• John Bodkin Adams: Was an Irish-born British general practitioner, convicted fraudster and suspected serial killer.^ Aug 16, 07) Suspected serial killer arousing new queries (Post-Tribune (IN) .
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  ^ This British serial killer is now often referred to as the British Jeffrey Dahmer, despite the fact that his crimes predated Dahmer's by over a decade.
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• Beverley Allitt: AKA "Angel of Death"; paediatric nurse who killed four babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991
• Robert Black: Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of three murders, suspected of many more
• Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: AKA "Moors Murderers"; murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17 and buried them in Saddleworth Moor
• William Burke and William Hare: notorious body snatchers in Edinburgh in the 19th century
• George Chapman: poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper
• John Reginald Halliday Christie: killed at least six women (including his wife) between 1943 and 1953 and hid the bodies in his house.^ Power Seekers: Kills for the desire to have control over the life and death of others.
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  ^ This lead to at least seven deaths being reclassified and attributed to Williams, who was ultimately tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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• Mary Ann Cotton: British Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims; hanged in 1873
• Thomas Neill Cream: AKA "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United States then moved to London; hanged in 1892
• John Duffy and David Mulcahy: AKA the "Railway Killers"; killed three women near railway stations in the 1980s
• Amelia Dyer: murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896
• Kenneth Erskine: AKA "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners
• Steven Grieveson: AKA "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered three teenage boys in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in 1993 and 1994
• John George Haigh: AKA 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
• Archibald Hall: AKA the "Monster Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael Kitto
• Anthony Hardy: AKA the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four
• Trevor Hardy: AKA "The Beast in the Night"; killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976
• Colin Ireland: AKA "Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s
• Michael Lupo: AKA "Wolf Man"; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders
• Bruce George Peter Lee: serial arsonist and killer
• Patrick Mackay: charged with the murders of five individuals, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people
• Peter Manuel: Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958
• Robert Maudsley: AKA "Hannibal The Cannibal"; killer of four; killed three in prison
• Peter Moore: businessman who killed four men at random in Wales
• Raymond Morris: AKA the "A34 Killer"; convicted of one murder, considered to have committed at least two more
• Robert Napper: AKA the "Green Chain Rapist"; killed two women and a child in the 1990s
• Donald Neilson: AKA "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: AKA "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 AKA "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: AKA "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: AKA the "Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980
• Peter Tobin killer of three women
• Thomas Griffiths Wainewright: artist considered to have poisoned four people
• Fred West and Rosemary West: AKA "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
• Steve Wright: AKA "The Suffolk Strangler" or "The Ipswich Ripper"; killed five women in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006
• Graham Young: AKA "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971

United States of America

• Charles Albright: AKA "The Eyeball Killer"; convicted of murdering three prostitutes in Dallas, Texas; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991
• Joe Ball: AKA "The Alligator Man"; killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas
• Herb Baumeister: suspected of killing 20+ men along I-70; fled and committed suicide after remains of 11 were found on his Westfield, Indiana property
• David Berkowitz: AKA "Son of Sam" and "The .44 Caliber Killer"; convicted of six murders in New York
• Bloody Benders: family who killed guests at their inn in Labette County, Kansas in 1872
• Robert Berdella: convicted of killing six men in 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri; sexually tortured and dismembered his victims
• Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr: AKA the "Hillside Strangler"; killers of 13 women and possibly involved in three other killings
• Richard Biegenwald: convicted of killing five people in the early 1980s in the Asbury Park, New Jersey area; suspected in at least six other murders
• Arthur Gary Bishop: Utah man who murdered five young boys; executed in 1988
• Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris: kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered five girls in 1979
• Terry Blair: Kansas City serial killer and rapist; active 1982–2004
• William Bonin: AKA "The Freeway Killer"; with several accomplices, claimed the lives of 20 boys in California
• Robert Charles Browne: convicted of two murders in Colorado; confessed to 48 murders
• Jerry Brudos: AKA "The Lust Killer" and "Shoe Fetish Slayer"; killed at least five women in Oregon
• Ted Bundy: law student who raped and murdered more than 35 women in six states; executed in Florida State Prison on January 24, 1989
• David Carpenter: AKA the "Trailside Killer"; murdered five women on San Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981
• Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson: nomadic hippie killers involved in the counter-culture movement; suspects in 12 homicides; sentenced to life imprisonment for three San Francisco Bay Area murders in 1983
• Dean Carter: murdered at least four women
• Richard Chase: AKA "The Vampire of Sacramento"; murdered six people in California the 1970s
• Doug Clark and Carol M. Bundy: AKA "Sunset Strip Killers"; killed at least seven people during 1980
• Carroll Cole: killed 16 people between 1948 and 1980; executed in 1985
• Alton Coleman and Debra Denise Brown: multi-state killers whose killings took place during two months in 1984; convicted of murder in three states
• Ray Copeland and Faye Copeland: oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States at the ages of 75 and 69; convicted of killing five men; modus operandi was to hire unskilled drifters as farm hands and later kill them
• Dean Corll, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks: committed the Houston Mass Murders in the 1970s
• Juan Corona: California killer convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971
• Andre Crawford a convicted serial killer, who killed 11 women between 1993 to 1997
• Charles Cullen: nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who killed as many as 40 patients through lethal injection
• Jeffrey Dahmer: Milwaukee, Wisconsin cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment for sexual gratification; convicted of 15 murders, but believed responsible for at least two others
• Albert DeSalvo: AKA "The Boston Strangler"; convicted of unrelated rapes; DeSalvo was never indicted for the Strangler murders, although he did confess to them
• Westley Allan Dodd: raped and murdered three boys in 1989; executed on January 5, 1993
• Ronald Dominique: confessed to raping and murdering at least 23 men in Louisiana; sentenced to eight life sentences in 2008
• Nannie Doss: AKA "The Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow"; serial poisoner who killed 11 family members
• Paul Durousseau: murdered seven in southeast United States between 1997 and 2003; may have killed while stationed in Germany with the Army
• Mack Ray Edwards: convicted of murdering three children after confessing to the murders of six in Los Angeles County between 1953 and 1969; claimed at one point to have killed as many as 18
• Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck: AKA the "Lonely Hearts Killers"; killed at least three women and one child in the 1940s but suspected in up to 20 murders in New York and Michigan
• Albert Fish: AKA the "Werewolf of Wisteria"; sadist and pedophile who cannibalized several children; convicted of one murder, confessed to 2 others,claimed to have molested 100 children
• Wayne Adam Ford: AKA "Wayward Wayne"; confessed to murdering four women; believed to have killed others
• Kendall Francois: serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York who targeted prostitutes; after strangling the women, he would store them in various crawl spaces in and around his home
• Joseph Paul Franklin: racist serial killer who targeted interracial couples and attempted to assassinate Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordan; convicted of 11 murders and confessed to nine others
• John Wayne Gacy: AKA "Killer Clown"; killer of at least 33 men and boys; kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
• Gerald and Charlene Gallego: AKA the "Gallego Sex Slaves Killers"; kidnapped, raped and killed victims in the late 1970s; most of them were teenagers
• Carlton Gary: convicted of the murders of seven elderly women in Georgia
• Donald Henry "Peewee"" Gaskins: AKA "Meanest Man in America"; convicted of nine murders; confessed to more than 200; executed on September 6, 1991
• Ed Gein: two known victims, one suspected victim, four missing persons; elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part, the films Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and the novel/movie The Silence of the Lambs
• Janie Lou Gibbs: Georgia poisoner who killed five family members
• Kristen Gilbert: AKA the "Angel of Death"; nurse convicted of killing four by epinephrine injection
• Lorenzo Gilyard: killed up to 13 prostitutes in the Kansas City area 1977 to 1993
• Harvey Glatman: Californian rapist and killer of three women; lured women to pose for "bondage photographs"; executed September 18, 1959
• Jeffrey Gorton: convicted of two rape-murders in Michigan, suspected of more
• Dana Sue Gray: convicted of murder of three elderly women and attempted murder of a fourth in California
• Vaughn Greenwood: convicted of nine counts of murder, including eight of the "Skid Row Slasher" killings in southern California
• Belle Gunness: Norwegian-born murder-for-profit killer who killed her suitors and children in Indiana
• Anna Marie Hahn: German-born murder-for-profit killer who poisoned five elderly men; executed in 1938
• Robert Hansen: Alaskan baker who killed prostitutes at his cabin; convicted of four murders but admitted to 11 others
• Donald Harvey: AKA "Angel of Death"; hospital orderly; confessed to more than 80 "mercy killings" with 37 confirmed killings
• William Heirens: AKA "The Lipstick Killer"; confessed to three murders spanning from June 1945 to January 1946
• Dr. H. H. Holmes: active from 1890 to 1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; convicted of only one murder but definitively tied to at least eight more and confessed to a total of 27
• Waneta Hoyt: New York woman who murdered her five children
• Michael Hughes: killed four women in the Los Angeles area between 1992 and 1993; charged in 2008 with raping and murdering four additional women between 1986 and 1993
• Leslie Irvin: AKA "Mad Dog"; convicted of killing six people in Indiana in the mid-1950s; his Supreme Court case set a precedent for fair trials of highly publicized defendants
• Phillip Carl Jablonski: killed at least four women in California and Utah
• Keith Hunter Jesperson: Canadian serial killer convicted in the United States
• Vincent Johnson: AKA the "Brooklyn Strangler"; a homeless crack addict who killed at least five prostitutes
• Genene Jones: Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care; convicted of only one murder but suspected of 10 or more others
• Patrick Kearney: necrophiliac convicted of 21 murders in California and admitted to seven other murders
• Edmund Kemper: started killing when he was 15 years old in Santa Cruz, California; convicted of six murders and implicated in four others
• Tillie Klimek: Chicago woman who poisoned five husbands; sentenced to life imprisonment
• Paul John Knowles: raped and murdered 18 people
• Randy Kraft: convicted of the murders of 16 young men and boys; suspected of 51 others in California
• Timothy Krajcir: confessed to killing more than nine women—five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania
• Peter Kudzinowski: killed children in New Jersey in the 1920s
• Leonard Lake and Charles Ng: ex-Marines and survivalists; killed at least 11 people and suspected of 25 in Wilseyville, California; collected and murdered female sex slaves
• Derrick Todd Lee: AKA the "Baton Rouge Serial Killer"; convicted of two murders; linked by DNA evidence to five others
• Henry Lee Lucas: convicted of 11 murders and confessed to approximately 3,000 others, although most of his confessions are considered outlandish; a task force set up to investigate his claims suggested that the true number of his murders may be as high as 213
• Rhonda Belle Martin: Alabama poisoner who murdered six family members; suspected of poisoning at least nine; executed in 1957
• Michigan murders (John Norman Collins and Gary Leiterman): committed separately in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor between 1967 and 1969
• Frederick Mors: Austrian who killed 17 elderly patients by poisoning in New York
• John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo: AKA "Beltway Snipers"; Muhammad was convicted of seven murders and was executed for the murder in Virginia, leaving nine others unprosecuted; Malvo was convicted of, plead guilty to, or confessed to at least nine murders
• Herbert Mullin: schizophrenic in Santa Cruz, California who killed people to prevent earthquakes; convicted of 10 murders and confessed to three others
• Earle Nelson: AKA "Gorilla Man"; necrophiliac convicted and hanged for one murder; implicated in about 20 others
• Marie Noe: murdered eight of her children between 1949 and 1968
• Gordon Stewart Northcott: AKA the "Wineville Chicken Coop Murders"; California man who confessed to kidnapping, raping and murdering nine young boys with the aid of his mother, Sarah Louise Northcott in the 1920s; suspected of the murder of nearly 30, executed in 1930
• Carl Panzram: murderer, rapist and arsonist; convicted of two murders; confessed to 19 others; executed in 1930
• Gerald Parker: AKA the "Bedroom Basher" raped and murdered five women and killed the unborn baby of a sixth woman in Orange County, California
• Christopher Peterson: AKA the "Shotgun Killer", confessed to shooting seven people with a shotgun in a killing spree spanning from October 30, 1990 to December 18, 1990 in Indiana.
• Dorothea Puente: convicted of three killings in Sacramento, California during the 1980s; suspected of six others
• Dennis Rader: AKA the "BTK Killer"; killed ten people between 1974 and 1991 in Sedgwick County, Kansas
• Richard Ramirez: AKA the "Night Stalker"; terrorized Los Angeles in 1984 and 1985; convicted of 14 murders
• David Parker Ray: convicted of rape and torture and sentenced to 224 years in prison; FBI believes he was responsible for the deaths of 60 women in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
• Paul Dennis Reid: killed seven people during armed robberies between February and April 1997
• Ángel Maturino Reséndiz: killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois
• Gary Ridgway: AKA the "Green River Killer"; convicted of murdering 48 women in Washington state
• Joel Rifkin: murdered 17 women in the New York City and Long Island areas
• John Edward Robinson: AKA the "Cyber Sex Killer"; lured victims through the internet; convicted of murdering six women in Missouri and Kansas
• Dayton Leroy Rogers: murdered at least six women in Oregon
• Danny Rolling: pleaded guilty to murdering five students in Florida; executed in 2006
• Michael Bruce Ross: raped and murdered seven women in Connecticut; executed May 13, 2005
• Efren Saldivar: respiratory therapist who killed six patients, possibly as many as 120
• Altemio Sanchez: AKA the "Bike Path Rapist"; responsible for three murders and numerous rapes spanning a 25-year period in Buffalo, New York; currently serving three consecutive 75 years-to-life sentences for the murders
• Heriberto Seda: New York City copycat killer of the "Zodiac Killer" active from 1990 to 1994; convicted of shooting eight individuals, killing three; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998
• Gerard John Schaefer: Florida police officer who killed up to 34 women and girls
• Tommy Lynn Sells: convicted of only one murder; admitted to murdering dozens of people across the United States, possibly in excess of 70 although only six are confirmed
• Serial Shooter ( Dale S. Hausner and Samuel John Dieteman): Convicted of killing 8 people in random drive-by shootings in 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona
• Arthur Shawcross: AKA "The Genesee River Killer"; convicted of 12 murders; confessed to one more
• Robert Shulman: convicted of murdering five prostitutes between 1991 and 1996
• Lemuel Smith: confessed to the murders of five people, including an on-duty female prison guard
• Morris Solomon Jr.: handyman who killed six young women between 1986 and 1987 in Sacramento, California
• Gerald Stano: convicted murderer of 41 women; executed in 1998
• Cary Stayner: killed four women in Yosemite, California
• Michael Swango: physician and surgeon who poisoned over 30 of his patients and colleagues
• William Suff: AKA the "Riverside Killer"; killed up to 19 women near Riverside, California
• Marybeth Tinning: New York woman who smothered nine of her children to death
• Ottis Toole: Henry Lee Lucas' accomplice; convicted of six murders in Florida; confessed to but never tried for Adam Walsh's murder
• Maury Travis: St. Louis area torture killer of 12-17 prostitutes from 2000 to 2002
• Chester Turner: murderer of women in Los Angeles, California; convicted of 12 murders and linked through DNA evidence to another
• Henry Louis Wallace: Charlotte, North Carolina killer of at least nine young women from 1992 to 1994
• Coral Eugene Watts: convicted of two murders; admitted to killing 80 people in Texas and Michigan; possibly guilty of 100 murders
• Nathaniel White: convicted of stabbing to death six women in the Hudson Valley, New York area from 1991 to 1992
• Wayne Williams: convicted of two murders; police claim his arrest solved 23 others in a string of 29
• Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood: Michigan duo who murdered five elderly nursing home residents in their care and claimed to have killed another
• Randall Woodfield: AKA the "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5 Bandit"; convicted of four murders; believed responsible for 14 others
• Aileen Wuornos: shot six men dead in Florida; executed in 2002
• Robert Lee Yates: murdered at least 13 women in Spokane County, Washington

Venezuela

• Dorangel Vargas: killed and cannibalized at least 10 men.

Unidentified serial killers

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

Brazil

• Paturis Park murders: AKA 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

India

• Beer Man: murdered seven people in south Mumbai between October 2006 and January 2007
• Stoneman: responsible for 13 murders in Kolkata in 1989

Italy

• Monster of Florence: murderer or murderers who targeted couples; killed 16 individuals between 1968 and 1985 in the province of Florence, Italy

Mexico

• Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez: AKA "The dead women of Juárez"; the violent deaths of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez

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

United States of America

• 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders: murders of seven by poison-laced pain-relief capsules
• Alphabet murders: murders of three young girls in the Rochester, New York area during the early 1970s
• Axeman of New Orleans: killer of at least eight people in the New Orleans area from May 1918 to October 1919
• Baseline Killer: one man has been charged with nine murders attributed to the Baseline Killer in Phoenix, Arizona
• 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 to death six women in New England in the 1980s
• 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
• 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
• Goleta Murders 1979, 1981: series of three home invasion attacks on couples living in a roughly two-mile-square (5 km²) area of Goleta, California
• Grim Sleeper: believed to be responsible for at least 12 murders in Los Angeles since 1985
• North Side Strangler: one man is in custody after DNA evidence linked him with nine murders in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Oakland County Child Killer: responsible for the murders of four or more children in Oakland County, Michigan in 1976 and 1977
• Original Night Stalker: killer and rapist who murdered six people in Southern California from 1979 through 1986
• Phantom Killer: believed to have committed a number of murders in Texarkana, 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
• Zodiac Killer: operated in northern California during the 1960s; five known victims; claimed to have killed as many as 37 people

See also

• List of murderers by number of victims
• List of terrorist incidents (includes Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski)
• Mass murder
• Spree killer

References