List of murderers by number of victims

This is a list of murderers by number of victims. Both serial killers and spree killers are included, but war crimes, and acts of terrorism (such as the September 11 attacks) 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.

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Victims	Type	Name(s)	Location	Date	Additional information
138–300+	serial	Luis Garavito	Colombia	1990s	Child-murderer, torture-killer, and rapist known as "La Bestia" aka "The Beast." Convicted of killing 138 victims but suspected of murdering over 300 victims, mostly street children. Sentenced to 1,853 years but could only be imprisoned for 30 which was reduced to 22 after aiding investigators.
110–310+	serial	Pedro López	Colombia, Peru, Ecuador	1980s	Child-murderer and rapist, convicted of killing 110 young girls but confessed to killing 300, exact total unknown. Known as "The Monster of the Andes" and sentenced in 1983 but released in 1998, believed to still be killing.
4+	serial	Amelia Dyer	Reading, Bristol, London	1860s to 1896	Only convicted of one murder. Bodies of four children recovered, but estimated to have killed up to 400, however, lack of evidence cannot confirm the exact number. Baby-farm murderess.
250+	serial	Harold Shipman	Hyde, United Kingdom	1990s	Convicted of 15 murders and responsible for the deaths of 218 patients identified by inquiry but he is believed to have killed up to 250 people. He would inject diamorphine into his patients and then falsify his own medical records reporting that his patient had been in poor health. Known as Doctor Death.
80–650	serial	Elizabeth Báthory	Csejte, Kingdom of Hungary	1500s	Hungarian noblewoman and countess, known as the "Blood Countess" or "Blood Queen". Total killings unknown, accusations pointed to between 100 and 700 victims but she is believed to have actually killed 100 to 200 people. .
38–138	serial	Darya Saltykova	Russian Empire	1800s	Russian noblewoman. Accused of up to 138 murders; found guilty of 38 murders.
125+	serial	Thug Behram	India	1790 to 1840	Thugee cult leader. Confessed to have personally murdered more than 125 victims and present at 931 murders perpetrated by his cult. 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.
103+	serial	Miyuki Ishikawa	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan	1940s	Euthanized more than 103 newborn children. As a maternity nurse she killed infants born to parents unwilling to care for them during the prohibition of abortion in Japan. Sentenced to 4 years in prison.
100	serial	Javed Iqbal	Lahore, Pakistan	1996 to 1999	Child-murderer. Pakistan's most profuse killer, confessed to killing 100 children and convicted of the same number. Found dead in his prison cell possibly tortured and murdered, ruled a suicide.
90+	serial	Gary Ridgway	Green River Valley, Washington, United States	1982 to 2000	The United States' most prolific serial killer; also known as The Green River Killer. He almost exclusively targeted escorts from Seattle. Once there he would proposition a prostitute, drive to the banks of the Green River, and strangle her to death. After murdering his victim he would dump their body in the nearby water. Suspected of killing over 90 victims, confessed to 71, convicted of 49.
91+	serial	Delfina and María de Jesús González	Guanajuato, Mexico	1955 to 1964	Two sisters who hired prostitutes and murdered them after they were deemed useless. Probably the work of four of the sisters, sentenced to 40 years in prison. Body count varies due to the combined work of the sisters being impossible to assign to them individually.
80–200+	serial	Gilles de Rais	Brittany	1435 to 1440	Child-murderer and companion-in-arms to Joan of Arc. Convicted of 80 murders and suspected of 200, estimated total ranges substantially.
80-110	serial	Donald Henry Gaskins	South Carolina, United States	1953 to 1982	Child-murderer, known as the "Meanest Man In America" and "Pee-Wee", convicted of killing 9 people but suspected of 80 murders. Killed three victims while incarcerated, one of which by using C-4. Later confessed on death row that he had murdered 110 victims. Executed in 1991.
72–150	serial	Daniel Barbosa	Colombia, Ecuador	1974 to 1986	Child-murderer, believed to have possibly raped and killed over 150 victims primarily young virgin girls. Confessed to killing 72 victims and incarcerated with Pedro Alonso Lopez. Considered to be intelligent and believed to have been motivated to kill from his stepmother abusing him as a child.
71–100+	serial	Pedro Rodrigues Filho	Brazil	1967 to 2003	Convicted and sentenced to 128 years, but the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years. He has claimed to have killed over 100 victims, 47 of them inmates.
67	serial	Yang Xinhai	People's Republic of China	2000 to 2003	Killed 65 victims in four provinces of China, known as the "Monster Killer."
14–60	serial	David Parker Ray	Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, United States	1950 to 1999	Torture-murderer, targeted women, convicted of killing 14 victims and suspected of 60 murders. Constructed a $100,000 torture chamber which he called his toy-box in which to murder victims.
58+	contract	Giuseppe Greco	Sicily, Italy	1977 to 1985	Underboss of the Sicilian Mafia during the Second Mafia War convicted of 58 murders; exact total unknown. Murdered and placed on trial after his death, sentenced to life.
56	spree	Woo Bum-kon	Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea	April 26, 1982	Largest spree killing in modern history, killing 56 and injuring 35. Bum-kon committed suicide, bringing the total to 57 dead.
53-56	serial	Andrei Chikatilo	Rostov-on-Don, USSR/Russian Federation	1978 to 1990	Known as Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper or The Rostov Ripper. Convicted of the highest number of serial killings in modern Russia's history, 53. Executed in 1994.
52	serial	Anatoly Onopriyenko	Lviv, USSR/Ukraine	1989 to 1996	Soviet serial killer, convicted of killing 52 victims during six years known as "The Beast of Ukraine", "The Terminator" and "Citizen O." Sentenced to death commuted to life.
50–200	contract	Richard Kuklinski	Jersey City, New Jersey	1948 to 1986	Known as the Iceman, worked for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families. Known for freezing bodies to distort time of death and using a wide variety of killing methods, from poison to firearms.
48	serial	Alexander Pichushkin	Moscow, Russian Federation	1992 to 2006	Known as the Chessboard Killer. Killed at least 48 victims and suspected of 61, claimed 63. Russian Federation's 2nd most prolific serial killer.
42+	serial	Ahmad Suradji	Indonesia	1986 to 1997	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.
40+	serial	Belle Gunness	Illinois and Indiana, United States	1900 to 1908	May have killed up to 60.
40–189+	serial	Henry Lee Lucas	Virginia, Texas, Florida, possibly in other areas of the Southern United States.	1960 to 1983	Confessed to killing 600 people but later recanted and is suspected of lying about a majority of his murders. Probably responsible for the deaths of 40 people. 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.
38	serial	Moses Sithole	South Africa	1994 to 1995	South African serial killer and rapist. He used the disguise of a businessman and the promise of work to lure his victims away to be murdered, usually strangled.
5–37	serial	The Zodiac Killer	United States	1962 to 1977	Remains unsolved but open in the California jurisdictions the 5 certain Zodiac murders occurred. Potentially 37 total victims claimed but unverified.
36	serial	Donald Harvey	Kentucky and Ohio, United States	1970 to 1987	Claims responsibility for another 51 murders.
36–100	serial	Serhiy Tkach	USSR/Ukraine	1984 to 2005	A former Ukrainian police criminal investigator, suffocated girls aged between 8 and 18 and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead.
35	spree	Martin Bryant	Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia	April 28, 1996	Known as the Port Arthur Massacre.
33	serial	John Wayne Gacy	Chicago, United States	1972 to 1978	Killer Clown, primarily preyed on young men and frequently raped his victims. Executed in 1994.
32	spree	Seung-Hui Cho	Blacksburg, Virginia, United States	April 16, 2007	Responsible for the Virginia Tech Massacre.
32+	serial	Jane Toppan	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1885 to 1901	Nurse who killed using morphine. Confessed that she had killed more than 31 people and convicted of killing 11.
32	serial	Vera Renczi	Bucharest, Romania	1920 to 1930	Convicted of killing 35 men through arsenic poisoning but confessed to only killing 32 victims.
31-40	serial	Karl Denke	Münsterberg, German Reich	1903 to 1924
30	spree	Mutsuo Toi	Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan	May 21, 1938	Known as the Tsuyama massacre.
30	spree	Campo Elías Delgado	Bogota, Colombia	December 4, 1986
29+	serial	Charles Cullen	New Jersey and Pennsylvania, United States	1988 to 2003	Cullen has admitted to more murders, which authorities believe are likely, but the murders cannot be verified.
28-29+	serial	Dean Corll	Houston, Texas, United States	1970 to 1973	Known as "The Candy Man" because of his habit of handing out free candy to children at the school near his family's candy company. He abducted teenage boys from low income areas in Houston with two accomplices in a van where he raped and tortured them. He was shot and killed by one of his teenage accomplices after he tried to kill him following a dispute at one of Corll's parties.
27+	serial	H. H. Holmes	Chicago, United States	1893 to 1895	Total disputed. Although this figure is the only verified, and thus most commonly held consensus figure, based around Holmes' most believable confession and forensic research, conjectures for the true figure range hugely, between 20 and 230. Hanged in 1896.
27	serial	Fritz Haarmann	Hanover, Germany	1919 to 1924	Convicted of murdering 24 young men in Hanover. He is also known as the Vampire of Hanover because of his preferred method of killing by biting through his victim's throat, sometimes while sodomizing them. He would then dump the bodies in the nearby river Leine.
27+	serial	Cedric Maake	Johannesburg, South Africa	1996 to 1997	Murdered at least 27 men and women in Johannesburg but originally confused as two separate serial killers. In some cases he killed his victims with a rock, in others he shot them, and in others he murdered tailors with a hammer. Sentenced to 27 life sentences and 1159 years which amounted to 1,340 years all together.
27+	serial	Maria Swanenburg	Leiden, Netherlands	1880 to 1883	Female serial killer. Poisoned victims with arsenic in an effort to collect their insurance money.
26+	serial	Robert William Pickton	Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada	1995 to 2001	Found guilty on 6 murders, charges indefinitely stayed on 20 others. Comments by Pickton suggest that the total may be 49.
26+	serial	Marcel Petiot	Paris, France	1926 to 1944	Petiot is suspected of having killed up to 63 in total.
25+	serial	Juan Corona	California	1971	Corona was convicted of murdering ranch laborers and burying them in orchards. He was sentenced to 25 terms of life imprisonment.
12-25	serial	Leonard Lake and Charles Ng	Wilseyville, California, United States	1982 to 1985
24	serial	Béla Kiss	Cinkota, Hungary	1912 to 1916
23+	serial	Ronald Dominique	New Orleans, United States	1997 to 2006	Known locally as the Bayou Strangler and murdered victims in the Terrebonne Parish, Lafourche Parish, Iberville Parish and Jefferson Parish.
23	spree	George Jo Hennard	Killeen, Texas, United States	October 16, 1991	Hennard, 35, was described as angry and withdrawn, with a dislike of women. He drove his pickup truck through the window of Luby's Cafeteria and proceeded to blast away at anyone inside. He killed himself as police closed in.
22+	serial	Arnfinn Nesset	Orkdal, Norway	1983 and earlier	A Norwegian nurse who poisoned at least 22 patients at a geriatrics facility in Orkdal.
22	serial	Carl Panzram	Minnesota	1915 to 1929	Confessed to 21 murders Nationwide, and sodomy of more than 1,000 young men
22	serial	Norman Afzal Simons	South Africa	1986 to 1994	Station Strangler, convicted of only 1 of 22 cases of murder and sodomy of young children near Cape Town.
21+	serial	Vasile Tcaciuc	Iaşi, Romania	1935 and earlier	Romanian man who lured victims and then murdered them.
21	serial	Igor Suprunyuck and Viktor Sayenko	Ukraine	2007	In 2007, the two 19-year-olds from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, exacted their entire toll within the span of a month. At least one of the murders was recorded on the camera of a cellular phone and posted to the Internet. Suprunyuck, the ringleader, was found guilty of all 21 murders, while Sayenko was convicted of 18. Both received life sentences.
21	serial	William Bonin	California, United States	1979 to 1980	One of the Freeway Killers. Executed in 1996.
21	spree	James Oliver Huberty	San Ysidro, California, United States	July 18, 1984	"Grumpy" Huberty perpetrated the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre.
21	serial	Patrick Kearney	California, United States	1965 to 1977
21	serial	Yoo Young-chul	Seoul, South Korea	2003 to 2004	Used a hammer to murder mostly older victims, until his focus shifted to the decapitation and mutilation of escorts after being dumped by a girlfriend who worked in that profession.
20	serial	Francis Heaulme	France	1984 to 1992
16–18	serial	Mohammed Bijeh	Pakdasht, Iran	2004
19+	serial	Sergei Ryakhovsky	Moscow, USSR/Russian Federation	1988 to 1993	Known as the Balashikha Ripper.
17	serial	Joel Rifkin	New York City, United States	1989 to 1993
17	serial	William Burke and William Hare	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	1827 to 1828	Known as the West Port murders.
17	serial	Jeffrey Dahmer	Ohio and Wisconsin, United States	1978 to 1991
17	spree	Thomas Hamilton	Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom	March 13, 1996	Known as the Dunblane massacre.
16	spree	Charles Whitman	Austin, Texas, United States	Aug 1, 1966	After murdering his wife and mother, Whitman, 25, ascended a tower on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, where he shot and killed an additional 14. This stood as the deadliest shooting at an American university for over 40 years, until the Virginia Tech Massacre.
16	spree	Robert Steinhäuser	Erfurt, Germany	April 26, 2002	Known as Erfurt massacre.
16	serial	Charles Ray Hatcher	Missouri, California and Illinois, United States	1969 to 1982
16+	serial	Randy Steven Kraft	California, United States	1969 to 1983	Confessed to 51 further murders.
16	spree	Ronald Gene Simmons	Russellville, Arkansas, United States	December 22, 1987 to December 28	Decorated former sergeant of the U.S. Air Force. Among Simmons' toll were 14 family members, including young children and three toddlers. He sexually abused his daughter Sheila during her youth, and fathered her eldest child, both of whom were among the dead. Refused to appeal his conviction and executed in 1990.
16	serial	Robert Lee Yates	Spokane, Washington, United States	1975 to 1998	Yates is known to have murdered at least 16 women, all of whom were prostitutes
16	spree	Michael Robert Ryan	Hungerford, United Kingdom	August 19, 1987	Known as the Hungerford Massacre.
16	serial	The Monster of Florence	Florence, Italy	1968 to 1985	Pietro Pacciani was convicted of the murders in 1994, but the decision was controversially overturned in appeal. However this last decision was overturned by the Supreme Court which order a re-trial. This couldn't be held as Pacciani died in 1998. Two of his alleged accomplices were also convicted.
16-19	serial	Sipho Thwala	KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa	1996 to 1997
16	serial	Jimmy Maketta	Philippi, Cape Town, South Africa	April 2005 to December 2005	Plead guilty and convicted of 16 murders and 19 rapes committed over a nine month period.
16	serial	Jack Mogale	Johannesburg, South Africa	March 2008 to March 2009	Convicted of 16 murders and 19 rapes, nine kidnappings, robbery and assault.
16	serial	Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega	Santander, Spain	1987 to 1988
15	spree	Tim Kretschmer	Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	March 11, 2009	Known as Winnenden school massacre.
15	serial	Dennis Nilsen	London, United Kingdom	1978 to 1983
15	serial	Jack Unterweger	Vienna, Austria; Los Angeles, California, United States; Prague, Czech Republic	1974 to 1992
17–21	serial	Robert Hansen	Alaska, United States	1980 to 1983	After brutally raping them, Hansen used his private airplane to transport female victims to a remote cabin. An accomplished hunter, he would set the women loose in the surrounding wilderness, to make sport of tracking them down and killing them.
15	spree	Eric Borel	Toulon, France	Sept 23 to 24, 1995
14	spree	Ernst August Wagner	Mühlhausen an der Enz, German Reich	September 4, 1913
14	spree	Patrick Sherrill	Edmond, Oklahoma, United States	August 20, 1986	Postal shooting.
14	serial	Arthur Shawcross	Rochester, New York, United States	1972 to 1989	Arrested in 1972 after the rape and murder of two children, the Vietnam veteran was allowed to plead down to a single charge of manslaughter. Released after 14½ years in prison, he went on to kill 12 prostitutes.
14	spree	Christian Dornier	Luxiol, France	July 12, 1989
14	spree	Marc Lépine	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	December 6, 1989	Known as the École Polytechnique massacre.
14	spree	Friedrich Leibacher	Zug, Switzerland	September 27, 2001
13-14	spree	Nidal Hassan	Fort Hood	November 5, 2009	Hassan reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is greatest") and opened fire in the Soldier Readiness Center of Fort Hood, located just outside Killeen, Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others. One of the soldiers murdered by Hassan was pregnant, and the fetus died with its mother. Court-martial proceedings began against Hassan on 4 October 2010; if convicted, he may face the death penalty.
13	spree	Farda Gadirov	Baku, Azerbaijan	April 30, 2009	Known as Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting.
13	spree	Howard Unruh	Camden, New Jersey, United States	September 6, 1949
13	serial	Boston Strangler	Boston, United States	1962 to 1964	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.
13	serial	Vasiliy Kulik	Irkutsk, USSR	1984 to 1986	Known as the Irkutsk Monster.
13	serial	Peter Sutcliffe	West Yorkshire, United Kingdom	1975 to 1980	Known as the Yorkshire Ripper.
13	serial	Richard Ramirez	Southern California, United States	1984 to 1985	Known as the "Night Stalker".
13	spree	George Banks	Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States	1982
13	spree	Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold	Columbine, Colorado, United States	April 20, 1999	Known as the Columbine High School massacre. Harris and Klebold committed suicide, bringing total dead to 15.
13	spree	David Gray	Dunedin, New Zealand	November 13, 1990	Known as the Aramoana Massacre.
13	serial	Thozamile Taki	South Africa	2007	Known as the "sugar cane serial killer"
13	spree	Jiverly Wong	Binghamton, New York, United States	April 3, 2009	Known as the Binghamton shootings
12	spree	Sadamichi Hirasawa	Tokyo, Japan	January 26, 1948	It is suspected that he was falsely charged
12	serial	Maxim Petrov	St. Petersburg, Russia	2000 to 2002	Doctor who killed patients.
12-20	serial	Fred West	Gloucester, United Kingdom	1967 to 1987
12	serial	Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono	Los Angeles, California, United States	1977 to 1978	Known as the Hillside Stranglers. The victim count is 12 for Bianchi, and 10 for Buono.
12	spree	Derrick Bird	Cumbria, England	June 2, 2010	Known as the Cumbria shootings. Bird committed suicide.
11	serial	Henri Désiré Landru	Paris, France	1914 to 1918
11	serial	Clifford Olson	Surrey, British Columbia, Canada	1980 to 1981
11	serial	Sergey Golovkin	Moscow, USSR/Russian Federation	1986 to 1992
11	spree	Charles Starkweather	Nebraska, Missouri, and Wyoming	1957 to 1958
11	serial	John Justin Bunting	South Australia, Australia	1992 to 1999	Ringleader in the Snowtown murders, AKA the Bodies in Barrels murders
11	serial	Francisco Garcia Escalero	Madrid, Spain	1987 to 1994
10–25	serial	Matti Haapoja	Ylistaro, Finland	1870 to 1894	Most prolific Finnish killer ever. Hung himself in his cell in Kakola prison, Turku
10	spree	Tore Hedin	Annelöv, Landskrona, Sweden	1951 to 1952	First murdered one person, then a year later murdered another nine persons in just a few hours on August 22, 1952). Finally he killed himself.
10	spree	Matti Saari	Kauhajoki, Finland	September 23, 2008	Known as the Kauhajoki school shooting. Saari committed suicide making him 11th victim.
10	spree	Walter Seifert	Cologne, Germany	June 11, 1964	Cologne school massacre
10	serial	Edmund Kemper	Santa Cruz, California, United States	1964 to 1973
10	spree	Kumatarō Kido and Yagorō Tani	Osaka Prefecture, Japan	1893
10	serial	Robert Joe Wagner	South Australia, Australia	1992 to 1999	Ringleader in the Snowtown murders, AKA the Bodies in Barrels murders
10	serial	David Randitsheni	South Africa	2004 to 2008	Kidnapped 19 people, raped 17 and murdered 10 (all children).
10	serial	Dennis Lynn Rader	Wichita, Kansas, United States	1974 to 2004	AKA The BTK killer (Bind, Torture, Kill)
9	spree	Lorne J. Acquin	Prospect, Connecticut, United States	July 22, 1977	Lorne J. Acquin killed his foster brother's wife, her seven children, and her niece in their home at Cedar Hill Drive in Prospect, Connecticut by beating them to death with a tire iron, before setting fire to the building.
8	spree	Pekka-Eric Auvinen	Jokela, Finland	Nov 11, 2007	Known as the Jokela school shooting. Auvinen committed suicide before his capture.
8	serial	Sean Vincent Gillis	Louisiana	March 1994 to April 28, 2004	Gillis kidnapped, raped, and mutilated the corpses of his victims. Between 1994 and 2003, he was killing Louisiana women at the same time as Derrick Todd Lee, though neither the public nor law enforcement were aware that there was a possible serial killer on the loose. In the end, tire tracks - from a unique brand of tire - at the scene where Donna Bennett Johnston were found ended his career as a serial killer. He was arrested without incident at home on April 29, 2004 and currently resides in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola serving life in prison without the possibility of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. In August 2008, in the penalty phase of his first-degree murder trial, the jury was deadlocked over whether to sentence him to death or life for his crimes. The deadlock meant he was given an automatic life sentence. It was, however, a death sentence of sorts since Louisiana is the only state that does not have parole for lifers; Gillis will die in prison. He was so good at hiding his secret life and covering his tracks, his live-in girlfriend of 8 years, Terri Lemoine had no idea of what Gillis was doing until the day police came to arrest him.
7	spree	Mattias Flink	Falun, Sweden	June 11, 1994
7	serial	Paul Dennis Reid	Tennessee	1997	Reid killed the employees of restaurants he targeted for a series of robberies.
7	spree	Stanley Graham	Kowhitirangi	1941	Graham killed 7 people, including four police officers and two Home Guard members. Caused biggest manhunt in New Zealand history. Graham eventually shot by Constable James Quirke and died the next day.
7	serial	Gregory Scarver	St. Louis, Missouri	2007 to 2008	Scarver apparently killed 14 people between 2007 and 2008. He was known as Son of the Reaper.
5–8	serial	Gary C. Evans	Troy, New York, United States	1985 to 1998	Murdered eight victims. Met and befriended the Son of Sam killer while incarcerated. Released in 1984, proceeded to burgralize and kill while in and out of jails over 13 years. Aided investigators in a high profile murder case before dodging parole and being chased. The manhunt finally ended when he jumped to his death off a bridge.

Note: This list can never be complete due to the secrecy with which criminals, especially murderers, tend to operate.

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. There are gaps of time between the killings, which may range from a few hours to many years. This list shows serial killers by number of victims. 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. It is perhaps ironic that arguably the most famous of all serial killers, Jack the Ripper, only murdered 5 people.

The third column in the table states the number of victims definitely assigned to that particular serial killer, and thus the table is in order of that figure. The fourth column states the number of possible victims the killer could have murdered. Some of these crimes are unsolved, but were included because they are the work of a serial killer, despite nobody being caught.

Name	Country	Proven victims*	Possible victims	Miscellaneous information
Harold Shipman	United Kingdom	218	250+	A doctor who targeted his patients, the majority of whom were elderly women. Killed his patients with lethal injections of diamorphine.
Luis Garavito	Colombia	138	300	Targeted young boys. Arrested in 1999.
Thug Behram	India	125	931	Born 1765, died 1840. Leader of the Thuggee cult.
Pedro Alonso López	Colombia	110	350	Targeted young girls, between the ages of 8 and 12. Arrested in 1980. Though he may be the most prolific serial killer of the 20th century, he was released after it was declared he had been rehabilitated. Current whereabouts unknown.
Erzsébet Báthory	Hungary	80	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.
Gilles de Rais	Brittany	80	600	Breton nobleman fought alongside Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years War. His confession was gained under torture and threat of torture, as was customary.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho	Brazil	71	100+	Convicted and sentenced to 128 years, but the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years. He has claimed to have killed over 100 victims, 40 of them inmates.
Yang Xinhai	China	67	67	Would enter victims' homes at night and kill everyone with axes, meat cleavers, hammers, and shovels.
Andrei Chikatilo	USSR/Ukraine	53	56	Convicted of the murder of 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990. Three people were previously convicted and executed for his crimes.
Anatoly Onoprienko	USSR/Ukraine	52	52+	Convicted of the murders of 9 people in 1989 and 43 people in 1995–1996. Traveled through Europe illegally from 1990 to 1995; whether he killed during this time is unknown.
Bruno Lüdke	Germany	51	51	Mentally disabled, Lüdke was arrested after being discovered with a corpse. Nazi police declared him insane and imprisoned him in a psychiatric hospital, where he was experimented on before being executed in 1944. The case remains controversial, as the only evidence tying him to the crimes was a confession that may have been physically coerced.
Alexander Pichushkin	Russia	48	61+	Convicted of murdering 48 victims and suspected of killing 61. Claimed to have murdered 63 people out of his goal of 64 to fill a chessboard; stated goal of becoming Russia's most prolific serial killer.
Gary Leon Ridgway	United States	49	90+	Truck painter who confessed to killing 71 women and dumping their bodies along the Green River near Seattle, Washington. The man with the most murder convictions in U.S. history, he pleaded guilty to 48 and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for each. In 2011, he pleaded guilty to his 49th.
Ahmad Suradji	Indonesia	42	70-80	Convicted of killing at least 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.
Gerald Stano	United States	41	41	Confessed to killing 41 women in mostly Florida and New Jersey areas. Some controversy surrounds the case as he is believed by some to have been a serial confessor.
Belle Gunness	United States	40?	60?	Active 1900 to 1908.
Moses Sithole	South Africa	38	38	Preyed on unemployed women, posing as a businessman and luring his victims with the prospects of a job, before leading them to an isolated place, where he raped, tortured, and murdered them. Sentenced to 2410 years imprisonment with a nonparole period of 930 years. Known as South Africa's Ted Bundy.
Donald Harvey	United States	36	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	USSR/Ukraine	36	100	Former police investigator claims to have killed 100.
Ted Bundy	United States	35	100+	Claimed 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.
Jane Toppan	United States	31	31+	Cambridge lust murderer who poisoned at least 31 victims between 1895 and 1901.
Dean Corll	United States	27	30	The "Candyman" raped, tortured, and murdered adolescent boys and young men in the 1970s, crimes that came to be known as the "Houston Mass Murders." Had his victims delivered to him by paid accomplices David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. After shooting and killing Corll in self-defense, Henley himself brought the murders to police attention.
Cedric Maake	South Africa	27	27+	Known as the "Wemmer Pan Killer".
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.
Fritz Haarmann	Germany	24	27	Also known as the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover is believed to have been responsible for the murder of 27 boys and young men. He was convicted, found guilty of 24 murders and executed.
Béla Kiss	Hungary	24	?	Convicted after the bodies of 24 women were found in his home. Escaped from prison in 1916. Fate unknown
Arnfinn Nesset	Norway	22	27+	Norwegian nurse and most prolific known serial killer in Scandinavian history, convicted on 18 March 1983 of poisoning at least 22 patients with Curacit. Was released from prison in 2004 after serving 21 years, the maximum punishment possible by Norwegian law.
Matti Haapoja	Finland	22	25	His last victim was the prison warden where he was serving his life sentence. Hanged himself in his cell in Kakola prison, Turku.
Igor Suprunyuck and Viktor Sayenko	Ukraine	21	31	Two 19-year-olds in Ukraine randomly slaughtered 21 people in the course of a single month in 2007. Both are serving life sentences.
Vampire of Silesia	Poland	21	?	Killed 21 women in 1964–1970 in Poland's region of Upper Silesia. Zdzisław Marchwicki (executed in 1977) was most likely the man responsible for the killings; however, his guilt remains in dispute.
Earle Nelson	United States	20	22+	Necrophiliac who targeted landladies throughout the West Coast during 1926.
Mary Ann Cotton	United Kingdom	20	20+	Killed up to 20 of her husbands and offspring in County Durham in the 19th century.
Surender Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher	India	19	30+	Between 2005 and 2006, businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic servant, Surender Koli, kidnapped, raped, murdered, and dismembered 19 people (mostly children). Convicted.
Charles Cullen	United States	18	40	Nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who murdered 40 patients between 1988 and 2003.
Paul John Knowles	United States	18	35	Killed 18 people in various states in 1974. Claimed 35 murders. Known as the "Casanova Killer".
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 kept their body parts in his freezer. Was sentenced to life imprisonment. Murdered in prison in 1994.
Donato Bilancia	Italy	17	17	Burglar who murdered 17 people between 1997 and 1998. Known as the "Prostitutes Killer" and the "Liguria Monster".
Vladimir Kondratenko	Ukraine	16	20+	Kondratenko and his friend Vladislav Volkovich, dubbed the Nighttime Killers, shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned 35– to 40-year-old male victims.
Randy Steven Kraft	United States	16	65–100	Convicted on 16 counts of murder but left a cryptic list of 65 murders. May have had an accomplice.
Mahanand Naik	India	16	?	Sources said that most of his victims were aged between 19 and 30. Strangled them through their dupattas. It also revealed that it was the lure of gold that led Naik to commit brutal killings.
Mohammed Bijeh	Iran	16	16	Raped and killed at least 16 boys and teenagers. Nicknamed the "Tehran Desert Vampire." Was convicted and executed after being lashed in front of a crowd in 2005.
Sipho Thwala	South Africa	16	19	Nicknamed the Phoenix Strangler after the area in which he committed his crimes.
Elias Xitavhudzi	South Africa	16	16	Nicknamed Panga man for his use of a machete (locally known as a "panga").
Jimmy Maketta	South Africa	16	16	Pleaded guilty and convicted of 16 murders and 19 rapes committed over a nine-month period in 2005.
John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo	United States	16	16	Carried out the Beltway sniper attacks together.
Robert Lee Yates	United States	16	16	Killed prostitutes in the "Skid Row" area of E. Sprague Avenue in Spokane, Washington.
Waltraud Wagner	Austria	15	49-200	Nurse who killed elderly at Lainz General Hospital in Vienna in 1983. Together with her accomplices, she confessed to 49 murders but may have been responsible for up to 200. One of the "Lainz Angels of Death".
Robert Hansen	United States	15	21	Prostitutes he kidnapped were released into the Alaskan wilderness for him to hunt down like animals. Based on discovered remains, police suspect him of six murders in addition to the 15 for which he was convicted.
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.
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.
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 was found guilty of the murder of Gloria Steele. Died of prostate cancer on September 21, 2007.
Arthur Shawcross	United States	14	14	After being arrested for the rape and murder of two children, he was able to plead down to a sentence for manslaughter. After 14½ years of incarceration, he began targeting prostitutes. Strangled and battered his victims. Known as the "Genesee River Killer," "Genesee River Strangler," "Rochester Strangler," and "Monster of the Rivers."
Richard Ramirez	United States	13	20+	Killed 13 people between June 28, 1984, and August 24, 1985, in Los Angeles. Known as the "Night Stalker."
Peter Sutcliffe	United Kingdom	13	17	Killed 13 women between October 30, 1975, and November 17, 1980, mainly in Yorkshire. Was known as the "Yorkshire Ripper."
Cleveland Torso Murderer	United States	13	40+	Unidentified serial killer, also known as The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, who targeted drifters and derelicts, of whom only two were identified, between 1934 and 1938 in Cleveland, Ohio.
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.
David Parker Ray	United States	12	60	Torture-murderer possibly aided by numerous accomplices, including his girlfriend. Targeted victims in the Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, area. Known as the "Toybox Killer" for the mobile home he used as a house to rape, torture, and kill women.
Dr. Maxim Petrov	Russia	12	19	Doctor who killed his patients in St. Petersburg. Suspected of 19 murders.
William Suff	United States	12	12-22	County store clerk who raped, stabbed, strangled, and sometimes mutilated 12 or more prostitutes in Riverside County. Known as the "Riverside Prostitute Killer" and the "Lake Elsinore Killer".
Maury Travis	United States	12	17	Killed prostitutes in the St. Louis area from 2000 to 2002. Caught when he mailed an Expedia.com map showing where to find a body to a St. Louis newspaper. Committed suicide in prison.
Kenneth Bianchi	United States	12	15	Convicted of strangling twelve females between ages 12 and 28 and suspected in another three cases. One of the "Hillside Stranglers".
Fred West and Rosemary West	United Kingdom	12	20	Mainly targeted young females but were 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. Shortly before he committed suicide on New Year's Day, 1995, Fred West said there were more victims.
Benjamin Atkins	United States	11	11	Raped and strangled his victims before abandoning their bodies in vacant buildings.
Herb Baumeister	United States	11	11+	Strangled gay men and buried their bodies in his backyard. Killings occurred in Indiana and Ohio. 11 men were found in the ground but only 5 were identified.
Bloody Benders	United States	11	Unknown	Active 1872 and 1873. Fate unknown.
John Justin Bunting	Australia	11	11	Ringleader in the Snowtown murders; sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Nannie Doss	United States	11	11	Responsible for 11 deaths between 1927 and 1954. Known as the "Giggling Nanny", the "Giggling Granny," and the "Jolly Black Widow."
Leonard Lake and Charles Ng	United States	11	25	Abducted women, used them as sex slaves, and then murdered them, together with any men, women, and children 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.
Henry Lee Lucas	United States	11	213	Convicted of 11 murders. Detectives from 40 states came to visit Lucas, and an estimated 3,000 homicides were discussed in what is considered to be one of the greatest mockeries of the U.S. legal system when police officers cleared their books of unsolved murders. The true number of murders committed by Lucas is unknown, but it is likely Lucas was not nearly as prolific a serial killer as he initially claimed to be, as most of his murder confessions were thoroughly discredited, and he himself claimed only one murder—that of his mother.
Clifford Olson	Canada	11	11	Considered a dangerous offender, meaning that Olsen may never be released from prison. Has had three parole applications rejected.
Anthony Sowell	United States	11	Unknown	see Wikipedia article
Jack Unterweger	Austria/United States	10	15	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 was 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.
David Randitsheni	South Africa	10	?	Kidnapped 19 people, raped 17, and murdered 10 from 2004 to 2008. Sentenced to 16 consecutive life sentences plus 220 years in prison; hanged himself three weeks after conviction.
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.
Robert Joe Wagner	Australia	10	10	Secondary ringleader in the Snowtown murders and best friend of John Justin Bunting; sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Henry Louis Wallace	United States	10	10	Confessed to 10 murders in Charlotte, North Carolina, between 1990 and 1994.
Angelo Buono	United States	10	10	Convicted of strangling ten females. One of the "Hillside Stranglers."
Charlene Gallego	United States	10	10	Killed ten victims in Sacramento, California, between 1978 and 1980 together with her husband, Gerald Gallego.
Gerald Gallego	United States	10	10	Killed ten victims in Sacramento, California, between 1978 and 1980 together with his wife, Charlene Gallego.
Donald Henry Gaskins (a.k.a. "Pee Wee" Gaskins)	United States	9	181	Known as "The Meanest Man in America," he was convicted of nine murders in South Carolina taking place between 1969 and 1975. He was suspected in over 80 murders of mainly young boys and girls. He admitted to 181 killings in his final memoirs.
Herman Mudgett (a.k.a. H.H. Holmes)	United States	9	27–350+	Active 1888–1894. Targeted mostly younger women during the Chicago World's Fair in the 1890s and killed them by enticing them to his custom-built "murder castle," which was tailor-made to kill large numbers of people using a wide variety of premeditated methods. To keep this secret, he fired all his builders and hired new ones before any one set of builders could ever finish one part of the "house." He sometimes murdered his victims on a day-to-day basis but usually slept with the victim first and devised a method in the morning. Actual body count is unknown, but it is possible that there could have been more than 230 victims, as the majority of the victims were completely dissolved into acid housed in a gigantic pit built into his basement.
Patrick Lynch	Australia	9	10	Irish convict transported to Australia who killed nine people in the town of Berrima over a three-day period in February 1841 but denied involvement in a tenth murder in 1835 when he was a bushranger. Dubbed "The Berrima Axe Murderer"; hanged on April 22, 1842.
Peter Kürten	Germany	9	9	Charged with nine murders and seven attempted murders. Dubbed "The Vampire of Düsseldorf" by the contemporary media. Executed by guillotine in 1931 (age 48).
Ondrej Rigo	Slovakia	9	9	Slovak serial killer and necrophile, who committed his murders during the early 1990s in Slovakia, Germany and Netherlands. He was arrested in 1992 and received a life sentence in 1994. He remains the murderer with the biggest number of victims in the modern history of Slovakia.
Dagmar Overbye	Denmark	9	15	She murdered between 9 and 25 children – of which one was her own – during a seven-year period from 1913 to 1920. On March 3, 1921, she was sentenced to death in one of the most talked about trials in Danish history, that changed legislation on childcare. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison. Overbye was working as a professional child caretaker, caring for babies born outside of marriage, murdering her own charges. She strangled them, drowned them or burned them to death in her masonry heater. The corpses were either cremated, buried or hidden in the loft.
Thomas Quick	Sweden	8	30	Raped and murdered up to 30 men. Several scholars, however, have questioned if he killed anyone. As of 2008 he has withdrawn the confessions and intends to appeal.
Joseph Paul Franklin	United States	8	20	Confessed to 20 murders and several attempted murders. Still awaiting trial for most of these crimes.
Peter Manuel	Scotland	8	18	A USA-born Scottish burglar and serial killer who is known to have killed eight people across Lanarkshire between 1956 and 1958 but was believed to have killed up to eighteen. Manuel was the third-last prisoner to be hung in Scotland.
Christopher Wilder	United States	8	13+	Killed eight 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 eight prostitutes in Poughkeepsie, New York, but denies involvement with the disappearance of a ninth prostitute.
Eric Edgar Cooke	Australia	8	8	Nicknamed "The Night Caller", he terrorized the city of Perth from 1959 to 1963 by assaulting 22 people at random with various means, killing eight of them. Hanged on October 26, 1964.
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.
Alexander Pearce	Australia	8	8	Irish convict transported to Australia who killed and cannibalized his fellow escapees in two separate escapes in four months in 1822. Hanged on July 9, 1824.
Jean-Baptiste Troppmann	France	8	8	Born October 5, 1849 in Brunstatt (Haut-Rhin), he murdered 8 members of the unrelated Kinck family over a period of several months in 1869. His execution on January 19, 1870, in Paris, became the subject of an essay by Ivan Turgenev.
Ivan Milat	Australia	7	23–37	Convicted of the Backpacker murders; sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences plus 18 years without the possibility of parole. May have had accomplices.
Derrick Todd Lee	United States	7	10	Known as the "Baton Rouge or South Louisiana Serial Killer" convicted of three murders, sentenced to death by lethal injection. Believed to have murdered several other women in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Doug Clark	United States	7	8+	Boiler operator who killed prostitutes in Los Angeles during 1980. One of the "Sunset Strip Killers".
Christopher Worrell	Australia	7	7	Died in car accident before capture.
Orville Lynn Majors	United States	6	130	LPN in Vermillion County Ind., Preyed on elderly patients—thought to have killed many of them with injections of potassium chloride. Serving 360 years in Indiana.
Albert Fish	United States	6	100(?)	Pedophile and cannibal. Connected to three murders; claimed to be responsible for many others. Electrocuted on Jan. 16, 1936.
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 10-year-old girl survived his attack and provided a description of him. On death row in Texas.
Robert Pickton	Canada	6	20–49(?)	Found guilty of six counts of second-degree murder. Accused of murdering 20 other women, most of them prostitutes and drug dealers.
John Wayne Glover	Australia	6	13	British ex-pat living in Australia. Known by the media as "The Granny Killer" as he targeted elderly women.
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.
Jack the Stripper	United Kingdom	6	8	Murdered at least six prostitutes in London between 1964 and 1965, and may have been responsible for the deaths of two others before that. Remains unidentified.
Gert van Rooyen and Joey Haarhof	South Africa	6	8	Their victims were never found; the pair shot dead a police officer and then committed suicide when faced with arrest after the escape of their last kidnap victim.
James Miller	Australia	6	7	Sentenced to six consecutive terms of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 35 years. Died of cancer in 2008.
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.
Aleksandr Rubel	Estonia	6	6	He was intoxicated on gasoline vapour during his murders. Sentenced as a minor to the maximum punishment allowed by law — eight years imprisonment — he was released on 8 June 2006.
Allen Thompson	Australia	6	6	Convicted of the murders of a family of four in Richardson in March 1984, and of two of the family's aunts who had died in a car accident in Canberra in December 1981; sentenced to six consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
András Pándy	Belgium	6	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002.
Billy Cook	United States	6	6	Executed December 12, 1952.
Richard Cottingham	United States	5	85-100	Killer operating in New York between 1977 and 1980. Convicted of five murders but made claims of victim count as up to a hundred. Known as the "Torso Killer".
Irene Leidolf	Austria	5	49-200	Nurse who killed elderly at Lainz General Hospital in Vienna in 1983. Together with her accomplices she confessed to 49 murders but may have been responsible to up to 200. One of the "Lainz Angels of Death".
Amy Archer-Gilligan	United States	5	48?	Active 1910 to 1917; died in mental hospital in 1962.
Zodiac Killer	United States	5	37	Targeted young couples. Was never apprehended.
Joe Ball	United States	5	5-20	Bootlegger who is said to have been responsible for up to 20 deaths in South Texas between 1936 and 1938. Known as the "Alligator Man", the "Butcher of Elmendorf" and the "Bluebeard of South Texas".
John Floyd Thomas	United States	5	17–25	Murderer and serial killer suspect.
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". Murdered five prostitutes, all of whom worked in Ipswich in 2006. There are possible links to previous Suffolk prostitute killings.
Kristen Gilbert	United States	5	70?	Targeted patients. Sentenced to life without parole.
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.
Carl Williams	Australia	5	14	Gangland hitman; sentenced to four consecutive sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 35 years. Williams died in 2010 after being attacked by a fellow inmate.
Lindsay Robert Rose	Australia	5	10	Contract killer who operated between 1984 and 1994; sentenced to five consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
William Patrick Fyfe	Canada	5	9	Convicted of killing five women in the Montreal area of Quebec, although he claims to have killed four others. Serving a life sentence in West Canada.
David Maust	United States	5	9	Killed teenage boys; caught when bodies of three boys were found in the concrete floor of his basement in Hammond, Indiana. Committed suicide in prison in 2006.
Danny Rolling	United States	5	8	Known as the "Gainesville Ripper"; murdered five students in August 1990. Executed on October 6, 2006.
Vincent Johnson	United States	5	6	The Brooklyn Strangler.
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.
Caroline Grills	Australia	5	5	Poisoned five family members with thallium hidden in tea and scones she had given them in Sydney between 1947 and 1953. Sentenced to five consecutive life sentences; died from peritonitis on October 6, 1960.
Thomas Dillon	United States	5	5	Ohio Sniper.
William MacDonald	Australia	5	5	Murdered derelicts in Sydney and Brisbane between 1960 and 1962; sentenced to five consecutive life sentences.
Queho	United States	5	1?	Active 1910/1911 and 1919. Found dead in a cave in 1940.
Alfred Packer	United States	5	5	Murderer and cannibal.
Marc Dutroux	Belgium	5	5	Serial killer convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 and 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered; also tortured and murdered his accomplice, Bernard Weinstein.
Andrew Cunanan	United States	5	5	Murdered five people including Gianni Versace between April 1997 and July 1997 ending with his suicide.
Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood	United States	5	5	Nurses who killed five elderly women in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Harry Powers	United States	5	2	Lonely hearts swindler and conman. Killed two women and three children in Quiet Dell, West Virginia. Arrested 1931 after bodies of victims found buried near his garage. Hanged March 28, 1932.
Ottis Toole	United States	4	125	Convicted of three counts of murder, and confessed to four more murders 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.
Leonard Fraser	Australia	4	7	Serial rapist and pedophile who murdered four women in Rockhampton between 1998–1999. Sentenced to five consecutive life sentences plus 25 years without the possibility of parole; died in prison of a heart attack on January 1, 2007.
Arnold Sodeman	Australia	4	4	The schoolgirl strangler, hanged in 1936.
David and Catherine Birnie	Australia	4	4–8	Australian couple who raped and murdered four women in their home and attempted to murder a fifth in Perth in 1986. Both were sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole; David Birnie hanged himself in prison on October 7, 2005.
Jozef Slovák	Slovakia	4	4+	A Slovak serial killer active in Slovakia and Czech republic from 1978 to 1991. He was suspected by his investigators of more murders, but only four could be proven.
Gordon Cummins	United Kingdom	4	4	Active 1942. Raped three of his victims and robbed the remaining one. Also attacked two other women. Sentenced to death by hanging.
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.
James Vlassakis	Australia	4	4	Snowtown murderer and stepson of John Justin Bunting; sentenced to four consecutive life sentences with a non-parole period of 26 years.
Mark Jeffries	Australia	4	4	Convict transported from Ireland who cannibalized his fellow escapees in 1824; hanged in 1826.
Peter Woodcock	Canada	4	4	Sexual sadist and child rapist. Killed three young children in Toronto in the 1950s. Sentenced to a psychiatric facility, where he murdered a fellow inmate in 1991.
Lam Kor-wan	Hong Kong	4	4	Taxi driver and one of Hong Kong's only serial killers. Famous for keeping body parts in his parents' home.
Kathleen Folbigg	Australia	4	4	Mother convicted of murdering her three infant children and the manslaughter of a fourth child between 1991 and 1999. Sentenced to 30 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 25 years.
Jerry Brudos	United States	4	4	Electronics technician who bludgeoned and strangled four young women between 1968 and 1969 dressed up in women's clothing. Known as the "Lust Killer" and "Shoe Fetish Slayer."
Miguel Rivera	Puerto Rico	4	4	Stabbed young boys and cut off their genitals in attempt to transform them into girls in East Harlem and on the Upper West Side of New York between March 1972 and August 1973. Known as "Charlie Chop-Off."
Tsutomu Miyazaki	Japan	4	4	Mutilated and killed four girls, aged between four and seven, and sexually molested their corpses. He drank the blood of one victim and ate her hands.
Herman Copeland	United States	4	8	Killed a Maryland Deputy Sherriff and two Washington DC {Metropolitian} Policemen May 21, 1918. Before execution claimed to have committed a total of 12 murders-including a Chicago Policeman. Hanged January 22, 1925.
Robert Napper	United Kingdom	3	3	Rapist and murderer who mutilated one of his victims so badly that the policeman who found her was put into therapy for two years.
Charles Albright	United States	3	3	The trophies this seemingly well-adjusted former teacher took from his victims led the press to dub him the "Texas Eyeball Killer."
Paul Kenneth Bernardo	Canada	3	5	The "Scarborough Rapist" later gained national infamy when he moved into torturing and killing teenage girls, assisted by his wife, Karla Homolka.
Bible John	Scotland	3	3	Unidentified strangler and rapist of young women active in Glasgow between 1968 and 1969.
Fred Flannery and John Flannery	Ireland	1	3	Fred and John Flannery were born in 1959 at 16 St. Joseph's Park, Mayfield, Cork City,they were friends with three men (Kevin Ball, Cathal O'Brien and Denis "Patch" O’Driscoll) who lived at 9 Wellington Road, Cork in 1994. The men disappeared. Fred was eventually charged with the murder of one of the men (Patch O’Driscoll) in late December 1994, although no body had been found. John and Fred were suspected of murdering all three men, though it was never proven, and Fred was acquitted of the charges due to police tampering to Evidence.
Bendali Debs	Australia	3	3–5	Convicted of the murder of Kirsty Harty at Upper Beaconsfield in 1997 and of the Moorabbin Police murders 14 months later; sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 27 years without the possibility of parole.
Paul Denyer	Australia	3	5	Serial killer known as the "Frankston Killer" who murdered three women in 1993; sentenced to three consecutive life sentences with a non-parole period of 30 years.
Westley Allan Dodd	United States	3	3	Dodd had an extensive arrest record for molesting children by the time his behavior escalated to include murder. Refusing to appeal his death sentence, he stated that he "should be punished to the full extent of the law, as should all sex offenders and murderers", and that if he ever escaped, he would immediately return to "killing and raping kids." Executed in 1993, his hanging was the first in the United States in 28 years.
Peter Dupas	Australia	3	6	Sexual sadist from Melbourne, who murdered three women and is suspected of at least three further killings. Serving three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Was convicted of 16 separate acts of sexual violence before his first murder charge.
William Heirens	United States	3	3	Burglar who stabbed three females between 1945 and 1946. Known as the "Lipstick Killer".
John Joubert	United States	3	3	"The Nebraska Boy Snatcher," Joubert was enlisted in Air Force when he was arrested for the murders of two children. Later linked to another killing previous to his military service, of an 11-year-old boy in Maine. Joubert's criminal behavior began at the age of 13, with a series of random attacks on strangers that went unsolved until his arrest in Nebraska.
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.
Gordon Northcott	United States	3	17	1928 murderer with his mother in the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders.
Altemio Sanchez	United States	3	3	Known as the Bike Path Rapist for murdering three women and raping at least 14 others in and around the Buffalo, New York area over a span of 25 years (1981–2006). Sentenced to 75 years in prison with no chance of parole.
Dr. Michael Swango	United States	3	30+	Murderer and serial killer suspect.
Peter Tobin	United Kingdom	3	48	Scottish rapist and serial killer known to have killed at least three young women between 1991 and 2006. Currently a suspect in the Bible John murders, committed in Glasgow during the late 1960s.
Stephen Griffiths	United Kingdom	3	14	Known to have killed 3 prostitutes, but claims to have killed 14 to beat "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe. Dubbed the "Crossbow Cannibal" as he killed his victims with a hammer and crossbow and then later ate parts of them.
Javed Iqbal	Pakistan	2	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.

See also

• List of serial killers by country
• List of wars and disasters by death toll
• List of rampage killers
• Most Evil
• Spree killer