List Of Serial Rapists By Number Of Victims

A serial rapist is someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time. This list does not include serial killers who raped their victims then killed them; only serial rapists who non-fatally attacked their victims and raped them should be included here. This list should include serial rapists with at least three victims. Serial killers who raped at least three victims without murdering them are also included.

and the Golden State Killer. He was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to 13 murders. As required by his plea deal, he also admitted to the rapes, which could not be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations.
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, United States
, 1975
, 3+
, Manager of the band The Runaways and posthumously accused serial rapist and sexual assailant of underage girls and young women, including band member Jackie Fuchs. Accused in 2001 of sexually harassing and attempting to rape Michael Steele and later firing her from the band when she fought Fowley off. Died in 2015.
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, United States
, 1975–1977
, 4
, Known as "The Campus Rapist". Raped four women, including three on the campus of Ohio State University; wasn't convicted on grounds of insanity when revealed to have an extreme case of dissociative identity disorder, with over a dozen identified personalities, including one attributed to the rapes. Milligan was studied for years while institutionalized, with findings reporting Milligan had alters since an early age, the disorder partly being attributed to Milligan's father grappling with substance abuse and gambling, eventually committing suicide after at least one failed attempt. Was released and briefly disappeared, until being found to have died from cancer. A film production is in the works based on Milligan's crimes, and a documentary reveals Milligan confessed to murder, and has since been subsequently linked to two murders.
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, Soviet Union
, 1975–1980
, 30
, Known as "The Mad One"; committed rapes across the USSR, killing at least six women in the Komi ASSR; suspected of numerous other crimes; executed 1981.
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, United Kingdom
, 1975–1980
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, Known as the "M5 Rapist"; builder and lorry driver who raped women across the M5 motorway, reportedly as a way to get at the police force, which had gotten him convicted him of a burglary charge. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
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, Great Britain
, 1975–1995
, 39
, British gay serial killer who murdered four men at random in north Wales in 1995, but who was also convicted of 39 sex attacks on men across Merseyside and north Wales over the proceeding 20 years.
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, Reginald Swinton
, United States
, 1975-2005
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, Known as "The Spiderman Rapist", one of two in New York City history. Raped three women in June 2005 after climbing into their apartment windows, including on third and fourth floors, blindfolding them during the rapes. They were all attacked in the same region in Manhattan, leading to police patrols increasing, and convicted sex offender Franklin Darwin was detained for part of the day on suspicion of the rapes. Swinton had a conviction of rape in 1975, as well as robbery and burglary in 1986 shortly after being paroled. That parole was in April 2005, shortly before the serial rapes began.
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, United States
, 1976–1987
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, Known as "Brother Bishop". Falsely imprisoned and repeatedly raped and tortured eight women, including his ex-wife and his previous girlfriend's sister, killing two of them. Primarily targeted black-American women in their teens and young adult years, and obsessed with holding a "harem" of women captive to subjugate them from violence and degradation. Was arrested when one woman tricked Heidnik into letting her escaping, running to her boyfriend and calling the police. Executed by lethal injection in 1999.
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, United Kingdom
France
, 1976-1992
, 3+
, British Olympic swimming coach and serial rapist and recidivist predator of girls and women under his instruction. Was arrested in 1994 after absconding from charges in France and convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a rejection of parole in 2002.
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, United Kingdom
, 1976–1999
, 3
, Murderer of prostitutes who infamously was acquitted of a murder of a sex worker in 1993 only to go on to murder another. Convicted of raping a young mother in front of her children in 1976. He committed two other attempted rapes.
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, Norway
, 1976–2008
, 60
, Serial molester and oral rapist of boys across Norway, known as "The Pocket Man" or "The Bandage Man" for tricking boys to reach through a hole in his pocket or up his pant leg. Convicted of sexually abusing and assaulting 60 boys by frotteurism and oral rape, but has only admitted to sexually assaulting 20 boys, despite Norwegian police tying Andersen to around 160 cases spanning decades across the country. Sweden also investigated Andersen briefly on suspicion of a child sex crime in Svinesund. Andersen was sentenced to preventative detention, but was released in 2014.
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, United States
, 1977
, 10
, Known as the "Austin Choker"; attacked and sexually assaulted predominantly Jewish co-eds at the University of Texas, choking them into unconsciousness before raping them; suspected of 24 rapes in total; died in prison from cancer in 1989.
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, United States
, 1977–1985
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, Convicted in the murder of Angela Samota, raping her in her apartment before stabbing her heart. The rape and murder was committed in 1984, with Bess being tried and convicted in 2010 after being identified decades later. Bess was found out to have raped three other women, each woman being tricked into Bess coming in before being brutally forced upon. The first reported woman Bess raped never saw charges at the time, and the second woman did report, leading to Bess' conviction. Bess was paroled, murdering Angela Samota and raping yet another woman once released. Bess was convicted and sentenced to life in prison after committing the final rape, where Bess was at the time of being identified as the murderer. Bess' ex-wife also reported she and her daughter were repeatedly abused by Bess before she and Bess divorced. Bess was sentenced to death for Samota's murder but died in prison while awaiting execution in October 2022.
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, United States
, 1977–1993
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, Violent sex offender who confessed to raping at least 10 women in various states, but was convicted of only three in Louisiana and Idaho from 1977 to 1993. He was later convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of an 11–year-old girl in Idaho, and was suspected in other killings in Louisiana, but died on Death Row in 2004.
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, United States
, 1978
, 4
, Former California police deputy and kidnapper who raped women in several counties at gunpoint; suspect in the murders of five teenagers in Morgan City, Louisiana, committed between March and May 1978. Committed suicide to avoid arrest.
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, United States
, 1978–1979
, 12
, Penn State University linebacker in local college football arrested and convicted on charges regarding a spree of raping and attempting to rape twelve women in the city. Women gave accounts of being tied, often with their own clothes, violently raped at knifepoint, often robbed of their money, and even witnesses were attacked. Evidence showed Hodne stalked each woman beforehand, calling them based on personal ads, and breaking into their homes to hide before attacking when the assaults happened within their residences. Hodne also had records of other crimes and showed other signs of violence, including throwing a knife in the direction of a teammate and robbery. Part of Hodne's rape spree was while not being remanded after one conviction on a charge of rape. Hodne pleaded guilty to additional charges and served approximately six years, with the parole board unanimously voting to release Hodne despite a letter from the prosecutor vehemently fighting the verdict with graphic details of Hodne's rapes. Hodne tried to rob a cab driver, Jeffrey Hirsch, and broke Hirsch's neck when Hirsch fought back. Hodne fled and was caught by a K-9 unit, then was charged, tried, and convicted of Hirsch's murder after his life support was turned off. Hodne admitted the murder wasn't self-defense at his only parole hearing. Hodne died of cancer in 2020. ESPN published an investigative report in 2022 to spread awareness of Hodne's crimes, in retaliation over the revelation of football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing boys and men in the community, which were ignored and covered up by staff and university officials, most notably fellow coach Joe Paterno. Paterno also stymied investigations into Hodne, and both Hodne and Sandusky shared attendance periods at the university. A short documentary, ''Betsy & Irv'', was released to detail the friendship of Betsy Sailor, a woman who was raped by Hodne while she was a young woman, and Irv Pankey, one of Hodne's teammates who came to support Betsy throughout her testimony against Hodne and collaborated with her to fight for justice.
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, United States
, 1978–1981
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, Known as the "South Hill Rapist"; former Las Vegas radio announcer who sexually assaulted and injured women in Spokane, Washington, ramming his fist down the victims' mouths or throats; sentenced to life imprisonment. Blended in with the vigilante groups trying to capture him to avoid suspicion. His mother, Ruth Coe, was convicted of trying to hire a hitman to kill the judge and prosecutor on Coe's trial.
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, United States
, 1978–1984
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, Convicted killer of a woman and a girl and pleaded guilty to the rape of another woman. Suspected of being a national serial killer after photographs of unknown women and girls were found in Bradford's possession. Bradford was known as "The Death Row Poet" while awaiting execution. Police have investigated the photographs across the nation, finding both living and dead people associated with Bradford, including Bradford's ex-wives and Nika LaRue, the sister of Eva LaRue. Nika reported being kidnapped and raped by Bradford, and the rapes of one of Bradford's ex-wives and another woman were also tracked in reports.
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, José Antonio Rodríguez Vega
, Spain
, 1978–1988
, 3+
, Known as "The Motorcycle Rapist" and "The Vespa Rapist". Guilty of rapes and attempted rapes of women in Spain, but with a reduced sentence for the crimes due to manipulation of the women ho were attacked and the court system. Also physically and sexually abused his second wife. Later escalated to rapes and murders of a confirmed 16 elderly women out of a projected obsession to rape his own mother Vega never fulfilled. Was arrested and known as "El Mataviejas", or "The Old Lady Killer". Stabbed to death over 100 times by two inmates in 2002, and would have been up for parole about six years later.
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, United Kingdom
, 1979
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, Paul Taylor, the murderer of Sally Ann McGrath in Peterborough in July 1979, also raped three separate women in the months leading up to the killing in the area. He was not convicted of the crimes until 2012. After the offences, he moved to Fareham, Hampshire with his wife and started a new life as a "charismatic and womanizing" builder.
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, House for sale rapist
, United Kingdom
, 1979–1980
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, An unidentified rapist who targeted women in homes for sale in the west Midlands in 1979 and 1980. 20 women were assaulted and raped in properties in the area, and no one was ever arrested for the crimes. Police suspect that John Cannan (himself a serial rapist in his own right) was responsible for these offences, and that he began committing them after his marriage began to fail. The rapes stopped in early 1980 when Cannan began a new relationship with a woman named Sharon Major. Detectives noted the offences bore all the hallmarks of Cannan's later crimes and also noted the similarities to the Suzy Lamplugh case, in which he is the prime suspect (Lamplugh was an estate agent).
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, Great Britain
, 1979–1987
, 5+
, Cannan is infamous for the 1987 murder of Shirley Banks and for being suspected of being responsible for the murder of Suzy Lamplugh, who disappeared in 1986 and has never been found. He is also suspected of another abduction and murder and has been convicted of three separate rapes and two attempted rapes. He is also suspected to be the unidentified "House for sale rapist" (who has their own entry on this list), who committed 20 attacks on women in homes for sale between 1979 and 1980, meaning he may have raped at least 25 women. He will be eligible for parole in 2022.
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, United States
, 1979–1998
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, Athletic physician at Ohio State University responsible for countless sexual assaults by molestation and rape of men and boys. Reports started at the university from 1979 to 1996, where Strauss was reported for excessive genital handling of athletes and other sexual assault, as well as voyeurism in shower rooms, saunas, and locker rooms, along with other staff and even students, where there would be masturbation and spying through peepholes. Strauss was placed on leave and later fired, but shortly after opened a private clinic to molest and rape more boys and men who came as patients. Strauss died by suicide in 2005 after reported chronic medical problems. The full compilation of reports revealed 1,430 molestations and 47 rapes were committed by Strauss that were rebuffed and buried at Ohio State. Staff at the university at the time, including former athletics director Andy Geiger, former wrestling coach Russ Hellickson and current American congressman Jim Jordan, then an assistant coach, reportedly had varying degrees of knowledge of Strauss's abuses.
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, France
, 1979–2019
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, Known as the "Marseille Southern Districts Rapist"; assaulted 10 women and children, possibly more, in the span of a few decades. Tangorre was partially exonerated for his first series of rapes, but was later reconvicted after raping two American students. He was given an additional three and a half years for raping three minors between 2012 and 2019, and is due to stand trial for another such rape in Lyon from 2018.
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, United States
, 1980
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, One of two murders along with Carol M. Bundy, making up a duo known as "The Sunset Strip Killers". The two murdered sex workers and teenage girls in California out of shared motives of criminally sexual paraphilias. Bundy even once murdered a witnessed she confessed the crimes two while she was drunk. Clark had a previous propensity of statutory sex offenses, such as sexually exploiting a young girl who was in sexually explicit photographs Clark snapped. Clark also had forced two teenage girls to perform oral sexual acts on Clark before they were later shot dead.
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, United States
, 1980–1984
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, Known as "The Classified Ad Rapist"; raped women in several locations around Florida, contacting victims through classified ads published in newspapers; later moved to the Tampa Bay Area, where he murdered at least ten women; executed in 2019.
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, Colombia
Ecuador
, 1980-1999
, 200+
, Serial murderer and rapist of hundreds of children, mostly boys. Killed at least 193 children, raping and torturing over 200 more over nearly two decades. Regarded as the serial killer in murder history with the highest recorded number of murders.
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, United States
, 1980s
, 30
, Known as "The West Side Rapist"; broke into homes in Cleveland, Ohio and raped the inhabitants; may have been responsible for over 50 rapes. Committed suicide in prison in 2018.
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, Tunisia
, 1980s
, 14
, Raped 14 minors, killing 13. Executed in 1990.
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, Canada
, 1980s
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, Known as the "Balcony Rapist"; after stalking his victims, he would break into their homes in Toronto by climbing onto balconies or entering through broken windows or doors; his last victim later successfully sued the Toronto police for their inaction regarding the rapist; Callow received a 20–year-to-life sentence, but was released in 2007.
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, United Kingdom
, 1980s
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, Music mogul and paedophile who lured teenage boys to his home before having sex with them. A later trial in 2018 resulted in King's acquittal on eighteen further charges.
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, United Kingdom
, 1980s
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, For a period of a least four years during the 1980s, a man violently attacked and raped at least four lone women and attempted to assault at least two others in the Rotherham area. His victims were aged between 18 and 54 and were typically attacked during the early hours of the morning while returning from a night out. In April 2006, Lloyd was arrested and charged. He pled guilty to four rapes and two attempted rapes in July 2006, but denied responsibility for one other rape.
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, Ronald Henry Stewart
, United States
, 1980s
, 3+
, Serial rapist of numerous women in Mississippi and Florida, specifically in Harrison County and Broward County, accordingly. Was arrested and convicted of the murder of Regina Harrison in Hollywood, Florida, due to resembling a composite sketch and testimony of a witness. Took a ''nolo contendere'' plea to 50 years in prison to avoid the death penalty, the sentences consecutive with sentencing for the rapes. Died in prison from cancer in 2008. Was posthumously exonerated after the real killer, serial killer Jack Harold Jones, left a written confession behind shortly before his execution in April 2017. Jones' exhumation and DNA testing, as announced in February 2019, was a match and proved Jones' guilt, exonerating Stewart and opening the door for vacating his conviction.
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, United Kingdom
Australia
Spain
, 1980s to 2006
, 4–6
, Best known for the rape and murder of Sally Anne Bowman in 2005, Dixie was also convicted in 2017 of two separate rapes committed in the UK in 1987 and 2002. After his arrest for the Sally Anne Bowman murder he was positively linked by DNA to a rape of a woman in her house Australia in June 1998 and to a rape of a woman in Spain in 2003. An innocent man was convicted of the latter but was eventually freed in 2016 after a long bureaucratic process and after Dixie formally confessed to the rape. Spanish prosecutors are certain that Dixie also committed two other rapes in the same place within two hours of this attack, and Dixie said he may have committed them but could not remember as he was supposedly high on drugs at the time.
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, United States
, 1980s–1999
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, Known as "The South Side Rapist". A former sheriff's deputy at the police department in Lafayette, Louisiana and a confessed serial rapist of fourteen women. Ernest "Randy" Comeaux would threaten women with his service gun while raping them, leaving little to no forensic evidence behind at the scene. The crimes spanning two decades, it was the first reported use of geographical profiling in criminal investigation to track familiar locations and areas of the rapist, which Canadian profiler Kim Rossmo was employed for. That, along with an anonymous tip and DNA from a discarded cigarette butt, led to Comeaux. Comeaux confessed to the rapes and pleaded guilty to six rape charges, now currently serving a life sentence from each rape conviction. ''Forensic Files'' documented the investigation in the episode "Badge of Deceit".
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, United States
, 1980s–2010s
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, Former film producer who exploited his influential position to commit numerous sexual assaults. Accused by twenty women of rape; was arrested in May 2018 and convicted of two charges in February 2020 including one count of rape in the third degree. Extradited to additional jurisdictions to await around a dozen current additional sexual assault charges.
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, China
, 1981–1998
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, Committed two rapes in his native Liaoning in 1981 and in the mid-1980s, for which he was imprisoned for a combined total of 24 years. He later escaped from a prison hospital and moved to Shaanxi, where he subsequently raped a further 52 women from 1992 to 1998, killing 20. Wang was later arrested, convicted and executed in 1999.
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, United States
, 1981–2006
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, Known as the "Bike Path Rapist/Killer"; Puerto Rican man who raped between 9 and 15 women in Buffalo, New York, killing at least three of them; another man was wrongfully convicted for his crimes; sentenced to 75 years to life.
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, United Kingdom
, 1981–1988
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, Convicted in 1988 of 11 rapes committed mostly in the Greater Manchester area. In 2010 was given a 12th life sentence for another rape of a woman, committed against a woman in her Sheffield home in front of her daughter in 1981. In 2017 was given a 13th life sentence for a rape of a 15-year-old girl in her home in January 1982. He was convicted of the latter two rapes after cold case reviews.
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, Joey Sanza
, United States
, 1982
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, Security guard at the Puck Building in New York City and serial rapist of twelve women, all but one of them at gunpoint, in Florida. Was found responsible for the murder of artist and fiction writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at the building he was employed at when she went to meet her husband. She was raped, strangled, and bludgeoned by Sanza, before Sanza stole one of her rings she was wearing. Was tried and convicted on the third trial of raping and murdering Theresa Cha.
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, Switzerland
, 1982–1983
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, Sex offender who committed 11 rapes and 3 murders from 1982 to 1983; sentenced to life imprisonment; his case impacted treatment of dangerous sexual offenders in Switzerland tremendously.
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, United Kingdom
, 1982–1986
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, Known as the "Railway Rapists" and later as the "Railway Killers" after progressing onto murdering their victims, serial killers and childhood friends John Duffy and David Mulcahy were also convicted of nine rapes between them, which were committed near railway stations in or near London.
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, Clive Barwell
, United Kingdom
, 1982–1995
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, Father-of-four who was convicted in 1999 of three rapes, one attempted murder, four kidnappings, one serious sexual assault, one indecent assault and one assault occasioning actual bodily harm, all of which were committed between 1982 and 1995 in Leeds, Bradford and Nottingham.
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, Michael Buchanan
, United Kingdom
, 1982–2003
, 3–12
, Paedophile convicted in 2022 of a series of sex attacks against 12 children, including multiple rapes, committed in Edinburgh.
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, United States
, 1982–1999
, 100+
, Known as "The Con Artist Rapist". Recidivist con artist, extortionist, and serial rapist of woman for nearly two decades across a dozen states. Minsky would randomly trick women in the phone book by distressing them with ruses of their loved ones, then lure them to extort them or rape and brutalize them. Minsky would be in and out of prison for the few sporadic crimes he would be caught for, before eventually being arrested as a fugitive and connected with hundreds of women being targeted, conned, and attacked nationwide. LAPD Detective John Metcalf, who was assigned to track Minsky when he started on the job, put in all his efforts even down to appealing to the public to track Minsky down. When Minsky was arrested, his motive for the crimes was reportedly refusing to put in paying work for a living as a parolee. The sentencing judge remarked it being wonderful criminals in the world like Minsky were a rarity. Was sentenced to life in prison and remains incarcerated.
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, United States
, 1983–1984
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, Known as "The Mall Rapist"; kidnapped young girls from malls in Natick and Peabody, Massachusetts, taking them to his home in Westford, where he would repeatedly abuse and sodomize them; confessed to 20 rapes in total; sentenced to 11 terms of life imprisonment with a chance of parole.
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, France
, 1983–2005
, 19
, Known as the "Parking Rapist"; active in Paris, he would follow young women to buildings with underground car parks, where he would subsequently threaten them with a knife and rape them. His case influenced the debate on recidivism in France, and currently, he is serving a 20–year sentence.
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, "British Fritzl"
, Great Britain
, 1983–2008
, 25
, Father who incestously raped his daughters undetected over a period of 25 years, causing 19 pregnancies and fathering seven surviving children with them. Admitted 25 rapes and sentenced to a minimum of 14 and a half years imprisonment. Has not been named to protect his victims, but has been referred to in the press as the "British Fritzl".
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, United Kingdom
, 1984
, 4+
, Known as "The Fox", which comes from Fairley's habit of squatting in victims' homes and helping himself to their groceries and other utilities. Petty criminal and domestic abuser before escalating to a series of break-in physical assaults, sexual assaults on women and at least one man, and rapes of women, often fashioning masks and gloves out of cloth and even fabrics from the homes he burglarized tying up the homes' occupants during the assaults or while squatting. Reportedly confessed to feeling more empowered when using a shotgun, but was fought back against in several attacks and fled when failing to dominate people in the home. Was a highly disorganized criminal, from burying a shotgun without remembering where it was left to scraping paint off his car in a frantic escape that was left on bushes. The paint forensics and Fairley's confirmed left-handedness led to his arrest. Was convicted and imprisoned on six life sentences.
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, Soviet Union
Russia
, 1984–2011
, 40
, Known as the "Elevator"; robber and pedophilic rapist who assaulted teenage girls in elevators around several cities in Moscow Oblast; claims to have committed at least 140 rapes; sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.
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, Australia
, 1985–2001
, 31
, Known as the "Centennial Park rapist", the "Bondi rapist", the "tracksuit rapist" and lastly the "Bondi Beast". Identity uncovered only in 2022, a few months after his death, by DNA match. Most of his victims were abducted while jogging, while some others were assaulted after he broke into their home at night. Victims were threatened with a knife.
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, Belgium
, 1985–1996
, 9+
, Considered Belgium's worst repeat felony offender. Originally arrested for five kidnappings and rapes with accomplices. Also confessed to domestic physical abuse. Was paroled despite objections citing Dutroux as still dangerous, Kidnapped and raped four more girls, two who were buried alive and two who died of starvation and dehydration when Dutroux was arrested for auto theft and his accomplices didn't nourish the girls. Was arrested after kidnapping and raping two more girls, as well as found to have abundant violent child pornography and four different properties used as locations for the crimes, two with buried remains of the murdered girls and an accomplice Dutroux had slaughtered. With Dutroux finances, properties, child pornography which was allegedly made to be internationally disseminated, Dutroux's early release against confirmed professional testimony of Dutroux's culpability and imposed dangers, and the fiascos in arresting Dutroux and saving the girls, including the girls who starved to death after police were in the house they were captive in, Belgian citizens were outraged, and there were allegations and investigations over infiltration of criminal conspiracies and syndicates corrupting the governing, legal, and judicial systems and exploiting Belgium in the interest of organized crime with elite and systemic ties. Trust between citizens and law enforcement was destroyed, resulting in the famous White March protests by victims, their loved ones, and crowds of citizens in support, as well as massive reformation of the systems. Despite Dutroux and accomplices being convicted and sentenced to hard prison time, one accomplice, businessman Michel Nihoul, was acquitted on major charges in the case, despite being imprisoned after other criminal conspiracies, and dozens of deaths and disappearances of witnesses and other affiliated people in the case have been deemed suspicious and possibly involved in presumed conspiracies. Investigations and testimonies throughout the country to collect evidence and bring cases to court and accused parties to justice are far from complete. Dutroux requested parole in a letter sent to the courts in 2021, which sent the public up in arms and would later be denied.
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, France
, 1985–1996
, 3+
, Known as "The Pockmarked Man". French law enforcement official and serial killer and rapist only recently identified in 2021. Was identified as being law enforcement from witness describing his equipment and patrol language, and nicknamed from unsightly acne scars on his face shown in composite sketches. Fled and committed suicide by alcohol and barbiturates, confessing to murders and rapes spanning decades. Was successfully tied to rapes and murders of a girl and two women, suspected of murdering two more. Confirmed to have kidnapped and raped one little girl and two teenage girls, who described Vérove in detail similarly to other witnesses.
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, Israel
, 1985–1999
, 24
, According to police, Sela committed at least 24 and possibly as many as 34 rapes, sexual assaults, and sexual molestations of women and girls in central Israel over the course of five years in the 1990s, though it is suspected that he committed his first rape as a teenager in 1985. In 1995, he was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for having systematically molested his cousin from the time she was eight to when she was fifteen and resumed his rape spree upon his release. After being arrested for an attempted rape in 1999, he was identified as a serial rapist. He pled guilty as part of a plea bargain and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
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, Australia
, 1986
, 3
, One of two serial rapists and killers of women and girls known as "The Moorhouse Murderers". Accomplice of her husband David in kidnapping, raping, and strangling women and girls before burying them in forests. David made Catherine kill one woman once, Catherine actively participating in gang-raping captive women and girls, as well as making David kill one woman who was held captive for longer. One teenage girl escaped and reported being held captive and raped, resulting in the couple's arrests. David died in prison, and Catherine remains incarcerated, while the one woman who escaped and Catherine's youngest son call for better Australian laws against felonies and Catherine's execution, supporting each other's campaigns.
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, Tyrone Graham
, United States
, 1986
, 14
, Known as "The Spiderman Rapist", one of two in New York City history. Nicknamed from climbing into windows of homes before committing rapes, robbers, and burglaries on a total of 14 victims. Graham would steal jewelry and cash, tie up husband present at the scene while raping wives, and even beat and raped a legally blind woman with cataracts since birth, who was upset from being denied the chance to identify Graham by voice and feeling facial features. Was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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, United Kingdom
, 1986–1987
, 3+
, The 'Beast of Buckland' is the name given to an unidentified attacker who appeared to primarily target victims in Buckland, Portsmouth. A 5–year-old girl raped in June 1987 was believed to be a victim of the man, and he committed other sex attacks in the area. He was also said to be the perpetrator of the murder of Linda Cook which occurred nearby in 1986, for which there is now DNA evidence (which demonstrated that a man previously convicted had been wrongly imprisoned).
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, Morocco
, 1986–1992
, 518
, Corrupt police commissioner who kidnapped and raped young girls and women at his apartment in Casablanca, always recording his assaults on tape. His case was infamous for the fact that he used his power and influence to destroy evidence of his wrongdoings. Tabet was convicted, sentenced to death and executed for his crimes in 1993, the last person to be executed in Moroccan history.
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, Canada
, 1986–1992
, 14–24
, Known as "The Scarborough Rapist" and "The Schoolgirl Killer". Originally a serial rapist of numerous women and girls, with propensities of sexual sadism and an obsession with targeting women and girls who still retained their virginity. As "The Scarborough Rapist", Bernardo stalked women and girls on the streets and anally raped them at knifepoint and was even interviewed due to fitting a composite sketch, volunteering a DNA sample that wouldn't be tested for two years. Bernardo married Karla Homolka, battering and degrading her throughout the marriage. Escalating further, Bernardo committed "The Schoolgirl Murders" by kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering teenage girls with Karla as an accomplice. The crimes were recorded on camera, and Karla was ordered by Bernardo to steal drugs to incapacitate the girls, as well as carry out tortures and rapes on four of the girls held captive, three who were murdered, including Karla's little sister Tammy Homolka. Tammy died from an overdose of the substance in her systems and wasn't resuscitated in time. Bernardo strangled two other girls to death, hid each of them in the Homolka family basement while they were dead and the family had dinner, then left them in fields dismembered and buried in cement. Another girl was raped twice by the duo and released, with little to no recollection until after the second rape. Homolka reported Bernardo and filed charges for a severe beating. The DNA test was finally conducted from Bernardo's rape spree, and Karla confessed to her participation in the remaining crimes and Bernardo's involvement in other rapes that weren't previously connected. Both were convicted and imprisoned, considered the most dangerous criminals in Canada's history. The duo were collectively nicknamed "The Ken and Barbie Killers" due to their higher-class statuses. Bernardo confessed in 2006 to raping ten other women and girls a year before the Scarborough rape spree, and was denied parole in 2021. Karla was eventually released long after divorcing Bernardo, with all her restrictions lifted by court order, marrying a relative of her legal representative and starting a family.
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, South Korea
, 1986–1994
, 9–30+
, Known as "The Hwaseong Killer"; previously unidentified serial rapist and killer of ten women in the Hwaseong region of the country. The first serial killer in modern South Korean history and one of the oldest cold cases of the country. Identified in 2019 as a suspect and eventually confessed, as well as matched by DNA evidence. Lee also confessed to killing four other women, including one who's murder an innocent man was convicted of. Lee confessed in open court to the murders of fourteen women, as well as over thirty rapes and sexual assaults. Police definitively tied Lee to nine confessed sexual assaults and rapes. Lee was considered to be a sexually frustrated sadist with low self-esteem by the police. Each murder Lee committed had a distinct common detail of women being tied and strangled with their own clothes while they were raped and murdered, as well as left restrained when they were found dead.
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, Brazil
, 1986–2017
, 9+
, Also known as João de Deus (John of God), In 2018, after over 600 accusations of sexual abuse, Faria turned himself in to police. In December 2019, he was sentenced to 19 years and four months for the rapes of four women. On 20 January 2020, 40 years were added to his prison time for the rape of five additional women. The sentences add up to 63 years and 4 months.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 1986, 1997
, 8
, King is infamous for being convicted of murdering Rocío Wanninkhof and Sonia Carabantes in southern Spain in 1999 and 2003 respectively. An innocent woman was originally convicted of the former murder. King had fled to Spain from his native England because he had featured on ''Crimewatch'' in September 1997 for an attempted rape of a woman in Leatherhead. He had previously been convicted of sexually assaulting 7 women across north London in 1986 and was caught attempting to attack another woman, becoming known then as the "Holloway Strangler". He was never able to fully penetrate the victims because he was impotent.
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, Clive Howard
, United Kingdom
, 1986–2014
, 11
, Norwich rapist who was convicted in 2015 of 11 counts of rape and kidnap, but who is suspected of having many more victims. Was active between 1986 and 2014. Was a loner and, despite being 57, had an 82-year-old girlfriend by the time he was arrested.
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, Stuart Morrison
, United Kingdom
, 1987–1988
, 3
, Portsmouth Child rapist who was convicted in 2000 of a rape against a 14-year-old girl and an attempted rape of a 13-year-old, as well as the rape of a 59-year-old woman. Convicted more than 10 years after the offences due to advances in DNA technology.
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, Michael Paule
, United Kingdom
, Late 1980s–Early 1990s
, 4
, Child rapist who was convicted in 2019 of four historic rapes of a child at a property in Dagenham.
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, Mr. Cruel
, Australia
, 1987–1990
, 3
, Serial pedophile rapist who attacked 3 girls in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria in the late 1980s and early 1990s and is the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of a fourth girl.
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, France
, 1987–2002
, 36
, Known as "The Cat"; raped women in Arcachon and Landes, sneakily entering through open windows at night and managing to avoid detection. Sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment, but paroled in 2012.
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,
, United Kingdom
Spain
, 1987, 1990–1995, 1997–1998
, 6–100+
, British DJ who was initially convicted, alongside his brother, of a 1986 Christmas rape against a 19-year-old girl on a street in Bideford. In 1992 he was trialed in Bristol for another rape but the victim failed to turn up at court. In 1995 he was trialled for a rape in Plymouth but was only convicted of attempting to bribe a prosecution witness into not testifying against him. He was jailed for this and also admitted statutory rape against a 15-year-old. After being released in 1997 he went to Spain and was accused of several other attacks, and was trialled for the rapes of three Swedish teenagers, although the charges were dropped. In 1998 he returned to the UK and committed four more rapes, which he was convicted of in 1999 after being caught following a ''Crimewatch'' appeal. At the time British police said he could have been "one of the most prolific sex offenders this century" and said they believed he could have raped more than 100 women. In 2006 he tried to escape from prison via helicopter and in 2016 had six years added to his sentence after his laptop was found with child abuse images on it.
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, United States
, 1988–1997
, 14
, Known as "The South Side Rapist"; burgled into various homes in St. Louis and surrounding counties, where he raped female victims ranging from young girls to elderly women. Although convicted of only 14 rapes, Rabbitt is suspected in more than 100+ rapes across Missouri and Illinois, starting in 1973.
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,
, United States
, 1989–1991
, 4
, Stalked women around apartment complexes in Tucson, Arizona from 1989 to 1991, later breaking into their apartment and raping them under the threat of a knife. During the rapes, surviving victims noted that Walden frequently taunted them, and always pretended to leave several times before finally fleeing. He was convicted of two murders and four rapes, for which he was given a death sentence and five life terms, respectively. He has also confessed to a third murder, for which he has never been charged.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 1989–1994
, 4–106
, Infamous for the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell, one of Britain's best-known murders, Robert Napper also killed two others in 1993 and is suspected of being the "Green Chain rapist", the name given to the perpetrator of up to 106 rapes across the South East London Green Chain walk in the early 1990s. The rapes stopped in 1994, the same year Napper was sent to prison. He has been convicted of three of these rapes and later confessed to a further rape.
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,
, United States
Mexico
, 1989–2007
, 3+
, Serial sexual abuser of boys, starting in 1989 with an accomplice, luring the boys with meals and movies for sexually exploiting them and videotaping the sexual assaults. Was arrested and convicted, sentenced in 1990 to ten years in prison, when trying to sell the tape. Schillaci graduated from prison, studied several languages, and wrote poetry for a literary magazine, which was used to write to a family and manipulate them with his alleged "rehabilitation". Was released in 1999 and moved in with the family, only to have been revealed to have sexually exploited the family's young son during piano lessons and shown him child pornography. Schillaci fled to Mexico with incrimination evidence left behind, moving between several different cities in the country under numerous aliases and raping and molesting countless boys in each city. Schillaci even lived with another sex offender, Gregory Alan Phillips, a witness to Schillaci's crimes in Mexico. Gained a following in pedophile cultures, hosted an Internet radio show, and partook in online "boylovers" chat forums and a scrapped NBC news interview under an alias as a pedophile activism spokesperson. Vigilante groups tracked Schillaci's activities in 2007, and he was arrested and extradited in 2008. Pleaded guilty to charges to avoid a guaranteed life without parole sentence in prison.
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, Michael Oluronbi
, Great Britain
, 1989–2009
, 15
, Church pastor who raped children after "holy baths" he claimed would ward off evil, as part of the Birmingham bathing cult. Targeted his victims over 20 years and told them they would fail exams or become a witch if they did not comply. Convicted in 2020, his wife was also jailed for her part in the rapes, and for arrainging abortions for the victims who had been impregnated by Oluronbi.
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,
, United States
, 1990
, 7
, Known as "The Preppy Rapist". Was arrested for the kidnappings and rapes of two teenagers while in school. Afterwards, five more women and girls came forward and accused Kelly of rape as well. Kelly fled prosecution and hid in Europe for years, maintaining contact with his parents, who are alleged to have helped him stay out of jurisdiction. Kelly was extradited, convicted, and imprisoned to serve his sentence for two counts of aggravated kidnapping and rape. Kelly was paroled and was last reported to have been working as an instructor in skydiving.
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, Canada
, 1990–1992
, 4
, Abused ex-wife of serial rapist and killer Paul Bernardo. Bernardo was previously a serial rapist and married Karla, who was battered and degraded by Bernardo from to proclivities of dominance and misogyny. Bernardo recruited Karla into a new spree of sexually motivated crimes named "The Schoolgirl Murders", where teenage girls were kidnapped by the duo because Bernardo wanted to target virgin women, raped and tortured on film by Bernardo and Karla at Bernardo's instruction, and three were murdered. The crimes started with Karla's sister Tammy Homolka, who overdosed on drugs Karla stole and sedated her with. A second teenage girl was raped and tortured twice while on drugs and didn't recollect the crimes. Two more teenage girls were raped and tortured to death, buried in the Homolka house basement each time there was a family dinner, then their remains buried in cement. Karla charged Bernardo with a brutal assault, leading to his arrest around the same time his DNA was tested regarding the previous series of rapes Bernardo committed. Karla confessed to the remaining crimes and her involvement, taking guilty pleas of prison time in exchange for her testimony. Bernardo and Karla were considered the worst and most hated criminals in the history of Canada, the press spitefully nicknaming Karla "The Witch of Ontario". Karla soon after filed for divorce, but she lost her chance at parole due to her sexual relations with a convicted murderer. She eventually was released with tight restrictions, which were overturned by the courts over a couple of years. Karla spoke publicly from her own narrative, married a relative of her legal representative, and had children with him. She has continuously staved off public outrage and unwarranted reckless publicity and is now living separate from her more recent family.
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, France
, 1990–2003
, 9
, Known as the "Backpacker Rapist"; active in several departments around France, Blanche would often kidnap and drive his victims to isolated areas, where he would repeatedly rape them. After he was finished, he acted nicely towards the victims, even driving them back to their homes. His case, which was highly publicized, contributed to the creation of the automated judicial file for sex offenders in the country.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 1990–2009
, 34
, Convicted rapist who carried out a series of offences of burglary, rape and sexual assault dating between October 1992 and May 2009 in the South East London area of England, targeting primarily elderly women. He is positively linked to four reported rapes and around 30 other sexual assaults. Police believe he is also responsible for at least another two rapes where the victims felt unable to make any official allegation. The true total may be higher as his victims are often too traumatised to speak to police.
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, Sweden
Norway
, 1990s–2003
, 8
, Broke into the houses of female victims around Gothenburg, watching over them before eventually raping them under the threat of a knife. The perpetrator, whose name was not released, was later identified via DNA evidence as a man serving a rape sentence in neighboring Norway. Sentenced to forensic psychiatric care.
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, Roy McKechnie
, Great Britain
, 1990s–2000s
, 3
, Peckham Child rapist jailed in 2019 of a series of sex attacks in London in the 90s and 2000s, including three rapes of children.
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, Colin Batley
, Great Britain
, 1990s–2010
, 11
, Leader of the Kidwelly sex cult, which was uncovered by police in 2010. He was convicted of 11 counts of rape against children and other sexual offences, while his wife, two other women, and a second man were also convicted of sexual offences.
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, Chris Reynolds
, United States
, 1990s-2011
, 3+
, Convicted of sexually assaulting two boys at gunpoint. Also reported to be guilty of sexual assault of Charles Andrew Williams, a student responsible for the Santana High School shooting, using bribery of drugs and alcohol.
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, Tony Snow
, Great Britain
, 1991
, 3
, Convicted of violently attacking and raping three women in Hertfordshire, and then sent them letters claiming he was sorry. His case was documented in an episode of ''Crimewatch File'' in 1994.
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, Potomac River Rapist
, United States
, 1991–1997
, 9
, The Potomac River Rapist is a serial rapist and murderer who was active in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area from 1991 to 1998. Ten sexual assaults and one murder were linked to the suspect by DNA. Fatal rape attack on August 1, 1998, not included. A suspect was arrested and charged on November 13, 2019.
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,
, United States
, 1991–1998
, 4+
, Known as the "East-Harlem rapist", Raped four women and killed another three in East-Harlem, Manhattan, New York. After his exposure in 1999, he kidnapped a 15–year-old girl from Brooklyn and vanished with her, causing a manhunt to occur across the east coast of the United States. He was eventually found with the girl in a hotel room in Miami three months later. He was sentenced to life in prison, and has denied responsibility other rapes and murders.
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, India
, 1991–2004
, 40
, Rapist and murderer in India who was lynched by a mob of around 200 women. Yadav was stabbed over seventy times, and chili powder and stones were thrown in his face. One of his alleged victims also hacked off his penis.
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, Batman rapist
, United Kingdom
, 1991–2000
, 17
, The Batman rapist is an English unidentified serial sex offender who has committed at least 17 attacks on women in the city of Bath, Somerset. He was nicknamed after leaving a baseball cap bearing a logo from the Batman film series at the scene of one attack. Remains a suspect in the murder of Melanie Hall ever since she disappeared years before a portion of her skeleton was found and identified.
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, Argentina
, 1991–2004
, 93
, Car thief who raped young women in the City of Cordoba, Argentina. He committed suicide with a shot to the head to avoid arrest. Before and after his death, DNA tests linked him to 93 cases of rape, but his actual number of victims is believed to be 200.
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,
, United States
, 1991–2006
, 12
, American man who was arrested in September 2018 as a suspect in a series of more than ten rapes and kidnappings committed between 1991 and 2006 in six Northern California counties (the "Norcal Rapist"). DNA evidence from crime scenes were matched on GEDmatch to a relative of Waller, and he was identified through genetic genealogy.
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,
, United States
, 1991–2009
, 22
, Rapist Aaron H. Thomas was arrested on March 4, 2011, after police matched his DNA to that of the rapist from a cigarette butt he discarded. On March 5, 2011, jailers reported that Thomas attempted to hang himself while in a jail cell.
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, Hong Kong
, 1992–1993
, 10
, One of Hong Kong's few serial killers. Committed a longer spree of ten rapes of women and girls along with killing three women, which terrified the public who were outraged by failures in police response. Was reported by the last woman who was raped by Lam, and her brother conducted a citizen's arrest. Called one of his hands, which was used in the murders, his "fork". Pled guilty to the rapes and to robbery, was found guilty of the murders, and was imprisoned for life.
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, Japan
, 1992–2000
, 150–400
, Korean–Japanese businessman who drugged and raped between 150 and 400 women, at least two of which died. Obara was tried for one of the deaths, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Obara has been described as the worst serial rapist in the country's history, and his case received international coverage due to most of his victims being foreign tourists.
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, Germany France (possible)
, 1992–2004
, 40
, He wore a mask while killing three and sexual assaulting at least 40 children in school camps. He also did some of his activities in camps, private homes and other places. Also known as the "Masked Man" and the "Black Man".
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, United States
, 1992–2013
, 3
, Known as "The Monster of Cleveland". Puerto Rico-born serial kidnapper and rapist of three girls who knew Castro's children starting in 2002. Held them all captive and retrained them in a house not far from the places they were snatched, being repeatedly raped and brutalized for over a decade into their early adult years. Two girls were pregnant, one girl giving birth to a daughter, the other girl having miscarriages and left with damage to her sight and hearing from the violence of the assaults and other torture. One woman escaped with her daughter conceived from rape and went to the police. The two other women were rescued and Castro was arrested, everyone who was held captive being given medical treatment at the hospital and reunited with their families. Castro committed suicide by hanging while in prison custody. Castro is also guilty of holding his wife against her will and viciously beating her starting in 1992, which led her to develop an inoperable brain tumor from the violence that killed her in 2012. John Kasich, then-governor of Ohio, publicly met and commended the girls, the house where the captivity primarily happened was demolished with one woman in attendance with a crowd of supporters, and another woman later reunited with one of the neighbors who rescued her and her daughter.
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, Russia
, 1993–1994
, 8
, Pedophile who raped young boys in St. Petersburg, killing two of them; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.
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, Baekuni
, Indonesia
, 1993–2010
, 14
, Indonesian serial killer who raped street children between the ages of 4 and 14, mutilating 4 of them.
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, Russia
, 1994–1995
, 8
, Known as "The Mordovian Maniac"; policeman who, together with two accomplices, robbed and raped women in Saransk from 1994 to 1995, killing five of them in the process. Initially sentenced to death, his sentence was commuted to 15 years due to the moratorium on capital punishment in the country. Yurkin served his full term and was released in 2009, and has not committed any crimes since.
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, Uni-Phantom
, Germany
, 1994–2002
, 21
, Unidentified sex offender responsible for 21 rapes of predominantly young women, first starting in Sprockhövel before moving into the vicinity of the Ruhr University Bochum. The Phantom usually threatened his victims with a knife at public transport stops before raping them. For unknown reasons, there were large gaps between his rape series, and the investigation into his crimes in still ongoing.
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,
, United States
, 1994–2009
, 52
, Penn State football coach and founder of The Second Mile charity for at risk children. Was investigated, arrested, and convicted on charges of dozens of rapes and molestations of boys spanning decades, including his adopted son Matt. His adopted son Jeffrey was arresteed and sentenced on charges of child sex offense and possession of child pornography. Deceased coach Joe Paterno was alleged to have been informed of the crimes and disregarded the reports. School president Graham Spanier, vice president Gary Schultz, and athletic director Tim Curley were all convicted on misdemeanor child endangerment charges, but not on conspiracy charges. The three were sentenced to jail, fines, and probation.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 1995–2007
, 28
, Raped and sexually assaulted women in South London, most frequently in the districts of Wandsworth, Balham and Tooting; suspected of over 70 assaults, beginning in 1984; sentenced to life imprisonment.
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, Denmark
, 1995–2010
, 6
, Known as the "Amager Man"; football coach who raped six women between around Amager, in addition to murdering another two on separate occasions in 1987 and 1990; was also indicted for a seventh rape, but was acquitted due to lack of evidence; sentenced to life imprisonment.
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, United States
, 1996
, 5
, Homeless drifter who raped five women in the Raleigh, North Carolina area between January and December 1996, killing two of them; sentenced to death.
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, France
, 1996
, 5
, Senegalese-born man who assaulted at least six female victims in Paris, raping five and killing two of them. At trial, he claimed to have been cursed by evil Vodun spirits, which caused him to kill. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
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,
, United States
, 1996–1997
, 8
, American stand-up comedian who raped at least eight women. He had a consistent method of operation in each of the rapes, he covered their heads so they could not identify him, he asked about their sexual history, engaged in anal sex, used his own saliva for lubrication, and he asked each of the women to pray for him afterward.
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, South Africa
, 1996–1997
, 14
, Attacked couples parked in cars around the Wemmer Pan area whom Maake would assault, shooting the men and raping the women.
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, Vincent Sanchez
, United States
, 1996-2001
, 5-6
, Known as "The Simi Valley Rapist"; sexually assaulted fifteen women and girls, and murdered community college student Megan Barroso. By his own account, raped five or six women who were afraid enough they didn't struggle or fight more. Usually attacked women while wearing a ski mask, raping them at gunpoint or knifepoint. Escalated to kidnapping them and forcing them to his rental house to rape them. Evidence of the rapes were found on video recordings, one played at Sanchez's trial for murder, and one woman, known as Alicia, testified to fighting Sanchez only for a beer bottle to be smashed over her head. Reported to have failed to rape women who fought back and usually fled, as well as stressing not being identified to the point of trying to scramble for his mask if ever lost. Prosecutors presented to the jury Megan likely tried to escape Sanchez, but she and her car were shot with an AK-47 belonging to one of Sanchez's roommates, which caused her car to careen off the road and down into a ravine. She was shot in the abdomen and was reported to have died slowly enough she could've been saved if she was found in time. Pleaded guilty to all rape charges; found guilty of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and attempted rape, sentenced to death for Megan's murder shortly thereafter.
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, Russia
, 1996–2002
, 9
, Known as "The Voronezh Maniac"; abducted and raped teenagers and young women in Voronezh, before resorting to raping and killing his final ones. The three murder victims, all teenagers, were raped, strangled and their bodies sexually abused post-mortem. After his capture, Roldugin confessed to all the crimes and was sentenced to life imprisonment for them.
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, Joshua Wade
, United States
, 1996-2005
, 12+
, Convicted in juvenile court of raping and threatening Amie Zyla in Wisconsin. Was paroled and later convicted and imprisoned again on charges of sexually assaulting dozens of children who were lured into running showers. Amie petitioned state and federal legislature to make juvenile sex offense records public, resulting in the passage of "Amie's law".
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,
, United States
, 1996–2012
, 35
, The Teardrop rapist is a moniker for an unidentified rapist responsible for 35 sexual assaults on women, including minors, in Los Angeles, California.
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, Steven Kimber
, Great Britain
, 1997–1999
, 3
, Father-of-three convicted in 2000 of three rapes committed in car parks and alleys in Southampton.
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, Poland
, 1997–2000
, 6
, Known as the "Vampire of Świnoujście"; raped young girls and women under the threat of a knife in the Świnoujście area, killing one woman and a female customs officer; sentenced to two counts of life imprisonment.
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, United States
, 1997–2001
, 9
, Known as "The Center City Rapist"; burgled into homes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Fort Collins, Colorado, raping the female occupants; killed a doctoral student in 1998; sentenced to life imprisonment.
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, United States
, 1997–2002
, 16
, Known as "The Belmont Shore Rapist". Between 1997 and 2002, Rathbun committed at least sixteen break-in rapes of women in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California. Many of Rathbun's attacks were committed in the Belmont Shore district of Long Beach, California, hence his nickname. In addition to striking in Long Beach, Rathbun was also active in the cities of Huntington Beach and Los Alamitos. Was convicted in August 2004 and October 2008 on dozens of charges regarding the rape spree.
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, Canada
, 1997–2004
, 4–6+
, Canadian businessman convicted of numerous counts of aggravated sexual assault, on the grounds of deliberately infecting sexual partners with HIV. Was also guilty of drugging, kidnapping, and raping teenage and virgin girls and women after luring them to nightclubs from online chatting and messaging forums.
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,
, United States
, 1997–2005
, 6–25
, Recidivist pedophile, serial rapist, and serial killer with a criminal record dating back to his childhood years and a consistent history for being in and out of prison, committing increasingly violent, vulgar, traumatic, and deadly offenses each time. Once reported to a therapist having bound and sexually assaulted six boys and raping thirteen more boys by the age of 16. Was confirmed to have raped and sexually assaulted four boys, often kidnapping them and holding them at gunpoint. Was on federal radar after skipping bail, being tracked in a manhunt after an attack on the Groene family. Mother Brenda, boyfriend Mark McKenzie, and eldest son Slade were all murdered in their home, youngest children Dylan and Shasta Groene being kidnapped and repeatedly sexually assaulted. Dylan was tortured to death on film and left dead off the side of a remote mountain road. Shasta was rescued from a restaurant where Duncan was arrested, two days before Dylan's remains were found. Pleaded guilty to all felony charges, including federal, and sentenced to life without parole on several convictions, along with a federal death sentence. A grown up Shasta advocated for a bill to be passed as a law that prevented the release of sex offenders, which received well over 50,000 petition signatures. Duncan also pleaded guilty to charges of the sexual assault and murder of another boy and was confirmed to be behind the kidnappings and murders of two girls, all in the 90s. Died in 2021 from metastasized brain cancer.
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, Rochdale child sex abuse ring
, United Kingdom
, 1997–2013
, 24
, 28 members of a grooming ring have been convicted as of 2022 for the systematic rape and sexual abuse of young girls, many younger than 16, in Rochdale between 2004 and 2013, although "thousands" of men are said to have been involved in the crimes and they are believed to have started in around 1997. The men have between them been convicted of 24 counts of rape, but were also convicted of multiple other counts of attempts to rape, conspiracy to rape and for other sexual crimes. The ring gained notoriety in the UK as the men were mostly British Pakistani men, which led to inflamed racial tensions.
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, South Africa
, 1998–2001
, 103
, Convicted on 103 counts of rape, kidnapping and indecent assault. Raped his victims by pretending to be a policeman, or approaching girls and asking for directions, he took girls from busy spots to deserted areas such as parks, open fields, and empty houses, where he raped them in daylight.
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, Basharat Dad
, United Kingdom
, Late 1990s–early 2000s
, 6
, Convicted in 2017 of six counts of rape of a child committed as part of the Rotherham child sexual exploitation gang.
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, China
, 1998–2002
, 19
, Chinese teacher who was executed for sexually molesting and raping 19 girls. Li was an elementary school teacher in the city of Tonghua, in northeast China's Jilin province. He began teaching in 1998, and he began molesting his students in August of that year. He assaulted various girls in his class for the next four years. The victims were all under the age of 14.
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,
, United States
, 1998–2003
, 5
, Serial kidnapper and rapist of five different women of various ages and backgrounds in Fayetteville, New York. Jamelske, a reclusive hoarder that came into a lot of money, constructed a basement cell before regularly kidnapping a woman from the street, imprisoning her in the cell for months, and raping her repeatedly while directing and recording her activities. The woman would then be released, with Jamelske searching for another woman to abduct to repeat the cycle. After Jamelske was arrested, one woman who was held captive openly spoke out about her trauma and elaborated Jamelske's crimes on a radio show.
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,
, United States
, 1998–2005
, 265
, Physician of the United States women's national artistic gymnastics team and convicted sexual assailant of numerous female gymnasts, with convictions successful in jurisdictions in Michigan. The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal revealed 368 athletes who were sexually assaulted without intervention or protection, and a lackluster FBI response that refused to prevent future sexual abuse and guarantee safety for the athletes. Nassar's collective sentences amounted to life in prison, and Randall Margraves, the father of three gymnasts who were sexually assaulted by Nassar, committed courtroom assault on Nassar in a rage. Compensation lawsuits were filed, public rallies and concerts were held in support of the athletes, and four gymnasts who were abused by Nassar testified in front of the United States Congress to the sexual assaults, the dangerous rape culture in the professional environments, and the refusal of federal action.
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, Sweden
, 1998–2005
, 9
, Known as "Hagamannen"; convicted of sexual assaults in and around the area of Umeå, after one of Sweden's largest police investigations, which was marred with setbacks; sentenced to 9 years and released on parole in 2015.
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, Assad Hussain
, United Kingdom
, 1998–2005
, 5
, Convicted of five counts of rape in 2018 committed as part of the Oxford child sex abuse ring.
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, Kameer Iqbal
, United Kingdom
, 1998–2005
, 3
, Convicted of three counts of rape in 2018 committed as part of the Oxford child sex abuse ring.
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, Pov Srun
, United States
, 1998-2005
, 5
, Known as "The Duct Tape Rapist"; Cambodian-born serial rapist of women and girls in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The moniker comes from Srun's use of duct tape to bind the women and girls and wrap around his head as a makeshift mask. Convicted of four rapes between 2004 and 2005 and pleaded guilty to a fifth in 1998.
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, Ademir Oliveira Rosário
, Brazil
, 1998–2007
, 23+
, Known as "The Cantareira Maniac"; killed a man in 1991 and imprisoned at a mental institution, but was allowed probation on weekends. Using this, he sexually assaulted at least 23 teenage boys, with most of his victims being attacked at the Serra da Cantareira mountain range. Caught after killing two brothers in September 2007, for which he was sentenced to 57 years imprisonment.
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,
, United States
, 1998–2018
, 156
, Leader of the NXIVM sex cult under the guise of multi-level marketing. Formed a division within the cult exclusively designated for women, with Raniere running the group at the chief position, where hundreds of women were recruited, sexually abused, and trafficked regularly, as well as branded with Raniere's initials. Also accused of statutory sexual abuse of underage girls and repeated rape outside of the group. Arrested along with several of his associates and sentenced to life in prison on convictions including sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit forced labor, and racketeering.
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, Kamar Jamil
, United Kingdom
, 1998–2012
, 5
, Convicted of five counts of rape in 2013 committed as part of the Oxford child sex abuse ring.
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, Akhtar Dogar
, United Kingdom
, 1998–2012
, 5
, Convicted of five counts of rape in 2013 committed as part of the Oxford child sex abuse ring.
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, Anjum Dogar
, United Kingdom
, 1998–2012
, 3
, Convicted of three counts of rape in 2013 committed as part of the Oxford child sex abuse ring.
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, Mohammed Karrar
, United Kingdom
, 1998–2012
, 7
, Convicted, in 2013, of four counts of rape of a child and three counts of rape committed as part of the Oxford child sex abuse ring.
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, Bassam Karrar
, United Kingdom
, 1998–2012
, 3
, Convicted, in 2013, of two counts of rape of a child and one count of rape committed as part of the Oxford child sex abuse ring.
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, Naim Khan
, United Kingdom
, 1999–2001
, 8
, Convicted, in 2020, of eight counts of rape committed as part of the Oxford child sex abuse ring.
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, Mohammed Nazir
, United Kingdom
, 1999–2001
, 7
, Convicted, in 2020, of seven counts of rape committed as part of the Oxford child sex abuse ring.
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, Yang Xinhai
, China
, 1999–2003
, 23
, Chinese rapist-killer who committed 67 murders and 23 rapes. Executed in 2004.
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, Sageer Hussain
, United Kingdom
, 1999–2003
, 4
, Convicted in 2016 of four rapes committed as part of the Rotherham child sexual exploitation gang.
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, Mark Anderson
, United Kingdom
, 1999–2017
, 6
, Convicted in 2022 of six rapes committed against children and women, the first when he himself was still a teenager. The offences were committed in the Edinburgh area of Scotland.
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, 2019 South Wales paternal sex abuse case
, United Kingdom
, 1999–2017
, 3
, In 2019, an unnamed man was convicted of repeatedly, and incestuously, raping his daughters over 20 years, one of whom was also his granddaughter. He fathered at least six children with his own daughter and repeatedly raped one of the daughters they gave birth to. His trial judge said the amount of times he had raped his daughters was "well into the hundreds". He has not been named to protect his victims.
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,
, United States
, 2000
, 4
, Heir to cosmetics fortune and adoptive grandson of Max Factor, Sr. Was arrested for four counts of drug-induced aggravated rape when a college student accused Luster of drugging and raping her at his home and search revealed tapes of more unconscious rapes. Luster fled prosecution into Central America, but was convicted in absentia for the rapes and captured by bounty hunter Duane Chapman to be extradited back to the US. Luster is now serving life in prison for the rapes.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 2000
, 4
, 20–year-old Michael Hardacre, a petty criminal who had never been convicted of violent sexual crimes previously, raped four women in Rochdale between June and September 2000. He also randomly battered to death a retired teacher named Eileen Jawczak, and became known as the "Rochdale Ripper". He was convicted in 2001.
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, Cleophus Ward
, United States
, 2000-2002
, 5
, Convicted and imprisoned from a month of kidnappings and rapes of college women in Fulton County, Georgia. Was released in 2017, but arrested again on unrelated charges. Another woman was kidnapped and raped on March 7, 2000, by the same ruse of being offered a ride before being driven to another location to be raped. After the rape kit was received by the state bureau in 2015, a conclusive DNA match in 2018 resulted in Ward's indictment while in state custody.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 2000–2008
, 10–100+
, Known as the "Black Cab Rapist"; cab driver who drugged and subsequently raped across England. He was convicted of six attacks in 2009. Police have concluded that he amassed more than 100 victims; his case resulted in scrutiny towards the investigating team's incompetence. He was initially sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2019 he pled guilty to four more charges of administering drugs to women with the intention of sexually assaulting or raping them.
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, Kansas College Rapist
, United States
, 2000–2015
, 14
, An unidentified serial rapist in a now reopened case, tied to fourteen rapes in Lawrence and Manhattan, Kansas, targeting college students at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. The rapist stopped in 2008 in the majority of the spree, but was tied to another rape in 2015, leading to the case being reopened. A podcast titled ''The Murder Squad'' released an episode that brought renewed interest in the investigations. The rapist has never been affirmatively identified.
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,
, United States
, 2000–2020
, 5–8+
, Cult leader responsible for subjugating and exploiting college students at Sarah Lawrence College, including his daughter, whose dorm room he lived in and worked from. Was a notable contact of high-ranking figures, but also a con artist splitting his family up to obtain his children and a pathological liar, including reportedly during the trial of past acquaintance Bernard Kerik. Isolated his daughter, her friends, and other college students in the dorm room, brainwashed them, and forced them into strict regimens, forced labor, and even prostitution and sex trafficking. They would be manipulated with tall tales of civil service and were forced to drop their future life ambitions and even identities, reciprocate Ray's lies that they were targeting Ray by only his accusations (such as by poisoning with a variety of substances), privately remodel his properties, give him their paychecks, and balance his finances. Ray wold exploit and punish the members by forcing them to brutalize themselves and each other, as well as be degraded by and engage in sexual intercourse with each other and with Ray. Ray was arrested during sexual acts with one student, as tabloids reported, months after ''New York'' magazine ousted Ray with a cover story exposé. The college students returned to their families and testified at the trial, throughout which Ray had critical medical episodes. Ray was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life in prison.
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,
, Great Britain
, 2000s–2010
, 4
, Gang leader convicted of four counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and three counts of sexual activity with a child for crimes committed as part of the Derby child sex abuse ring.
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,
, United States
, 2000s-2010s
, 5
, Megachurch pastor accused of child sexual abuse by five men who lacked fathers and were congregates in Long's church. They were reportedly bribed and gifted, with Long quoting scripture to say motive to the five men in a way to deny its criminality and make them do so as well. Long denied allegations and vowed to fight them, but later reports revealed unspecified lawsuits settled privately out of court. A Canadian documentary series investigated the allegations. Long later died at age 63, with a public statement from the church alleging the cause to be cancer.
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,
, Ireland
, 2001
, 8
, Irishman convicted of kidnapping, repeatedly raping, and attempting to murder a young woman. Suspected in the disappearance of 8 women.
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,
, United States
, 2001
, 6
, American retired aircraft engineer, working as an amateur babysitter to lure girls to his home staged for their arrival and sexually abuse them, all the while taking photos and storing them on his computer. Two sisters saw images of their friends being exploited by Goldberg, and after Goldberg's arrest, he jumped bail and fled to Canada. While Goldberg lived under an alias and false records, a counselor tipped off American authorities in 2007, leaving to Goldberg's arrest and extradition. Pleaded guilty to one count of producing child porn and was sentenced to twenty years in prison. Scheduled to be released on 2024.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 2001–2002
, 9
, A German-born convicted rapist, Antoni raped nine women and girls. The crimes took place in Surrey, Kent, Berkshire, London, Hertfordshire and Birmingham. He died in HMP Wakefield prison on 8 March 2018.
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,
, United States
, 2001–2003
, 7
, A Honduran immigrant, Cepates attacked seven girls and women in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where some of his victims were attending as students.
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,
, United States
, 2001–2005
, 23
, Serial date rapist of twenty-one women in Philadelphia, who all had similar accounts of being lured by fake profiles run by Marsalis on Match.com. Each women would reportedly be drugged with roofies in their drinks and raped while unconscious, waking up feeling the trauma while not fully discerning what happened. Marsalis was also accused of rape similarly by a lesbian colleague in Idaho and an ex-girlfriend. Marsalis was charged with numerous counts of rape and sexual assault, being sentenced to life in prison from convictions of two counts of sexual assault. Marsalis has publicly spoken out against allegations in a confusing, contradictory profession of denying guilt.
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,
, Belgium
, 2001–2010
, 5
, Known as "Le Prof"; serial killer and rapist who targeted lone women and young couples, killing at least three and raping at least; confessed to 20 rapes in total; sentenced to life imprisonment.
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, Preston Paris
, Great Britain
, 2001–2011
, 5
, American-born child rapist who groomed victims in Leicester from childhood and subjected them to sexual abuse continually into adulthood.
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,
, Norway
, 2001–2013
, 18
, Colombian-born dancer and minor celebrity who drugged and raped women he invited over for job interviews in Oslo; sentenced to 21 years' imprisonment, the harshest penalty for a rape case in Norwegian history.
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,
, Israel
, 2002–2004
, 5
, Known as "The Evasive Pedophile"; abducted, beat and raped 5, possibly 10, young girls in Ashdod and Ashkelon; sentenced to 45 years imprisonment, the highest sentence imposed on a sex offender in the country.
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,
, France
, 2002–2005
, 12
, Known as the "Sock Rapist"; delinquent who kidnapped and raped women in several areas around France, always gagging his victim with a sock or other items, thus the nickname. Convicted and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.
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,
, United States
, 2002–2005
, 4
, Serial rapist of women in the local communities of Bloomington, Illinois, where Pelo retired from being a police sergeant. Four women were raped in break-ins, threatened with weapons such as a knife and a shotgun, and forced to be washed off to not leave forensic evidence behind. Pelo was arrested when stalking the home of a fifth woman by an officer who used to be subordinate to the police veteran. Supplies described by the women who were raped were fund in Pelo's possession, and the primary evidence against Pelo was witness accounts and identification. Computer histories of violent pornography and research on rape victims were also found from Pelo's private and job-issued devices. Pelo was convicted on all counts and sentenced to 440 years.
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, Elton Yarbrough
, United States
, 2003-2006
, 5
, Former Texas A&M University student and campus cadet, found guilty of raping five women, including four university students. Revealed as one of sex serial rapists at American college campuses in an investigative report identified "undetected rapists", serial rapists never facing legal reaction and penalty, to spread awareness to college campuses nationwide.
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, Kenneth Mark Shirley
, United Kingdom
, 2003–2009
, 4
, Murderer who was released from prison in 2003 only to rape four women in the Bristol area.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 2004
, 5
, Babysitters who raped a 12-week-old baby repeatedly in February and March 2004. 19-year-old female Tanya French pleaded guilty to four counts of rape, while Webster pled guilty to one count. They recorded the abuse and were also convicted for this and a number of indecent assaults.
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, Steven Rios
, United States
, 2004
, 3+
, Policeman at the Columbia, Missouri] department responsible for the murder of Jesse Valencia. Extorted Jesse for sex after arresting him when breaking up a party, as well as having sexually extorted other people, specifically women, under false promises he'd drop charges against them. Tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison; was retried and convicted when the first conviction was overturned, with a similar sentence imposed.
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,
, United States
, 2004–2007
, 4+
, Abducted, raped and beat women in Mesa and Phoenix from 2004 to 2007, resulting in the deaths of two victims. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the two murders and to 135 years imprisonment for two other sexual assaults, and is currently on death row. Police believe he might be responsible for further rapes and murders.
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, Unknown Portuguese holiday home serial rapist
, Portugal
, 2004–2010
, 5–12
, Serial rapist of young girls in British families in vacation homes in Portugal, the rapes of five girls definitively connected. Twelve in total have been identified as possibly connected altogether. The girls and other witnesses reported the same features, smells, speech, and even distinctive clothing of the rapist, with an M.O. of breaking into the holiday homes and sexually assaulting the girls in the beds they were sleeping in. The local police had suspected Euclides Monteiro, a person of interest in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, but he was cleared by DNA evidence.
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, Amere Singh Dhaliwal
, United Kingdom
, 2004–2011
, 22
, Convicted in 2018 of 22 counts of rape committed as part of the Huddersfield grooming gang.
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, Zahid Hassan
, United Kingdom
, 2004–2011
, 10
, Convicted in 2018 of six counts of rape committed as part of the Huddersfield grooming gang. Convicted of a further four counts of rape and an attempted rape in 2021.
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, Wiqas Mahmud
, United Kingdom
, 2004–2011
, 3
, Convicted in 2018 of three counts of rape committed as part of the Huddersfield grooming gang.
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, Nasarat Hussain
, United Kingdom
, 2004–2011
, 3
, Convicted in 2018 of three counts of rape committed as part of the Huddersfield grooming gang.
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, Mohammed Azeem
, United Kingdom
, 2004–2011
, 5
, Convicted in 2018 of five counts of rape committed as part of the Huddersfield grooming gang.
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, Unnamed 32-year-old Huddersfield grooming gang member
, United Kingdom
, 2004–2011
, 5
, Convicted in 2019 of five counts of rape committed as part of the Huddersfield grooming gang.
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,
, India
, 2004–2017
, 60
, Indian paedophile who was arrested on 15 January 2017, on charges of raping numerous underaged girls. He had been targeting girls walking home from school for at least 13 years before his apprehension. Around 60+ girls were sexually assaulted by him.
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,
, United States
, 2005–2006
, 15
, Known as "The Baseline Killer"; raped women and young girls in the North Central area of Phoenix, Arizona, during a crime spree in which he also kidnapped and killed other victims. Sentenced to death. Niklas
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,
, Sweden
, 2005–2010
, 14
, Known as the "Örebro Rapist"; considered one of Sweden's worst serial rapists, Eliasson was active in Örebro, acting upon an inner voice that told his to attack women; sentenced to 12 years in prison, and released on parole in 2018.
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, Gene Benjamin
, Great Britain
, 2005–2010
, 7
, Convicted in 2011 of a string of sex attacks against women in Bournemouth, including seven rapes. Most victims were sex workers.
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,
, Great Britain
, 2005–2015
, 5
, Notorious female ringleader of a Norwich child sex abuse ring. She was convicted on 23 counts of sexual offences against children, including rapes. The attacks were committed against five different victims, who were abused at parties and possibly offered to others in raffles. Black was imprisoned for a minimum of 24 years, while three other members of the gang received shorter sentences.
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, Sean Hartley
, Great Britain
, 2005–2020
, 3
, Committed a string of sex attacks across Moray and Highland in Scotland between 2005 and 2020, including three rapes. His youngest victim was 15.
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,
, Great Britain
, 2006–2011
, 5
, Convicted of five counts of rape in 2019 for crimes committed as part of the Halifax child sex abuse ring.
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,
, Great Britain
, 2006–2011
, 3
, Convicted of three counts of rape in 2019 for crimes committed as part of the Halifax child sex abuse ring.
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,
, Great Britain
, 2006–2012
, 3
, Convicted of three counts of rape in 2015 for crimes committed as part of the Aylesbury child sex abuse ring.
, -
,
, Great Britain
, 2006–2012
, 3
, Convicted of three counts of rape in 2015 for crimes committed as part of the Aylesbury child sex abuse ring.
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,
, Great Britain
, 2006–2012
, 4
, Convicted of four counts of rape in 2015 for crimes committed as part of the Aylesbury child sex abuse ring.
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,
, Malaysia (convicted)
Cambodia
Singapore
Laos
India (suspected)
, 2006–2014
, 71
, British paedophile who assaulted underage children in Malaysia, possibly up to 200 across Southeast Asia, posing in appropriate jobs to lure his victims; described as one of Britain's worst, and youngest, paedophiles; given 22 life sentences, murdered in prison in England in 2019.
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, Adrian Moore
, Australia
, 2007-2018
, 13
, Convicted in 2022 of drugging, raping, and brutalizing women, including one of his work colleagues, while in his former position as a West Australian cop. Testimony from the women and images and videos from his hard drive revealed violence and degradation including urination in their mouths, bestiality, and beating them. Some women spent one night, while others were in longer relationships, originally at east around Moore as a policeman and having met on dating sites such as RSVP, Tinder, and Plenty of Fish. Many of the women were left with amnesia from the drugs their drinks were spiked with, and the recorded evidence confiscated from Moore was so graphically obscene and traumatic it couldn't be presented in open court. Found guilty on all 87 charges filed against him at the trial.
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, Tyrone Clarke
, United Kingdom
, Late 2000s
, 4
, Convicted in 2010 of a series of sex attacks and rapes against four women committed in the Cardiff area.
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,
, Portugal
, 2008–2009
, 40
, Known as the "Telheiras Rapist"; engineer who raped predominantly underage girls in the Greater Lisbon area at knifepoint; sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
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,
, South Africa
, 2008–2009
, 19
, Dubbed the "West-End Serial Killer" by police, is a South African serial killer who killed 16 people in 2008 and 2009. On 17 February 2011, Mogale was convicted on 52 of 61 charges related to 16 murders, 19 rapes, and 9 kidnappings.
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,
, Colombia
Venezuela (suspected)
, 2008–2011
, 267
, Known as "The Big Bad Wolf"; lured young boys to hotels, where he raped and recorded videos of the assaults; suspected of more than 500, with some occurring in Venezuela; sentenced to 60 years' imprisonment.
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,
, United States
, 2008–2012
, 6
, Stalked and broke into the homes of six women with various ages, backgrounds, and other personal information in suburbs near Seattle and Denver, raping them while holding them captive for prolonged time in their own homes. The first woman identified, publicly named Marie, was never believed in her report and harassed by the despondent local officers assigned to her case into saying she lied, resulting in her being charged, convicted, and briefly imprisoned for her statement allegedly being "false". Combined efforts from departments in Washington and Colorado led to O'Leary, a previously nearby stationed army veteran, being identified and arrested in Colorado, with evidence of all rapes, including the rape of Marie, found in O'Leary's home. Revelations leading to Marie's exoneration and settlement by the city also led to changes in the Lynwood police department's protocol and ethics once its excessive rejections of sex offense cases was revealed. An article published in ProPublica detailed the case, ''An Unbelievable Story of Rape'', as well as an adapted miniseries '' Unbelievable''.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 2008–2017
, 6–9
, Former front man of the rock band Lostprophets. Would manipulate mothers into letting Watkins sexually abuse their infant-age children. Watkins was convicted on three counts of child sexual assault, six counts of child pornography, and one count of extreme animal pornography, being sentenced to 29 years in prison. The two mothers were also convicted and sentenced to prison time. Watkins was transferred between prisons to be closer to his mother after her kidney transplant, but Watkins was transferred back to his original prison after starting to manipulate another mother. Investigations revealed reports of Watkins' offenses as far back as 2008.
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,
, Brazil
, 2009
, 52
, In early 2009 he was accused of sexually abusing sedated patients. Abdelmassih was sentenced to 278 years in prison for 52 rapes.
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, Aman Vyas
, Great Britain
, 2009
, 4
, Extradited from India and convicted in the UK in 2020 of five rapes and a murder committed in Walthamstow in 2009. Had fought extradition for 10 years.
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, Yap Weng Wah
, Singapore
, 2009–2012
, 45
, A Malaysian quality assurance engineer who gained employment in Singapore. He was notorious for having raped 31 teenage boys aged between 11 and 14 in Singapore between 2009 and 2012, as well as committing 14 additional rapes of teenage males in Malaysia. Yap was arrested in Singapore in September 2012 and charged with 76 offences of sexual assault of minors, which included charges of oral sex and anal sex and filming of his illegal sexual acts. However, his charges were only applied for those committed in Singapore and he did not face charges of his sexual crimes committed in Malaysia due to lack of jurisdiction. Yap was found to be suffering from hebephilia, a sexual disorder which dictates a sexual interest in pubescent males. Three years later, in March 2015, in view of his high propensity to reoffend, the highly aggravating nature of his crimes and his lack of remorse, Yap Weng Wah, then 31 years old, was sentenced to serve a 30–year term of imprisonment and he also received 24 strokes of the cane, after he was convicted of 12 out of 76 charges (the remaining were taken into consideration during sentencing). Yap Weng Wah was known to be one of Singapore's worst sexual predators of young children in the city state's history.
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, Jamie Rogers
, United Kingdom
, 2009–2017
, 12
, Convicted in 2019 of a series of sex attacks against victims while they slept, including 12 rapes. The crimes were only discovered after police examined his phone for unrelated offences and found images of the attacks - which the victims were unaware had happened.
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, Andrew Wheeler
, United Kingdom
, 2009-2018
, 3+
, British paramedic and serial rapist of women and girls in Cambridgeshire, on and off shifts. The women were targeted either during ambulance calls when they were in need of medical assistance or even crossing paths outside of the job. Two women were raped twice by Wheeler, one was kidnapped when she was driven to her house to be raped there. Convicted and imprisoned for over two decades, with police reporting more women came forward and their reports being investigated, as they openly dreaded when they implored the public for victims to come forward.
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,
, Canada
, 2010–2016
, 5–13
, Nightclub promoter accused of sexually assaulting several women while they were intoxicated. McKnight met the women at bars, plied them with alcohol, lured them to his home and assaulted them. He was charged with assaulting thirteen women, and was convicted on five counts in January 2020.
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,
, Colombia
, 2010–2019
, 12
, Known as "The Beast from the Slaughterhouse"; former police officer who lured victims with false offers for jobs, then raped and tortured them at a hut in Malambo; also responsible for the murder of a student; sentenced to 37 years' imprisonment.
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,
, Greece
, 2010, 2020
, 4+
, Known as "The Beast of Kavos". Responsible for the kidnappings and rapes of between three and seven women on the island of Corfu, Greece, suspected of around 100 rapes total. Aspiotis targeted British female tourists, having a consistent M.O. of forcing them out into the island's woods before raping them. Aspiotis was convicted and served time, then was released on parole, with one woman waiving her immunity to protest the release after she was promised Aspiotis would never get out of jail. Early morning British talk show ''This Morning'' sent a newscaster to confront Aspiotis, but the questions were dodged. Police chased him down in 2020 on suspicion of another rape, but Aspiotis plunged off a cliff and broke his back during a fall. While receiving medical treatment, Aspiotis was again taken into custody convicted, and is serving over 20 years of another sentence for aggravated rape and evading authority.
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, Cassius Povey
, United Kingdom
, 2010s
, 8
, Child rapist from Grimsby who groomed and raped teenage girls as a musician, convicted of eight counts of rape in 2022.
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, Michael Emerton
, United Kingdom
, 2010s–2017
, 4
, Leader of the Berkhamsted paedophile network, convicted in 2015 of four counts of rape and various other sexual offences. Given Nine life sentences.
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,
, United States
, 2011–2014
, 16
, Darren Sharper was a former NFL football player who played in the league for 14 seasons with three different teams. During that time he was a 5x Pro Bowler 2x 1st Team All-Pro as well as a Super Bowl Champion and 2000's All decade Team member. In 2014 he pled guilty to the drugging and raping of 16 different women across 4 different states and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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,
, Philippines
, 2011–2015
, 5–75
, Prolific Australian-born child sex offender with a long-standing history of sexually abusing children in the Philippines, mostly girls. Targeted children of impoverished families and even children of one of his girlfriends, tortured them, often with accomplices, produced "hurtcore" films of physical and sexual violence on children, and reportedly ran dark web child pornography sites and an international child sexual abuse ring. Reportedly victimized 75 children. Convicted of five counts of rape against underage girls, and is currently awaiting trial for dissemination of child pornography, torture, and the 2012 murder of an 11–year-old girl.
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, Zdeno Mirga
, Great Britain
, 2012
, 8
, Convicted of eight counts of rape in 2014 for crimes committed as part of the Peterborough sex abuse ring.
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, Hassan Abdulla
, Great Britain
, 2012
, 4
, Convicted of four counts of rape in 2014 for crimes committed as part of the Peterborough sex abuse ring.
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, Renato Balog
, Great Britain
, 2012
, 5
, Convicted of five counts of rape in 2014 for crimes committed as part of the Peterborough sex abuse ring.
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, Yasir Ali
, Great Britain
, 2012
, 4
, Convicted of four counts of rape in 2014 for crimes committed as part of the Peterborough sex abuse ring.
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,
, United States
, 2012–2014
, 7
, Brooklyn teacher responsible for sexually abusing and exploiting a confirmed seven teenage female students in exchange for passing grades, smoking, and drinking. Was fired, removed from payroll, and ultimately convicted on numerous charges, including minor welfare endangerment, disseminating harmful material to minors, and kidnapping. Despite facing decades in prison, pleaded guilty to nine of thirty-six charges and was sentenced to five years, registering as a sex offender.
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,
, United States
, 2012–2014
, 3+
, Former middle and high school. Arrested and convicted for sexual relations with three 17–year-old male high school students. Previously resigned in 2008 from the last school she worked at over discipline of similar misconduct and offenses.
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,
, United States
, 2012–2017
, 8
, Pleaded guilty to the rapes and murders of Molly Jane Matheson and Megan Getrum in 2017. Was later indicted and pleaded guilty to four rapes in different counties across Texas between 2012 and 2014, the reports previously not being followed through with. Four more women came forward and also accused Kimbro of rape, but no legal measures have been taken as of yet. Reports mention accounts of Kimbro "charming" women and then drugging, strangling, and raping them when that failed. Kimbro dated Molly Matheson before raping, beating, and strangling her to death, then washing her in the shower and running a load of laundry where his underwear was later found. Kimbro and Megan Getrum never knew each other, and Kimbro raped and strangled her while she was out hiking. All crimes Kimbro was convicted of were based on DNA evidence and witness accounts. Kimbro took pleas to avoid the death penalty and waived all appeals.
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,
, United States
, 2013–2014
, 8
, Used his authority as a police officer to target African American women in his community. Convicted of raping or assaulting eight women, but his true number of victims is believed to be eighteen.
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,
, United States
, 2013–2014
, 3
, Convicted of the rapes of three women in Sacramento, targeting them in the evening when they were alone out in suburban neighborhoods at night. Similar details and DNA evidence linked the rapes, and soon after linking the rapes to Hill. His father gave a public statement in his favor when Hill was arrested. Briefly suspected of being the Interstate 80 rapist, but was soon after cleared.
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, Interstate 80 rapist
, United States
, 2013–2014
, 3
, Series of rapes that was committed by an unidentified serial rapist in Sacramento, California. While many have been convinced that other assaults took place by the same man, only three have been successfully linked by DNA. Investigative efforts and DNA evidence ruled out previous suspects, and the investigation remains cold.
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,
, United States
, 2013–2014
, 3
, Physician sentenced to two years in federal prison for extorting patients who were overprescribed controlled substances to take advantage of their addictions. Convicted on charges regarding the financial and sexual extortion of three women, including one who had a long-standing sexual affair with Thota.
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,
, Bolivia
, 2013–2021
, 77+
, Lured women through false ads on Facebook and posed as a police officer in order to extort them for money and sex. After being convicted and sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for a 2013 murder conviction, Choque bribed his way out of prison on unsupervised release, whereupon he drastically escalated his crime spree, raping numerous women and killing at least two more. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for the latter crimes, and his case sparked a heated debate on the treatment of recidivistic offenders across the country.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 2014–2015
, 8
, Gay serial killer who murdered four men in sexual acts between 2014 and 2015, but who also was convicted of four rapes and four sexual assaults on other men. Suspected of being responsible for more rapes.
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, Dillon Anderson
, United Kingdom
, 2014–2020
, 4
, Edinburgh rapist who violently raped four women over six years, and first raped when he was only 14 years old. Convicted in 2021.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 2015–2017
, 48
, An Indonesian student in Manchester, UK, who was convicted on 136 counts of rape, 14 counts of sexual assault, eight counts of attempted rape and one count of assault by penetration. He targeted young heterosexual men who were leaving nightclubs and raped his victims by bringing them to his flat under non-sexual pretences and drugging them with GHB. He filmed the assaults, and police claim there are at least 195 victims.
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, Bryant Webster
, United States
, 2016
, 3
, Raped three man in home invasions between August and October in Suitland, Maryland. Was sentenced to decades in prison after taking guilty pleas to sexual abuse. Had an M.O. of breaking in while wearing black clothes, wielding a handgun with a guiding light, and had a backpack with other assorted weapons. The two conscious men were bound with duct tape and gagged with t-shirts before being repeatedly raped. Before them, a third man was raped while unconscious, with Webster taking photographs of the rape almost entirely. A roommate was alerted during the third rape, and Wester was subdued and eventually taken into custody.
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, Parizian Calin
, United Kingdom
, 2016–2018
, 4
, Convicted in 2019 of four counts of rape committed as part of the Manchester child sex abuse ring.
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, Gemma Watts
, United Kingdom
, 2016–2018
, 7
, Pretended to be a teenage boy online to lure in unsuspecting female victims, whom she would then sexually assault. Watts was found guilty of abusing seven victims across the UK and sentenced to 8 years imprisonment, but police believe that her victim count might be as high as 50.
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, Glen Samson
, United Kingdom
, 2016–2018
, 26+
, Convicted in 2019 of 24 rapes committed in Huddersfield, Liverpool and London after he was released from prison in 2016 for multiple other rapes.
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, Anthony Philpot
, United States
, 2016-2021
, 3
, Lured, kidnapped, and raped teenage girls in Ohio with the assistance of his wife Shana.
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, Christopher Belter
, United States
, 2017-2018
, 4
, Assisted by his mother, stepfather, and a family friend, Belter lured the girls to his home in Lewiston, New York, supplied the girls alcohol and marijuana during parties, and raped them in his bedroom while verbally degrading and harassing them. Was taken to Niagara County criminal court in 2019 on first-degree rape charges, but pleaded guilty to lesser degrees of felony and misdemeanor charges and apologized in testimony. When the judge delivered a sentence of parole as his last case before retirement, the girls were outraged and it made nationwide news. Belter was registered as the most dangerous level of sex offender, which only added to the public outcry of rape needing deserving legal penalty and life consequences instead of slaps on the wrists and enabling. Belter's accomplices are scheduled to be tried on unknown dates.
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,
, United States
, 2017–2018
, 11
, Habitual criminal from New York City; raped, beat, and tortured women in Springfield, Massachusetts; three of the women he ended up killing and hid their bodies in his house, which he was also sharing with his mother.
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,
, United States
, 2017–2019
, 6+
, American Democratic political donor responsible for bringing gay, Black men to his home to drug with methamphetamine and sexually assault, killing two men from overdoses, Gemmel Moore and Timothy Michael Dean. Buck was charged with the murders and the assault of another man in a similar fashion on September 11, days before his arrest. There was public outrage over no charges against Buck for Gemmel's murder, which was committed two years before Timothy's murder. Police found Buck to be in possession of numerous paraphernalia, drugs, and gay pornography when called to the scene. Was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison on numerous charges, years later due to delays in the trial.
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, Francis Mukendi
, Great Britain
, 2017–2019
, 4
, Convicted, in 2022, of four counts of rape and three counts of attempted rape for preying on women in the Camden area of London.
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,
, United States
, 2018
, 3+
, Serial rapist of black-American girls, taking advantage of their lower-class status and basic needs, often recording the rapes and sexual assaults on video, as was revealed in a ''Washington Post'' article. Was shot and killed in his home by Chrystal Kizer, who was lured online for money for food and school items, only to be repeatedly sexually abused by Volar. She was arrested after setting fire to the house and stealing Volar's car, arguing self-defense and wanting the sexual assaults to stop. She is awaiting trial, and her prosecution became a cause celebre in the interest of supporting victims of sex trafficking and exonerating Chrystul for the shooting on those very grounds. Celebrities endorsed attention for her defense, and donations went as far as to posting her bail. The case regained renewed interest after the arrest, trial, and acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse regarding his role in the Kenosha unrest shooting, which occurred in the same city of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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, John Chalachew
, United Kingdom
, 2018
, 6
, Plymouth rapist who targeted vulnerable victims outside bars and nightclubs, raping several women and a man who sometimes woke up to find him raping them.
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,
, United Kingdom
, 2019
, 11
, English-born Scottish traveller career criminal who sexually assaulted and raped victims, ranging from children to elderly women; sentenced to 33 counts of life imprisonment.
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, Abdallah Baballah
, United Kingdom
, 2019
, 5
, Sudanese man who carried out a series of sex attacks against random women in east London. Was influenced by Joseph McCann (see above) and wanted to emulate him.
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, Jordan Pearson
, United Kingdom
, 2019
, 4
, Teenage serial rapist guilty of arriving late at parties in Dundee to scout for teenage girls who were drunk and rape them. Was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison, with three years supervised release and indefinite registry as a sex offender.
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, Serban Scinteianu
, United Kingdom
, 2019
, 4
, Homeless rapist who randomly raped four women in the Brixton area.
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, Alan Green
, United Kingdom
, 2019
, 3
, Convicted in 2019 of three separate rapes of women who were walking down a street in the Greenwich area of London.
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, Wilfred Marodza
, United Kingdom
, 2019
, 4
, Convicted in 2020 of three rapes of a woman who was walking home in Southwark and of an attempted rape of another woman waiting at a bus stop.
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, Esa Juwara
, United Kingdom
, 2019–2020
, 5
, 21-year-old Birmingham rapist who violently attacked sex workers in the city and committed at least five rapes.
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, Mohammed Tarik
, United Kingdom
, 2019–2021
, 3
, London rapist and criminal who randomly and violently raped three women, convicted in 2022.
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, Paul Flores
, United States
, ???-2021
, 3+
, Found guilty in 2022 for the murder of Kristen Smart, who disappeared in 1996 and was declared dead in absentia. Was the college student reported to have walked her home from a party and the last to have seen her alive. Police found date rape drugs and numerous videos of Flores raping and sodomizing women during searches and seizures in relation to Kristen's disappearance and murder.
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, David Carrick
, England
, 2003-2020
, 12
, Metropolitan Police officer pled guilty to 20 charges of rape in 2022 and 2023 court cases

See also

* Serial rapist
* List of serial killers by number of victims
* Victimology

References

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