1999 | between Houston and Galveston |
John Gerard Schaefer | 30+ | | FL |
Patrick W. Kearney | 28+ | 1975-77 | CA |
Wayne Williams | 28 | | Atlanta |
Fritz Haarmann | 27+ | | Hannover, Germany |
Dean Corll | 27 | | Texas |
Bruce Lee | 26 | | Britain |
Leonard Lake & Charles Ng | 25+ | 1984-5 | CA |
Juan Corona "The Machete Murderer
" | 25 | 1970-71 | Yuba City, CA |
Story |
Marcel Petiot | 24+ | | Paris |
Helene Jegado | 23+ | | |
Ted Bundy | 22+ | 1974-78 | Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and Florida | Young women. Story |
Arnfinn Nesset | 22+ | |
Earl Nelson | 22+ | |
Norman Afzal Simons | 22 | |
Sunday Morning Slasher - Coral Eugene Watts | 22 | |
Carl Panzram | 21 | |
Martha Beck & Raymond Fernandez | 12+ | |
Bella Kiss | 24 | |
Lucian Staniak | 20 | |
Antone Costa | 20 | |
Larry Eyler | 19 | |
Paul John Knowles | 18+ | |
Mhlengwa Zikode | 18 | |
Joel Rifkin | 17+ | |
Robert Hansen | 17 | |
Jeffrey Dahmer | 17 | 1978-91 | Milwaukee |
Richard Ramirez "The Night Stalker" | 16+ | 1985-86 | Los Angeles area |
Randy Kraft "The Southern California Strangler" | 16+ | 1978,9 | 1972-79 |
"El Depredador Psic—pata" | 16 | |
Dennis Nilsen | 16 | |
Elias Xitavhudzi | 16 | |
William Burke & William Hare | 16 | |
Albert Fish | 15 | |
Joseph P. Franklin | 15 | |
Elifasi Msomi | 15 | |
William Bonin "Freeway Killer" | 14+ | |
"The Monster of Florence" | 14+ | |
Donald Leroy Evans | 14+ | |
Belle Gunness | 14+ | |
Joe Ball | 14+ | |
Robert Joseph Silveria | 14+ | |
Marcelo Costa de Andrade | 14 | |
Randall Woodfield | 13+ | |
William Lester Suff | 13+ | |
Peter Sutcliffe | 13+ | |
Johannes Mashiane | 13 | |
Arthur Shawcross | 13 | |
Herbert Mullin | 13 | |
Albert DeSalvo | 13 | |
Joseph Christopher | 13 | |
Jack Unterweger | 12+ | |
Rosemary & Fred West | 12+ | |
Southside Slayer | 12+ | 1984- | Los Angeles |
"The Cleveland Torso Murderer" | 12+ | 1935 to 1938 |
Elton Jackson "The Norfolk/Hampton Roads Killer" | 12 | mid-80s |
Eugene V. Britt | 11+ | |
Charlie Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate | 11 | |
Robert Clifford Olson | 11 | |
Albert DeSalvo "Boston Strangler" | 11 | 1962-64 | Boston |
Skid Row Slasher - Vaughn Greenwood | 11 | |
Juan Rodriguez Chavez | 11 | |
Henry Landru | 11 | |
Richard Angelo "The Angel of Death" | 10+ | 1978 | Long Island, NY | Hospital Nurse |
Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono
"Hillside Stranglers" | 10+ | |
John Lee Malvo and John Allen Muhammad "Beltway Snipers" | 10 | 2002 | Wash DC area | Stories at Fox |
Thomas Quick | 10+ | |
Edmund Kemper III | 10 | |
Bind Torture Kill Strangler "BTK Killer" | 6-10 | 1974-91 | Wichita, Kansas | In Feb. 2005 Dennis Radar, an upstanding local citizen was charged with the killings. Stories: Wichita Eagle, CBS, MSNCBC |
Gerald Gallego | 10 | |
Bobby Joe Long | 10 | |
The Original Night Stalker | 10 | 1979-84 | S. Calif. |
David J. Carpenter | 10 | |
Operation Enigma | 9+ | |
Calvin Jackson | 9+ | |
Peter Kurten | 9 | |
Ian Brady & Myra Hindley | 9 | |
Melvin David Rees | 9 | |
Christopher Wilder | 8+ | |
Dorothea Puente | 8+ | |
Gregory Clepper | 8 | |
Reginald Christie | 8 | |
Keith Jesperson | 8 | |
"I-70/I-35 Killer" | 8 | |
"The I-75 Killers" | 8 | |
"Colonial Parkway Killer" | 8 | |
Alton Coleman & Debra Brown | 8 | |
"Lisbon Ripper" | 7+ | |
Robert Berdella | 7+ | |
Harrison Graham | 7+ | |
Ivan Robert Marko Milat | 7 | |
Aileen Wuornos | 7 | |
Dayton Leroy Rogers "The Molalla Forest Killer" | 7 | 1987 | Portland, OR |
"Ironman" | 7 | |
Morris Solomon | 6+ | |
Douglas Clark & Carol Bundy | 6+ | |
Michael Ross | 6+ | 1982-84 | Connecticut, New York |
Ferdinand Gamper | 6 | |
Vincent Johnson "The Brooklyn Strangler" | 6 | 1999 |
Hubert Geralds Jr. | 6 | |
Rory E. Conde | 6 | |
David Berkowitz "Son of Sam" | 6 | 1976-77 | New York City |
Richard Trenton Chase | 6 | |
Cleophus Prince Jr. | 6 | |
John Haigh | 6 | |
"The Atteridgeville Mutilator" | 6 | |
Ilfreide Blauensteiner | 5+ | |
Glen Rogers | 5+ | |
Lawrence Bittaker & Roy Norris | 5+ | |
Abel Latif Sharif | 5+ | |
George Putt | 5+ | |
Daniel Harold Rolling | 5+ | |
"Juiz de Fora Strangler" | 5 | |
Jack the Ripper | 5 | 1888 | London |
Ralph Harris | 5 | |
Robert Shulman | 5 | |
Thomas L. | 5 | |
Colin Ireland | 5 | |
Jerome Brudos | 5 | |
Arthur Bishop | 5 | |
"OKC Serial Killer" | 4+ | |
"Pomona Strangler" | 4+ | |
Ricardo Caputo | 4+ | |
Francisco del Junco | 4 | |
John Martin Scripps | 4 | |
Jack Barron | 4 | |
Michael Lupo | 4+ | |
Robert Rozier | 4+ | |
Donald Miller | 4 | |
Georg Karl Grossmann | 4+ | |
Robert Arguelles | 4 | |
Ramon Jay Rogers | 3+ | |
Sean Patrick Goble | 3+ | |
Craig Price | 3 | |
"The Double-Initial Killer" | 3 | |
Joseph & Michael Kallinger | 3 | |
Ted Kaczynski "Unabomber" | 3 | 1978-95 | IL, NY, UT, TN, CA, WA, MI |
Theresa Cross | 3 | |
Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka | 3 | | | |
Charles Meach | 3 | |
Harvey Murray Glatman | 3 | |
William Heirens | 3 | |
Dr. Kusikov | 3 | 1992 |
St Petersburg, Russa | Real life Hannibal Lecter (from the movie "Silence of the Lambs"). Ate his victims. Story |
Charles Schmid | 3 | |
Victor Gant | 2+ | |
Ed Gein | 2+ | |
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