List of serial killers by sexuality[edit]

List of serial killers by sexuality

Serial killers with the highest known victim count[edit]

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Notes	Sexuality	Gender	Gender of victims
Luis Garavito	Colombia Ecuador Venezuela	1992 to 1999	138	172–300+	Child-murderer, torture-killer, and rapist known as "La Bestia" ("The Beast"). Confessed to killing 140 boys between eight and 16 years old over a seven-year period in Colombia and neighboring countries. He is suspected of murdering over 300 victims, mostly street children.	Unconfirmed bisexual	Male	All male
Pedro López	Colombia Peru Ecuador	1969 to 1979	110	300+	Child-murderer and rapist, known as "The Monster of the Andes". Targeted young girls, between the ages of eight and 12. Arrested in 1980 and convicted in 1983 of killing three young girls, but claimed to have killed hundreds. Despite being believed to be one of the most prolific serial killers of the twentieth century, he was released in the late 1990s.	Heterosexual	Male	All female
Javed Iqbal	Pakistan	1998 to 1999	100	100	Child-murderer and rapist, known as "Kukri", Iqbal murdered 100 street children by strangling them and covering up his crimes by dissolving the bodies with acid. He was arrested in 1999 thanks to a letter he sent a newspaper, and was set to be executed in the manner described by the judge who stated, "You will be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children you killed, Your body will then be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way you killed the children." However, he died in custody before he could be executed.	Unconfirmed Homosexual	Male	All male
Mikhail Popkov	Russia	1992 to 2010	78	81	Serial rapist-killer nicknamed "The Werewolf", who was active for two decades in Angarsk, Irkutsk and Vladivostok. After being convicted of 22 murders in 2015, he confessed to an additional 59 murders, of which he was convicted of 56 in 2018.	Heterosexual	Male	All female
Daniel Camargo Barbosa	Colombia EcuadorBrazil (alleged)	1974 to 1986	72	180	Child and woman murderer, believed to have possibly raped and killed over 150 victims, primarily targeting female children as they were more likely to be virgins. Confessed to killing 72 victims. He strangled young girls in Colombia and was arrested, but he escaped from prison and he started killing in Ecuador; rearrested in 1986, he was incarcerated in the same Ecuadorian prison as 300+ serial killer Pedro López.^{[citation needed]} Camargo was killed in jail by the nephew of one of his victims.	Heterosexual	Male	All female
Pedro Rodrigues Filho	Brazil	1967 to 2003	71	100+	He claimed to have killed over 100 victims, 47 of them inmates. He also killed his father and ate a piece of his heart. He killed his first two victims at the age of 14; he was first arrested in 1973. Convicted and sentenced to 128 years, but the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Kampatimar Shankariya	India	1977 to 1978	70	70+	This mysterious Indian serial killer used a hammer to kill over 70 men and women between 1978 and 1979, his last words were, "I have murdered in vain", he declared. "Nobody should become like me.".	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Yang Xinhai	China	2000 to 2003	67	67	Known as the "Monster Killer". Would enter victims' homes at night and kill using axes, meat cleavers, hammers, and shovels. Executed by gunshot in 2004.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Andrei Chikatilo	Soviet Union	1978 to 1990	53	56	Known as "The Butcher of Rostov", "The Red Ripper" or "The Rostov Ripper". Convicted of the murder of 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990. One man was previously convicted and executed for his first murder. Executed by gunshot in 1994.	Unconfirmed bisexual	Male	Male and Female
Anatoly Onoprienko	Soviet Union Ukraine	1989 to 1996	52	52+	Known as "The Beast of Ukraine", "The Terminator" and "Citizen O". Convicted of the murders of nine people in 1989 and 43 people in 1995–1996. Traveled throughout Europe illegally from 1990 to 1995; whether he killed during this time is unknown. Sentenced to death, later commuted to imprisonment for life. Died from heart failure in 2013.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Samuel Little	United States	1970 to 2005	50	93	Was convicted of killing three women, but later investigations linked 31 other murders to him. Little is now thought to be America's most prolific serial killer. He claims he killed as many as 93 victims total, three above his initial confession of 90, the FBI later confirmed a total of 50 murders linked to Little. The investigations into his crimes are ongoing.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Florisvaldo de Oliveira	Brazil	1982	50	50+	Known as "Cabo Bruno"; former police officer and vigilante who murdered criminals in the outskirts of São Paulo; murdered by unknown assailants in 2012.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Willy Pickton	Canada	1983 to 2002	49	49	Nicknamed "The Butcher"; Robert Pickton was a Canadian serial killer who killed 49 women and disposed of their bodies by feeding them to his pigs. He was convicted of only 6 murders but charged for his proven 49 victims. Unfortunately, much to the anger of the victims families, the remaining 43 charges were stayed or dropped.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Gary Ridgway	United States	1982 to 2000	49	71–90+	Truck painter who confessed to killing 71 women. Also known as The Green River Killer. He almost exclusively targeted sex workers from Seattle. Suspected of killing over 90 victims, confessed to 71, convicted of 49. Sentenced to life without parole.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Alexander Pichushkin	Russia	1992 to 2006	48	60	Known as the Chessboard Killer. Convicted of murdering 48 victims and suspected of killing 60. Claimed to have murdered 62 people, because he did not know that two of his victims had survived; stated goal of becoming Russia's most prolific serial killer. Sentenced to imprisonment for life.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Wang Qiang	China	1995 to 2003	45	60+	Killed 45 and raped 10 from 1995 to 2003. Executed in 2005.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Ahmad Suradji	Indonesia	1986 to 1997	42	70–80+	Convicted of strangling at least 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings he believed would give him magical powers. Executed by firing squad in 2008.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Raman Raghav	India	1965 to 1968	41	41	In the late 1960s Raman Raghav went on a violent rampage in Mumbai, India. He bludgeoned 41 people to death inside their huts while they slept.	Unconfirmed. He held firm belief that other people are trying to put homosexual temptations in his way so that he may succumb and get converted to a woman.	He was "101 percent man". He kept on repeating this.	Male and Female
Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha	Brazil	2011 to 2014	39	~39	Brazilian security guard who confessed to the murders of 39 people. Attempted suicide in prison. Sentenced to 25 years.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Moses Sithole	South Africa	1994 to 1995	38	38+	Known as South Africa's Ted Bundy. 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 non-parole period of 930 years.	Heterosexual	Male	Females and one 2-year old son of victim
Serhiy Tkach	Soviet Union Ukraine	1984 to 2005	36	80–100	A former Ukrainian police criminal investigator, suffocated girls aged between eight and 18 and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead. Claims to have killed 100. Sentenced to imprisonment for life. Died from heart failure in 2018.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Gennady Mikhasevich	Soviet Union	1971 to 1985	36	43–55+	Strangled women. Besides killing, he also robbed his victims of money and valuable items (that he would sometimes give to his wife as a gift). Executed by firing squad in 1987.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi	Morocco	1906 and earlier	36	36+	Known as "Marrakesh Arch-Killer"; drugged, mutilated and murdered women; executed 1906.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Vera Renczi	Romania Yugoslavia Hungary (alleged)	1920 to 1930	35	~35	Romanian serial killer nicknamed, "The Black Widow" convicted of killing 35 men through arsenic poisoning but confessed to only killing 32 victims. Renczi is the world's most prolific female serial killer. However, there is very little information about Renczi and her crimes because personal information (criminal history, academic records, etc.) were not cataloged as well as they are today, making some criminologists believe she was a figure of Romanian folklore rather than an actual person.	Heterosexual	Female	All Male
Ted Bundy	United States	1974 to 1978	35	36+	American serial killer known for his charisma and good looks. Bundy officially confessed to 30 homicides, but had confessed to killing 35–36 women in the past, and some estimates run upwards of 100 or more. Infamous for escaping from prison twice and murdering multiple victims in one day; sometimes abducting women from the same location within hours of one another. He was executed by electric chair in 1989.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Clementine Barnabet	United States	1911	35	35	An axe murdering voodoo priestess who murdered African-American families at nighttime.	Unconfirmed	Female	Male and Female
John Wayne Gacy	United States	1972 to 1978	33	34+	Known to have murdered a minimum of 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978, 26 of whom he buried in the crawl space of his Chicago home. Gacy was known as the "Killer Clown" due to the fact he often entertained children at social events dressed in a self devised clown costume. Executed by lethal injection in 1994.	Bisexual	Male	All Male
Ali Asghar Borujerdi	Ottoman Empire Iraq Iran	1907 to 1934	33	33	Known as "Asghar the Murderer". Killed 33 young adults in Iraq and Iran. Executed by hanging in 1934.	Unconfirmed Homosexual	Male	Presumed All Male
Vasili Komaroff	Soviet Union	1921 to 1923	33	33	Known as "The Wolf of Moscow"; horse trader who killed 33 men. Executed by firing squad in 1923.	Heterosexual	Male	All Men
Fernando Hernández Leyva	Mexico	1982 to 1999	33	100+	Confessed to 100 murders and six kidnappings at the time of his arrest in 1999 (he had been arrested previously in 1982 and 1986, the second time for murder, but escaped from prison), but later retracted and claimed that he had been beaten by the police and his family threatened in order to force him to confess. Accused of as many as 137 murders in five southern Mexican states, convicted of 33 murders and sentenced 50 years in prison. Tried unsuccessfully to kill himself in prison. If his claim of 100+ victims were true then Leyva would be one of the world's worst murderers, currently he is Mexico's worst documented serial killer.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour	Egypt	1999 to 2006	32	32+	Gang leader known as al-Tourbini ("The Express Train"). Raped and tortured homeless children, mostly boys aged 10 to 14 years old, aboard the trains between Cairo, Alexandria, Qalyubia and Beni Sueif. The victims were usually thrown off the moving train when they were dead or in agony; other times they were thrown into the Nile or buried alive. Executed in 2010.	Unconfirmed Homosexual	Male	Mostly Male
Volga Maniac	Russia	2011 to 2012	32	32	Killed elderly women in several Russian regions; Kazakhstani native Pavel Shayakhmetov, found guilty of killing two elderly women in Samara, was arrested on suspicion of committing these murders, but police forces believe that the real perpetrator, possibly originating from Tatarstan, is out there.	Unconfirmed	Male	All Female

Serial killers with 15 to 30 victims[edit]

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Notes	Sexuality	Gender	Gender of Victims
Karl Denke	German Empire Germany	1900 to 1924	30	42+	Killed and cannibalized poor travelers and homeless vagrants. Kept a ledger recording his murders with at least 31 names in it (including Vincenz Olivier, his only surviving victim), thus confirming at least 30 victims. But due to the massive amount of human remains found in his apartment, his kill count is suspected by many to exceed 42 victims. Committed suicide by hanging himself in his holding cell before he could be tried.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito	Brazil	1989 to 2003	30	42	Pedophile who sexually abused, murdered and mutilated children in Maranhão and Pará; sentenced to 217 years imprisonment.	Unconfirmed	Male	All Male
Luis Gregorio Ramírez Maestre	Colombia	2010 to 2013	30	30	Killed motorists in various municipalities before his 2012 capture.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
David Thabo Simelane	Swaziland	2000 to 2001	28	45	Sexually assaulted women he befriended in forests, stabbing or strangling them afterward; sentenced to death.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Zhang Jun	China	1993 to 2000	28	28	Robbed 22 stores in several Chinese provinces, killing 28 people in the process. Executed in 2001.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Cedric Maake	South Africa	1996 to 1997	27	35+	Known as the "Wemmer Pan Killer" and "Hammer Killer". He killed his victims with different instruments such as guns, rocks, a knife, and a hammer. Authorities attributed the murders to two serial killers because of the inconsistent modus operandi. In some cases he killed his victims with a rock, in others he shot them, and in others he murdered tailors with a hammer. Maake was arrested after Moses Sithole was found guilty of 38 killings and sentenced to 1,340 years in prison.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Mariam Soulakiotis	Greece	1939 to 1951	27	27+	Known as "The Woman Rasputin"; convent abbot believed to have murdered wealthy women and children who came into her church; the true number of her victims is a matter of debate. She officially murdered 27 and killed an additional 150 children through neglect.	Unconfirmed	Female	Male and female
Bruce George Peter Lee	United Kingdom	1973 to 1979	26	26	Epileptic arsonist who killed people in the city of Hull; sentenced to life imprisonment, but was later institutionalized.	Unconfirmed Homosexual	Male	Male and Female
The Stoneman	India	1985 to 1989	25	25+	12 homeless people were murdered in their sleep in Bombay between 1985 and 1987, and 13 in Calcutta in 1989—in all cases, by dropping a large rock over their head (an additional victim escaped, but could not identify the attacker). No one was ever charged with any of the murders.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Juan Corona	United States	1971	25	25+	Corona was convicted of murdering ranch laborers and burying them in orchards. He was sentenced to 25 terms life imprisonment. Died from natural causes in 2019.	Heterosexual	Male	All Male
Fritz Haarmann	Germany	1918 to 1924	24	27+	Also known as the Butcher of Hanover and 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. Believed to have been responsible for the murder of 27 boys and young men, he was convicted, found guilty of 24 murders and executed by guillotine in 1925.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
Béla Kiss	Hungary	1912 to 1916	24	24+	Evaded arrest and conviction after the discovery of 24 bodies hidden in large metal drums on his property in 1916. At that time he was serving in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and deserted when the military was notified of the murders by civilian authorities. His final whereabouts and fate are unknown, as is his final victim count.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female and One Male
Majid Salek Mohammadi	Iran	1981 to 1985	24	24	Killed mainly women he considered unfaithful to their husbands, sometimes the children accompanying them too; committed suicide before he could be sentenced.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Yvan Keller	France Germany (suspected) Switzerland (suspected)	1989 to 2006	23	150	Known as the "Pillow Killer"; killed and robbed old women in France's Alsace region, but also confessed to up to 150 murders, including in Germany and Switzerland; committed suicide before trial.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Ronald Dominique	United States	1997 to 2006	23	23+	Louisianian serial killer, known locally as the Bayou Strangler and murdered victims in the Terrebonne Parish, Lafourche Parish, Iberville Parish and Jefferson Parish. Sentenced to eight life terms.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
Juan Fernando Hermosa	Ecuador	1991 to 1992	23	23	Known as "Niño del Terror"; youth gang leader who murdered mostly taxi drivers and homosexuals in Quito; murdered on his 20th birthday by unknown assailants.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female, including one transgender woman
Earle Nelson	United States Canada	1926 to 1927	22	25	Necrophiliac who primarily targeted boarding house landladies on the US West Coast during 1926; he was also known as "Gorilla Killer" or "the Dark Strangler". Captured after two murders in a small (now ghost) town in southern Manitoba. Found guilty, hanged by Canadian authorities in January 1928.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Mikhail Novosyolov	Soviet UnionRussia Tajikistan	1977 to 1995	22	22	Known as the "Necrophile Rebel"; killed his victims with blows from heavy objects, then had sexual intercourse with their corpses; sentenced to civil commitment.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Manuel Octavio Bermúdez	Colombia	1999 to 2003	21	50+	Colombian pedophile and serial killer. Known as "El Monstruo de los Cañaduzales" (The Monster of the Cane Fields). He confessed to killing 21 children in remote areas of Colombia. Sentenced to 40 years in prison.	Unconfirmed Bisexual	Male	Male and Female
Patrick Kearney	United States	1965 to 1977	21	43+	Would pick up young male hitch-hikers or young men from gay bars near Redondo Beach, California, and kill them. Sentenced to imprisonment for life.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
William Bonin	United States	1979 to 1980	21	36+	Bonin and three accomplices are known to have murdered a minimum of 21 youths aged between 12 and 19 in and around Los Angeles. As the majority of his victims were discarded alongside various southern California freeways, Bonin became known as the Freeway Killer. Convicted of 14 of the freeway murders, he was executed by lethal injection in 1996.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
Vasile Tcaciuc	Romania	1917 to 1935	21	26+	Romanian man who lured victims and then murdered them with an axe. He was arrested in 1935 after a dog found a dead body in his house. He confessed to having committed at least 26 murders. He was shot dead by a policeman while trying to escape from prison.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Yoo Young-chul	South Korea	2003 to 2004	21	26	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. Was sentenced to death and currently incarcerated.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Francisco Guerrero Pérez	Mexico	1880 to 1908	21	21	Known as "El Chaquero"; the first captured serial killer in Mexico, who killed prostitutes in Mexico City; died in 1910 from cerebral thromboembolism and another, unspecified cause.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Abdullah Shah	Afghanistan	1990s	20	20+	Killed travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad serving under Zardad Khan. Also killed his wife. Executed by gunshot in 2004.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
José Paz Bezerra	Brazil	1960s to 1970s	20	20+	Known as the "Morumbi Monster"; sexually violated, tortured and then murdered at least 20 women in São Paulo and Pará; sentenced to 30 years imprisonment and later released in 2001.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Bulelani Mabhayi	South Africa	2007 to 2012	20	20	Known as the "Monster of Tholeni"; killed women and children in the village of Tholeni; sentenced from 25 years to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Mohan Kumar	India	2005 to 2009	20	20	Lured female victims with promises of marriage and gave them cyanide, claiming they were contraceptive pills, Sentenced to death in 2013.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Alexander Spesivtsev	Russia	1991 to 1996	19	82+	Cannibal known as "The Novokuznetsk Monster"; admitted to 19 murders, but 82 bloody sets of clothes were found in his home, along with jewels and photographs of possibly unidentified victims. Found insane and interned in a mental hospital. His mother was sentenced to 16 years in prison for luring Spesivtsev's victims to their home.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Larry Eyler	United States	1982 to 1984	19	23+	Known as "The Interstate Killer"; sentenced to death for the 1984 murder and dismemberment of 15-year-old Daniel Bridges. He confessed to other homicides of young men and boys in five separate states. Died of AIDS complications in 1994.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
Surinder Koli	India	2005 to 2006	19	30+	Between 2005 and 2006, a domestic servant of Indian businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, Surinder Koli, kidnapped, raped, murdered, and dismembered 19 people, mostly children. Convicted.	Heterosexual	Male	11 confirmed Female
El Psicópata	Costa Rica	1986 to 1996	19	19+	("The Psychopath") Unidentified serial killer who killed 19 people with an M3 submachine gun in three Costa Rican towns, always south of the Florencio del Castillo Highway.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Sergei Ryakhovsky	Soviet Union Russia	1988 to 1993	19	19+	Known as the Balashikha Ripper, he was convicted for the murders of at least 19 victims. Died from tuberculosis in 2005.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Yevgeny Chuplinsky	Russia	1998 to 2006	19	19+	Known as the "Novosibirsk Maniac"; killed prostitutes in Novosibirsk; despite extensive police search and the capture of another serial killer, he was only arrested in 2016; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
M. Jaishankar	India	2008 to 2011	19	19+	Accused of killing at least 19 women. Charged with 13 murders, he escaped during a trial transport. Killed eight more people in two months before he was recaptured. Sentenced to 27 years. Committed suicide by slashing his wrists with a shaving blade in prison on 27 February 2018.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Ansis Kaupēns	Latvia	1920 to 1926	19	19	Army deserter who committed 30 robberies and killed 19 people; one of the most infamous Latvian criminals; executed by hanging in 1927.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Vadim Ershov	Russia	1992 to 1995	19	19	Known as the "Krasnoyarsk Beast"; committed 70 crimes around the Krasnoyarsk area, including 19 murders and eight attempted murders; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Velaphi Ndlangamandla	South Africa	1998	19	19	Known as "The Saloon Killer"; robbed who murdered people around Mpumalanga in his crime spree; sentenced to 137 years imprisonment.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu	Turkey	1994 to 2002	18+	40+	Killed in various cities of Turkey. 18 murders proven and accused of more than 40 by eyewitnesses and relatives.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Paul John Knowles	United States	1974	18	35+	Killed 18 people in various states in 1974. Claimed 35 murders. Known as the "Casanova Killer"; shot dead by FBI agents.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Thierry Paulin	France	1984 to 1987	18	21	Known as "The monster of Montmartre". Killed and robbed elderly women. Died of AIDS in 1989 in prison before trial.	Homosexual	Male	All Female
Randall Woodfield	United States	1979 to 1981	18	44	Known as "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5 Bandit." Suspected of as many as 44 murders. Sentenced to imprisonment for life.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Umesh Reddy	India	1996 to 2002	18	18+	Confessed to 18 rapes and murders. Sentenced to death.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode	South Africa	1994 to 1995	18	18+	Known as "Donnybrook Serial Killer" murdered 18 people in Donnybrook, KwaZulu Natal from 1994–1995.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Asande Baninzi	South Africa	2001	18	18	Killed 18 people in three months, including a family of four; given 19 life sentences and 189 years of imprisonment.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Huang Yong	China	2001 to 2003	17	25	Lured and murdered 17 teenage boys, although he is suspected of 25 murders between September 2001 and 2003. Executed by firing squad in 2003.	Unconfirmed Homosexual	Male	All Male
Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña	Peru	2005 to 2006	17	25	Known as "El Apóstol de la Muerte" ("The Apostle of Death"). Convicted of 17 murders and claimed 25. Sentenced to 35 years in prison.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Darbara Singh	India	2004	17	23	Sexually assaulted and then murdered children of non-Punjabi immigrants; died in 2018 while serving a life sentence.	Unconfirmed Bisexual	Male	Male and Female
Sergei Dovzhenko	Ukraine	1992 to 2002	17	19	Killed people because they were "mocking" him; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Donato Bilancia	Italy	1997 to 1998	17	17	Burglar who murdered 17 people, mainly prostitutes, between 1997 and 1998, during a six-month period. Known as the "Prostitutes Killer" and the "Liguria Monster". Sentenced to imprisonment for life.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Irina Gaidamachuk	Russia	2002 to 2010	17	17	Known as "Satan in a skirt". Killed 17 elderly women between 2002 and 2010. Sentenced to 20 years in prison.	Heterosexual	Female	All Female
Randy Steven Kraft	United States	1971 to 1983	16	65–67	Convicted of 16 counts of murder but left a cryptic "score card" referring to at least 65 victims. May have had an accomplice. Sentenced to death.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
Mohammed Bijeh	Iran	2004	16	20	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.	Unconfirmed Homosexual	Male	All Male
Michel Fourniret	France Belgium	1987 to 2001	16	19	Known as the Ogre or Beast of Ardennes. He was caught after a failed kidnapping in 2003.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Sipho Agmatir Thwala	South Africa	1996 to 1997	16	19	Nicknamed the Phoenix Strangler after the area in which he committed his crimes; he raped and strangled 19 women; arrested, he was found guilty of 16 murders.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Saeed Hanaei	Iran	2000 to 2001	16	19	Confessed to luring 16 prostitutes to his home and killing them in an attempt to "cleanse" the city of Mashhad. His actions were dubbed "The Spider Murders". Executed by hanging in 2002.	Heterosexual		All Female
Jeffrey Dahmer	United States	1978 to 1991	16	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.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
José Antonio Rodríguez Vega	Spain	1987 to 1988	16	16+	Nicknamed El Mataviejas (The Old Lady Killer), he raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, aged from 61 to 93 years old, in and around Santander, Cantabria. He went unrecognized for over a year because he moved his victims into their beds after they were killed; no autopsies were made and the deaths were attributed to natural causes. He also took trophies from his victims that he held in a particular room of his home; about 10 percent of these trophies remained unclaimed, implying the existence of other victims. He was stabbed to death by two inmates while incarcerated in 2002.	Heterosexual		All Female
Elias Xitavhudzi	South Africa	1950s	16	16	Nicknamed Panga man for his use of a machete (locally known as a "panga"). He stabbed and robbed his victims between 1953 and 1959; arrested, he was executed by hanging in 1960.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Jimmy Maketta	South Africa	2005	16	16	Pleaded guilty to and convicted of 16 murders and 19 rapes committed over the nine-month period of April to December 2005.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Jack Mogale	South Africa	2008 to 2009	16	16	Raped and strangled women in the Donnybrook area. Convicted of 16 murders and 19 rapes, nine kidnappings, robbery and assault.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Robert Lee Yates	United States	1975 to 1998	16	16	Killed prostitutes in the "Skid Row" area of E. Sprague Avenue in Spokane, Washington. Sentenced to 408 years in prison and two death sentences.	Heterosexual		All Female
Carroll Cole	United States	1948 to 1980	16	16	Killed 16 people in California, Nevada, Texas. Executed by lethal injection in 1985. His mother was emotionally abusive to Cole and dressed him as a girl. At school, he was teased about his "girl's name" by his peers.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female and one boy when they were children
Charles Ray Hatcher	United States	1969 to 1982	16	16	A habitual criminal, confessed to the rape and murder of over 20 young and adolescent males. Escaped from prison several times and was declared a "manipulative institutionalized sociopath". Sentenced to life; committed suicide by hanging himself in prison in 1984.	Unconfirmed Homosexual	Male	Male and Female
Yuri Ivanov	Soviet Union	1974 to 1987	16	16	Known as the "Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac"; Kazakhstani rapist who killed girls and women who spoke negatively of men; executed 1987.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Vladimir Mirgorod	Russia	2003 to 2004	16	16	Known as "The Strangler"; raped and strangle women in Moscow, also killing one of the victims' son; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual		Male and Female
Lee Choon-jae	South Korea	1986 to 1994	15		Also known as the Hwaseong serial murders. Most of the victims were bound, gagged, and strangled to death with their own clothes. It sparked the largest criminal case in South Korea with two million officers mobilized and over 21,000 suspects investigated. A suspect was identified in 2019, but he could not be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations. He later confessed to killing 15 people, in addition to the murder of his sister-in-law.	Heterosexual		All Female
Dorángel Vargas	Venezuela	1997 to 1999	15		Homeless cannibal known as "The People Eater" (El Comegente) and "The Hannibal Lecter of the Andes". Murdered a homeless man and was institutionalized. After escaping the institution, he went on to kill ten other men and was arrested. In 2016, he and several other inmates killed three others and Vargas fed their remains to them.	Heterosexual		All Male
Ravinder Kumar	India	2008 to 2015	15	30+	Serial rapist who killed children of poor families.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual		Male and Female
Atlanta Ripper	United States	1911	15	21	Unidentified serial killer(s) who killed at least 15 Atlanta women in 1911, possibly as many as 21 in total.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Unconfirmed Male	All Female
Robert Hansen	United States	1980 to 1983	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. Sentenced to 461 years plus life. Died from unspecified health problems in 2014.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz	United States Mexico	1986 to 1999	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. Executed by lethal injection in 2006.	Heterosexual		Male and Female
Chester Turner	United States	1987 to 1998	15	15+	Convicted of killing 15 people in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s. Sentenced to death.	Heterosexual		All Female
Elifasi Msomi	South Africa	1950s to 1956	15	15	Killed his victims with an axe or a knife in the 1950s; executed by hanging in 1956.	Heterosexual		All Female
Florencio Fernández	Argentina	1950s	15	15	Stalked his victims, then would beat and bite them while they were asleep. Died from natural causes a few years after his 1960 arrest.	Heterosexual		All Female
Bai Baoshan	China	1983 to 1997	15	15	Robber who killed 15 people while robbing several police stations; executed by gunshot in 1998.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual		All Male
Maurizio Minghella	Italy	1978 to 2001	15	15	Killed five prostitutes; imprisoned and released, after which he killed 10 more; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Alexander Labutkin	Soviet Union	1933 to 1935	15	15	Known as the "One-Armed Bandit"; killed people in the forest near the Prigorodny settlement using a revolver; executed 1935.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female

Serial killers with 5 to 14 proven victims[edit]

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Notes	Sexuality	Gender	Gender of Victims
Carl Eugene Watts	United States	1974 to 1982	14	80+	Believed to have killed over 80 women in multiple states, in 1982 Watts accepted a plea bargain in Texas in which he would plead guilty to a lesser charge and be granted immunity from murder charges in exchange for providing information on his victims; as a result he confessed to 12 murders and was sentenced to 60 years in prison on the lesser charge. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in separate trials in Michigan in 2004 and 2007, and died of cancer a week after the 2007 sentence was handed down.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Philipp Tyurin	Soviet Union	1945 to 1946	14	29	Known as the "Leningrad Maniac" and the "Hellraiser"; murdered people for monetary reasons at his hut in Leningrad; executed 1947.	Unconfirmed	Male	Unconfirmed Male and Female
Zdzisław Marchwicki	Poland	1964 to 1970	14	21+	Also known as Vampire of Zagłębie. Killed 14 women in 1964–1970 in Poland's region of Dąbrowa Basin. Zdzisław Marchwicki was most likely the man responsible for the killings; however, his guilt remains in dispute. Executed in 1977.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Monster of Florence	Italy	1968 to 1985	14	16	Unidentified killer who shot couples in lovers lanes and mutilated the women, taking their sexual organs and in the last two cases, also their left breast. 69-year-old farmer Pietro Pacciani was controversially convicted of 14 crimes in 1994 and sentenced to life in prison, but he was released following allegations that the scant evidence had been planted in an attempt to close the case, which was by then the largest and most mediatic in Italy's criminal history. Pacciani was scheduled for retrial in 1998 when he died after taking medication contraindicated to his heart problems. Pacciani's two alleged accomplices, Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti, were sentenced to life and 30 years in prison, respectively. Some believe that none of the accused were guilty, and that Lotti incriminated himself and the other two because he was homeless and wanted to live in prison.	Unconfirmed	Unconfirmed	Male and Female
Joachim Kroll	West Germany	1955 to 1976	14		Known as the "Ruhr Cannibal" and "The Duisburg Man-Eater"; died from a heart attack in prison in 1991.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female and One Male
Arthur Shawcross	United States	1972 to 1989	14		Committed arson and burglary, served two years of a five-year sentence. Within a year of his release, he raped and murdered two children in 1972. Under a plea bargain, he was sentenced to 25 years. Released after serving 141/2 years, he began killing again a year later, targeting prostitutes. Known as the "Genesee River Killer", "Genesee River Strangler", "Rochester Strangler", and "Monster of the Rivers", he strangled and battered his victims. Sentenced to life without parole. Died of cardiac arrest in 2008.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
The Doodler	United States	1974 to 1975	14		Unidentified serial killer who sketched then stabbed to death 14 gay men in San Francisco. Surviving victims did not wish to testify, so the killer was not identified.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
Marcelo Costa de Andrade	Brazil	1991	14		Known as The Vampire of Niterói. Raped and killed 14 children in Rio de Janeiro and Niterói. Drank the blood of his victims. Found not guilty by reason of insanity.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
Julio Pérez Silva	Chile	1998 to 2001	14		Known as The Psychopath from Alto Hospicio; killed 14 women. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Sergey Shipilov	Russia	1995 to 1999	14		Known as the "Velsk Chikatilo"; killed female hitchhikers in the town of Velsk, most of them while out on prison leave; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual		All Female
Abdufatto Zamanov	Russia	2002 to 2004	14		Killed people out of personal hostility; also raped two young girls; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual		Male and Female
Jeong Nam-gyu	South Korea	2004 to 2006	14		Kidnapped, raped and murdered people; committed suicide.	Unconfirmed Homosexual		Male and Female
Amir Qayyum	Pakistan	2005	14		Known as "The brick killer". Killed 14 homeless men with rocks or bricks when they were asleep. Sentenced to death in May 2006.	Unconfirmed		All Male
Jake Bird	United States	1930s to 1947	13	44	Sentenced to death for the murders of two people; confessed to 44 other murders; 11 were substantiated and he was suspected in the others. Executed by hanging in 1949.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Belle Gunness	United States	1900? to 1908?	13	40+	Norwegian-born murder-for-profit killer who murdered her suitors and relatives in Indiana. High possibility of committing over 40 murders. May have faked her own death in the fire that destroyed her home in 1908; her children had died of strychnine poisoning before the fire, and the woman's body found next to them was decapitated and, reportedly, smaller than Gunness' own. Ultimate fate unknown.	Heterosexual	Female	All Male
Cleveland Torso Murderer	United States	1934 to 1938	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.	Unconfirmed	Unconfirmed	Male and Female
Kaspars Petrovs	Latvia	2003	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.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Richard Ramirez	United States	1984 to 1985	13	20	Killed 13 people between 28 June 1984, and 24 August 1985, in Los Angeles. Known as the "Night Stalker". Ramirez was sentenced to death in 1989, and died of B-cell lymphoma in 2013 while still on death row.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Sleepy Hollow Killer	South Africa	1990s to 2007	13	16+	Raped and murdered women, mostly sex workers, around Pietermaritzburg and the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Peter Sutcliffe	United Kingdom	1975 to 1980	13	15	Killed 13 women between 30 October 1975, and 17 November 1980. Most victims were killed by a combination of bludgeoning and stabbing, and all but two were killed in the county of Yorkshire. Owing to the modus operandi and location of the murders, Sutcliffe became known as the "Yorkshire Ripper." Sentenced to 20 concurrent life sentences. After three years he was sent to a secure psychiatric facility, where he served 25 years before being found "fit to leave" in 2009. Government officials and courts ruled in 2010 that he will never be released. In 2015, he was declared "no longer mentally ill", and transferred to a maximum security prison.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Francisco Antonio Laureana	Argentina	1974 to 1975	13	13+	Raped 15 women in San Isidro, killing 13 of them. Shot and killed during a firefight with police.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Tamara Samsonova	Russia	1995 to 2015	13	13+	Known as the "Granny Ripper"; killed and allegedly cannibalized people in her apartment; committed to a psychiatric clinic.	Heterosexual	Female	Male and Female
Herbert Mullin	United States	1972 to 1973	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. Sentenced to imprisonment for life.	Unconfirmed Homosexual	Male	Male and Female
Boston Strangler	United States	1962 to 1964	13		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. Sentenced to life for a series of rapes, he was murdered in prison. DeSalvo's body was exhumed for DNA testing, and compared to a substance found on the exhumed body of the Boston Strangler's last victim. In 2001, it was declared not to match, but in 2013 officials announced that improvements in DNA extraction technology produced viable samples from the degraded evidence. DeSalvo's body was reexhumed and found to match.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Lorenzo Gilyard	United States	1977 to 1993	13		Known as "The Kansas City Strangler". Killed up to 13 prostitutes in the Kansas City area from 1977 to 1993. Sentenced to life in 2007.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Vladimir Storozhenko	Soviet Union	1978 to 1981	13		Known as the "Smolensky Strangler"; tortured and murdered women for sexual pleasure; four other innocent men were initially convicted for his crimes; executed 1984.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Vasiliy Kulik	Soviet Union	1984 to 1986	13		Known as the Irkutsk Monster; killed at least 13 victims from 1984–1986. Executed by firing squad in 1989.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Nikolai Dudin	Soviet Union Russia	1987 to 2002	13		Known as the "Grim Maniac"; killed his father in 1987, and after release, killed 12 more people while intoxicated; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Denis Pischikov	Russia	2002 to 2003	13		Known at the "Shivering Creature"; robbed and killed elderly people around the Moscow Oblast and Vladimir Oblast; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Nikolay Shubin	Russia	2004 to 2006	13		Paranoid schizophrenic who killed people who beat him in chess games; sentenced to compulsory treatment.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Johannes Mashiane	South Africa	1982 to 1989	13		Known as "The Beast of Atteridgeville", he was found guilty of 13 counts of murder and 12 counts of sodomy from 1982–1989. Committed suicide by throwing himself under a bus while being pursued by police in 1989.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Mukosi Freddy Mulaudzi	South Africa	1990 to 2006	13		Known as "The Limpopo Serial Killer"; escaped convict, originally responsible for two murders, who murdered 11 more after his prison escape; given 11 life sentences.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Thozamile Taki	South Africa	2007	13		Known as the "Sugar cane serial killer", he murdered 13 women. Convicted in 2010.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Rainbow Maniac	Brazil	2007 to 2008	13		Unidentified serial killer who shot gay men in the head (except one, who was bludgeoned) in the Paturis Park of Carapicuiba.	Unconfirmed	Unconfirmed Male	All Male
Naceur Damergi	Tunisia	1980s to 1988	13		Raped and killed minors in the Nabeul region; executed by hanging in 1990.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Adolf Seefeldt	Germany	1908 to 1935	12	100	Known as the "Sandman"; sexually abused young boys in their sleep, then poisoned them; suspected of 100 murders in total. Executed by guillotine in 1936.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
Donald Henry Gaskins	United States	1953 to 1982	12	31–80+	Known as "The Meanest Man in America", Gaskins was convicted of nine murders committed in South Carolina between 1973 and 1975. He was suspected of 31 murders. Two victims had been murdered while Gaskins had been incarcerated—one while Gaskins had been on death row. Later claimed on death row that he had murdered between 80 and 110 victims. Executed by electric chair in 1991.^{[self-published source]}	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
William Suff	United States	1986 to 1992	12	22	Previously served 10 years of a 70-year sentence for beating his baby daughter to death. Beginning two years after his release, this county store clerk raped, stabbed, strangled, and sometimes mutilated 12 or more prostitutes in Riverside County, California. Known as the "Riverside Prostitute Killer" and the "Lake Elsinore Killer." Sentenced to death.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Vladimir Romanov	Soviet Union Russia	1991 to 2005	12	20	Known as the "Kaliningrad Maniac"; pedophile who raped and murdered girls and young women in the Kaliningrad Oblast; committed suicide while imprisoned.	Heterosexual		All Female
Maury Travis	United States	2000 to 2002	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 by hanging in prison.	Heterosexual		All Female
Dennis Nilsen	United Kingdom	1978 to 1983	12	15–16	Picked up young men in London between 1978 and 1983 and dismembered them, keeping various body parts around his home. Died from surgical complications in 2018.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
Kenneth Bianchi	United States	1977 to 1978	12	15	Convicted of strangling 12 female victims aged 12 to 28 and suspected in another three cases. One of the "Hillside Stranglers". Sentenced to imprisonment for life.	Heterosexual		All Female
Charles Sobhraj	Thailand Nepal India Malaysia	1975 to 1976	12	13	French con man known as "The Bikini Killer" or "The Serpent" that targeted Western tourists in vacation spots of South-east Asia, often with the help of female accomplices. Imprisoned in India from 1976 to 1997, and from 2004 serving a life sentence in Nepal.	Heterosexual		Male and Female
Abdallah al-Hubal	Yemen	1990 to 1998	12		Killed seven people after a Yemeni reunion; fled prison, then proceeded to kill a young couple and three more people; killed during a shootout with police.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Nikolai Shestakov	Soviet Union	1975	12		Known as the "Luberetsky Maniac"; truck driver who raped and killed girls and young women; supposedly executed in 1977.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Anatoly Sedykh	Russia	1998 to 2003	12		Raped and killed women around Lipetsk, then robbed their corpses; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Joseph Christopher	United States	1980 to 1981	12		Known as "The Midtown Slasher"; racist who killed 12 people, all but one of them African Americans, in 1980 and 1981, between upstate New York and Georgia, mutilating two of them. Sentenced to life imprisonment, died in prison age 33 of breast cancer.	Unconfirmed	Male	All Male
"Paraquat murders" killer	Japan	1985	12		Unidentified serial killer who carried out a series of indiscriminate poisonings in Japan in 1985 that killed 12.	Unconfirmed	Unconfirmed	Male and Female
Enriqueta Martí	Spain	c.1900 to 1912	12	Unknown	Self-proclaimed witch that abducted, prostituted, murdered and made potions with the bodies of small children that she sold in Barcelona. Remains of 12 different children were identified in her home, but she is believed to have murdered more. Murdered in prison by fellow immates while awaiting trial in 1913.	Heterosexual	Female	Male and Female
Herb Baumeister	United States	1990 to 1996	11–16	25+	Strangled gay men and buried their bodies in his backyard in Indiana and Ohio; 11 men were found in the yard but only five were identified. Committed suicide by shooting himself when faced with arrest.	Unconfirmed Homosexual	Male	All Male
John Bunting	Australia	1992 to 1999	11		Ringleader in the Snowtown murders (aka Bodies in the Barrels Murders); sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Sergey Golovkin	Soviet Union Russia	1986 to 1992	11	40+	Killed at least 11 boys in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992. Executed by gunshot in 1996; last person executed in Russia before the death penalty was abolished.	Homosexual	Male	All Male
Juana Barraza	Mexico	late 1990s to 2006	11	29–49	Female wrestler who bludgeoned or strangled elderly women to rob them. Sentenced to 759 years.	Heterosexual	Female	All Female
Zhang Yongming	China	2008 to 2012	11	17–20	Sold flesh of his victims as 'ostrich meat' and kept eyeballs in wine. Executed.	Unconfirmed	Male	All Male
Jack Unterweger	Austria United States Czechoslovakia	1974 to 1992	11	15	Served 14 years in Austrian prison because of a murder in 1974; killed at least nine prostitutes after his release. Was a small media star in Austrian media in the early 1990s and, on behalf of Austrian police, was arrested in the US, where he may have killed another three prostitutes. Hanged himself in 1994 after being sentenced to life in prison.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Vaughn Greenwood	United States	1964 to 1975	11	13	Known as the "Skid Row Slasher". Killed 11 people, suspected of two more. Cut victims' throats from ear to ear and may have drank their blood. Sentenced to imprisonment for life.	Unconfirmed	Male	All Male
Benjamin Atkins	United States	1991 to 1992	11		Known as "The Woodward Corridor Killer". Raped and strangled his victims before abandoning their bodies in vacant buildings. Died in prison in 1997, age 29, from AIDS.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Nannie Doss	United States	1927 to 1954	11		Responsible for 11 deaths between 1927 and 1954. Known as the "Giggling Nanny", the "Giggling Granny", and the "Jolly Black Widow". Sentenced to imprisonment for life. Died of leukemia in 1965, age 59.	Heterosexual	Female	Male and Female
Clifford Olson	Canada	1980 to 1981	11		Considered a dangerous offender, meaning that Olson could never have been released from prison. He had three parole applications rejected. Died from cancer in 2011.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Henri Désiré Landru	France	1915 to 1919	11	Unknown	Nicknamed "Bluebeard", he put notes in the lonely hearts section of newspapers under different aliases, presenting himself as a widower that wanted to marry a war widow. He killed at least 10 women and the teenage son of one of them, and burned their bodies after he had gained access to their assets. Executed by guillotine in 1922.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
West Mesa Killer	United States	2003 to 2005	11		Remains of 11 women, who disappeared between 2003 and 2005, were found buried in the desert in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2009 and attributed to a bone collector.	Unconfirmed	Unconfirmed Male	All Female
Anthony Sowell	United States	2007 to 2009	11	Unknown	Known as The Cleveland Strangler, he was convicted of killing 11 women between 2007 and 2009, and is suspected in another series of murders in the 1980s, with the two sets of killings separated by a 15-year stint in prison. Sentenced to death.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Andre Crawford	United States	1993 to 1999	11		Murdered 11 women between 1993 and 1999. Sentenced to life in prison.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Francisco García Escalero	Spain	1987 to 1994	11		Known as "The Killer Beggar". A necrophilic, schizophrenic homeless man found insane and confined to a psychiatric hospital after killing 11 prostitutes and other homeless people between 1987 and 1994. Died in 2014.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Robledo Puch	Argentina	1971	11		Convicted of 11 murders and multiple other crimes including attempted murder and sexual assault. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Adnan Çolak	Turkey	1992 to 1995	11		Killed 11 elderly women aged 68 to 95 and raped six others. Sentenced to death but commuted to life in prison after Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2004.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Seisaku Nakamura	Japan	1938 to 1942	11		Teenage serial killer known as the "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer" for having being born deaf. Murdered 11 people (including his brother) and attacked many others, among them his father, sister, brother-in-law and nephew. Tried as an adult and executed by hanging.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Very Idham Henyansyah	Indonesia	2008 and earlier	11		Known as the "singing serial killer" and "Ryan", the artistic name he adopted while awaiting his execution in prison, where he recorded an album and wrote his autobiography. "Ryan" confessed to murdering 11 people including a toddler; 10 of his victims were buried in his parents' home backyard while the last one was butchered and hidden in a suitcase. Sentenced to death.	Homosexual	Male	Male and Female
Francisco de Assis Pereira	Brazil	1997 to 1998	11		Rapist and serial killer, known as "O Maníaco do Parque" (The Park Maniac). He was arrested for the torture, rape and death of 11 women and for assaulting nine in a park in São Paulo, Brazil during the 1990s. Pereira found his victims by posing as a talent scout for a modeling agency. Sentenced to 268 years.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Roshu Kha	Bangladesh	2008	11		Raped and murdered garment workers after being rejected by his lover. Sentenced to death.	Heterosexual		All Female
Gao Chengyong	China	1998 to 2002	11		Known as "Chinese Jack the Ripper"; killed women and then mutilated their corpses. Executed in 2019.	Heterosexual		All Female
Marie Alexandrine Becker	Belgium	1933 to 1936	11		Poisoned wealthy clients while working as a seamstress. Died in prison in 1942.	Heterosexual	Female	Male and Female
Ruslan Khamarov	Ukraine	2000 to 2003	11		Seduced, raped and then killed women in his home; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Yevgeny Petrov	Russia	1998 to 2003	11		Known as the "Novouralsk Ripper"; pedophile who kidnapped, raped and killed young girls around Novouralsk, mutilating and burning their corpses afterwards; sentenced to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual		All Female
Rudolf Pleil	West Germany	1946 to 1947	10	25	Known as Der Totmacher ("The Deadmaker"). Convicted of killing a salesman and nine women. Claimed to have killed 25. Committed suicide by hanging in 1958.	Heterosexual		All Female
Milton Johnson	United States	1983	10	17	Known as "The Weekend Murderer" killed up to 17 people. Sentenced to life without parole.	Heterosexual		Male and Female
Long Island serial killer	United States	1996 to 2011	10	14	Unidentified serial killer also known as "The Gilgo Beach Killer". Believed to have murdered 10 to 14 people associated with the sex trade over a period of 15 years.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Unconfirmed Male	Male and Female
Daniel Lee Siebert	United States	1979 to 1986	10	13	Convicted of a 1979 manslaughter; killed 10 people across America in three months in mid-1980s including two children and a Southside Slayer victim. Sentenced to death; died from cancer in prison in 2008.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Joseph James DeAngelo	United States	1979 to 1986	12		Top suspect in the murders committed by "Golden State Killer", "Original Night Stalker", and "East Area Rapist". Committed at least 12 murders, 50 rapes, and 120 burglaries across California in the 1970s and 1980s. He was identified and arrested in 2018 after DNA evidence confirmed it was him.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Lonnie David Franklin Jr.	United States	1985 to 2007	10	25	Known as the "Grim Sleeper" for the alleged 14-year hiatus he took from murdering between 1988 and 2002. Shot and strangled his victims, mostly women, around South Los Angeles. Sentenced to death.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Sergey Cherny	Russia	1999	10	11	Strangled women around Smolensk; suspected of the drowning death of another woman; died in 2001 from pneumonia while in a special psychiatric hospital.	Heterosexual		All Female
Bobby Joe Long	United States	1984	10	10+	Known as "The Classified Ad Rapist"; killed 10 women in Tampa Bay, Florida in 1984. Sentenced to death. Executed by lethal injection on 23 May 2019.	Heterosexual		All Female
Stewart Wilken	South Africa	1990 to 1997	10	10+	Known as "Boetie Boer"; raped, sodomised and murdered 10 victims from 1990–1997. Sentenced to seven life terms.	Unconfirmed Bisexual	Male	Male and Female
David Randitsheni	South Africa	2004 to 2008	10	10+	Kidnapped 19 people, raped 17, and murdered 10. Sentenced to 16 consecutive life sentences plus 220 years in prison; hanged himself three weeks after conviction.	Unconfirmed	Male	Male and Female
Edmund Kemper	United States	1964 to 1973	10		Called "The Co-ed Butcher." At age 15, he confessed to murdering his grandparents and served six years as a criminally insane juvenile. He was released in 1969. In 1972 and 1973, he murdered and dismembered six young women, then killed his mother and her friend. He was sentenced to eight counts of seven years to life. His mother refused to show him affection out of fear that she would "turn him gay" and told the young Kemper that he reminded her of his father and that no woman would ever love him.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Dennis Rader	United States	1974 to 2004	10		Known as the BTK Killer. Murdered 10 people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole for 175 years.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Ali Kaya	Turkey	1997 to present	10		Known as "the baby faced killer"; responsible for 10 murders. Escaped from prison and later recaptured.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Robert Wagner	Australia	1992 to 1999	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.	Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Jeanne Weber	France	1905 to 1908	10		Transient baby-sitter who strangled children in her care. Declared insane. Hanged herself in prison in 1918.	Heterosexual	Female	Male and Female
Henry Louis Wallace	United States	1990 to 1994	10		Confessed to 10 murders in Charlotte, North Carolina. The victims were all women that he knew. Sentenced to death.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Angelo Buono Jr.	United States	1977 to 1979	10		Convicted of strangling 10 women. One of the "Hillside Stranglers". Died in prison from a heart attack in 2002.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Satish	India	1995 to 1998	10		Killed 10 girls who were between the ages of five and nine. He was arrested from Bahadurgargh, Haryana after a long chase by Haryana police.	Heterosexual	Male	All Female
Zhou Kehua	China	2004 to 2012	10		A former soldier who targeted ATM users. He killed 10 people and evaded the law for eight years, before being shot in a shootout with police after a year-long manhunt.	Unconfirmed Heterosexual	Male	Male and Female
Kang Ho-sun	South Korea	2006 to 2008	10		Sentenced to death in 2010 for killing 10 women, including his wife and mother-in-law.	Heterosexual		All Female
Eduard Shemyakov	Russia	1996 to 1998	10		Known as the "Resort Maniac"; Ukrainian who raped, killed and dismembered women in St. Petersburg, supposedly cannibalizing one of the victims, his mother; sentenced to compulsory treatment. The killer was caught after killing his sister's girlfriend.	Heterosexual		All Female
Oleg Kuznetsov	Soviet Union Russia Ukraine	1991 to 1992	10		Robbed, raped and killed people around Russia and Ukraine; sentenced to death but commuted to life imprisonment.	Heterosexual	m	A F
Stanislav Rogolev	Soviet Union	1980 to 1982	10		Known as "Agent 000"; killed and raped women, managing to avoid capture through suspected knowledge of the investigation against him; executed by firing squad in 1984.	Heterosexual	m	a f
Volker Eckert	East Germany GermanyFrance Spain Czech Republic (suspected) Italy (suspected)	1974 to 2006	9–13	19+	German trucker who confessed to having abducted, tortured and killed five prostitutes through his route in Western Europe, plus strangling a 14-year-old girl in his native West Germany in 1974, when he was 15. Police considered him perpetrator of nine murders (with four more being possible); he hanged himself in prison before being convicted.	Heterosexual	m	a f
Louis van Schoor	South Africa	1986 to 1989	9	100	Former security guard who was convicted of seven murders and two assassinations, but confessed to a reporter that he murdered 100 people; sentenced to 20 years in prison and released on parole in 2004.
Peter Kürten	German Empire Germany	1913 to 1930	9	79	Charged with nine murders and seven attempted murders. Dubbed "The Vampire of Düsseldorf" by the contemporary media. Executed by guillotine in 1931.
Roger Dale Stafford	United States	1974 to 1978	9	34	Killed nine people in two states, including a family of three; his wife implicated him in 34 total murders in different states; executed by lethal injection in 1995.
Norman Afzal Simons	South Africa	1986 to 1994	9	22	Known as the "Station Strangler", convicted of only one of 22 cases of murder and sodomy of young children near Cape Town. Sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Francis Heaulme	France	1984 to 1992	9	20	Convicted of killing nine people, but suspected in the murder of dozens. He is known as the "Criminal Backpacker" due to his travels throughout France. He left a trail of bodies wherever he went.
Joel Rifkin	United States	1989 to 1993	9	17	Known as "The Drifter", killed prostitutes in New York City, most of them drug addicts. Convicted of nine murders but believed to have committed 17; also suspected of being the unidentified Long Island serial killer. Sentenced to 203 years to imprisonment for life.
Dagmar Overbye	Denmark	1913 to 1920	9	15	Murdered between nine and 25 children—of which one was her own—during a seven-year period. In 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 minder, caring for babies born outside of marriage, murdering her 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. Died in prison in 1929.
Kenneth McDuff	United States	1966 to 1992	9	14+	Known as "The Broomstick Killer"; death sentence for 1966 triple-murder was commuted. Killed again three days after 1989 parole and 10 further times in Waco, Texas until 1992. Executed by lethal injection in 1998.
Robert Joseph Silveria Jr.	United States	1981 to 1996	9	14+	Known as "The Boxcar Killer"; freight train rider convicted of beating to death fellow transients and confessed to dozens more.
Richard Biegenwald	United States	1958 to 1983	9	11+	Known as "The Thrill Killer". Killed at least nine people in Monmouth County, New Jersey and is suspected in at least two other murders. Died of respiratory and kidney failure in 2008.
Alexander Bychkov	Russia	2009 to 2012	9	11	Described in his personal diary how he killed 11 men who were alcoholics and tramps. Confessed to eating body parts of his victims. Found guilty of nine murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
New Bedford Highway Killer	United States	1988 to 1989	9	11	Unidentified serial killer who killed nine women and disappearance of two others between 1988 and 1989.
Maryvale serial shooter	United States	2015 to 2016	9	11	Motorist who shot 12 people in separate events in Phoenix, Arizona, killing nine. Aaron Saucedo was charged with the shootings and two additional murders in 2017.
Viktor Fokin	Russia	1996 to 2000	9	10+	Known as the "Grandfather Ripper"; pensioner who lured, killed and then dismembered prostitutes and alcohol abusers in his home, disposing of the remains in garbage containers after; died while imprisoned at a corrective labor colony.
Edgecombe County Serial Killer	United States	2000s	9	10	Unidentified serial killer who killed nine women and possibly another who disappeared since 2005 around Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Antwan Pittman was convicted in one case.
Joseph Paul Franklin	United States	1977 to 1980	8–15	20	White supremacist shooter who confessed to 20 murders and several attempted murders. Executed by lethal injection in 2013.
Yoshio Kodaira	ChinaJapan	1928? to 1946	8–11+	Unknown	A serial rapist, Kodaira killed his father-in-law in 1932 and eight to 10 women in Japan between 1945 and 1946, engaging in necrophilia after the fifth murder. Previously (1920s) he had been deployed to Northern China as a sailor in the Imperial Japanese Navy, where he was free to target the locals. Hanged in 1949.
Keith Hunter Jesperson	United States	1990 to 1995	8	160	Dubbed the "Happy Face Killer", Jesperson was convicted of killing eight women by strangulation.
Rodney Alcala	United States	1971 to 1979	8	130+	Known as the "Dating Game Killer" for appearing on the game show The Dating Game in the middle of his killing years. Was convicted of at least five murders, though his actual total is estimated to be much higher.
Kiyotaka Katsuta	Japan	1982 to 1983	8	22	Strangled or shot people to rob them, using a gun he had stolen from a policeman after running him over with his car. Hanged in 2000.
Pierre Chanal	France	1980 to 1988	8	17	Military instructor suspected of killing boys and men in Marne; committed suicide before trial.
Christopher Wilder	United States	1984	8	13+	Killed eight women during a spree before accidentally shooting himself; suspected in the disappearance and murder of more than five more.
Axeman of New Orleans	United States	1918 to 1919	8	12+	Unidentified serial killer of at least eight people in the New Orleans area from May 1918 to October 1919.
Vladimir Retunsky	Russia	1990 to 1996	8	12	Known as the "Povorinsky Maniac"; kidnapped, raped and killed hitchhikers in his hometown of Povorino, possibly abusing their corpses; initially sentenced to death, but later reduced to 15 years imprisonment and released in 2015.
Gilbert Paul Jordan	Canada	1965 to 1987	8	10	Known as the "Boozing Barber", he would typically find alcoholic women in bars in Vancouver's destitute Downtown Eastside, buy them drinks or pay them for sex and encourage them to drink with him. When they passed out, he would pour more liquor down their throats. The resulting deaths were reported as alcohol poisoning and generally ignored by police as the intentional murders blended in with the common occurrence in that neighbourhood. Died in 2006.
Nikolai Dzhumagaliev	Soviet Union	1980 and earlier	7	50–100	Lured women in a park at night and hacked them with an axe as part of a plan to rid the world of prostitution. Also cooked parts of his victims and ate them himself or served them to other people as part of ethnic dishes. Found innocent by reason of insanity and interned in a mental institution.
Manuel Delgado Villegas	Spain France (claimed) Italy (claimed)	1964 to 1971	7	48	Wandering criminal known as El Arropiero ("The Arrope Trader") and El Estrangulador del Puerto ("The Strangler of Puerto"). Confessed to the impulsive murders of 48 people of different sex, age, wealth and sexual orientation in three countries (including his girlfriend, whom he strangled during sex), but police only investigated him for 22 murders in Spain and was considered proven author of seven. Some of his victims were killed with hand to hand combat techniques that he had learned in the Spanish Foreign Legion. Diagnosed with XYY syndrome and interned in a mental institution until his death in 1998.
Ershad Sikder	Bangladesh	1991 to 1999	7	43+	Career criminal and corrupt politician responsible for numerous torture murders in the 1990s; convincted on seven counts and executed 2004.
Ivan Milat	Australia	1990s	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.
Michael Wayne McGray	Canada United States	1980s to 2010s	7	18	Convicted of the murder of six people in the late 1990s, including a woman and her 11-year-old daughter. Claims to have killed 11 others, including murders committed while on parole and while on a three-day pass from prison. Finally imprisoned for life, killed a cellmate in 2010.
Kenneth Erskine	United Kingdom	1986	7	11	Known as "The Stockwell Strangler", he was a burglar who raped and strangled at least seven elderly women after breaking into their homes.
David Carpenter	United States	1979 to 1981	7	11	Known as "The Trailside Killer"; murdered women on San Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981. Sentenced to death.
Vladimir Kuzmin	Russia	1997	7	11	Raped, murdered and robbed mostly young boys and men in Moscow; assisted in his first two murders by Denis Kalistratov; sentenced to life imprisonment.
Bruce McArthur	Canada	2008 to 2017	7	10–100	Gay serial murderer and rapist who would target homosexual men, and hide their bodies in garden planters.
Tommy Recco	France	1960 to 1980	7	10	Murdered his godfather in 1960; after release, killed six cashiers in two separate store raids; also suspected of murdering a trio of German tourists.
Todd Kohlhepp	United States	2003 to 2016	7	7	A registered sex offender; Shot up a motorcycle shop in 2003, killing 4; killed 3 more victims in 2015 and 2016; is currently serving 7 life sentences for the crimes.
Ohio Prostitute Killer	United States	1981 to 2004	7	10	Supposedly murdered prostitutes and exotic dancers; his first victim was Marcia King, who was identified in 2018.
Derrick Todd Lee	United States	2002	7	10	Known as the "Baton Rouge or South Louisiana Serial Killer" convicted of three murders. Believed to have murdered several other women in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Sentenced to death, died in 2016.
Tomás Maldonado Cera	Colombia	2002 to 2018	7	10	Known as "The Satanist"; killed people in Barranquila for the purpose of satanic rituals.
David Berkowitz	United States	1976 to 1977	6		Known as "Son of Sam", he went after young women and couples killing 6 people and wounding 7 others with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver. He was caught when an eyewitness to his last murder saw he had a parking ticket on his car. He was sentenced to life in prison with parole in 1978.
Tommy Lynn Sells	United States	1980 to 1999	6	70?	Drifter active throughout the United States 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. Executed in 2014.
Władysław Mazurkiewicz	Poland	1950s	6	30	Known as "The Gentleman Killer". Indicted of, and confessed to having committed 30 murders; convicted of six and hanged in 1957.
Gong Runbo	China	2005 to 2006	6	20+	Found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers aged between nine and 16 from 2005 to 2006; executed in 2007.
Cristopher Chávez Cuellar	Colombia	1990s to 2015	6	15+	Known as "The Soulless"; killed between 6 and at least 15 people starting from the 1990s, including 4 underage brothers; sentenced to 40 years imprisonment.
András Pándy	Belgium	1986 to 1990	6	14+	Former clergyman nicknamed "Father Bluebeard", killed his two wives and four of his children with the help of a fifth he was having an incestuous affair with, and whom denounced him to the authorities seven years later. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002.
John Wayne Glover	Australia	1989 to 1990	6	13	British ex-pat living in Australia. Known by the media as "The Granny Killer" as he targeted elderly women; committed suicide while in prison in 2005.
Alexander Sergeychik	Belarus	2000 to 2006	6	12	Killed between six and 12 people under the influence of alcohol. Executed in 2007.
Adrián Arroyo Gutiérrez	Costa Rica	2014 to 2015	6	11	Known as "The Southern Psychopath"; raped and strangled drug-addicted prostitutes in San José; sentenced to 110 years imprisonment.
Joseph Naso	United States	1977 to 1994	6	10	A freelance photographers who raped and strangled to death women in California. Arrested in 2011 and sentenced to death two years later. Known as "The Double Initial Killer" since first four victims to be identified bore double initials.
Terry Peder Rasmussen	United States	1978 to 2002	6	6+	Known as the "Chameleon Killer"; main suspect in the Bear Brook murders, as well as other murders.
Richard Cottingham	United States	1977 to 1980	5	85–100	Killer operating in New York and New Jersey who often targeted prostitutes and utilized mutilation as well as dismemberment in his killings. Known as the "Torso Killer", convicted of five murders. He made claims of victim count as up to a hundred, however, there was no evidence to support this and is considered unsubstantiated.
Zodiac Killer	United States	1962 to 1977	5	37	Targeted young couples. Remains unsolved but open in the California jurisdictions where the five certain Zodiac murders occurred. Potentially 37 total victims claimed but unverified.
John Floyd Thomas Jr.	United States	1957 to 2009	5	17–25	Serial murderer and rapist with one of the longest criminal careers in the US.
Carl Panzram	United States Portuguese Angola	1915 to 1929	5	22	From 1920 to 1928, he claimed in a posthumous autobiography to have committed over 22 killings, and sodomy of more than 1000 young men. Executed in 1930 by hanging.
Steve Wright	United Kingdom	2006	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.
Michel Peiry	Switzerland France United States Yugoslavia (suspected) Italy (suspected)	1981 to 1987	5	11	Known as the "Sadist of Romont"; Swiss soldier who sexually abused and murdered at least 5 hitchhikers in several countries; sentenced to life imprisonment.
Hubert Pilčík	Czechoslovakia	1948 to 1951	5	10+	Made money smuggling people across the Czechoslovakia-Germany border, but killed most of his customers. Total number of his victims is unknown.
Thomas Dillon	United States	1989 to 1992	5		Killed outdoorsmen in rural Ohio by sniping them from afar with a hunting rifle.
Joe Metheny	United States	1976 to 1996	5	10	Butchered his victims, then served them at BBQs at his roadside stand; died in prison.