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The United States has by far the largest number of documented serial killers in the world. According to Radford University's Serial Killer Information Center, it has more documented serial killers than the next ten highest countries on the list.
- Alcala, Rodney
Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor;...
- Barnabet, Clementine
Clementine Barnabet (c. 1894 – after 1923) was an accused...
- Acevedo, Francisco
Francisco Acevedo (born September 2, 1968) is an American...
- Little, Samuel
Samuel Little (né McDowell; June 7, 1940 – December 30,...
- Lists of Serial Killers
This is a list of lists of serial killers. List of serial...
- Allen, Quincy
Quincy Jovan Allen (born November 7, 1979) is an American...
- Robert Sylvester Alston
Robert Sylvester Alston (born May 19, 1969) is an American...
- Briley Brothers
Linwood Earl Briley, James Dyral Briley Jr. (J.B.), and...
- Atkins, Benjamin
Benjamin Thomas Atkins (August 26, 1968 – September 17,...
- Alcala, Rodney
Serial killers with the highest known victim count. Excluding these "Medical professionals and pseudo-medical professionals", with their ability to kill simply and in plain sight, and Serial killer groups and couples (below), this list is a compilation of modern serial killers currently with the highest verifiable murder count.
A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders three or more people, with the killings taking place over a significant period of time between them.
This is a list of serial killers who were active between 2020 and the present. A serial killer is typically defined as an individual who murders more than two people with a cooling-off period.
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Dennis Lynn Rader was born in Pittsburg, Kansas, on March 9, 1945, to bookkeeper Dorothea Mae Rader (née Cook; September 17, 1925 – October 14, 2007) and Kansas Gas Service worker William Elvin Rader (November 21, 1922 – December 27, 1996), the eldest of four sons. Rader grew up in Wichita. Both parents worked long hours and paid little attention t...
Confirmed murders
On January 15, 1974, four members of the Otero family were murdered in Wichita, Kansas. The victims were Joseph Otero Sr., 38; Julia Maria "Julie" Otero, 33; Joseph "Joey" Otero II, 9; and Josephine "Josie" Otero, 11. Their bodies were discovered by the family's three older children who had been at school at the time of the killings. After his 2005 arrest, Rader confessed to killing the Otero family.Rader claimed that he first targeted the family two months prior to their murders when he spot...
Suspected murders
On August 23, 2023, the Associated Press reported that Rader was considered the prime suspect in two further killings in Oklahoma and Missouri. Authorities discovered "possible trophies" from victims after launching a search for evidence at his former Kansashome resulting in the investigation of Rader's potential involvement in additional unsolved disappearances and murders: 1. 16-year-old Cynthia Dawn Kinney was last seen in Osage, Oklahoma, on June 23, 1976, at Osage Laundromat. Witnesses s...
Cold case
By 2004, the investigation of the BTK Killer was considered a cold case. Then, Rader initiated a series of eleven communications to the local media. This activity led directly to his arrest in February 2005. In March 2004, The Wichita Eagle received a letter from someone using the name "Bill Thomas Killman". The author of the letter claimed that he had murdered Vicki Wegerle on September 16, 1986, and enclosed photographs of the crime scene and a photocopy of her driver's license, which had b...
On February 28, 2005, Rader was charged with 10 counts of first degree murder. Soon after his arrest, the Associated Press cited an anonymous source alleging that Rader had confessed to other murders in addition to those with which he had been connected. However, the Sedgwick County district attorney denied the story, yet refused to say whether Rad...
Forensic psychologist Katherine Ramsland compiled Confession of a Serial Killerfrom her five-year correspondence with Rader. Multiple works draw on the case: 1. Stephen King has said his novella A Good Marriage, and the film based on it, were inspired by the BTK killer. 2. Novelist Thomas Harris has said that the character of Francis Dolarhyde in h...
Beattie, Robert. Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt for the BTK Strangler. New American Library, 2005. ISBN 0-451-21738-1.Davis, Jeffrey M. The Shadow of Evil: Where Is God in a Violent World?. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996. ISBN 0-7872-1981-9. (Davis is the son of BTK victim Dolores Davis.)Douglas, John E. Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind Thirty Years of Hunting for the Wichita Serial Killer. Jossey Bass Wiley, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7879-8484-7.Ramsland, Katherine. Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. Foredge, 2016. ISBN 978-1-5126-0152-7.The Wichita EagleCollection of articles and videos about BTK- Incarcerated
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- BTK, BTK Killer, BTK Strangler
- Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 175 years, (10 consecutive life sentences)
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