List of serial killers by country

This is a list of notable serial killers, by their country of origin or activity.

Convicted serial killers by country

Argentina

• Cayetano Santos Godino - aka Petiso Orejudo - killed four individuals before he turned 17

Australia

• Eric Edgar Cooke - killed at least seven people; last person to be hanged in Western Australia
• Paul Denyer - aka Frankston Serial Killer
• Peter Dupas - serving two life sentences for multiple murder and rape charges
• John Wayne Glover - aka North Shore Granny Killer; found dead in his cell in 2005
• Eddie Leonski - aka Brownout Murderer; killed at least four people
• William MacDonald - aka the Sydney Mutilator
• Ivan Milat - aka Backpack Murderer; killed at least seven tourists
• James Miller - the Truro murders; convicted of killing six victims
• The Snowtown murders (John Justin Bunting, Robert Joe Wagner, Mark Ray Haydon, James Spyridon Vlassakis, Elizabeth Harvey, Thomas Trevilyan) - convicted of, or in relation to, killing ten victims
• Christopher Worrell - the Truro murders; killed seven victims
• Leonard_Fraser - convicted of killing 3 people in rockhampton, Qld.

Austria

• Elfriede Blauensteiner - poisoner of three individuals
• Irene Leidolf - Angel of Death who, with three other nurses confessed to murdering 49 patients
• Jack Unterweger - author and sexual sadist; convicted of ten murders; believed to have killed 12 women

Brazil

• Francisco Costa Rocha aka Chico Picadinho. Famous serial killer in Brazil.
• Francisco de Assis Pereira - Park Maniac, have raped and killed at least six woman in a State Park in Sao Paulo city.

Belgium

• Marc Dutroux - Belgian child molester and killer

Canada

• Paul Bernardo - aka the Scarborough Rapist; Ontario man who killed three teenage girls (including his wife's sister) with the aid of his wife Karla Homolka
• William Patrick Fyfe - convicted of murdering five women; confessed to killing four more individuals in Quebec
• Russell Johnson - killer of seven women; confined to a mental institution since 1978
• Allan Legere - aka Monster of Miramichi; killer of five individuals
• Michael Wayne McGray - convicted of the murders of four individuals; confessed to killing 16
• Clifford Olson - murdered 11 children
• Peter Woodcock - murdered three children in 1956 and 1957 and a fellow psychiatric institute patient in 1991
• Robert Pickton - charged with the first degree murders of 27 women, many of them prostitutes and drug users from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
• Gilbert Paul Jordan - Killed 8-10 women, by alcohol poisoning

China

• Yang Xinhai - confessed to killing 65 individuals; executed in 2004
• Hu Wanlin - a self-styled "doctor" who practiced the traditional medical art of qigong -- a deep-breathing technique dating back 5,000 years -- was arrested for killing between 100 to 190 patients

Colombia

• Luis Garavito - Admitted to killing and raping 140 boys (also killed victims in Ecuador)
• Pedro López - aka The Monster of the Andes; apocryphal with 300 alleged victims (also killed victims in Ecuador)

Ecuador

• Daniel Barbosa - aka The Beast Of The Andes; apocryphal, with 71 alleged victims

Finland

• Pessi Haltsonen aka The Norther Mutilator. Tortured and killed at least 69 people. Also necrophiled and dismembered his victims.

France

• Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers - French poisoner; executed in 1676
• Michel Fourniret - confessed to nine murders; allegedly killed ten more
• Hélène Jegado - domestic servant who poisoned at least 23 people between 1833 and 1851; executed in 1852
• Henri Désiré Landru - killed 11 people; inspired the character of Monsieur Verdoux played by Charlie Chaplin
• Émile Louis - preyed on young handicapped women
• Thierry Paulin - aka the Beast of Montmartre; preyed on the elderly in the 1980s
• Marcel Petiot - doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the Nazis; executed in 1946
• Gilles de Rais - 15th century demonolator and child-killer
• Joseph Vacher - aka The French Ripper; 19th century serial killer of 11 individuals

Germany

• Jürgen Bartsch - killed four, one escaped; died by wrongful overdose during castration surgery
• Karl Denke - cannibal; allegedly killed 30 people
• Karl Grossmann - killed women and sold their flesh on the black market
• Fritz Haarmann - preyed on young men and boys; executed in 1925
• Fritz Honka - murdered four women in Hamburg and kept the bodies in his apartment
• Joachim Kroll - claimed 13 victims over three decades
• Peter Kürten - the Vampire of Düsseldorf; executed in 1932
• Bruno Lüdke - killed at least 51 individuals beginning in 1928; executed in 1944
• Peter Stumpp - self-proclaimed werewolf who killed 16 people during the 1500s
• Anna Maria Zwanziger - Bavarian poisoner, killer of four individuals; executed in 1811

Ghana

• Charles Quansah - convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women in Accra, suspected of killing 34; sentenced to death in 2003

Hungary

• The Angel Makers of Nagyrév - Hungarian poisoners thought to have killed as many as 300 people
• Erzsébet Báthory - countess who killed servant girls; rumored to have killed more than 600
• Béla Kiss - murdered at least 24 women; escaped justice in the confusion of World War I
• Sylvestre Matuschka - aka the Train Killer; derailed trains for sexual gratification

India

• Thug Behram - leader of a gang of Thugs in Avadh, India, who confessed to participating in 931 individual murders and to having personally strangled approximately 125 men
• Raman Raghav - killed street urchins and others in their sleep
• Auto Shankar - auto rickshaw driver who preyed on teenage girls
• Charles Sobhraj - preyed on Western tourists in Southeast Asia in the 1970s

Indonesia

• Ahmad Suradji - a serial killer who admitted to killing 42 women

Iran

• Mohammed Bijeh - aka the Tehran Desert Vampire; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran, Iran; executed in 2005
• Saeed Hanaei - aka The Spider Killer; killed at least 16 women around Mashhad, Iran; executed in 2002

Israel

• Nicolai Bonner - killed four people in 2005 in Haifa, Israel; most victims were homeless

Ireland

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Italy

• Luigi Chiatti - aka the Monster of Foligno; victims were children
• Leonarda Cianciulli - aka Soap-Maker of Correggio; murderess of three women
• Locusta - Roman poisoner; thought to be the world's first documented serial killer
• Pietro Pacciani - aka the Monster of Florence; victims were young couples
• Roberto Succo - murdered at least five individuals, including his parents

Japan

• Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata - killed at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Junko's family.
• Tsutomu Miyazaki - aka The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer, and Dracula; killed four preschool-age Japanese girls and ate two of them

Kazakhstan

• Nikolai Dzhumagaliev - aka Metal Fang; cannibal and rapist thought to have killed nearly 50 individuals

Latvia

• Kaspars Petrovs - convicted of murdering 13 elderly Riga women in 2005; confessed to killing 38

Mexico

• Juana Barraza Samperio - aka Mataviejitas ("Old Lady Killer"); operated within the metropolitan area of Mexico City until January 25, 2006
• Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo - serial killer and cult leader in Mexico
• Delfina and Maria de Jesus Gonzales - killed a total of 91; arrested and sentenced in 1964
• Raúl Osiel Marroquín - aka "El Sádico"; was the murderer of four male homosexuals in Mexico City.
• Abdul Latif Sharif - Egyptian alleged to be responsible for dozens of murders in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

Netherlands

• Lucia de Berk - nurse, convicted of killing at least seven and attempting three murders in the 2000s and probably more.
• Maria Swanenburg - killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s

Norway

• Arnfinn Nesset - Geriatric assistant nurse who poisoned 22 dwellers at the institution "Orkdal alders - og sjukeheim" over a period of some years before being convicted in 1984

Pakistan

• Javed Iqbal - believed to have killed a hundred boys

Poland

• Julian Koltun - raped and murdered women in eastern Poland
• Zdzisław Marchwicki - aka Zagłębie Vampire; convicted of murdering 14 women; executed in 1976
• Władysław Mazurkiewicz - aka The Gentleman Killer; killed up to 30 women
• Stanisław Modzelewski - murdered seven women in Łódź during the 1960s; executed in 1970
• Leszek Pękalski - aka the Vampire of Bytów; killed up to 17 women
• Łucjan Staniak - aka The Red Spider and The Red Ripper; killed up to 20 women

Portugal

• António Luís Costa - allegedly killed three young women; convicted but will appeal

Romania

• Ion Rîmaru - murdered and raped young women in Bucharest from 1970 to 1971; executed in 1971

Russia

• Andrei Chikatilo - aka The Rostov Ripper and Hannibal Lecter ; killed 52 women and children throughout the many countries of the former Soviet Union before being arrested, convicted, and executed in 1994
• Darya Saltykova - 18th century Countess who torutured and killed serfs on her estate
• Alexander Pichushkin - aka The Bitsa Maniac and The Chessboard Killer ; is according to Russian news agency RIA Novosti (13th of august 2007) charged with murdering of 49 people in a Moscow's Bitsyevskiy "Bitsa" Park. He is suspected of killing as many as 62.

Slovenia

• Metod Trobec - raped and killed at least five women, committed suicide in prison in 2006
• Silvo Plut - killed three women, commited suicide in prison -28.04.2007

South Africa

• Daisy de Melker - poisoner; killed two husbands and one son; executed in 1932
• Cedric Maake - aka the Wemmer Pan Killer; murdered at least 27 people. Also serial rapist
• Moses Sithole - believed to have killed at least 38 young women

South Korea

• Yoo Young-chul - killed and ate about 20 people, mainly rich elderly men and prostitutes

Sweden

• Thomas Quick - child molester and alleged serial killer

UK

• John Bodkin Adams - doctor acquitted of one murder in 1957 but according to police archives, the likely killer of at least 163 of his patients
• Beverly Allitt - an Angel of Death; paediatric nurse who killed four patients and injured at least nine others, convicted in 1991
• Robert Black - Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of three murders, suspected of many more
• Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - aka Moors Murderers - murdered 5 children, aged between 10 and 17 years old, and buried them on Saddleworth Moor.
• George Chapman - poisoned three women, suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper
• John Childs - murdered six individuals; jailed 1980
• Robert George Clements - doctor who murdered one wife but committed suicide before being arrested. Three previous wives died in suspicious circumstances and he signed their death certificates.
• John Christie - aka The Necrophile who lived at 10 Rillington Place
• Mary Ann Cotton - British Victorian killer, said to have taken more than 20 victims
• Thomas Neill Cream - aka Lambeth Poisoner, began his killing spree in the US then moved to London
• Amelia Dyer - murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896
• Bruce George Peter Lee - aka the Hull Arsonist
• Kenneth Erskine - aka Stockwell Strangler; jailed in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners
• John George Haigh - aka the Acid Bath Murderer and the Vampire of London
• Anthony Hardy - aka the Camden Ripper; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four
• Colin Ireland - aka Gay Slayer; killed five victims in the early 1990s
• Michael Lupo - aka Wolf Man; convicted of four murders and the attempted murder of two others
• Patrick Mackay - confessed to killing 11 people
• Robert Maudsley - killer of four; killed three in prison
• Peter Moore - businessman who killed men at random in Wales
• Lenny Murphy - leader of the Shankill Butchers
• Donald Neilson - aka Black Panther; killed four people including heiress Lesley Whittle
• Dennis Nilsen - killer of 15 (possibly 16)
• William Palmer - aka The Rugeley Poisoner
• Mark Rowntree - 19 year old who killed four people at random
• Harold Shipman - doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25 year period
• George Joseph Smith - aka The Brides in the Bath killer
• John Straffen - child-killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner
• Peter Sutcliffe - aka the Yorkshire Ripper; convicted in 1981 of the murders of 13 women the attacks on 7 more from 1975 to 1980
• Fred West and Rosemary West - aka House of Horrors murderers in Gloucester
• Graham Frederick Young - aka The Teacup Poisoner; killed three individuals from 1962 to 1971

Ukraine

• Anatoly Onoprienko - aka The Terminator; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996

USA

• Charles Albright - killer of three; known for surgically removing the eyes of victims
• Richard Angelo - aka The Angel of Death; nurse
• Joe Ball - aka The Alligator Man, killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas
• Martha Jule Beck - one of the Lonely Hearts Killers, along with Raymond Fernandez, killed at least three women and one child in the 1940s.
• David Berkowitz - aka Son of Sam and The .44 Caliber Killer
• Bloody Benders - a family who killed guests of their inn in Labette County, Kansas, in 1872
• Robert 'Bob' Berdella - convicted of killing six men in 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri, undoubtedly killed others, sexually tortured and dismembered his victims
• Kenneth Bianchi - Californian who with his cousin Angelo Buono were the Hillside Stranglers
• William Bonin - aka The Freeway Killer; with several accomplices, claimed the lives of 20 boys in California
• Robert Charles Browne - Convicted of two murders in Colorado, but says he has killed 48, some of which have been corroborated.
• Jerry Brudos - aka The Shoe-Fetish Slayer, killed at least five women
• Ted Bundy - aka The Campus Killer, Lady Killer and Chi Omega Killer; law student who raped and murdered more than 30 women in several states
• Angelo Buono, Jr. - Californian who with his cousin Kenneth Bianchi were the Hillside Stranglers
• Dean Carter - murdered at least four women
• Richard Chase - aka the Vampire of Sacramento murdered six people in the '70s
• Dean Corll - aka The Candy Man; committed the Houston Mass Murders with Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks
• Juan Vallejo Corona - Killed 25 people in the space of just six weeks
• Charles Cullen - nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who killed as many as 40 patients through lethal injection
• Jeffrey Dahmer - Milwaukee cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment
• Albert DeSalvo - aka The Boston Strangler
• Westley Allan Dodd - child molester and killer of three young boys in Vancouver, Washington; hanged on January 5, 1993
• Nannie Doss - aka The Giggling Granny; serial poisoner who killed four husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson and a nephew.
• Mack Ray Edwards confessed to the murders of six children in Los Angeles County between 1953 and 1969.
• Raymond Fernandez - one of the Lonely Hearts Killers, along with Martha Jule Beck.
• Albert Fish - aka The Cannibal, The Moon Maniac and The Werewolf of Wisteria; sadist and pedophile who cannibalized several children
• Wayne Adam Ford - aka Wayward Wayne; confessed to murdering four women, believed to have killed others
• Joseph Paul Franklin - racist serial killer who targeted interracial couples and attempted to assassinate Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordan
• John Wayne Gacy - aka the Killer Clown; killer of at least 33 men and boys who kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
• Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins - aka the Meanest Man in America; Gaskins, executed on September 6, 1991, confessed to over 200 murders.
• Ed Gein - two known victims, one suspected victim, four missing persons; elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Kristen Gilbert - Angel of Death serial killer, convicted of killing four by injection of epinephrine while working as a nurse
• Harvey Murray Glatman - Californian rapist and killer of three women; lured women to pose for "bondage photographs" and would rape and murder them.
• Jeffrey Gorton - convicted of two rape-murders in Michigan, suspected of more
• Belle Gunness - murder-for-profit killer who murdered her suitors and her own children in Indiana
• Robert Hansen - Alaskan baker who killed prostitutes at his cabin
• Donald Harvey - aka Angel of Death; hospital orderly, confessed to more than 80 "mercy killings" with 37 confirmed killings
• Gary M. Heidnik - kept sex slaves in his basement and killed two of them

• H. H. Holmes - active 1890-1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
• Waneta Hoyt - murdered her five children
• Philip Carl Jablonski - killed at least four women in Utah
• Vincent Johnson - aka the Brooklyn Strangler; a homeless crack addict who killed at least five prostitutes
• Genene Jones - Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care
• Patrick Kearney - necrophile who killed 28 men in California
• Edmund Kemper - started killing when he was aged fifteen in Santa Cruz, CA
• Sante Kimes - grifter and murder-for-profit killer who, along with her son Kenneth Kimes, is believed to have killed upwards of four people
• Paul John Knowles - raped and murdered 18 people
• Randy Steven Kraft - murdered as many as 68 young men in California
• Peter Kudzinowski - killed children in New Jersey in the 1920s
• Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski - professional hit man by trade with a serial killer passion on the side
• Leonard Lake and Charles Ng - ex-marines and survivalists who collected female slaves
• Derrick Todd Lee - aka the Baton Rouge Serial Killer
• Eddie Leonski - aka the Brownout Strangler
• Henry Lee Lucas - confessed to hundreds of murders, although most confessions were false
• Charles Manson - only serial killer never convicted on murder (most famous for his participation in the Tate-LaBianca murders of the late 1960s)
• John Allen Muhammad - Washington D.C. area sniper
• Herbert Mullin - schizophrenic in Santa Cruz, CA who killed people to prevent earthquakes
• Earle Nelson - aka Gorilla Man; necrophiliac serial killer
• Carl Panzram - murderer, rapist, arsonist
• Jesse Pomeroy - teenaged psychopath who killed two children
• Dorothea Puente - killed and robbed nine elderly boarders
• Dennis Rader - aka the BTK Killer; killed 10 people over 20 years
• Richard Ramirez - aka the Night Stalker; terrorized Los Angeles in 1984 and 1985
• Ángel Maturino Reséndiz - killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois
• Bruce Mendenhall - aka The Truck Stop Killer
• Gary Ridgway - aka The Green River Killer
• Joel Rifkin - murdered 17 women in the New York City and Long Island area
• John Edward Robinson - aka the Cyber Sex Killer; lured victims through the internet
• Danny Rolling - pleaded guilty to murdering five students in Florida
• Michael Ross - raped and murdered seven women in Connecticut
• Efren Saldivar - respiratory therapist who killed six patients, and possibly as many as 120
• Gerard John Schaefer - aka The Killer Cop and The Florida Sex Beast; police officer who killed up to 34 women and girls
• Tommy Lynn Sells - admitted to murdering dozens of people from all over the USA, possibly in excess of 70
• Arthur Shawcross - aka the Genesee River Killer
• Lemuel Smith - confessed to the murders of five people, including that of an on-duty female prison-guard
• Morris Solomon Jr. - handyman killed six young women between 1986 and 1987 in a Sacramento, California, neighborhood
• Gerald Stano - convicted murderer of 41 women.
• Cary Stayner - aka the Yosemite Murderer who killed four women
• Michael Swango - physician and surgeon who poisoned over 30 of his patients and colleagues
• William Suff - aka the Riverside Killer who killed up to 19 women near Riverside, California
• Marybeth Tinning - poisoned nine of her children
• Ottis Toole - Henry Lee Lucas's accomplice; convicted of six murders in Florida
• Chester Dwayne Turner - murderer of women in Los Angeles, California
• Henry Louis Wallace- Charlotte, North Carolina, serial killer of at least nine young women over a two year period from 1992 to 1994
• Coral Eugene Watts - aka The Sunday Morning Slasher; killed dozens of women in Texas and Michigan
• Wayne Williams - aka the Atlanta Child Murderer; convicted of two (and believed responsible for more) of the murders of more than twenty children in Atlanta, Georgia
• Randall Woodfield - aka the I-5 Killer
• Aileen Wuornos - female serial killer who shot six men dead in Florida
• Robert Lee Yates - murdered at least 13 women in Spokane County, Washington

Unidentified serial killers

• The Axeman of New Orleans (USA)
• The Servant Girl Annihilator, aka the Austin Axe Murderer (USA)
• The Baseline Killer (USA) - One man has been charged with 9 murders attributed to the Baseline Killer
• Bible John (UK)
• The Cincinnati Strangler - although presumed by many to be Posteal Laskey, who was convicted of a strangling during a rash of stranglings, there was a lack of evidence linking him to the other victims of the Cincinnati Strangler
• The Claremont serial killer (Australia)
• The Cleveland Torso Murderer, aka The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run (USA)
• 2006 Ipswich murder investigation (UK) (unidentified killer, aka the Ipswich Ripper, Suffolk Ripper, Red Light Ripper, East Anglia Ripper, Suffolkator or Suffolk Strangler) — Nobody yet convicted, but one man has been charged with five murders
• Jack the Ripper, the most famous serial killer of all, murdered prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 (UK)
• Jack the Stripper (UK), 1964-65
• The Lisbon Ripper — A ripper that murdered three women in Lisbon (Portugal)
• The Oakland County Child Killer
• The Original Night Stalker (USA)
• The Phantom Killer (USA)
• The Stoneman (India) — An individual or gang that killed a number of homeless individuals through the 1980s
• The Zodiac Killer (USA)

See also

• Mass murder
• Spree killer
• List of criminals by nickname
• List of terrorist incidents (includes Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski)