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s, by the country where most of the killings occurred.


Convicted serial killers by country


Afghanistan

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Abdullah Shah Abdullah Shah (1965–2004) was an Afghan serial killer found guilty in Kabul of killing more than 20 people, including his wife. His sanctioned execution was the first in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. Shah served und ...
: killed at least 20 travelers on the road from
Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into #Districts, 22 municipal dist ...
to
Jalalabad Jalalabad (; Dari/ ps, جلال‌آباد, ) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about from the capital Kabul. Jala ...
while serving under warlord
Zardad Khan Faryadi Sarwar Zardad (also known as Zardad Khan and Commander Zardad) is an Afghan former warlord. In 2005 he was convicted in the United Kingdom (where he was living), for conspiring to take hostages and conspiring to torture during the 1990s in ...
; also killed his wife; executed in 2004.


Argentina

* Marcelo Antelo: known as "The
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Killer"; drug addict who killed at least four people in
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between February and August 2010, allegedly in the name of a
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; sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Roberto José Carmona Roberto José Carmona (born 1963), known as The Human Hyena (Spanish: ''La Hiena Humana''), is an Argentine thief, rapist and serial killer. Initially imprisoned for killing a young woman in 1986, Carmona proceeded to kill two inmates in separat ...
: known as "The Human Hyena"; abducted, raped and shot a teenager in 1986; sentenced to life, killed two inmates in prison; murdered a cab driver after a brief escape from prison and is now awaiting charges in this case. * Diego Casanova: known as "The Prisoner Killer"; after going to prison for a murder he committed in 2004, he murdered four inmates in the Boulogne Sur Mer prison. *
Juan Catalino Domínguez Juan Catalino Domínguez (May 4, 1910 – April 18, 1948) was an Argentine serial killer who, in-between several prison escapes from 1944 to 1948, killed eight people before being gunned down by police in a gunfight. Background Juan Catalino Do ...
: ranch hand who killed eight people around southeast
Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...
from 1944 to 1948 while on the run; shot dead by police in 1948. *
Florencio Fernández Florencio Roque Fernández (1935 – 1968) was an Argentine serial killer who murdered around 15 women in his hometown of Monteros, Tucuman Province in the 1950s. He was popularly known as The Argentine Vampire and The Window Vampire, referencing ...
: known as "The Argentine Vampire"; killed 15 women in his hometown of
Monteros Monteros is a town in Tucumán Province, Argentina, located south-west of the provincial capital San Miguel de Tucumán, and which lies at an altitude of . It has 23,771 inhabitants according to the , and is the head town of the Monteros Departmen ...
,
Tucumán Province Tucumán () is the most densely populated, and the second-smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the province has the capital of San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neigh ...
, during the 1950s, died in jail in 1968. Dismissed as an
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by several Argentine sources. *
Cayetano Santos Godino Cayetano Santos Godino (October 31, 1896 – November 15, 1944), also known as "El Petiso Orejudo" ("The Big-Eared Midget"), was an Argentinian serial killer who terrorized Buenos Aires at age 16. In the early 20th century he was responsible fo ...
: known as "Petiso Orejudo" ("Big Eared Midget"); at 16, killed four children in 1912; died in prison in 1944. *
Cayetano Domingo Grossi Cayetano Domingo Grossi (1854 – April 6, 1900) was the first serial killer in Argentinian history. He murdered five of his own neonatal children that were born as the result of his rape of his two stepdaughters. For this reason he was sentenced ...
: the first known serial killer in Argentine history; Italian immigrant who murdered five of his newborn children between 1896 and 1898; executed in 1900. *
Francisco Antonio Laureana Francisco Antonio Laureana (1954 – February 27, 1975) was a young Argentine killed by the Buenos Aires police, who believed him to be a rapist and serial killer called The Satyr of San Isidro, who for a period of six months - from 1974 and 19 ...
: known as "The Satyr of San Isidro"; murdered 15 women from 1974 to 1975 in the northern area of
Greater Buenos Aires Greater Buenos Aires ( es, Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area ( es, Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, AMBA), refers to the urban agglomeration comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the adj ...
, raping 13 of them; killed in a shootout with the police in February 1975. *
Yiya Murano María de las Mercedes Bernardina Bolla Aponte de Murano (20 May 1930 – 26 April 2014), better known as Yiya Murano, and also referred to as The Poisoner of Monserrat was an Argentinian serial killer and swindler. Convicted of three murders, she ...
: known as "The Poisoner of Monserrat", poisoned three female acquaintances over borrowed money in Buenos Aires in 1979. *
Javier Hernán Pino Javier Hernán Pino (born 1990) is an Argentine serial killer. Between February and October 2015, he befriended and deceived five people into trusting him, before shooting them in the head with a silenced pistol and robbing them of their belongin ...
: killed and robbed five people between February and October 2015 in three cities in different provinces across the country; sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Robledo Puch Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch (born 22 January 1952), also known as The Angel of Death and The Black Angel, is an Argentine serial killer. He was convicted of eleven murders (including the killing of at least one accomplice), one attempted murder ...
: known as "The Death Angel"; killed 11 people before his arrest in 1972; sentenced to
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in 1980.


Australia

* John Balaban: known as "The Romanian Maniac"; Romanian emigrant who murdered at least five people in France and Australia from 1948 to 1953, including his wife and her family; executed in 1953. *
David and Catherine Birnie David John Birnie (16 February 1951 – 7 October 2005) and Catherine Margaret Birnie ( née Harrison; born 23 May 1951) were an Australian couple from Perth, Western Australia, who murdered four women at their home in 1986, and attempted to mu ...
: responsible for "The Moorhouse Murders"; couple from the
Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
suburb of Willagee who raped and murdered four women in 1986. *
Gregory Brazel Gregory John 'Bluey' Brazel (born 17 November 1954) is a convicted Australian serial killer, arsonist, and armed robber currently serving three consecutive life sentences for the murders of sex workers Sharon Taylor and Roslyn Hayward in 1990 ...
:
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man who shot a woman to death in a 1982 armed robbery, and murdered two prostitutes in 1990. * John Bunting,
Robert Wagner Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television. He is known for starring in the television shows '' It Takes a Thief'' (1968–1970), ''Switch'' (1975–1978), and '' Hart to Hart'' (1979 ...
and
James Vlassakis The Snowtown murders (also known as the bodies in barrels murders) were a serial killer, series of murders committed by John Justin Bunting, Robert Joe Wagner and James Spyridon Vlassakis between August 1992 and May 1999, in and around Adelaid ...
: convicted of the
Snowtown murders The Snowtown murders (also known as the bodies in barrels murders) were a series of murders committed by John Justin Bunting, Robert Joe Wagner and James Spyridon Vlassakis between August 1992 and May 1999, in and around Adelaide, South Austr ...
of 12 people between 1992 and 1999. Also known as the "Bodies in the Barrels Murders". *
Robert Francis Burns Robert Francis Burns (1840 – 25 September 1883) was an Irish Australian murderer and probable serial killer. He was hanged at Ararat Gaol in September 1883, convicted of the murder of Michael Quinlivan near Wickliffe in western Victoria. Aft ...
: Irish convict transported to Australia in 1862; confessed to eight killings; hanged in Ararat in 1883. *
Eric Edgar Cooke Eric Edgar Cooke (25 February 1931 – 26 October 1964), nicknamed the Night Caller and later the Nedlands Monster, was an Australian serial killer who terrorised the city of Perth, Western Australia, from September 1958 to August 1963. Cooke c ...
: known as "The Night Caller"; killed at least eight people and attempted to kill many more in and around Perth between 1959 and 1963; executed in 1964, becoming the last person to be hanged in
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John Leslie Coombes John Leslie Coombes (born 14 September 1954) is a convicted serial killer from Victoria, Australia. He killed twice in 1984 and again in 2009, and is now serving a life sentence with no chance of parole. Murder of Henry Desmond Kells, 1984 In ...
: killed two men in 1984 and one woman in 2009 around the Victoria area. * Bandali Debs: convicted of murdering two police officers and two prostitutes in the 1990s. *
Paul Denyer Paul Charles Denyer (born 14 April 1972, known briefly as Paula whilst in prison) is an Australian serial killer currently serving three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 30 years for the murders of three y ...
: known as "The Frankston Killer"; murdered three women in 1993 in the
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suburb of Frankston; sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Peter Dupas Peter Norris Dupas (born 6 July 1953) is an Australian convicted serial killer, currently serving three life sentences without parole for murder and primarily for being a serious habitual offender. He has a very significant criminal history inv ...
: serving three life sentences for multiple murder and rape charges in Victoria. * Bradley Robert Edwards: responsible for the "
Claremont serial killings The Claremont serial killings is the name given by the media to a case involving the disappearance of an Australian woman, aged 18, and the killings of two others, aged 23 and 27, in 1996–1997. After attending night spots in Claremont, a wea ...
"; killed at least two women in Claremont from 1996 to 1997; suspect in the disappearance of a third; sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Kathleen Folbigg Kathleen Megan Folbigg (née Donovan; born 14 June 1967) is an Australian woman convicted in 2003 for killing her four infant children. She was pardoned twenty years later due to serious doubts that had arisen about her guilt. No direct evidenc ...
: murdered four of her infants between 1991 and 1999. *
Leonard Fraser Leonard John Fraser (27 June 1951 – 1 January 2007), also known as The Rockhampton Rapist, was an Australian convicted serial killer. Biography Fraser was born in Ingham, Queensland in 1951 and moved to Sydney in 1957. He left school in th ...
: known as "The Rockhampton Rapist"; convicted of killing four women in Rockhampton, Queensland. *
John Wayne Glover John Wayne Glover (26 November 1932 – 9 September 2005) was an English-Australian serial killer convicted of the murders of six elderly women (aged from 60 to 93), over a period of 14 months from 1989 to 1990 including Winifreda, Lady Asht ...
: known as "The Granny Killer"; killed six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore; committed suicide in 2005. * Caroline Grills: known as "Auntie Thally"; a serial poisoner of five family members in
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between 1947 and 1953. * Paul Steven Haigh: sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murders of seven people in Victoria in the late 1970s. *
Matthew James Harris Matthew James Harris (born 30 June 1968) is an Australian serial killer from Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, currently serving two sentences of life imprisonment plus 40 years' imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the murder of thr ...
: strangled a friend's brother, a female friend, and a male neighbor to death over five weeks in 1998 in
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Thomas Jeffrey Thomas Jeffrey (surname also recorded as Jeffery, Jeffries, Jeffreys or Jefferies) was a convict bushranger, murderer and cannibal in the mid-1820s in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). In contemporary newspaper reports of his ...
: Tasmanian
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escapee responsible for the murders of five people; executed in 1826. *
Frances Knorr Frances Lydia Alice Knorr (10 December 1868 – 15 January 1894) was an English migrant to Australia, known as the Baby Farming Murderess. She was found guilty of strangling an infant and hanged on Monday 15 January 1894. Early life and marriage ...
: known as "The Baby Farming Murderess"; English-born baby farmer who killed three infants; executed in 1894. *
Eddie Leonski Edward Joseph Leonski (December 12, 1917 – November 9, 1942) was a United States Army soldier and serial killer responsible for the strangling murders of three women in Melbourne, Australia in 1942. Leonski was dubbed The Brownout Strangler ...
: known as "The Brownout Strangler"; United States Army soldier who killed three women in
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; executed by the U.S. military in 1942. * John Lynch: known as "The Berrima Axe Murderer"; killed ten people from 1835 to 1841. Executed in 1842. * William MacDonald: known as "The Mutilator"; English immigrant who killed at least five men between June 1961 and April 1963 throughout Sydney. Died in prison in 2015, becoming the longest serving inmate in
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. *
John and Sarah Makin John Sidney Makin (14 February 1845 – 15 August 1893) and Sarah Jane Makin (20 December 1845 – 13 September 1918) were Australian ' baby farmers' who were convicted in New South Wales for the murder of infant Horace Murray. The couple answe ...
: late 19th century baby farmers who killed and buried 12 children at a succession of their homes. John was executed in 1893, while Sarah was reprieved, and paroled in 1911. *
Malachi Martin Malachi Brendan Martin (23 July 1921 – 27 July 1999), also known under the pseudonym of Michael Serafian, was an Irish-born American Traditionalist Catholic priest, biblical archaeologist, exorcist, palaeographer, professor, and prolific ...
: convicted of killing
Jane Macmanamin Jane Macmanamin ( 1833 – 4 February 1862) lived in Ireland until she migrated to South Australia in 1855. She lived the remainder of her life in South Australia. Newspaper reports of the time almost all spell her surname (incorrectly) as "Mac ...
and suspected of murdering four additional people as well as being implicated in the suspicious death of his mother; hanged at the
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in 1862. *
Ivan Milat Ivan Robert Marko Milat (27 December 1944 – 27 October 2019) was an Australian serial killer who was convicted in the backpacker murders in 1996. Commonly known as the Backpacker Murderer, Milat captured, assaulted, robbed and murdered two me ...
: killed at least seven tourists in
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between 1989 and 1993, which became known as the " Backpacker Murders"; suspected in similar disappearances in
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. * Martha Needle: known as "The Black Widow of
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," poisoner of four family members and her boyfriend's brother; executed in 1894. *
Alexander Pearce Alexander Pearce (1790 – 19 July 1824) was an Irish convict who was transported to the penal colony in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia for seven years for theft. He escaped from prison several times, allegedly becoming a cannibal ...
: Irish convict who escaped with seven other convicts from imprisonment in
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; five of them were killed and cannibalised, leaving Pearce the only one left; hanged 1824. *
Derek Percy Derek Ernest Percy (15 September 1948 – 23 July 2013) was an Australian suspected serial killer and convicted child killer who was also a person of interest linked to the mysterious deaths and disappearances of multiple children in the 1960s, i ...
: murdered a child in 1969, but also linked to the deaths of eight other children in the 60s; died in prison from
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. * Martha Rendell: killed three stepchildren with
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in 1907–08; last woman to be hanged in Western Australia. *
Lindsey Robert Rose Lindsey Robert Rose (né Lehman; born 2 May 1955) is an Australians, Australian serial killer from New South Wales, currently serving five sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the murder of five people between 1984 ...
: New South Wales serial and
contract killer Contract killing is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or persons. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of payment, monetary or otherwise. Either party may be ...
who murdered five people between 1984 and 1994. * 'Snowy' Rowles: committed the " Murchison Murders"; stockman who murdered three people using a method from a then-unpublished book of author Arthur Upfield, and was caught after forgetting to complete one of the steps after the third murder. Executed in 1932. * Albert Schmidt: known as "The Wagga Murderer"; German immigrant who murdered at least three travelling companions from 1888 to 1890; executed for one murder in 1890. * Arnold Sodeman: known as "The School-girl Strangler"; killed four children in Melbourne in the 1930s. Executed in 1936. * John Whelan:
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escapee responsible for the murders of five people; executed in 1855. * Christopher Worrell and James Miller: known as "The
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Murderers"; were convicted of killing seven people in 1976–1977.


Austria

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Elfriede Blauensteiner Elfriede Martha Blauensteiner (22 January 1931 – 18 November 2003), dubbed The Black Widow, was an Austrian serial killer who murdered at least three victims by poison. In each case, she inherited the victim's possessions. Crimes On 7 Marc ...
: known as "The Black Widow"; poisoner of three individuals; died in prison in 2003. *
Max Gufler Max Gufler (May 1, 1918 – 1966) was an Austrian serial killer who was convicted of killing 4 women. He was suspected of up to 18 murders. He was reportedly subject to outbursts of rage after being struck on the head with a rock at the age of n ...
: poisoned and drowned women; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders, but believed to have committed 18; died 1966. *
Leopoldine Kasparek Leopoldine Kasparek (1893–1921), also known as The Strangler of Vienna, was an Austrian serial killer, arsonist, and thief who attacked 14 wealthy, elderly women in Vienna, Austria, killing four. After gaining enough trust to be let into their ...
: known as "The Strangler of Vienna"; Austrian who strangled 14 wealthy, elderly women in Austria, killing 4; died in prison 1921. * Dariusz Kotwica: known as "The Euro Ripper"; Polish vagrant who murdered at least three pensioners in Austria and
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in 2015; suspected of more murders in the
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and the
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; sentenced to involuntary commitment. *
Lainz Angels of Death Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Meyer, and Waltraud Wagner were four Austrian women who worked as nurse's aides at the Geriatriezentrum am Wienerwald in Lainz, Vienna, and who murdered scores of patients between 1983 and 1989. The group ...
: four nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in
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who admitted to murdering 49 patients between 1983 and 1989. * Martha Marek: poisoned three family members and a lodger in her house with
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between 1932 and 1937; executed 1938. *
Wolfgang Ott Wolfgang Ott (born 1957) is an Austrian sex offender, murderer and alleged serial killer, whose actions are considered some of the most spectacular criminal cases in his home country. Offenses and alleged crimes Wolfgang Ott was sentenced to 15 ...
: sex offender and suspected serial killer who kidnapped several women in 1995, killing two of them; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996. * Harald Sassak:
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employee who between 1971 and 1972 killed six people for the purpose of robbery; died from an undisclosed illness in 2013. *
Hugo Schenk Hugo Ignatz Rudolf Schenk (11 February 1849 – 22 April 1884), also known as The Viennese Housemaids Killer, was an Austrian serial killer and imposter who murdered four maids with the help of an accomplice, Karl Schlossarek (1858–1884), alt ...
: known as "The Viennese Housemaids Killer"; swindler who killed four maids in 1883 with his accomplice Karl Schlossarek; suspected of more murders; executed 1884. * Franz Schmidt: killed a young girl in
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in 1957, later released and committed a double murder in Redlham in 1984; suspected of a child murder in 1982; sentenced to life, released in 2013. *
Franz and Rosalie Schneider Franz Schneider (1857 – March 17, 1892) and Rosalie Schneider (née Capellari; 1851 – after March 11, 1892) were two Austrian serial killers responsible for the murders of at least three women in Lower Austria from in June and July 1891, alt ...
: couple who robbed and murdered at least three, possibly six, maidservants in
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from June to July 1891; Franz was executed in 1892, while Rosalie's sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. *
Jack Unterweger Johann "Jack" Unterweger (16 August 1950  – 29 June 1994) was an Austrian serial killer who committed murder in several countries – Austria, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the United States. Initially convicted in 1974 of a sin ...
: author and sexual sadist; convicted of ten murders; believed to have killed 12 women; committed suicide in prison in 1994. * Guido Zingerle: known as "The Monster of
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"; Italian who brutally raped women in Italy and Austria between 1946 and 1950, killing at least two by burying them under a pile of stones; died in prison in 1962.


The Bahamas

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Cordell Farrington Cordell Farrington (born 1968) is a Bahamian serial killer who killed 4 children and his adult lover from 2002 to 2003. Initially sentenced to death for killing 22-year-old Jamal Robins, he was later resentenced to another count of life imprisonm ...
: killed four children and his boyfriend from 2002 to 2003; sentenced to death and later commuted to life imprisonment. *
Michaiah Shobek Michaiah Shobek (born James Michael Shoffner; 1954 – October 19, 1976), known as The Angels of Lucifer Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered three fellow American tourists in the Bahamas from December 1973 to January 1974. He was ex ...
: known as "The Angels of Lucifer Killer"; American emigrant who murdered three fellow US tourists from 1973 to 1974; executed in 1976.


Bangladesh

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Roshu Kha Roshu Kha, also called Rasu Khan (born 1976 or 1977), is a Bangladeshi confessed serial killer. Arrested in 2009, he admitted to killing 11 female garment workers in Chandpur District. He was sentenced to death in 2015 for the 2008 rape and murde ...
: enraged over rejection by his lover, Roshu killed at least 11 garment workers in
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. He pretended to love them, later killing them brutally. Sentenced to death. *
Ershad Sikder Ershad Sikder (1955 – 10 May 2004) was a Bangladeshi criminal and serial killer, known for committing various crimes such as murder, torture, theft, robbery and others. He was sentenced to death for murder, and subsequently executed on 10 May 20 ...
: career criminal and corrupt politician responsible for the torture-murders of numerous people in the 1990s; convicted on seven counts of murder and executed in 2004.


Belarus

* Ivan Kulesh: drunkard who killed three saleswomen between 2013 and 2014 in the
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; executed in 2016. *
Yuri Kurilsky Yuri Kurilsky (Belarusian: ''Юры Курыльскі''; 1978/1979 – 2007), known as The Monster with the Black Volga (Belarusian: ''Монстар з чорнай волгай'') was a Belarusian serial killer who killed three women and girls ...
: known as "The Monster with the Black
Volga The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catch ...
"; raped and killed two women and one teenager around the
Vitebsk Region Vitebsk Region or Vitebsk Oblast or Viciebsk Voblasts ( be, Ві́цебская во́бласць, ''Viciebskaja voblasć'', ; rus, Ви́тебская о́бласть, Vitebskaya oblast, ˈvʲitʲɪpskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a region ( oblas ...
from 2004 to 2005; executed in 2007. * Eduard Lykov: Russian immigrant who killed five people in drunken quarrels from 2002 to 2011; executed in 2014. * Alexey Mikhalenya: murdered three elderly people as a teenager in 2002; served prison term, released and committed a double murder in 2016; executed in 2018. *
Gennady Mikhasevich Gennady Modestovich Mikhasevich ( be, Генадзь Мадэставіч Міхасевіч; 7 April 1947 – 25 September 1987) was a prolific Soviet serial killer. He murdered 36 women during the period from 1971 to 1985 in Vitebsk, Polotsk and ...
: police volunteer who investigated his own mission-oriented murders of 36 women between 1971 and 1985; executed in 1987. * Igor Mirenkov: known as "The
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Nightmare"; child killer who murdered six boys from 1990 to 1993; executed in 1996. * Sergey Pugachev and Alexander Burdenko: leaders of "The
Polotsk Polotsk (russian: По́лоцк; be, По́лацк, translit=Polatsk (BGN/PCGN), Polack (official transliteration); lt, Polockas; pl, Połock) is a historical city in Belarus, situated on the Dvina River. It is the center of the Polotsk Dist ...
Four"; criminals responsible for killing two girls and two car enthusiasts from 2001 to 2002, as well as numerous robberies with two other accomplices; Pugachev was executed in 2005 and Burdenko was sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Alexander Sergeychik Alexander Vasilyevich Sergeychik (; 1970 – 26 November 2007) was a Belarusians, Belarusian serial killer. He committed murders between 2000 and 2006 in Shchuchyn District and Grodno District. He confessed to killing a total of twelve people, how ...
: killed six people from 2000 to 2006 in the
Shchuchyn Shchuchyn and Ščučyn ( be, Шчучын, Ščučyn, ; russian: Щýчин, ; pl, Szczuczyn Litewski; lt, Šukynas; Yiddish: שטשוטשין, Shtshutshin) is a city in the Grodno Region of Belarus. It is the center of Shchuchyn District. Th ...
and Grodno Districts; confessed to 12 murders; executed in 2007.


Belgian Congo

* William Unek: embarked on two mass murder sprees three years apart; killed by the police in 1957.


Belgium

* Marie Alexandrine Becker: poisoned at least 11 people with
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; sentenced to life imprisonment; died 1938. * Michel Bellen: known as "Wurger van Linkeroever" ("The Strangler of the Left Bank"); raped and killed four women in
Leuven Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic c ...
between 1964 and 1982; sentenced to death but it was converted to life imprisonment; died in prison from heart failure in 2020. * Jan Caubergh: strangled his pregnant neighbour, his girlfriend and their child in 1979; sentenced to death but it was converted to life imprisonment; was the longest-serving prisoner in the country until his death in 2013. * Étienne Dedroog: known as "The Lodgers' Killer"; killed a B&B owner in France and a couple in Belgium from October to November 2011; also suspected of a murder in Spain; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Marc Dutroux: convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls ranging in age from 8 to 19, during 1995 and 1996. Four of his victims were murdered; the final two were rescued. Sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Staf Van Eyken Staf Van Eyken (; born 21 April 1951) is a Belgium, Belgian serial killer who strangled three women between October 1971 and March 1972 in Mechelen and Bonheiden. Because he liked to bite his victims, he got the nickname The Vampire of Muizen. In ...
: known as "The Vampire of Muizen"; raped and strangled three women from 1971 to 1972 in
Muizen Mechelen (; french: Malines ; traditional English name: MechlinMechelen has been known in English as ''Mechlin'', from where the adjective ''Mechlinian'' is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical contex ...
and
Bonheiden Bonheiden () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Bonheiden proper and Rijmenam. In 2021, Bonheiden had a total population of 15,177. The total area is 29.27 km2 (11.30  ...
; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment. *
Renaud Hardy Renaud Hardy (born 1 April 1962), known as The Parkinson's Murderer, is a Belgian serial killer who was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, rape and attempted murder in 2018. Arrest On 16 September 2015, Linda Doms was murdered in Z ...
: known as "The Parkinson's Murderer"; murdered between two and three women in the
Flemish Community The Flemish Community ( nl, Vlaamse Gemeenschap ; french: Communauté flamande ; german: Flämische Gemeinschaft ) is one of the three institutional communities of Belgium, established by the Belgian constitution and having legal responsibilitie ...
from 2009 to 2015; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Ronald Janssen: killed a woman in 2007 and later his neighbour and her boyfriend in 2010 in
Flemish Brabant Flemish Brabant ( nl, Vlaams-Brabant ; french: Brabant flamand ) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, Liège, Walloon Brabant, Hain ...
; admitted to five rapes committed in 1993, but is suspected of 20; sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011. * Marie-Thérèse Joniaux: poisoned three of her family members between 1894 and 1895; sentenced to death in 1895, but was commuted to life imprisonment; died in
Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
in 1923. *
Junior Kabunda Junior Pashi Kabunda (born 1991), known as The Monster of Brussels, is a Belgian criminal and serial killer. After participating in the 2006 robbery-murder of Israeli pianist Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, he went on to murder his daughter and her great- ...
: known as "The Monster of Brussels"; murdered pianist
Benjamin Rawitz-Castel Benjamin Rawitz-Castel (April 24, 1946 – August 29, 2006), was an Israeli classical pianist and piano teacher. Biography Benjamin Rawitz-Castel was born and raised in Haifa. After graduation from the Dounie Weizman Conservatory of music in Haifa ...
in 2006 during a robbery, later killing his daughter and her grandmother in 2009; sentenced to life imprisonment. * András Pándy: known as "Vader Blauwbaard" (Father Bluebeard); Hungarian immigrant convicted of the murder and rape of his two wives and four children in
Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
between 1986 and 1990 with the aid of his daughter, Ágnes Pándy; died in prison in 2013. * Nestor Pirotte: known as "The Crazy Killer"; considered one of the worst Belgian criminals, responsible for the murders of up to seven people from 1954 to 1981, including his great-aunt; died from a heart attack in 2000.


Bermuda

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Wendell Lightbourne Wendell Willis Lightbourne (born 1940), known as The Moon Mad Murderer, is a Bermudian serial killer who committed three rape-murders and the attempted murder of two anothers during a series of attacks that terrorized natives of the Warwick Parish ...
: known as "The Moon Mad Murderer"; killed three women and injured two others around the
Warwick Parish Warwick Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda. It is named after Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1587-1658). It is located in the central south of the island chain, occupying part of the main island to the southeast of the Great Sou ...
area from 1958 to 1959; sentenced to death, but was reprieved in 1960.


Bolivia

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Ramiro Artieda Ramiro Artieda (September 4, 1889 – July 3, 1939), also known as Alberto González, was a Bolivian serial killer. Life Ramiro Artieda's first victim was his brother, Luis. He killed him in the early 1920s when he became the sole heir of his f ...
: killed his brother in the early 1920s for monetary purposes; emigrated to the United States, but later returned and killed seven women until 1938; was arrested in 1939, confessed and was executed by firing squad in 1939. *
Richard Choque Richard Choque Flores (born November 9, 1988) is a Bolivian serial killer and rapist who killed at least two women in 2021, shortly after being released from a prior conviction. For the latter crimes, he was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. T ...
: serial rapist who raped upwards of 77 women and killed at least two from 2019 to 2022, after being released from prison for a prior murder conviction; suspeted in other crimes; sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.


Bosnia and Herzegovina

* Edin Gačić: shot and killed four people between 1998 and 2019, among them his mother and a police officer; killed by security forces in 2019.


Brazil

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José Augusto do Amaral José Augusto do Amaral (1871 – July 12, 1927), known as Preto Amaral, is considered to be the first Brazilian serial killer. Amaral was born in Conquista, Minas Gerais, the son of slaves from the Congo and Mozambique. When he was 17 y ...
: known as "Preto Amaral"; first documented Brazilian serial killer; suspected of murdering and then raping the corpses of three young men in
São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaW ...
in 1926; died from
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while imprisoned before he could be put on trial. * Marcelo Costa de Andrade: known as "The Vampire of
Niterói Niterói (, ) is a municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro in the southeast region of Brazil. It lies across Guanabara Bay facing the city of Rio de Janeiro and forms part of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area. It was the state capital, ...
"; raped and killed fourteen children. * Pedro Costa de Oliveira: known as "Pedro the Clown"; sexual sadist who murdered three women who resisted his advances from 1922 to 1952; sentenced to 130 years imprisonment and presumably died in prison. *
Marcelo de Jesus Silva Marcelo de Jesus Silva, nicknamed "Chucky" was a Brazilian serial killer
: known as "Chucky";
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man convicted of twenty counts of murder, robbery, drug trafficking and death squad. *
Douglas Baptista Douglas Baptista (born 1962), known as The São Vicente Maniac (Portuguese: ''Maníaco de São Vicente''), is a Brazilian serial killer who drowned at least eight children in the Baixada Santista metropolitan area from 1992 to 2003. Arrested and ...
: known as "The São Vicente Maniac"; bound and drowned at least eight children in
Baixada Santista The Baixada Santista is a metropolitan area located on the coast of São Paulo state in Brazil, with a population of 1.7 million. Its most populous city is Santos. As an administrative division (''Região Metropolitana da Baixada Santista''), i ...
from 1992 to 2003; sentenced to 60 years imprisonment. * Luiz Baú: known as "The Monster of Erechim"; schizophrenic who murdered and mutilated a boy in 1975; imprisoned, but escaped in 1980, committing four more murders in four days; recaptured, but escaped yet again, with his ultimate fate unknown. * José Paz Bezerra: known as "The Morumbi Monster"; sexually violated, tortured and murdered more than 20 women in São Paulo and
Pará Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana a ...
during the 1960s and 1970s; sentenced to 30 years imprisonment and released in 2001. * Fortunato Botton Neto: known as "The Trianon Maniac"; male prostitute who stabbed and strangled between three and thirteen clients in São Paulo from 1986 to 1989; sentenced to 8 years in prison, dying behind bars in 1997. * Febrônio Índio do Brasil: delusional religious maniac and habitual criminal who murdered at least six people from 1925 to 1927, mostly young boys and teens; acquitted by reason of insanity and sent to a mental institution, in which he died in 1984 from
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. * Abraão José Bueno:
Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
nurse who killed four child patients; sentenced to 110 years imprisonment in 2005. * Dyonathan Celestrino: known as "The Cross Maniac"; murdered three people as a teenager from July to October 2008, then posed their bodies in a symbolic manner; indefinitely detained. * Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito: pedophile who sexually abused, murdered and mutilated between 30 and 42 young boys from 1989 to 2003 in
Maranhão Maranhão () is a state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 million and an area of . Clockwise from north, it borders on the Atlantic Ocean for 2,243 km and the states of Piauí, Tocantins a ...
and Pará; sentenced to 217 years imprisonment. *
Pedro Rosa da Conceição Pedro Rosa da Conceição was a Brazilian mass murderer and suspected serial killer. He killed three people and wounded thirteen others in Rio das Pedras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 22, 1904, before his arrest.
: Brazilian mass murderer who killed three people and wounded thirteen others on 22 April 1904. Killed his cellmate and a guard in 1911, and is said to have murdered a family of 12 people in an unspecified date and year. Died in 1919. * Francisco de Marco: known as "The Monster of Rio Claro"; raped and murdered seven children in São Paulo and
Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literall ...
from 1953 to 1984, emasculating his male victims; sentenced to 70 years imprisonment for final murder, fate after conviction is unknown. * Pedro Rodrigues Filho: known as "Pedrinho Matador"; convicted and sentenced to 128 years imprisonment for 70 murders; however, the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years; claimed to have killed more than 100 victims, including 40 prison inmates. *
Roneys Fon Firmino Gomes Roneys Fon Firmino Gomes, known as the Tower Maniac, is a Brazilian serial killer who, after killing his victims (mainly prostitutes), left their bodies underneath high-voltage electrical towers. He operated in the city of Maringá, Paraná, ...
: known as "The Tower Maniac"; murdered at least six prostitutes in
Maringá Maringá () is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in southern Brazil founded on 10 May 1947 as a planned urban area. It is the third largest city in the state of Paraná (state), Paraná, with 385,753 inhabitants in the city proper, and 764 ...
between 2005 and 2015, disposing of their bodies under electric towers; sentenced to 21 years imprisonment. *
Paulo José Lisboa Paulo José Lisboa (1967 – February 4, 2022), known as The Chain Maniac (Portuguese: ''Maníaco da Corrente''), was a Brazilian serial killer who was convicted of killing eleven prostitutes in São Paulo (state), São Paulo and Espírito Santo f ...
: known as "The Chain Maniac"; killed five prostitutes in the 1980s; fled prison in 1998 and killed six more in
Espírito Santo Espírito Santo (, , ; ) is a state in southeastern Brazil. Its capital is Vitória, and its largest city is Serra. With an extensive coastline, the state hosts some of the country's main ports, and its beaches are significant tourist attra ...
until his arrest in 2008; imprisoned but paroled in 2017, living as a free man until his death in 2022. * Francisco de Assis Pereira: known as "O Maníaco do Parque" (The Park Maniac); arrested for the torture, rape and death of 11 women and for assaulting nine in a park in
São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaW ...
during the 1990s. *
Garanhuns cannibals The Garanhuns Cannibals (Portuguese: ''Canibais de Garanhuns'') refers to a trio of Brazilian serial killers and cannibals who were convicted of murdering a teenager and two women in Pernambuco from 2008 to 2012. This case gained additional notor ...
: trio of cannibals who killed a teenager and two women from 2008 to 2012 in
Pernambuco Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,148 km², being the ...
, whose bodies they later dismembered and cannibalized; head member was acquitted of murder as a teenager; all sentenced to long prison sentences. *
Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha :''This article uses a Portuguese surname: his surname is Gomes da Rocha, not Rocha.'' Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha (born 4 February 1988) is a Brazilian former security guard and serial killer who has claimed to have killed 39 people. He ...
: security guard who has claimed to have killed 39 people in the state of
Goiás Goiás () is a Brazilian state located in the Center-West region. Goiás borders the Federal District and the states of (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. The state capital is Goiâ ...
. *
Edson Izidoro Guimarães Edson Isidoro Guimarães (born 1957) is a Brazilian nurse, nursing assistant and convicted serial killer. He confessed to five murders of which he was convicted of four, but is suspected of committing up to 131 in total. He claimed that he chose p ...
: nurse who killed four patients in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of
Méier Méier is a middle class and upper middle class neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The neighborhood is the historic center of the "''Área dos Engenhos''", or "Mill Area", which today is known as ''Grande Méier'' (Great M ...
; suspected of 131 deaths in total. * Paulo Sérgio Guimarães da Silva: known as "The Cassino Maniac"; fisherman who attacked couples in Rio Grande do Sul between 1998 and 1999, killing seven; sentenced to 184 years imprisonment. * Adriano Vicente da Silva: known as "The Monster of Passo Fundo"; killed a taxi driver during a robbery in 2001; escaped prison and fled to
Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil. It is the fifth-most-populous state and the ninth largest by area. Located in the southernmost part of the country, Rio Grande do Sul is border ...
, where he raped and killed from nine to twelve young boys until 2004; sentenced to 264 years imprisonment. * José Vicente Matias: former
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who raped, murdered and dismembered six women between 1999 and 2005, cannibalizing one of them; sentenced to 23 years imprisonment. * Benedito Moreira de Carvalho: known as "The Monster of Guaianases"; abducted, raped and strangled young girls and women around Greater São Paulo from January to August 1952, killing seven; acquitted by reason of insanity and confined to a mental hospital until his death in 1976. *
Florisvaldo de Oliveira Florisvaldo de Oliveira (November 18, 1958 – September 26, 2012), commonly known as "Cabo Bruno", was a Brazilian vigilante, serial killer and former officer of the Military Police of São Paulo State accused of more than 50 murders on the outs ...
: known as "Cabo Bruno"; former police officer accused of more than 50 murders on the outskirts of São Paulo in 1982; murdered by unknown assailants in 2012. * Sebastião Antônio de Oliveira: known as "The Monster of Bragança"; mentally-ill man who murdered five children and raped at least eight between 1953 and 1975; committed suicide before trial in 1976. * Ademir Oliveira Rosário: known as "The Cantareira Maniac"; killed a man in 1991 and was detained at a mental institution, but continued to sexually assault teenage boys from March to September 2007 while on probation, killing two brothers in the process; sentenced to 57 years imprisonment. * Laerte Patrocínio Orpinelli: known as "The Bicycle Maniac"; vagrant who raped, tortured and killed children around São Paulo from 1990 to 1999; suspected in hundreds of murders; sentenced to 100 years, died in prison. * Diogo Figueira da Rocha: career criminal responsible for at least 50 murders between 1894 and 1897 around São Paulo; supposedly killed in a shootout with the police in 1897. * José Ramos: known as "The Butcher of Rua de Arvoredo"; together with his wife and another accomplice (whom he later killed), lured at least eight men into his Porto Alegre house between 1863 and 1864, killing and dismembering them; allegedly made the remains into sausages which he sold at his shop; died in hospital in 1893. * Leandro Basílio Rodrigues: known as "The Guarulhos Maniac"; strangled at least five women in
Guarulhos Guarulhos () is a Brazilian municipality. It is the second most populous city in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, the 13th most populous city in Brazil, and is also the most populous city in the country that is not a state capital. In the las ...
from 2007 to 2008, raping their corpses afterwards; sentenced to 111 years imprisonment. *
Orlando Sabino Orlando Sabino Camargo (September 4, 1946 – June 8, 2013), known as the Monster of Capinópolis, was a Brazilian suspected serial killer charged with the murder of 12 people using revolvers and rifles, as well as with the beating and stabbing ...
: known as "The Monster of Capinópolis"; suspected of murdering 12 people in several municipalities around
Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literall ...
and Goiás; died from a heart attack in 2013. * Anísio Ferreira de Sousa: gynecologist from
Altamira Altamira may refer to: People *Altamira (surname) Places * Cave of Altamira, a cave in Cantabria, Spain famous for its paintings and carving *Altamira, Pará, a city in the Brazilian state of Pará * Altamira, Huila, a town and municipality in ...
who was convicted of the murder of three children but linked to the disappearance of a total of 19. * Marcos Antunes Trigueiro: known as "The Industrial Maniac"; former taxi driver who killed five women from 2009 to 2010 in
Contagem Contagem () is a city in the center of the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. It is only from the capital, Belo Horizonte, and forms part of a metropolitan area with a population of 4.8 million. Geography The city belongs to the metropolitan meso ...
and
Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...
.


Bulgaria

* Zhivko Dimitrov: police major who killed six people in
Dobrich Province Dobrich Province ( bg, Област Добрич, , former name Dobrich okrug) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is bounded on east by the Black Sea, on south by Varna Province, on west by ...
from 1975 to 1981 to steal their money; executed 1981. * Sokrat Kirshveng: known as "The Killer with the
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"; murdered two of his lovers in 1919, for which he was sentenced to death; commuted to 17 years imprisonment, and upon release in 1937, murdered his aunt and uncle-in-law; executed in 1937. * Lenko Latkov: murdered three elderly women in
Haskovo Province Haskovo Province ( bg, Област Хасково - ''Oblast Haskovo'', former name ''Haskovo okrug'') is a province in southern Bulgaria, neighbouring Greece and Turkey to the southeast, comprising parts of the Thracian valley along the river ...
from 1999 to 2000 and raped two children; suspected in another three killings in
Plovdiv Province Plovdiv Province ( bg, Област Пловдив: ''Oblast Plovdiv'', former name Plovdiv okrug) is a province in central southern Bulgaria. It comprises 18 municipalities (общини, ''obshtini'', sing. общинa, ''obshtina'') on a ter ...
; murdered by his cellmate in 2003. *
Mihail Leshtarski Mihail Tsvetanov Leshtarski ( bg, Михайл Цветанов Лещарски; born 1959), known as The Killer from the Cave ( bg, Убиецът от пещерата), is a Bulgarian thief, robber, murderer and suspected serial killer. He wa ...
: known as "The Killer from the Cave"; habitual thief who lived in the mountains, suspected of murdering at least five elderly pensioners from 2009 to 2011; convicted of one murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Ludwig Tolumov and Ivan Serafimov Ludwig Slavov Tolumov ( bg, Лудвиг Славов Толумов; born 1950) and Ivan Serafimov Ivanov ( bg, Иван Серафимов Иванов; 1956 – July 15, 2000), known jointly as The Sour and The Sweet ( bg, Соленото и ...
: known as "The Sour and The Sweet"; criminal duo jointly responsible for three murders from May to July 2000; Serafimov, solely responsible for a 1996 murder, was later murdered by Tolumov, who was himself arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.


Canada

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Gerald Thomas Archer Gerald Thomas Archer (1932–1995) was a Canadian serial killer who was active in and around his hometown of London, Ontario from January 1969 to January 1971. Since all three of his confirmed victims were female hotel employees, he became known ...
: known as "The London Chambermaid Slayer"; killed three female hotel employees in his hometown of
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between 1969 and 1971; died of a heart attack in 1995. *
Paul Bernardo Paul Kenneth Bernardo (born August 27, 1964), also known as The Scarborough Rapist and The Schoolgirl Killer, is a Canadian serial killer and serial rapist. He is known for initially committing a series of rapes in Scarborough, Ontario, a sub ...
: known as "The Scarborough Rapist"; a
Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...
serial rapist who killed three teenage girls (including his wife's sister) with the aid of his wife
Karla Homolka Karla Leanne Homolka (born May 4, 1970), also known as Karla Leanne Teale, Leanne Teale, and Leanne Bordelais, is a Canadian serial killer who acted as an accomplice to her husband, Paul Bernardo, taking active part in the actual rapes and murde ...
. * Wayne Boden: known as "The Vampire Rapist"; killed four women between 1968 and 1971; died in prison 2006. *
Camille Cléroux Camille Joseph Cléroux (1954 – January 17, 2021) was a Canadian serial killer who murdered two of his wives and a neighbour between 1990 and 2010 in Ottawa, Ontario. After his arrest for killing his neighbour, the disappearances of his former w ...
: murdered two wives and a neighbour in
Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the c ...
between 1990 and 2010; sentenced to life imprisonment; died in prison 2021. *
John Martin Crawford John Martin Crawford (March 29, 1962 – December 16, 2020) was a Canadian serial killer. Crawford was convicted of killing four women in Saskatchewan and Alberta, between 1981 and 1992. Crimes Crawford was sentenced in 1981 to ten years' impri ...
: convicted in 1996 for the murders of three women in
Saskatoon Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Hig ...
; died in prison 2020. *
William Dean Christensen William Dean Christensen (September 24, 1945 – October 31, 1990), known as The American Jack the Ripper, was a Canadian-American serial killer who killed and mutilated at least four people in Canada and the United States between 1982 and 19 ...
: known as "The American Jack the Ripper"; murdered at least four people in Canada and the United States between 1983 and 1984; died while imprisoned in 1990. *
Léopold Dion Léopold Dion (February 25, 1920 – 17 November 1972) was a Canadian sex offender and serial killer who raped 21 boys, killing four; he was active in Quebec in 1963. He was nicknamed the "Monster of Pont-Rouge". Crimes His first sexual assau ...
: known as "The Monster of Pont-Rouge"; raped and killed four young boys in 1963. Sentenced to death, but reprieved. Murdered in 1972 by a fellow prison inmate. * William Patrick Fyfe: convicted of killing five women in
Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...
between 1979 and 1999; suspect in several other murders. *
Russell Maurice Johnson Russell Maurice Johnson (born 1947), also known as The Bedroom Strangler, is a Canadian serial killer and rapist who was convicted of raping and murdering at least three women in London and Guelph in the 1970s although the total number of vict ...
: known as "The Bedroom Strangler"; convicted of raping and murdering three women in the 1970s; total number of victims later found to be higher. * Gilbert Paul Jordan: known as "The Boozing Barber", killed between eight and ten women by alcohol poisoning in
Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. ...
; died in 2006. *
Simmi Kahlon Harsimrat Kahlon (1982 – October 4, 2009) was an Indian-Canadian serial killer who murdered three of her newborn infants between 2005 and 2009 in Calgary. Following her death, a result from complications from her last pregnancy, Kahlon's co ...
: Indian immigrant who murdered her three newborn children in
Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, maki ...
between 2005 and 2009; died from complications in childbirth before crimes were discovered. *
Joseph LaPage Joseph LaPage (born Joseph Paget; 1838 – March 15, 1878), known as "The French Monster" and various other aliases, was a Canadian rapist, serial killer and necrophile who murdered four women in Canada and the United States, also attempting t ...
: known as "The French Monster"; murdered four women in Canada and the US from 1867 to 1875; executed in
New Hampshire New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
in 1878. *
Cody Legebokoff Cody Alan Legebokoff (born 21 January 1990) is a Canadian serial killer convicted in 2014 by the British Columbia Supreme Court of murdering three women and one teenage girl, between 2009 and 2010, in or near the city of Prince George, British ...
: one of Canada's youngest serial killers, convicted of murdering three women and a teenage girl around Prince George,
British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, for ...
between 2009 and 2010. *
Allan Legere Allan Joseph Legere (born February 13, 1948), also known as the Monster of the Miramichi, is a Canadian rapist, arsonist, and serial killer. Early life Allan Joseph Legere was born in Chatham Head, New Brunswick. First murder On the evening ...
: known as "The Monster of the
Miramichi The name "Miramichi" was first applied to a region in the northeast of New Brunswick, Canada, and has since been applied to other places in Canada and the United States. Although other interpretations have been suggested, it is believed that "Mirami ...
"; killer of five individuals. * Bruce McArthur:
Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...
man who killed and dismembered eight men between 2010 and 2017; sentenced to life in prison in 2019. *
Michael Wayne McGray Michael Wayne McGray (born July 11, 1965) is a Canadian serial killer convicted of killing seven individuals between 1985 and 1998. He claims to have killed eleven others during the same time period. Early life McGray was born in Collingwood, O ...
: killed seven people, including a woman and child and a cellmate, claims to have killed eleven others. * Dellen Millard: convicted of murdering three people, including his father; two were killed with help from accomplice Mark Smich. *
Clifford Olson Clifford Robert Olson Jr. (January 1, 1940 – September 30, 2011) was a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering 11 children and teenagers between the ages of 9 and 18 in the early 1980s. Murders Christine Weller, 12, fro ...
: murdered eleven children in British Columbia in the early 1980s; died in prison 2011. *
Robert Pickton Robert William "Willy" Pickton (born October 24, 1949) is a Canadian serial killer and former pig farmer. He is suspected of being one of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history. After dropping out of school, Pickton left a butcher ...
: Port Coquitlam, British Columbia man charged with the first degree murders of 26 women; allegedly confessed to 49 murders; convicted 9 December 2007 of six charges; reduced to second degree murder. * Yves Trudeau: known as "The Mad Bumper"; former member of an outlaw motorcycle gang took part in 43 murders between 1973 and 1985; died of bone-marrow cancer in 2008. *
Elizabeth Wettlaufer Elizabeth Tracy Mae "Bethe" Wettlaufer (née Parker; born June 10, 1967) is a convicted Canadian serial killer and former registered nurse who confessed to murdering eight senior citizens and attempting to murder six others in southwestern Onta ...
: registered nurse who murdered eight senior citizens in
Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...
with fatal injections of
insulin Insulin (, from Latin ''insula'', 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the ''INS'' gene. It is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabolism ...
, and gave non-fatal injections to six others, between 2007 and 2016. * Russell Williams: former Colonel of the
Canadian Forces } The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; french: Forces armées canadiennes, ''FAC'') are the unified military forces of Canada, including sea, land, and air elements referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force. ...
; killed two women and is suspected of murdering a third; sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Peter Woodcock David Michael Krueger (March 5, 1939 – March 5, 2010), best known by his birth name, Peter Woodcock, was a Canadian serial killer, child rapist and diagnosed psychopath. He gained notoriety for the murders of three young children in Toronto ...
: murdered three children in 1956 and 1957 in Toronto and a fellow psychiatric institute patient in 1991; died while incarcerated in 2010.


Chile

* Émile Dubois: French-born murderer and folk hero who's revered as "The Chilean Robin Hood" for killing alleged usurers; executed in 1907. * Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer: known as "La Quintrala"; 17th century landowner tried for over 40 murders; died 1665. *
Erasmo Moena Erasmo Antonio Moena Pinto (born January 10, 1970), known as The Psychopath of Placilla (Spanish: ''El psicópata de Placilla''), is a Chilean murderer and suspected serial killer. Convicted and sentenced to 60 years imprisonment for a double mur ...
: Man sentenced to 60 years in prison for a double homicide; Acquitted in a third case * Julio Pérez Silva: known as "The Psychopath from
Alto Hospicio Alto Hospicio is a Chilean municipality and commune located next to Iquique, in the Iquique Province, I Region. It is a fast-growing popular area in the heights of Iquique and has a population of 94,254 according to the preliminary result of the ...
", sentenced to e imprisonment for murdering 14 women from 1998 to 2001. * Jorge Sagredo and Carlos Topp: known as "The Viña del Mar Psychopaths"; committed ten murders and four rapes from 1980 to 1981 in
Viña del Mar Viña del Mar (; meaning "Vineyard of the Sea") is a List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, commune on Zona Central, Chile, central Chile's Pacific coast. Often referred to as ("The Garden City"), Viña del Mar is located within ...
; executed in 1985; they were the last people executed in Chile.


China

*
Bai Baoshan Bai Baoshan ( zh, s=白宝山; November 6, 1958 – April 1998) was a Chinese serial killer who killed 15 people. Life Bai Baoshan committed his first crime in 1983, serving 13 years of a 15-year sentence in prison for robbery and assault. ...
: robber who attacked several police stations in three provinces; killed 15 people; executed in 1998. * Chen Yongfeng: killed and dismembered 10 male scrap merchants in
Wenzhou Wenzhou (pronounced ; Wenzhounese: Yuziou y33–11 tɕiɤu33–32 ), historically known as Wenchow is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China. Wenzhou is located at the extreme south east o ...
between February and May 2003; executed in 2004. * Cheng Peng: dog breeder who shot six people in
Yinchuan Yinchuan (, ; ) is the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, and was the capital of the Tangut-led Western Xia dynasty. It has an area of and a total population of 2,859,074 according to the 2020 Chinese census, and its built ...
from 1988 to 1995 with the help of accomplices, feeding some of the victims' remains to his dogs; executed in 1995. * Cheng Ruilong: fugitive robber who killed between 11 and 13 people in six provinces between 1996 and 2005, including police officers; executed in 2010. *
Dong Wenyu Dong Wenyu ( zh, 董文语; 1978 – November 29, 2007) was a Chinese serial killer, rapist and necrophile, responsible for a string of robbery-murders across three provinces between March and May 2006. He was sentenced to death and subsequently ...
: burglar-rapist who killed six people during break-ins between March and May 2006; also raped the female victims' corpses; executed in 2007. *
Duan Guocheng Duan Guocheng (born 1973) is a Chinese people, Chinese serial killer who robbed, assaulted, and killed 13 women in Wuhan, Hubei province, in Central China, from 1999 to 2001. Nicknamed “The Red-dress killer” or “The Red-dress slasher”, be ...
: known as "The Red Dress Killer"; murdered 13 women in
Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city a ...
between 1999 and 2001; sentenced to life in prison. *
Fa Ziying and Lao Rongzhi Fa Ziying (; 1 October 1964 – 28 December 1999) and Lao Rongzhi (; 25 December 1974 – 18 December 2023) were a pair of Chinese serial killers and robbers born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi. Between 1996 and 1999, after becoming a romantic couple, Fa a ...
: killed 7 people between 1996 and 1999; Fa was executed in 1999, while Lao was sentenced to death in 2021, after evading arrest until 2019. * Hu Daoping: killed seven people under the alias Wu Jun during robberies between 2003 and 2005; executed in 2006. * Hua Ruizhuo: killed 14 prostitutes in Beijing between 1998 and 2001 out of hatred for them, after learning that a former girlfriend was one; executed in 2002. * Jia Jianhu: killed 12 prostitutes in six provinces from 1998 to 2003, to "take revenge" on society; executed in 2004. *
Li Guangjun Li Guangjun (born December 8, 1969) is a Chinese serial killer and rapist who killed seven women between February and November 2006 in Hunan, Gansu, Shaanxi and Henan provinces, accessing all the crime scenes via the China National Highway 310. D ...
: raped, robbed and killed six women along National Highway 310 between September and November 2006, after going on the run for murdering his wife's sister in February; sentenced to death. *
Li Pingping Li Pingping (; 1960 – June 15, 2004) was a Chinese serial killer who killed and dismembered four women in Beijing between 2002 and 2003, with the help of his wife Dong Meirong. He was convicted of these murders, as well as a 1995 triple murder, ...
: committed a triple murder in 1995; after that, between 2002 and 2003, stabbed and mutilated four prostitutes in
Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the Capital city, capital of the China, People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's Li ...
while working as a taxi driver; executed in 2004. *
Li Shikang Li Shikang (born 1955) is a Chinese serial killer who killed six people and wounded 17 others with letter bombs sent to medical staff whom he blamed for not curing his sexually transmitted disease.
: killed six people and wounded 17 others with letter bombs sent to medical staff for whom he blamed for not curing his sexually transmitted disease. *
Li Yijiang Li Yijiang (; born 1980 in Changji, Xinjiang – August 20, 2004), also known as Li Wenjiang (李文江), was a Chinese serial killer who killed seven people in the early 2000s. Background Hailing from Changji, Li was admitted to the Beijing Inst ...
: killed seven people in the early 2000s; exeuted in 2004. * Li Zhanguo: known as "The Henan Gay Murderer"; raped and strangled 11 mentally-ill young men in Henan from 1991 to 1995, mutilating and beheading their bodies post-mortem; executed after 1995. * Liu Mingwu: known as "The Beggar Killer"; killed a man in 1992 and fled from his native village, killing at least 22 beggars across China from 2001 to 2002 because they were "dirty"; executed 2002. * Liu Pengli: 2nd century BC Han prince; one of the earliest serial killers attested by historical sources. *
Long Zhimin Long Zhimin (; died September 27, 1985) was a Chinese serial killer. Together with his wife Yan Shuxia, he murdered 48 people in Shaanxi between 1983 and 1985. This criminal case shocked the Zhongnanhai and the Chinese State Council, and is re ...
: together with his wife Yan Shuxia, lured in and subsequently murdered 48 people in his home for various reasons between 1983 and 1985; both executed in 1985. *
Luo Shubiao Luo Shubiao ( zh, 罗树标; August 20, 1954 – January 20, 1995), known as The Rainy Night Butcher ( zh, , t=雨夜屠夫, p=Yǔyè túfū), was a Chinese serial killer and rapist. After committing a rape-murder in 1977 and serving a prison s ...
: known as "The Rainy Night Butcher"; raped and killed a woman in
Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and Chinese postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, sou ...
in 1977; after serving a prison sentence for theft, committed 18 further copycat murders from 1990 to 1994, imitating
Lam Kor-wan Lam Kor-wan (; born 22May 1955) is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. Crimes Lam, who worked as a taxi driver, would pick up female passengers, strangle them with electrical wire, take them to his family home, and dismember them. H ...
; executed in 1995. * Gao Chengyong: known as "The Chinese Jack the Ripper", killed 11 women between 1988 and 2002 in
Baiyin Baiyin () is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Gansu province, People's Republic of China. Established in the 1950s as a base for mining non-ferrous metals, its mines are becoming exhausted in recent decades, requiring the city to reinvent ...
and
Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...
; executed in 2019. * Gong Runbo: found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers aged between 9 and 16 from 2005 to 2006 in
Jiamusi Jiamusi (Manchu: ; formerly Kiamusze) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. Located along the middle and lower reaches of the Songhua River, it faces Russia's Khabarovsk Krai across the Ussuri R ...
; executed in 2007. *
Guo Longhai Guo Longhai ( zh, 郭龙海; 1960s – January 13, 2002) was a Chinese serial killer and rapist who raped and killed 14 young girls and women in Guizhou and Guangxi from 1995 to 2001, as revenge from being imprisoned for rape in 1983. Arrested af ...
: raped and murdered 14 young girls and women in Guizhou and
Guangxi Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ...
from 1995 to 2001 as "revenge" for a previous rape conviction; executed in 2002. * Huang Yong: between September 2001 and 2003 killed at least 17 teenage boys; executed in 2003. *
Qian Yongchang Qian Yongchang ( zh, 钱永昌; 1936 – 1995) was a Chinese serial killer who killed 15 people from 1959 to 1995 across three provinces, out of a self-professed contempt for how society had treated him. At the time of his arrest, Qian's advance ...
: killed 15 people across
Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the ...
,
Guangxi Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ...
and
Guizhou Guizhou (; Postal romanization, formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in the Southwest China, southwest region of the China, People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the pr ...
from 1959 to 1995, to take revenge on society; executed in 1995. *
Shen Changyin and Shen Changping The brothers Shen Changyin (沈长银, January 26, 1975 – April 27, 2006) and Shen Changping (沈长平, March 8, 1983 – April 27, 2006) are Chinese serial killers and cannibals who murdered and ate the livers of 11 sex workers between Jun ...
: found guilty of the murders of 11 prostitutes between 1999 and 2004 in
Lanzhou Lanzhou (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country. H ...
and
Taiyuan Taiyuan (; ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ; also known as (), ()) is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. ...
; sentenced to death in 2005; executed in 2006. * Song Jinghua: along with accomplice Yan Jinguang; robbed, murdered and dismembered nine women in
Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the Capital city, capital of the China, People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's Li ...
between 2005 and 2007, in apparent revenge for his brothers death; executed in 2011. * Wang Qiang: 45 murder victims and ten rapes; executed on 17 November 2005. *
Wang Wanming Wang Wanming ( zh, 王万明; 26 February 1957 – 1999) was a Chinese serial killer and rapist who was the principal offender in a series of rape-murders committed in Shaanxi province during the 1990s, at the same time when another two, complet ...
: escaped convict who raped 52 women around Shaanxi from 1992 to 1998, killing 20 in the process; executed 1999. * Wang Zongfang and Wang Zongwei: known as "Er Wang"; murderers who killed soldiers using guns and grenades in
Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangx ...
,
Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The p ...
and Jiangsu; killed by armed forces in 1983. * Xu Guangcai: raped and stabbed to death six women in Beijing from 1987 to 1990, disemboweling them post-mortem; executed 1991. * Yang Xinhai: known as "The Monster Killer"; confessed to killing 65 people between 2000 and 2003; executed in 2004. * Zhang Jun: robber who killed 28 people from 1993 to 2000 throughout China with accomplices; captured and executed in 2001. * Zhang Yongming: killed 11 males between March 2008 and April 2012; executed in 2013. * Zhao Zhihong: known as "The Smiling Killer"; raped and killed six women in Inner Mongolia between 1996 and 2005; confessed to a murder for which an innocent man was executed; executed 2019. *
Zhou Kehua Zhou Kehua (, February 6, 1970 – August 14, 2012) was a Chinese gunman suspected of murder and robbery. According to Chinese media, he is believed to be involved in at least nine murder and robbery cases. He was therefore classified as an A-leve ...
: former soldier who targeted ATM users; killed ten people in
Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with it ...
and
Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a municipality in Southwest China. The official abbreviation of the city, "" (), was approved by the State Co ...
and evaded the law for eight years, before being killed in 2012 in a shootout with police after a year-long manhunt. * Zhou Wen: known as "The Taxi Demon"; taxi driver who murdered six female passengers in the summer of 2003, dumping their bodies along open ground roadside holes within the city of
Anshan Anshan () is an inland prefecture-level city in central-southeast Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, about south of the provincial capital Shenyang. As of the 2020 census, it was Liaoning's third most populous city with a population ...
; arrested November 2003. *
Zhou Youping Zhou Youping (; 1972 – August 29, 2014) was a Chinese serial killer and former karaoke singer who was convicted of killing six men during erotic sex games in Changsha from October to November 2009. Zhou was convicted, sentenced to death and e ...
:
karaoke Karaoke (; ; , clipped compound of Japanese ''kara'' "empty" and ''ōkesutora'' "orchestra") is a type of interactive entertainment usually offered in clubs and bars, where people sing along to recorded music using a microphone. The music is ...
singer who strangled men during sex games in
Changsha Changsha (; ; ; Changshanese pronunciation: (), Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is the capital and the largest city of Hunan Province of China. Changsha is the 17th most populous city in China with a population of over 10 million, and ...
from October to November 2009; executed in 2014.


Colombia

* Andrés Leonardo Achipiz: known as "The Fish"; psychopathic hired killer who killed between 30 and 35 people in Bogotá from 2009 to 2013. *
José William Aranguren José William Aranguren (March 5, 1935 – March 17, 1964), also known as William Ángel Aranguren, was a Colombian criminal, bandit, sex offender and a serial killer. He is known for a wave of ambushes, kidnappings and murders committed during ...
: bandit who murdered approximately 115 people in three municipalities from 1956 to 1964; killed by commandos on a farm in 1964, along with his three accomplices. *
Daniel Camargo Barbosa Daniel Camargo Barbosa (22 January 1930 – 13 November 1994) was a Colombian serial killer. He is one of the most prolific serial killers in history and is believed to have raped and murdered at least 72 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador d ...
: known as "The Sadist of El Charquito", who is believed to have raped and killed over 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s. *
Jairo Alexander Beltrán Castañeda Jairo Alexander Beltrán Castañeda (year of birth unknown) is a Colombian kidnapper, sex offender, murderer and suspected serial killer.
: known as "El Monstruo de Llana" (The Monster of the Plains); kidnapper who murdered a woman in Meta in 2015; suspected of at least three other murders, after bodies were found in mass graves; currently incarcerated. *
Manuel Octavio Bermúdez Manuel Octavio Bermúdez Estrada (born October 15, 1961) is a Colombian rapist and serial killer who confessed to killing 21 children in remote areas of Colombia. He has been given the nickname "El Monstruo de los Cañaduzales" ("The Monster of ...
: known as "El Monstruo de los Cañaduzales" (The Monster of the Cane Fields); confessed to raping and killing at least 21 children in remote areas of Colombia. *
Black Widow Gang The Black Widow Gang, also known as The Black Widows of Colombia, is the nickname of a group of Colombian serial killers active during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
: group of predominantly women who lured and then killed at least three men for life insurance in Antioquia between 2008 and 2011; imprisoned. * Esneda Ruiz Cataño: known as "The Predator"; murdered three husbands for life insurance between 2001 and 2010. * Tomás Maldonado Cera: known as "The Satanist"; murdered between seven and ten people in satanic rituals in Barranquilla. * Cristopher Chávez Cuellar: known as "The Soulless"; killed six people, including four underage brothers, in 2015; suspected of at least 15 murders dating back to the 1990s; sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. *
Luis Garavito Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos (born 25 January 1957), also known as ''La Bestia'' ("The Beast") or ''Tribilin'' ("Goofy") is a Colombian serial killer, pederast, rapist, child molester, and necrophile. In October 1999, he confessed to commit ...
: known as "The Beast"; admitted to murder and rape of 140 young boys in the 1990s. * Rubén Villalobos Herrera: known as "The Black Canes Monster"; necrophile who raped and murdered nine women from 2012 to 2017; currently awaiting trial. * María Concepción Ladino: known as "The Killer Witch"; defrauded and murdered six people from 1994 to 1998; sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. * Pedro López: known as "The Monster of the Andes"; claimed to have raped and killed more than 300 girls across South America between 1969 and 1980. * Jaime Iván Martínez: known as "The Guarne Killer"; killed at least four people in
Guarne Guarne is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia. Part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia. It is situated 24 km east of Medellín. History The first settlers of Guarne were Tahamíes Indians who came from the N ...
from 2005 to 2016, including his wife and two children; sentenced to 42 years imprisonment. * Nepomuceno Matallana: fraudster convicted of a 1947 murder of a merchant, but suspected of other murders; died 1960 from
bronchitis Bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) in the lungs that causes coughing. Bronchitis usually begins as an infection in the nose, ears, throat, or sinuses. The infection then makes its way down to the bronchi. ...
combined with heart failure. * Luis Alberto Malagón Suárez: known as "The Sadist of Rincón"; kidnapped, raped, and killed five girls from 1995 to 1997 in Suba; imprisoned in 2012 for the 2001 murder of his wife. * Élver James Melchor Bañol: known as "The Predator of Picaleña"; serial child rapist who murdered a girl in Tolima in 2019, after being released on parole for three similar murders and sex crimes; sentenced to 60 years imprisonment. *
John Jairo Moreno Torres John Jairo Moreno Torres (1979 – June 11, 1998), known as Johnny the Leper, was a Colombian serial killer.
: known as "Johnny the Leper"; gang leader who brutally murdered at least four people between 1997 and 1998 in
Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...
; murdered in prison by several inmates in 1998. * Harlis Alexis Murillo Moreno: sex offender who killed two women in
Cali Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the second ...
and
Bucaramanga Bucaramanga () is the capital and largest city of the department of Santander, Colombia. Bucaramanga has the fifth-largest economy by GDP in Colombia, has the lowest unemployment rate and has the ninth-largest population in the country, with 6 ...
in 2017; suspected of two more murders in Bogotá; sentenced to 36 years imprisonment. *
Yadira Narváez Yadira Narváez Marín (born 1985) is a Colombian serial killer. She is known as The Queen of Scopolamine and La Burundanguera. Biography Yadira Narváez Marín was born in 1985 in Florencia, but was raised by her parents in Rivera, along wit ...
: known as "The Queen of Scopolamine"; poisoned between five and six men with
Carbofuran Carbofuran is a carbamate pesticide, widely used around the world to control insects on a wide variety of field crops, including potatoes, corn and soybeans. It is a systemic insecticide, which means that the plant absorbs it through the root ...
in 2011, but confessed to other murders; sentenced to 100 years imprisonment. * Hernando Arturo Prada: known as "The Angel of Death"; criminal who killed at least 10 people in Bucaramanga during the 1990s; killed by a
paramilitary A paramilitary is an organization whose structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. Paramilitary units carr ...
group in 2000 after hijacking a plane. * Diego Fernando Ramírez: known as "The Butcher of Buga"; cattle rancher who murdered two men in January 2007 in Buga; suspected in other similar disappearances from 2006. * Luis Gregorio Ramírez Maestre: killed 30 motorists in various municipalities; captured in 2012; expected to be released in 2032. * Fredy Armando Valencia: known as "The Monster of
Monserrate Monserrate (named after Catalan homonym mountain ''Montserrat'') is a high mountain over 10,000 feet high that dominates the city center of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. It rises to above the sea level, where there is a church (built in ...
"; raped and strangled at least nine drug-addicted women in the Eastern Hills region between 2012 and 2014; confessed to more murders; sentenced to 36 years imprisonment.


Costa Rica

* Adrián Arroyo Gutiérrez: known as "The Southern Psychopath"; raped and strangled between six and eleven drug-addicted prostitutes in San José; sentenced to 110 years imprisonment.


Croatia

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Milka Pavlović Milka Pavlović (1905 – 18 May 1935) was a Croatian serial killer. A peasant woman living in Stari Pavljani, near Bjelovar, she poisoned family members, relatives and servants with arsenic between March and July 1934, succeeding in killing six ...
: milkmaid who poisoned her husband and other peasants with arsenic in Stari Pavljani between March and July 1934; executed in 1935. *
Vinko Pintarić Vinko Pintarić (3 April 1941 – 25 May 1991) was a Croatian serial killer and outlaw who murdered five people over the course of 17 years and escaped from prisons and police stakeouts on multiple occasions. His violent, vindictive nature and pr ...
: murdered five people, including his wife, between 1973 and 1990; escaped from custody three times, killed in a 1991 shootout with the police.


Cyprus

* Nikos Metaxas: Cypriot Army officer who killed five women and two children between September 2016 and August 2018 in the so-called
Mitsero murders The Mitsero murders were a serial killer, series of killings committed by Nikos Metaxas, a military officer in the Cypriot National Guard, between September 2016 and August 2018. Five of his seven victims were female foreigners he had met on the ...
; sentenced to life imprisonment.


Czech Republic

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Oto Biederman Oto Biederman (born 5 August 1973) is a Czech serial killer and member of the "Kolínský Gang", sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 5 people. Youth Biederman was born in Brandýs nad Labem in 1973, but his family soon moved to Tlustovou ...
: member of "The Kolínský Gang" who murdered five people from 1993 to 1995, including a former accomplice; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Jan Philopon Dambrovský: Roman Catholic priest who poisoned four archbishops in the 16th-century; arrested and later executed. * Jaroslava Fabiánová: murdered four men between 1981 and 2003 for financial reasons; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Ladislav Hojer: sadist who raped and strangled at least five women from 1978 to 1981 around Czechoslovakia; executed in 1986. * Kateřina of Komárov: 16th-century noblewoman who tortured and maimed between 14 and 30 serfs in Pičín and Příbram; exiled to
Prague Castle Prague Castle ( cs, Pražský hrad; ) is a castle complex in Prague 1 Municipality within Prague, Czech Republic, built in the 9th century. It is the official office of the President of the Czech Republic. The castle was a seat of power for king ...
, where she died in March 1534. * Václav Mrázek: convicted of the murders of seven women around
Chomutov Chomutov (; german: Komotau) is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 46,000 inhabitants. There are almost 80,000 inhabitants in the city's wider metropolitan area. The city centre is well preserved and is prote ...
; executed in 1957. * Martin Lecián: responsible for killing three policemen and a prison officer; executed in 1927. * Orlík killers: five-man gang who killed people for monetary gain from 1991 to 1993, then stuffed their bodies in barrels and dumped them in dams; sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. * Hubert Pilčík: killed at least five people whom he helped cross the border from
Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...
into
West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 ...
; committed suicide in prison in 1951. * Martin Roháč: former soldier who robbed and killed 59 people between 1568 and 1571 with his accomplices; all were executed in 1571. * Ivan Roubal: occultist who murdered five people from 1991 to 1994; sentenced to life imprisonment and died in 2015. *
Svatoslav Štěpánek Svatoslav Štěpánek (December 25, 1911 – November 8, 1938), known as The Roudnice Monster, was a Czechoslovak serial killer who killed at least one child and two women around Roudnice nad Labem between 1926 and 1936. Convicted of these crime ...
: known as "The Roudnice Monster"; killed one child and at least two women in
Roudnice nad Labem Roudnice nad Labem (; ) is a town in Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. A steel road b ...
from 1926 to 1936, mutilating the female victims' bodies; executed in 1938. * Jaroslav and Dana Stodolovi: couple who robbed and killed eight pensioners from 2001 to 2002; both sentenced to life imprisonment. * Jiří Straka: known as "The Spartakiad Killer"; teenager who raped and robbed 11 women in Prague between February and May 1985, killing three; sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and psychiatric treatment, released in 2004. *
Petr Zelenka Petr Zelenka may refer to: * Petr Zelenka (director) * Petr Zelenka (serial killer) Petr Zelenka (born February 27, 1976) is a Czech serial killer. Zelenka, a nurse in Havlíčkův Brod, southeast of Prague, murdered seven patients by lethal ...
: male nurse convicted of murdering seven patients in
Havlíčkův Brod Havlíčkův Brod (, until 1945 Německý Brod; german: Deutschbrod) is a town in Havlíčkův Brod District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law ...
by lethal injections to "test" doctors; sentenced to life imprisonment.


Denmark

* Ane Cathrine Andersdatter: maid who killed three of her children between 1853 and 1861, drowning them in ditches or wells; executed in 1861, the last woman to be executed in the country. *
Christina Aistrup Hansen Christina Aistrup Hansen (born 1984) is a former Danish nurse who was charged with the murder of three patients and attempted manslaughter at the Nykøbing Falster Hospital. In June 2016, the nurse was sentenced for four murders and attempted mu ...
: nurse who killed three patients at the
Nykøbing Falster Nykøbing Falster (; originally named Nykøbing) is a southern Danish city, seat of the Guldborgsund ''kommune''. It belongs to Region Sjælland. The city lies on Falster, connected by the Frederick IX Bridge over the Guldborgsund (''Guldbor ...
Hospital; charges changed from three murders to four attempted manslaughter charges; initially sentenced to life imprisonment, changed to 12 years in prison. *
Peter Lundin Peter Kenneth Bostrøm Lundin (born February 15, 1972), who later renamed himself to Bjarne Skounborg and most recently Thomas Kristian Olesen, is a Danish serial killer who, on March 15, 2001, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Østre La ...
: killed his mother in the United States in 1991, then killed his mistress and her two children in Denmark nine years later; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Dagmar Overbye: childcare provider who killed between nine and twenty-five children in her care in
Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan a ...
; sentenced to death in 1921 then reprieved; died in prison on 6 May 1929. * James Schmidt:
South Sudan South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of th ...
ese immigrant who killed three elderly people in
Østerbro Østerbro () (literally, "Eastern Bridge") is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located just north of the city centre, outside the old city gate Østerport which, after it was moved around 1700, used to be located clos ...
from February to March 2019 to steal their credit cards; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Sanjay Sharma: drowned his first wife in a bathtub in Austria in 1997; indicted for the murder, but fled to Denmark, where he killed a second wife and her daughter in 1999; sentenced to life imprisonment for the latter murders.


Ecuador

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Gilberto Chamba Gilberto Antonio Chamba Jaramillo (born 1963) is an Ecuadorian serial killer, convicted of murdering nine people in Ecuador and Spain. Known as The Monster of Machala, he was convicted of several murders in south-west Ecuador, but was released u ...
: known as "The Monster of
Machala Machala () is a city in south-west Ecuador. It is the capital of the El Oro Province, and is located near the Gulf of Guayaquil on fertile lowlands. Machala has a population of 241,606 (2010 census); it is the eighth-biggest city in the country, ...
"; murdered eight people in Ecuador and one in Spain; sentenced to 45 years in prison in Spain on 5 November 2006. *
Jairo Humberto Giraldo Jairo Humberto Giraldo Marín (born 1987), known as The Gay Strangler, is a Colombian serial killer who killed five homosexual men in Quito, Ecuador between April and October 2002. For his crimes, he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. Early ...
: known as "The Gay Strangler"; Colombian male prostitute who strangled and robbed other gay men in Quito between April and September 2002; sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. *
Juan Fernando Hermosa Juan Fernando Hermosa Suárez (February 28, 1976 - February 28, 1996), known as Niño del Terror, was the youngest serial killer in the history of Ecuador. Early life Hermosa was born on February 28, 1976, in the city of Clemente Baquerizo, Lo ...
: known as "El Niño del Terror"; minor responsible for killing twenty-three people from 1991 to 1992 in
Quito Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley on ...
, mostly taxi drivers and homosexuals; sentenced to four years imprisonment and then released, later murdered on his 20th birthday by unknown assailants.


Egypt

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Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour ( ar, رمضان عبدالرحيم منصور; – December 16, 2010), also known as ''al-Tourbini'' (; ), was an Egypt, Egyptian street gang leader and serial killer who raped and murdered at least 32 children ...
: known as "Al-Tourbini"; gang leader who raped and murdered homeless children across
Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...
by throwing them off trains in the 2000s, sometimes burying them alive; executed in 2010. * Saad Iskandar Abdel Masih: known as "The Butcher of Karmouz"; murdered a mistress for her money in his hometown of
Asyut AsyutAlso spelled ''Assiout'' or ''Assiut'' ( ar, أسيوط ' , from ' ) is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate in Egypt. It was built close to the ancient city of the same name, which is situated nearby. The modern city is located at ...
in 1948, before moving to
Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...
and committing at least two more murders until 1951; executed in 1953. *
Raya and Sakina Raya and Sakina ( ar, ريا وسكينة) were two Egyptian women serial killers, known as Egypt's most infamous murderers of that type. Raya and Sakina were siblings. They, their husbands, and two other men began killing women in the Labban n ...
:
Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...
's most famous serial killers and the first women to be executed by the modern Egyptian state; executed along with their husbands in 1921.


Estonia

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Johannes-Andreas Hanni Johannes-Andreas Hanni (24 March 1957 – 6 November 1982) was an Estonian serial killer who murdered three people in 1982 with the aid of his wife Pille. Early life Johannes-Andreas Hanni was born in Valga, Estonia, Valga in Estonian Soviet Soci ...
: murderer, rapist, and cannibal who killed three people in 1982; committed suicide in police custody. * Anatoli Neželski: murdered his ex-wife's boyfriend and two other people in robberies between 1994 and 1996 in Tallinn; sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, and released in 2013. * Märt Ringmaa: known as "The Bomb Man of Pae Street"; killed seven people over the course of ten years in
Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...
using IEDs that exploded in public places. *
Aleksandr Rubel Aleksandr Andreevich Rubel (born 25 December 1980) is a Ukrainian-born Estonian serial killer convicted of six murders in Tallinn, Estonia. Sentenced as a minor to the maximum punishment allowed by law (eight years of imprisonment), he was rel ...
: Ukrainian who was convicted the murderers of six people in
Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...
as a minor in the late 1990s; released from prison in 2006 and subsequently returned to Ukraine. *
Juri Sulimov Juri Sulimov (born March 13, 1967) is a Soviet serial killer who killed three people, two of them prisoners, between 1983 and 1994. Sentenced to death for his crimes, his sentence would later be automatically commuted to life imprisonment when th ...
: Ukrainian immigrant who murdered two prisoners in 1983 and 1986, and an acquaintance in 1994 after his release; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment. * Yuri Ustimenko and Dmitry Medvedev: Russian duo who committed robberies, killing five people; Medvedev was killed by police in Latvia, and Ustimenko was captured in Poland, extradited to Estonia and sentenced to life imprisonment.


Eswatini

* David Thabo Simelane: raped and killed 28 women, suspected of 45; sentenced to death.


Finland

* Juhani Aataminpoika: known as "Kerpeikkari"; murdered twelve people in the span of two months in 1849, including his parents; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment; died in 1854. * Esa Åkerlund: murdered three men at a
McDonald's McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hambur ...
in
Porvoo Porvoo (; sv, Borgå ; la, Borgoa) is a city and a municipality in the Uusimaa region of Finland, situated on the southern coast about east of the city border of Helsinki and about from the city centre. Porvoo was one of the six medieva ...
in 2010, after being released for the 1995 murder of his wife; suspected, but acquitted, of a 1993 murder; sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. *
Matti Haapoja Matti Haapoja (September 16, 1845 in Isokyrö – January 8, 1895 in Turku) was a Finnish serial killer who was covered extensively by the press at the time of the murders. The exact number of his victims is unknown. He was convicted of two mu ...
: convicted murderer of three, but admitted to the killing of 18; evidence suggests having killed as many as 22–25 people between 1867 and 1894 in Finland and
Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part ...
; sentenced to life imprisonment, but committed suicide by hanging in a prison cell. * Ismo Junni: killed his wife in 1980, then killed four people in arson attacks at the Kivinokka allotment garden in
Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...
from 1986 to 1989; committed suicide while in custody. * Ensio Koivunen: known as "Häkä-Enska"; abducted and murdered three female hitchhikers between July and August 1971; sentenced for 25 years to prison, but released in the 1980s; died in 2003. *
Jukka Lindholm Jukka () is a common Finnish given name for males. History Jukka is an old variant of the name Johannes, a biblical name spread over to Finland through Sweden with the introduction of Christianity. Jukka remained a nickname for people registe ...
: also known as ''Michael Penttilä''; murdered three women from 1985 to 1993 in and around
Oulu Oulu ( , ; sv, Uleåborg ) is a city, municipality and a seaside resort of about 210,000 inhabitants in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in northern Finland and the fifth most populous in the country after ...
and one in Helsinki in 2018; sentenced to life imprisonment, and is currently appealing the decision; has spent 25 years in prison between his crimes. He is the only Finn that fits FBI's description of a serial killer. *
Tommi Nakari Tommi Taneli Nakari (born 1967) is a Finnish serial killer who killed two common-law wives and his mother between 1992 and 2008. For the final crime, he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 14.5 years imprisonment, despite his claims t ...
: murdered his two common-law wives and his mother in drunken rampages between 1992 and 2008, claiming that he couldn't remember the killings afterwards; sentenced to 14.5 years imprisonment. *
Aino Nykopp-Koski Aino Nykopp-Koski (born November 1950) is a Finland, Finnish serial killer. She worked as a nurse and was found guilty of killing five patients and the attempted murder of five more. No motive was established for the murders.
: female nurse convicted of five murders and five attempted murders between 2004 and 2009. Sentenced to life in prison. * Kaisa Vornanen-Karaduman: purposefully neglected her five newborn children, starving them to death between 2005 and 2013; initially convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, later reduced to 13 years imprisonment for manslaughter.


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Ghana

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Charles Quansah Charles "Papa" Kwabena Ebo Quansah (born 1964), known as The Accra Strangler, is a convicted Ghanaian serial killer who was arrested in February 2000 and convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women. Quansah was initially arrested in 2000 ...
: known as "The Accra Strangler"; convicted of the
strangulation Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and is one of two main ways that hangin ...
deaths of nine women in
Accra Accra (; tw, Nkran; dag, Ankara; gaa, Ga or ''Gaga'') is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , ...
; suspected of killing 34; sentenced to death in 2003.


Greece

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Yanis Baltass Yanis Baltass ( gr, Ιωάννης Μπαλτάς; born 1970) is a Greek serial killer who killed at least four people in Kilkis (regional unit), Kilkis and Thessaloniki (regional unit), Thessaloniki from 1995 to 2004 with the help of two accomp ...
: shepherd who shot at least three foreign laborers and his ex-fiancée's brother from 1995 to 2004; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Antonis Daglis: known as "The
Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates a ...
Ripper"; convicted in 1997 of the strangulation murder and dismemberment of three women and the attempted murder of six others; committed suicide in police custody in 1997. *
Ekaterini Dimetrea Ekaterini Dimetrea ( el, Αικατερίνη Δημητρέα; 1920 – April 10, 1965), known as The Poisoner of Mani ( el, δηλητηριάστρια της Μάνης), was a Greek serial killer who fatally poisoned four family members with ...
: known as "The Poisoner of Mani"; poisoned four family members with
parathion Parathion, also called parathion-ethyl or diethyl parathion and locally known as "Folidol", is an organophosphate insecticide and acaricide. It was originally developed by IG Farben in the 1940s. It is highly toxic to non-target organisms, inclu ...
from May to September 1962; executed in 1965. * Hermann Duft and Hans Wilhelm Bassenauer: West Germans who murdered six people in Greece within a short period in 1969; executed in 1969. *
Petros Koulaxidis Petros Koulaxidis ( el, Πέτρος Κουλαξίδης; 1880 – August 3, 1932), known as The Vampire of Hamilos ( el, βρυκόλαξ του Χαμηλού), was a Russian-born Greek serial killer and bigamist who killed at least five wive ...
: known as "The Vampire of Hamilos"; Russian-born bigamist who killed at least five wives in
Central Macedonia Central Macedonia ( el, Κεντρική Μακεδονία, Kentrikí Makedonía, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece, consisting of the central part of the geographical and historical region of Macedonia. With a populat ...
from 1917 to 1930; suspected of other murders, some possibly committed in Russia; executed in 1932. * Aristidis Pagratidis: known as "The Ogre of Seikh Sou"; allegedly attacked couples in the forested area of Seikh Sou in suburban
Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...
from 1958 to 1959, killing three people; executed in 1968, and since then his guilt has been questioned. * Kyriakos Papachronis: known as "The Ogre of
Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...
"; murdered three women from 1981 to 1982, committing other crimes as well; sentenced to life imprisonment, released on bail in 2004. * Giannis and Thymios Retzos: brothers responsible for numerous kidnapping and murders in
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between 1917 and 1924; released under amnesty, then orchestrated a robbery in 1928, during which eight people died; both executed in 1930. *
Mariam Soulakiotis Abbess Mariam Soulakiotis ( – 23 November 1954), née Marina Soulakiotou, also known either to her followers as Mariam of Keratea, or in contemporary media pejoratively as "Mother Rasputin", was a Greek Old Calendarist Eastern Orthodox abbess ...
: known as "The Woman Rasputin"; convent abbot who lured, tortured and killed 177 wealthy women and children from 1939 to 1951; died 1954. *
Dimitris Vakrinos Dimitris Vakrinos (Greek: Δημήτρης Βακρινός; 1962 – May 12, 1997) was a Greek taxi driver and serial killer, who confessed to the murder of five people for minor quarrels and the attempted murders of seven others between 1987 an ...
: killed five people and attempted seven more murders in and around Athens for minor quarrels between 1987 and 1996; hanged himself in the prison showers in 1997.


Hong Kong

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Lam Kor-wan Lam Kor-wan (; born 22May 1955) is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. Crimes Lam, who worked as a taxi driver, would pick up female passengers, strangle them with electrical wire, take them to his family home, and dismember them. H ...
: sexual sadist who murdered and dismembered four women in the 1980s; sentenced to death (commuted to life imprisonment as per tradition at that time). * Lam Kwok-wai: murdered three women, apprehended in 1993 and sentenced to life imprisonment.


Hungary

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Angel Makers of Nagyrév The Angel Makers of Nagyrév (, " Tiszazug poison-mixers") were a group of women living in the village of Nagyrév, Hungary, who, between 1914 and 1929, poisoned to death an estimated 40 people. They were supplied arsenic and encouraged to use it ...
: group of women led by Susanna Fazekas who poisoned around 300 people in the village of
Nagyrév Nagyrév is a village in Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok, central Hungary. It was the location of the Nagyrév culture The Nagyrév culture was a Bronze-Age culture that existed in what is now Nagyrév, Hungary. It existed alongside the Vatya cult ...
between 1914 and 1929. *
Aladár Donászi Aladár Donászi (August 1954 – August 10, 2001) was a Hungarian robber and serial killer, who was one of the most sought-after Hungarian fugitives in the 1990s. Biography Youth Aladár Donászi was born in Pécs in 1954. Contrary to the ba ...
: robber who killed four people from 1991 to 1992 with his accomplice László Bene; committed suicide in prison in 2001. * Zoltán Ember: known as "The Szentkirályszabadja Monster"; killed four pensioners and his brother from 1991 to 2004 in
Szentkirályszabadja Szentkirályszabadja is a village in Veszprém county, Hungary. For many years it was the home of the 87th Bakony Combat Helicopter Regiment of the 5th Army, Hungarian People's Army.https://dailynewshungary.com/ghost-city-recurring-tourists-phot ...
, binding his latter victims; sentenced to life imprisonment, committed suicide in 2016. * Margit Filó: known as "The Rókus Black Widow"; poisoned and strangled between four and six people close to her from 1958 to 1968 for monetary gain; imprisoned in a mental asylum, where she later died. * Viktória Fődi: known as "Pista Pipás"; strangled two men around Szeged in 1919 and 1922, staging the deaths as suicides; suspected of more than 30 murders; sentenced to death, commuted to life and died in prison. * Mária Gerzsány: poisoned an ex-husband and two other men in Kistelek between 1905 and 1911, but is believed to be responsible for upwards of 50 murders; sentenced to life imprisonment, dying sometime in the 1920s. * Pál Gyömbér: killed and robbed elderly people in the
Great Hungarian Plain The Great Hungarian Plain (also known as Alföld or Great Alföld, hu, Alföld or ) is a plain occupying the majority of the modern territory of Hungary. It is the largest part of the wider Pannonian Plain. (However, the Great Hungarian plain ...
from February to November 1888, spending the stolen items on his wife; executed 1890. * Piroska Jancsó-Ladányi: strangled five teenage girls in
Törökszentmiklós Törökszentmiklós is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. It is the third-largest settlement in the county. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 23,145 (2002). Hist ...
between 1953 and 1954, molesting their corpses afterwards; executed 1954. *
Béla Kiss Béla Kiss (; ; c. 1877 – after 4 October 1916) was a Hungarian serial killer. He is thought to have murdered at least 23 young women and one man, and attempted to pickle their bodies in large metal drums that he kept on his property. B ...
: murdered at least 23 women and one man, escaped justice in the confusion of
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
. * Péter Kovács: known as "The Martfű Monster"; truck driver who raped and killed between four and five women from 1957 and 1967, possibly responsible for more murders; executed in 1968. * Tibor Kruchió: together with accomplice Lajos Kocsis, killed four people around Szeged from September to October 2001 for robbery purposes; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Gusztáv Léderer: gendarme who robbed and killed a man in Budapest with his wife in 1925; suspected of committing other murders during the White Terror; executed in 1926. * Gusztáv Nemeskéri: known as "The Katóka Street Killer"; killed four people between 1996 and 1999 to settle his debts, including his half-brother; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Erzsébet Papp: known as "The Nicotine Killer"; poisoned four people close to her with
nicotine Nicotine is a naturally produced alkaloid in the nightshade family of plants (most predominantly in tobacco and '' Duboisia hopwoodii'') and is widely used recreationally as a stimulant and anxiolytic. As a pharmaceutical drug, it is use ...
between 1957 and 1958; initially sentenced to life imprisonment, resentenced to death and executed in 1962. * Zoltán Szabó: known as "The Balástya Monster"; killed and mutilated at least four women on his farm in Balástya between 1998 and 2001; committed suicide while imprisoned in 2016.


Iceland

* Björn Pétursson: known as "Axlar-Björn"; killed at least nine travellers in the 16th century. Executed in 1596.


India

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Thug Behram Thug Behram (c. 1765 – 1840), also known as Buhram Jamedar and the King of the Thugs, was a leader of the Thuggee cult active in Oudh in central India during the late 18th and early 19th century, and is often cited as one of the world's most pr ...
: alleged to have killed over 900 people; executed in 1840. *
Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde Sisters Seema Mohan Gavit (born 1975) and Renuka Kiran Shinde (born 1973) are Indian serial killers convicted of kidnapping thirteen children and killing five of them between 1990 and 1996. In association with their mother Anjanabai, they we ...
: sisters who kidnapped and murdered five children between 1990 and 1996. *
M. Jaishankar M. Jaishankar (1977 – February 27, 2018), nicknamed Psycho Shankar, was an Indian criminal, sexual predator, and serial killer, notorious for a series of rapes and murders during 2008–2011. It is believed that he was involved in about 30 ...
: known as "Psycho Shankar", involved in about 30 rapes, murders and robbery cases around
Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...
. *
Chandrakant Jha Chandrakant Jha (born 1967) is a serial killer who befriended, then killed and dismembered 18 victims in west Delhi between 1998 and 2007. His first killing took place in 1998 for which he was arrested and held in jail until 2002, when he was re ...
: befriended and murdered seven male migrants from 1998 to 2007; sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders The Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders were ten murders committed by Rajendra Jakkal, Dilip Sutar, Shantaram Kanhoji Jagtap and Munawar Harun Shah of Pune, India between January 1976 and March 1977. All the murderers were commercial art students at ...
: series of ten murders committed by four art students in
Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, ( the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest i ...
; all were executed in 1983. * KD Kempamma: known as "Cyanide Mallika"; poisoned six women from 1999 to 2007 with cyanide; India's first convicted female serial killer; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment. * Surendra Koli: convicted of raping and murdering four children in
Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
in 2005 and 2006 with another 12 cases pending. * Mohan Kumar: known as "Cyanide Mohan"; killed twenty female victims with cyanide, claiming they were contraceptive pills; sentenced to death in 2013. * Ravinder Kumar: killed the children of poor families from 2008 until his arrest in 2015. *
Motta Navas Motta Navas (born 1966) is an Indian serial killer who operated in the city of Kollam, Kerala between June and August 2012. Pavement dwellers were bludgeoned to death while they slept. All the murders took place at night and were committed by u ...
: killed pavement dwellers in their sleep during a three-month period in 2012 in
Kollam Kollam (), also known by its former name Quilon , is an ancient seaport and city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is north of the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. The city ...
. *
Santosh Pol Santosh Pol (born November 4, 1974) is an Indian quack doctor who confessed to killing six people from 2003 to 2016 in the town of Dhom, Maharashtra, allegedly by injecting them with succinylcholine, a neuro-muscular paralytic drug. He was dubbed ...
: known as "Dr. Death"; killed six people with
succinylcholine Suxamethonium chloride, also known as suxamethonium or succinylcholine, or simply sux by medical abbreviation, is a medication used to cause short-term paralysis as part of general anesthesia. This is done to help with tracheal intubation or ele ...
in the town of Dhom. *
Raman Raghav Raman Raghav, also known as Sindhi Talwai, Anna, Thambi, and Veluswami, was a serial killer active during the mid-1960s, labelled by many as ''Jack the Ripper of India''. Raghav went on a killing spree for over three years, with the first rou ...
: known as "Psycho Raman";
Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...
man who killed homeless people and others in their sleep. *
Umesh Reddy Umesh Reddy (born 1969) is a serial rapist and serial killer from India. He confessed to killing 18 women, and was convicted in 9 cases. The police believe that he raped at least 20 women in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat. They ...
: confessed to 18 rapes and murders, convicted in nine cases. *
Ripper Jayanandan K P "Ripper" Jayanandan (born 1968) is a serial killer from Thrissur (formerly Trichur) who is accused of seven murders committed during a span of 35 robberies, in and around Thrissur Ernakulam border areas. For the seven murders committed by ...
: known as "The Singing Serial Killer"; killed seven people during robberies. * Satish: known as "The
Bahadurgarh Bahadurgarh is a city, nearby Jhajjar, is located in Jhajjar district in the Indian state of Haryana. The city comprises 31 wards and is approximately 21 km from National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi and 31 km from Jhajjar, the district headq ...
Baby Killer"; confessed to and convicted for ten murders; sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Auto Shankar Gowri Shankar (21 January 1954 – 27 April 1995), better known as 'Auto' Shankar, was an Indian criminal, serial killer and gangster from Tamil Nadu, who was active in Chennai throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Early and personal life Shanka ...
: murdered nine teenage girls in
Thiruvanmiyur Thiruvanmiyur is a largely residential neighborhood in the south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Thiruvanmiyur witnessed a spike in its economy with the construction of Chennai's first dedicated technology office space, the Tidel Information Te ...
,
Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
during a six-month period in 1988; executed in 1995. * Kampatimar Shankariya: killed at least 70 people with hammer in 1977–78; executed in 1979. * Devendra Sharma: doctor who murdered taxi and truck drivers across India between 2002 and 2004, dumping their bodies in canals; suspected of more than 100 murders; sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Darbara Singh Darbara Singh (10 February 1916 — 10 March 1990) was the Chief Minister of Punjab from 1980 to 1983. Freedom struggle and provincial politics Sardar Darbara Singh (1916–1990), born into the prosperous Jatt zamindar family of Sardar D ...
: convicted for two murders, 17 suspected victims. Singh had three children; his wife expelled him from their house, because of his "bad habits". Died in Prison in 2018. * Akku Yadav: murdered at least three people and dumped their bodies on the railroad tracks; lynched by a mob of around 200 women in
Nagpur Nagpur (pronunciation: aːɡpuːɾ is the third largest city and the winter capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the 13th largest city in India by population and according to an Oxford's Economics report, Nagpur is projected to ...
.


Indonesia

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Baekuni Baekuni (born 1961), also known as Babe, is an Indonesian serial killer who mutilated and Child sexual abuse, sexually abused 14 young boys. Life The son of a poor farmer in Magelang, Central Java, Baekuni was mocked as a "fool" because he oft ...
: pedophile who killed between 4 and 14 boys from 1993 to 2010; sentenced to life imprisonment, later changed to the death sentence. *
Rio Alex Bulo Antonius Rio Alex Bulo (May 2, 1978 – August 8, 2008), known as Rio the Hammerhead (Indonesian: ''Rio Martil''), was an Indonesian serial killer who killed at least four people with a hammer between 1997 and 2001, and then his cellmate in 2005. ...
: known as "Rio the Hammerhead"; murdered at least 4
car rental A car rental, hire car or car hire agency is a company that rents automobiles for short periods of time to the public, generally ranging from a few hours to a few weeks. It is often organized with numerous local branches (which allow a user to ...
salesmen with a hammer between 1997 and 2001, and later his cellmate in 2005; executed in 2008. *
Gribaldi Handayani Muhamad Gribaldi Handayani (born July 20, 1966) is an Indonesian serial killer and former police officer who killed seven acquaintances, including a lover and his third wife, in various incidents from 1999 to 2004. He was eventually convicted and ...
: police officer who shot and killed seven people, including a lover and his third wife, over various disputes from 1999 to 2004; sentenced to death. *
Very Idham Henyansyah Very Idham Henyansyah (February 1, 1978), also known as Ryan, is an Indonesian convicted serial killer. Henyansyah confessed to killing 11 people and was sentenced to death by the Indonesia criminal court after being arrested in 2008. He is await ...
: known as "The Singing Serial Killer"; convicted and sentenced to death in 2008 for the killing of 11 people. *
Astini Sumiasih Astini Sumiasih (September 22, 1955 – March 20, 2005), better known by her pseudonym Mrs. Astini, was an Indonesian serial killer who killed three neighbors from whom she had borrowed money between 1992 and 1996, dismembering their bodies afterw ...
: killed and then dismembered three neighbors to whom she owned money in
Malang Malang (; ) is a landlocked city in the Indonesian province of East Java. It has a history dating back to the age of Singhasari Kingdom. It is the second most populous city in the province, with a population of 820,043 at the 2010 Census and ...
from 1992 to 1996; executed 2005. * Ahmad Suradji: admitted to killing 42 women around
Medan Medan (; English: ) is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, as well as a regional hub and financial centre of Sumatra. According to the National Development Planning Agency, Medan is one of the four mai ...
; sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on 10 July 2008.


Iraq

*
Abu Tubar Abu Tubar (literally ''The Hatchet Man'') was the name given to the perpetrator of a series of robberies and murders committed in Baghdad during the early years of the Ba'ath Party rule. Although eventually ascribed to former members of Nadhim Kza ...
: known as "The Hatchet Man"; murdered an undetermined number of people with a hatchet in 1970s
Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
; executed in 1980. * Ali Asghar Borujerdi: known as "Asghar the Murderer"; killed 33 young adults in
Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
and
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
; executed in June 1934. * Louay Omar Mohammed al-Taei: medical doctor found to have killed 43 wounded policemen, soldiers and officials in
Kirkuk Kirkuk ( ar, كركوك, ku, کەرکووک, translit=Kerkûk, , tr, Kerkük) is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located north of Baghdad. The city is home to a diverse population of Turkmens, Arabs, Kurds ...
; was a member of an insurgent cell.


Iran

* Farid Baghlani: known as "The Cyclist Killer"; murdered 15 women, girls and one boy from 2004 to 2008 out of hatred for women; executed in 2010. * Omid Barak: known as "The Highway Killer"; strangled and robbed 10 women in Gilan Province and
Karaj Karaj ( fa, کرج, ) is the capital of Alborz Province, Iran, and effectively a satellite city of Tehran. Although the county hosts a population around 1.97 million, as recorded in the 2016 census, most of the county is rugged mountain. The urb ...
to 2006 to 2008; executed 2011. * Mohammed Bijeh: known as "The Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 41 young boys near
Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
; executed in 2005. *
Saeed Hanaei Saeed Hanaei or Said Hanai ( fa, سعید حنایی; 1962 – April 8, 2002) was an Iranian serial killer. Personal life Hanaei was born in 1962. He had a dysfunctional relationship with his mother, who violently abused him; he later claimed t ...
: known as "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around
Mashhad Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province and has a po ...
; executed in 2002. *
Gholamreza Khoshroo Kurdieh Gholamreza Khoshroo Kuran Kurdieh ( fa, غلامرضا خوشرو کوران کردیه; December 1, 1965 – August 22, 1997) was an Iranian serial killer known as the "Night Bat". He began his murder series connected with thefts and rapes in T ...
: known as "The Night Bat"; murdered nine women in Tehran in 1997, burning the bodies afterwards; executed in 1997. * Majid Salek Mahmoudi: murdered twenty-four people from 1981 to 1985, primarily women he considered unfaithful to their husbands; committed suicide in prison before he could be sentenced. *
Esmail Rangraz Esmail Jafarzadeh (; 1975 – September 19, 2017), known professionally as Esmail Rangraz (), was an Iranian serial killer. Background Approximately 15 years prior to his arrest, Esmail was once arrested for armed conflict. He brought a little ...
: murdered a young girl in 2017, confessed to the murder of two women in 2012 and 2014 after his arrest; executed in 2017. * Mahin Qadiri: first known female serial killer in Iran; acquitted of murder in 2006, robbed and killed five elderly women in
Qazvin Qazvin (; fa, قزوین, , also Romanized as ''Qazvīn'', ''Qazwin'', ''Kazvin'', ''Kasvin'', ''Caspin'', ''Casbin'', ''Casbeen'', or ''Ghazvin'') is the largest city and capital of the Province of Qazvin in Iran. Qazvin was a capital of the ...
from February to May 2009; executed in 2010.


Republic of Ireland

* Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw: Englishmen who traveled to Ireland in 1976 and vowed to murder a woman once a week, killing two; both apprehended and sentenced. Until his 2012 death, Evans was one of Ireland's longest-serving prisoners. *
Darkey Kelly Dorcas "Darkey" Kelly (died 7 January 1761) was an Irish brothel-keeper and alleged serial killer who was burned at the stake in Dublin in 1761. Biography Dorcas Kelly was a madam who operated the Maiden Tower brothel on Copper Alley, off Fisha ...
:
brothel A brothel, bordello, ranch, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes. However, for legal or cultural reasons, establishments often describe themselves as massage parlors, bars, strip clubs, body rub p ...
-keeper who killed six men in the 18th century; accused of witchcraft and was
burned at the stake Death by burning (also known as immolation) is an execution and murder method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public capital punishment, and many societies have employed it as a punishment f ...
in 1761. *
Alice Kyteler Dame Alice Kyteler (1263 – after 1325) was the first recorded person condemned for witchcraft in Ireland. She fled the country to either England or Flanders, and there is no record of her after her escape from persecution. Her servant Petronil ...
: known as "The Witch of
Kilkenny Kilkenny (). is a city in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region and in the province of Leinster. It is built on both banks of the River Nore. The 2016 census gave the total population of Kilkenny as 26,512. Kilken ...
"; alleged witch who poisoned four husbands in the 14th century; fled to England, fate unknown. * Mark Nash: murdered two female patients in
Grangegorman Grangegorman () is an inner suburb on the northside of Dublin city, Ireland. The area is administered by Dublin City Council. It was best known for decades as the location of St Brendan's Hospital, which was the main psychiatric hospital ...
in March 1997, followed by a couple in Ballintober in August; another man was wrongfully convicted of the first double murder; sentenced to life imprisonment.


Israel

* Nicolai Bonner: known as "The Haifa Homeless Killer"; Moldovan immigrant who killed four homeless people in
Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...
between February and May 2005, burning the bodies afterwards; sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Yahya Farhan Yahya Adwan Farhan (born Adwan Farhan in 1976) is an Arab-Israeli criminal and serial killer responsible for numerous offences, the most notable being the murder of Dana Bennett. Farhan confessed to numerous robberies, rapes and four murders (late ...
:
Bedouin The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (; , singular ) are nomadic Arabs, Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert ...
serial killer, who murdered between two and four people from 1994 to 2004, including Dana Bennett; sentenced to three consecutive life sentences, and later acquitted of one murder. *
Vladimir Piniov Vladimir Piniov ( he, ולדימיר פיניוב; 1957 – April 2001), known as The Bat Yam Homeless Killer, was a suspected Russian-Israeli serial killer thought to be responsible for the murders of at least three homeless people in Bat Yam be ...
: known as "The Bat Yam Homeless Killer"; Russian immigrant who murdered as least three vagrants in
Bat Yam Bat Yam ( he, בַּת יָם or ) is a city located on Israel's Mediterranean Sea coast, on the Central Coastal Plain just south of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area and the Tel Aviv District. In 2020, it had a population ...
during drunken quarrels between 1999 and 2000; committed suicide before trial. *
Asher Raby Asher Raby ( he, אשר רבי; born 1946) is an Israeli serial killer. Subsequently declared mentally ill, he killed five people in several attacks committed across the country from March to November 1979, with the most prominent of them being ...
: mentally-ill religious fanatic who killed five people across the country from March to November 1979, including Philoumenos Hasapis; deemed unfit to stand trial and sent to psychiatric facility.


Italy

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Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan Wolfgang Abel (born 25 March 1959) and Marco Furlan (born 16 January 1960) are a German- Italian serial killer duo who were arrested for a series of murders in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany between 1977 and 1984. They claimed innocence, ...
: German-Italian duo who committed between 10 and 28 murders in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands between 1977 and 1984; sentenced to life, but released on parole. *
Beasts of Satan The Beasts of Satan ( it, Bestie di Satana) were a Satanic group, members of which were tried and convicted of a series of Satanic ritual murders between 1998 and 2004.
: Satanic cult members who committed three notorious ritual murders from 1998 to 2004. * Marco Bergamo: known as "The Monster of
Bolzano Bolzano ( or ; german: Bozen, (formerly ); bar, Bozn; lld, Balsan or ) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third ...
"; murdered five women in Bolzano from 1985 to 1992; died from a lung infection in 2017. *
Donato Bilancia Donato Bilancia (10 July 1951 – 17 December 2020) was an Italian serial killer who murdered seventeen people – nine women and eight men – on the Italian Riviera in the period from October 1997 to April 1998. Bilancia's inconsistent modus ...
: known as "The Monster of
Liguria Liguria (; lij, Ligûria ; french: Ligurie) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is ...
"; murdered 17 people in seven months between 1997 and 1998, died in prison. *
Antonio Boggia Antonio Boggia (23 December 1799 – 8 April 1862), aka "Il Mostro di Stretta Bagnera" (The Monster of Bagnera lane) or "Il Mostro di Milano" (The Monster of Milan), is considered the first serial killer of Italy. Biography Born in 1799 in Carat ...
: known as "The Monster of Milan"; murdered four people for monetary purposes between 1849 and 1859; hanged 1862. *
Ralph Brydges Ralph Lyonel Brydges (1856 – 18 April 1946) was an English Protestant pastor and paedophile who was accused of being The Monster of Rome (Italian: ''Il mostro di Roma''), a suspected serial killer of young girls who was active in Rome, Ital ...
: known as "The Monster of
Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus ( legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...
"; English pastor who is widely believed to have murdered five girls in Rome in the 1920s, and four in other countries; never convicted of his crimes and died a free man. *
Sonya Caleffi Sonya Caleffi (born 21 July 1970) is an Italian serial killer. She was suspected of killing 15 to 18 people and convicted of five of them. Biography At fifteen, Caleffi began to suffer from depression and anorexia nervosa, but at school she rema ...
: nurse who poisoned terminally ill patients between 2003 and 2004, killing five of them; sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment. * Luigi Chiatti: known as "The Monster of
Foligno Foligno (; Southern Umbrian: ''Fuligno'') is an ancient town of Italy in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the Topino river where it leaves the Apennines and enters the wide plain of the Clitunno river system. It is located sou ...
"; kidnapped and killed two children in 1992 and 1993; sentenced to two life sentences, but he was found unfit to stand trial and was reduced to 30 years in a mental hospital. *
Leonarda Cianciulli Leonarda Cianciulli (18 April 1894 – 15 October 1970) was an Italian serial killer. Better known as the Soap-Maker of Correggio (Italian: ''la Saponificatrice di Correggio''), she murdered three women in the town of Correggio, Reggio Emilia, in ...
: known as "The Soap-Maker of
Correggio Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sens ...
"; murderer of three women between 1939 and 1940; died in a women's criminal asylum in 1970. *
Ferdinand Gamper Ferdinand Gamper (September 12, 1957 – March 1, 1996), known as The Monster of Merano, was a serial killer in South Tyrol, Italy. He killed six people in Merano during 1996, before he died. Biography Born into a family devoted to pastoralism, ...
: known as "The Monster of
Merano Merano (, , ) or Meran () is a city and '' comune'' in South Tyrol, northern Italy. Generally best known for its spa resorts, it is located within a basin, surrounded by mountains standing up to above sea level, at the entrance to the Passeie ...
"; killed six people in 1996. * Maurizio Giugliano: known as "The Wolf of Ager Romanus"; killed two women around Rome from 1983 to 1984, but suspected in seven total; sent to a mental hospital and killed a fellow inmate; died in 1994. *
Pier Paolo Brega Massone Pier Paolo Brega Massone was the chief thoracic consultant at the Santa Rita medical clinic in Milan, Italy. In October 2010 he was sentenced to fifteen and a half years in prison for performing unnecessary operations on patients in order to ...
: murdered at least four people in
Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...
and maimed other dozens of victims through unnecessary surgeries to illegally obtain a large amounts of money refunds; convicted and given a life sentence. *
Andrea Matteucci Andrea Matteucci (born 24 April 1962), known as The Monster of Aosta (Il mostro di Aosta, in Italian), is an Italian criminal and serial killer who committed four murders in the 1980s and 1990s. He is the only Aosta Valley serial killer. Biograp ...
: known as "The Monster of
Aosta Aosta (, , ; french: Aoste , formerly ; frp, Aoûta , ''Veulla'' or ''Ouhta'' ; lat, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum; wae, Augschtal; pms, Osta) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, north-northwest o ...
"; murdered a merchant and three prostitutes in Aosta from 1980 to 1995; sentenced to 28 years imprisonment and three years in a mental institution. * Maurizio Minghella: killed five women in his hometown of
Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...
in 1978; imprisoned and released, after which he murdered at least four more and is suspected of other murders between 1997 and 2001; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Giorgio Orsolano: known as "The Hyena of San Giorgio"; raped, killed, and dismembered three girls from 1834 to 1835 in his hometown of San Giorgio Canavese; executed 1835. * Ernesto Picchioni: known as "The Monster of
Nerola Nerola is a town and '' comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Rome, Latium, Italy. Name The name Nerola is probably derived from the Sabine word ''nero'' or ''nerio'', which meant "strong" and "brave". The inscription on the fountain in the ...
"; murdered people around his home; died of cardiac arrest in 1967. *
Milena Quaglini Milena Quaglini (March 25, 1957 – October 16, 2001) was an Italian woman, who in the late 1990s murdered three men who sexually assaulted her. Biography Quaglini was born in 1957 in Mezzanino, near Broni in the Oltrepò Pavese. After graduati ...
: murdered her husband and two men who tried to rape her from 1995 to 1999; committed suicide while imprisoned in 2001. * Cesare Serviatti: known as "The Landru of the Tiber"; strangled and dismembered at least three women he sought through lonely hearts ads from 1928 to 1932; executed 1933. * Gianfranco Stevanin: known as "The Monster of
Terrazzo Terrazzo is a composite material, poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments. It consists of chips of marble, quartz, granite, glass, or other suitable material, poured with a cementitious binder (for chemical bind ...
"; raped and murdered prostitutes after violent sex games between 1993 and 1994; violated the corpse of one victim; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Giulia Tofana: leader of a group of female poisoners in the 17th century; died in her bed, never been arrested. *
Giorgio Vizzardelli Giorgio William Vizzardelli (23 August 1922 – 11 August 1973), known as The Monster of Sarzana (Il mostro di Sarzana, in Italian), was an Italian serial killer.
: shot and killed five people around
Sarzana Sarzana (, ; lij, Sarzann-a) is a town, '' comune'' (municipality) and former short-lived Catholic bishopric in the Province of La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. It is east of Spezia, on the railway to Pisa, at the point where the railway to Parm ...
from 1937 to 1939; sentenced to life imprisonment; committed suicide by slitting his throat with a kitchen knife in 1973. *
Umberto Zadnich Umberto Zadnich (born 1930) is an Italian serial killer and sex offender who, between 1974 and 1987, killed his common law wife and biological daughter in Trieste, as well as a cellmate at the psychiatric hospital he was housed in. His case led t ...
: killed his common-law wife in
Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into pr ...
in 1974, and later a cellmate at the mental hospital in 1976; after release, killed his daughter in 1987; interned at a psychiatric hospital.


Jamaica

* Lewis Hutchinson: Scottish immigrant convicted of shooting dozens of people in the 18th century; executed in 1773.


Japan

* Katsutaro Baba: strangled and mutilated five women and one infant in present-day Tatsuno from 1905 to 1907, stealing their
gallbladder In vertebrates, the gallbladder, also known as the cholecyst, is a small hollow organ where bile is stored and concentrated before it is released into the small intestine. In humans, the pear-shaped gallbladder lies beneath the liver, although ...
s post-mortem; executed in 1908. *
Ryuun Daimai Ryuun Daimai (né Ryumoto Daimai; 1872 – June 26, 1916) was a Japanese serial killer and rapist, active during the Taishō era. Since many of his victims were bhikkhunī, the media nicknamed him The Nun Slayer. Early life According to the T ...
: known as "The Nun Slayer"; former monk who raped and killed at least five people in several cities between 1905 and 1915; executed in 1916. *
Sachiko Eto , known as The Drumstick Killer, was a Japanese cult leader and serial killer, responsible for six murders in Sukagawa City between 1994 and 1995. A self-professed guru who claimed to have psychic abilities, she killed several of her cult membe ...
: known as "The Drumstick Killer"; cult leader who murdered six of her followers with
Taiko are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. In Japanese, the term refers to any kind of drum, but outside Japan, it is used specifically to refer to any of the various Japanese drums called and to the form of ensemble drumming ...
sticks from 1994 to 1995; executed in 2012. * Satarō Fukiage: raped and killed at least seven girls in the early 20th century; executed in 1926. *
Sokichi Furutani was a Japanese serial killer, who in the span between October 30 and December 12, 1965, murdered eight elderly men in a robbery-murder spree. He is also suspected of being responsible for murders of four other men, two of them occurring in 1951 ...
: murdered eight elderly people in several western Japanese cities for more than a month in 1965; suspected of four earlier murders, for two of which an accomplice was executed; executed in 1985. * Takeshige Hamada: killed three people in
Fukuoka is the sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since anc ...
for life insurance policies from 1978 to 1979, with help from his wife and two accomplices; sentenced to death, died while awaiting execution in 2017. *
Toshihiko Hasegawa and Masamichi Ida Toshihiko Hasegawa (1950 – December 27, 2001) and Masamichi Ida (1942 – November 19, 1998) were a pair of Japanese Serial killer, serial killers who conspired to kill three men to obtain life insurance money between November 1979 and Decem ...
: killed three men for financial gain from 1979 to 1983; Hasegawa was executed in 2001 and Ida was executed in 1998. *
Hiroaki Hidaka was a Japanese serial killer. Early life Hidaka was born in the Miyazaki Prefecture. He was originally an excellent student, but he failed to enter the University of Tsukuba, his target college. He entered the Fukuoka University instead, but eve ...
: killed four prostitutes in
Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui ...
in 1996; executed in 2006. *
Yoshitomo Hori Yoshitomo Hori (né Kim; born April 29, 1975) is a Koreans, Korean-Japanese serial killer who killed a couple in Hekinan in 1998, and later participated in the murder of Rie Isogai in 2007. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the latter crime, he ...
: killed a couple in
Hekinan is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 72,864 in 29,139 households, and a population density of 1,986 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Geography Hekinan is located in south-central Aic ...
in 1998, then aided in the murder of Rie Isogai in 2007; sentenced to death. * Hayato Imai: paramedic who pushed at least three elderly nursing home patients to their deaths between November and December 2014; suspected of other murders; sentenced to death. *
Miyuki Ishikawa was a Japanese midwife, real estate agent and serial killer. During the US occupation of Japan, she and several accomplices are believed to have murdered dozens of infants, a crime spree known as the Kotobuki San'in incident. Early life Miy ...
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midwife A midwife is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialization known as midwifery. The education and training for a midwife concentrates extensively on the care of women throughout their lifespan; ...
who murdered five infants, but could have been up to 84, between 1946 and 1948. * Chisako Kakehi: poisoned her husband and two other men to death, attempted to kill a fourth man, and is a suspect in another seven deaths; sentenced to death. *
Yasutoshi Kamata , known as The Osaka Ripper, was a Japanese serial killer responsible for the murder and dismemberment of four women and one girl in Osaka between 1985 and 1994.(March 14, 1996) Asahi Shimbun: "Defendant K denies murdering women in Osaka" (in Ja ...
: known as "The Osaka Ripper"; strangled four women and one girl in Osaka between 1985 and 1994, dismembered their bodies and dumped then near forests; executed in 2016. *
Kiyotaka Katsuta was a Japanese serial killer and thief. Biography Katsuta was born in a farmhouse in Kyoto. Katsuta committed several murders and robbed several houses before being apprehended. The exact number of murders he committed is unknown. He killed h ...
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who shot and strangled at least eight people, some during robberies, between 1972 and 1982; executed in 2000. *
Kanae Kijima , known as The Konkatsu Killer, is Japanese fraudster and serial killer, convicted for poisoning three would-be husbands and suspected of four more, spanning from 2007 to 2009. She was given her nickname for her frequenting of "konkatsu" (marri ...
: known as "The Konkatsu Killer"; marriage fraudster who poisoned between three and seven men for money, from 2007 to 2009; sentenced to death. *
Kau Kobayashi was a Japanese serial killer who, together with accomplice was responsible for murders of hotel owners Kamasuke and Ume Ikukata, called the After her arrest, she confessed to fatally poisoning her husband in 1952, and was later sentenced to d ...
: poisoned her husband in 1952, and later killed an inn proprietor and his wife in 1960 with the help of her accomplice; executed in 1970. *
Yoshio Kodaira was a Japanese serial killer, serial rapist, and war criminal who murdered at least 8 people in the Tokyo and Tochigi Prefecture areas between 1932 and 1946. Kodaira killed his father-in-law in 1932 and later raped and murdered at least 7 wo ...
: rapist thought to have killed eleven people in Japan and China as a soldier; executed in 1949. *
Genzo Kurita was a Japanese serial killer who murdered eight people. Murders Kurita murdered two girlfriends in February 1948. On August 8, 1951, he raped and murdered a 24-year-old woman beside her baby. He then had sex with her corpse. On October 11, ...
: killed six women and two children and engaged in rape and
necrophilia Necrophilia, also known as necrophilism, necrolagnia, necrocoitus, necrochlesis, and thanatophilia, is sexual attraction towards or a sexual act involving corpses. It is classified as a paraphilia by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its ...
; executed in 1959. *
Hiroshi Maeue was a Japanese serial killer who lured his victims via the internet and killed three people in 2005. Also known as the "Suicide Website Murderer", Maeue suffered from a paraphilic psychosexual disorder that translated into being unable to achie ...
: known as "The Suicide Website Murderer";
Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...
man who lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims; executed in 2005. *
Futoshi Matsunaga is a Japanese serial killer who both defrauded and tortured his victims in what is collectively known as the Kitakyūshū Serial Murder Incident ( ja, 北九州連続殺人事件). Matsunaga was convicted of six counts of murder and one count ...
and
Junko Ogata is a Japanese serial killer who acted as an accomplice to serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga. Early life and murders Ogata was born in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, and grew up in a wealthy family. She was Matsunaga's schoolmate in high school, but ...
: tortured and killed at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Ogata's family; both sentenced to death, but Ogata's sentenced was later commuted to life imprisonment. *
Tsutomu Miyazaki was a Japanese serial killer who murdered four young girls in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture between August 1988 and June 1989. He abducted and killed the girls, aged from 4 to 7, in his car before dismembering them and molesting their corpses. ...
: known as "The
Otaku is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, particularly in anime, manga, video games, or computers. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in '' Manga Burikko''. may be used as a pejorat ...
Murderer"; killed four pre-school-age girls and ate the hand of a victim; executed in 2008. *
Tetsuyuki Morikawa was a Japanese serial killer who killed two of his ex-wife's relatives in Kumamoto, after having been released on parole for killing his mother-in-law in 1962. For the latter crimes, Morikawa was sentenced to death and subsequently executed in ...
: stabbed to death his mother-in-law in 1962; sentenced to life imprisonment, paroled and killed two of his ex-wife's relatives in 1985; executed in 1999. *
Seisaku Nakamura was a Japanese man convicted for serial killings in his teenage years. He is also known as Hamamatsu Deaf Killer. He was convicted of stabbing to death at least nine people, including several teenagers, in the Shizuoka Prefecture. The book, , ...
: known as "The
Hamamatsu is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. the city had an estimated population of 791,707 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, and a population density of . The total area of the site was . Overview H ...
Deaf Killer"; murdered at least nine people in war-time Hamamatsu; executed in 1943. * Susumu Nakayama: murdered a motorist during a robbery in 1969; sentenced to death, commuted to life and paroled; later killed his girlfriend's estranged husband and the man's girlfriend in 1998; sentenced to death, died in prison in 2014. *
Akira Nishiguchi was a Japanese serial killer and fraudster who murdered five people in late 1963. The focus of a national manhunt, Nishiguchi's crime spree came to an end in January 1964 when he was identified by the 10-year-old daughter of a potential victi ...
: killed five people and engaged in fraud; executed in 1970. *
Shojiro Nishimoto was a Japanese serial killer responsible for four robbery-murders committed in Aichi and Nagano Prefectures between January and September 2004. He was sentenced to death for these crimes, and subsequently executed for them in 2009. Early li ...
: killed a taxi driver and three elderly people during robberies to pay off his debts from January to September 2004; executed in 2009. * Masakatsu Nishikawa: killed a snack bar hostess in Tottori in 1974; after parole, killed four more during a robbery spree in December 1991; executed in 2017. *
Kiyoshi Ōkubo was a Japanese serial killer. Between March 31, 1971 and May 10, 1971, he raped and murdered eight women. He used a pen name, Tanigawa Ivan (谷川伊凡). Early life Ōkubo was born in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. He was a quarter Russian. H ...
: known as "Tanigawa Ivan"; raped and murdered eight young women in
Gunma Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fuku ...
over a period of 41 days in 1971; executed in 1976. * Shige Sakakura: baby farmer who killed more than 200 infants in present-day
Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...
between 1898 and 1913 with her two accomplices; all three were executed in 1915. * Gen Sekine: responsible for the "Saitama Dog Lover Murders"; poisoned at least four clients with his wife and an accomplice in
Kumagaya is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 195,277 in 87,827 households and a population density of 1200 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Kumagaya is one of the large ...
from April to August 1993, dismembering and burning the bodies afterwards; sentenced to death, died in prison in 2017. * Sadakichi Shimizu: first recorded Japanese serial killer; robbed and murdered six people, including a police officer, in Tokyo between 1882 and 1886; executed in 1887. *
Takahiro Shiraishi is a Japanese serial killer and rapist. He is also known as the "Twitter Killer", which he was labeled as in most media reports at the time of his sentencing. In Zama, Kanagawa, Zama, Japan, between August and October 2017, he murdered nine peo ...
: known as "The Twitter Killer"; murdered nine women and young girls at his apartment in Zama that he met through social media after making bogus suicide pacts with them; sentenced to death. * Sadame Sugimura: fatally poisoned three women to steal their money in
Kumamoto Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture to the northeast, M ...
from November to December 1960; executed in 1970. * Miyoko Sumida: tortured and killed at least 8 people at her house condominium in
Amagasaki 270px, Amagasaki Castle 270px, Aerial view of Amagasaki city center 270px, Amagasaki Station is an industrial city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 455,555 in 223812 households, and a population ...
from 1987 to 2012, often helped by their brainwashed relatives; committed suicide before trial. *
Yasunori Suzuki was a Japanese serial killer who robbed and killed three women in Fukuoka Prefecture in between December 2004 and January 2005, raping two of them. He was sentenced to death for his crimes, and executed in 2019. Early life Suzuki became ob ...
: robbed and killed three women in the Fukuoka Prefecture from 2004 to 2005; executed in 2019. * Ryuichi Tsukamoto: teenager who strangled three women during house burglaries in three prefectures from 1966 to 1967; sentenced to life imprisonment, but later paroled. * Yoshinori Ueda: responsible for the "Osaka Dog Lover Murders"; poisoned five people with
suxamethonium Suxamethonium chloride, also known as suxamethonium or succinylcholine, or simply sux by medical abbreviation, is a medication used to cause short-term paralysis as part of general anesthesia. This is done to help with tracheal intubation or ele ...
from July to October 1992 as part of a fraudulent scheme; sentenced to death. *
Miyuki Ueta was a Japanese murderer and suspected serial killer, convicted of two murders in Tottori and possibly responsible for four others, starting from 2004 and lasting until October 2009. Case summary On November 2, 2009, Ueta, a snack hostess, w ...
: former snack hostess who murdered between two and six men she dated in Tottori, from 2004 to 2009; sentenced to death. *
Yukio Yamaji was a Japanese serial killer. He murdered his own mother in 2000, was imprisoned, and then paroled in 2003. In 2005, two years after his release, he raped and then murdered a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister, for which he was senten ...
: murdered his own mother in 2000, and then murdered a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister in 2005; executed in 2005.


Kazakhstan

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Nikolai Dzhumagaliev Nikolai Espolovich Dzhumagaliev ( kk, Николай Есполұлы Жұмағалиев, ''Nıkolaı Jumaǵalıev''; Russian language, Russian: Николай Есполович Джумагалиев; born November 15, 1952) is a Soviet seri ...
: known as "Metal Fang"; raped and hacked seven women to death with an axe in
Almaty Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936 as an autonomous republic as part of ...
in 1980, then cannibalised them using his unusual false teeth. Declared insane and sent to a mental hospital. * Yuri Ivanov: known as "The Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac"; raped and killed 16 girls and young women who spoke badly of men in
Ust-Kamenogorsk Oskemen ( kk, Өскемен, translit=Öskemen ), or Ust-Kamenogorsk (russian: Усть-Каменого́рск), is the administrative center of East Kazakhstan Region of Kazakhstan. Population: Name The city has two official names. In th ...
from 1974 to 1987; executed in 1987. * Ivan Mandzhikov: known as "The Kazgugrad Monster"; raped and strangled four female students and one man in the vicinity of the KazGU University between 1988 and 1989; executed in 1993. *
Oleg Murayenko Oleg Murayenko (1973 – 2002) was a Kazakhstani serial killer responsible for the murders of six women in Petropavl between March and November 2000, after being erroneously released from prison for killing an inmate in 1998. Following a lengthy i ...
: murdered an inmate in 1998; after release, murdered six women between March and November 2000 in and around
Petropavl Petropavl ( kk, Петропавл, Petropavl ) or Petropavlovsk () is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia. It is the capital of the North Kazakhstan Region. Population: 218,956. The city is also kn ...
; executed in 2002.


Kyrgyzstan

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Viktor Selikhov Viktor Mikhailovich Selikhov (russian: Виктор Михайлович Селихов; 1935 – 1965), known as The Naked Demon, was a Soviet serial killer and rapist who, between 1962 and 1964, attacked numerous young girls and women in the K ...
: known as "The Naked Demon"; attacked and raped young girls and women in Frunze and its surroundings between 1962 and 1964, killing at least three; executed in 1965.


Latvia

* Ivars Grantiņš: known as "The Ceraukste Maniac"; raped, murdered and dismembered two women and his daughter from June to August 2008 in
Ceraukste Parish Ceraukste Parish ( lv, Ceraukstes pagasts) is an administrative unit of Bauska Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas ...
; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Ansis Kaupēns: army deserter who committed 30 robberies and 19 murders from 1920 to 1926; executed in 1927 in Vircava Parish. * Yuri Krinitsyn: known as "The Riga Upyr"; mentally-ill Russian immigrant who killed three men, including two KGB operatives, in
Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the ...
in 1975; found incompetent to stand trial sentenced to involuntary commitment. *
Kaspars Petrovs Kaspars Petrovs (born 1978) is a Latvian serial killer. He was convicted of the murder of thirteen elderly women by the Riga Regional Court on May 12, 2005 and sentenced to life in prison. Petrovs, the son of a prominent medical doctor, had be ...
: killed between 13 and 38 elderly women in Riga until 2005; sentenced to life imprisonment. *
Stanislav Rogolev Stanislav Ivanovich Rogolev (russian: Станислав Иванович Роголев, 14 February 1941 – 19 June 1984) was a Soviet serial killer. For one and a half years he attacked 21 women, killing ten of them. In 1980, Rogolev was convi ...
: known as "Agent 000"; robbed, raped and killed ten women from 1980 to 1982; suspected of having inside information for the investigation on him; executed in 1984.


Lebanon

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George and Michel Tanielian George and Michel Tanielian (born in Qamishli, Syria; years of birth unknown), also known as The Taxi Driver Killers, are a pair of Syrian brothers and serial killers, responsible for the murders of 11 taxi drivers and passengers in Lebanon's ...
: known as "The Taxi Driver Killers";
Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
n brothers who killed and robbed mostly taxi drivers in the
Matn District Matn ( ar, قضاء المتن, '), sometimes spelled Metn (or preceded by the article El, as in El Matn), is a district ('' qadaa'') in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The district capital is ...
from July to November 2011; both sentenced to death.


Lithuania

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Kazys Jonaitis Kazys Jonaitis (born 1943), known as The Roadside Maniac (Lithuanian: ''Pakelių maniakas''), is a Lithuanian serial killer and rapist who was convicted of killing at least three women in 2001, a few years after being released from a prior murder ...
: known as "The Roadside Maniac"; convicted of murder in 1984 and released, whereupon he raped, bludgeoned and decapitated at least three women from 2000 to 2001; sentenced to life imprisonment. * Valentinas Laskys: together with his daughter, killed 4 people in Lithuania and Belarus during robberies from 1990 to 1992; executed in 1993. * Antanas Varnelis: murdered and robbed six pensioners between July and December 1992 around several municipalities; executed in 1994.


Malta

* Silvio Mangion: only known serial killer in Malta; murdered three elderly pensioners during robberies between 1984 and 1998; sentenced to life imprisonment.


Mexico

* Macario Alcala Canchola: known as "Jack Mexicano" ("Mexican Jack"), was a
Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer w ...
copycat active in the 1960s. * Sara Aldrete: known as "La Madrina"; cult follower of Adolfo Constanzo; convicted in 1994 of murdering several individuals during her association with Constanzo. * David Avendaño Ballina: known as "The Hamburger"; alleged leader of a sex servant gang who robbed and poisoned their clients from 1997 to 2007; arrested in 2008. * Juana Barraza: known as "Mataviejitas" ("Old Lady Killer"); operated within the metropolitan area of
Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...
until 25 January 2006. * José Luis Calva: cannibal; police found the remains of multiple female victims in his house; committed suicide prior to capture in 2007. * Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández: known as "The Strangler of Tacuba"; strangled four women in the
Tacuba Tacuba is a municipality in the Ahuachapán department of El Salvador. Church Of Tacuba It is located in Villa of Tacuba. It is head of the municipality of the same name in the department of Ahuachapán, at about 14 Kilometers of the city of Ahu ...
neighborhood of Mexico City in 1942; died in 1999 of natural causes. *
Andrés Ulises Castillo Villarreal Andrés Ulises Castillo Villarreal (born 1980) is a Mexican serial killer active in his hometown of Chihuahua City, raping and murdering at least three men and raping a teenager between 2009 and 2015. He confessed to around 12 murders, earning ...
: known as "The Chihuahua Ripper"; drugged, raped, killed, and mutilated three men in
Chihuahua Chihuahua may refer to: Places * Chihuahua (state), a Mexican state **Chihuahua (dog), a breed of dog named after the state **Chihuahua cheese, a type of cheese originating in the state **Chihuahua City, the capital city of the state **Chihuahua Mu ...
in 2015; confessed to 12 more murders, but suspected of 20 overall; sentenced to 120 years imprisonment. * Flor Cazarín González: known as "The Godmother"; together with her son and another man, she killed and robbed two women in
Chihuahua City The city of Chihuahua ''(La Ciudad de Chihuahua)'' () is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. , the city of Chihuahua had a population of 925,762 inhabitants. while the metropolitan area had a population of 988,065 inhabitants. Am ...
in 2016; suspected in a total of 25 murders; sentenced to 44 years imprisonment. *
The Ciudad Juárez Rebels The Ciudad Juárez Rebels is the self-imposed name of a group of Mexican serial killers who were active between 1995 and 1996 in Ciudad Juárez, and are responsible for several feminicides in the city. The group was led by Sergio Armendáriz Di ...
: gang of serial killers who killed women in Ciudad Juárez from 1995 to 1996; convicted of eight murders, suspected of killing between 10 and 14; claimed to have worked for Abdul Latif Sharif. *
Adolfo Constanzo Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo (November 1, 1962 – May 6, 1989) was an American serial killer, drug dealer and alleged cult leader who led an infamous drug-trafficking and occult gang in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, that was dubbed the Narcosat ...
: known as "The Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico; committed suicide in 1989. * Edgar Álvarez Cruz and Francisco Granados: responsible for the so-called "Feminicides of the cotton field"; Cruz, with the help of the drugged Granados, kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed at least eight to ten young women in satanic rituals between 1993 and 2003; suspected of committing a total of fourteen murders. *
Pedro Padilla Flores Ramiro Adame López (born in the 1970s), also known as The Rio Bravo Assassin among many other aliases, is a Mexican serial killer who was convicted of killing three women in Ciudad Juárez but is suspected of up to 27 more, some of those underag ...
: known as "El Asesino de Rio Bravo" ("The Killer of the Bravo River"); killed three women in 1986; escaped to the U.S. but was deported back to Mexico; suspect in the Ciudad Juárez murders. *
Óscar García Guzmán Óscar García Guzmán (born 1990), known as The Monster of Toluca, is a Mexican serial killer. He was first identified as a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow Technological University of Mexico (UNITEC) student on October 30, 2019, when, a ...
: known as "The Monster of Toluca"; killed six people between 2006 and 2019, including his father, in
Toluca Toluca , officially Toluca de Lerdo , is the state capital of the State of Mexico as well as the seat of the Municipality of Toluca. With a population of 910,608 as of the 2020 census, Toluca is the fifth most populous city in Mexico. The city ...
; awaiting trial for murder. * Gabriel Garza Hoth: known as "The Black Widower"; killed three women in Mexico City between 1991 and 1998, his victims were wives and lovers. *
Delfina and María de Jesús González María Delfina González Valenzuela (1912, El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico – 17 October 1968, Irapuato, Guanajuato, México), María del Carmen González Valenzuela (1918–1969), María Luisa González Valenzuela (1920 – 19 November 1984, Irapu ...
: known as "Las Poquianchis"; killed a total of 91 in
Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...
; arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1964. * Francisco Guerrero Pérez: known as "El Chalequero" ("The man of the vests"); the first documented serial killer in Mexico; committed approximately 20 murders in Mexico City between 1880 and 1888 plus one more in 1908. * Fernando Hernández Leyva: convicted of 33 murders in 1986, suspected of 137 killings. * Juan Carlos Hernández and Patricia Martínez: pair from
Ecatepec Ecatepec (), officially Ecatepec de Morelos, is a municipality in the central Mexican state of Mexico, and is situated in the north part of the greater Mexico City urban area. The municipal seat is San Cristóbal Ecatepec. The city of Ecatepec i ...
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State of Mexico The State of Mexico ( es, Estado de México; ), officially just Mexico ( es, México), is one of the 32 federal entities of the United Mexican States. Commonly known as Edomex (from ) to distinguish it from the name of the whole country, it is ...
, known as "The Monsters of Ecatepec"; who raped, murdered, and cannibalized between 10 and 20 women. Active between 2012 and 2018. * Luis Oscar Jiménez Herrera: known as "The Tinaco Killer"; murdered 16 women in Nuevo León between 2013 and 2016, but also suspected of a 2010 murder in San Luis Potosí; sentenced to 123 years imprisonment. * César Armando Librado Legorreta: known as "El Coqueto" ("The Coquette"); raped and killed six women in the
Greater Mexico City Greater Mexico City refers to the conurbation around Mexico City, officially called Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico ( es, Zona metropolitana del Valle de México). It encompasses Mexico City itself and 60 adjacent municipalities of the S ...
between 2011 and 2012; sentenced to 240 years in prison. * Los Huipas: gang of four indigenous homosexual men, led by Eusebio Yocupicio Soto, who murdered seven men who made fun of them between 1949 and 1950; initially sentenced to death, later commuted to 30 years imprisonment. *
Rudolfo Infante and Anna Villeda Rudolfo or Rodolfo Infante Jímenez (born 1963 in San Benito, Texas, U.S.) and Anna or Ana María Ruíz Villeda (born 1971 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico) are a Mexican-American serial killer pair, active during 1991, in Matamoros, Mexico. They ki ...
: couple from Matamoros responsible for the murders of eight women. Apprehended in 1991. *
Abdul Latif Sharif Abdul Latif Sharif, first name also spelled Abdel (September 19, 1947 – June 1, 2006), was an Egyptian-born American chemist and chief suspect in the Juárez killings, a decade-long murder spree that began in the Mexican city of Ciudad Ju ...
: known as "The Ciudad Juárez Predator"; Egyptian man responsible for murdering an unknown number of women in
Ciudad Juárez Ciudad Juárez ( ; ''Juarez City''. ) is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It is commonly referred to as Juárez and was known as El Paso del Norte (''The Pass of the North'') until 1888. Juárez is the seat of the Ju ...
, possibly as many as 15 but convicted of only one; died in prison. *
Daniel Audiel López Martínez Daniel Audiel López Martínez (born 1974) is a Mexican serial killer. Initially serving 8 years for a 1998 murder in Chiapas, he then moved to Ciudad Juárez, where he killed seven people from 2006 to 2010. For his latter crimes, he was sentenced ...
: killed five women in Ciudad Juárez between 2007 and 2010. *
Raúl Osiel Marroquín Raúl Osiel Marroquín Reyes (born September 1, 1980), also known as El Sádico, is a Mexican kidnapper and serial killer responsible for six kidnappings, four of which ended in murder, in Mexico City. He was an organized killer, motivated by ha ...
: known as "El Sadico" ('The Sadist'); killed four gay men in Mexico City. *
Filiberto Hernández Martínez Filiberto Hernández Martínez (born 1971) was a Mexican serial killer active between 2010 and 2013. His crimes took place in Tamuín, in southern of San Luis Potosi state, allegedly murdered four children and a woman, before other feminicid ...
: killed six people between 2010 and 2013 in
San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí), is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and i ...
. *Jorge Humberto Martínez Córtez: known as "El Matanovias"; killed between two and three of his romantic partners from 2011 to 2014; currently awaiting sentencing. *Guadalupe Martínez de Bejarano: known as "La Mujer Verdugo"; tortured and then murdered three young girls in Mexico City in 1887 and 1892; died in prison. *Alejandro Máynez: may have killed over 50 women with accomplices; fugitive. *House of Laments, Tadeo Fulgencío Mejía: responsible for several murders during the 1890s and 1900s, motivated by delirious idea of contacting his deceased wife. Now the house in
Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...
, where he committed the crimes, is known as "The House of Laments" (''Casa de los lamentos''), and according to legend is haunted. *Silvia Meraz: Sonora woman involved in an occult sect, killed three people with the aid of family members; sentenced to 180 years in prison. *Agustín Salas del Valle: known as "Jack the Strangler"; killed more than 20 women in Mexico City's Central Zone. *Felícitas Sánchez Aguillón: known as "The Ogress of Colonia Roma"; nurse, midwife and baby farmer responsible for an unknown number of murders during the 1930s, possibly 50 victims, in
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. *Cristina Soledad Sánchez Esquivel: known as "La Matataxistas"; killed between five and six taxi drivers in Nuevo León in 2010 with her accomplice Aarón Herrera Hernández; sentenced to 130 years imprisonment. *Magdalena Solís: religious fanatic, proclaimed "The High Blood's Priestess"; killed eight people in ritual sacrifices *Mario Alberto Sulú Canché: killed three young girls between 2007 and 2008 in Mérida, Yucatán; later died in prison.


Moldova

*Alexander Skrynnik: known as "The Moldavian Chikatilo"; killed and then mutilated three women in Chișinău and Yakutia from the mid-1970s to 1980; executed in 1981.


Morocco

*Abdelaâli Hadi: known as "The Butcher of Taroudant"; raped and murdered nine young children in Taroudant between 2001 and 2004; sentenced to death. *Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi: known as "The Marrakesh Arch-Killer"; drugged and killed 36 women; died 1906.


Netherlands

*Klaas Annink: known as "Huttenkloas"; robber and murderer from Twente who killed along with his wife, Anna, and son, Jannes; both he and his wife were executed in 1775. *Hendrikje Doelen: 19th century farm-wife who poisoned several people in a poorhouse from 1845 to 1846, killing three of them; died of natural causes in prison in 1847. *Willem van Eijk: known as "The Beast of Harkstede"; convicted of the murders of five women between 1971 and 2001; died in prison in 2019. *Koos Hertogs: convicted of the murders of three women between 1979 and 1980; died in jail in 2019. *Frans Hooijmaijers: known as "Fat Frans"; nurse who poisoned at least five patients with insulin from 1970 to 1975, but is suspected of 259 deaths in total; sentenced to life, commuted to 18 years and released in 1987; died in 2006. *Aalt Mondria: escaped mental patient who murdered a family of three in 1978; after release, murdered his girlfriend's son in 1997; died 2011 from untreated Hepatitis C. *Gustav Müller (serial killer), Gustav Müller: German watchmaker who murdered his wife and son in Rotterdam in 1897; surrendered and subsequently confessed to killing his parents and at least 14 other wives around the world; acquitted by reason of insanity and confined to an asylum. *Hester Rebecca Nepping: poisoned an elderly boarder, her father and husband in two months in 1811; executed in 1812. *Patrick Soultana: strangled two women in 2010, suspected of three more murders; sentenced to 25 years plus provision in 2014. *Michel Stockx: Belgian man who murdered three children around Assen in 1991; sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1992; died of severe burns from an incident during his work therapy in 2001. *Maria Swanenburg: suspected of killing between 27 and 90 people with arsenic in Leiden in the 1880s; died in prison in 1915. *Hans van Zon: Utrecht man who murdered three people from April to August 1967, including a former lover; suspected of several other murders; died 1998 from alcohol poisoning.


New Zealand

*Robert Butler (criminal), Robert Butler: Irish highwayman who allegedly killed a family of three in Dunedin in 1880; acquitted, but was later executed in 1905 for shooting a man in Australia. *Daniel Cooper (murderer), Daniel Cooper: known as "The Newlands, New Zealand, Newlands Baby Farmer"; killed two infants and supposedly his first wife; executed in 1923. *Minnie Dean: Scottish immigrant Baby farming, baby farmer who killed at least three children by Laudanum poisoning and suffocation in the 1890s; executed in 1895. *Hayden Poulter: murdered at least three people in Auckland in 1996. Labelled in the media as New Zealand's first serial killer; committed suicide in 2018.


Nigeria

*Gracious David-West: confessed to the murders of 15 women predominantly in Port Harcourt in 2019; sentenced to death in 2020.


North Korea

*Park Myung-sik: known as "The Organ Harvester"; killed 12 teenagers in Sinpo from April to October 1990, so he could eat their livers and supposedly cure his cirrhosis; executed in 1991.


North Macedonia

*Viktor Karamarkov: known as "The Macedonian Rodion Raskolnikov, Raskolnikov"; drug addict who murdered four elderly women in Skopje from March to October 2009; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Vlado Taneski: crime reporter arrested in June 2008 for the murder of three elderly women, with another possible victim, on whose deaths he had written articles; committed suicide in police custody.


Norway

*Edgar Antonsen: killed at least two women and a young girl from 1962 to 1974, aided by his half-brother in the latter killings; sentenced to life, released in 1988 and committed suicide in 1993. *Tistedalen Murders, Roger Haglund: murdered four people in Tistedalen between 1991 and 1992; suspected of a double murder in Sweden in the 1980s; sentenced to 21 years imprisonment, released and died a free man in 2011. *Sofie Johannesdotter: Swedish maid who poisoned at least three people with arsenic in present-day Halden from 1869 to 1874; executed in 1876. *Arnfinn Nesset: manager of an Orkdal geriatric nursing home who poisoned twenty-two residents with suxamethonium chloride over a period of years before being convicted in 1983.


Pakistan

*Javed Iqbal (serial killer), Javed Iqbal: believed to have raped and killed 100 boys; committed suicide while in prison in 2001. *Amir Qayyum: known as "The Brick Killer"; murdered 14 homeless men in Lahore with rocks or bricks when they were asleep; sentenced to death in May 2006. *Murder of Zainab Ansari, Imran Ali: raped and murdered at least eight children, including Zainab Ansari; executed in 2018.


Panama

*Silvano Ward Brown: known as "The Panamá Strangler"; first known serial killer in Panamanian history; strangled three women from 1959 to 1973 in Panamá Province; released in 1993 after serving a 20-year sentence. *Gilberto Ventura Ceballos: Dominican Republic, Dominican man who murdered five Panamanian youths of Chinese descent in La Chorrera, Panama, La Chorrera from 2010 to 2011; sentenced to 50 years imprisonment. *William Dathan Holbert: known as "Wild Bill"; American expatriate who had the bodies of five other Americans buried on his property; he would kill people to get their money and properties; his wife, Laura Michelle Reese, was also arrested.


Paraguay

*Agustín Ramón Martínez: known as "Israeli Soldier"; Paraguayan-Israeli criminal who killed, dismembered and burned at least six people in Argentina and Paraguay from 1993 to 2018; suspected of other murders, including his wife in Israel; sentenced to 40 years imprisonment.


Peru

*Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña: known as "The Apostle of Death"; convicted of seventeen murders and claimed 25; sentenced to 35 years in prison.


Philippines

*Juan Severino Mallari: first documented serial killer in the Philippines; Catholic priest who killed at least 57 parishioners in Magalang, Pampanga from 1816 to 1826 as part of perceived cure to his mother's hexing; may have been suffering from mental illness. Imprisoned for 14 years and executed in 1840.


Poland

*Bogdan Arnold: murdered four women in Katowice from 1966 to 1967; also attempted to poison his third wife; executed in 1968. *Władysław Baczyński: killed a woman and three men in Wrocław and Bytom from 1946 to 1957; executed in 1960. *Józef Cyppek: known as "The Butcher of Niebuszewo"; dismembered his neighbour in 1952; was sentenced to death and executed that same year; suspected of other murders. *Tadeusz Ensztajn: known as "The Vampire of Łowicz"; raped and killed seven women in Łowicz and the surrounding areas in 1933; sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1934. *Krzysztof Gawlik: known as "Scorpio"; murdered five people with a silenced machine gun in 2001; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Ferdynand Grüning: known as "The Łódź Vampire"; tinsmith imprisoned for murdering a young girl in 1926, later released and killed two more children until 1938; sentenced to death, fate unknown. *Tadeusz Grzesik: leader of the so-called "Bureaucrats Gang"; killed between 8 and 20 people in several voivodeships with his gang, mainly owners of exchange offices; suspected of more murders; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Joachim Knychała: known as "The Vampire of Bytom" or "Frankenstein"; murdered five women between 1975 and 1982. *Edmund Kolanowski: necrophile who murdered three women from 1970 to 1982; also mutilated and desecrated corpses he excavated from chapels; executed 1986. *Karol Kot: killed two people from 1964 to 1966 in his native Kraków, attempted to murder many more; executed in 1968. *Henryk Kukuła: known as "The Monster from Chorzów"; pedophile who murdered four children from 1980 to 1990; sentenced to 28 years in prison, expected to be released in 2020. *Tadeusz Kwaśniak: known as "The Towel Strangler"; violent pedophile who raped and murdered five boys from 1990 and 1991; also responsible for numerous robberies; hanged himself in his prison cell before he could be sentenced. *Zdzisław Marchwicki: known as "The Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, Zagłębie Vampire"; convicted of murdering 14 women; executed in 1976. *Nikifor Maruszeczko: criminal who killed four men for the purpose of robbery; executed in 1938. *Władysław Mazurkiewicz (serial killer), Władysław Mazurkiewicz: known as "The Gentleman Killer"; killed up to 30 women; executed by hanging in 1957. *Stanisław Modzelewski: murdered seven women in Łódź during the 1960s; executed in 1970. *Henryk Moruś: killed seven people in Piotrków Voivodeship from 1986 to 1992; sentenced to 25 years imprisonment; died of probable heart failure in 2013. *Grzegorz Musiatowicz: violent criminal who killed three men between 2002 and 2014; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Katarzyna Onyszkiewiczowa: known as "The Female Demon"; habitual thief who poisoned at least three men across Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Galicia from 1869 to 1870; sentenced to 30 years imprisonment, later died in prison. *Leszek Pękalski: known as "The Vampire of Bytów"; killed up to 17 women. *Józef Pluta: known as "The Vampire of Marianowo"; killed a neighbor in 1973; sentenced to 12 years imprisonment but escaped in 1979, killing at least six additional victims in two incidents; died under disputed circumstances while on the run. *Kazimierz Polus: pedophile who killed two boys and one man from 1971 to 1982; executed in 1985. *Skin Hunters: paramedics and doctors in Łódź who killed patients for profit; the four were convicted and officials are investigating possible accomplices. *Mariusz Sowiński: known as "The Stefankowice Vampire"; raped and killed four women from 1994 to 1997; sentenced to 50 years in prison. *Mariusz Trynkiewicz: known as "The Satan of Piotrków"; serial rapist who murdered four boys in July 1988 in Piotrków Trybunalski; released in 2014, rearrested in 2015 for possessing child pornography. *Paweł Tuchlin: known as "Scorpion"; killed nine women and attempted to kill 11 more to feel better; executed in 1987. *Zakrzewski family: father and two sons who killed eight people, including a family of five, around Rzepin Pierwszy from 1954 to 1969 due to their communist leanings; father and elder son were executed in 1972, while the younger, sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, hanged himself in prison. *Mieczysław Zub: known as "Fantomas"; killed four women the area of Ruda Śląska; committed suicide in 1985.


Portugal

*Diogo Alves: known as "The Aqueduct Murderer"; Spanish man who robbed and threw poor people off Lisbon's Águas Livres Aqueduct between 1836 and 1840; executed in 1841. *Luísa de Jesus: known as "The Foundling Wheel Killer"; baby farmer who strangled at least 33 babies in Coimbra from 1760s to 1772; executed 1772, the last woman to be executed in Portugal. *António Luís Costa: ex-Portuguese National Republican Guard, GNR officer from Santa Comba Dão who murdered three women between 2005 and 2006; sentenced to 25 years in prison.


Romania

*Vera Renczi: poisoned two husbands, one son, and 32 of her suitors in the 1920s and 1930s. *Ion Rîmaru: murdered and raped young women in Bucharest from 1970 to 1971; executed in 1971. *Ioan Sârca: known as "The Monster from Valcău"; raped and strangled at least 20 boys and teenagers between 1943 and 1945, selling their clothes at flea markets afterwards; sentenced to life, died in prison in 1991. *Adrian Stroe: known as "The Taxi Driver of Death"; strangled three women between January and September 1992 near Bucharest, dumping their bodies in Lake Cernica; sentenced to life imprisonment, but paroled in 2018. *Vasile Tcaciuc: known as "The Butcher of Iași"; murdered victims with an axe and confessed to have committed at least 26 murders; shot dead by a policeman while trying to escape from prison. *Romulus Vereș: convicted of five murders in the 1970s; sent to a mental institution; died in 1993.


Russia


Rwanda

*Aloys Tubarimo: murdered seven taxi drivers in Bugesera District from August to November 2007 to steal their bikes; sentenced to life imprisonment.


Saudi Arabia

*Awdah Ahmad Awdah Salem: known as "The Yanbu Serial Killer"; Yemeni expatriate who raped and murdered three Indonesian housemaids in Yanbu between 2007 and 2009, burying their bodies afterwards; executed in August 2014.


Serbia

*Baba Anujka: known as "The Witch of Vladimirovac"; professional poisoner who poisoned between 50 and 150 people until apprehended in 1928.


Singapore

*Sek Kim Wah: 19-year-old NS conscript who was responsible for killing five people between June 1983 to July 1983 in two separate murder cases, the latter of which became known as the Andrew Road triple murders; executed in 1988. Singapore's first and only serial killer to date.


Slovakia

*Matej Čurko: known as "The Slovak Cannibal"; killed and cannibalized two willing victims in 2010 in Kysak, suspected of another 28 such cases from 2009 to 2011; killed by police in 2011. *Juraj Lupták: known as "The Strangler from Banská Bystrica"; shepherd who raped and strangled three women from 1978 to 1982; executed 1987 in Bratislava. *Ondrej Rigo: known as "The Sock Killer"; killed, raped, and mutilated nine women in the Netherlands, Germany and Slovakia, always wearing socks on his hands; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Jozef Slovák: after serving just eight years for his first murder from 1978, Slovák killed at least four other women in Slovakia and
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in the early 1990s; highly intelligent, holder of numerous patents in electronics. *Marek Zivala: sexual sadist who strangled three women in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1996 to 1998; sentenced to life imprisonment.


Slovenia

*Silvo Plut: killed three women in Slovenia and Serbia from 1990 until 2006; committed suicide in prison in 2007. *Metod Trobec: raped and killed at least five women between 1976 and 1978; committed suicide in prison in 2006.


South Africa

*Asande Baninzi: killed 18 people in the span of three months in 2001 with accomplice Mthutuzeli Nombewu; was given 19 life sentences and 189 years imprisonment. *Pierre Basson: first documented South African serial killer; killed nine people in Claremont, Cape Town, Claremont between 1903 and 1906 and buried them in his backyard; committed suicide to avoid arrest. *Sibusiso Duma: murdered seven people in the Pietermaritzburg area of KwaZulu Natal in 2007. *Gamal Lineveldt: responsible for "The Cape Flats Murders"; murdered four European women from October to November 1940; executed in 1942. *Cedric Maake: known as "The Wemmer Pan Killer"; serial rapist; murdered at least 27 people from 1996 to 1997. *Bulelani Mabhayi: known as "The Monster of Tholeni"; killed 20 women and children from 2007 to 2012 in the village of Tholeni in the Eastern Cape. *Simon Majola: together with accomplice Themba Nkosi, known as "The Bruma Lake Killers"; robbed and drowned at least eight men in Bruma Lake from 2000 to 2001; both sentenced to life imprisonment. *Fanuel Makamu: known as "The Mpumalanga Serial Rapist"; along with accomplice Henry Maile, robbed, raped, and murdered six women from February to September 2000; Maile was shot by police on 14 September, while Makamu was captured and sentenced to 165 years imprisonment. *Jimmy Maketta: known as "The Jesus Killer"; convicted on 16 counts of murder, 19 counts of rape from 1996 to 1999. *Andries Makgae: raped and murdered at least three women in Onderstepoort between 2012 and 2013; suspected of other murders, including his best friend; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Johannes Mashiane: known as "The Beast of Atteridgeville" 13 counts of murder, twelve counts of sodomy from 1982 to 1989. *Daisy de Melker: poisoner; killed two husbands and one son between 1923 and 1932; executed in 1932. *Samuel Bongani Mfeka: strangled six women from 1993 to 1996 in KwaZulu-Natal. *Jack Mogale: known as "The West-End serial killer"; convicted of raping and murdering 16 women in Johannesburg in 2008 and 2009. *Elifasi Msomi: known as "The Axe Killer"; murdered 15 people from 1953 to 1955, claiming that he was under the influence of the Tokoloshe. Executed in 1956. *Mukosi Freddy Mulaudzi: known as "The Limpopo Serial Killer"; escaped convict, originally responsible for two murders in 1990, who murdered 11 more people between 2005 and 2006; given 11 life sentences. *Nicholas Lungisa Ncama: murdered six people in the Eastern Cape in 1997; sentenced to life in prison. *Velaphi Ndlangamandla: known as "The Saloon Killer"; robber who murdered 19 people around Mpumalanga from April to September 1998; sentenced to 137 years imprisonment. *David Randitsheni: known as "The Modimolle Serial Killer"; raped and murdered ten children (kidnapped and raped more) from 2004 to 2008. *Gert van Rooyen: allegedly abducted and murdered at least six girls across South Africa from 1988 to 1989; committed suicide to avoid apprehension. *Louis van Schoor: former security guard who confessed to murdering 100 people; released on parole. *Khangayi Sedumedi: known as "The Century City Killer"; raped, robbed, and murdered between four and six women in Century City, Cape Town, Century City from 2011 to 2015; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Samuel Sidyno: known as "The Capital Hill Serial Killer"; murdered seven people in Pretoria from 1998 to 1999. *Norman Afzal Simons: known as "The Station Strangler"; raped, sodomised and murdered 22 children on the Cape Flats from 1986 to 1994. *Moses Sithole: known as "The ABC Killer"; raped and killed at least 38 young women in Atteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland from 1994 to 1995. *Thozamile Taki: known as "The Sugarcane Serial Killer"; robbed and killed ten women in KwaZulu Natal and three in Eastern Cape, dumping their bodies in sugarcane and tea plantations. *Sipho Thwala: known as "The Phoenix, Durban, Phoenix Strangler"; raped and murdered 19 women in the sugarcane fields of KwaZulu Natal from 1996 to 1997. *Stewart Wilken: known as "The Boetie Boer"; raped, sodomized, and murdered at least seven victims in and around Port Elizabeth from 1990 to 1997. *Tommy Williams (serial killer), Tommy Williams: known as "The City Serial Killer"; strangled to death three acquaintances from 1987 to 2008; deemed the country's longest-active serial offender; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Elias Xitavhudzi: known as "The Pangaman"; murdered 16 people in Atteridgeville in the 1950s; executed in 1960. *Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode: known as "The Donnybrook Serial Killer"; murdered 18 people in Donnybrook, KwaZulu-Natal from 1994 to 1995.


South Korea

*Ahn Nam-gi: taxi driver who raped and murdered at least three female passengers in Cheongju from 2004 to 2010; suspected in other murders; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment. *Chijon family: gang of cannibals that was sentenced to death for killing five people between 1993 and 1994; all but one was executed on 2 November 1995. *Véronique Courjault: French woman who confessed to killing three of her babies, stuffing two of them in a freezer at their family home in South Korea; sentenced to 8 years imprisonment in 2009, released 2010. *Crown Prince Sado: Joseon prince who raped and killed his palace staff; sealed in a rice chest and died. *Jeong Du-yeong: killed an officer in 1986; after release, killed eight other people in robberies from 1999 to 2000; sentenced to death. *Jeong Nam-gyu: sexually assaulted and killed fourteen people from 2004 to 2006; died in hospital after failing to hang himself the previous day. *Anyang student murders#Jeong Seong-hyeon, Jeong Seong-hyeon: misogynist who killed a karaoke assistant in Gunpo in 2004, then two young girls in Anyang, Gyeonggi, Anyang in 2007; sentenced to death. *Ji Chun-gil: paroled convict who set fire to houses he robbed in Andong from March to October 1990, killing six elderly women in the process; sentenced to life, changed to death, and executed in 1995. *Kang Chang-gu: raped and strangled six women along rural roads in Gongju from 1983 to 1987; executed in 1990. *Kang Ho-sun: sentenced to death in 2010 for killing ten women, including his wife and mother-in-law. *Kim Dae-doo: killed 17 people during house invasions across three provinces between August and October 1975; executed in 1976. *Kim Hae-sun: violent drunkard who raped and killed three children in 2000; sentenced to death in 2001. *Kim Sun-ja (serial killer), Kim Sun-ja: poisoned five people with potassium cyanide between 1986 and 1988 for monetary reasons; executed in 1997. *Kim Yong-won: raped and killed two women and one underage girl around North Chungcheong Province from March to June 2005; suspect in the 1994 murder of a man; sentenced to death in September 2005. *Kwon Jae-chan: robbed and murdered three people between 2003 and 2021 in the Michuhol District of Incheon, South Korea; sentenced to death. *Lee Choon-jae: responsible for "The Hwaseong serial murders"; murdered fifteen women, including his sister-in-law, and raped numerous others; sentenced to life imprisonment for one murder in 1994, and connected to the others decades later. *Pocheon poisonings: poisonings of three family members with herbicides, committed by a woman known only as "Noh", between 2011 and 2014 in Pocheon; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Shim Young-gu: stabbed to death eight people during violent robberies in Gyeonggi Province and Seoul from May to December 1989; executed in 1992. *Yoo Young-chul: cannibal; killed twenty-one people from September 2003 to July 2004, mainly young women and rich men; sentenced to death in 2004.


Spain

*The "Frenchman's Garden" Murders, Andrés Aldije Monmejá and José Muñoz Lopera: responsible for "The Frenchman's Garden Murders"; owners of an illegal gambling house who killed six visitors from 1889 to 1904; both garroted in 1906. *Francisca Ballesteros: known as ''La Viuda Negra'' ("The Latrodectus, Black Widow"), poisoned her husband and three children in Valencia, Spain, Valencia between 1990 and 2004 (one survived), sentenced to 84 years in prison in 2005. *Manuel Blanco Romasanta: travelling salesman who claimed to be a werewolf, confessed to thirteen murders and was convicted of eight in 1853; his initial death sentence commuted in order to make a study in clinical lycanthropy, died in prison ten years later. *Manuel Delgado Villegas: known as ''El Arropiero'' ("The Arrope Trader"), wandering criminal with XYY syndrome that confessed to 48 murders in Spain, France and Italy, including his girlfriend; considered guilty of seven and interned in a mental institution until his death in 1998. *Joaquín Ferrándiz Ventura: insurance salesman who murdered five women in Castellón Province between 1995 and 1996. *Alfredo Galán: known as "The Playing Card Killer"; Spanish Army corporal who killed six individuals in 2003. *Juan Díaz de Garayo: known as "The Sacamantecas"; killed six people from 1870 to 1879 in Álava. Executed by garrote in 1881. *Francisco García Escalero: known as ''El Mendigo Asesino'' ("The Killer Beggar"); schizophrenia, schizophrenic beggar convicted of eleven murders, confined to a psychiatric hospital since 1995. *Gila Giraldo: known as "La Serrana de la Vera"; alleged 15th–16th century serial killer who beheaded men she slept with. Executed. *Murder of Rocío Wanninkhof#Tony Alexander King, Tony Alexander King: known as "The Costa Killer"; British sex offender who murdered two girls in Málaga in 1999 and 2003; suspected of possibly committing more murders in his native UK; sentenced to 19 years imprisonment. *Ramón Laso: killed his two wives, child and brother in law in order to pursue extra-marital relationships. *Enriqueta Martí: self-proclaimed witch who kidnapped, prostituted, murdered and made potions with the remains of small children in early 20th century Barcelona (12 bodies were identified in her home); murdered in prison while awaiting trial in 1913. Recent investigations by writer Jordi Corominas and historian Elsa Plaza question the popular version of the black legend of Enriqueta Martí and warned about multiples misinformation, because Enriqueta "was never formally charged with murder nor was any corpse of a child found in her home". *Jorge Ignacio Palma: known as "The Butcher"; Colombian drug trafficker linked to the murders of at least three prostitutes in Valencia between 2019 and 2020; awaiting murder trial. *Dámaso Rodríguez Martín: known as ''El Brujo'' ("The Warlock"); serial rapist and voyeur imprisoned in 1981 after attacking a couple, killing the man and raping the woman. Escaped from prison to the Anaga mountains in 1991, where he killed two German hikers (one of them was raped); killed by police in 1991. *José Antonio Rodríguez Vega: known as ''El Mataviejas'' ("The Old Lady Killer"), raped and killed at least sixteen elderly women, sentenced to 440 years in prison in 1995, murdered by fellow inmates in 2002. *Abdelkader Salhi (serial killer), Abdelkader Salhi: known as "The 10 Killer"; German convicted of a robbery-murder in 1988 in Germany, later moving to Spain and allegedly murdering three prostitutes from August to September 2011; currently awaiting sentencing. *Margarita Sánchez Gutiérrez: known as "The Black Widow of Barcelona"; poisoned family members and relatives, killing four of them; acquitted of the murders, but sentenced to 34 years for other crimes. *Gustavo Romero Tercero: known as "The Valdepeñas Killer"; killed three people from 1993 to 1998. *Joan Vila Dilmé: known as "The Caretaker of Olot"; nurse who poisoned at least 11 elderly patients at a nursing home in Olot; sentenced to 127 years imprisonment. *Joaquín Villalón Díez: known as "The Gentleman Murderer"; strangled and dismembered his mistress in Andorra in 1981, and later killed two transsexuals in Madrid in 1992; sentenced to 58 years imprisonment, released in 2013.


Sweden

*Malmö Östra hospital murders, Anders Hansson: hospital orderly in Malmö who poisoned his victims with detergents Gevisol and Ivisol between October 1978 and January 1979; his actions were called the "Malmö Östra hospital murders". *Anders Lindbäck (vicar), Anders Lindbäck: vicar who poisoned poor people with arsenic, three of them who died; committed suicide in custody in 1865. *John Ingvar Lövgren: confessed to four murders committed between 1958 and 1963 in the Stockholm region. *Hilda Nilsson: known as "The Angel Maker on Bruk Street"; Helsingborg baby farmer who murdered eight children; committed suicide in custody in 1917. She was the last person sentenced to death in Sweden not to be pardoned.


Switzerland

*Roger Andermatt: known as "The Death-Keeper of Lucerne"; nurse who killed twenty-two people from 1995 to 2001; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Werner Ferrari: child killer who lured his victims from popular festivals, strangling them afterwards; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Erich Hauert: sex offender who committed eleven rapes and three murders from 1982 to 1983; sentenced to life imprisonment; his case impacted treatment of dangerous sexual offenders in Switzerland tremendously. *Paul Irniger: career criminal who murdered three people between 1933 and 1937; executed in 1939. Irniger was the penultimate person to be executed in Switzerland.


Taiwan

*Chang Jen-bao: murdered three women from 1993 to 2003, also sexually violating the first victim; sentenced to death. *Chen Jui-chin: known as "The Chiayi Demon"; murdered five relatives and one girlfriend for insurance money between 1985 and 2003; also suspected in two other disappearances; executed in 2013. *Hsu Tung-chih: murdered at least seven people in Taipei and Taimali for financial reasons, including two girlfriends, from 1976 to 1983; executed in 1984. *Lin Yu-ju (criminal), Lin Yu-ju: fatally poisoned three relatives in Puli, Nantou, Puli to pay off gambling debts between 2008 and 2009; sentenced to death.


Thailand

*Boonpeng: known as "Boonpeng the Iron Chest"; corrupt bhikkhu who killed and dismembered between two and seven people in Bangkok from 1917 to 1918, stuffing their bodies in iron chests; executed in 1919. *Si Ouey: Chinese immigrant who was accused of murdering between five and seven children from 1954 and 1958, cannibalizing their organs; executed in 1959. Actual guilt is highly disputed. *Somkid Pumpuang: known as "Kid the Ripper"; transient who murdered five masseuses between January and June 2005; initially sentenced to life, released and committed a new murder in 2019, for which he was sentenced to death. *Charles Sobhraj: known as "The Serpent"; killed at least 12 Western tourists in Southeast Asia during the 1970s; imprisoned in India and Nepal. Released in 2022. *Nirut Sonkhamhan: known as "The Pickup Truck Killer"; poisoned nine taxi drivers around Thailand from 2011 to 2012 to steal their vehicles, killing six; hanged himself in jail before trial.


Tunisia

*Naceur Damergi: known as "The Butcher of Nabeul"; rapist who killed thirteen minors in the Nabeul region in the 1980s; executed in 1990.


Turkey

*Orhan Aksoy (serial killer), Orhan Aksoy: known as "The Parcel Killer"; strangled five people in Istanbul from 2000 to 2001, then stuffed their bodies in boxes and dumped them around the city; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Süleyman Aktaş: known as "The Nailing Killer"; killed five people and nailed them in the eyes and head; he is kept in a psychiatric hospital. *Adnan Çolak: known as "The Beast of Artvin"; killed seventeen elderly women in Artvin from 1992 to 1995; in 2000 he was sentenced to death six times, and 40 years in prison. However, since October 1984, Turkey has not executed any prisoners, and , Turkey does not have capital punishment. *Seyit Ahmet Demirci: known as "The Furniture Dealers' Killer"; killed three furniture dealers selected at random and because he was sexually abused by his employer during his youth; sentenced to death. *Özgür Dengiz: serial killer from Ankara, who killed four people and cannibalized at least one. *Atalay Filiz: killed three people between 2012 and 2016; suspect in disappearance of his girlfriend in France; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Ali Kaya (serial killer), Ali Kaya: known as "The Babyface Killer"; responsible for ten murders. *Hamdi Kayapınar: known as "Avcı" ("Hunter"); killed eight people from 1994 to 2018; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu: known as "The Screwdriver Killer"; responsible for at least eighteen murders between 1994 and 2002. *Özkan Zengin: known as "The Well Driller Killer"; convicted of murdering three gay men in 2008; confessed to killing five. *Severed leg killer: an unidentified serial killer who murdered eight people in Turkey. Between 2000 and 2001, severed legs belonging to six females and two males were found in various districts of Istanbul. Only one of the victims has been identified, and the statue of limitations on the case expired in 2021.


Ukraine

*Zaven Almazyan: known as "The Voroshilovgrad Maniac"; Russian soldier who raped and killed three women in Voroshilovgrad; executed in 1973. *Oleksandr Berlizov: known as "The Night Demon"; sexual psychopath who raped numerous women from 1969 to 1972 in Dnipropetrovsk, killing nine of them; executed in 1972. *Sergei Dovzhenko: killed between seventeen and nineteen people in his native Mariupol for "mocking" him; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Tamara Ivanyutina: known as "The Kyiv Poisoner"; poisoned people from personal spite 1976 to 1987, killing nine of them; executed in 1987. *Ruslan Khamarov: seduced and murdered eleven women in his home from 2000 to 2003; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Oleg Kuznetsov (serial killer), Oleg Kuznetsov: known as "The Balashikha Ripper"; killed a total of ten people in Russia and Ukraine; sentenced to death, commuted to life and died in prison. *Anatoly Onoprienko: known as "The Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996; died in prison in 2013. *Dnepropetrovsk maniacs, Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk: known as "The Dnipropetrovsk Maniacs"; teenagers in Dnipropetrovsk who bludgeoned 21 people to death in 2007 with the aid of a third teenager, often filming their murders; sentenced to life in prison in 2009. *Serhiy Tkach: convicted of raping and murdering 36 women between 1980 and 2005; claims the total is 100. *Anatoliy Tymofeev: burglar who strangled at least 13 pensioners across Ukraine and Russia between 1991 and 1992; suspect in four additional murders; executed in 1996. *Nighttime Killers, Vladyslav Volkovich and Volodymyr Kondratenko: known as "The Nighttime Killers"; charged with shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning sixteen victims to death in Kyiv between 1991 and 1997; Kondratenko committed suicide in prison during the trial; Volkovich was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.


United Kingdom


England

*Stephen Akinmurele: known as "The Cul-de-sac killer"; Nigerian immigrant suspected of killing five elderly people in Blackpool and the Isle of Man between 1995 and 1998; committed suicide in prison before trial. *Beverley Allitt: known as "The Angel of Death"; Lincolnshire paediatric nurse who killed four children in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991. *Jonathan Balls: poisoned at least 22 people, mostly relatives, with arsenic in Happisburgh from 1824 to 1846; committed suicide prior to discovery of crimes. *Levi Bellfield: known as "The Bus Stop Stalker"; convicted of the 2002 murder of Amanda Dowler and two fatal hammer attacks on young women in South West (London sub region), South West London in 2003 and 2004. *London Burkers, John Bishop and Thomas Williams: known as "The London Burkers"; English copycats of Burke and Hare murders, Burke and Hare. *Geordie Bourne: 16th-century Scottish bandit who killed seven people around the Scottish Marches, East English Marches; executed by unknown means. *Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: known as "The Moors murders, Moors Murderers"; murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17 between 1963 and 1965. Buried at least four of their victims on Saddleworth Moor. *Mary Ann Britland: poisoned her daughter, husband, and the wife of her lover in 1886; first woman to be executed by hanging at HM Prison Manchester, Strangeways Prison in Manchester in 1886 by executioner James Berry (executioner), James Berry. *Paul Brumfitt: strangled two men, one in Tilbury and another in Denmark, in 1979; sentenced to life, but released in 1994, and later killed a prostitute in Woodsetton, Dudley, Woodsetton in 1999; sentenced to three life terms. *Peter Bryan: Psychiatric hospital, institutionalized for fatal hammer attack on woman in 1993; re-apprehended for cannibalism, cannibalizing a friend in 2004, but able to batter a fellow patient to death months later. *Beenham murders, David Burgess: Murdered three young girls in the Berkshire village of Beenham in 1966 and 1967. Only originally convicted of two murders, he was released in 1996, only to be convicted of the third murder in 2012 after new DNA evidence was found. *John Cannan: Serial rapist and abductor of women convicted of one murder in 1987, considered to have murdered at least 2 more. *George Chapman (murderer), George Chapman: Polish-born poisoner who murdered three women between 1897 and 1902; suspected by some authors of being
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. Executed in 1903. *John Childs (murderer), John Childs: known as the most prolific hit man in the United Kingdom, he was convicted in 1979 of six contract killings, though none of the bodies have been found. *John Christie (serial killer), John Christie: gassed, raped and strangled at least five women from 1943 to 1953, hiding the bodies at his house in Notting Hill, London; also strangled his wife Ethel, as well as the wife and baby daughter of neighbour Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully executed for their murders. Christie was himself executed in July 1953. *Robert George Clements: doctor who committed suicide when due to be arrested for poisoning his fourth wife; his other three wives all died suspiciously during the interwar period. *Mary Ann Cotton: Victorian era, Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than twenty victims; hanged in 1873. *Sidney Cooke: Described in 1999 as "Britain's most notorious paedophile", Cooke is known to have killed three boys with a group of other paedophiles and the group is suspected of murdering up to 20. *Thomas Neill Cream: known as "The Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United States then moved to London; hanged in 1892. *Dale Cregan: sentenced to a whole life order in prison for four counts of homicide in 2012 involving the use of firearms, including killing two police officers, and three separate counts of attempted murder in Greater Manchester. *Gordon Cummins: known as "The Blackout Ripper"; murdered four women in London during the wartime blackout in 1942, and suspect in two previous murders from 1941; executed 1942. *Peterborough ditch murders, Joanna Dennehy: stabbed three men to death and tried to kill two others selected at random in what would become known as "The Peterborough Ditch Murders" in 2013; sentenced to life in prison. *John Duffy and David Mulcahy: known as "The Railway Killers"; killed three women near railway stations in the 1980s. *Amelia Dyer: murdered infants in her care; executed 1896. *Kenneth Erskine: known as "The Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners. *Black Widows of Liverpool, Catherine Flannigan and Margaret Higgins: two Irish people, Irish women known as "The Black Widows of Liverpool"; killed at least four people by poisoning in the 1880s in order to obtain insurance money. *Steven Grieveson: known as "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered four teenage boys in City of Sunderland, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear between 1990 and 1994. *Bradford murders, Stephen Griffiths: known as "The Crossbow Cannibal"; convicted of murdering three prostitutes in Bradford in 2009 and 2010. *Allan Grimson: Royal Navy petty officer convicted of two murders from 1997 to 1998; suspected of murdering up to twenty people across the UK, Gibraltar and New Zealand; sentenced to life imprisonment. *John Haigh: known as "The Acid Bath Murderer"; active during the 1940s; convicted of six murders, but claimed to have killed nine; executed in 1949. *Anthony Hardy: known as "The Camden Town, Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders, but suspected of up to five more; sentenced to life imprisonment, died in prison. *Trevor Hardy: known as "The Beast of Manchester"; killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976. *Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, Philip Herbert: known as "The Infamous Earl of Pembroke"; 17th century nobleman convicted of manslaughter but discharged; later killed the prosecutor and pardoned for a third murder. *Colin Ireland: known as "The Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in London in the early 1990s; died in prison in 2012. *Babes in the Wood murders (Epping Forest), Ronald Jebson: Paedophile responsible for the 1970 Babes in the Wood murders (Epping Forest), Babes in the Wood murders and the murder of another child, Rosemary Papper, in 1974; died in prison in 2015. *Theodore Johnson (serial killer), Theodore Johnson: Jamaican immigrant who murdered his wife and two girlfriends from 1981 to 2016; sentenced to 26 years imprisonment. *Kieran Patrick Kelly: Irish vagrant who pushed two men to their deaths off London's subways from 1975 to 1983, but confessed to 31 murders in total; sentenced to life imprisonment and died in prison. *Bruce George Peter Lee: arsonist responsible for 26 deaths in the town of Kingston upon Hull, Hull from 1973 to 1979; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Robin Ligus: drug addict convicted of robbing and bludgeoning three men to death with an iron bar in Shropshire in 1994. *Michael Lupo: known as "The Wolf Man"; Italian-born man convicted of the murders of four men and two attempted murders in London in the 1980s; died in prison in 1995. *Patrick Mackay: charged with the murders of five individuals in London and Kent, convicted of three; confessed to killing eleven people from 1974 to 1975. *Mark Martin (murderer), Mark Martin: Murdered three homeless women with accomplices in Nottingham between December 2004 and January 2005. *Robert Maudsley: known as "Hannibal The Cannibal"; killer of four; killed three in prison. *Jordan Monaghan: killed his two children and one of his girlfriends between 2013 and 2019; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Cannock Chase murders, Raymond Morris: known as "The A34 road, A34 Killer"; convicted of one murder, considered to have committed at least two more. *Robert Hicks Murray: bigamist who murdered his first wife and three children, and then killed himself in a murder-suicide in 1912; posthumously connected to the killings of at least seven previous wives. *Robert Napper: known as "The South East London Green Chain, Green Chain Rapist"; killed two women and a child in the 1990s. Sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in 2008. *Donald Neilson: known as "The Black Panther"; killed four people, including heiress Murder of Lesley Whittle, Lesley Whittle. *Dennis Nilsen: known as "The Muswell Hill Murderer"; killer of fifteen (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983 in North London. *Colin Norris: nurse who murdered four patients in Leeds hospitals during 2002. *William Palmer (murderer), William Palmer: known as "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; executed 1856. *Stephen Port: known as "The Grindr Killer"; serial rapist who drugged, raped and murdered four young men in Barking, London, Barking, London between 2014 and 2015; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Elizabeth Ridgeway: poisoned her husband in 1684; after arrest, confessed to poisoning three more people with Mercury(II) chloride, mercuric chloride and arsenic starting from 1681; executed 1684. *Amelia Sach and Annie Walters: known as "The East Finchley, Finchley Baby Farmers"; baby farmers who used chlorodyne to poison an unknown number of infants; both hanged at the HM Prison Holloway in 1903. *Harold Shipman: known as "Dr. Death"; doctor convicted of fifteen murders; a later inquiry stated he had killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25-year period; committed suicide in 2004 in prison. *George Joseph Smith: known as "The Brides in the Bath Killer"; murdered three women by drowning them in his bathtub; executed in 1915. *Rebecca Smith (infanticide), Rebecca Smith: Wiltshire woman who poisoned her infant son with arsenic in 1849, later confessing to doing the same to seven of her other children; executed in 1849. *John Straffen: murdered three children between 1951 and 1952; Britain's longest-serving prisoner until his death in 2007. *Peter Sutcliffe: known as "The Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering thirteen women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980; died in prison in 2020. *Thomas Griffiths Wainewright: artist considered to have poisoned four people; convicted of forgery and transported to Australia, where he died. *Margaret Waters: baby farmer from Brixton who drugged and starved the infants in her care; believed to have killed at least nineteen children; executed 1870. *Fred West, Fred and Rose West: known as "The House of Horrors Murderers"; she was convicted of ten murders; both are believed to have tortured and murdered at least twelve young women between 1967 and 1987, many at their home in Gloucester, including their teenage daughter; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial. *Catherine Wilson: nurse considered to have poisoned seven people in the 19th century; executed in 1862. *Mary Elizabeth Wilson: known as "The Merry Widow of Windy Nook"; convicted of murdering two husbands by poisoning and considered to have killed two others. Sentenced to death, but reprieved. Died in prison in 1962. *Steve Wright (serial killer), Steve Wright: known as "The Suffolk Strangler"; Ipswich 2006 serial murders, killed five women in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Graham Young: known as "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971; died in prison in 1990.


Northern Ireland

*Shankill Butchers: Ulster loyalist gang—many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)—that was active between 1975 and 1982 in Belfast; the gang was based in the Shankill area and were responsible for the deaths of at least twenty-three people, most of whom were Irish Catholics killed in sectarian attacks. Gang leader Lenny Murphy was shot and killed by the Provisional IRA on 16 November 1982.


Scotland

*Robert Black (serial killer), Robert Black: lorry driver who killed at least four young girls across the UK between 1981 and 1986; suspected of more murders in Britain and continental Europe; died in prison (shortly before he was to be charged for Genette Tate, a fifth murder). *Burke and Hare murders, William Burke and William Hare: notorious body snatchers in Edinburgh who killed 16 people; Burke was executed, while Hare was granted immunity and released. *Archibald Hall: known as "The Monster Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael Kitto; died in prison in 2002. *Peter Manuel: known as "The Beast of Birkenshaw, North Lanarkshire, Birkenshaw"; American-born murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958. *Robert Mone: shot a schoolteacher to death in 1967, later killed a staff member and patient at Carstairs Hospital after escaping in 1976, subsequently murdered a police officer. *Edward William Pritchard: English doctor who poisoned his wife and her mother in Glasgow in 1865; suspect in the mysterious death of his maid; executed in 1865. *World's End Murders, Angus Sinclair: convicted of the murders of four young women, including "The World's End Murders" in Edinburgh, believed to have murdered eight; died in prison in 2019. *Peter Tobin: rapist and killer of at least three women in Scotland and England between 1991 and 2006; sentenced to life in prison.


Wales

*John Cooper (serial killer), John Cooper: known as "The Wildman" and "The Bullseye Killer"; Pembrokeshire burglar responsible for the robbery and shotgun double-murders of a brother and sister in 1985 and a couple in 1989; sentenced to life imprisonment. *Joseph Kappen: known as the "Saturday Night Strangler", murdered three 16-year-old girls in Llandarcy and Tonmawr near Port Talbot in 1973 and is suspected to have committed a Joseph Kappen#Suspected fourth murder, fourth murder in 1976; posthumously identified as the murderer of the three girls in 1973 after his body was exhumed and DNA testing established his DNA matched the murderer's. *Peter Moore (serial killer), Peter Moore: known as "The Man in Black"; businessman who killed four men at random in North Wales in 1995; sentenced to life imprisonment.


United States


Uruguay

*Pablo García Cejas: known as "The Maldonado Murderer"; murdered three acquaintances between April and June 2015 in Maldonado Department; sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. *Pablo Goncálvez: Spanish-born murderer who killed tennis player Patricia Miller (tennis), Patricia Miller's half-sister and two other women; freed in 2016 but was arrested in 2017 in Paraguay for carrying an unregistered weapon and a quantity of cocaine.


Uzbekistan

*Polatbay Berdaliyev: raped, murdered and robbed a total of eleven women in Uzbekistan and neighboring Kazakhstan with accomplice Abduseit Ormanov between 2011 and 2012; both sentenced to life imprisonment in both countries. *Zokhid Otaboev: murdered three of his neighbors' children between 2010 and 2017 to "take revenge on them for mocking him"; sentenced to life imprisonment.


Venezuela

*Dorángel Vargas: known as "El Comegente"; killed and cannibalized ten men between 1997 and 1999 in San Cristóbal, Táchira; killed four more in prison in 2016.


Vietnam

*Lê Thanh Vân: known as "The Cyanide Witch"; poisoned at least 13 people with cyanide in order to rob them, sometimes with the help of her husband; executed 2005.


Yemen

*Abdallah al-Hubal: killed seven people in 1990 after the Yemeni reunion; fled prison and killed a young couple and three other people in 1998; killed in a shootout with the police. *Mohammed Adam Omar: known as "The Sanaa, Sana'a Ripper"; Sudanese morgue assistant who killed between two and 51 women across Yemen and other countries from 1975 to 1999; guilt has been questioned; executed in 2001. *Dhu Shanatir: 5th-century Himyarite ruler who molested and killed young boys; killed in self-defense by a would-be victim.


Zambia

*Mailoni Brothers: three brothers who killed at least twelve people from 2007 to 2013 in Central Province, Zambia, Central Province; killed by police in 2013.


Zimbabwe

*Richard McGown: known as "Dr. Death"; Scottish doctor responsible for administering fatal doses of morphine to at least five patients in Harare from 1986 to 1992; convicted of two counts of culpable homicide and sentenced to a year in prison, after which he was released and returned to the UK.


Unidentified serial killers

This is a list of unsolved murders which are believed to have been committed by unidentified serial killers. It includes circumstances where a suspect has been arrested, but not convicted.


Argentina

*Madman of the route: allegedly responsible for killing up to 14 prostitutes along highways near Mar de Plata from 1996 to 1999; many believe that multiple suspects, including a gang of corrupt police officers, were behind the murders.


Australia

*Bowraville Murders: murders of three Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal children in 1990 and 1991. *The Family Murders: murder and mutilation of five young men and boys from 1979 to 1983. Bevan Spencer von Einem was convicted of one murder. *Tynong North and Frankston Murders: murders of six women in Tynong North, Victoria, Tynong North and Frankston in 1980 and 1981.


Belgium

*Brabant killers: gang of serial killers who operated in Brabant (province), Brabant province from 1982 until 1985; murdered 28 people and injured 40. *The Butcher of Mons: unidentified serial killer who committed five murders from January 1996 to July 1997 in Mons; Montenegrin murderer Smail Tulja is suspected of being the Butcher.


Belize

*Belize Ripper: abducted, tortured, raped and murdered five young girls in Belize City between 1998 and 2000, mutilating their bodies post-mortem.


Brazil

*Paturis Park murders: also known as the "Rainbow Maniac"; series of thirteen gunshot murders of gay men between July 2007 and August 2008 in Paturis Park in Carapicuiba.


Canada

*Highway of Tears murders, Highway of Tears: death and disappearance of around 40 young women in
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since 1969. *Toronto hospital baby deaths: deaths of at least eight babies at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 1980 and 1981 were initially alleged to be digoxin poisonings, a theory which was cast into doubt by new evidence in 2010–2011.


Colombia

*Monster of the Mangones: kidnapped, raped, tortured and then murdered between 30 and 38 boys and teenagers in
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from 1963 to the 1970s; suspected motive is clinical vampirism.


Costa Rica

*El Psicópata: killed nineteen people from 1986 to 1996 in Cartago, Costa Rica, Cartago, Curridabat and Desamparados; suspected of other similar crimes.


Finland

*Murder of Susanne Lindholm#Serial killer theory, Helsinki cellar killer: suspected of raping and strangling three women in Helsinki cellars between 1976 and 1981, including Susanne Lindholm; the validity of this theory has been disputed. *Hausjärvi Gravel Pit Murders, Järvenpää Serial Killer: responsible for the so-called "Hausjärvi Gravel Pit Murders"; killed a woman in 1991 and suspected in the disappearance of another in 1993; possibly responsible for other abductions and murders in the late 20th century.


Germany


India

*Stoneman: responsible for thirteen murders in Kolkata in 1989.


Italy

*Monster of Florence: committed eight murders of couples in a series of sixteen between 1968 and 1985. Giancarlo Lotti and Mario Vanni were convicted of four of the murders, but this conviction has been widely criticized. *Monster of Udine: killed at least four victims in the Province of Udine.


Japan

*Paraquat murders: series of indiscriminate poisonings carried out in 1985 where twelve people were killed. *Shinjuku–Kabukicho Love Hotel murders: strangulations of three women in love hotels around Tokyo between March and June 1981; the murders ceased after a fourth victim survived, but the killer was never captured. *Tokyo Metropolitan Murders: series of rapes, strangulations and burnings of mostly female victims between 1968 and 1974 in the Greater Tokyo Area; construction worker Etsuo Ono was convicted of one murder and later acquitted in a highly publicized trial, but convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for an unrelated murder. *Wednesday Strangler: killed seven children and women in Saga Prefecture between 1975 and 1989, most of them on Wednesdays; a suspect was indicted for three of the murders, but later acquitted.


Mexico

*Femicides in Ciudad Juárez: also known as "The dead women of Juárez"; the violent deaths of hundreds of women since 1993 in
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.


Moldova

*Durlești Maniac: ambushed and shot couples around the Durlești area from 2007 to 2011, killing six people; one man was convicted for one of the murders, but was exonerated later on.


Namibia

*B1 Butcher: murdered at least five women between 2005 and 2007, with all murders related to the B1 road (Namibia), National Road B1.


Nicaragua

*San Juan del Sur Psychopath: murdered between two and ten men in the coastal town of San Juan del Sur, from 2000 to 2002; a German alien (law), illegal alien residing in Managua was arrested on suspicion, but later cleared of the murders.


Poland

*Łódź Gay Murderer: murdered seven homosexual men from 1988 to 1993 in Łódź.


Portugal

*Lisbon Ripper: murdered three women in Lisbon between 1992 and 1993.


Russia


South Africa

*Fosaville Serial Killer, Fosaville serial killer: abducted, bound and strangled 13 women near Durban from 1999 to 2013. *Sleepy Hollow Killer: thought to be responsible for the murders of at least 13 women in the late 1990s, including three more in 2007, around Pietermaritzburg and the surrounding area.


Turkey

* Severed leg killer: murdered eight people around Istanbul from 2000 to 2001, dismembering their bodies and dumping them around the city.


United Kingdom

*Bible John: thought to be responsible for the deaths of three women in Glasgow in the late 1960s. *
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: murdered prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888. *Hammersmith nude murders, Jack the Stripper: responsible for the London "Hammersmith nude murders" between 1964 and 1965. *Thames Torso Murders, Thames Torso Murderer: thought to be responsible for the murder and dismemberment of four women in London between 1887 and 1889.


United States


See also

*List of serial killers before 1900 *List of serial killers by number of victims *List of terrorist incidents *Mass murder *Spree killer


References

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