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The following is a '''list of known [[serial killers]] active before 1900''', in roughly chronological order.
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== Active before 1600 ==
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| [[Ancient Rome]] Poison Ring || [[File:Vexilloid of the Roman Empire.svg|20px]] [[Roman Republic]] || 331 BC || Unknown || Several [[Rome, Italy|Roman]] men died in what was believed to be a plague, until a servant woman revealed that they had been poisoned by a conspiracy of matrons. Two [[patrician (Ancient Rome)|patrician]] women arrested admitted to preparing concoctions but claimed that they were medicinal; when they drank themselves to prove it, at their own suggestion, they died immediately. A total of 170 matrons were arrested. According to [[Livy]], "their act was regarded as a prodigy, and suggested [[Mass hysteria|madness]] rather than felonious intent".<ref>{{cite book|title= The History of Rome, Book 8|editor=Benjamin Oliver Foster|publisher=|page=18|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Liv.%208.18&lang=original|author=[[Titus Livius]]|accessdate=27 December 2014|chapter=|year=}}</ref>
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| [[Liu Pengli]] || [[Western Han]] || 144-116 BC || 100+ || Prince of [[Jidong]] during the reign of the [[Emperor Jing of Han|Emperor Jing]], his uncle. Helped by [[slavery in China|slaves]], he attacked civilians in his lands during the night, killing over a hundred. Though the court advised the Emperor to execute him, the emperor only reduced him to a commoner and [[exile]]d him to Shangyong (modern [[Zhushan County]], [[Hubei Province]]).<ref name="Sima2013">{{cite book|author=Qian Sima|title=Records of the Grand Historian|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=v0uY83Lnf3UC&pg=PA387|year=2013|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-52107-9|page=387}}</ref>
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| [[Anula of Anuradhapura]] || [[File:Flag of Dutthagamani.png|25px]] [[Anuradhapura Kingdom]] || 50-47 BC || 5 || Poisoned her son and four husbands before holding the throne as [[queen regnant]] for five years, after which she was overthrown and burned alive.<ref>[http://www.budsas.org/ebud/mahavamsa/chap034.html The Mahavamsa], [[Mahavamsa|Chapter XXXIV]]</ref>
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| [[Locusta]] of [[Gaul]]<ref name="autogenerated1">Gibson, Dirk C. (2012) ''Legends, Monsters or Serial Murderers? The real story behind an ancient crime.'' Praeger, 202 pages.</ref> || [[File:Vexilloid of the Roman Empire.svg|20px]] [[Roman Empire]] || 54-55 AD || 5-7+<ref name="autogenerated1"/> || Poisoner in the service of Emperor [[Nero]]. Executed by [[Galba]] in 69 AD.
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| [[Zu Shenatir]] || [[Himyarite Kingdom]] || 5th Century AD || Unknown || Lured young boys into his home and sodomized them before throwing them out of a window. Stabbed by his last intended victim.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Homosexuality|editor=[[Wayne R. Dynes]]|publisher=Williamapercy.com|page=851|url=http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Murderers.pdf|author=Lawrence Senelick|accessdate=16 December 2012|chapter=Murderers|year=1990}}</ref>
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| [[Alice Kyteler]] || [[File:Banner of the Lordship of Ireland.svg|25px]] [[Lordship of Ireland|Ireland]] || 1324 and earlier || 3-4 || "The [[Witch]] of [[Kilkenny]]". [[Hiberno-Norman]] noblewoman prosecuted in the first modern [[witch trial]] in the [[British Isles]], for the alleged poisoning of her four husbands, [[heresy]] and witchcraft. Fled to [[England]], her ultimate fate unknown. [[Petronilla of Meath|Her servant]] was tortured and [[burned at the stake]] in her place.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/iwd/iwd03.htm | title=Dame Alice Kyteler, the Sorceress of Kilkenny | publisher=sacred-texts.com | accessdate=4 January 2015}}</ref>
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| [[Gilles de Rais]] || [[File:Pavillon royal de la France.svg|25px]] [[Kingdom of France|France]] || 1432-1440 || 140+ || French nobleman accused of torturing, raping and murdering over 140 children.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/489979/Gilles-de-Rais | title=Gilles de Rais | publisher=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]] | accessdate=5 June 2014}}</ref> Rais and several accomplices in the murders were hanged on October 26, 1440.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/rais/execution_13.html | title=GILLES DE RAIS | publisher=[[Crime Library]] | accessdate=5 June 2014 | author=Gribben, Mark | page=13}}</ref>
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| [[Peter Stumpp]] || {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} || c.1564-1589 || 16 || "The Werewolf of [[Bedburg]]". Confessed under torture to murdering and cannibalizing 14 children, including his son, and two pregnant women. [[Breaking wheel|Broken at the wheel]], beheaded and burned.<ref>{{cite web|last=Wagner|first=Stephen|title=The Werewolf of Bedburg|url=http://paranormal.about.com/od/werewolves/a/The-Werewolf-Of-Bedburg.htm}}</ref>
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| [[Peter Niers]] || {{flagicon|Holy Roman Empire}} Holy Roman Empire || c.1566-1581 || 544 || Bandit leader that confessed under torture to killing 544 people, including the murder of 24 women and the use of their unborn children in [[Black Magic]]. Broken at the wheel and [[Hanged, drawn and quartered|quartered]] alive.<ref name="Wiltenburg2012">{{cite book|author=Joy Wiltenburg|title=Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SAXvt1_0KL4C&pg=PT81|year=2012|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-3302-3|page=81}}</ref>
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| [[Gilles Garnier]] || [[File:Pavillon royal de la France.svg|25px]] France || 1572 || 4 || Hermit known as "The Werewolf of [[Dole, Jura|Dole]]". Confessed to strangling 4 children and eating their flesh.<ref name="Steiger2011">{{cite book|author=Brad Steiger|title=The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_nDLvY21dg0C&pg=PR13|date=1 September 2011|publisher=Visible Ink Press|isbn=978-1-57859-367-5|pages=13–}}</ref> Garnier was caught attacking a young boy and burned at the stake in 1573.<ref name="Steiger2011">{{cite book|author=Brad Steiger|title=The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_nDLvY21dg0C&pg=PA118|date=1 September 2011|publisher=Visible Ink Press|isbn=978-1-57859-367-5|pages=118–}}</ref>
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| [[Elizabeth Báthory]] || [[File:Coa Hungary Country History (19th Century).svg|20px]] [[Royal Hungary]] || 1585-1610 || 80-650<ref>{{cite web|last=Ramsland |first=Katherine |url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/bathory/7.html |title=Countess Elizabeth Bathory - The Blood Countess — Testimony of the Torturers — Crime Library on |publisher=Trutv.com |date= |accessdate=18 November 2013}}</ref> || Known as "The Blood Countess"; tortured servant girls to death. Accomplices were executed and she was imprisoned until her death in 1614.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bathorys-torturous-escapades-are-exposed | title=Bathory's torturous escapades are exposed | publisher=[[History (U.S. TV channel)|History]] | accessdate=5 June 2014}}</ref>
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| [[:is:Axlar-Björn|Björn Pétursson]] || {{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Denmark-Norway|Dano-Norwegian]] [[Iceland]] || 1596 and earlier || 9-18 || Called ''Axlar-Björn'' ("Shoulder-Bear"). Farmer that robbed and killed people who traversed his land. Beheaded.<ref name="Harlow2004">{{cite book|author=Cathy Harlow|title=Iceland|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=A-3lZjEVRgkC&pg=PA188|year=2004|publisher=Landmark|isbn=978-1-84306-134-2|page=188}}</ref>
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| [[Geordie Bourne]] || {{flagicon|England}} [[Kingdom of England|England]] || 1597 and earlier || 7 || Scottish bandit active in the [[Scottish Marches|East English March]]. Confessed to have killed seven Englishmen with his own hands and "lain with above forty men's wives, what in [[England]], what in [[Scotland]]". Executed by unknown means.<ref>''[http://www.elfinspell.com/CareyBio.html]'' by Sir Robert Carey</ref>
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== 1600 to 1800 ==
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| [[Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer]] || [[File:Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg|22px]] [[Kingdom of Chile|Spanish Chile]] || c.1630-c.1660 || 40 || Aristocrat nicknamed ''La Quintrala'', possibly after the local red-flowered [[mistletoe]] (''quintral'') and because of her long [[red hair]]. Investigated for the deaths of 40 servants and slaves in her property, but never tried or convicted. Died of natural causes in 1665.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.biografiadechile.cl/detalle.php?IdContenido=82&IdCategoria=8&IdArea=28&status=&TituloPagina=Historia%20de%20Chile | title=Historia de Chile: Biografías. Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer: 1604-1665 | publisher=biografiadechile.cl | accessdate=4 June 2014}}</ref>
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| [[Giulia Tofana]] || [[File:Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg|22px]] [[Spanish Sicily]]<br>[[File:Coat of arms Holy See.svg|20px]] [[Papal States]] || 1651 and earlier || Unknown || Leader of a group of female poisoners that moved from Palermo to [[Rome]] after a botched poisoning. Died in her bed, having never been arrested. Often confused with her pupil and successor, Girolama Spara.<ref name="Mike Dash">{{cite web | url=https://mikedashhistory.com/2015/04/06/aqua-tofana-slow-poisoning-and-husband-killing-in-17th-century-italy/ | title=Aqua Tofana: slow-poisoning and husband-killing in 17th century Italy | publisher=Mike Dash | accessdate=1 May 2016}}</ref>
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| [[:de:Jasper Hanebuth|Jasper Hanebuth]] || {{flagicon|Holy Roman Empire}} Holy Roman Empire || 1652 and earlier || 19 || Former [[mercenary]] in the [[Swedish Army]] turned [[highwayman]] who was active in [[Eilenriede]] forest, then outside [[Hanover]]. Usually shot people from a distance, before knowing if they had any money. Confessed to the murder of 19 people including his "robber bride", and was broken at the wheel.<ref name="SLH Hanebuth, Jasper">Helmut Zimmermann: ''Hanebuth, Jasper''. In: ''Stadtlexikon Hannover'', S. 252</ref>
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| [[Catherine Monvoisin]] || {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} France || 1660s-1679 || 1000-2500<ref name="autogenerated2005">Ramsland, Katherine (2005) ''The Human Predator.'' The Berkley Publishing Group, New York City.</ref> || Known as "La Voisin". Alleged sorceress, fortune-teller, cult leader and poisoner for hire who confessed under torture to the ritual murder of over a thousand infants in [[black mass]]es.<ref name="autogenerated2005"/> Also tried to poison [[Louis XIV]]. She was convicted along with 35 others as part of the [[Affair of the Poisons]], and burned at the stake in 1680.
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| [[Madame de Brinvilliers|Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubrey, Madame de Brinvilliers]] and Godin de Sainte-Croix || {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} France || 1666-1670 || 3-50+<ref name="autogenerated2005"/> || Lovers, they poisoned d'Aubrey's father and two brothers to inherit their estates, and an undetermined number of poor people in hospitals. Sainte-Croix died of natural causes in 1672, but d'Aubrey was tried, beheaded and burned at the stake in 1676. Her sensational trial led to the Affair of the Poisons.
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| [[Ahaya]] || {{flagicon}} [[Cuscowilla, Florida|Cuscowilla]]<br>{{flagicon|Spain|1701}} [[Spanish Florida]] || 1730s-1783 || 86+ ||[[Seminole]] chief, called "Cowkeeper" by the British, who led continuous raids against Spanish garrisons and their allied tribes in [[Florida]]. Though his killings were done during war parties, he was partially motivated by a dream in which he was revealed that he would not find peace after death unless he killed 100 Spaniards. Died of natural causes, telling his sons in his deathbed that he had only killed 86 Spaniards and that they should kill another 14 in his name.<ref>{{cite book |last=Andersen |first=Lars |date=2003 |title=Paynes Prairie: The Great Savanna. History and Guide. |trans_title= |url=https://books.google.es/books?id=u9HLJhWOGLwC&dq=Lars+Andersen,+Paynes+Prairie:+A+History+of+the+Great+Savanna&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s |language=English |location= |publisher=Pineapple Press Inc. |isbn= |accessdate= }}</ref>
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| [[Lewis Hutchinson]] || [[File:Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg|23px]] [[British Jamaica]] || 1760s-1773 || 43+ || Scottish doctor and rancher known as "The Mad Master" and "The Mad Doctor of Edinburgh Castle". Shot and robbed passers-by of all types in his property, sometimes with the help of accomplices, after which his slaves threw the bodies in [[Hutchinson's Hole]] where they were devoured by animals. Hanged.<ref name=TMM>{{cite web|last=Tortello|first=Dr. Rebecca|title=Lewis Hutchinson: The Mad Master|url=http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0036.htm|work=Pieces of the Past|publisher=[[Jamaica Gleaner]]|accessdate=13 November 2012|date=6 November 2002}}</ref>
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| [[Dorcas Kelly]] || [[File:Royal Standard of Ireland (1542–1801).svg|23px]] [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]] || 1761 and earlier || 1-5 ||Also known as "Darkey Kelly". [[Dublin]] [[brothel]] owner hanged and [[burned at the stake]] for the murder of a client. Four skeletons were found in her establishment after her execution.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.irishcentral.com/news/was-irish-witch-darkey-kelly-really-irelands-first-serial-killer-113340849-237364711.html | title=Was Irish witch Darkey Kelly really Ireland’s first serial killer? | publisher=Irish Central | date=January 12, 2011 | accessdate=9 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Curtis |first=Maurice |date=2013 |title=The Liberties: A History |trans_title= |url=https://books.google.es/books?id=IqE7AwAAQBAJ&dq=darkey+kelly&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s |language=English |location= |publisher=The History Press |isbn= |accessdate= }}</ref>
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| [[Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova]] || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[Russian Empire|Russia]] || 1762 and earlier || 38-147 || Aristocrat who beat and tortured female [[serfdom in Russia|serfs]] to death. Sentenced to life in prison in 1768, where she died of natural causes in 1801.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://pravo.ru/process/view/9237/ | title=Дело помещицы Салтыковой: страх и ненависть в селе Троицком | publisher=pravo.ru | date=March 31, 2012 | accessdate=4 June 2014}}</ref>
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| [[Klaas Annink]], Anne Spanjers and Jannes Annink || {{flagicon|Dutch Republic}} [[Dutch Republic|Netherlands]] || 1774 and earlier || Unknown || Family of robber-murderers active around [[Twente]]. Klaas (nicknamed "Huttenkloas") and his wife, Anne, were tried and executed in 1775.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.wieiswieinoverijssel.nl/zoekresultaten/p2/447 | title=Klaas Annink (Huttenkloas) 1710-1775 | publisher=wieiswieinoverijssel.nl | accessdate=4 June 2014}}</ref>
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| [[Thug Behram]] || [[File:Alam_of_the_Mughal_Empire.svg|25px]] [[Mughal Empire]]<br>[[File:Flag of Awadh.svg|25px]] [[Oudh State]]<ref>
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Rubinstein, William D. (2004) Genocide: A History. Pearson Education Limited. p.83</ref> || 1790-1840 || 125 || Leader of the [[Thuggee]] cult of murder-robbers in central [[India]], also known as Buhram Jemedar and the "King of the Thugs". Behram is often cited as one of the most prolific serial killers in History (if not the most) with 931 victims, although he only admitted to have been present for that many murders, committing 125 himself and witnessing 150 or more.<ref>Paton, James. ''Collections on Thuggee and Dacoitee''. British Library Add.Mss. 41300 fol. 118, 202–03</ref> Thuggee victims were travellers that the Thuggees latched to and befriended before strangling them with a ceremonial handkerchief (''[[rumal]]'') and stealing their belongings. Hanged by officers of the [[East India Company]] as part of the [[British India|British colonial]] [[Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848]]
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| [[Harpe Brothers|Micajah and Wiley Harpe]] || {{flag|United States|1795}} || 1797-1803 || 40 || Highwaymen and [[piracy|river pirates]] known as "Big" and "Little" Harpe, or The Harpe Brothers, who often killed people of all types for the thrill or minor slights without actual monetary gain, even babies. "Big" Harpe bashed his own infant daughter's head against a tree because her crying annoyed him; this was the only murder he claimed to feel sorry about. "Big" Harpe was shot and beheaded in 1799 by people who sought vengeance for the murder of a woman, while "Little" Harpe was arrested when he took fellow outlaw [[Samuel Mason]]'s head to the authorities and tried to collect a bounty put on him in 1803, but was recognized, tried and hanged in 1804.<ref>{{cite book|title=The United States Criminal Calendar|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SMNIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA283|year=1840|publisher=C. Gaylord|page=283}}</ref>
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| [[Samuel Mason]] || {{flagicon|United States|1795}} United States<br>{{flagicon|Spain|1785}} [[Spanish Louisiana]] || 1797-1803 || 20+ || Highwayman and river pirate sometimes associated with the Harpe Brothers and other outlaws. After being arrested in Louisiana and turned over to American authorities, Mason overpowered his guards and escaped, but was shot in the process. His head was later given to the authorities by his accomplice Wiley Harpe who wished to collect the bounty on the fugitive Mason. It is unknown if Mason died of his injuries or Harpe killed him.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-samuelmason.html | title=Samuel "Wolfman" Mason Takes on the Natchez Trace | publisher=legendsofamerica.com | date=January 2013 | accessdate=1 June 2014 | author=Weiser, Kathy}}</ref>
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| [[Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus]] || {{flagicon|Holy Roman Empire}} Holy Roman Empire || 1800-1803 || 3 || [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussian]] aristocrat who poisoned her lover, husband and aunt and tried to poison an unhappy servant, always with arsenic. Sentenced to [[life in prison]] but pardoned in 1833. Died of natural causes three years later.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://murderpedia.org/female.U/u/ursinus-sophie.htm | title=The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers | publisher=Infobase Publishing | author=Newton, MIchael | year=2006}}</ref>
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== 1801 to 1830 ==
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| [[Patty Cannon]]'s gang || {{flagicon|United States|1795}} United States || 1802<ref name="autogenerated2007">Vronsky, Peter (2007) ''Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters.'' Berkley Books, New York.</ref>-1829 || 4-25+<ref name="autogenerated2007"/> || [[Reverse Underground Railroad|Kidnapped slaves and free blacks]] in the [[Delmarva Peninsula]] and sold them to slavers down south. Cannon, reportedly aroused by the sight of black males being beaten into submission, was arrested when four skeletons (three children, one male adult) were found buried in her property, though ironically most of the gang's victims were probably rival white slavers. Cannon died in prison while awaiting trial, under unclear circumstances.<ref name="autogenerated2007"/>
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| [[Mary Bateman]] || {{flag|United Kingdom}} || 1803-1808 || 1-4 || "The [[Yorkshire]] Witch". [[Leeds]] career [[confidence trick|con woman]] and thief, hanged in 1809 for the [[arsenic]] poisoning of a married couple she had been scamming (the husband survived). Suspect in three more deaths.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.es/books?id=4pc7AwAAQBAJ&dq=yorkshire+witch&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s | title=Bloody British History: Leeds | publisher=The History Press | author=Smyth, Richard | year=2013}}</ref>
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| [[Auberge rouge|"Red Inn" murderers]] || {{flagicon|France}} [[First French Empire|French Empire]]<br>[[File:Pavillon royal de France.svg|25px]] [[Bourbon Restoration|Kingdom of France]] || 1805-1830 || 1?-50+? || The owners, Pierre and Marie Martin, and a valet, Jean Rochette, were believed at the time to have murdered up to 50 or more travellers that stayed in their inn of [[Lanarce]], [[Ardèche]]<ref name="sebdidou07">[http://sebdidou07.skyrock.com/536547260-L-affaire-de-l-Auberge-Rouge.html L'affaire de l'Auberge rouge]</ref> to rob them, but were tried for only one murder that has been questioned since by historians. All three were [[guillotine]]d in front of the inn in 1833.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pointsdactu.org/article.php3?id_article=1018#crime | title=L’Auberge rouge, une célèbre affaire criminelle ardéchoise | publisher=pointsdactu.org | date=January 3, 2008 | accessdate=6 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="Peyramaure2003">{{cite book|author=Michel Peyramaure|title=L'auberge rouge: l'énigme de Peyrebeille, 1833|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Lt8DAQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Pygmalion/Gérard Watelet|isbn=978-2-266-11907-8}}</ref>
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| [[Anna Maria Zwanziger]] || {{flagicon|Kingdom of Bavaria}} Bavaria || 1808-1809 || 3 || Housekeeper who poisoned her employers with arsenic and nursed them back to health to gain their favor; three died. Sentenced to beheading in 1811, which she welcomed as the only way to keep herself from poisoning people.
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| [[Ratcliff Highway murders|John Williams]] || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom || 1811 || 7 || [[Irish people|Irish]] sailor who murdered two families and their servants in [[London]]'s [[East End]] by bashing their heads with a hammer and cutting their throats. Hanged himself in prison while awaiting trial.<ref name="autogenerated2005"/>
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| [[Gesche Gottfried]] || {{flagicon|Bremen}} [[Bremen (state)#History|Bremen]]<br>{{flagicon|Kingdom of Hanover}} [[Kingdom of Hanover|Hanover]] || 1813-1827 || 15 || Believed today to have suffered of [[Munchausen syndrome by proxy]], as she poisoned several of her relatives and friends with arsenic for no apparent reason. Last person publicly executed in Bremen, where she was beheaded in 1831.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~bremhist/GescheGottfried.html | title=Gesina die Teufelsbraut | publisher=uni-bremen.de | accessdate=4 June 2014 | author=Fricke, Dieter}}</ref>
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| [[Samuel Green (criminal)|Samuel Green and William Ash]] || {{flagicon|United States|1795}} United States<br>{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[British North America]] || 1817-1821 || Unknown || Itinerant burglars, robbers and counterfeiters, sometimes acting in solitary and others in association. Green, considered "America's first [[Public enemy]] number one", was also a rapist and the more violent and prolific killer of the two, while Ash helped him escape from prison multiple times. While serving a sentence for burglary, Green beat a fellow prisoner to death with an iron rod for informing the guards of an upcoming escape plan, and was hanged as a result in 1822.<ref name="-">{{cite web | url=http://www.prairieghosts.com/s_green.html | title=AMERICA'S FIRST "PUBLIC ENEMY" The Life & Crimes of Samuel Green | publisher=prairieghosts.com | accessdate=15 March 2014 | author=Troy Taylor}}</ref>
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| [[Thomas Jeffries]] (or Jeffrey) || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom<br>{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[New South Wales]]<br>{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Van Diemen's Land || 1820-1826 || 1-8 || Called "The Monster" and "Captain Jeffries" (name he gave himself). Navy deserter, robber and conman deported to [[Australia]] in 1820. Escaped with other convicts and joined a bushranger gang, partaking in survival cannibalism twice before he was apprehended again and sent to [[Tasmania]], in 1822. After rising to flogger and jailer, in 1825 Jeffries was accused of raping free and imprisoned women alike and fled to the bush with three prisoners. In their month-long rampage they robbed several farms, killed an infant and four men (one of them a fellow fugitive, who was cannibalized), wounded two more and raped a woman. Hanged.<ref name="autogenerated2014">Cox, Robert (2014) ''A Compulsion to Kill: The Surprising Story of Australia's First Serial Killers.'' Interactive Publications, 250 pages.</ref><ref name="Wright2012">{{cite book|author=John Wright|title=Undaunted: Stories About the Irish in Australia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QpM7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT18|date=31 October 2012|publisher=History Press Limited|isbn=978-0-7524-9158-5|pages=18–}}</ref>
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| [[Edme Castaing]] || [[File:Pavillon royal de France.svg|25px]] France || 1822 || 1-2 || Physician believed to have poisoned two lawyer brothers with [[morphine]] in the span of three months, although he was only convicted of murdering the second victim and destroying the will of the first one. Guillotined in 1823.<ref>Irving, Henry Brodribb (1918) ''A Book of Remarkable Criminals''. George H. Doran Company, New York</ref>
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| [[Alexander Pearce]] || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Van Diemen's Land || 1822-1823 || 2-5 || Irishman deported in 1819 to Tasmania for thieving six pairs of shoes, whence he escaped with seven other convicts in 1824. The group resorted to cannibalism after running out of food; except for 2 that deserted early, all other members were murdered with an axe and eaten one by one until only Pearce was left to reach the eastern settlements. Pearce was recaptured and sent back to Macquaire Harbor, as his claims of murder and cannibalism weren't believed, and escaped soon after with another convict. This time Pearce killed and ate his companion in less than ten days, when he surrendered voluntarily to the authorities. Hanged in 1824.<ref name="autogenerated2014"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Library of Dreams: Treasures from the National Library of Australia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OSPp-D0QW6wC&pg=PA56|date=1 January 2011|publisher=National Library Australia|isbn=978-0-642-27702-2|pages=56–}}</ref>
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| [[Burke and Hare murders|William Burke and William Hare]] || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom || 1828 || 16 || Lured, intoxicated and murdered people to sell their bodies to Dr. [[Robert Knox]] who used them in his anatomy classes at [[Edinburgh Medical School]]. Their usual method was compressing the chest of the victims in a process henceforth known as "burking". Hare was given immunity in exchange for testifying against Burke, who was hanged in 1829, while Knox was never prosecuted. Burke's fiancée was also tried but her implication was found [[not proven]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://skyelander.orgfree.com/burkhare.html | title=The Resurrectionists & Burke and Hare | publisher=skyelander.orgfree.com | accessdate=4 June 2014}}</ref>
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| [[Thomas Griffiths Wainewright]] || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom || 1830 || 1-4 || Writer and painter believed to have poisoned his sister-in-law to collect a life insurance he recently purchased, and possibly also his uncle, mother-in-law and a friend. Having fled to France, he was arrested upon his return to Britain in 1837, but could not be prosecuted for lack of evidence. Instead he was tried for, and found guilty of, an unrelated case of forgery, for which he was exiled to Tasmania, where he died of natural causes in 1847.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020509b.htm |title=Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths (1794 - 1847) |accessdate=2007-09-28 |author=V. W. Hodgman |work=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]], Volume 2 |publisher=[[Melbourne University Press|MUP]] |year=1967 |pages=558–559}}</ref>
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| [[London Burkers|John Bishop and Thomas Williams]] || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom || 1830-1831 || 5 || Called the "London Burkers". [[Copycat crime|Copycats]] of [[Burke and Hare murders|Burke and Hare]] that were active in London.<ref>Wilson, David (2009) ''A History of British Serial Killing''. Hachette Digital.</ref> Hanged.<ref>[http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng609.htm Newgate Calendar Vol. 5 (1831)]</ref>
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== 1831 to 1850 ==
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| [[Delphine LaLaurie]] || [[File:US flag 24 stars.svg|23px]] United States || 1831-1834 || 2-4 || [[New Orleans]] socialite that tortured and maimed slaves. Seven chained and mutilated slaves were rescued after a fire broke out in LaLaurie's mansion, of which two died of their injuries shortly after, and three buried skeletons were later discovered in her property (according to witnesses, one had died in an accident). The case caused outrage in Louisiana but LaLaurie fled to France and was never prosecuted.<ref name="Martineau1838">{{cite book|author=Harriet Martineau|title=Retrospect of Western Travel|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Po_qzUgr_80C&pg=PA1|year=1838|publisher=Saunders and Otley|pages=136–142}}</ref> Died of natural causes between 1842 and 1849.
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| [[Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh]] || {{flagicon|USA|1822}} United States || 1833-1845 || 2 || Poisoned two alcoholic husbands with arsenic. Hanged in 1846.<ref name="confess">{{cite web |url=http://www.vanvalkenburg.org/liz-confess.html |title=Confession of Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh |publisher=vanvalkenburgh.org |year=1846 |accessdate=2008-11-27}}</ref>
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| [[Hélène Jégado]] || {{flagicon|France}} [[July Monarchy|France]] || 1833-1851 || 23-36 || [[Kleptomaniac]] domestic servant who robbed and poisoned her employers and relatives with arsenic and [[antimony]]. She poisoned during two different periods separated by ten years, 1833 to 1841 and her final spree in 1851. Because the [[statute of limitations]] for the first spree had already run out, she was only tried for three murders and three attempts and guillotined in 1852.<ref name="Jensen2011">{{cite book|author=Vickie Jensen|title=Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues &#91;2 volumes&#93;: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=pk6Bo68G4OkC&pg=PA485|date=10 November 2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-06826-3|pages=485–487}}</ref>
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| [[Pierre François Lacenaire]] || {{flagicon|France}} France || 1834-1835 || 2 || Poet, army defector and thief. Helped by two accomplices, Lacenaire stabbed a former prison cellmate and his mother in [[Paris]], and later attacked a bank employee that survived. They intended to rob the victims but none of the hits produced any money. While in prison for an unrelated offense, one of the accomplices, Victor Avril, blamed Lacenaire for the murders, and Lacenaire reacted by making a detailed confession that ensured both Lacenaire and Avril would be found guilty and executed. Lacenaire's response and his willingness to answer letters and receive visitors in prison, along with the publication of his memoirs, made him a celebrity. The two men were guillotined in 1836.<ref>{{cite book|author=Lisa Downing|title=The Subject of Murder: Gender, Excepcionality and the Modern Killer|url=https://books.google.es/books?id=BPAc4C37ngEC&dq=pierre+lacenaire&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=|pages=}}</ref>
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| [[Hannah Hanson Kinney]] || {{flagicon|USA|1822}} United States || 1835-1840 || 0-3 || Believed at the time to have poisoned two husbands and a father in law; although arsenic was found in two bodies, she was found not guilty because of lack of further evidence.<ref name="Jones">{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Ann|title=Women Who Kill|url=https://books.google.es/books?id=AGA_FEsKRioC&pg=PA163&dq=belle+gunness&hl=es&sa=X&ei=9IuZVIaSCYb7Up2ogagL&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=true|accessdate=23 December 2014}}</ref>
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| [[John Lynch (serial killer)|John Lynch]] || {{flagicon|UK}} New South Wales || 1835-1841 || 9-10 || "The [[Berrima, New South Wales|Berrima]] Axe Murderer." Irish convict turned bushranger who killed his victims with a single [[hatchet]] blow to the back of the head. His [[acquittal]] at a murder trial in 1835, while his two accomplices were hanged, had convinced him that God approved of his crimes. Hanged in 1842.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lynch-john.htm | title=John Lynch: The Berrima Axe Murderer | publisher=originally CrimeLibrary, reproduced by Murderpedia | date= | accessdate=31 January 2015}}</ref>
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| [[Sarah Dazley]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1840-1843 || 1-3 || Hanged for the murder of her second husband, who was poisoned with arsenic. Believed to have poisoned her first husband and child as well.<ref>''[http://books.google.de/books?id=F_sBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA846#v=onepage&q&f=false The Lancet]'', 1843</ref>
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| [[Liver-eating Johnson|John Johnston (or Johnson)]] || {{flagicon|USA|1837}} United States || 1843-? || 300+ || [[Mountain man]] called "Liver-eating Johnson" and ''Dapiek Absaroka'' ("[[Crow Nation|Crow]] Killer" in [[Apsáalooke]]). Moved to the [[Rocky Mountains]] with [[frontiersman]] John Hatcher in 1843; the two killed four [[Arapaho]] and Hatcher taught Johnson to [[scalping|scalp]] them. In 1847 his pregnant wife, a member of the [[Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation|Flathead Nation]], was killed and scalped by Crow warriors. Johnson is said to have embarked then on a [[feud|vendetta]] against the Crow Nation that lasted for years and during which he murdered, scalped and ate the livers of 300 Crow warriors, although Thrapp (1991) considers this number inflated and incompatible with the Crow population at the time.<ref>"Johnston became known as the Crow Killer (Dapiek Absaroka) which like all myths and legends includes incidents no doubt overblown. For example it has been said that he killed in all 300 Crows, which seems unlikely in view of the estimated total of around 450 Crow warriors in those times, with no record of any disaster of such proportions."</ref> Died of natural causes in 1900.<ref>Thrapp, Dan L. (1991) ''[http://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=hc35mM0PqSQC&q= Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: G-O]'', University of Nebraska Press, pp. 735-736</ref>
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| [[Manuel Blanco Romasanta]] || {{flagicon|Spain|1785}} [[History of Spain (1814–73)|Spain]] || 1844-1852 || 9-14 || "The Werewolf of [[Allariz]]". While on the run from his first murder (a constable killed over a debt), Romasanta assumed a new identity and offered his services as a mountain guide to women and children, whom he murdered, later selling their clothing (and according to rumor, also making soap made from their [[body fat]]). Following his arrest, he confessed to 13 murders, which he claimed were committed involuntarily during his transformation into a wolf as a result of a curse. He was found guilty of nine and sentenced to die by [[garrote]]. This was changed to life in prison following a petition by doctors who wished to study him further. He died in jail in 1863.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.larioja.com/v/20120115/sociedad/fiscal-encerro-hombre-lobo-20120115.html | title=El fiscal que encerró al hombre-lobo | publisher=larioja.com | date=January 15, 2012 | accessdate=5 June 2014 |author1=Izquierdo. Marcelino and Frias |author2=Jose Ramon }}</ref>
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| [[Edward Rulloff]] || {{flagicon|United States|1837}} United States || 1844-1870 || 2-7 || Called "The Genius Killer" and "The Man of Two Lives". Medical doctor and [[philology|philologist]] who had a parallel career as an armed robber and con man. Tried for the murder of his wife and daughter in 1846, he was given ten years for kidnapping because neither body was ever found; he was arrested again in 1870 for the murder of a clerk during a robbery. Hanged in 1871.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/08/man-of-two-lives.html | title=The Man of Two Lives | publisher=Murder by Gaslight | date= | accessdate=31 January 2015}}</ref>
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| [[William Palmer (murderer)|William Palmer]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1846?-1855 || 1-10 || [[Gambling addiction|Gambling-addicted]] physician who poisoned friends and relatives with [[strychnine]] and [[ammonia]], usually to collect life insurances or to keep money that the victims lent him; also suspected in the death of four of his newborns. Tried for one murder and hanged in 1856.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lichfieldgazette.co.uk/dr-william-palmer-the-prince-of-poisoners/ | title=Dr William Palmer – The Prince of Poisoners? | publisher=Lichfield Gazette | date=August 28, 2013 | accessdate=4 June 2014 | author=Knibb, Joss Musgrove}}</ref>
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== 1851 to 1880 ==
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| [[Boone Helm]] || {{flagicon|USA|1851}} United States<br>{{flagicon|UK}} [[British Columbia]] || 1851-1864 || 8-24+ || [[Outlaw|Desperado]] active through western North America who killed several men in alcohol-induced fights or to rob them. Engaged in survival cannibalism at least once. Hanged.<ref>Thrapp, Dan L. (1991) ''[http://books.google.es/books?id=hc35mM0PqSQC&dq= Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: G-O]''. University of Nebraska Press, 1698 pages.</ref>
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| [[Mary Ann Cotton]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || c.1852-1873 || 21 || Poisoned her husbands, lovers and children with arsenic. Hanged.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2096423/Mary-Ann-Cotton--Britains-FIRST-serial-killer-poisoned-21-people-including-mother.html | title=She poisoned 21 people including her own mother, children and husbands. So why has no-one heard of Britain's FIRST serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton?| publisher=[[Daily Mail]] | date=February 5, 2012 | accessdate=1 June 2014 | author=Wilson, David}}</ref>
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| [[Catherine Wilson]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1854<ref name="autogenerated2007"/>-1862 || 1-8 || Nurse believed to have poisoned her husband and 7 patients with [[colchicum]] (plus a failed attempt, with [[sulphuric acid]]), but tried for only one. Last woman publicly hanged in London.<ref name="Harper">{{cite web|url=http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/november/execution-catharine-wilson.htm |title='&#39;Harper's Weekly'&#39;, 22 November 1862 |publisher=Sonofthesouth.net |date=2007-01-26 |accessdate=2014-06-05}}</ref>
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| [[Martin Dumollard]] || {{flagicon|France}} [[Second French Empire|France]] || 1855-1861 || 3-30+ || Lured women to [[Lyon]] with promises of work and then killed them. Tried and guillotined in 1862. His wife, [[:fr:Marie-Anne Martinet|Marie-Anne Martinet]], was found guilty of assisting him and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in a women's prison.<ref name="Newton2006">{{cite book|author=Michael Newton|title=The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=DwNVbOcTncwC&pg=PA339|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6987-3|pages=339–}}</ref> She died in 1875.
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| [[Lydia Sherman]] || {{flagicon|USA|1858}} United States || 1858<ref>{{cite web|author=Dan |url=http://www.08016.com/2011/09/lydia-sherman.html |title=Lydia Sherman |publisher=08016.com |date=1998-02-04 |accessdate=2014-05-09}}</ref>-1871 || 10 || "The Derby Poisoner". Confessed to poisoning three husbands and seven children with arsenic.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40D17F63F5D1A7493C3A8178AD85F478784F9 |title=The Derby Poisoner |publisher=New York Times |date=January 11, 1873 |accessdate=2014-06-05}}</ref> Died in prison.
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| [[Edward William Pritchard]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1863?-1865 || 2-3 || Doctor who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law with antimony; also a suspect in the death of a maid who had officially died in a fire two years earlier. Hanged.<ref name=Scotsman>Leighton Bruce, [http://heritage.scotsman.com/notoriouscriminalsfeatureseries/A-deadly-bedside-manner.2680240.jp A deadly beside manner], ''[[The Scotsman]]'', 21 November 2005</ref>
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| [[Felipe Espinosa|The Bloody Espinosas]] || {{flagicon|USA|1863}} United States || 1863 || 8<ref name="newmexicohistory1">{{cite web|url=http://dev.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=21275# |title=America's First Serial Killers: The Espinosa Brothers-1863 |author=Miguél A. Torrez |publisher=New Mexico Office of the State Historian |date= |accessdate=2014-05-09}}</ref> || Gang formed first by [[Neomexicano]] road bandit brothers Felipe Nerio and José Vivián Espinosa, and after José Vivián's death by Felipe Nerio and nephew José Vicente, who acted in [[Conejos County]], [[Colorado (state)|Colorado]]. Following a skirmish with the [[US Army]], the Espinosas declared war on the United States and decided to kill as many [[White Anglo-Saxon Protestant|Anglos]] as they could, until they were tracked and killed by adventurer [[Tom Tobin]] and soldiers of [[Fort Garland, Colorado|Fort Garland]].<ref name="newmexicohistory1"/>
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| [[Dan Morgan (bushranger)|Dan Morgan]] || {{flagicon|UK}} New South Wales<br>{{flagicon|UK}} [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] || 1864-1865 || 3 || Violent bushranger who robbed railroad stations and shot hostages without necessity; one railroad worker and two police sergeants died. Shot dead in a standoff with Victoria police.<ref>{{cite web | year = | url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10351b.htm | title = Morgan, Daniel (Dan) (c. 1830 - 1865) | work = History | publisher = Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition | accessdate = 11 September 2006}}</ref>
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| [[Clarke brothers|Thomas and John Clarke]] || {{flagicon|UK}} New South Wales || 1861-1867 || 5 || Violent bushranger brothers who robbed travelers and farms and shot and killed five police officers. Their activities led to the passing of the Felons Apprehension Act of 1866 that allowed citizens to kill bushrangers on sight. Hanged.<ref>''[http://www.anzlhsejournal.auckland.ac.nz/pdfs_2005/Eburn.pdf Outlawry in Colonial Australia: The Felons Apprehension Act]''</ref>
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| [[Matti Haapoja]] || [[File:Flag_of_Finland_1918_(state).svg|22px]] [[Grand Duchy of Finland|Finland]]<br>{{flagicon|Russia}} Russia || 1867-1894 || 3-10 || Known to have killed 3 in Finland and suspected of 7 more murders, 5 of them in [[Siberia]], whence [[Katorga|he had been exiled]] in the 1880s. Also wounded 6 people. Killed himself in prison in 1895.<ref>Ervasti, Kaijus: Murhamiehen muotokuva: Matti Haapoja 1845–1895. Helsinki: VAPK-kustannus, 1992. ISBN 951-37-0976-0.</ref><ref>
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Vasa, Kosti: Poliisimiehen muistelmia, p. 124. Porvoo: WSOY, 1967.</ref>
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| [[Sher Ali Afridi]] || [[File:Flag of Imperial India.svg|25px]] [[British Raj]] || 1869-1872 || 2 || [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] [[sowar]] deported to the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] for murder, where he killed the visiting [[Viceroy of India]], [[Lord Mayo]]. Hanged.<ref>James, Halen. [http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/HelenJames_LordMayoAssassination.pdf "The Assassination of Lord Mayo : The "First" Jihad?"]. (PDF) IJAPS,Vol 5, No.2 (July 2009). Retrieved 18 November 2012.</ref>
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| [[Margaret Waters]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1870 and earlier || 19 || [[Baby farming|Baby farmer]] who drugged and starved children in her care. Convicted of one murder and hanged.<ref name="Newton2006">{{cite book|author=Michael Newton|title=The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=DwNVbOcTncwC&pg=PA428|year=2006|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6987-3|page=428}}</ref>
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| [[Juan Díaz de Garayo]] || {{flagicon|Spain|1785}} [[Restoration (Spain)|Spain]] || 1870-1879 || 6 || Known as ''El [[Sacamantecas]]'' ("The Fat Extractor"). Strangled women after having sex with them - first willingly, then by force. Garroted in 1881.<ref>Becerro de Bengoa, Ricardo (1881) ''El Sacamantecas. Su Retrato y sus Crímenes. Narración escrita con arreglo a todos los datos auténticos.'' Viuda e Hijos de Iturbe, Vitoria, 58 pages.</ref>
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| [[Jesse Pomeroy]] || {{flagicon|USA|1867}} United States || 1871-1874 || 2 || Called "The Boy Fiend" and "The Inhuman Scamp". Beginning at age 12, he lured younger children and tortured them for his sexual pleasure, killing two. Youngest person sentenced to death by the state of [[Massachusetts]], later changed to life in prison under solitary confinement which was only lifted in 1917. Died in prison in 1931 of natural causes.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/pomeroy/1.html | title=Jesse Harding Pomeroy | publisher=crimelibrary.com | accessdate=27 August 2014}}</ref>
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| [[The Bloody Benders]] || {{flagicon|USA|1867}} United States || 1872-1873 || 10-12<ref name="autogenerated2007"/> || Family of four who owned an inn and small general store in [[Labette County]] in southeastern [[Kansas]] from 1871 to 1873. They murdered around 11 clients, using a mallet and a knife to rob them,.<ref name="autogenerated2007"/> They fled when their crimes were discovered.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/cool-things-bender-knife/10106 | title=Cool Things - Bender Knife | publisher=kshs.org | accessdate=1 June 2014}}</ref> Their fate is considered uncertain, although two members of the posse that found the bodies made [[deathbed confession]]s decades later where they claimed to have tracked down and murdered the family.<ref name="autogenerated2007"/>
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| [[Stephen Richards (murderer)|Stephen Richards]] || {{flagicon|USA|1877}} United States || 1878 || 6-9 || "The [[Nebraska]] Fiend". Confessed to killing two men, one woman and her three children, in all cases but one to rob the victims. Hanged in 1879.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0612FE395A137B93C0A9178AD85F4D8784F9 The Nebraska Murderer. A cool confession of his many crimes]. [[The New York Times]], January 2, 1879</ref><ref>Ramsland, Katherine M. (2006) ''Inside the minds of serial killers''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 199 pgs</ref>
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| [[Bochum]] Serial Sex Murderer || {{flagicon|German Empire}} [[German Empire|Germany]] || 1878-1882 || 8 || Raped, strangled and mutilated women walking or working alone in the country. Wilhelm Schiff was found guilty of three murders and beheaded in January 1882, but the crimes continued until May of that year. Panic over the serial killings contributed to the full restoration of [[capital punishment]] in the German states by 1885, after a hiatus of ten to fifteen years.<ref>Aragon-Yoshida, Amber (2011) ''[http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1550&context=etd Lustmord and Loving the Other: A history of sexual murder in modern Germany and Austria (1873-1932)]''. Washington University in St. Louis, 260 pgs</ref>
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| [[Thomas Neill Cream]] || {{flag|Canada|1868}}<br>{{flagicon|USA|1877}} United States<br>{{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1879-1892 || 5-8 || Doctor known as "The [[Lambeth]] Poisoner". Poisoned one man and several women with [[chloroform]] and [[strychnine]], attempting to frame and then blackmail other men for the murders in some cases. Allegedly confessed to be Jack the Ripper before his execution by hanging in 1892, although he was in prison at the time of the Ripper murders.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casebook.org/suspects/cream.html | title=Dr. Thomas Neill Cream (1850-1892) | publisher=casebook.org | accessdate=1 June 2014}}</ref>
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| [[Amelia Dyer]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1879-1896 || 6-400+ || Baby farmer who strangled the babies in her care. Hanged.<ref name="tragedy">[http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/babyfarm.html "'Baby Farming' – a tragedy of Victorian times."]. Retrieved 2008-10-28</ref>
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| [[Black Widows of Liverpool|Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1880-1883 || 4-8<ref name="autogenerated2007"/> || "The Black Widows of [[Liverpool]]". Killed at least 4 people by poisoning in order to obtain insurance money. Hanged in 1884.<ref name="Echo">{{cite web | url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/liverpool-murders/2010/01/07/mersey-murders-black-widows-margaret-higgins-and-catherine-flannagan-100252-25541424/ | title=Liverpool Murder Most Foul: Day 4: Black widows Margaret Higgins and Catherine Flannagan | publisher=[[The Liverpool Echo]] | date=7 January 2010 | accessdate=7 May 2012 | author=Rossington, Ben}}</ref>
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| [[Maria Swanenburg]] || {{flag|Netherlands}} || 1880-1883 || 27-90+ || Killed at least 27 people by poisoning with arsenic, suspected of over 90 deaths. She murdered for the victims' insurance or inheritance. Sentenced to life in prison, she died in 1915.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://culture-society.todio.info/history/the-serial-killer-maria-swanenburg-696.html | title=Maria Swanenburg, Dutch serial killer | publisher=culture-society.todio.info | date=November 9, 2010 | accessdate=1 June 2014}}</ref>
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| [[Robert Butler (criminal)|Robert Butler]] || {{flag|New Zealand}}<br>{{flag|Australia}} || 1880-1905 || 1-4 || Irish-born burglar and highwayman. Arrested in 1880 for the murder-robbery of a family of 3 in [[Dunedin]], but acquitted because all evidence was circumstancial. Hanged years later in [[Queensland]] for shooting a man.<ref name="O'Brien">{{cite web | url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2b53/butler-robert | title=Story: Butler, Robert | publisher=Teara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand | date=1993 | accessdate=11 February 2015 | author=O'Brien, Brian}}</ref>
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| [[Francisco Guerrero (killer)|Francisco Guerrero]] || {{flag|Mexico|1823}} || 1880-1908<ref name="Pilcher2006">{{cite book|author=Jeffrey M. Pilcher|title=The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GHgF0Xz2fcYC&pg=PA63|year=2006|publisher=UNM Press|isbn=978-0-8263-3796-2|page=63}}</ref><ref name="google129">{{cite book|title=El libro rojo: continuación|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=hTkS8dDnorQC&pg=PA129|year=2008|publisher=Fondo de Cultura Económica|isbn=978-968-16-8614-7|page=129}}</ref> || 21 || Known as ''El Chalequero'' ("The Vests Man"). An open [[machismo|misogynist]], between 1880 and 1888 he raped and killed 20 women in [[Mexico City]], often claimed to be prostitutes, strangling them or cutting their throats, in some cases also decapitating them. He then threw their bodies in the Consulado river. Tried for one murder and another attempt, his initial death sentence was changed to 20 years in prison and was indulted in 1904. In 1908 he raped and murdered an old woman and was again given the death penalty, but died in prison of natural causes before he could be executed.
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== After 1881 ==
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| [[Servant Girl Annihilator]] || {{flagicon|United States|1877}} United States || 1884-1885 || 8 || Unidentified killer, also nicknamed "The [[Austin, Texas|Austin]] Axe Murderer". Abducted women from their bedrooms at night, raped and killed them, hitting them with an axe or stabbing them with a knife or other iron implement, always in the head. Two husbands sleeping with their wives were dispatched first with a single strike from an axe (one died) but children, when present, were usually not harmed. The first five women targeted were black servants sleeping in cabins; the last two, white women in houses.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/servant_girl/index.html | title=Servant Girl Annihilator | publisher=[[Crime Library]] | accessdate=1 June 2014 | author=Ramsland, Katherine}}</ref> Some sources name Nathan Elgin (1867-1886), an [[African-American]] cook shot by police while he was assaulting a girl, as the likely culprit.<ref>[http://www.servantgirlmurders.com/the-servant-girl-annihilator/ The Servant Girl Annihilator]. Retrieved July 17, 2014.</ref><ref>Huddleston, Tim (2013) ''Annihilation in Austin: The Servant Girl Annihilator Murders of 1885''. Absolute Crime, 75 pages.</ref>
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| [[Martha Needle]] || {{flagicon|Victoria}} Victoria<br>[[File:Flag of the Governor of South Australia 1870-1876.svg|25px]] [[South Australia]] || 1885-1894 || 5 || Poisoned her husband and three children, and her new fiancé's two brothers (one of whom survived) with arsenic. Hanged.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/the-black-widow-of-richmond-martha-needle-killed-five-with-poison/story-fnat7jnn-1226412556420 | title=The Black Widow of Richmond Martha Needle killed five with poison | publisher=[[Herald Sun]] | date=July 2, 2012 | accessdate=1 June 2014 | author=Robinson, Russell}}</ref>
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| [[Jane Toppan]] || {{flagicon|USA|1877}} United States || 1885-1901 || 31 || Nurse who confessed to poisoning 31 people in her care and lying in bed with them as they died for her own sexual gratification. [[Insanity plea|Found not guilty by reason of insanity]] and recluded in a mental hospital.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_19247994?IADID=Search-www.lowellsun.com-www.lowellsun.com | title=For 10 years, 'Jolly Jane' poured her poison | publisher=[[The Sun (Lowell)]] | date=November 2, 2011 | accessdate=1 June 2014 | author=Myers, Jennifer}}</ref>
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| [[Mary Ann Britland]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1886 || 3 || Murdered her daughter, husband and the wife of her lover with mice poison. Hanged.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.e-reading.ws/bookreader.php/147214/amazing_stories_of_female_executions.pdf | title=Amazing Stories of Female Executions | publisher=Summersdale Publishers Ltd | author=Abbott, Geoffrey | year=2006 | pages=41–43}}</ref>
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| [[H. H. Holmes]] || {{flagicon|USA|1891}} United States<br>{{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada || 1886<ref>{{cite web|author=Martin Hill Ortiz |url=http://www.apredatorymind.com/The_Twenty_Seven_Murders_of_HH_Holmes_part_2.html |title=The Twenty Seven Murders of Henry H. Holmes, Part Two |publisher=A Predatory Mind |accessdate=2014-12-22}}</ref>-1894 || 9-230+ || Notorious for designing and building a "Murder Castle" where he tortured, killed, dissected and incinerated the bodies of people who had come to visit the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in [[Chicago]]. He cashed on the victims' life insurance and sometimes kept and mounted their skeletons to sell them to medical institutions. Also killed an accomplice (by burning him alive) and three of his accomplice's children. Confessed to 27 murders, although the police estimated 230 victims in Chicago alone after examing the "Castle". Hanged in 1896.<ref name="dope">[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/620/did-dr-henry-holmes-kill-200-people-at-a-bizarre-castle-in-1890s-chicago Did Dr. Henry Holmes kill 200 people at a bizarre "castle" in 1890s Chicago?] from ''[[The Straight Dope]]''</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Robert Wilhelm |url=http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2009/09/h-h-holmes-americas-most-prodigious.html |title=H. H. Holmes - "I was born with the devil in me." |publisher=Murder by Gaslight |accessdate=2014-12-22}}</ref>
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| [[Jack the Ripper]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1888-1891? || [[Whitechapel Murders|5-11]] || Unidentified killer who stabbed at least five prostitutes and mutilated four in the [[Whitechapel district]] of London.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.biography.com/people/jack-the-ripper-9351486#awesm=~oFYnj5xW8CT5hW | title=Jack the Ripper Biography | publisher=biography.com | accessdate=1 June 2014}}</ref> [[Jack the Ripper suspects|Several suspects]] have been named over the years.
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| [[Johann Otto Hoch]] || {{flagicon|USA|1877}} United States<br>{{flag|Austria-Hungary}} <small>(alleged)</small><br>{{flagicon|France}} France <small>(alleged)</small><br>{{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom <small>(alleged)</small> || 1888?-1905 || 1-50+ || German con man who married women under false identities, swindled and poisoned them with arsenic. Hanged in 1906 for one murder, but suspected to have committed between 15 and 55.<ref name="wp20061031">{{cite news| last=Lydersen| first=Kari| title=Infamous Piece of Chicago History Goes on the Block| work=Washington Post| date=31 Oct 2006| url =http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103000984.html| accessdate=24 April 2013}}</ref>
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| [[Minnie Dean]] || {{flag|New Zealand}} || 1889?-1895 || 3+ || [[Baby farmer]] hanged for the murder of three infants that were found buried in her property.<ref>[http://www.crime.co.nz/c-files.asp?ID=14 crime.co.nz]</ref> Only woman executed in the [[History of New Zealand]].
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| [[Frederick Bailey Deeming]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom<br>{{flagicon|Victoria}} Victoria || 1891 || 6 || Killed his wife and four children (cutting their throats, except one daughter that was strangled) and buried their bodies in concrete under a rented house in [[Rainhill]], [[England]]. He then fled with his mistress to [[Windsor, Victoria]], where he bludgeoned her and cut her throat, and also buried the body in concrete in another rented house. The discovery of the last body led to his arrest and the uncovering of the ones in Rainhill, attracting the attention of the international press, which considered him the possible identity of Jack the Ripper. Hanged in 1892.<ref name=ADB>{{cite book |url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080288b.htm |title=Deeming, Frederick Bailey (1853–1892) |accessdate=15 September 2008 |author=Jones, Barry O. |work=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]], Volume 8 |publisher=[[Melbourne University Press|MUP]] |year=1981 |pages=268–269 }}</ref>
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| [[John and Sarah Makin]] || {{flagicon|New South Wales}} New South Wales || 1892 and earlier<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/history/farmers/2.html |title=The Baby Farmers |accessdate=20 July 2012 |first=Paul B. |last=Kidd |publisher=TruTV.com |page=2 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002063255/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/history/farmers/2.html|archivedate=2 October 2012 }}</ref> || 12-13 || Baby farmers who murdered infants in their care. John was hanged in 1893 but Sarah's death sentence was commuted for life imprisonment and hard labor. She was paroled in 1911 and died seven years later of natural causes.
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| [[Lizzie Halliday]] || {{flagicon|USA|1891}} United States<br>[[File:Flag of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.svg|25px]] [[History of Ireland (1801–1923)|Ireland]] <small>(alleged)</small> || 1893?-1906 || 5-8 || "The Worst Woman on Earth". Acquitted of killing her stepson by burning down their [[New York State|New York]] family home in 1893. After her husband disappeared the following year, a search of their farm found the bodies of two women in the hayloft who had been shot to death; the husband's mutilated body was found under the floorboards of the house a few days later. Halliday was convicted of the murders, becoming the first woman sentenced to die in the [[electric chair]], but her sentence was later commuted to being interned in an asylum after she was found to be insane. In 1906 she killed an asylum's nurse with a pair of scissors. Another stepson claimed that Halliday had confided him that she had murdered a previous husband in [[Belfast]], but had concealed the crime successfully.<ref>{{cite web|author=Robert Wilhelm |url=http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2014/12/the-worst-woman-on-earth.html |title=The Worst Woman on Earth. |publisher=Murder by Gaslight |accessdate=2014-12-22}}</ref><ref>James D. Livingston, Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded Age New York, SUNY Press - 2012, pge 64</ref> Died in 1918.
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| [[:de:Louise Vermilyea|Louise Vermilyea]] || {{flagicon|USA|1891}} United States || 1893-1911 || 9 || Believed to have poisoned seven relatives and two boarders with arsenic in Chicago for economic gain. May have attempted suicide with arsenic while in [[home arrest]] in 1911,<ref>Newton, Michael (1990) ''Hunting Humans: An encyclopedia of modern serial killers''. Loompanics Unlimited, 353 pages.</ref> if so she survived and saw all charges dismissed in 1915.<ref>''Mrs. Vermilyea Free'', The [[La Crosse Tribune]], April 17, 1915, page 5</ref>
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| [[Frances Lydia Alice Knorr|Frances Knorr]] || {{flagicon|Victoria}} Victoria || c.1894 || 2 || Baby farmer hanged for the murder of two babies that were found buried in her property.<ref>Leahy, Fiona & Briggs, Chris. ''Who were the other prisoners executed and buried at the Melbourne gaol?'' In Cormick, Craig (2014) ''Ned Kelly: Under the Microscope.''. CSIRO Publishing.</ref>
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| [[Harry T. Hayward]] || {{flagicon|USA|1891}} United States || 1894 and earlier || 1-4 || "The [[Minneapolis]] [[Svengali]]." Gambler and serial arsonist who confessed to three other unreported murders after being found guilty of one. Hanged in 1895.<ref>Schechter, Harold (2012) ''Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of''. Ballantine Books.</ref>
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| [[Joseph Vacher]] || {{flagicon|France}} France || 1894-1897 || 11-27+ || Mentally ill vagrant known as "The French Ripper" and the "Ripper of the South-East", although he was also active in central and northern France. Raped, stabbed and disembowelled women, teenage boys and girls who worked alone in the countryside. Guillotined in 1898.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lane|first=Brian|title=The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers|url=http://murderpedia.org/male.V/v/vacher-joseph.htm|accessdate=7 January 2013|author2=Wilfred Gregg|quote='Yes, I committed the crimes ... I committed them all in moments of frenzy.'}}</ref>
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| [[Theodore Durrant]] || {{flagicon|United States|1891}} United States || 1895 || 2 || "The Demon of the Belfry". [[San Francisco]] [[sunday school]] teacher who raped and strangled two women who rebuffed his romantic advances, then abandoned their bodies in the church's library and bell chamber. Took part in the search for the first victim and suggested that she had been kidnapped and taken out of town. Hanged in 1898.<ref>''[http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2009/11/theodore-durrant-demon-of-belfry.html Theo Durrant - The Demon of the Belfry]''</ref>
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| [[Belle Gunness]] || {{flagicon|USA|1896}} United States || 1896?-1908? || 21-42+ || Murderer for profit who killed her relatives, employees and several suitors that she contacted through [[Lonely hearts killer|lonely hearts ads]] in [[Norwegian-American|Norwegian language]] newspapers of the [[American Midwest|Midwest]], dismembering and burying most under a [[chicken coop]] in [[La Porte, Indiana]]. The 1900 strychnine poisoning of Gunness' first husband is often reported as her first murder, but the deaths of two of her children in 1896 and 1898 (who were insured) manifested similar symptoms. Reported dead, along with her three remaining children, in a fire that destroyed her farmhouse in 1908, even though the children's bodies contained strychnine and the woman's body found next to them was decapitated and smaller than Gunness'. Several people claimed to see her alive in the following years.<ref name="Jones"/>
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| [[George Chapman (murderer)|George Chapman]] || {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom || 1897-1902 || 3 || Poisoned three of his mistresses with [[tartar emetic]]. Suspected at the time of his execution by hanging in 1903 to be the real identity of Jack the Ripper.<ref name="Loriol2010">{{cite book|author= Peter De Loriol|title= Murder and Crime in London|year= 2010|publisher= History Press Limited|ISBN= 978-0-7524-5657-7|pages= 61–62|quote=The two unsolved questions that have never been answered to support the theory that Chapman was Jack the Ripper is whether or not he could speak English when he arrived? Could the murders change so drastically from physical mutilation to poisoning? }}</ref>
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==Legendary serial killers ==
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The existence of the following serial killers is dubious or contradicts the accepted historical record:
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| [[Christie-Cleek|Andrew Christie]] || [[File:Lionrampant.svg|23px]] [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] || mid-14th century || Called "Christie-Cleek". Purported [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]] butcher turned road bandit, murderer and cannibal during a severe famine.<ref name="Wilson1851">{{cite book|author=John Mackay Wilson|title=Wilson's historical, traditionary and imaginative tales of the borders and of Scotland|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vK1UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA228|year=1851|publisher=Robert Martin|page=228}}</ref>
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| [[Christman Genipperteinga]] || {{flagicon|Holy Roman Empire}} Holy Roman Empire || 1568-1581 || Claimed German bandit who was executed for 964 murders, according to a 1581 pamphlet. Possibly inspired by real bandit [[Peter Niers]], who confessed under torture to 544 deaths and was executed in the same year, although similar characters appear in German fairy tales and folk songs from before that time.<ref name="Herber1581">{{cite book|author=Caspar Herber|title=Erschröckliche newe Zeytung Von einem Mörder Christman genant, welcher ist Gericht worden zu Bergkessel den 17. Juny diß 1581 Jars|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=dJBSAAAAcAAJ|year=1581}}</ref>
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| [[Sawney Bean]]'s clan || {{flagicon|Scotland}} Scotland || Around 1600 || Claimed cannibal family that robbed, killed and ate travellers in a cave of [[Bennane Head]], until their manhunt and execution by [[James VI of Scotland|James VI]]. Contemporary documents make no reference to the hundreds of disappearances and murders said to have been carried by Bean's clan, which was probably inspired by the earlier legend of Christie-Cleek.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.oceanstar.com/horror/sawney.htm | title=The Worlds Strangest Crimes | publisher=Hart Pub. Co., 1967 | author=Maine, Charles, Eric | year=1967 | page=30}}</ref>
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| [[Sweeney Todd]] || [[File:Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg|23px]] United Kingdom || 1801 and earlier || London barber said to kill his clients by slashing their throats and/or throwing them through a trapdoor, after which an accomplice would make pies with the meat of their bodies. Introduced in the 1846-1847 [[penny dreadful]] ''The String of Pearls'', Todd was first claimed to be a real criminal in the first published edition of 1850, supposedly tried in December 1801 and executed in January 1802. Court records of the time do not mention Todd or anyone similar.<ref name="Mack2007">{{cite book|author=Robert L. Mack|title=''The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend''|url=https://books.google.es/books?ei=Up-lVOPOE4TvUtuhgLgL&hl=es&id=QgLXAAAAMAAJ&dq=|year=2007|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|page=}}</ref>
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| [[Don Vincente]] || {{flagicon|Spain|1785}} Spain || 1834-1836 || [[Bibliomania]]c ex-monk and librarian said to have killed ten men in [[Barcelona]] in order to steal unique books and add them to his collection, sentenced for his crimes to die by garrote. The story, first published as an anonymous article in a 1836 Parisian newspaper, was reprinted as a true story in France for a century, while remaining largely unknown in Spain.<ref name="Miquel1991">{{cite book|author=Ramon Miquel i Salas|title=''El librero asesino de Barcelona''|url=https://books.google.es/books?id=aZwm48mXY3MC&dq=librero+asesino+barcelona&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s|year=1991|publisher=Editorial Montesinos|page=}}</ref>
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| [[Agnus McVee]], Jim McVee and Al Riley || {{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada || 1875-1885 || Family claimed to have owned a hotel and store on the [[Cariboo Road]] of [[British Columbia]] during the [[Cariboo Gold Rush]], where they killed miners for their gold and kidnapped women to make into sex slaves until their arrest and death in prison in [[New Westminster]]. The story comes from a single source and there are no records of disappearances in the area at the time of the murders nor existing death certificates of the supposed serial killers apprehended.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.historical.bc.ca/murder.html | title=108 HOTEL OF MURDER | publisher=historical.bc.ca | accessdate=1 June 2014}}</ref>
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==See also==
* [[List of serial killers by country]]
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* [[List of serial killers by number of victims]]
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==References==
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{{Reflist|30em}}

[[Category:Serial killers|*]]
[[Category:Death-related lists]]
[[Category:Lists by death toll]]
[[Category:Lists of criminals]]

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