List of Serial Killers |
A relatively complete list. |
Albert Fish |
A serial child murderer, known for sado-masochistic tendencies, boasted about having "a child in every state". Sexually abused his victims before killing them. |
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Andrei Chikatilo |
A serial woman murderer, convicted of killing 52. Achieved sexual arousal by stabbing and slashing women to death |
Armin Meiwes |
A German computer technician, notorious for killing and eating a voluntary victim he found via the Internet. |
The Axeman of New Orleans |
A serial killer in the late 1910s, responsible for 8 deaths and much panic. Never caught. |
Charles Manson |
An American criminal who led the "Manson Family," a quasi-commune that arose in the U.S. state of California in the later 1960s. |
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Cleveland Torso Murderer |
An unknown serial killer active in the early 20th century. Always beheaded and often dismembered his victims, sometimes also cutting the torso in half. |
David Parker Ray |
An American serial killer who murdered 60 people in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. |
Delphine LaLaurie |
A socialite and sadist in New Orleans in the 1800s. Many of her slaves were found chained up in the attic after being subjected to sick, twisted torture. |
Dennis Rader |
An American serial killer who murdered 10 people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas. |
Donner Party |
A group of American settlers who where caught up in the "westering fever" and had to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. |
Ed Gein |
Lead inspiration for Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho, killed 3-5 women, committing necrophilia with many dug up from local cemetery. |
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Elizabeth Bathory |
Perhaps the most prolific female serial killer ever. |
Gilles de Rais |
French noble, soldier, and one time brother-in-arms of Joan of Arc, but is perhaps best known as a prolific serial killer. |
Dr. Henry Howard Holmes |
Possibly the first American serial killer. Trapped and murdered possibly hundreds of guests at his Chicago hotel, among other crimes and killings. |
Issei Sagawa |
A Japanese cannibal. |
Jack the Ripper |
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Jack the Stripper |
A serial killer copying the style of Jack the Ripper, in the 1960s. |
Jeffery Dahmer |
A serial killer who drilled holes into peoples skulls and poured acid into them while they were still alive, raped them, and used their skin, bones, body parts as trophies, lamp shades and other gruesome things. He used human skulls to make an altar in his closet. Also kept body parts in his fridge and freezer as trophies. Ate parts of them later, sometimes engaging in necrophilia. |
Jim Jones |
The American founder of the Peoples Temple, killed over 900 cult followers by ordering them to drink cyanide laced Flavor Aid or shoot themselves. |
Joachim Kroll |
A serial killer and cannibal, claiming responsibility for 13 deaths. |
John Wayne Gacy |
An American serial killer of boys and young men, notoriously known as the "Killer Clown". |
Joseph Mengele |
Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and a physician in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau who gained notoriety for performing human experiments. |
Joseph Vacher |
The French Ripper. |
Lizzie Borden |
Supposedly murdered her father and stepmother, but was famously acquitted. |
The London Monster |
The name given to an alleged attacker of women in London between 1788 and 1790. |
Mad Gasser of Mattoon |
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon was the name given to the person or persons believed to be behind a series of apparent gas attacks. |
Nikolai "Metal Fang" Dzhumagaliev |
Kazakh serial killer with metal teeth who served portions of his victims to friends. Released from a mental institution in 1994 and currently a free man living somewhere in the former Soviet Union. |
Pol Pot |
Pol Pot became the Prime Minister of Cambodia in 1976. During his cadence, he established a version of agrarian collectivization whereby city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The estimated death toll caused by malnutrition, lack of medical care and executions sums up to 1.7 million people (26% of the population of Cambodia). |
Sylvestre Matuschka |
A former officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, supposedly took sexual pleasure from blowing up rail tracks to derail trains. Killed 22 people. |
Ted Bundy |
Also a serial woman murderer, bludgeoned his victims, then strangled them to death. Engaged in rape and necrophilia. Admitted killing 30 women. |