List of serial killers by number of victims

A serial killer is defined as a person who murders three or more people, in three or more separate events over a period of time, for primarily psychological reasons. There are gaps of time in between the killings, which may comprise of a few hours up to many years. This list shows serial killers in order of how many victims they had. In many cases, the exact number of victims assigned to a serial killer is not exactly known, and even if that person is convicted of a few, there can be the possibility that he/she killed many more.

The second column in the table states the number of victims that were definitely assigned to that particular serial killer. The third column states the number of other possible victims that the killer could also have murdered. Some of these crimes are yet to be solved, but have been included because they are notorious or clearly the work of a serial killer, despite nobody being caught.

Name	Country	Proven Victims (either in court, by detailed confession, or according to most scholars)	Possible Victims	Notes
Erzsébet Báthory	Hungary	36-200	200-600	born 1560, died 1614, accused of murdering 600 or so people, but there was no public trial.
Javed Iqbal	Lahore, Pakistan	100	100 children	born 1956, died October 8, 2001, was a Pakistani serial killer who was found guilty of the sexual abuse and murder of 100 children.
Luis Garavito	Colombia	140	300	Targeted young boys, arrested in 1999
Pedro Lopez	Colombia	57	300	Targeted young girls, arrested in 1980
Dr. Harold Shipman	United Kingdom	15	Convicted of 15, but investigators estimate he killed 216	Targeted his hospital patients, many of whom were elderly women. Caught when Kathleen Grundy died suddenly in his care, and her will had suddenly been amended so it would benefit him and no-one else. Killed his patients with lethal injections of diamorphine, before altering their medical records to make it look as if they were of poor health.
Henry Lee Lucas	United States	11	2-200	born 1936, died 2001. Confessed to about 3,000 murders, convicted of 11
Gilles de Rais	France	200	200	Testimony gained under torture and confession under threat of torture, as was customary.
Hu Wanlin	China	146	146	Sentenced to 15 years on 1st October 2000.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho "Pedrinho Matador"	Brazil	70	100+	Born 1954, convicted, sentence 128 years, but in Brazil no one can serve for more than 30 years in jail. He claimed over 100 victims, 40 of them inmates.
Alexander Pichushkin	Russia	48	63	Known as the "chessboard killer" because he wanted to kill 64 people, the number of squares on a chessboard. Found guilty of 48 murders, confessed to 63.
Jack Unterweger	Austria	10	15	born 1950, died 1994. Was 14 years in Austrian prison because of a murder in 1974. Killed at least 9 prostitutes after his release. Was a small media star in Austrian media in the early 90's and arrested in the U.S. (where he may have killed another 3 prostitutes) on behalf of Austrian police. Hanged himself 1994 after being sentenced to life in prison.
Thomas Quick	Sweden	8	30	Raped and murdered up to 30 men. Several scholars have however questioned if he killed anyone.
Billy Gohl	U.S.	2	?	Between 1901 and 1913 alleged to have killed from 40 to 140 seamen in Aberdeen, Washington
Johann Hoch	U.S.	1	14?	Before being Hanged February 23, 1906, alleged to have been active from 1888 or 1891 to 1905
Kendall Francois	U.S.	8	9	from 1996 to 1998 - He admitted to killing 8 prostitutes in Poughkeepsie, NY but denies the he had anything to do with the disappearance of a 9th prostitute.
Carl Panzram	U.S.	4+1	17+2{?}	from 1920 to 1928 - He claimed in a posthumous autobiography to have committed over 22 killings.
H. H. Holmes	U.S.	27	20-200	Confessed to 27 murders, though only nine have been confirmed. Estimates vary wildly.
Queho	U.S.	5	1?	Active 1910/1911 and 1919. Found Dead in a cave 1940
Randy Steven Kraft	U.S.	67	67-100	Convicted on 15 counts of murder, left a cryptic list of 65 murders. May have had an accomplice.
Ted Bundy	U.S.	30	100+	Estimated that he may have killed more than 100.
Dr.Marcel Petiot	France	26	1+37	Active 1926 and from 1942 to 1944. Executed 1946
Andrei Chikatilo	USSR/Russia	53	56	Convicted of the murder of fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990. 3 people were previously convicted & executed for his crimes
Anatoly Onoprienko	Ukraine	52	52+	Convicted of the murders of nine people in 1989, and 43 people in 1995-1996. Traveled through Europe illegally from 1990-1995, whether he killed during this time is unknown.
Zodiac Killer	U.S.	5	37	Targeted young couples, was never apprehended
Moninder Singh Pandher	India	0	30+	Investigation currently underway after 15 partial skeletal remains were discovered in December 29, believed to have raped and killed at least 30, mostly children
Gary Leon Ridgway	U.S.	48	48	Truck painter who confessed to killing 48 women (mostly prostitutes), and dumping many of them along the Green River, near Seattle, Washington.
Belle Gunness	U.S.	40?	6?	Active 1900 to 1908 and possibly 1931; Of La Porte, Indiana and possibly Los Angeles, California
Amy Archer-Gilligan	U.S.	5	48?	Active 1910 to 1917; died in Mental hospital 1928
Charles Cullen	U.S.	18	40	Nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who murdered 40 patients between 1988 and 2003.
John Wayne Gacy	U.S.	33	33	The 'Killer Clown' who kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
Joseph Paul Franklin	U.S.	8	20	Confessed to 20 murders and several attempted murders, awaiting trial for most of these crimes
Jeffrey Dahmer	U.S.	17	17	Dahmer ate some of them; he kept body parts in his freezer
Dennis Nilsen	United Kingdom	15	15	Picked up young men in London between 1978 and 1982 and dismembered them, keeping various body parts around his home.
Herbert Mullin	United States	13	13	Despite detailed confessions, prosecutors decided not to try him for the first three crimes, instead focusing on crimes that conflicted with his insanity plea.
Kaspars Petrovs	Latvia	13	38+	Confessed to strangling 38 elderly residents of Riga, Latvia in 2003. Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the robbery and murder of 13.
Fred West and Rosemary West	United Kingdom	12	12+	Mainly targeted young females but was also found guilty of the murder of their own daughter. Also found guilty of raping another daughter. Buried the victims around their house and local area. Fred West said there were more victims, shortly before he committed suicide on New Year's day, 1995.
John Wayne Glover	Australia	12	12	Targeted elderly women
Leonard Lake and Charles Ng	United States	11	25	Abducted women, used them as sex slaves and then murdered them (together with any men or women who got in their way). Lake committed suicide upon arrest, but Ng was later convicted of killing 11 people. Between 1982 and 1985, Lake & Ng were believed to have abducted and killed as many as 25 victims (as evidenced by human remains found on Lake's California ranch).
Edmund Kemper	U.S.	10	10	A victim of Herbert Mullin was attributed to him originally.
Dennis Rader	U.S.	10	10	Known as the BTK Killer, murdered at least ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, between 1974 and 1991
Ed Gein	U.S.	2	4+1	Inspiration for movie Psycho.
Ivan Milat	Australia	7	24	Backpacker murders
Christopher Worrell	Australia	7	7	Died before capture
James Miller	Australia	6	7	Sentenced to life imprisonment for 6 murders
Robert Pickton	Canada	6	20-49{?}	Found guilty of 6 cases of second-degree murder, accused of murdering 20 other women.
Alfred Packer	United States	5	0	Murderer and cannibal.
Kristen Gilbert	U.S.	5	5+	Targeted patients. Sentenced to life without parole.
Jack the Ripper	Great Britain	5	4-16	Nobody was ever caught for the murders, and the identity of the killer has never been discovered. Preyed on prostitutes in Whitechapel, London in 1888.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley	Great Britain	5	5	The 'Moors Murderers'. Abducted children in northern England. They were found guilty of two and three murders respectively.
'Suffolk Ripper'	Great Britain	5	5-14	Still an unsolved case. Referred to as 'Suffolk murders', 'Ipswich murders', 'Ipswich Ripper', 'Suffolk Ripper', 'Suffolk Strangler', 'East Anglia Ripper', 'Red Light Ripper' and 'the Suffolkator'. Five prostitute murders in late 2006 have been linked by police. Steve Wright is currently awaiting trial. There are possible links to other, previous Suffolk prostitute killings.
Peter Woodcock	Canada	4	4	born 1937. Sexual sadist and child rapist. Killed three young children in Toronto, Canada in the 1950s. Sentenced to a psychiatric facility. Murdered a fellow inmate in 1991.
Lam Kor-wan	Hong Kong	4	4	born 1955. Male taxi driver and one of Hong Kong's only serial killers, famous for keeping body parts in his parents home.
Eddie Leonski	Australia	3	3	Confessed to three murders after being picked out of a line of American servicemen by witnesses. Was sentenced to death, and hanged in 1942.
Danny Rollings	U.S.	5	8	Known as the "Gainesville Ripper," murdered 5 students in the quiet University of Florida town in August of 1990. Executed October 6, 2006.
Timothy Krajcir	United States	9	9	Confessed to killing over nine women, five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania
Robert Lee Yates	United States	16	16	Killed at least 13 prostitutes or street walkers in the "Skid Row" red-light district on E. Sprague Avenue in Spokane, Washington.

See also

• List of serial killers by country
• Serial killer
• Spree killer