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This is a list of murderers by number of victims. Both serial killers and spree killers are included, but acts of terrorism are excluded. The murders must be reliably referenced to have been committed "with [the murderer's] own hands." Murderers are listed here by the most common consensus figures, where possible. In cases of murder-suicide, the perpetrator is not included in the victim count.

List

Victims Name(s) Location Time active Additional information
~80-612 Elizabeth Báthory Hungary Csejte, Kingdom of Hungary 1585 to 1610[1] Total unknown, but evidence points to between 80 and 600 victims.[2]
~125-931 Thug Behram India India 1790 to 1830[3] Thugee cult leader. Total disputed.[4]
300+ Pedro López Colombia Colombia, Peru, Ecuador 1978 to 1980[5] Total unknown.
3-600 Henry Lee Lucas United States Virginia, Texas, Florida, possibly in other areas of the Southern United States. 1960-1983[6][7] 189 murders had been cleared and attributed to him.[8] However, the exact estimate is unknown.[9][10]
15-400[11] Dr Harold Shipman United Kingdom Hyde, United Kingdom 1975 to 1998[12] Estimated; only 218 positively identified by subsequent inquiry
~172 Luis Garavito Colombia Colombia 1992 to 1998[13]
103+ Miyuki Ishikawa Japan Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan 1944 to 1948[14]
100 Javed Iqbal Pakistan Lahore, Pakistan 1996 to 1999[15]
128 Pier Gerlofs Donia Netherlands Kimswerd, Frisia 1515 to 1519 [16]
91 Delfina and María de Jesús González Mexico Guanajuato, Mexico[17] 1955 - 1964
80-200+ Gilles de Rais France France 1435 to 1440[18] Estimated totals range substantially.
72 Daniel Barbosa Colombia Colombia, Ecuador 1986 to 1988[19]
67 Yang Xinhai China People's Republic of China 2000 to 2003[20]
58+ Giuseppe Greco Italy Sicily, Italy 1977 to 1985[21] At least 58 murders; exact total unknown.
57 Woo Bum-kon South Korea Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea April 26 to April 27, 1982[22]
53 Andrei Chikatilo Soviet Union Rostov-on-Don, USSR 1978 to 1990[17]
52 Anatoly Onopriyenko Ukraine Lviv, Ukraine 1989 to 1996[17]
48 Alexander Pichushkin Russia Moscow, Russia 2001 to 2006[23] Known as the Chessboard Killer. Confessed to 15 more.
48 Gary Ridgway United States Green River Valley, Washington, United States 1982 to 2000[24] Known as The Green River Killer.
45 Andrew Kehoe United States Bath, Michigan May 18, 1927[25] Known as the Bath School Massacre.
43 David Burke United States San Luis Obispo, California December 7, 1987[26]
38 Moses Sithole South Africa South Africa 1994 to 1995[27]
36 Donald Harvey United States Kentucky and Ohio, United States 1970 to 1987[28] Claims responsibility for another 51 murders.
35 Martin Bryant Australia Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia April 28, 1996 [29] Known as the Port Arthur Massacre.
35 Ted Bundy United States Washington, Utah, Florida and other states, United States 1974 to 1978[30]
35 Vera Renczi Romania Bucharest, Romania 1920s to 1930s[31]
34 Ahmed Bragimov Russia Mekenskaya, Chechnya, Russia October 8, 1999[32]
33 John Wayne Gacy United States Chicago, United States 1972 to 1978[33]
32 Seung-Hui Cho United States Blacksburg, Virginia, United States April 16, 2007[34] Known as the Virginia Tech Massacre.
30 Mutsuo Toi Japan Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan May 21, 1938[35] Known as the Tsuyama massacre.
29+ Charles Cullen United States New Jersey and Pennsylvania, United States 1988 to 2003[36] Cullen has admitted to more murders, which authorities believe are likely, but the murders cannot be verified.
27 Dean Corll United States Houston, Texas, United States 1970 to 1973[37]
27 Fritz Haarmann Germany Hanover, Germany 1919 to 1924[38]
27 H. H. Holmes United States Chicago, United States 1893 to 1895[39] Total disputed.[40]
27 Cedric Maake South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa 1996 to 1997[41]
27 Maria Swanenburg Netherlands Leiden, Netherlands 1880 to 1883[42]
26+ Robert Pickton Canada Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada 1995 to 2001
26 Marcel Petiot France Paris, France 1926 to 1944[43] Petiot is suspected of having killed up to 63 in total.
25 Leonard Lake and Charles Ng United States Wilseyville, California, United States ~1982 to 1985[44]
24 Béla Kiss Hungary Cinkota, Hungary 1912 to 1916[45]
23 George Jo Hennard United States Killeen, Texas, United States October 16, 1991[46]
22 Arnfinn Nesset Norway Orkdal, Norway ? to 1983[47]
21 William Bonin United States California, United States 1979 to 1980[48]
21 James Oliver Huberty United States San Ysidro, California, United States July 18, 1984[49] Known as the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
21 Patrick Kearney United States California, United States 1965 to 1977[50]
20 Francis Heaulme France France 1984 to 1992[51]
20 Yoo Young-Chul South Korea Seoul, South Korea 2003 to 2004[52]
19 Sipho Thwala South Africa KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 1996 to 1997[53] Known as the Phoenix Strangler.
19 Sergei Ryakhovsky Russia Moscow, Russia 1988 to 1993[54] Known as the Balakshikha Ripper
17 Joel Rifkin United States New York City, United States 1989 to 1993[55]
17 William Burke and William Hare United Kingdom Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom 1827 to 1828[56] Known as the West Port murders
17 Jeffrey Dahmer United States Ohio and Wisconsin, United States 1978 to 1991[57]
17 Thomas Hamilton United Kingdom Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom March 13, 1996[58] Known as the Dunblane massacre.
17 Robert Steinhäuser Germany Erfurt, Germany April 26, 2002[59][60] Known as Erfurt massacre.
16 Charles Ray Hatcher United States Missouri, California and Illinois, United States 1969 to 1982[61]
16 Michael Robert Ryan United Kingdom Hungerford, United Kingdom August 19, 1987[62] Known as the Hungerford Massacre.
16 Randy Steven Kraft United States California, United States 1969 to 1983[63] Confessed to 51 further murders.
16 The Monster of Florence Italy Florence, Italy 1968 to 1985[64] Pietro Pacciani was convicted of the murders in 1994, but the decision was controversially overturned.
16 Ronald Gene Simmons United States Russellville, Arkansas, United States December 22 to December 26, 1987[65]
16 Sipho Thwala South Africa KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa 1996 to 1997[66]
15 Dennis Nilsen United Kingdom London, United Kingdom 1978 to 1983[67]
15 Charles Whitman United States Austin, Texas, United States July 31 to August 1, 1966[68]
15 Jack Unterweger Austria Vienna, Austria; Los Angeles, California, United States; Prague, Czech Republic 1974 to 1992
15 Robert Hansen United States Alaska, United States 1980 to 1983
14 Patrick Sherrill United States Edmond, Oklahoma, United States August 20, 1986[69] Postal shooting.
14 Marc Lépine Canada Montreal, Quebec, Canada December 6, 1989[70] Known as the École Polytechnique massacre.
14 Friedrich Leibacher Switzerland Zug, Switzerland September 27, 2001)
13 Howard Unruh United States Camden, New Jersey, United States September 6, 1949[71]
13 Boston Strangler United States Boston, United States 1962 to 1964[72] Although Albert DeSalvo was widely thought to be the Boston Strangler, police and others analysing the case have long doubted the truth of his confession.[72]
13 Vasiliy Kulik Soviet Union Irkutsk, USSR 1984 to 1986[73] Known as the Irkutsk Monster.
13 Peter Sutcliffe United Kingdom West Yorkshire, United Kingdom 1975 to 1980[74] Known as the Yorkshire Ripper.
13 Robert Lee Yates United States Spokane, Washington, United States 1975 to 1998
13 Richard Ramirez United States Southern California, United States 1984 to 1985[75]
13 George Banks United States Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States 1982
13 Eric Borel France Toulon, France 1994
13 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold United States Columbine, Colorado, United States April 20, 1999[76] Known as the Columbine High School massacre
13 David Gray New Zealand Dunedinj, New Zealand November 13 1990 [77] Known as the Aramoana Massacre.
12 Sadamichi Hirasawa Japan Tokyo, Japan January 26, 1948[78] It is suspected that he was falsely charged[79]
12 Maxim Petrov Russia St. Petersburg, Russia 2000 to 2002[80] Doctor who killed patients.
12 Fred West United Kingdom Gloucester, United Kingdom 1973 to 1987[81]
12 Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono United States Los Angeles, California, United States 1977 to 1978[82]
11 Henri Désiré Landru France Paris, France 1914 to 1918[83]
11 Clifford Olson Canada Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada 1980 to 1981[84]
11 Sergey Golovkin Russia Moscow, Russia 1986 to 1992[85]
11 Charles Starkweather United States Nebraska, Missouri, and Wyoming 1957 to 1958[86]
10 Tore Hedin Sweden Annelöv, Landskrona, Sweden 1951 to 1952[87]
10 Walter Seifert Germany Cologne, Germany June 11, 1964[88]
10 Edmund Kemper United States Santa Cruz, California, United States 1964 to 1973[89]
10 Dennis Rader United States Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States 1974 to 1991[90] Known as the BTK Killer, for "Bind, Torture, Kill"
10 Kumatarō Kido and Yagorō Tani Japan Osaka Prefecture, Japan 1893[91][92]

Note: this list is incomplete.

Serial killers by number of victims

A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people, in three or more separate events over a period of time, for primarily psychological reasons.[93] There are gaps of time in between the killings, which may comprise anywhere from a few hours 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 known, and even if that person is convicted of a few, there can be the possibility that he/she killed many more.

The third column in the table states the number of victims that were definitely assigned to that particular serial killer, and thus the table is in order of that figure. The fourth 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* Possible victims Miscellaneous information
Dr Harold Shipman United Kingdom 218 250 - 450[94] Targeted his patients, the majority of whom were elderly women. Killed his patients with lethal injections of diamorphine.
Gilles de Rais France 200 600 Testimony gained under torture and confession under threat of torture, as was customary.
Luis Garavito Colombia 140 300 Targeted young boys. Arrested in 1999.
Thug Behram India 125 931 Born 1765, died 1840. Leader of the Thuggee cult.
Javed Iqbal Pakistan 100 100+ Killed young and poor children from all across Pakistan along with three teenage accomplices. Surrendered himself to the police after his 100th kill, but committed suicide before being executed.
Erzsébet Báthory Hungary 80[95] 650 Born 1560, died 1614. Accused of murdering 600 or so people, however no public trial was held. Was imprisoned in a room of her own castle until her death.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho "Pedrinho Matador" Brazil 70 100+ Convicted and sentenced to 128 years, but the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years. He claimed to have killed over 100 victims, 40 of them inmates.
Randy Steven Kraft United States 67 67-100 Convicted on 15 counts of murder, but left a cryptic list of 65 murders. May have had an accomplice.
Yang Xinhai China 65 65 Would enter victim's homes at night and kill everyone with axes, meat cleavers, hammers and shovels.
Pedro Lopez Colombia 57 300 Targeted young girls. Arrested in 1980.
Andrei Chikatilo USSR/Russia 53 56 Convicted of the murder of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990. 3 people were previously convicted and executed for his crimes.
Anatoly Onoprienko Ukraine 52 52+ Convicted of the murders of 9 people in 1989, and 43 people in 1995-1996. Traveled through Europe illegally from 1990-1995; whether he killed during this time is unknown.
Gary Leon Ridgway United States 48 71 Truck painter who confessed to killing 71 (although pled guilty to 48) women, and dumping many of them along the Green River, near Seattle, Washington.
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 and confessed to 63.
Ahmad Suradji Indonesia 42 42 Convicted of killing 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings he believed would give him magical powers. Executed by firing squad on 11 July 2008.
Belle Gunness United States 40? 6? Active 1900 to 1908.
Moses Sithole South Africa 38 38 Preyed on unemployed women: Posed as a businessman and lured his victims with the prospects of a job, leading them to an isolated place, then raped, tortured and murdered them.
Donald Harvey United States 37 87 Self-professed Angel of Death. Worked as an orderly in Cincinnati area hospitals and preyed on his patients. Claims to have killed 87 patients starting at age 18. Active 1970-1987.Serving 28 life sentences in Ohio.
Serhiy Tkach Ukraine 36 100 Claims to have killed 100.
Ted Bundy United States 35 100+ Estimated that he may have killed more than 100.
John Wayne Gacy United States 33 33 The 'Killer Clown' who kept bodies of young men and boys buried under his Chicago home.
Dean Corll United States 27 30 the 'Candyman' of the Houston Mass Murders in the early 1970s
H.H. Holmes United States 27 20-200 Confessed to 27 murders, though only nine have been confirmed. Estimates vary wildly.
Dr. Marcel Petiot France 26 63 Active 1926 and from 1942 to 1944. Executed in 1946.
Juan Corona United States 25 ? Corona was convicted of murdering ranch laborers and burying them in orchards. He was sentenced to 25 terms of life imprisonment.
Igor Suprunyuck Ukraine 21 31 Three 19-year-olds from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine brutally murdered 21 people in one month in 2007. Most of the murders were videotaped with cell-phone cameras. Igor Suprunyuck was the ring-leader, charged with all 21 murders; Viktor Sayenko was charged with 18, and Alexander Hanzha with 1.
Vampire of Silesia Poland 21 ? Killed 21 women in 1964-1970 in Poland's region of Upper Silesia. Zdzisław Marchwicki was most likely the man responsible for the killings (executed in 1977), however his guilt still remains disputable today.
Mary Ann Cotton United Kingdom 20 20 Killed up to 20 of her husbands and offspring in County Durham in the 1800s.
Charles Cullen United States 18 40 Nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who murdered 40 patients between 1988 and 2003.
Huang Yong China 17 25 Lured and murdered 17 teenage boys although he is suspected of 25 murders between September 2001 and 2003.
Jeffrey Dahmer United States 17 17 Dahmer ate some of his victims, and he kept body parts in his freezer. Was sentenced to life imprisonment, and was murdered in prison in 1994.
Vladimir Kondratenko Ukraine 16 20+ Kondratenko and friend Vladislav Volkovich, dubbed Nighttime Killers, shot, stabbed and bludgeoned 35-40-year-old male victims.
Mohammed Bijeh Iran 16 16 Raped and killed at least 16 boys and teens. Nicknamed the 'Tehran Desert Vampire' was convicted and executed after being lashed in front of a crowd in 2005.
Robert Lee Yates United States 16 16 Killed at least 13 prostitutes in the red-light district on E. Sprague Avenue in Spokane, Washington.
Robert Hansen United States 15 21 He would kidnap prostitutes, take them to his remote cabin in Alaska and then release them before hunting them down like animals. Though only convicted of 15 murders, the police suspect the number of his victims to actually be 21 based on the remains they discovered.
Angel Maturino Resendiz United States 15 18 Known as the "Railroad Killer" because his killings were committed near the railroad tracks he used to traverse the country. He was charged with and/or confessed to 15 murders occurring from 1986 to 1999 in Texas, Florida, Illinois, Georgia, and Kentucky. He was also suspected in a 1997 California murder case and claimed two additional killings he refused to elaborate on.[96]
Dennis Nilsen United Kingdom 15 15[97][98] Picked up young men in London between 1978 and 1982 and dismembered them, keeping various body parts around his home.
Coral Eugene Watts United States 14 80-100 Was granted immunity for a dozen murders as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors in 1982, and was given 60 years in prison. In 2007 he was found guilty of the murders of Helen Dutcher (which brought a life sentence), and later that year found guilty of the murder of Gloria Steele. Died of prostate cancer on September 21, 2007.
Richard Ramirez United States 14 14 Killed 14 people between June 28, 1984 and August 24, 1985 in Los Angeles.
Peter Sutcliffe United Kingdom 13 13 Killed 13 women between October 30, 1975 and November 17, 1980 mainly in Yorkshire so has become known as the "Yorkshire Ripper".
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.
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.
Dr Maxim Petrov Russia 12 17 Killed patients in St. Petersburg. Suspected of 19 murders, prosecuted for 17, convicted of 12.
Maury Travis United States 12 17 Killed prostitutes in the St. Louis area from 2000-2002. Caught when he mailed an Expedia.com map showing where to find a body to a St. Louis newspaper. Committed suicide in prison.
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.[99]
Henry Lee Lucas United States 11 600 Henry Lee Lucas was convicted of 11 murders, however he was credited for 20 murders in California, Michigan, Texas and Maryland.[100] Detectives from 40 states came to visit Lucas, where an estimated 3,000 homicides were discussed. In turn, it is considered to be one of the greatest mockeries of the U.S. legal system, in which police officers cleared their books of unsolved murders.[101] Lucas is considered by some to be the worst mass murderer in United States history. The real amount of murders committed by Lucas are unknown, but is widely accepted over the 300+ mark.[102]
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 and Ng were believed to have abducted and killed as many as 25 victims (as evidenced by human remains found on Lake's California ranch).
Bloody Benders United States 11 Unknown Active 1872 and 1873. Fate unknown.
Henri Désiré Landru France 11 Unknown Active 1914-1918. Beheaded.
Clifford Olsen Canada 11 11 Considered a dangerous offender, meaning that Olsen may never be released from prison.
Jack Unterweger Austria/United States 10 15 Born 1950, died 1994. Served 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 1990s and arrested in the United States (where he may have killed another 3 prostitutes) on behalf of Austrian police. Hanged himself in 1994 after being sentenced to life in prison.
Edmund Kemper United States 10 10 A victim of Herbert Mullin was attributed to him originally.
Dennis Rader United States 10 10 Known as the BTK Killer, murdered at least ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, between 1974 and 1991.
Timothy Krajcir United States 9 9 Confessed to killing nine women, five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Peter Kürten Germany 9 9 Charged with 9 murders and 7 attempted murders. Dubbed "The Vampire of Düsseldorf" by the contemporary media. Executed by guillotine in 1931 (age 48).
Thomas Quick Sweden 8 30 Raped and murdered up to 30 men. Several scholars, however, have questioned if he killed anyone.
Joseph Paul Franklin United States 8 20 Confessed to 20 murders and several attempted murders. Still awaiting trial for most of these crimes.
Christopher Wilder United States 8 10+ Killed 8 women during a spree in April 1984 before accidentally killing himself; suspected in the disappearance and murder of more than 5 more.
Kendall Francois United States 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.
Michael Bruce Ross United States 8 8 Ross confessed to all of the murders, and was convicted of four of them. He was executed by the state of Connecticut on May 13, 2005 by lethal injection, making it the first execution in Connecticut and the whole of New England since 1960.
Ivan Milat Australia 7 24 Backpacker murders.
Christopher Worrell Australia 7 7 Died before capture.
Derrick Todd Lee United States 7 7+ Known as the 'Baton Rouge or South Louisiana Serial Killer' convicted of 3 murders, sentenced to death by lethal injection. Believed to have murdered several other women in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Peter Manuel United Kingdom 7 15 True number of murders unknown.
Gert van Rooyen and Joey Haarhof South Africa 6 8 Their victims were never found as the pair committed suicide when faced with arrest after the escape of their last kidnap victim.
Richard Chase United States 6 6 The "Vampire of Sacramento," he was convicted of six murders. In addition to killing his victims, he often raped the women's bodies and drank their blood, or took their organs home and ate them.
David Berkowitz United States 6 6 The "Son of Sam," he would shoot couples in their cars, killing six and wounding seven.
Orville Lynn Majors United States 6 up to 130 LPN in Vermillion County Ind., Preyed on elderly patients -thought to have killed many of them with injections of potassium chloride. Convicted of 6 murders, suspected in many more. Serving 360 years in Indiana.
Tommy Lynn Sells United States 6 70? A drifter active 1980-1999 throughout the U.S. who specialized in killing children and multiple victims after breaking into their homes. Caught when a 10yr old girl survived his attack & provided a description of him. On death row in Texas.
Robert Pickton Canada 6 20-49(?) Found guilty of 6 cases of second-degree murder. Accused of murdering 20 other women, most of them prostitutes and drug dealers.
Albert Fish United States 6 6 Pedophile and cannibal. Connected to three murders. Claimed to be responsible for many others. Electrocuted on Jan. 16, 1936.
Aileen Wuornos United States 6 8+ Killed strangers, all men, along Florida highways over 13-months in 1989 and 1990, while working as a prostitute. [1]
James Miller Australia 6 7 Sentenced to life imprisonment for 6 murders.
John Wayne Glover Australia 6 11 British ex-pat living in Australia. Known by the media as "The Granny Killer" as he targeted elderly women.
Amy Archer-Gilligan United States 5 48? Active 1910 to 1917; died in mental hospital in 1928.
Zodiac Killer United States 5 37 Targeted young couples. Was never apprehended.
Jack the Ripper United Kingdom 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. Arguably the most infamous serial killer in history.
Steve Wright United Kingdom 5 5-22 Referred to as 'Suffolk murders', 'Ipswich murders', 'Ipswich Ripper', 'Suffolk Ripper', 'Suffolk Strangler', 'East Anglia Ripper', 'Red Light Ripper' and 'the Suffolkator'. Five prostitutes, all of whom worked in Ipswich, were murdered in late 2006 by Steve Wright. There are possible links to other, previous Suffolk prostitute killings.
David Maust United States 5 9 Killed teenage boys. Caught when bodies of 3 boys were found in the concrete floor of his basement in Hammond, Indiana. Spent time in a mental institution as a boy. Committed suicide in prison in 2006.
Danny Rolling United States 5 8 Known as the "Gainesville Ripper." Murdered 5 students in August of 1990. Executed October 6, 2006.
Kristen Gilbert United States 5 5+ Targeted patients. Sentenced to life without parole.
Thomas Dillon United States 5 5 Ohio Sniper.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley United Kingdom 5 5 The 'Moors Murderers'. Abducted children in northern England. They were found guilty of two and three murders respectively.
Queho United States 5 1? Active 1910/1911 and 1919. Found dead in a cave in 1940.
Alfred Packer United States 5 0 Murderer and cannibal.
Carl Panzram United States 5 22 From 1920 to 1928, he claimed in a posthumous autobiography to have committed over 22 killings. Hanged on September 5, 1930.
Marc Sappington United States 4 4 Schizophrenic serial killer who heard voices telling him to kill after extended daily PCP use. He cannibalized part of his last victim.
Peter Woodcock Canada 4 4 Sexual sadist and child rapist. Killed three young children in Toronto in the 1950s. Sentenced to a psychiatric facility. Murdered a fellow inmate in 1991.
Ottis Toole United States 4 125 Toole was convicted of three counts of murder, and confessed to four more murder charges before dying in prison. A sometime accomplice of convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, Toole admitted to multiple counts of murder, rape, and cannibalism, and was the suspect in several unsolved murders. On December 16, 2008, police announced that they had identified Toole as the likely murderer of Adam Walsh, and would be closing the case as a result.
Lam Kor-wan Hong Kong 4 4 Male taxi driver and one of Hong Kong's only serial killers. Famous for keeping body parts in his parents' home.
Dr. Michael Swango United States 3 30+ Murderer and serial killer suspect.
Gordon Northcott United States 3 17 1928 Murderer with his mother; Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
Peter Dupas Australia 3 6 Sexual sadist from Melbourne, who murdered three women and is suspected of at least three further killings. Was convicted of 16 separate acts of sexual violence before his first murder charge. Is serving three consecutive life sentences
Paul Kenneth Bernardo Canada 3 5 Serial killer and 'Scarborough Rapist', known for the murders he committed with his wife Karla Homolka.
Theodore Kaczynski United States 3 8 Also known as the Unabomber, Kaczynski lived isolated in Montana before his arrest in 1996, sending mail bombs and setting reactive bombs all over the country to anyone who had a pro-technological stance. Federal authorities were informed of Kaczynski's possible involvement by his brother when he recognized the writing of the Unabomber Manifesto in the New York Times.
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.
Ed Gein United States [103] 2 8 Famous for his necrophiliac behaviours, as well as using/storing body parts of his victims to make household furniture, clothing and other miscellaneous household items.
Shirley Winters United States 2 7 Confessed in 2008 to killing 2 children (including her 5-month old son), 27 years apart. Plea agreement for those murders included clause stopping investigation of her role in a fire that killed 2 previous children in 1979. Is also a suspect in a separate fire that killed 3 children of a friend in 1979.
Billy Gohl United States 2 Unknown Between 1901 and 1913 alleged to have killed from 40 to 140 seamen in Aberdeen, Washington
Johann Otto Hoch United States 1 14? Before being hanged on February 23, 1906, alleged to have been active from 1888 or 1891 to 1905.
John Norman Collins United States 1 6 Convicted of the 1969 murder of Karen Sue Beineman, suspected in the murder of at least five other young women in the vicinity of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Surender Kohli India 0 30+ Investigation currently under way after 15 partial skeletal remains were discovered on December 29, 2006, believed to have raped and killed at least 30, mostly children.
Dr John Bodkin Adams United Kingdom 0 163 Acquitted in a highly unusual trial in 1957 of murder but later found guilty of fraud.

* Proven victims being victims the serial killer was tried for, explained by the killer in a detailed confession, or victims most scholars of the subject agree upon.

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ Erszebet: The Story of Erszebet Bathory is true
  2. ^ Countess Elizabeth Bathory - The Blood Countess - The Crime library
  3. ^ Paton, James. Collections on Thuggee and Dacoitee. British Library Add.Mss. 41300 fol. 118, 202-03
  4. ^ Behram is often quoted as having killed 931 people. This figure was the number of murders Behram had been present at, though he was never convicted of these murders. This lower figure was the conclusion of James Paton's investigations in the 1830s. The Thugee cult as whole, however, were adjudged to have been responsible for 50,000-1,000,000 murders in total.
  5. ^ All About Pedro Lopez, David Lohr
  6. ^ http://www.nndb.com/people/426/000027345/
  7. ^ http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/lucas.html
  8. ^ http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/henry_lee_lucas/16.html
  9. ^ Lucas confessed to murder after murder, closing more than 200 cases. Lucas began confessing to other murders all over the country. He originally offered a list of 77 women from 19 different states, as he confessed to more and more murders, the details became increasingly more bizarre. Some included dismemberment, necrophilia, even cannibalism. Lawmen linked the Lucas and Otis Toole to 81 murders alone. Lucas confessed to over 600 murders, but it is up for debate if he committed such an amount.
  10. ^ http://www.crimemagazine.com/lucas.htm
  11. ^ http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/shipman/dead_1.html
  12. ^ "Shipman 'killed early in career'". BBC News. 2005-01-27. Retrieved 2007-05-14. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ Informe especial: 172 NIÑOS VÍCTIMAS DE LUIS ALFREDO GARAVITO, www.fiscalia.gov.co (in Spain Spanish)
  14. ^ Kotobuki maternity hospital incident (in Japanese language)
  15. ^ Crime Library information on Iqbal
  16. ^ Kalma, J.J. (1970). (ed.) de Tille (ed.). Grote Pier Van Kimswerd. Netherlands. p. 51. ISBN 90-7001-013-5. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  17. ^ a b c "World's Worst Killers", BBC News, October 30, 1999
  18. ^ Gilles de Rais
  19. ^ Information about Daniel Barbosa. Daniel Barbosa profile. Andes culture and attractions
  20. ^ Cui, Vivian (2003-11-22). "Using hammer, shovel or axe, serial killer of 65 struck victims as they slept Yang Xinhai's motives were rape and robbery, police say of four-province rampage". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2008-09-13.
  21. ^ "Mafia Killer Reported Slain", Reuters, May 25, 1988
  22. ^ "South Korean Shootings Lead Minister to Resign", New York Times, April 29, 1982
  23. ^ "Russia 'chessboard killer' guilty". BBC News. 2007-10-24. Retrieved 2007-10-29. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  24. ^ "Green River Killer pleads guilty to 48 murders", Michigan Daily, November 6, 2003
  25. ^ [^http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bauerle/disaster.htm]
  26. ^ Cause of PSA Flight 1771 Crash
  27. ^ A Time to Kill, Philip von Nekerk, Maxim, October 2000
  28. ^ The Crime Library - Donald Harvey, David Lohr
  29. ^ "Australian gunman laughs as he admits killing 35", CNN, November 7, 1996
  30. ^ Polly Nelson, Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer. William Morrow, 1994, 329 pages. ISBN 0-688-10823-7
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  35. ^ Tsuyama massacre (in Japanese language)
  36. ^ "A Killer's Final Insult", The Star Ledger, March 3, 2006
  37. ^ Dean Corll: The Sex, Sadism and Slaughter of Houston's Candy Man, Marilyn Bardsley
  38. ^ Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher of Hanover, Alexander Gilbert
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  45. ^ All About Bela Kiss, Marilyn Bardsley and Denise Noe
  46. ^ Luby's in Killeen, Texas, site of 1991 massacre, closes its doors
  47. ^ Herbert G Kinnell (2000-12-23). "Serial homicide by doctors: Shipman in perspective" (PDF). British Medical Journal. 321 (7276): 1594–1597. doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1594.
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  52. ^ "Milestones". Time. December 18, 2004. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
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  56. ^ Buried secrets of the city murder dolls, Julia Horton, The Scotsman, December 2, 2005
  57. ^ "Portrait of a serial killer: Wis. v. Dahmer", Court TV News, July 31, 2000
  58. ^ "Gunman mows down class of children leaving 16 dead with their teacher", Erlend Clouston and Sarah Boseley, Guardian Unlimited, March 14, 1996
  59. ^ "18 dead in German school shooting", BBC News, April 26, 2002
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  61. ^ "Charles Ray Hatcher", Amber Keen, George Lewis, Kara Stone, Andrew Lucas
  62. ^ Grice, Elizabeth (December 7, 2004). "Ryan shot at me, then at my mother". The Telegraph. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  63. ^ All about Randy Kraft, Michael Newton
  64. ^ All about the Monster of Florence, David Lohr
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  68. ^ "Deranged tower sniper rained death on UT campus". Houston Chronicle. July 30, 2001. Retrieved 2006-04-13. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  69. ^ "Gunman kills 14, self in Oklahoma", Philadelphia Daily News, August 20, 1986
  70. ^ CityNews Rewind: The Montreal Massacre, CityNews, December 6, 2006
  71. ^ "Nation's first mass murder was the top story of September 6 1949", Courier Post
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