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1 | Jack the Ripper: murdered prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 | 19794 |
2 | Zodiac Killer: operated in northern California during the 1960s; five known victims; claimed to have killed as many as 37 people | 6639 |
3 | 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 | 5624 |
4 | Claremont serial murders: murders of two young women and the disappearance of a third in 1996 and 1997 | 2505 |
5 | Andrei Chikatilo: AKA "The Rostov Ripper"; killed 52 women and children throughout the Soviet Union; arrested, convicted and executed in 1994 | 2064 |
6 | Gilles de Rais: 15th century satanist and child killer (400 killed) | 1795 |
7 | Tsutomu Miyazaki: AKA "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer" and "Dracula"; killed four preschool-age girls and ate the hand of a victim; executed in 2008 | 1587 |
8 | Luis Garavito: AKA "The Beast" admitted to murder and rape of 140 young boys. | 1264 |
9 | 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 | 1258 |
10 | Cleveland Torso Murderer: AKA the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"; responsible for 12â13 murders in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the 1930s | 909 |
11 | Marc Dutroux: child molester and killer | 781 |
12 | Grim Sleeper: one man has been charged after DNA evidence linked him with ten murders in Los Angeles since 1985 | 720 |
13 | Alphabet murders: murders of three young girls in the Rochester, New York area during the early 1970s | 690 |
14 | Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova: 18th century noblewoman who tortured and killed serfs on her estate | 615 |
15 | Alexander Pichushkin: AKA "The Chessboard Killer"; convicted of 48 murders; confessed to killing 63 | 575 |
16 | Servant Girl Annihilator: AKA the "Austin Axe Murderer"; responsible for at least seven murders in Austin, Texas between 1884 and 1885 | 564 |
17 | Yang Xinhai: confessed to killing 65 people between 2000 and 2003; executed in 2004 | 531 |
18 | Original Night Stalker: killer and rapist who murdered six people in Southern California from 1979 through 1986 | 462 |
19 | Bible John: thought to be responsible for the deaths of three women in Glasgow, Scotland in the late 1960s | 454 |
20 | Serhiy Tkach: convicted of raping and murdering 36 women, but claims the total is 100 | 454 |
21 | Charles Sobhraj: killed at least 12 Western tourists in Southeast Asia during the 1970s | 445 |
22 | Jack the Stripper: responsible for the London "nude murders" between 1964 and 1965 | 439 |
23 | Vladislav Volkovich and Vladimir Kondratenko: AKA 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 | 423 |
24 | Giancarlo Lotti and Mario Vanni: AKA "The Monster of Florence"; convicted of eight murders of couples in a series of 16 between 1968 and 1985 | 417 |
25 | Fritz Haarmann: preyed on young men and boys; executed in 1925 | 408 |
26 | Javed Iqbal: believed to have killed 100 boys | 390 |
27 | Daniel Camargo Barbosa: AKA "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. | 380 |
28 | Miyuki Ishikawa: murdered an estimated 103, but could have been up to 169 infants in the 1940s | 354 |
29 | Raya and Sakina: Egypt's most famous serial killers and the first Egyptian women to be executed by the modern state of Egypt | 335 |
30 | Anatoly Onoprienko: AKA "The Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996 | 330 |
31 | Peter Stumpp: self-proclaimed werewolf who killed 16 people during the 16th century | 323 |
32 | Phantom Killer: believed to have committed the Texarkana Moonlight Murders in Texas between February 23 and May 4, 1946 | 322 |
33 | Axeman of New Orleans: killer of at least eight people in the New Orleans area from May 1918 to October 1919 | 316 |
34 | Jack Unterweger: author and sexual sadist; convicted of 10 murders; believed to have killed 12 women | 307 |
35 | Baseline Killer: one man has been charged with nine murders attributed to the Baseline Killer in Phoenix, Arizona | 301 |
36 | Marcel Petiot: doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the Nazis; executed in 1946 | 267 |
37 | Dorangel Vargas: killed and cannibalized at least 10 men. | 260 |
38 | The Doodler: sketched then stabbed to death 14 gay men in San Francisco in the 1970s | 255 |
39 | Moses Sithole: AKA "ABC Killer"and The South African Strangler raped and killed at least 38 young women in Atteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland from 1994 - 1995. | 252 |
40 | Nikolai Dzhumagaliev: AKA "Metal Fang"; raped and hacked seven women to death with an axe in Almaty in 1980, then cannibalised them using his unusual false teeth | 226 |
41 | Waltraud Wagner and Irene Leidolf: AKA the "Lainz Angels of Death"; nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in Vienna who admitted to murdering 49 patients | 224 |
42 | Hiroshi Maeue: AKA "Suicide Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims | 216 |
43 | Ahmad Suradji: admitted to killing 42 women; sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on July 10, 2008 | 215 |
44 | 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 | 204 |
45 | Stoneman: responsible for 13 murders in Kolkata in 1989 | 202 |
46 | Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata: AKA "House of Horror"; tortured and killed at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Ogata's family | 200 |
47 | Connecticut River Valley Killer: stabbed to death six women in New England in the 1980s | 196 |
48 | Cayetano Santos Godino: AKA "Petiso Orejudo" ("Big Eared Midget"); at 16, killed four children in 1912; died in prison in 1944 | 192 |
49 | Joseph Vacher: AKA "The French Ripper"; 19th century serial killer of 11 people | 192 |
50 | Freeway Phantom: raped and strangled six young women and girls in Washington, D.C. in the early 1970s, dumping their bodies by freeways | 191 |
51 | 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 | 187 |
52 | Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers: French poisoner; executed in 1676 | 182 |
53 | Vera Renczi: poisoned two husbands, one son and 32 of her suitors in the 1920s and 1930s | 177 |
54 | Francisca Ballesteros: between 1990 and 2004 killed her family and attempted to kill her surviving son | 162 |
55 | Mohammed Bijeh: AKA the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran; executed in 2005 | 154 |
56 | Jeanne Weber: convicted of the murders of 10 children | 150 |
57 | Lam Kor-wan: sexual sadist who murdered and dismembered four women in the 1980s; sentenced to life imprisonment | 147 |
58 | Bradford murders: one man has been charged with three murders in Bradford, England in 2009 and 2010 | 146 |
59 | Huang Yong: between September 2001 and 2003 killed at least 17 teenage boys; executed in 2003 | 145 |
60 | Thomas Quick: AKA "Sätermannen"; confessed and convicted of eight murders, later recanted confessions | 144 |
61 | Robledo Puch: AKA "The Death Angel" and "The Black Angel" killed 11 people before his arrest in 1972; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980 | 144 |
62 | Oakland County Child Killer: responsible for the murders of four or more children in Oakland County, Michigan in 1976 and 1977 | 138 |
63 | New Bedford Highway Killer: murders of nine women and disappearance of two others between 1988 and 1989 | 137 |
64 | 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 | 135 |
65 | Daisy de Melker: poisoner; killed two husbands and one son from 1923 - 1932. | 134 |
66 | Michel Fourniret: confessed to nine murders of young girls; allegedly killed 10 more between 1987 and 2001 | 133 |
67 | Karl Denke: cannibal; allegedly killed 30â40 people in the 1920s | 132 |
68 | Genzo Kurita: killed six women and two children and engaged in rape and necrophilia | 130 |
69 | Honolulu Strangler: raped and strangled five young women in Hawaii in 1985 and 1986 | 129 |
70 | Shen Changyin and Shen Changping: found guilty of the murders of 11 prostitutes | 126 |
71 | 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. | 126 |
72 | Beer Man: murdered seven people in south Mumbai between October 2006 and January 2007 | 125 |
73 | Sataro Fukiage: raped and killed at least seven girls in the early 20th century | 119 |
74 | Daytona Beach killer: murdered four, possibly five, women in Daytona Beach, Florida between 2005 and 2007 | 117 |
75 | Toronto Hospital Murders: digoxin poisonings of at least eight babies at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 1980 and 1981 | 116 |
76 | 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 | 114 |
77 | Yoshio Kodaira: rapist thought to have killed 11 people in Japan and Chinese people as a soldier | 111 |
78 | Matti Haapoja: convicted murderer of three people, admitted to the murders of 18 probably killed 22â25; sentenced to life imprisonment, hanged himself in a prison cell | 111 |
79 | Hiroaki Hidaka: killed four prostitutes in 1996; executed on December 25, 2006 | 109 |
80 | Hwaseong serial murders: series of murders between 1986 and 1991 in Hwaseong; ten women were found raped, bound, and murdered | 107 |
81 | Joachim Kroll: claimed 13 victims over three decades | 107 |
82 | Minnie Dean: Scottish immigrant baby farmer who killed at least three children by laudanum poisoning and suffocation in the 1890s | 106 |
83 | Sergei Ryakhovsky: AKA "The Hippopotamus"; convicted of the murders of 19 people aged between 14 and 78 | 101 |
84 | Cedric Maake: AKA the "Wemmer Pan Killer"; serial rapist; murdered at least 27 people from 1996 - 1997. | 101 |
85 | Dagmar Overbye: childcare provider who killed between nine and 25 children; sentenced to death in 1921 then reprieved | 101 |
86 | Alexander Spesivtsev: cannibal convicted of the murders of 19 women | 99 |
87 | Guy Georges: AKA the "Beast of the Bastille"; serving a life sentence for seven murders between 1991 and 1997 | 96 |
88 | Roberto Succo: murdered at least five people, including his parents | 96 |
89 | Pierre Chanal: serial killer of 17 boys between 1980 and 1987 who committed suicide in 2003 | 95 |
90 | Gong Runbo: found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers aged between nine and 16 from 2005 to 2006 | 92 |
91 | Saeed Hanaei: AKA "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around Mashhad; executed in 2002 | 89 |
92 | Anna Maria Zwanziger: Bavarian poisoner; killer of four people; executed in 1811 | 87 |
93 | Cincinnati Strangler: raped and strangled seven mostly elderly women in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1965 and 1966 | 86 |
94 | Sergey Golovkin: AKA "The Fisher" killed 11 boys between 1986 and 1992 | 86 |
95 | Gesche Gottfried: serial poisoner who murdered 15 people in Hanover and Bremen; publicly executed in 1831 | 85 |
96 | Leonarda Cianciulli: AKA "Soap-Maker of Correggio"; murderess of three women | 85 |
97 | Donato Bilancia: murdered 17 people in seven months between 1997 and 1998 | 85 |
98 | Maxim Petrov: AKA "Doctor Killer" and "Doctor Death"; doctor who killed 12 patients | 84 |
99 | 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 | 82 |
100 | Maria Swanenburg: killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s | 81 |
101 | Gert van Rooyen: allegedly abducted and murdered at least six girls from across South Africa from 1988 - 1989. | 80 |
102 | Lisbon Ripper: murdered three women in Lisbon between 1992 and 1993 | 80 |
103 | Anatoly Slivko: convicted of killing seven young boys; executed<!-- When? --> | 79 |
104 | Seisaku Nakamura: AKA "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer", murdered at least nine people | 74 |
105 | Francis Heaulme: serving a life sentence for 20 murders between 1984 and 1992 | 73 |
106 | Andrzej NowocieÅ: AKA the "Skin Hunters"; paramedic in Åódź who killed patients for profit | 70 |
107 | Ondrej Rigo: killed and mutilated 9 women before raping them; committed his crimes in Slovakia, Germany and Netherlands. | 70 |
108 | Arnfinn Nesset: geriatric assistant nurse who poisoned 22 dwellers at the Orkdal Alders- og Sjukeheim institution over a period of years before being convicted in 1984 | 68 |
109 | Vasiliy Kulik: killed 13 people aged between seven months and 75 years; executed<!-- When? --> | 68 |
110 | David Randitsheni: AKA "Modimolle Serial Killer" raped and murdered 10 children (kidnapped and raped more) from 2004 - 2008. | 68 |
111 | Jimmy Maketta: AKA "Jesus Killer" convicted on 16 counts of murder, 19 counts of rape from 1996 - 1999. | 63 |
112 | Bowraville Murders: murders of three Aboriginal children in between 1990 and 1991 | 63 |
113 | Norbert Poehlke, AKA 'The Hammer-Killer': police officer, bank robber and serial killer | 62 |
114 | Norman Afzal Simons: AKA "Station Strangler" raped, sodomised and murder 22 children on the Cape Flats from 1986 - 1994. | 61 |
115 | José Antonio Rodriguez Vega: raped and killed at least 16 women | 61 |
116 | Elias Xitavhudzi: AKA "Pangaman" murdered 16 people in Atteridgeville in the 1960s. | 58 |
117 | Lam Kwok-wai: murdered three women | 56 |
118 | Akira Nishiguchi: killed five people and engaged in fraud | 55 |
119 | Wolfgang Abel and Mario Furlan: German-Italian duo found guilty of 10 of 27 counts of murder in 1987 | 55 |
120 | Lewis Hutchinson: Scottish immigrant convicted of shooting dozens of people in the 18th century; executed in 1773 | 54 |
121 | Volker Eckert: accused of 19 murders between 1974 and 2006 | 53 |
122 | Aleksandr Rubel: convicted murderer of six people | 51 |
123 | Charles Quansah: convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women in Accra; suspected of killing 34; sentenced to death in 2003 | 49 |
124 | Fritz Honka: murdered four women in Hamburg and kept the bodies in his apartment | 48 |
125 | Thierry Paulin: AKA the "Beast of Montmartre"; preyed on the elderly in the 1980s and Murderer of 21 old women | 47 |
126 | Sipho Thwala: AKA the "Phoenix Strangler"; raped and murdered 19 women in the sugarcane fields of KwaZulu Natal from 1996 to 1997. | 46 |
127 | Elfriede Blauensteiner: poisoner of three individuals | 45 |
128 | Metod Trobec: raped and killed at least five women; committed suicide in prison in 2006 | 45 |
129 | Petr Zelenka: male nurse convicted of seven murders to "test" doctors | 43 |
130 | Antonis Daglis: AKA the "Athens Ripper"; convicted in 1997 of the strangulation murders and dismemberment of three women and the attempted murder of six others | 42 |
131 | Stephan Letter: male nurse who killed 29 patients; arrested in 2006 | 41 |
132 | 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 | 39 |
133 | Nicolai Bonner: killed four people in 2005 in Haifa, three of them homeless; sentenced to life imprisonment | 39 |
134 | Ann Arbor Hospital Murders: pavulon poisonings of ten patients at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in 1975 | 39 |
135 | Francisco Garcia Escalero: beggar convicted of 11 murders | 36 |
136 | Westside rapist: one man has been charged with two of 17 murders after DNA evidence linked him with the series in Los Angeles | 35 |
137 | Antti Taskinen: poisoner of three men; sentenced to life imprisonment | 35 |
138 | Silvo Plut: killed three women; committed suicide in prison in 2007 | 34 |
139 | Johannes Mashiane: AKA "The Beast of Atteridgeville" 13 counts of murder, 12 counts of sodomy from 1982 - 1989. | 33 |
140 | Stewart Wilken: AKA "Boetie Boer"; raped, sodomised and murdered at least 7 victims from 1990 - 1997. | 31 |
141 | Elifasi Msomi: AKA "The Axe Killer" murdered 15 people under the influence of the Tokoloshe from 1953 - 1955. | 29 |
142 | Manuel Delgado Villegas: 48 alleged murders; convicted of eight | 28 |
143 | Kaspars Petrovs: convicted of murdering 13 elderly Riga women in 2005; confessed to killing 38 | 26 |
144 | Sibusiso Duma: murdered 7 people in the Pietermaritzburg area of KwaZulu Natal in 2007. | 26 |
145 | Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode: AKA "Donnybrook Serial Killer" murdered 18 people in Donnybrook KwaZulu Natal from 1994â1995. | 23 |
146 | Valeriy Asratyan: arrested in 1990 and convicted of three murders and dozens of cases of sexual abuse; executed<!-- When? --> | 21 |
147 | Samuel Sidyno: AKA "Capital Hill Serial Killer" murdered 7 people in Pretoria from 1998 - 1999. | 14 |
148 | Nicholas Lungisa Ncama: murdered 6 people in the Eastern Cape, 1997. | 12 |
149 | 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 | 7 |
150 | Ion Rîmaru: murdered and raped young women in Bucharest from 1970 to 1971; executed in 1971 | 5 |
151 | StanisÅaw Modzelewski: murdered seven women in Åódź during the 1960s; executed in 1970 | < 5 |
152 | Marie FikáÄková: female nurse who was executed by hanging in 1961 for the murders of 10 babies | < 5 |
153 | Václav Mrázek: convicted of the murders of seven women; executed in 1957 | < 5 |
154 | Ãzgür Dengiz: serial killer from Ankara, who killed four people and cannibalized at least one | < 5 |
155 | Henri Désiré Landru: killed 11 people; inspired the character of Monsieur Verdoux played by Charlie Chaplin | < 5 |
156 | Peter Kürten: AKA the "Vampire of Düsseldorf"; executed in 1932 | < 5 |
157 | Vinko PintariÄ: murdered five people, including his wife, between 1973 and 1990. Escaped from custody three times, killed in a 1991 shootout with the police. | < 5 |
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