He was sentenced to eight counts of seven years to life. Poisoned and drowned four women, but suspected of killing 18 in total. As information on this serial killer was only revealed by a police officer in 2018 during a conversation with a Brazilian writer, and there is no information on his conviction, the confirmation that he was a serial killer is debatable. Raped and killed at least 16 boys and teenagers. Charged with nine murders and seven attempted murders. 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Known as "The Poisoner of Chambéry"; nurse's aide who poisoned elderly patients; sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. Imprisoned for the murder of a friend. Mainly targeted young women but were also found guilty of the murder of their own daughter. Attempted suicide in prison. Known as "El Apóstol de la Muerte" ("The Apostle of Death"). Executed by lethal injection in 1998. Killed vagrants with her partner-in-crime, Killed five patients by injecting bleach into their dialysis lines, Respiratory therapist who murdered his patients at, Known as "The Bike Path Rapist"; responsible for three murders and numerous rapes spanning a 25-year period in, Juvenile who murdered two cousins and a girl during "mad spells", Murdered in prison by fellow inmate Vincent Rivera, Imprisoned in 1973 for the murders of two women while he was a sheriff's deputy in, Raped and killed young girls and women in the Fort Worth area, One of 22 persons in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 to be executed for a crime committed while under the age of 18, and the lone to have been executed for crime committed under the age of 17, Confessed to murdering dozens of people, possibly in excess of 70, only six are confirmed, Murdered elderly residents in Alexandria out of hatred for the rich, Murdered victims selected at random in Portland, Oregon; confessed to additional murders, including one in California, Killed nine people across America in three months; responsible for at least one of the Southside Slayer murders, Known as "The Boxcar Killer"; alleged member of, First convict to kill an on-duty female corrections officer, Convicted of killing at least four women in Illinois and Arkansas; claimed in his book to have murdered eight women while stationed in Germany, Known as "Flypaper Lyda"; serial poisoner who killed four husbands, a young daughter and a brother-in-law, Known as "The Cleveland Strangler" and "The Imperial Avenue Murderer", His wife implicated in 34 different murders in seven different states, Known as "The Weepy-Voiced Killer" due to a series of telephone calls he made to police, anonymously reporting his crimes in a remorseful and high-pitched voice; active in the, Known as "The Kelso Killer"; murdered three people during robberies in, Career criminal and prison escapee who murdered people in St. Louis, Was sentenced to life in prison for the 2007 murder of a doctor during a home robbery; was later found guilty of the murder of a family of six during a robbery from 2005, Known as "The Riverside Prostitute Killer", Raped and murdered women in the Boston area, including, Found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to, Only convict to be sentenced to death twice for different crimes, Child trafficker who sold kidnapped children to the black market, Known as "The West Side Rapist"; preyed on elderly women in, Known as "The Southland Strangler" and "The Westside Rapist", Career criminal who killed people in California and Nevada; confessed to three additional murders in other states, Found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed for life to the, Known as "Jolly Jane"; nurse who poisoned both patients and family members, Suspected of kidnapping, torturing and killing women at his home in, Convicted of murdering ten women and a viable unborn baby in South Los Angeles, Murdered woman in Indiana, Illinois and California, Self-confessed poisoner who killed her alcoholic husbands, Career criminal who murdered mainly across, Confessed to murdering five people across five states, Murdered at least three women and one man in three states, in the span of four months, Raped, stabbed and strangled women in two Maryland counties, Confessed to beating and stabbing six women to death in, Killed women in Charlotte and Monroe, North Carolina, Has maintained his innocence from the beginning and conviction is considered controversial, Murdered four people in Illinois and Missouri, including his wife, Arsonist who smothered her children; suspected of killing siblings since childhood, Poisoned his wife, brother and sister-in-law for monetary purposes, Sentenced to life imprisonment plus 165 years, Known as "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5 Bandit", First criminal executed by lethal injection in Oregon, Known as the "Damsel of Death"; shot seven men to death in Florida between 1989 and 1990, Also known as the "Double Initial Murders"; murders of three young girls in the. Known as the "Night Stalker". Killed 17 elderly women between 2002 and 2010. His age may have helped him hide 'in plain sight, "Igaz történet a kazahsztáni kannibálról", nationalpost.com: "Prison couldn't keep Michael Wayne McGray from killing — just like he said it wouldn't", "UK | England | London | Snaring the Stockwell Strangler", "Echoes of the Savage and Sublime on Mount Tamalpais", "Corsica: Tommy Recco, author of 7 murders, asks again his release at the age of 83", "Burns, Micheal, Todd Kohlhepp and Superbike: Doubts, no doubt, how and why", "Louisiana Serial Killer Derrick Todd Lee Dies", "This day in history: Serial killer Aileen Wuornos meets first victim, a Clearwater man", "Seventh victim of Cyprus serial killer found", "Cyprus serial killer handed seven life sentences", "Just crazy for blood: Richard Trenton Chase, a.k.a. ", "Crunch the Numbers; Solve a Famous Murder", "The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery", "The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery − Kirkus Review", "The Man from the Train: New book says serial ax murderer killed Lyerly family", "Phoenix police: 7 dead in 8 attacks by "serial street shooter, "Police Tie 9th Attack to Phoenix's Serial Killer Case", "Potential daughter of redheaded Jane Doe visits town where body was found", "What we know about Tampa's alleged serial killer", https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/seminole-heights-serial-killer/accused-seminole-heights-killer-to-appear-in-court-tuesday, "Bobby Joe Maxwell, the once accused Skid Row Stabber whose convictions were later overturned, died. A mental patient confessed to one slashing death. Caught when he mailed an Expedia.com map showing where to find a body to a St. Louis newspaper. ", "Serial killer Darren Vann sentenced to life in prison for killing 7 women", "Michigan man ordered to serve 3 life sentences, admits to more deaths", "The Serial Killer the Cops Ignored: The Henry Louis Wallace Murders", "Fiend Hangs By The Neck: Frank Johnson Pays The Penalty on the Gallows at State Prison", "Man convicted of killing Scotch Plains woman dies in Montana prison", "33-year-old Portland murder solved with DNA match", "Parolee Charged with the Killing of 6 in New York", "Union Man Gets Life in Three Killings, Mutilations", "Why did quiet auto thief turn violent as a parolee? Tried unsuccessfully to kill himself in prison. Sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, Claimed she was an angel sent by God to punish pedophiles, First criminal to be successfully prosecuted under the 1984 Rhode Island 'Life Without Parole Statute', Known as "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer"; convicted of two murders; linked by DNA evidence to five others, Found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed for life to Twin Valley Behavioral Health Center, Died from accidental self-inflicted injuries, Posthumously connected to various rape-murders in Chicago and surrounding area, Known as "The Dawn Strangler"; beat, raped and strangled three women in Baltimore, Raped and strangled women in St. Louis, Missouri, Known as "The Choke-and-Stroke Killer"; transient who allegedly killed 93 women in 14 states, Received death sentences in three states; executed by the state of Texas, Gunfighter who killed unarmed slaves and Mexicans, Convicted of 11 murders, confessed to approximately 3,000 murders, although most of his confessions are considered outlandish, Licensed practical nurse who was convicted of murdering his patients in. Known as the "Lainz Angels of Death"; Waltraud Wagner, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Mayer, and Maria Gruber were nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in Vienna who admitted to murdering 49 patients. Charged with the murders of 13 relatives with arsenic, all of whom had Besnard as their sole designated heir, but acquitted of all charges after three high-profile trials that lasted a decade. The fifth column states the number of possible victims the killer could have murdered. They recorded videos of some of the murders, including one which subsequently leaked to the Internet. He later denied the killings, claiming that the confessions had been extracted under torture, and that the police had also tried unsuccessfully to force him to implicate a number of politicians including former president, Initially convicted of three counts of murder, later pleading guilty to four more murders before dying in prison. Holmes, Ronald, & Holmes, Stephen. Unidentified serial killer who killed nine women and possibly another who disappeared since 2005 around Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The sexual sadist who taunted police and journalists for decades with anonymous letters signed BTK—for his “Bind, Torture, Kill” murder method—was the most ostentatiously brutal serial killer that Wichita, Kansas had ever seen. Ran a boarding house in Sacramento where she poisoned tenants and buried them in the yard in order to steal their social security checks. She strangled them, drowned them or burned them to death in her. Accused of as many as 137 murders in five southern Mexican states, convicted of 33 murders and sentenced 50 years in prison. Found not guilty by reason of insanity of three arsenic poisonings and suspected of 14 other killings, mostly children, in Missouri. May have had an accomplice. This Kansas serial killer came to be known as "BTK," short for bind, torture, and kill. 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Her arrest warrant is one the longest outstanding in American history, Murdered four people between 1974 and 1980, Her sons, William and Robert Jr., were accomplices, Tortured and abused boarders in her home with her husband, Killed by police attempting to escape from custody, Responsible for several murders in South Carolina, including the "Superbike Murders", Known as "The Longview Serial Killer"; kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered underage girls across Washington State, Confessed to killing five women in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Most victims were killed by a combination of bludgeoning and stabbing, and all but two were killed in the county of. He also killed his father and ate a piece of his heart. He was sentenced to 25 terms life imprisonment. Nurse that was sentenced to life imprisonment for one murder but suspected of killing at least 10 others. Offenders committing a crime for the first time are inexperienced. He killed his first two victims at the age of 14; he was first arrested in 1973. Most of the victims were bound, gagged, and strangled to death with their own clothes. Brazilian man convicted of 20 counts of murder, robbery, drug trafficking and death squad. Currently imprisoned at ADX Florence. Sentenced to death. He was caught when an eyewitness to his last murder saw he had a parking ticket on his car. Some of these crimes are unsolved, but were included because they are the work of a serial killer, despite nobody being caught. Authorities attributed the murders to two serial killers because of the inconsistent modus operandi. Remains unsolved but open in the, This page was last edited on 14 February 2021, at 09:14. Gang of serial killers, led by Sergio Armendáriz Diaz and Juan Contreras Jurado, who killed women in Ciudad Juárez; claimed to work for Abdul Latif Sharif. Acquitted in a highly unusual trial in 1957 of murder but later found guilty of fraud. (1942–1994) Person The only evidence tying him to the crimes was a confession that may have been physically coerced. He killed at least 10 people between 1974 and 1991, including four members of the same family (the Oteros). Sentenced to death but commuted to. Killed up to 13 prostitutes in the Kansas City area from 1977 to 1993. Killed three women in 1986; fled to the US but recaptured and deported back to Mexico; main suspect in the Ciudad Juárez Murders. Three brothers and an accomplice responsible for 12 murders in the 1970s in Richmond, Virginia. This is a list of unidentified serial killers who committed crimes within the United States. This is not a reflection of an individual's overall rank, which may or may not vary depending on personal opinion concerning the nature and circumstances of their crimes. Arrested in 1948 and sentenced to four years in prison. ", "Unwanted Woman Back to Jail Where She Has Spent 37 years", "Execution of Isaac L. Wood, for Murder of Brother's Wife", "Crime Victims United of Oregon Repeat offenders", "Robert Zarinsky: Why he's 1 of N.J.'s most notorious killers", https://socxfbi.org/page/AnnArborVetHospital, "Bigfoot Suspect Is Cleared: Mayweather still held in 3 rapes", "Authorities: DNA test of remains confirms link between Boston Strangler suspect, last victim", "75 women have been strangled or smothered in Chicago since 2001. Sentenced to life imprisonment, died in prison age 33 of breast cancer. Confessed to strangling 38 elderly residents of Riga, Latvia, in 2003. Known as "The Classified Ad Rapist"; killed 10 women in Tampa Bay, Florida in 1984. Since the early 1970s, roughly 30 bodies have been extracted from the fields, mainly consisting of young girls. Raped and murdered garment workers after being rejected by his lover. Killed his victims with an axe or a knife in the 1950s; executed by hanging in 1956. Known as the "Prostitutes Killer" and the "Liguria Monster". A former soldier who targeted ATM users. Committed at least 12 murders, 50 rapes, and 120 burglaries across California in the 1970s and 1980s. He was arrested for the torture, rape and death of 11 women and for assaulting nine in a park in São Paulo, Brazil during the 1990s. Petiot is suspected of having killed up to 63 in total. Executed in 2014. The most prolific modern serial killer is Harold Shipman, with 218 proven murders and possibly as many as 250 (see "Medical professionals", below). 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Sex servant gang who robbed and then poisoned their clients; the leader Ballina was arrested in 2008. Died in prison in 1942. Serial murder is defined by the FBI as … It sparked the largest criminal case in South Korea with two million officers mobilized and over 21,000 suspects investigated. Along with accomplice Raymond Fernandez, became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" Bender Family: 1869–1872 11 11+ Unknown Family of serial killers who lived and operated in Labette County, Kansas: Berdella, Robert: 1984–1987 6 6 Died in prison Known as "The Kansas City Butcher" and "The Collector" Berkowitz, David: 1976–1977 6 6 "100 знаменитых судебных процессов" | Мирошникова Валентина Валентиновна | Панкова Мария Александровна | Батий Яна Александровна | Скляренко Валентина Марковна", "La historia de cinco asesinos en serie de Colombia", Patrick Kearney killed and mutilated gay men, Girl is held as lure in the murders of 21, "Samsung Heir's New Office Is in Prison Housing a Serial Killer", "Serial Killer: Conheça a história e os crimes de dez serial killers que desafiaram autoridades", "Serial killer pleads guilty to 20 murders", "Mangalore: Serial Killer Cyanide Mohan Also Cheated Teachers, Banks", "Insane Russian accused of killing, eating people", "THE EYLER LEGACY: 21 DEATHS MURDERER ADMITTED GRISLY 2-STATE SPREE", "Mercy petitions of 6 Nithari Murder convicts rejected by President", From Jack the Ripper of London to the Ripper of San José, ТОП-5 Маньяков на свободе (на территории бывшего СССР), "Serial rapist Jaishankar found dead in jail cell at Bengaluru Central Prison", "Date with the devil: 'Casanova killer' Paul John Knowles spared Fleet Street reporter Sandy Fawkes", "The crimes of serial killer and rapist Umesh Reddy, a man set to go to the gallows", "CNN.com – Execution for China serial killer – Dec. 9, 2003", "India's cruel serial baby killer Darbara Singh, who murdered 17 babies", "Disparition d'Estelle Mouzin : Michel Fourniret, un adepte de la manipulation". Besides killing, he also robbed his victims of money and valuable items (that he would sometimes give to his wife as a gift). Self-professed Angel of Death. Hanged himself in 1994 after being sentenced to life in prison. Convicted of a 1979 manslaughter; killed 10 people across America in three months in mid-1980s including two children and a Southside Slayer victim. Known as The Psychopath from Alto Hospicio; killed 14 women. A serial killer is most commonly defined as a person who kills three or more people for psychological gratification; reliable sources over the years agree. – Confession of Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the Murderer of Three Husbands and Four Children", "ANTHONY ALLEN SHORE, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS (NO. John Wayne Gacy, often called the "Killer Clown," was one of the worst serial killers in U.S. history, raping and murdering at least 33 young male victims. Serial killer called Radik Tagirov who murdered elderly women in several Russian regions; Kazakhstani native Pavel Shayakhmetov, found guilty of killing two elderly women in. Executed by firing squad in 1923. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome was blamed. Believed to have murdered 10 to 14 people associated with the sex trade over a period of 15 years. Судья Могорсуда Петр Штундер вынес обвинительный приговор семи неонацистам банды Рыно-Скачевского", "Dean Corll- The Sex, Sadism and Slaughter of Houston's Candy Man, from — The Party — Crime Library on", Bende-speurders kunnen tien jaar langer aan de slag, "Drugs, Death and the Occult Meet In Grisly Inquiry at Mexico Border". Arrested in 1973, he was later convicted in 2003 for murdering at least 71 people and sentenced to 128 years in prison (although Brazilian law system prohibits anyone from spending more than 30 years behind bars). 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June 27th 2019", "Serial Killer Brothers Gary and Thaddeus Lewingdon A Timeline of Victims of the .22 Caliber Killers", "Two Licking County brothers have been arrested as suspects in the so-called .22-caliber killings", "Two Licking County brothers have been arrested as suspects in the so-called .22-caliber killings. Referred to as "Suffolk murders", "Ipswich murders", "Ipswich Ripper", "Suffolk Ripper", "Suffolk Strangler", "East Anglia Ripper", "Red Light Ripper" and "the Suffolkator". Executed in 2007. February 7, 1987", "The story of Jesse Pomeroy, 14-year-old serial killer", "Convicted murderer says he was helping homeless man by killing him. He made claims of victim count as up to a hundred, however, there was no evidence to support this and is considered unsubstantiated. Cult members responsible for ritualistic murders, and are suspected in other cases, including suicides. They also killed 11 men. Killer operating in New York and New Jersey who often targeted prostitutes and utilized mutilation as well as dismemberment in his killings. JULY 29, 2019", "A Fresno County jury recommended the death penalty for a man convicted of killing four women. This mysterious Indian serial killer used a hammer to kill over 70 men and women between 1978 and 1979. Dec 2017 - IMDb seem to have allowed links to outside sites again now. 69-year-old farmer Pietro Pacciani was controversially convicted of 14 crimes in 1994 and sentenced to life in prison, but he was released following allegations that the scant evidence had been planted in an attempt to close the case, which was by then the largest and. Some have theorized links to. Believed to have killed over 80 women in multiple states, in 1982 Watts accepted a plea bargain in. Known as "The Plainfield Ghoul"; Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part, the novels/films, Killed her three sons, a grandson, and her husband, by arsenic poisoning, Sexually assaulted and murdered women across Indiana, Induced cardiac arrest in patients and would then respond to the coded emergency, often resuscitating the patients herself, Abducted, raped and murdered female hitchhikers in orange groves near, Stalked, kidnapped, raped, murdered, and mutilated Louisiana women, Known as "The Lonely Hearts Killer"; lured women to pose for "bondage photographs", Guilt has come into question by the discovery of DNA evidence excluding Glaze and implicating another man, Union official linked with the disappearances of over 40 sailors in, One of the pair known as "The Killing Cousins", Killed three children and a young woman in, Preyed on elderly women, murdering three; caught after a fourth intended victim survived and identified her, Most dangerous prisoner in Colorado until his death; confessed to the murders of 41 people across eight different states, Soldier who raped and murdered women near, Bisexual drifter; his wife helped in two of the murders, Raped and strangled prostitutes in Denver and the surrounding areas, Norwegian-born murder-for-profit killer who killed her suitors and children, German-born murder-for-profit killer who poisoned five elderly men, First woman sentenced to be executed by the electric chair, Brothers or cousins; America's first known serial killers, Known as "The Seattle Jungle Killer"; strangled prostitutes in Seattle, dumping their bodies in an area known as 'The Jungle', Convicted of two child murders in 1978 and 1982, also stabbed to death a fellow inmate and another man 20 years apart, Convicted of killing people in random drive-by shootings, Known as "The Lipstick Killer"; Illinois teenager convicted of the murder of three Chicago women in the 1940s, Known as "The Priestly Butcher"; English-born pastor who murdered female church-goers, ex-wives and two of his children, Committed suicide awaiting parole release, Known as "The 60 Freeway Killer"; responsible for at least one of the Southside Slayer murders, Poisoned her husband; suspected of poisoning her mother, mother-in-law and a child she was looking after, Former California police deputy linked to the kidnap-murders of teenagers in, Convicted of only one murder, but definitively tied to at least eight more; confessed to a total of 27, Convicted of killing seven people in 2003; believed to be the most prolific serial killer in Connecticut history, Exonerated under New York law because she died before her appeal, Responsible for at least one of the Southside Slayer murders, Raped and strangled elderly women in Atlanta, His Supreme Court case set a precedent for fair trials of highly publicized defendants, Murdered and robbed women in Manhattan's East Side, abusing their corpses post-mortem, Responsible for at least eight of the East Bay Slayer murders, Known as "The Ditchbank Killer"; raped and murdered women in Fresno and Sacramento County, California, dumping their bodies in ditches afterwards, Known as "Liver-Eating Johnson"; mountain man who allegedly ate the livers of, Georgia woman convicted of smothering to death three of her children between 1977 and 1982, Preyed on disenfranchised young women in Connecticut, Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care; was due to be released March 2018; however, prosecutors charged her with two additional murders, Murdered at least three women in Florida and Arkansas; a serial rapist was wrongfully convicted for one murder, Drifter who admitted to a dozen murders committed across the USA, Murdered five people in California with accomplice, Committed these crimes with his 15-year-old son Michael, Shot three men during holdups in Ohio and New York, Convicted rapist who killed a young hitchhiker and a married couple in rural California, Family of serial killers who killed and robbed wealthy travellers in, Known as "The Co-Ed Killer"; murdered his grandparents at age 15; released at age 21, he then murdered seven young women, as well as his mother, in, Three confirmed victims; linked to 11 victims in four states, FBI Informant; proposed as a suspect in the.