List of serial killers by country

This is a list of notable serial killers, by the country where most of the murders were committed.

Convicted serial killers by country

Afghanistan

• Abdullah Shah: killed at least 20 travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad serving under Zardad Khan; also killed his wife; executed on 20 April 2004.

Argentina

• Florencio Fernández: also known as "The Argentine Vampire"; killed 15 women in his hometown of Monteros during the 1950s.
• Cayetano Santos Godino: also known as "Petiso Orejudo" ("Big Eared Midget"); at 16, killed four children in 1912; died in prison in 1944.
• Cayetano Domingo Grossi: the first serial killer in Argentine history; murdered 5 of his newborn children between 1896 and 1898; executed 1900.
• Francisco Antonio Laureana: also known as "The Satyr of San Isidro"; murdered 15 women from 1974 to 1975, raping 13 of them; killed in a shootout with the police in 1975.
• Yiya Murano: also known as "The Poisoner of Monserrat", poisoned three women in Buenos Aires.
• Robledo Puch: also known as "The Death Angel" and "The Black Angel"; killed 11 people before his arrest in 1972; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980.

Australia

• David and Catherine Birnie: responsible for the "Moorhouse Murders"; couple from the suburban Perth area who murdered four women in 1986.
• Gregory Brazel: Victoria man who shot a woman to death in a 1982 armed robbery, and murdered two prostitutes in 1990.
• John Bunting, Robert Wagner and James Vlassakis: also known as the "Bodies in the Barrels Murders"; convicted of the Snowtown murders of 12 people between 1992 and 1999.
• Robert Francis Burns: confessed to eight killings; hanged in Ararat in 1883.
• Thomas and John Clarke: bushranger brothers who robbed railroad stations; killed five police officers; the Felons Apprehension Act of 1886, which allowed bushrangers to be killed on sight, was created because of them; both hanged 1867.
• Eric Edgar Cooke: also known as the "Night Caller"; killed at least 8 people and attempted to kill many more; last person to be hanged in Western Australia.
• John Leslie Coombes: killed two men in 1984 and one woman in 2009 around the Victoria area.
• Bandali Debs: convicted of murdering two police officers and two prostitutes in the 1990s.
• Paul Denyer: also known as the "Frankston Killer"; murdered three women in 1993 in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston.
• Peter Dupas: serving three life sentences for multiple murder and rape charges in Victoria.
• Kathleen Folbigg: murdered four of her infants between 1991 and 1999.
• Leonard Fraser: also known as the "Rockhampton Rapist"; convicted of killing four women in Rockhampton, Queensland.
• John Wayne Glover: also known as the "Granny Killer"; killed six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore; committed suicide in 2005.
• Caroline Grills: also known as "Auntie Thally"; a serial poisoner of five family members in New South Wales.
• Paul Steven Haigh: sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murders of seven people in Victoria in the late 1970s.
• Matthew James Harris: strangled a friend's brother, a female friend, and a male neighbor to death over five weeks in 1998 in Wagga Wagga.
• Thomas Jeffries: Tasmanian penal colony escapee responsible for the murders of five people; executed in 1826.
• Frances Knorr: also known as the "Baby Farming Murderess"; English-born baby farmer who killed 3 infants; executed 1894.
• Eddie Leonski: also known as the "Brownout Strangler"; United States Army soldier who killed three women in Melbourne, Australia; executed in 1942.
• John Lynch: also known as the "Berrima Axe Murderer"; killed ten people from 1835 to 1841.
• William MacDonald: also known as the "Mutilator"; English immigrant who killed at least five men between June 1961 and April 1963 throughout Sydney.
• John and Sarah Makin: late 19th century baby farmers who killed and buried 12 children at a succession of their homes.
• Malachi Martin: convicted of killing Jane Macmanamin and suspected of murdering four additional people as well as being implicated in the suspicious death of his mother; hanged at the Adelaide Gaol in 1862.
• Ivan Milat: killed at least seven tourists in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales, which became known as the "Backpacker Murders"; suspected in similar disappearances in Newcastle.
• Dan Morgan: also known as "Mad Dog"; violent bushranger who killed three people from 1864 to 1865; killed during a standoff with the Victoria police.
• Martha Needle: also known as the "Black Widow of Richmond," poisoner of four family members and her boyfriend's brother; executed in 1894.
• James Ryan O'Neill: abducted and killed two children around Tasmania; suspected of similar murders in the 1960s in several other states.
• Alexander Pearce: Irish convict who escaped with seven other convicts from imprisonment; five of them were killed and cannibalised, leaving Pearce the only one left; hanged 1824.
• Martha Rendell: killed three stepchildren with hydrochloric acid in 1907-08; last woman to be hanged in Western Australia.
• Lindsey Robert Rose: New South Wales serial and contract killer who murdered five people between 1984 and 1994.
• Snowy Rowles: also known as 'The Murchison Murders'; stockman who murdered three people using a method from a then unpublished book of author Arthur Upfield.
• Arnold Sodeman: also known as the "School-girl Strangler"; killed four children in Melbourne in the 1930s.
• John "Rocky" Whelan: Tasmanian penal colony escapee responsible for the murders of five people; executed in 1855.
• Christopher Worrell and James Miller: also known as the "Truro Murderers"; were convicted of killing seven people in 1976-77.

Austria

• Elfriede Blauensteiner: also known as the "Black Widow"; poisoner of three individuals; died in 2003.
• Alfred Engleder: also known as the "Beast of Sierning"; injured and raped 6 women around the Steyr region, killing two of them; was stabbed by his girlfriend and later succumbed to his injuries in 1993.
• Max Gufler: poisoned and drowned women; convicted of 4 murders and 2 attempted murders, but believed to have committed 18; died 1996.
• Martha Marek: poisoned 3 family members and a lodger in her house with thallium between 1932 and 1937; executed 1938.
• Wolfgang Ott: sex offender and suspected serial killer who kidnapped several women in 1995, killing two of them; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996.
• Harald Sassak: gasworks employee who between 1971 and 1972 killed six people for the purpose of robbery; died from an undisclosed illness in 2013.
• Hugo Schenk: also known as the "Viennese Housemaids Killer"; swindler who killed 4 maids in 1883 with his accomplice Karl Schlossarek; suspected of more murders; executed 1884.
• Jack Unterweger: author and sexual sadist; convicted of 10 murders; believed to have killed 12 women; committed suicide in prison in 1994.
• Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Mayer and Waltraud Wagner: also known as the "Lainz Angels of Death"; nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in Vienna who admitted to murdering 49 patients between 1983 and 1989.

Bangladesh

• Roshu Kha: enraged over rejection by his lover, Roshu killed at least 11 garment workers. He pretended to love them, later killing them brutally.

Belarus

• Gennady Mikhasevich: police volunteer who investigated his own mission-oriented murders of 36 women between 1971 and 1985; executed in 1987.
• Igor Mirenkov: known as "the Svietlahorsk Nightmare"; child killer who murdered six boys from 1990 to 1993; executed in 1996.
• Alexander Sergeychik: killed 6 people from 2000 to 2006 in the Shchuchyn and Grodno Districts; confessed to 12 murders; executed 2007.

Belgium

• Marie Alexandrine Becker: poisoned at least 11 people with Digitalis; sentenced to life imprisonment; died 1938.
• Jan Caubergh: strangled his pregnant neighbour, his girlfriend and their child in 1979; sentenced to death but it was converted to life imprisonment; was the longest-serving prisoner in the country until his death in 2013.
• Marc Dutroux: convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls ranging in age from 8 to 19, during 1995 and 1996. Four of his victims were murdered; the final two were rescued.
• Staf Van Eyken: also known as the "Vampire of Muizen"; raped and strangled 3 women from 1971 to 1972 in Muizen and Bonheiden; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.
• Ronald Janssen: killed a woman in 2007 and later his neighbour and her boyfriend in 2010; admitted to 5 rapes committed in 1993, but is suspected of 20; sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011.
• Marie-Thérèse Joniaux: poisoned three of her family members between 1894 and 1895; sentenced to death in 1895, but was commuted to life imprisonment; died in Antwerp in 1923.
• András Pándy: also known as "Vader Blauwbaard" (Father Bluebeard); Hungarian immigrant convicted of the murder and rape of his two wives and four children in Brussels between 1986 and 1990 with the aid of his daughter, Ágnes Pándy; died in prison in 2013.
• Nestor Pirotte: also known as the "Crazy Killer"; considered one of the worst Belgian criminals, responsible for the murders of up to 7 people from 1954 to 1981, including his great-aunt; died from a heart attack in 2000.

Bolivia

• Ramiro Artieda: killed his brother in the early 1920s for monetary purposes; emigrated to the United States but later returned and killed seven women until 1938; was arrested in 1939, confessed and was executed by firing squad.

Brazil

• Francisco de Assis Pereira: rapist and serial killer, known as "O Maníaco do Parque" (The Park Maniac); arrested for the torture, rape and death of 11 women and for assaulting nine in a park in São Paulo during the 1990s.
• Marcelo Costa de Andrade: also known as "The Vampire of Niterói"; raped and killed 14 children.
• Abraão José Bueno: Rio de Janeiro nurse who killed four child patients; sentenced to 110 years imprisonment in 2005.
• Pedro Rodrigues Filho: also known as "Pedrinho Matador"; convicted and sentenced to 128 years imprisonment for 70 murders; however, the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years; claimed to have killed more than 100 victims, including 40 prison inmates.
• Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha: security guard who has claimed to have killed 39 people in the state of Goiás.
• Edson Izidoro Guimarães: nurse who killed four patients in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Méier; suspected of 131 deaths in total.
• Anísio Ferreira de Sousa: gynaecologist from Altamira who was convicted of the murder of three children but linked to the disappearance of a total of 19.
• Marcos Antunes Trigueiro: known as "The Industrial Maniac"; former taxi driver who killed 5 women from 2009 to 2010 in Contagem and Belo Horizonte.

Canada

• Gerald Thomas Archer: known as "the London Chambermaid Slayer"; killed 3 female hotel employees in his hometown of London, Ontario; died of a heart attack in 1995.
• Paul Bernardo: also known as "the Scarborough Rapist"; a Toronto man who killed three teenage girls (including his wife's sister) with the aid of his wife Karla Homolka.
• Wayne Boden: also known as "the Vampire Rapist" killed 4 women between 1968 and 1971; died in prison 2006.
• John Martin Crawford: convicted in 1996 for the murders of three women in Saskatoon.
• Léopold Dion: also known as "Monster of Pont-Rouge"; raped and killed four young boys in 1960; murdered in 1972 by a fellow prison inmate.
• William Patrick Fyfe: convicted of killing five women in Montreal; suspect in several other murders.
• Russell Maurice Johnson: also known as the "Bedroom Strangler"; convicted of raping and murdering three women in the 1970s; total number of victims later found to be higher.
• Gilbert Paul Jordan: also known as the "Boozing Barber", killed between 8 and 10 women by alcohol poisoning in Vancouver; died in 2006.
• Cody Legebokoff: one of Canada's youngest serial killers, convicted of murdering three women and a teenage girl around Prince George, British Columbia between 2009 and 2010.
• Allan Legere: also known as "Monster of the Miramichi"; killer of five individuals.
• Michael Wayne McGray: killed 7 people, including a woman and child and a cellmate, claims to have killed 11 others.
• Dellen Millard: convicted of murdering three people, including his father; two were killed with accomplice Mark Smich.
• Clifford Olson: murdered 11 children in British Columbia in the early 1980s; died in prison 2011.
• Robert Pickton: Port Coquitlam, British Columbia man charged with the first degree murders of 26 women; allegedly confessed to 49 murders; convicted December 9, 2007 of six charges; reduced to second degree murder.
• Yves Trudeau: known as "the Mad Bumper"; former member of an outlaw motorcycle gang who killed 43 people between 1973 and 1985; died of bone-marrow cancer in 2008.
• Elizabeth Wettlaufer: murdered eight senior citizens in Ontario with fatal injections of insulin, and gave non-fatal injections to six others, between 2007 and 2016.
• Russell Williams: former Colonel of the Canadian Forces; killed two women and is suspected of murdering a third; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Peter Woodcock: murdered three children in 1956 and 1957 in Toronto and a fellow psychiatric institute patient in 1991; died while incarcerated in 2010.

Chile

• Émile Dubois: French-born murderer and folk hero who's revered as "The Chilean Robin Hood" for killing alleged usurers; executed 1907.
• Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer: also known as "La Quintrala"; 17th century landowner tried for over 40 murders; died 1665.
• Julio Pérez Silva: also known as "Psychopath from Alto Hospicio", sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering fourteen women from 1998 to 2001
• Jorge Sagredo and Carlos Topp: also known as the "Viña del Mar Psychopaths"; committed ten murders and four rapes from August 5, 1980 to November 1, 1981 in the city of Viña del Mar; executed by firing squad on January 29, 1985; they were the last people executed in Chile.

People's Republic of China

• Bai Baoshan: robber who attacked several police stations in 3 provinces; killed 15 people; executed 1998.
• Li Yijiang: killed seven people in the early 2000s; shot in 2004.
• Liu Pengli: 2nd century BC Han prince; one of the earliest serial killers attested by historical sources.
• Gao Chengyong: nicknamed the "Chinese Jack the Ripper", killed 11 women between 1988 and 2002 in Baiyin and Inner Mongolia. Sentenced to death in 2018.
• Gong Runbo: found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers in aged between nine and 16 from 2005 to 2006 in Jiamusi; executed 2007.
• Huang Yong: between September 2001 and 2003 killed at least 17 teenage boys; executed in 2003.
• Shen Changyin and Shen Changping: found guilty of the murders of 11 prostitutes between 1999 and 2004 in Lanzhou and Taiyuan; sentenced to death in 2005.
• Wang Qiang: 45 murder victims and 10 rapes; executed on 17 November 2005.
• Wang Zongfang and Wang Zongwei: known as "Er Wang"; murderers who killed soldiers using guns and grenades in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangsu; killed by armed forces in 1983.
• Yang Xinhai: also known as the "Monster Killer"; confessed to killing 65 people between 2000 and 2003; executed in 2004.
• Zhang Jun: robber who killed 28 people from 1993 to 2000 throughout China with accomplices; captured and executed in 2001.
• Zhang Yongming: killed 11 males between March 2008 and April 2012; executed in 2013.
• Zhou Kehua: former soldier who targeted ATM users; killed 10 people in Jiangsu and Chongqing and evaded the law for 8 years, before being killed in 2012 in a shootout with police after a year-long manhunt.

Colombia

• Daniel Camargo Barbosa: also known as "The Sadist of El Charquito", who is believed to have raped and killed over 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s.
• Luis Garavito: also known as "The Beast" admitted to murder and rape of 140 young boys in the 1990s.
• Pedro López: also known as "The Monster of the Andes"; accused of raping and killing more than 300 girls across South America between 1969 and 1980.
• Manuel Octavio Bermúdez: also known as "El Monstruo de los Cañaduzales" (The Monster of the Cane Fields); confessed to raping and killing at least 21 children in remote areas of Colombia.
• Luis Gregorio Ramírez Maestre: killed 30 motorists in various municipalities; captured in 2012; expected to be released in 2032.

Croatia

• Vinko Pintarić: murdered five people, including his wife between 1973 and 1990; escaped from custody three times, killed in a 1991 shootout with the police.

Czech Republic

• Martin Lecián: responsible for killing 3 policemen and 1 prison officer; executed in 1927.
• Marie Fikáčková: female nurse in Sušice who was executed by hanging in 1961 for the murders of 10 babies
• Václav Mrázek: convicted of the murders of seven women around Chomutov; executed in 1957.
• Hubert Pilčík: killed at least five people whom he helped cross the border from Czechoslovakia into West Germany; committed suicide in prison in 1951.
• Martin Roháč: former soldier who robbed and killed 59 people between 1568 and 1571 with his accomplices; all were executed in 1571.
• Ivan Roubal: occultist who murdered five people from 1991 to 1994; sentenced to life imprisonment and died in 2015.
• Petr Zelenka: male nurse convicted of murdering seven patients in Havlíčkův Brod by lethal injections to "test" doctors; sentenced to life imprisonment.

Denmark

• Christina Aistrup Hansen: nurse who killed 3 patients at the Nykøbing Falster Hospital; charges changed from 3 murders to 4 attempted manslaughter charges; initially sentenced to life imprisonment, changed to 12 years in prison.
• Peter Lundin: killed his mother in the United States in 1991, then killed his mistress and her two children in Denmark 9 years later; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Dagmar Overbye: childcare provider who killed between nine and twenty-five children; sentenced to death in 1921 then reprieved; died in prison on 6 May 1929.

Ecuador

• Gilberto Chamba: also known as the "Monster of Machala"; murdered 8 people in Ecuador and one in Spain; sentenced to 45 years in prison in Spain on 5 November 2006.

Egypt

• Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour: also known as "Al-Tourbini"; gang leader who raped and murdered homeless children across Egypt by throwing them off trains in the 2000s, sometimes burying them alive; executed in 2010.
• Raya and Sakina: Egypt's most famous serial killers and the first Egyptian women to be executed by the modern state of Egypt; executed along with their husbands in 1921.

Estonia

• Johannes-Andreas Hanni: murderer, rapist, and cannibal who killed three people in 1982; committed suicide in police custody on 6 November 1982
• Aleksandr Rubel: Ukrainian-born killer who was convicted the murderers of six people in Tallinn as a minor in the late 1990s; released from prison on 8 June 2006
• Yuri Ustimenko and Dmitry Medvedev: Russian duo who committed robberies, killing 5 people; Medvedev was killed by police, and Ustimenko was captured in Poland, extradited to Estonia and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Finland

• Juhani Aataminpoika: also known as "Kerpeikkari"; murdered 12 people in the span of two months in 1849, including his parents; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment; died in 1854.
• Matti Haapoja: convicted murderer of three, but admitted to the killing of 18. Evidence suggests having killed as many as 22–25 people between 1867 and 1894 in Finland and Siberia. Sentenced to life imprisonment, but committed suicide by hanging in a prison cell.
• Ismo Junni: killed his wife in 1980, then killed 4 people and committed arson attacks at the Kivinokka summer camp in Helsinki from 1986 to 1989; committed suicide while in custody.
• Ensio Koivunen: also known as "Häkä-Enska"; abducted and murdered 3 female hitchhikers between July and August 1971; confined to a psychiatric hospital for 25 years, but released in 1981; died in 2003.
• Aino Nykopp-Koski: first known Finnish female serial killer; convicted of five murders and five attempted murders between 2004 and 2009. Sentenced to life in prison.
• Jukka Lindholm: murdered 4 women from 1985 to 2018 in and around Oulu; sentenced to life imprisonment, and is currently appealing the decision.

France

• Vincenzo Aiutino: also known as "The Man with the Fifty Affairs"; Swiss man who raped and strangled three women between 1991 and 1992 in Meurthe-et-Moselle; sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
• Patrice Alègre: predator who killed 5 women from 1989 to 1997; suspected of more murders; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers: Aristocratic French poisoner of three individuals; executed in 1676.
• Jean-Charles-Alphonse Avinain: also known as "The Terror of Gonesse"; butcher who killed two people in March and June 1867 for robbery purposes; guillotined that same year.
• Marcel Barbeault: also known as "The Shadow Killer"; killed 7 women and 1 man between 1969 and 1976 during night time or early morning; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Pierre Chanal: soldier and military instructor who killed 17 men and boys between 1980 and 1987 in Marne; committed suicide in 2003.
• Dominique Cottrez: murdered 8 of her newborn infants between 1989 and 2006 in her home in Villers-au-Tertre; sentenced to 9 years imprisonment in 2015.
• Véronique Courjault: confessed to killing 3 of her babies, stuffing 2 of them in a freezer at their family home in South Korea; sentenced to 8 years in prison 2009, released 2010.
• Martin Dumollard: condemned to the guillotine after having been arrested and charged with the deaths of maids from 1855 to 1861.
• Michel Fourniret: also known as "Ogre of Ardennes"; confessed to nine murders of young girls; allegedly killed 10 more between 1987 and 2001.
• Gilles Garnier: confessed to killing four children from October 1572 – January 1573.
• Guy Georges: also known as the "Beast of the Bastille"; serving a life sentence for seven murders between 1991 and 1997.
• Jacquy Haddouche: delinquent who attacked 6 women from 1992 to 2002, killed 3 of them; sentenced to life imprisonment; died of intracranial hemorrhage while incarcerated.
• Francis Heaulme: also known as the "Criminal Backpacker"; serving a life sentence for 20 murders between 1984 and 1992.
• Hélène Jégado: domestic servant who poisoned at least 23 people between 1833 and 1851 in Brittany; executed in 1852.
• Pierre François Lacenaire: poet and army defector who killed two men between 1834 and 1835 with his accomplices; guillotined 1836.
• Henri Désiré Landru: killed 11 people; inspired the character of Monsieur Verdoux played by Charlie Chaplin; executed by guillotine on 25 February 1922.
• Claude Lastennet: convicted of murdering 5 elderly women between August 1993 and January 1994 in Île-de-France; sentenced to life in prison.
• Celine Lesage: suffocated and strangled 6 of her newborn infants between 2000 and 2007; sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in 2007.
• Émile Louis: preyed on young handicapped women (seven murders) in the 1970s in Yonne; died in prison in 2013.
• Christine Malèvre: nurse sentenced for the murders of at least 30 terminally ill patients in Mantes-la-Jolie.
• Albert Millet: also known as "The Boar of the Moors"; killed two girlfriends in 1954 and 1979; murdered his lover's friend in 2007; committed suicide to avoid apprehension.
• Catherine Monvoisin: also known as "La Voisin"; 17th century poisoner-for-hire who allegedly thousands of infants; burned at the stake in 1680.
• Yoni Palmier: also known as the "Killer of Essonne"; shot and killed 4 people from 2011 to 2012 during motorcycle drive-bys; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Thierry Paulin: also known as the "Beast of Montmartre"; preyed on the elderly in the 1980s and murderer of 21 old women.
• Michel Peiry: also known as the "Sadist of Romont"; Swiss soldier who sexually abused and killed at least 5 hitchhikers between 1981 to 1987 in Switzerland, France and the United States; suspected of more murders.
• Albert Pel: also known as "The Watchmaker of Montreuil; watchmaker who poisoned his parents and lovers from 1872 to 1884; sentenced to penal labour in New Caledonia, where he died in 1924.
• Marcel Petiot: doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees in Paris from the Nazis; executed in 1946.
• Louis Poirson: also known as "Rambo"; Malagasy-born stonemason who kidnapped women from 1995 to 2000, killing four of them; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Gilles de Rais: 15th century satanist and child killer who is reputed to have killed 400; executed on 23 October 1440.
• Tommy Recco: killed his godfather in 1960; released in 1977, after which he killed a total of six cashiers in Béziers and Carqueiranne from 1979 to 1980; also suspected of murdering a trio of German tourists; one of the oldest French prisoners.
• Sid Ahmed Rezala: known as "the Killer of the Trains"; Algerian-born serial killer who killed 3 women in 1999; committed suicide in custody in 2000.
• Antoinette Scieri: nurse who confessed to killing 12 elderly patients, convicted on 27 April 1926 and died in prison.
• Alfredo Stranieri: also known as the "Classified Ad Killer"; Italian-born con man who committed two double murders in 1997 and 1999; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Patrick Tissier: recidivistic rapist who killed 3 people from 1971 to 1993; sentenced to life imprisonment plus 30 years lock-in.
• Joseph Vacher: also known as "The French Ripper" and "The South-East Ripper"; 19th century serial killer of 11 people; executed by guillotine on 31 December 1898.
• Denis Waxin: pedophile who raped six children from 1985 to 1992, killing three of them; sentenced to life imprisonment and 29 years lock-in period.
• Jeanne Weber: convicted of the strangulation murders of 10 children; committed suicide in custody in 1918.
• Eugen Weidmann: German who strangled and robbed American dancer Jean de Koven, shot a former accomplice, and shot dead and robbed four other people around Paris in 1937.

Germany

• Jürgen Bartsch: also known as the "Carnival Killer"; killed four boys ages 8–13, one escaped; died by wrongful overdose during castration surgery.
• Ernst-Dieter Beck: habitual criminal who killed 3 women from 1961 to 1968; first murderer in German criminal history on whom a chromosome test was applied; died in 2018.
• Simon Bingelhelm: also known as the "Thousand Devils of Halberstadt"; 16th century robber who is suspected of killing 26 people around Saxony-Anhalt; quartered 1600.
• Bodenfelde Black Widows: two women (known only as Lydia L. and Siggi S.) who poisoned men in Bodenfelde from 1983 to 2000, killing 4 of them; Lydia L. was sentenced to life imprisonment and Siggi S. was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.
• Werner Boost: also known as the "Couples Killer"; alleged serial killer who murdered couples in the 1950s with his accomplice Franz Lorbach; convicted of one murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Horst David: killed two prostitutes, his neighbour and several other women from 1975 to 1993 in Bavaria; suspected of more murders.
• Karl Denke: cannibal; allegedly killed up to 42 people between 1914 and 1918; committed suicide in police custody. Denke was also rumored to have kept a journal of his murders. He is also believed to have sold the flesh of his victims as meat to unsuspecting customers.
• Volker Eckert: trucker who abducted, tortured and killed prostitutes along his route; accused of 19 murders in Germany, France and Spain between 1974 and 2006; committed suicide in police custody.
• Arthur Gatter: also known as the "Hammer-Killer of Frankfurt"; killed 8 people with a hammer in 1990; hanged himself with a gauze bandage before he could be sentenced.
• Christman Genipperteinga: kept registry of the 964 persons he claimed to have murdered from 1568-1581.
• Klaus Gossmann: also known as the "Midday Murderer"; killed 7 people from 1960 to 1965, all at noon; sentenced to life imprisonment, but released in 2015.
• Gesche Gottfried: serial poisoner who murdered 15 people in Hanover and Bremen; publicly executed in 1831.
• Carl Großmann: killed upwards of 50 women and sold their flesh on the black market in Berlin; committed suicide in police custody in 1922.
• Frank Gust: also known as the "Rhine-Ruhr-Ripper"; killed four women from 1994 to 1998.
• Fritz Haarmann: also known as the "Butcher of Hanover" and the "Vampire of Hanover"; murdered at least 27 young men and boys before dismembering their bodies. Reportedly sold the flesh of some victims on the black market as contraband meat; executed in 1925.
• Erwin Hagedorn: killed three boys in in Eberswalde in the late 1960s and early 1970s; was the last civilian to be executed in the German Democratic Republic in 1972.
• Jasper Hanebuth: 17th century former mercenary for the Swedish Army turned highwayman who killed 19 people around the Eilenriede forest; broken at the wheel 1653.
• Marc Hoffmann: sex offender who sexually abused and killed two children in 2004; suspected of other murders; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Niels Högel: male nurse who killed up to more than 100 patients in two hospitals in Oldenburg and Delmenhorst between 1999 and 2005.
• Thomas Holst: also known as the "Heidemörder"; tortured and murdered 3 women in south Hamburg between 1987 and 1989; committed to a psychiatric clinic.
• Fritz Honka: murdered four prostitutes in Hamburg between 1970 and 1975; released from prison in 1993; died in 1998.
• Karl Hopf: poisoner who killed 4 family members from 1902 to 1904; tried to poison other people; guillotined 1914.
• Joachim Kroll: also known as the "Ruhr Cannibal" and the "Ruhr Hunter"; claimed 13 victims over three decades; died in prison in 1991.
• Peter Kürten: also known as the "Vampire of Düsseldorf"; murdered at least 9 victims between 1913 and 1929; executed in 1931.
• Christa Lehmann: poisoned her husband, father-in-law, her neighbour and her dog from 1952 to 1954; sentenced to life imprisonment but released after 23 years.
• Thomas Lemke: far-right extremist and former HOS militia mercenary who killed 3 people from 1995 to 1996; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Stephan Letter: male nurse who killed 29 hospital patients in Sonthofen; arrested in 2006 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Johann Mayer: also known as "Stumpfarm"; shot and killed 5 people from 1918 to 1919 with a carbine; guillotined 1923.
• Marco Metzler: truck driver from Haiger who killed 3 women from 2003 to 2006; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Martin Ney: wore a mask while killing 3 and sexually assaulting at least 40 children between 1992 and 2004.
• Peter Niers: 16th century bandit and serial killer who allegedly murdered 544 people; executed 1581 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz.
• Marianne Nölle: Cologne female nurse who was convicted of killing seven patients between 1984 and 1992; suspected of killing 17; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993.
• Paul Ogorzow: also known as the "S-Bahn murderer"; SA sergeant convicted of raping and murdering eight women by throwing them off trains in Berlin during blackouts in 1941 and 1942.
• Rudolf Pleil: also known as Der Totmacher (literally: "The Deadmaker"); convicted of killing salesman and nine women between 1946 and 1947 and claimed to have killed 25; committed suicide in police custody in 1958.
• Jacques Plumain: also known as "The Ghost of Kehl"; Guadeloupean man who killed 2 women in the town of Kehl and another in the French forest of La Wantzenau from 1999 to 2000; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Norbert Poehlke, also known as "The Hammer-Killer"; police officer, bank robber and serial killer from Baden-Württemberg; committed suicide in 1985
• Heinrich Pommerenke: confessed to the murders of four women killed in 1959; died in prison in 2008
• Bernhard Prigan: also known as the "Strangler" and the "Highway Killer"; killed at least 3 women between 1947 and 1952; confessed to a total of 16 murders; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Lutz Reinstrom: also known as the "Acid Killer"; sadomasochist who tortured and killed two women in 1986 and 1988; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Ronny Rieken: abused and killed two girls in 1996 and 1998; first German criminal to be captured via a mass DNA screening; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Thomas Rung: raped and murdered 6 women and his stepbrother from 1983 to 1995; another man falsely confessed to his first murder; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Egidius Schiffer: also known as the "Strangler of Aachen"; murdered 5 women from 1983 to 1990, sexually abusing 3 of them; died from heart arrythmia in 2018.
• Wolfgang Schmidt: also known as the "Beast of Beelitz"; killed five women and a 3 month old baby from 1989 to 1991; currently in a psychiatric hospital.
• Friedrich Schumann: also known as the "Terror of Falkenhagen Lake"; killed six people and was executed in 1921.
• Adolf Seefeldt: also known as "The Sandman" and "Uncle Tick Tock"; travelling watchmaker who poisoned 12 young boys from 1908 to 1935; suspected of up to 100 murders; guillotined 1936.
• Manfred Seel: also known as the "Hesse Ripper" and "Jack the Ripper of Schwalbach"; suspected of murdering 5 women in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area from 1971 to 2004; currently investigated in four other possible murders; died in 2014 from esophageal cancer.
• Kurt-Friedhelm Steinwegs: also known as the "Monster from Lower Rhine"; juvenile delinquent who murdered 6 people from 1974 to 1983; committed to a psychiatric clinic.
• Peter Stumpp: self-proclaimed werewolf who killed 16 people during the 16th century.
• Ludwig Tessnow: joiner who killed 4 children from 1898 to 1901; was the first criminal on whom a blood type test was performed; guilltoined 1904
• Sophie Ursinus: Berlin aristocrat convicted of poisoning her aunt with arsenic at the turn of the 19th century; boyfriend and husband died similarly.
• Maria Velten: also known as the "Poison Witch from Lower Rhine" and "Bilberry Mariechen"; poisoned her family members and partners from 1963 to 1982; convicted of 3 murders, but is suspected of 5; sentenced to life imprisonment but released from custody for health reasons.
• Elisabeth Wiese: also known as the "Angel Maker of St. Pauli"; baby farmer who poisoned her grandchild and four others with morphine and burned their bodies in a stove in 1902 and 1903.
• Ferdinand Wittmann: poisoner who murdered 6 relatives from 1860 to 1865 for monetary purposes; executed 1868.
• Beate Zschäpe, Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos: neo-nazis who killed immigrants between 2000 and 2007 throughout Germany; Mundlos allegedly killed Böhnhardt in 2011 in an apparent murder-suicide. Zschäpe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2018.
• Anna Maria Zwanziger: Bavarian poisoner; killer of four people; executed in 1811.

Ghana

• Charles Quansah: known as the "Accra Strangler"; convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women in Accra; suspected of killing 34; sentenced to death in 2003.

Greece

• Hermann Duft and Hans Wilhelm Bassenauer: Germans who murdered six persons in Greece, within a short period in 1969, were captured, tried, sentenced to death and executed in 1969.
• Antonis Daglis: also known as the "Athens Ripper"; convicted in 1997 of the strangulation murder and dismemberment of three women and the attempted murder of six others; committed suicide in police custody in 1997.
• Aristidis Pagratidis: also known as the "Dragon of Sheikh Sou"; allegedly attacked couples in the forested area of Sheikh Sou in suburban Thessaloniki from 1958 to 1959, killing 3 people; executed 1968, and since then his guilt has been questioned.
• Kyriakos Papachronis: also known as the "Ogre of Drama"; murdered 3 women from 1981 to 1982, committing other crimes as well; sentenced to life imprisonment, released on bail in 2004.
• Dimitris Vakrinos: killed five people and attempted seven more murders for minor quarrels between 1987 and 1996; hanged himself in the prison showers in 1997.

Hong Kong

• Lam Kor-wan: sexual sadist who murdered and dismembered four women in the 1980s; sentenced to death (commuted to life imprisonment as per tradition at that time).
• Lam Kwok-wai: murdered three women, apprehended in 1993 and sentenced to life imprisonment (capital punishment already abolished).

Hungary

• Angel Makers of Nagyrév: group of women led by Susanna Fazekas who poisoned around 300 people in the village of Nagyrév between 1914 and 1929.
• Erzsébet Báthory: countess who killed servant girls; rumored to have killed more than 600.
• Béla Kiss: murdered at least 24 women, escaped justice in the confusion of World War I.

Iceland

• Axlar-Björn: killed at least 9 travellers in the 16th century.

India

• Thug Behram (ca 1765–1840): alleged to have killed over 900 people; executed in 1840.
• Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde (born 1975 and 1973): sisters who kidnapped and murdered five children between 1990 and 1996.
• M. Jaishankar (born 1977): also known as "Psycho Shankar", involved in about 30 rapes, murders and robbery cases around Tamil Nadu.
• Chandrakant Jha (born 1967): befriended and murdered 7 male migrants from 1998 to 2007; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders: series of 10 murders committed by four art students in Pune; all were executed on 27 November 1983.
• KD Kempamma (born 1970): also known as "Cyanide Mallika"; poisoned 6 women from 1999 to 2007 with cyanide; India's first convicted female serial killer; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.
• Surender Koli (born 1970-71): convicted of raping and murdering four children in Delhi in 2005 and 2006 with another 12 cases pending.
• Mohan Kumar (born 1963): also known as "Cyanide Mohan"; killed 20 female victims with cynanide, claiming they were contraceptive pills; sentenced to death in 2013.
• Ravinder Kumar (born 1991): killed the children of poor families from 2008 until his arrest in 2015.
• Motta Navas (born 1966): killed pavement dwellers in their sleep during a three-month period in 2012 in Kollam.
• Santosh Pol (born 1974): also known as "Dr. Death"; killed six people with succinylcholine in the town of Dhom.
• Raman Raghav (1929-1995): also known as "Psycho Raman"; Mumbai man who killed homeless people and others in their sleep.
• Umesh Reddy alias BA Umesh (born 1969): confessed to 18 rapes and murders, convicted in nine cases.
• Ripper Jayanandan (born 1968): also known as the "Singing Serial Killer"; killed seven people during robberies.
• Satish (born c. 1973): also known as the "Bahadurgarh Baby Killer"; confessed to and convicted for 10 murders; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Auto Shankar (1954-1995): murdered nine teenage girls in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai during a six-month period in 1988; executed in 1995.
• Darbara Singh (born 1952): convicted for two murders, 17 suspected victims. Singh had three children; his wife expelled him from their house, because of his "bad habits".
• Charles Sobhraj (born 1944): killed at least 12 Western tourists in Southeast Asia during the 1970s; imprisoned in India (released) and Nepal (in prison).
• Akku Yadav (died 2004): murdered at least three people and dumped their bodies on the railroad tracks; lynched by a mob of around 200 women in Nagpur.

Indonesia

• Baekuni: also known as "Babe"; pedophile who killed between 4 and 14 boys from 1993 to 2010; sentenced to life imprisonment, later changed to the death sentence.
• Very Idham Henyansyah: also known as "Ryan" and the "Singing Serial Killer"; convicted and sentenced to death in 2008 for the killing of 11 people.
• Ahmad Suradji: admitted to killing 42 women around Medan; sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on 10 July 2008.

Iraq

• Ali Asghar Borujerdi: also known as "Asghar the Murderer"; killed 33 young adults in Iraq and Iran; executed on 26 June 1934.
• Louay Omar Mohammed al-Taei: medical doctor found to have killed 43 wounded policemen, soldiers and officials in Kirkuk; was a member of an insurgent cell.

Iran

• Mohammed Bijeh: also known as the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran; executed in 2005
• Saeed Hanaei: also known as "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around Mashhad; executed in 2002.
• Esmail Jafarzadeh: murdered a young girl in 2017, confessing to the murder of two women in 1991 and 1993 after his arrest; executed 2017.
• Gholamreza Khosroo Kurdieh: also known as "The Night Bat"; murdered 9 women in Tehran in 1997, burning the bodies afterwards; executed 1997.
• Majid Salek Mohammadi: murdered 24 people from 1981 to 1985, primarily women he considered unfaithful to their husbands; committed suicide in prison before he could be sentenced.

Republic of Ireland

• Geoffrey Evans: along with accomplice John Shaw vowed to murder a woman once a week; until his 2012 death was one of Ireland's longest-serving prisoners.
• Darkey Kelly: brothel-keeper who killed six men in the 18th century; accused of witchcraft and was burned at the stake in 1761.
• Alice Kyteler: also known as "The Witch of Kilkenny"; alleged witch who poisoned four husbands in the 14th century; fled to England, fate unknown.

Israel

• Muhammad Halabi: Known as the "Tel Aviv strangler", Halabi was a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who was living in Tel Aviv. He murdered seven people in 1989, and kept the bodies in his apartment. Halabi claimed he had carried out the murders to prove he was not an Israeli collaborator. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Nicolai Bonner: killed four people in 2005 in Haifa, three of them homeless; sentenced to life imprisonment.

Italy

• Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan: German-Italian duo found guilty of 10 of 27 counts of murder in 1987
• Beasts of Satan: Satanic cult members who committed three notorious ritual murders from 1998 to 2004.
• Donato Bilancia: also known as the "Monster of Liguria" murdered 17 people in seven months between 1997 and 1998.
• Antonio Boggia: also known as the "Monster of Milan"; first documented Italian serial killer; murdered 4 people for monetary purposes between 1849 and 1859; hanged 1862.
• Ralph Brydges: also known as the "Monster of Rome"; English pastor who's widely believed to have murdered 6 girls in Italy (5 in Rome, 1 in Geneva), 1 in Germany and 2 in Johannesburg.
• Luigi Chiatti: also known as the "Monster of Foligno"; kidnapped and killed 2 children in 1992 and 1993; sentenced to two life sentences, but he was found unfit to stand trial and was reduced to 30 years in a mental hospital.
• Leonarda Cianciulli: also known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio"; murderer of three women between 1939 and 1940; died in a women's criminal asylum in 1970.
• Ferdinand Gamper: also known as the "Monster of Merano"; killed 6 people in 1996.
• Pier Paolo Brega Massone: murdered at least four people in Milan and maimed other dozens of victims through unnecessary surgeries to illegally obtain a large amounts of money refunds; convicted and given a life sentence.
• Maurizio Minghella: killed 5 prostitutes in his hometown of Turin in 1978; imprisoned and released, after which he murdered 10 more between 1997 and 2001; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Ernesto Picchioni: also known as "The Monster of Nerola"; murdered people around his home; died of cardiac arrest in 1967.
• Roberto Succo: murdered at least five people, including his parents, committed suicide while in prison in 1988.
• Giulia Tofana: leader of a group of female poisoners in the 17th century; died in her bed, never been arrested.
• Giorgio Vizzardelli: shot and killed 5 people around Sarzana from 1937 to 1939; sentenced to life imprisonment; committed suicide by slitting his throat with a kitchen knife in 1973.

Jamaica

• Lewis Hutchinson: Scottish immigrant convicted of shooting dozens of people in the 18th century; executed in 1773.

Japan

• Satarō Fukiage: raped and killed at least seven girls in the early 20th century; executed 2 July 1926.
• Hiroaki Hidaka: killed four prostitutes in Hiroshima in 1996; executed 25 December 2006.
• Miyuki Ishikawa: midwife who murdered an estimated 103 infants, but could have been up to 169, in the 1940s.
• Chisako Kakehi: poisoned her husband and two other men to death, attempted to kill a fourth man, and is a suspect in another seven deaths; sentenced to death in 2017.
• Kiyotaka Katsuta: firefighter who shot and strangled at least eight people, some during robberies, between 1972 and 1982.
• Yoshio Kodaira: rapist thought to have killed 11 people in Japan and China as a soldier; executed on 5 October 1949.
• Genzo Kurita: killed six women and two children and engaged in rape and necrophilia; executed on 16 January 1959.
• Hiroshi Maeue: also known as "Suicide Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims.
• Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata: also known as "House of Horror"; tortured and killed at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Ogata's family.
• Tsutomu Miyazaki: also known as "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer" and "Dracula"; killed four preschool-age girls and ate the hand of a victim; executed in 2008.
• Seisaku Nakamura: also known as the "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer", murdered at least nine people; executed in 1943.
• Akira Nishiguchi: killed five people and engaged in fraud; executed on 11 December 1970.
• Kiyoshi Ōkubo: also known as "Tanigawa Ivan"; raped and murdered eight young women over a period of 41 days in 1971.
• Yukio Yamaji: murdered his own mother in 2000, and then murdered a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister in 2005.

Kazakhstan

• Nikolai Dzhumagaliev: also known as "Metal Fang"; raped and hacked seven women to death with an axe in Almaty in 1980, then cannibalised them using his unusual false teeth.
• Yuri Ivanov: also known as the "Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac"; raped killed 16 girls and young women who spoke badly of men in Ust-Kamenogorsk from 1974 to 1987; executed 1987.

Latvia

• Ansis Kaupēns: army deserter who committed 30 robberies and 90 murders from 1920 to 1926; executed 1927 in Vircava Parish.
• Kaspars Petrovs: convicted of murdering 13 elderly Riga women in 2005; confessed to killing 38.
• Stanislavs Rogolevs: also known as "Agent 000"; robbed, raped and killed 10 women from 1980 to 1982; suspected of having inside information for the investigation on him; executed 1984.

Macedonia

• Vlado Taneski: crime reporter arrested in June 2008 for the murder of three elderly women on whose deaths he had written articles; committed suicide in police custody; suspected of killing another woman.

Mexico

• Macario Alcala Canchola: also known as "Jack Mexicano" ("Mexican Jack"), was a Jack the Ripper copycat active in the 1960s.
• Sara Aldrete: also known as "La Madrina"; cult follower of Adolfo Constanzo; convicted in 1994 of murdering several individuals during her association with Constanzo.
• David Avendaño Ballina: also known as "The Hamburger"; alleged leader of a sex servant gang who robbed and poisoned their clients from 1997 to 2007; arrested in 2008.
• Juana Barraza: also known as "Mataviejitas" ("Old Lady Killer"); operated within the metropolitan area of Mexico City until 25 January 2006.
• José Luis Calva: cannibal; police found the remains of multiple female victims in his house; committed suicide on 11 December 2007.
• Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández: known as "the Strangler of Tacuba"; strangled 4 women in the Tacuba neighbourhood in 1942; died in 1999 of natural causes.
• Ciudad Juárez Rebels: gang of serial killers who killed women in Ciudad Juárez from 1995 to 1996; convicted of 8 murders, suspected of killing from 10 to 14; claimed to have worked for Abdul Latif Sharif.
• Adolfo Constanzo: also known as "The Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico; committed suicide in 1989.
• Edgar Álvarez Cruz and Francisco Granados: responsible for the so-called "Feminicides of the cotton field"; Cruz, with the help of the drugged Granados, kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed at least 8-10 young women in satanic rituals between 1993 and 2003; suspected of committing a total of 14 murders.
• Pedro Padilla Flores: also known as "El Asesino de Rio Bravo"; killed three women in 1986; escaped to the US but was deported back to Mexico; suspect in the Ciudad Juárez murders.
• Gabriel Garza Hoth: also known as "The Black Widower"; killed 3 women in Mexico City between 1991 and 1998, his victims were wives and lovers.
• Delfina and María de Jesús González: also known as "Las Poquianchis"; killed a total of 91 in Guanajuato; arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1964.
• Francisco Guerrero: also known as "El Chalequero" ("The man of the vests"); the first documented serial killer in Mexico; committed approximately 20 murders in Mexico City between 1880 and 1888 plus one more in 1908.
• Fernando Hernández Leyva: convicted of 33 murders in 1986, suspected of killing 137 persons.
• César Armando Librado Legorreta: also known as "El Coqueto"; raped and killed 6 women in the Greater Mexico City between 2011 and 2012; sentenced to 240 years in prison.
• Rudolfo Infante and Anna Villeda: couple from Matamoros responsible for the murders of 8 women. Apprehended in 1991.
• Abdul Latif Sharif: also known as "The Ciudad Juárez Predator"; Egyptian man responsible for murdering an unknown number of women in Ciudad Juárez, possibly as many as 15 but convicted of only one; died in prison
• Daniel Audiel López Martínez: killed 5 women in Ciudad Juárez between 2007 and 2010.
• Raúl Osiel Marroquín: also known as "El Gato Imperial"; killed four gay men in Mexico City.
• Filiberto Hernández Martínez: killed six people between 2010 and 2013 in San Luis Potosí.
• Jorge Humberto Martínez Córtez: also known as "El Matanovias"; killed between two and three of his romantic partners from 2011 to 2014; currently awaiting sentencing.
• Alejandro Máynez: may have killed over 50 women with accomplices.
• Tadeo Fulgencío Mejía: responsible for several murders during the 1890s and 1900s, motivated by delirious idea of contacting his deceased wife. Now the house in Guanajuato, where he committed the crimes, is known as "The House of laments" (Casa de los lamentos), and according to legend is haunted.
• Silvia Meraz: Sonora woman involved in an occult sect, killed 3 persons.
• Agustín Salas del Valle: also known as "Jack the Strangler"; killed more than 20 women in Mexico City's Central Zone.
• Felícitas Sánchez Aguillón: named "The Ogress of Colonia Roma" was a nurse, midwife and baby farmer responsible for an unknown number of murders during the 1930s, possibly 50 victims, in Mexico City
• Magdalena Solis: religious fanatic, proclaimed "The High Blood's Priestess", killed 8 persons in ritual sacrifices
• Mario Alberto Sulú Canché: killed three young girls between 2007 and 2008 in Mérida, Yucatán; later died in prison.

Moldova

• Alexander Skrynnik: also known as the "Moldavian Chikatilo"; killed and then mutilated 3 women in Kishinev and Yakutia from the mid-1970s to 1980; executed 1981.

Morocco

• Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi: also known as the "Marrakesh Arch-Killer"; drugged and killed 36 women; died 1906.

Netherlands

• Klaas Annink: robber and murderer who killed along with his wife Anna and son Jannes; both he and his wife were executed in 1775.
• Hendrikje Doelen: 18th century farmwife who poisoned several people in a poorhouse from 1845 to 1846, killing 3 of them; died of natural causes in 1847.
• Willem van Eijk: also known as the "Beast of Harkstede"; convicted of the murders of five women between 1971 and 2001.
• Koos Hertogs: convicted of the murders of three women between 1979 and 1980.
• Patrick Soultana: strangled 2 women in 2010, suspected of 3 more murders; sentenced to 25 years plus provision in 2014.
• Michel Stockx: murdered three children around Assen in 1991; sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1992; died of severe burns from an incident during his work therapy in 2001.
• Maria Swanenburg: suspected of killing between 27 and 90 people with arsenic in Leiden in the 1880s; died in prison in 1915.

New Zealand

• Robert Butler: Irish highwayman who allegedly killed a family of three in Dunedin in 1880; acquitted, but was later hanged for shooting a man in Australia.
• Daniel Cooper: also known as "The Newlands Baby Farmer"; killed two infants and supposedly his first wife; executed 1932.
• Minnie Dean: Scottish immigrant baby farmer who killed at least three children by Laudanum poisoning and suffocation in the 1890s; executed by hanging in 1895.

Norway

• Arnfinn Nesset: manager of a geriatric nursing home who poisoned 22 residents at the Orkdal Alders-og Sjukeheim institution over a period of years before being convicted in 1983.

Pakistan

• Javed Iqbal: believed to have raped and killed 100 boys, committed suicide while in prison in 1991.
• Amir Qayyum: also known as the "Brick Killer"; murdered 14 homeless men in Lahore with rocks or bricks when they were asleep and was sentenced to death in May 2006.

Panama

• William Dathan Holbert: also known as "Wild Bill"; American expatriate who had the bodies of five other Americans buried on his property; he would kill people to get their money and properties; his wife, Laura Michelle Reese, was also arrested.

Peru

• Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña: also known as "The Apostle of Death"; convicted of 17 murders and claimed 25; sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Philippines

• Edgar Matobato: self-confessed hitman and serial killer who claims to have killed hundreds of people as part of the Davao Death Squad.

Poland

• Bogdan Arnold: murdered 4 women in Katowice from 1966 to 1967; also attempted to poison his third wife; executed 1968.
• Józef Cyppek: also known as "The Butcher of Niebuszewo"; dismembered his neighbour in 1952; was sentenced to death and executed that same year; suspected of other murders.
• Tadeusz Ensztajn: also known as "Vampire of Łowicz"; raped and killed 7 women in Łowicz and the surrounding areas in 1933; sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1934.
• Krzysztof Gawlik: also known as "Scorpio"; murdered five people with a silenced machine gun in 2001; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Joachim Knychała: also known as "The Vampire of Bytom" or "Frankenstein", who murdered five women between 1975 and 1982.
• Edmund Kolanowski: necrophile who murdered 3 women from 1970 to 1982; also mutilated and desecrated corpses he excavated from chapels; executed 1986.
• Karol Kot: killed 2 people from 1964 to 1966 in his native Kraków, attempted to murder many more; executed 1968.
• Henryk Kukuła: also known as "The Monster from Chorzów"; pedophile who murdered four children from 1980 to 1990; sentenced to 28 years in prison, expected to be released in 2020.
• Zdzisław Marchwicki: also known as "Zagłębie Vampire"; convicted of murdering 14 women; executed in 1976.
• Nikifor Maruszeczko: criminal who killed four men for the purpose of robbery; executed 1938.
• Władysław Mazurkiewicz: also known as "The Gentleman Killer"; killed up to 30 women; executed by hanging in 1957.
• Stanisław Modzelewski: murdered seven women in Łódź during the 1960s; executed in 1970.
• Henryk Moruś: killed 7 people in the Piotrków Voivodeship from 1986 to 1992; sentenced to 25 years imprisonment; died of probable heart failure in 2013.
• Leszek Pękalski: also known as the "Vampire of Bytów"; killed up to 17 women.
• Kazimierz Polus: pedophile who killed two boys and one man from 1971 to 1982; executed 1985.
• Skin Hunters: Karol Banaś, Andrzej Nowocień, Dr. Janusz Kuliński and Dr. Paweł Wasilewski; paramedics and doctors in Łódź who killed patients for profit; all four were convicted and officials are investigating possible accomplices.
• Mariusz Sowiński: also known as "The Stefankowice Vampire"; raped and killed four women from 1994 to 1997; sentenced to 50 years in prison.
• Paweł Tuchlin: also known as "Scorpion"; killed 9 women and attempted to kill 11 more to feel better; executed 1987.
• Mieczysław Zub: also known as "Fantomas"; killed 4 women the area of Ruda Śląska; committed suicide in 1985.

Portugal

• Diogo Alves: also known as the "Aqueduct Murderer"; Spanish man who robbed and threw poor people off Lisbon's Águas Livres Aqueduct between 1836 and 1840; executed 1841.
• António Luís Costa: ex-GNR officer from Santa Comba Dão who murdered three women between 2005 and 2006; sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Romania

• Vera Renczi: poisoned two husbands, one son and 32 of her suitors in the 1920s and 1930s.
• Ion Rîmaru: murdered and raped young women in Bucharest from 1970 to 1971; executed in 1971.
• Vasile Tcaciuc: also known as "The Butcher of Iași": murdered victims with an axe and confessed to have committed at least 26 murders; shot dead by a policeman while trying to escape from prison.
• Romulus Vereș: convicted of five murders in the 1970s; sent to a mental institution; died in 1993.

Russia

Main article: List of Russian serial killers

Slovakia

• Juraj Lupták: also known as the "Strangler from Banská Bystrica"; shepherd who raped and strangled 3 women from 1978 to 1982; executed 1987 in Bratislava.
• Ondrej Rigo: killed, raped and mutilated 9 women in Amsterdam, Munich and Bratislava, always wearing socks on his hands; he remains the Slovak murderer with the highest number of victims and he is also the most prolific serial killer in modern Slovak history.
• Jozef Slovák: after serving just 8 years for his first murder from 1978, Slovák killed at least 4 other women in Slovakia and Czech Republic in the early 1990s; highly intelligent, holder of numerous patents in electronics.

Slovenia

• Silvo Plut: killed three women in Slovenia and Serbia from 1990 until 2006; committed suicide in prison in 2007.
• Metod Trobec: raped and killed at least five women between 1976 and 1978; committed suicide in prison in 2006.

South Africa

As of October 2014, South Africa had 160 recorded serial killers since 1950. A disproportionately large number them were white males, although no racial group were more likely to be victims.

• Asande Baninzi: killed 18 people in the span of 3 months in 2001; was given 19 life sentences and 189 years imprisonment.
• Pierre Basson: first documented South African serial killer; killed 9 people in Claremont and buried them in his backyard; committed suicide to avoid arrest.
• Sibusiso Duma: murdered 7 people in the Pietermaritzburg area of KwaZulu Natal in 2007.
• Cedric Maake: also known as the "Wemmer Pan Killer"; serial rapist; murdered at least 27 people from 1996–1997.
• Bulelani Mabhayi: also known as "The Monster of Tholeni"; killed 20 women and children from 2007 to 2012 in the village of Tholeni.
• Jimmy Maketta: also known as "Jesus Killer" convicted on 16 counts of murder, 19 counts of rape from 1996–1999.
• Johannes Mashiane: also known as "The Beast of Atteridgeville" 13 counts of murder, 12 counts of sodomy from 1982–1989.
• Daisy de Melker: poisoner; killed two husbands and one son between 1923–1932; executed in 1932.
• Samuel Bongani Mfeka: strangled 6 women from 1993 to 1996 in KwaZulu-Natal.
• Jack Mogale: also known as the "West-End serial killer"; convicted of raping and murdering 16 women in Johannesburg in 2008 and 2009.
• Elifasi Msomi: also known as "The Axe Killer" murdered 15 people under the influence of the Tokoloshe from 1953–1955.
• Nicholas Lungisa Ncama: murdered 6 people in the Eastern Cape in 1997; sentenced to life in prison.
• David Randitsheni: also known as "Modimolle Serial Killer" raped and murdered 10 children (kidnapped and raped more) from 2004–2008.
• Gert van Rooyen: allegedly abducted and murdered at least six girls from across South Africa from 1988–1989.
• Louis van Schoor: former security guard who confessed to murdering 100 people; released on parole.
• Samuel Sidyno: also known as "Capital Hill Serial Killer"; murdered 7 people in Pretoria from 1998–1999.
• Norman Afzal Simons: also known as "Station Strangler" raped, sodomised and murder 22 children on the Cape Flats from 1986–1994.
• Moses Sithole: also known as the "ABC Killer" and The South African Strangler raped and killed at least 38 young women in Atteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland from 1994 - 1995.
• Thozamile Taki also known as the "Sugarcane Serial Killer"; robbed and killed 10 women in KwaZulu Natal and three in Eastern Cape, dumping their bodies in sugarcane and tea plantations.
• Sipho Thwala: also known as the "Phoenix Strangler"; raped and murdered 19 women in the sugarcane fields of KwaZulu Natal from 1996 to 1997.
• Stewart Wilken: also known as "Boetie Boer"; raped, sodomised and murdered at least 7 victims in and around Port Elizabeth from 1990–1997.
• Elias Xitavhudzi: also known as "Pangaman" murdered 16 people in Atteridgeville in the 1960s.
• Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode: also known as "Donnybrook Serial Killer"; murdered 18 people in Donnybrook, KwaZulu-Natal from 1994–1995.

South Korea

• Chijon family: gang of cannibals that was sentenced to death for killing five people; sentenced to death in 1994; all members were executed by hanging on November 2, 1995.
• Chong Du-yong: killed an officer in 1986; after release, killed 8 other people in robberies from 1999 to 2000; sentenced to death.
• Crown Prince Sado: Joseon prince who raped and killed his palace staff; sealed in a rice chest and died.
• Jeong Nam-gyu: sexually assaulted and killed 14 people from 2004 to 2006; died in hospital after failing to hang himself the previous day.
• Kang Ho-sun: sentenced to death in 2010 for killing 10 women, including his wife and mother-in-law.
• Kim Hae-sun: violent drunkard who raped and killed 3 children in 2000; executed 2001.
• Yoo Young-chul: cannibal; killed 21 people from September 2003 to July 2004, mainly young women and rich men; sentenced to death in 2004.

Spain

• Francisca Ballesteros: known as La Viuda Negra ("The Black Widow"), poisoned her husband and three children in Valencia between 1990 and 2004 (one survived), sentenced to 84 years in prison in 2005
• Manuel Blanco Romasanta: travelling salesman who claimed to be a werewolf, confessed to 13 murders and was convicted of eight in 1853; his initial death sentence commuted in order to make a study in clinical lycanthropy, died in prison ten years later.
• Manuel Delgado Villegas: also known as El Arropiero ("The Arrope Trader"), wandering criminal with XYY syndrome that confessed to 48 murders in Spain, France and Italy, including his girlfriend; considered guilty of seven and interned in a mental institution until his death in 1998
• Joaquín Ferrándiz Ventura: insurance salesman who murdered 5 women in Castellón Province between 1995 and 1996.
• Alfredo Galán: also known as "The Playing Card Killer", Spanish Army corporal who killed 6 individuals in 2003.
• Juan Díaz de Garayo: also known as "The Sacamantecas"; killed 6 people from 1870 to 1879 in Álava. Executed by garrote in 1881.
• Francisco García Escalero: also known as El Mendigo Asesino ("The Killer Beggar"); schizophrenic beggar convicted of 11 murders, confined to a psychiatric hospital since 1995
• Gila Giraldo: also known as "La Serrana de la Verra"; alleged 15th-16th century serial killer who beheaded men she slept with.
• Ramón Laso: killed his two wives, child and brother in law in order to pursue extra-marital relationships.
• Enriqueta Martí: self-proclaimed witch who kidnapped, prostituted, murdered and made potions with the remains of small children in early 20th century Barcelona (12 bodies were identified in her home); murdered in prison while awaiting trial in 1913.
• Dámaso Rodríguez Martín: El Brujo ("The Warlock"), serial rapist and voyeur imprisoned in 1981 after attacking a couple, killing the man and raping the woman. Escaped from prison to the Anaga mountains in 1991, where he killed two German hikers (one of them was raped). Cornered in an abandoned house, he shot himself unsuccessfully, only to be shot dead in turn by law enforcement.
• José Antonio Rodriguez Vega: El Mataviejas ("The Old Lady Killer"), raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, sentenced to 440 years in prison in 1995, murdered by fellow inmates in 2002
• Gustavo Romero Tercero: "The Valdepeñas Killer", killed 3 people from 1993 to 1998.
• Margarita Sánchez Gutiérrez: known as "The Black Widow of Barcelona"; poisoned family members and relatives, killing 4 of them; acquitted of the crimes but sentenced to 34 years for others crimes.

Swaziland

• David Thabo Simelane: raped and killed 28 women, suspected of 45; sentenced to death in 2011.

Sweden

• Anders Hansson: hospital orderly in Malmö who poisoned his victims with detergents Gevisol and Ivisol between October 1978 and January 1979; his actions were called "The Hospital Murders" (Swedish: Sjukhusmorden).
• Anders Lindbäck: vicar who poisoned poor people with arsenic, 3 of them who died; committed suicide in custody in 1865.
• John Ingvar Lövgren: confessed to four murders committed between 1958 and 1963 in the Stockholm region.
• Hilda Nilsson: known as "The Angel Maker on Bruks Street"; Helsingborg baby farmer who murdered 8 children; committed suicide in custody in 1917.

Switzerland

• Roger Andermatt: also known as the "Death-Keeper of Lucerne"; nurse who killed 22 people from 1995 to 2001; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Werner Ferrari: child killer who lured his victims from popular festivals, strangling them afterwards; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Erich Hauert: sex offender who committed eleven rapes and three murders from 1982 to 1983; sentenced to life imprisonment; his case impacted treatment of dangerous sexual offenders in Switzerland tremendously.

Tunisia

• Naceur Damergi: rapist who killed 13 minors in the Nabeul region in the 1980s; executed by hanging in 1990.

Turkey

• Süleyman Aktaş: also known as the "Nailing Killer"; killed five people and nailed them in the eyes and head; he is kept in a psychiatric hospital.
• Adnan Çolak: also known as "The Beast of Artvin"; killed 17 elderly women in Artvin, Turkey from 1992 to 1995; in 2000 he was sentenced to death six times, and 40 years in prison. However, since October 1984, Turkey has not executed any prisoners, and as of 2004, Turkey does not have capital punishment.
• Seyit Ahmet Demirci: also known as the "Furniture dealers' Killer"; killed three furniture dealers selected at random and because he was sexually abused by his employer during his youth.; sentenced to death.
• Özgür Dengiz: serial killer from Ankara, who killed four people and cannibalized at least one.
• Atalay Filiz: fugitive suspected of 4 murders from 2012 to 2016.
• Ali Kaya: also known as "The Babyface Killer"; responsible for 10 murders.
• Hamdi Kayapınar: also known as "Avcı" ("Hunter"); killed 8 people from 1994 to 2018; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu: also known as "The Screwdriver Killer"; responsible for at least 18 murders.

Ukraine

• Zaven Almazyan: also known as the "Voroshilovgrad Maniac"; Russian soldier who raped and killed 3 women in Voroshilovgrad; executed 1973.
• Alexander Berlizov: also known as the "Night Demon"; sexual psychopath who raped numerous women from 1969 to 1972 in Dnipropetrovsk, killing 9 of them; executed 1972.
• Sergei Dovzhenko: killed between 17 and 19 people in his native home of Mariupol for "mocking" him; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Tamara Ivanyutina: also known as the "Kiev Poisoner"; poisoned people from personal spite 1976 to 1987, killing 9 of them; executed 1987.
• Ruslan Khamarov: seduced and murdered 11 women in his home from 2000 to 2003; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Oleg Kuznetsov: also known as "The Balashikha Ripper"; killed a total of 10 people in Russia and Ukraine; sentenced to death but commuted to life imprisonment.
• Anatoly Onoprienko: also known as "The Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996; died in prison in 2013.
• Serhiy Tkach: convicted of raping and murdering 36 women between 1980 - 2005; claims the total is 100.
• Vladyslav Volkovich and Volodymyr Kondratenko: also known as the "Nighttime Killers"; charged with shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning 16 victims to death in Kiev between 1991 and 1997; Kondratenko committed suicide in prison during the trial; Volkovich was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

United Kingdom

England

• Stephen Akinmurele: also known as the "Cul-de-sac killer"; committed suicide in Strangeways while awaiting trial for the murders of five elderly people in Blackpool and the Isle of Man.
• Beverley Allitt: also known as "Angel of Death"; Lincolnshire paediatric nurse who killed four babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991.
• Mary Bateman: also known as the "Yorkshire Witch"; 19th century thief hanged for the poisoning of a couple (husband survived); suspected in three more deaths; executed 1809.
• Levi Bellfield: also known as the "Bus Stop Stalker"; convicted of the 2002 murder of Amanda Dowler and two fatal hammer attacks on young women in South West London in 2003 and 2004.
• John Bishop, Thomas Williams, Michael Shields and James May: known as "The London Burkers"; English copycats of Burke and Hare.
• Geordie Bourne: Scottish 16th century bandit who killed seven people around the East English Marches; executed by unknown means.
• Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: also known as the "Moors Murderers"; murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17. Buried four of their victims on Saddleworth Moor.
• Mary Ann Britland: poisoned her daughter, husband, and the wife of her lover in 1886; first woman to be executed by hanging at Strangeways Prison in Manchester in 1886 by executioner James Berry.
• Peter Bryan: institutionalized for fatal hammer attack on woman in 1993; re-apprehended for cannibalizing a friend in 2004 but able to batter a fellow patient to death months later.
• George Chapman: poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper. During his stay in the East End he had married a young Polish girl, Lucie Badewski in 1889 and had two children with her
• John Childs: known as the most prolific hit man in the United Kingdom, he was convicted in 1979 of six contract killings, though none of the bodies have been found.
• John Christie: gassed, raped and strangled at least five women from 1943 to 1953, hiding the bodies at his house in Notting Hill, London; also strangled his wife Ethel, as well as the wife and baby daughter of neighbour Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully executed for their murders.
• Robert George Clements: doctor who committed suicide when due to be arrested for poisoning his fourth wife; his other three wives all died suspiciously during the interwar period.
• Mary Ann Cotton: Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims; hanged in 1873.
• Thomas Neill Cream: also known as the "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United States then moved to London; hanged in 1892.
• Dale Cregan: sentenced to a whole life order in prison for four counts of homicide involving the use of firearms, including killing two police officers, and three separate counts of attempted murder in Greater Manchester.
• Sarah Dazley: also known as the "Potton Poisoner"; poisoned her husband with arsenic; suspected of killing her first husband and child; hanged 1843.
• Frederick Bailey Deeming: in 1891 killed his wife and four children in Britain; remarried and moved to Australia, and then murdered his new wife.
• Joanna Dennehy: stabbed three men to death and tried to kill two others selected at random in what would become known as the "Peterborough Ditch Murders" in 2013; sentenced to life in prison.
• John Duffy and David Mulcahy: also known as the "Railway Killers"; killed three women near railway stations in the 1980s.
• Amelia Dyer: murdered infants in her care; executed by hanging at Newgate Prison in 1896.
• Kenneth Erskine: also known as the "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners.
• Catherine Flannigan and Margaret Higgins: Two Irish women known as "The Black Widows of Liverpool"; killed at least 4 people by poisoning in the 1880s in order to obtain insurance money.
• Steven Grieveson: also known as "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered four teenage boys in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear between 1990 and 1994.
• Stephen Griffiths: also known as the "Crossbow Cannibal"; convicted of murdering three prostitutes in Bradford, England in 2009 and 2010.
• Allan Grimson: Royal Navy officer convicted of 2 murders from 1997 to 1998; suspected of murdering up to 20 people across the UK, Gibraltar and New Zealand.
• John George Haigh: also known as the "Acid Bath Murderer" and the "Vampire of London"; active in England during the 1940s; convicted of six murders, but claimed to have killed nine; executed in 1949.
• Anthony Hardy: also known as the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four.
• Trevor Hardy: also known as "The Beast of Manchester"; killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976.
• Philip Herbert: also known as the "Infamous Earl of Pembroke"; 17th century nobleman convicted of manslaughter but discharged; later killed the prosecutor and pardoned for a third murder.
• Colin Ireland: also known as "The Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in London in the early 1990s; died in prison in 2012.
• Bruce George Peter Lee: serial killer and arsonist responsible for 26 deaths in the town of Hull from 1973 to 1979.
• Robin Ligus: drug addict convicted of robbing and bludgeoning three men to death with an iron bar in Shropshire in 1994.
• Michael Lupo: also known as "Wolf Man"; Italian-born man convicted of four murders and two attempted murders.
• Patrick Mackay: charged with the murders of five individuals in London and Kent, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people from 1974 to 1975.
• Robert Maudsley: also known as "Hannibal The Cannibal"; killer of four; killed three in prison.
• Raymond Morris: also known as the "A34 Killer"; convicted of one murder, considered to have committed at least two more.
• Robert Napper: also known as the "Green Chain Rapist"; killed two women and a child in the 1990s.
• Donald Neilson: also known as the "Black Panther"; killed four people, including heiress Lesley Whittle.
• Dennis Nilsen: also known as "The Muswell Hill Murderer"; killer of 15 (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983 in North London.
• Colin Norris: nurse convicted of killing four patients in Leeds hospitals between 2001 and 2002.
• William Palmer: also known as "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; hanged in 1856.
• Stephen Port: drugged, raped and murdered four men in Barking, London between 2014 and 2015; convicted in 2016.
• Amelia Sach and Annie Walters: known as "The Finchley Baby Farmers"; baby farmers who used chlorodyne to poison an unknown number of infants; both hanged at the HM Prison Holloway in 1903.
• Harold Shipman: also known as "Dr. Death"; doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25-year period; committed suicide in 2004 in prison.
• George Joseph Smith: also known as "The Brides in the Bath" killer who murdered three women.
• John Straffen: murdered three children between 1951 and 1952; Britain's longest-serving prisoner until his death in 2007.
• Peter Sutcliffe: also known as the "Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980.
• Thomas Griffiths Wainewright: artist considered to have poisoned four people.
• Margaret Waters: baby farmer from Brixton who drugged and starved the infants in her care; believed to have killed at least 19 children; executed on 11 October 1870.
• Fred West and Rosemary West: also known as the "House of Horrors" murderers; she was convicted of 10 murders; both are believed to have tortured and murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987, many at their home in Gloucester; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial.
• Catherine Wilson: nurse considered to have poisoned seven people in the 19th century; executed in 1862.
• Mary Elizabeth Wilson: also known as the "Merry Widow of Windy Nook"; convicted of murdering two husbands by poisoning and considered to have killed two others.
• Steve Wright: also known as "The Suffolk Strangler"; killed five women in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006.
• Graham Young: also known as "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971; died in prison in 1990.

Scotland

• Robert Black: Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of four murders in Northern Ireland, England, and Scotland between 1981 and 1986, suspected of many more; died in prison in 2016.
• William Burke and William Hare: notorious body snatchers in Edinburgh in the 19th century.
• Archibald Hall: also known as the "Monster Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael Kitto.
• Peter Manuel: also known as the "Beast of Birkenshaw"; American-born Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958.
• Edward William Pritchard: English doctor who poisoned his wife and her mother in 1865; two years earlier their maid had died in a mysterious fire.
• Angus Sinclair: convicted of the murders of four young women, including the "World's End Murders" in Edinburgh; believed to have murdered eight.
• Peter Tobin: rapist and killer of three women between 1991 and 2006; sentenced to life in prison.

Wales

• John Cooper: also known as "The Wildman" and "The Bullseye Killer"; Pembrokeshire burglar responsible for the robbery and shotgun double-murders of a brother and sister in 1985 and a couple in 1989.
• Peter Moore: also known as "The Man in Black"; businessman who killed four men at random in North Wales in 1995.

Northern Ireland

• Shankill Butchers: The Shankill Butchers was an Ulster loyalist gang—many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)—that was active between 1975 and 1982 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The gang was based in the Shankill area and were responsible for the deaths of at least 23 people, most of whom were killed in sectarian attacks.

United States

Main article: List of serial killers in the United States

Uruguay

• Pablo Goncálvez: Spanish-born murderer who killed tennis player Patricia Miller's half-sister and two other women; freed in 2016 but was arrested in 2017 in Paraguay for carrying an unregistered weapon and a quantity of cocaine.

Venezuela

• Dorángel Vargas: killed and cannibalized at least 10 men between 1997 and 1999 in San Cristóbal, Táchira.

Yemen

• Abdallah al-Hubal: killed 7 people in 1990 after the Yemeni reunion; fled prison and killed a young couple and three other people in 1998; killed in a shootout with the police.
• Zu Shenatir: 5th-century Yemeni serial killer.

Zambia

• Mailoni Brothers: three brothers who killed at least 12 people from 2007 to 2013 in Central Province.

Unidentified serial killers

This is a list of unidentified serial killers. It includes circumstances where a suspect has been arrested, but not convicted.

Australia

• Bowraville Murders: murders of three Aboriginal children in between 1990 and 1991.
• Claremont serial murders: murders of two young women and the disappearance of a third in 1996 and 1997.
• The Family Murders: murder and mutilation of five young men and boys between 1979 and 1983. Bevan Spencer von Einem was convicted of one murder.
• Tynong North and Frankston Murders: murders of six females in Tynong North and Frankston between 1980 and 1981.

Belgium

• Brabant killers: gang of serial killers who operated in the Brabant province from 1982 and 1985; murdered 28 people and injured 40.
• Butcher of Mons: unidentified serial killer who committed five murders from January 1996 to July 1997 in Mons. Montenegrin murderer Smail Tulja is suspected of being the Butcher.

Brazil

• Paturis Park murders: also known as the "Rainbow Maniac"; series of 13 gunshot murders of gay men between July 2007 and August 2008 in Paturis Park (Parque dos Paturis) in Carapicuiba.

Canada

• Highway of Tears: death and disappearance of around 40 young women in British Columbia since 1969.
• Toronto hospital baby deaths: deaths of at least eight babies at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 1980 and 1981 were initially alleged to be digoxin poisonings, a theory which was cast into doubt by new evidence in 2010-2011.

Costa Rica

• El Psicópata: killed 19 people from 1986 to 1996 in Cartago, Curridabat and Desamparados; suspected of other similar crimes.

Finland

• Järvenpää Serial Killer: responsible for the so-called "Hausjärvi Gravel Pit Murders"; killed a woman in 1991 and suspected in the disappearance of another in 1993; possibly responsible for other abductions and murders in the 21st century.

Germany

• Göhrde Murders: two double murders which occurred in the Göhrde State Forest in 1989; Kurt-Werner Wichmann, a cemetery gardener who committed suicide in 1993, is suspected of committing these murders, as well as other unrelated ones.
• Sewer Murders: also called the "Sewage Plant Murders"; the bodies of several adolescents wered discovered in sewage treatment plants in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main in the 1980s.

India

• Beer Man: murdered seven people in south Mumbai between October 2006 and January 2007.
• Stoneman: responsible for 13 murders in Kolkata in 1989.

Italy

• Monster of Florence: committed eight murders of couples in a series of 16 between 1968 and 1985. Giancarlo Lotti and Mario Vanni were convicted of four of the murders, but this conviction has been widely criticized.
• Monster of Udine: killed at least 4 victims in the Province of Udine, Italy.

Japan

• Paraquat murders: series of indiscriminate poisonings carried out in Japan in 1985 where twelve people were killed.

Mexico

• Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez: also known as "The dead women of Juárez"; the violent deaths of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez.

Namibia

• B1 Butcher: murdered at least five women between 2005 and 2007, with all murders related to the National Road B1.

Poland

• Łódź Gay Murderer: murdered 7 homosexual men from 1988 to 1993 in Łódź.

Portugal

• Lisbon Ripper: murdered three women in Lisbon between 1992 and 1993.

Russia

Main article: List of Russian serial killers

South Korea

• Hwaseong serial murders: series of murders between 1986 and 1991 in Hwaseong; ten women were found raped, bound, and murdered.

United Kingdom

• Bible John: thought to be responsible for the deaths of three women in Glasgow, Scotland in the late 1960s.
• Jack the Ripper: murdered prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888.
• Jack the Stripper: responsible for the London "Hammersmith nude murders" between 1964 and 1965.

United States

Main article: List of serial killers in the United States

See also

• List of non-state terrorist incidents (includes Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski)
• List of serial killers before 1900
• List of serial killers by number of victims
• Mass murder
• Spree killer