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| Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | O. J. Simpson | 11382 |
| 2 | Ed Gein â 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. | 8284 |
| 3 | Albert Fish â aka the "Werewolf of Wisteria"; sadist and pedophile who cannibalized several children; convicted of one murder, confessed to two others <!-- Strictly speaking, not a convicted serial killer but I'll leave it in because he confessed to three. --> | 7067 |
| 4 | Martha Stewart | 5542 |
| 5 | Keith Hunter Jesperson â Canadian serial killer convicted in the United States. | 4923 |
| 6 | Dr. Jack Kevorkian - Dr. Kevorkian became famous in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a supporter of assisted suicide, and was lucky enough to have three acquittals and a mistrial before being convicted of the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk in 1999. | 4754 |
| 7 | Dennis Rader â aka the "BTK Killer"; killed ten people between 1974 and 1991. | 3791 |
| 8 | Michael Milken | 3136 |
| 9 | Henry Lee Lucas â convicted of 11 murders and confessed to approximately 3000 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. | 2156 |
| 10 | John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo â aka "Beltway Snipers"; Muhammad is convicted of seven murders so far and awaiting prosecution for nine others; Malvo was convicted of, plead guilty to, or confessed to at least nine murders. | 2097 |
| 11 | Jeffrey Skilling | 1965 |
| 12 | Ivan Boesky | 1331 |
| 13 | Andrew Cunanan â murdered five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, in a cross-country journey during a three-month period in 1997, ending with Cunanan's suicide, at the age of 27. | 1050 |
| 14 | Wayne Williams â convicted of two murders; police claim his arrest solved 23 others in a string of 29. | 857 |
| 15 | Donald Henry Gaskins â aka "Meanest Man in America"; convicted of nine murders; confessed to more than 200; executed on September 6, 1991. | 748 |
| 16 | Leonard Lake and Charles Ng â ex-Marines and survivalists; killed at least 11 people and suspected of 25; collected and murdered female sex slaves. | 694 |
| 17 | Carl Panzram â murderer, rapist and arsonist; convicted of two murders; confessed to 19 others; executed in 1930. | 642 |
| 18 | Arthur Shawcross â aka "The Genesee River Killer"; convicted of 12 murders; confessed to one more. | 550 |
| 19 | Michael Swango â physician and surgeon who poisoned over 30 of his patients and colleagues. | 539 |
| 20 | Joseph Paul Franklin â 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. | 416 |
| 21 | William Heirens â aka "The Lipstick Killer"; confessed to three murders spanning from June 1945 to January 1946. | 413 |
| 22 | Tommy Lynn Sells â 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. | 409 |
| 23 | Nannie Doss â aka "The Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow"; serial poisoner who killed 11 family members. | 398 |
| 24 | Donald Harvey â aka "Angel of Death"; hospital orderly; confessed to more than 80 "mercy killings" with 37 confirmed killings. | 371 |
| 25 | Gerald Stano â convicted murderer of 41 women; executed in 1998. | 365 |
| 26 | Randall Woodfield â aka "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5 Bandit"; convicted of four murders; believed responsible for 14 others. | 257 |
| 27 | Kristen Gilbert â aka the "Angel of Death"; nurse convicted of killing four by epinephrine injection. | 255 |
| 28 | Alton Coleman â multi-state killer whose killings took place during two months in 1984 aided by Debra Denise Brown; was convicted of murder in three states. | 239 |
| 29 | Carroll Cole â killed 16 people between 1948 and 1980; executed in 1985. | 220 |
| 30 | Earle Nelson â aka "Gorilla Man"; necrophiliac convicted and hanged for one murder; implicated in about 20 others. | 207 |
| 31 | Dennis Levine | 192 |
| 32 | Marie Noe â murdered eight of her children between 1949 and 1968. | 182 |
| 33 | Paul Dennis Reid â killed seven people during armed robberies between February and April 1997. | 143 |
| 34 | Samuel D. Waksal | 128 |
| 35 | Efren Saldivar â respiratory therapist who killed six patients, possibly as many as 120. | 116 |
| 36 | Lemuel Smith â confessed to the murders of five people, including an on-duty female prison guard. | 108 |
| 37 | Wayne Adam Ford â aka "Wayward Wayne"; confessed to murdering four women; believed to have killed others. | 89 |
| 38 | Robert Shulman â convicted of murdering five prostitutes between 1991 and 1996. | 72 |
| 39 | Joseph Nacchio | 62 |
| 40 | Eugene Plotkin | 37 |
| 41 | Troy Eid | 36 |
| 42 | Roger Blackwell | 30 |
| 43 | Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood | 7 |
| 44 | Gerald Gallego Jr. and Charlene Williams â aka the "Gallego Sex Slaves Killers"; kidnapped, raped and killed victims in the late 1970s; most of them were teenagers. | < 5 |
| 45 | Julio González - convicted of arson and murder of 87 people in the Happy Land Fire. | < 5 |
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