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Norwegian-born murder-for-profit killer who killed her suitors and children Hahn, Anna Marie: 1933–1937 5 5 Executed 1938 German-born murder-for-profit killer who poisoned five elderly men Halbower, Rodney: 1976 3 5 Sentenced to life imprisonment Suspect in the Gypsy Hill killings: Hale, William: 1921–1925 18 24+ Released in 1947
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.
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In the 1970s and 1980s serial murder cases such as the Green River Killer, Ted Bundy, and BTK sparked a renewed public interest in serial murder, which blossomed in the 1990s after the release of ...
- Dennis Rader, Aka The BTK Killer
- Ted Bundy
- John Wayne Gacy
- Sam Little
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- David Berkowitz
- Richard Cottingham
- Belle Gunness
- Dean Corll
- Gary Ridgway
Dennis Rader was a serial killer in Kansas who murdered 10 people over the span of three decades, dubbing himself BTK because he bound, tortured, and killed his victims. He committed his first murders in January of 1974 when he strangled four family members, including two children. He is known for hiding in plain sight, having been the president of...
Having been the subject of several films and documentaries,Ted Bundy is well known for his crimes. Having been described as intelligent and charming, Bundy used his good looks to lure his victims in, sexually assaulting and killing at least 36 women across Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and Florida between 1974 and 1978. Some have estimated he...
John Wayne Gacy was responsible for the deaths of at least 33 boys and young men in Chicago in the 1970s, but he has also been used as a figure in the media due to his performance as a party clown at children's parties and social events. Gacy was arrested several times for sexual assault in the 60s, the first being a teenage boy. After being releas...
Serial killer Samuel Little was known as one of the most prolific killers in American history. Having gone undetected for decades, Little confessed to killing 93 victims in 19 states between 1970 and 2005. According to the FBIin 2019, law enforcement had been able to verify 50 of the confessions; most of his victims were marginalized, young Black w...
Jeffrey Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was a notorious killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered 17 boys and young men between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer was arrested in 1991 after a man named Tracy Edwardswas found by police running down the street in handcuffs, having narrowly escaped Dahmer's clutches. Policelater went to Dahm...
David Berkowitz, AKA Son of Sam, brought fear and terror to New York City in 1976 and 1977 and was the cause of one of the largest manhunts in NYC history. Berkowitz wrote in his diary that he set around 1,500 fires in New York City in the mid-1970s and claimed to be driven by demons. He killed a total of six victims and injured more, often targeti...
In the late 1970s and early 80s, Richard Cottingham, otherwise known as the Torso Killer, left a trail of brutal murders in his wake in New York City. For several months, women, mostly sex workers, were found in hotel rooms, their bodies horrifically mutilated. He was given the name Torso Killer because he often cut off his victims' heads and hands...
Belle Gunness, who was known as "Hell's Belle," is unlike the other killers on this list. One of the most notorious women in the U.S., Gunness is said to have killed at least 14 people, but some believe she may have had up to 40 victims. In the late 1800s, Gunness moved from Chicago to a pig farm in Indiana. She reportedly murdered her two husbands...
Dean "Candy Man" Corll made a name for himself as the culprit behind the Houston Mass Murders. Between 1970 and 1973, Corll killed at least 28 young boys. Corll was an electrician and former candy store owner who used two teenage accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, to lure young boys to his apartment, where they were shackled, se...
Gary Ridgway became known as the Green River Killer and later was known as the deadliest convicted serial killer. He claims to have killed over 80 women in Washington in the 1980s and 90s, but he pled guilty in 2003 to killing 48. In 1980, Ridgway was arrested for choking a prostitute, though no charges were ever filed. He was arrested again for so...
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This is a list of notable serial killers, ordered alphabetically by country of origin or residence. American. David Berkowitz. Boston Strangler. Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahmer. John Wayne Gacy. Ed Gein. Herman Webster Mudgett.
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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. [1] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial murder as "a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not ...
Pedro Lopez. One of the world’s most prolific serial killers might still be out there. Pedro Lopez is linked to more than 300 murders in his native Colombia and in Ecuador and Peru. At least one-third of those murders were tribal women. After Lopez’s arrest in 1980, police found the graves of more than 50 of his preteen victims.
