Flashcards: Cannibals

Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947 – September 15, 1996) was an American drifter who was convicted of six counts of murder.

Zhu Yu (pinyin: Zhū Yù b. 1970) is a performance artist living in Beijing, China.

(This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Romanovich and the family name is Chikatilo.) Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей Романович Чикатило, Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, the Red Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper, who committed the sexual assault, murder, and mutilation of at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Uzbek SSR.

Alexander Nikolayevich Spesivtsev (Russian: Александр Николаевич Спесивцев, born 1 March 1970) is a Russian serial killer, also known as The Novokuznetsk Monster and The Siberian Ripper, convicted for the killing of 4 people in Novokuznetsk in 1996.

Theodore Robert Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier.

Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovkin (Russian: Серге́й Александрович Головкин; 26 November 1959 – 2 August 1996) was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, convicted for the killing of 11 people in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992.

Dorángel Vargas (born May 14, 1956), known as "El comegente" (lit. people eater) and the "Hannibal Lecter of the Andes", is a serial killer and cannibal in Venezuela.

The Bradford murders were three serial killings of prostitutes in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire in 2009 and 2010.

Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 – March 12, 2001) was a confessed American serial killer.

Armin Meiwes (English pronunciation: /ˈɑːrmɪn ˈmaɪvəs/; born 1 December 1961) is a German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via the Internet.

Carroll Edward Cole (May 9, 1938 – December 6, 1985) was an American serial killer who was executed in 1985.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was an American serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder, and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with many of his later murders also involving necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeletal structure.

Hadden Irving Clark (born July 31, 1952) is an American murderer and suspected serial killer, currently serving two 30-year sentences at Western Correctional Institution, for the murders of 6-year-old Michelle Dorr in 1986 and 23-year-old Laura Houghteling in 1992.

Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer who killed seven people in a span of a month in Sacramento, California.

Aleksey Vasilevich Sukletin (Russian: Алексе́й Васи́льевич Сукле́тин; 1943 - 29 July 1987) was a Soviet serial killer, who along with accomplices Madina Shakirova and Anatoly Nikitin, killed and cannibalized at least seven girls and women in Tartarstan between 1979 and 1985.

Nikolai Dzhumagaliev (Cyrillic: Николай Джумагалиев or Жұмағалиев, born 1952) is a Soviet serial killer, also known as Metal Fang, convicted for the killing of 7 people in the Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan) between 1979 and 1980.

Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer.

Alexander Pearce (1790 – 19 July 1824) was an Irish convict who was transported to Van Diemen's Land for seven years for theft.

Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of a minimum of 24 boys and young men between 1918 and 1924 in Hanover, Germany.

Yoo Young-chul (born April 18, 1970) is a South Korean serial killer and self-confessed cannibal.

Karl Denke (12 August 1870 – 22 December 1924) was a serial killer from Germany.

Pedro Rodrigues Filho (born 17 June 1954 in Santa Rita do Sapucaí) is a Brazilian serial killer.

Tarrare (c. 1772 – 1798), sometimes spelled Tarare, was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual eating habits.

Alexander Vladimirovich Bychkov (Russian: Александр Владимирович Бычков; born April 1, 1988) is a Russian serial killer, convicted for the murder of nine men in Belinsky, Penza Oblast between 2009 and 2012.