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Source: members.tripod.com/ahrens/serial/index-frame.html and members.tripod.com/~SerialKillr/SerialKillersExposed/sknumber.html
| 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. | |
| 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+ | ||||
See open cases and others at greatdreams.com/serial-killer.htm
See Also:
Nicknames
Court TV's Crime Library
Serial Killer Central
Evaluating a Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer
Serial Killers at Yahoo
Mass Murderers
See Mass Mass Murderers (Schools, Cults, ...) page.
See Also:
Disasters - Accidents and Death Rates.
Domestic Terrorists at the Mass Murderers page.
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