Victims
Name(s)
138-300+ Luis Garavito
110-300+ Pedro López
'Location
Colombia
Date
1990s
Colombia, Peru,
1980s
Ecuador
274+
Amelia Dyer
Reading, Bristol,
1860s to 1896
London
250+
Harold
Shipman
Hyde, United
Kingdom
Countess
100-200+ Elizabeth
Báthory
1990s
Csejte, Kingdom
1500s
of Hungary
Additional information
Child-murderer, torturekiller, and rapist known as
"La Bestia" aka "The Beast."
Convicted of killing 138
victims but suspected of
murdering over 300 victims,
mostly street children.
Sentenced to 1,853 years but
could only be imprisoned for
30 which was reduced to 22
after aiding investigators.
Child-murderer and rapist,
convicted of killing 110
young girls but confessed to
killing 300, exact total
unknown. Known as "The
Monster of the Andes" and
sentenced in 1983 but
released in 1998, believed to
still be killing.
Only convicted of one
murder. Killed 274 babies,
confirmed after her death
when their bodies were
recovered from the River
Thames. Estimated to have
killed between 274 and 400
babies, however, lack of
evidence cannot confirm the
exact number. Baby-farm
murderess.
Convicted of 15 murders and
responsible for the deaths of
218 patients identified by
inquiry but he is believed to
have killed up to 250 people.
He would inject diamorphine
into his patients and then
falsify his own medical
records reporting that his
patient had been in poor
health. Known as Doctor
Death.
Hungarian noblewoman,
countess, allegedly the most
prolific female murderer in
Darya
Saltykova
Russian Empire 1800s
125
Thug Behram
India
1850s
103+
Miyuki
Ishikawa
Shinjuku,
Tokyo, Japan
1940s
100
Javed Iqbal
38–138
Lahore, Pakistan 1996 to 1999
history. Total killings
unknown, accusations
pointed to between 100 and
700 victims but she is
believed to have actually
killed 100 to 200 people.
Possibly the victim of
conspiracy and may have
been innocent.
Russian noblewoman.
Accused of up to 138
murders; found guilty of 38
murders.
Thugee cult leader.
Confessed to have personally
murdered more than 125
victims and present at 931
murders perpetrated by his
cult. Behram is often quoted
as having killed 931 people.
This figure was the number
of murders Behram had been
present at, though he was
never convicted of these
murders. This lower figure
was the conclusion of James
Paton's investigations in the
1830s. The Thugee cult as
whole, however, were
adjudged to have been
responsible for 50,000–
1,000,000 murders in total.
Euthanized more than a 103
newborn children. As a
maternity nurse she killed
infants born to parents
unwilling to care for them
during the prohibition of
abortion in Japan. Sentenced
to 4 years in prison.
Child-murderer. Pakistan's
most profuse killer,
confessed to killing 100
children and convicted of the
same number. Found dead in
his prison cell possibly
tortured and murdered, ruled
90+
Green River
Gary Ridgway Valley, Washington, 1982 to 2000
United States
90+
Delfina and
Guanajuato,
María de Jesús
Mexico
González
80–200+ Gilles de Rais
Brittany
1955 to 1964
1435 to 1440
80-110
Donald Henry
South Carolina,
1953 to 1982
Gaskins
United States
72-150
Daniel Barbosa
Colombia,
Ecuador
1974 to 1986
a suicide.
The United States' most
prolific serial killer; also
known as The Green River
Killer. He almost exclusively
targeted escorts from Seattle.
Once there he would
proposition a prostitute, drive
to the banks of the Green
River, and strangle her to
death. After murdering his
victim he would dump their
body in the nearby water.
Suspected of killing over 90
victims, confessed to 71,
convicted of 48.
Two sisters who hired
prostitutes and murdered
them after they were deemed
useless. Probably the work of
four of the sisters, sentenced
to 40 years in prison. Body
count varies due to the
combined work of the sisters
being impossible to assign to
them individually.
Child-murderer and
companion-of-arms to Joan
of Arc. Convicted of 80
murders and suspected of
200, estimated total ranges
substantially.
Child-murderer, known as
the "Meanest Man In
America" and "Pee-Wee",
convicted of killing 9 people
but suspected of 80 murders.
Killed three victims while
incarcerated, one of which
by using C-4. Later
confessed on death row that
he had murdered 110
victims. Executed in 1991.
Child-murderer, believed to
have possibly raped and
killed over 150 victims
primarily young virgin girls.
Pedro
70–100 Rodrigues
Filho
Brazil
1967 to 2003
67
Yang Xinhai
People's
Republic of China
61
Alexander
Pichushkin
Moscow,
1992 to 2006
Russian Federation
David Parker
Ray
Truth or
Consequences, New
1950 to 1999
Mexico, United
States
53
Andrei
Chikatilo
Rostov-on-Don,
USSR/Russian
1978 to 1990
Federation
52
Anatoly
Onopriyenko
Lviv,
USSR/Ukraine
42
Ahmad Suradji
14-60
Indonesia
2000 to 2003
1989 to 1996
1986 to 1997
Confessed to killing 72
victims and incarcerated with
Pedro Alonso Lopez.
Considered to be intelligent
and believed to have been
motivated to kill from his
stepmother abusing him as a
child.
Convicted and sentenced to
128 years, but the maximum
one can serve in Brazil is 30
years. He has claimed to
have killed over 100 victims,
40 of them inmates.
Killed 65 victims in four
provinces of China, known
as the "Monster Killer."
Known as the Chessboard
Killer. Killed at least 49
victims and suspected of 61,
claimed 63. Russian
Federation's most prolific
serial killer.
Torture-murderer, targeted
women, convicted of killing
14 victims and suspected of
60 murders. Constructed a
$100,000 torture chamber
which he called his toy-box
to murder victims in.
Known as Butcher of
Rostov, The Red Ripper or
The Rostov Ripper.
Convicted of the highest
number of serial killings in
modern Russia's history, 52.
Executed in 1994.
Soviet serial killer, convicted
of killing 52 victims during
six years known as "The
Beast of Ukraine", "The
Terminator" and "Citizen O."
Sentenced to death
commuted to life.
Convicted of killing 42
women and girls in a series
of ritual slayings he believed
would give him magical
powers. Executed by firing
squad on 11 July 2008.
40
40-189+
38
5-37
36
Illinois and
Belle Gunness Indiana, United
States
Henry Lee
Lucas
Virginia, Texas,
Florida, possibly in
other areas of the
1960 to 1983
Southern United
States.
Moses Sithole
South Africa
1994 to 1995
The Zodiac
Killer
United States
1962 to 1977
Donald Harvey
36–100 Serhiy Tkach
35+
1900 to 1908
Ted Bundy
Kentucky and
1970 to 1987
Ohio, United States
USSR/Ukraine
1984 to 2005
Washington,
Utah, Colorado,
1974 to 1978
Florida and other
states, United States
May have killed up to 60.
Confessed to killing 600
people but later recanted and
is suspected of lying about a
majority of his murders.
Probably responsible for the
deaths of 40 people. He
originally offered a list of 77
women from 19 different
states, as he confessed to
more and more murders, the
details became increasingly
more bizarre. Some included
dismemberment, necrophilia,
even cannibalism. Lawmen
linked the Lucas and Otis
Toole to 81 murders alone.
South African serial killer.
He used the disguise of a
businessman and the promise
of work to lure his victims
away to be murdered, usually
strangled.
Remains unsolved but open
in the California jurisdictions
the 5 certain Zodiac murders
occurred. Potentially 37 total
victims claimed but
unverified.
Claims responsibility for
another 51 murders.
A former Ukrainian police
criminal investigator,
suffocated girls aged
between 8 and 18 and
performed sexual acts on
their bodies after they were
dead.
Infamous for escaping from
prison twice.
33
John Wayne
Gacy
Chicago, United
1972 to 1978
States
32+
Jane Toppan
Cambridge,
Massachusetts,
United States
1885 to 1901
32
Vera Renczi
Bucharest,
Romania
1920 to 1930
31
Karl Denke
Münsterberg,
German Reich
1903 to 1924
29+
New Jersey and
Charles Cullen Pennsylvania,
1988 to 2003
United States
27
Dean Corll
Houston, Texas,
1970 to 1973
United States
27
H. H. Holmes
Chicago, United
1893 to 1895
States
27
Fritz Haarmann
Hanover,
Germany
1919 to 1924
Killer Clown, primarily
preyed on young men and
frequently raped his victims.
Executed in 1994.
Nurse who killed using
morphine. Confessed that she
had killed more than 31
people and convicted of
killing 11.
Convicted of killing 35 men
through arsenic poisoning
but confessed to only killing
32 victims.
Cullen has admitted to more
murders, which authorities
believe are likely, but the
murders cannot be verified.
Known as "The Candy Man"
for his habit of handing out
free candy to children at the
school across from his
family's candy company. He
abducted teenage boys from
low income areas in Houston
with two accomplices in a
van where he raped and
tortured them. He was shot
and killed by one of his
teenage accomplices after he
tried to kill him following a
dispute at one of Corll's
parties.
Total disputed. Although this
figure is the only verified,
and thus most commonly
held consensus figure, based
around Holmes' most
believable confession and
forensic research,
conjectures for the true
figure range hugely, between
20 and 230.Hanged in 1896.
Convicted of murdering 24
young men in Hanover. He is
also known as the Vampire
27
Cedric Maake
Johannesburg,
South Africa
1996 to 1997
27
Maria
Swanenburg
Leiden,
Netherlands
1880 to 1883
26+
Port Coquitlam,
Robert William
British Columbia, 1995 to 2001
Pickton
Canada
26
Marcel Petiot
Paris, France
1926 to 1944
25
Juan Corona
California
1971
25
24
23+
Wilseyville,
Leonard Lake
California, United
and Charles Ng
States
Cinkota,
Béla Kiss
Hungary
Ronald
Dominique
New Orleans,
United States
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.
Murdered 27 men and
women in Johannesburg but
originally confused as two
separate serial killers. In
some cases he killed his
victims with a rock, in others
he shot them, and in others
he murdered tailors with a
hammer. Sentenced to 27 life
sentences and 1159 years
which amounted to 1,340
years all together.
Female serial killer.
Poisoned victims with
arsenic in an effort to collect
their insurance money.
Found guilty on 6 murders,
charges indefinitely stayed
on 20 others. Comments by
Pickton suggest that the total
may be 49.
Petiot is suspected of having
killed up to 63 in total.
Corona was convicted of
murdering ranch laborers and
burying them in orchards. He
was sentenced to 25 terms of
life imprisonment.
1982 to 1985
1912 to 1916
1997 to 2006
Known locally as the Bayou
Strangler and murdered
victims in the Terrebonne
Parish, Lafourche Parish,
Iberville Parish and Jefferson
Parish.
22
Arnfinn Nesset
Orkdal, Norway -1983
22
Norman Afzal
Simons
South Africa
1986 to 1994
21+
Vasile Tcaciuc
Iaşi, Romania
-1935
21
Igor
Suprunyuck
and Viktor
Sayenko
Ukraine
2007
21
William Bonin
21
Patrick
Kearney
21
20
16–18
19
17
17
Yoo Youngchul
Francis
Heaulme
Mohammed
Bijeh
California,
United States
California,
United States
Seoul, South
Korea
1979 to 1980
1965 to 1977
2003 to 2004
France
1984 to 1992
Pakdasht, Iran
2004
Moscow,
USSR/Russian
1988 to 1993
Federation
New York City,
Joel Rifkin
1989 to 1993
United States
William Burke
Edinburgh,
and William
Scotland, United
1827 to 1828
Hare
Kingdom
Sergei
Ryakhovsky
A Norwegian nurse who
poisoned his patients at a
geriatrics facility in Orkdal.
Station Strangler, convicted
of only 1 of 22 cases of
murder and sodomy of young
children near Cape Town.
Romanian girl who lured
victims and then murdered
them.
In 2007, the two 19-yearolds from Dnepropetrovsk,
Ukraine, exacted their entire
toll within the span of a
month. At least one of the
murders was recorded on the
camera of a cellular phone
and posted to the Internet.
Suprunyuck, the ringleader,
was found guilty of all 21
murders, while Sayenko was
convicted of 18. Both
received life sentences.
One of the Freeway Killers.
Executed in 1996.
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.
Known as the Balakshikha
Ripper.
Known as the West Port
murders.
17
16
16
16
Ohio and
Jeffrey Dahmer Wisconsin, United
States
Missouri,
Charles Ray
California and
Hatcher
Illinois, United
States
Randy Steven
California,
Kraft
United States
Spokane,
Robert Lee
Washington, United
Yates
States
16
The Monster of
Florence
16
Sipho Thwala
16
Jimmy Maketta
16
Jose Antonio
Rodriguez
Vega
15
Dennis Nilsen
15
Jack
Unterweger
17–21
Robert Hansen
Florence, Italy
1978 to 1991
1969 to 1982
1969 to 1983
Confessed to 51 further
murders.
1975 to 1998
1968 to 1985
Pietro Pacciani was
convicted of the murders in
1994, but the decision was
controversially overturned.
Pacciani died 1998 and of
three alleged accomplices—
—two convicted and one
acquitted.
KwaZulu-Natal
1996 to 1997
province, South
Africa
Philippi, Cape
April to Dec 2005
Town, South Africa
Plead guilty and convicted of
16 murders and 19 rapes
committed over a nine month
period.
Santander, Spain 1987 to 1988
London, United
1978 to 1983
Kingdom
Vienna, Austria;
Los Angeles,
California, United 1974 to 1992
States; Prague,
Czech Republic
Alaska, United
States
1980 to 1983
After brutally raping them,
Hansen used his private
airplane to transport female
victims to a remote cabin. An
accomplished hunter, he
would set the women loose
in the surrounding
wilderness, to make sport of
tracking them down and
14
Arthur
Shawcross
Rochester, New
1972 to 1989
York, United States
13
Boston
Strangler
Boston, United
States
1962 to 1964
13
Vasiliy Kulik
Irkutsk, USSR
1984 to 1986
13
Peter Sutcliffe
13
Richard
Ramirez
13
Thozamile Taki
12
Maxim Petrov
12
Fred West
12
Kenneth
Los Angeles,
Bianchi and
California, United
Angelo Buono States
1977 to 1978
11
Henri Désiré
Landru
1914 to 1918
11
Clifford Olson
11
Sergey
Golovkin
11
Charles
Starkweather
11
John Justin
Bunting
West Yorkshire,
1975 to 1980
United Kingdom
Southern
California, United 1984 to 1985
States
South Africa
St. Petersburg,
Russia
Gloucester,
United Kingdom
Paris, France
Surrey, British
Columbia, Canada
Moscow,
USSR/Russian
Federation
Nebraska,
Missouri, and
Wyoming
killing them.
Arrested in 1972 after the
rape and murder of two
children, the Vietnam
veteran was allowed to plead
down to a single charge of
manslaughter. Released after
14½ years in prison, he went
on to kill 12 prostitutes.
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.
Known as the Irkutsk
Monster.
Known as the Yorkshire
Ripper.
Known as the "Night
Stalker".
2007
Known as the "sugar cane
serial killer"
2000 to 2002
Doctor who killed patients.
1967 to 1987
Known as the Hillside
Stranglers. The victim count
is 12 for Bianchi, and 10 for
Buono.
1980 to 1981
1986 to 1992
1957 to 1958
South Australia,
1992 to 1999
Australia
Ringleader in the Snowtown
murders, AKA the Bodies in
Barrels murders
11
10-25
Francisco
Garcia Escalero
Matti Haapoja
Madrid, Spain
1987 to 1994
Ylistaro, Finland 1870 to 1894
Most prolific Finnish killer
ever. Hung himself in his cell
in Kakola prison, Turku
10
Edmund
Kemper
Santa Cruz,
California, United
States
10
Robert Joe
Wagner
South Australia,
1992 to 1999
Australia
Ringleader in the Snowtown
murders, AKA the Bodies in
Barrels murders
10
David
Randitsheni
2004 to 2008
Kidnapped 19 people, raped
17 and murdered 10 (all
children).
10
Dennis Lynn
Rader
Wichita, Kansas,
1974 to 2004
United States
AKA The BTK killer (Bind,
Torture, Kill)
South Africa
1964 to 1973