List of serial killers by country

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This is a list of notable serial killers, by their country of origin or activity.

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[edit] Convicted serial killers by country

[edit] Argentina

[edit] Australia

[edit] Austria

[edit] Belgium

[edit] Brazil

  • Abraão José Bueno‎ – nurse who killed four child patients
  • Pedro Rodrigues Filho – aka "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
  • Edson Isidoro Guimarães – nurse who killed four patients but suspected of 131 deaths in total
  • Anísio Ferreira de Sousa – gynaecologist who was convicted of the murder of three children but linked to the disappearance of a total of 19

[edit] Canada

[edit] China

  • Gong Runbo – found guilty for the murders of six children and teenagers aged between 9 and 16 from 2005 to 2006
  • Huang Yong – between September 2001 and 2003 killed at least 17 teenage boys; executed in 2003
  • Liu Pengli – king of Jidong and cousin of Emperor Jing of Han; went on marauding expeditions murdering people for sheer sport; more than 100 confirmed victims
  • Shen Changyin and Shen Changping – found guilty of the murders of 11 prostitutes
  • Shi Yuejun – between September 24, 2006 and September 29, 2006 he murdered 12 people and wounded four others
  • Yang Xinhai – confessed to killing 65 people between 2000 and 2003; executed in 2004

[edit] Colombia

  • Daniel Camargo Barbosa – aka "The Beast of the Andes"; 71 alleged victims (most of his victims were killed in Ecuador)
  • Luis Garavito – admitted to killing and raping 172 people (also killed victims in Ecuador)
  • Pedro López – aka "The Monster of the Andes"; 360 alleged victims (also killed victims in Ecuador and Peru)

[edit] Czech Republic

[edit] Denmark

  • Dagmar Overbye – childcare provider who killed between nine and 25 children; sentenced to death in 1921 then reprieved

[edit] Egypt

  • Raya and Sakina – Egypt's most famous serial killers and the first Egyptian women to be executed by the modern state of Egypt

[edit] Finland

  • Antti Taskinen – poisoner of three men; sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Matti Haapoja – convicted murderer of three people, admitted to the murders of 18

[edit] France

[edit] Germany

[edit] Ghana

[edit] Greece

  • Antonis Daglis - aka the "Athens Ripper"; convicted in 1997 of the strangulation murders and dismemberment of three women and the attempted murder of six others

[edit] Hong Kong

  • Lam Kor-Wan – sexual sadist who murdered and dismembered four women in the 1980s; sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Lam Kwok-Wai – murdered three women

[edit] Hungary

[edit] India

[edit] Indonesia

  • Ahmad Suradji – admitted to killing 42 women; sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on July 10, 2008

[edit] Iran

  • Mohammed Bijeh – aka the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran; executed in 2005
  • Saeed Hanaei – aka "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around Mashhad; executed in 2002

[edit] Israel

  • Nicolai Bonner – killed four people in 2005 in Haifa, three of them homeless; sentenced to life imprisonment

[edit] Italy

[edit] Japan

  • Sataro Fukiage – raped and killed at least seven girls in the early 20th century
  • Hiroaki Hidaka – killed four prostitutes in 1996; executed on December 25, 2006
  • Miyuki Ishikawa – murdered an estimated 103, but could have been up to 169 infants in the 1940s
  • Kiyotaka Katsuta – 22 alleged murders but convicted of eight; executed in 2000
  • Yoshio Kodaira – rapist thought to have killed 11 people in Japan and Chinese people as a soldier
  • Genzo Kurita – killed six women and two children and engaged in rape and necrophilia
  • Hiroshi Maeue – aka "Suicide Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims
  • Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata – aka "House of Horror"; tortured and murdered at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Ogata's family
  • Tsutomu Miyazaki – aka "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer" and "Dracula"; killed four preschool-age girls and ate a hand of a girl; executed in 2008
  • Norio Nagayama – killed four people with a handgun at the age of 19; a novelist in prison
  • Seisaku Nakamura – aka "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer", murdered at least nine people
  • Akira Nishiguchi – killed five people and engaged in fraud
  • Kiyoshi Okubo – raped and murdered eight young women during 41 days in 1971

[edit] Latvia

  • Kaspars Petrovs – convicted of murdering 13 elderly Riga women in 2005; confessed to killing 38

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Netherlands

  • Lucia de Berk – nurse convicted of killing at least seven and attempting three murders in the 2000s (2008: case reopened by the Dutch supreme court)
  • Maria Swanenburg – killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s

[edit] Norway

  • Arnfinn Nesset – geriatric assistant nurse who poisoned 22 dwellers at the Orkdal Alders-Og Sjukeheim institution over a period of years before being convicted in 1984

[edit] Pakistan

[edit] Poland

[edit] Portugal

[edit] 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

[edit] Russia

  • Valeriy Asratyan – arrested in 1990 and convicted of three murders and dozens of cases of sexual abuse; executed
  • Andrei Chikatilo – aka "The Rostov Ripper"; killed 52 women and children throughout the Soviet Union; arrested, convicted and executed in 1994
  • Vasiliy Kulik – killed 13 people aged between seven months and 75 years; executed
  • Maxim Petrov – doctor who killed 12 patients
  • Alexander Pichushkin – aka "The Chessboard Killer"; convicted of 48 murders; confessed to killing 63
  • Sergei Ryakhovsky – aka "The Hippopotamus"; convicted of the murders of 19 people aged between 14 and 78
  • Darya Saltykova – 18th century countess who tortured and killed serfs on her estate
  • Anatoly Slivko – convicted of killing seven young boys; executed
  • Sasha Spesivtsev – cannibal convicted of the murders of 19 women
  • Alexander Tchayka – killed four women between January 1994 and February 1994

[edit] Slovenia

  • Silvo Plut – killed three women; committed suicide in prison in 2007
  • Metod Trobec – raped and killed at least five women; committed suicide in prison in 2006

[edit] South Africa

  • Daisy De Melker – poisoner; killed two husbands and one son; executed in 1932
  • Cedric Maake – aka the "Wemmer Pan Killer"; serial rapist; murdered at least 27 people
  • Moses Sithole – believed to have killed at least 38 young women
  • Sipho Thwala – aka the "Phoenix Strangler"; raped and murdered 19 women in sugarcane fields from 1996 to 1997
  • Gert Van Rooyen – abducted at least six girls from 1988 to 1989 who were never found
  • Elias Xitavhudzi – murdered 16 people in Atteridgeville in the 1960s

[edit] South Korea

  • Yoo Young-chul – cannibal; killed 20 people from September 2003 to July 2004, mainly young women and rich men

[edit] Spain

[edit] Sweden

  • Thomas Quick – aka "Sätermannen"; child molester; convicted of eight murders

[edit] Ukraine

  • Dnepropetrovsk maniacs (Viktor Sayenko, Alexander Hanzha and Igor Suprunyuck) - three 19-year-olds who murdered 21 people during a one-month period in 2007
  • Anatoly Onoprienko – aka "The Terminator"; murdered 59 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996
  • Serhiy Tkach – convicted of raping and murdering 36 women, but claims the total is 100
  • Nighttime Killers (Vladislav Volkovich and Vladimir Kondratenko) – charged with shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning 16 victims to death in Kiev between 1991 and 1997; Kondratenko committed suicide in prison during the trial; Volkovich was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment

[edit] United Kingdom

  • Beverley Allitt – aka "Angel of Death"; paediatric nurse who killed four babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991
  • Robert Black – Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of three murders, suspected of many more
  • Ian Brady and Myra Hindley – aka "Moors Murderers"; murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17 and buried them in Saddleworth Moor
  • Leslie Bailey – killed at least three young boys in and around London in the 1980s
  • William Burke and William Hare – notorious body snatchers in Edinburgh in the 19th century
  • George Chapman – poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper
  • John Childs – murdered six people between 1974 and 1978; sentenced to life imprisonment
  • John Christie – killed seven women (including his wife) and disputably one infant between 1943 and 1953 and hid them in his house and garden at 10 Rillington Place
  • Mary Ann Cotton – British Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims
  • Thomas Neill Cream – aka "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United States then moved to London; hanged in 1892
  • Amelia Dyer – murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896
  • Kenneth Erskine – aka "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners
  • Steven Grieveson – aka "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered three teenage boys in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in 1993 and 1994
  • John George Haigh – aka the "Acid Bath Murderer" and the "Vampire of London"; active in England during the 1940s; convicted of six murders, but claimed to have killed 9; executed in 1949
  • Anthony Hardy – aka the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four
  • Trevor Hardy – aka "The Beast in the Night"; killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976
  • Colin Ireland – aka "Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s
  • Michael Lupo – aka "Wolf Man"; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders
  • Bruce George Peter Lee – serial arsonist and killer
  • Patrick Mackay – charged with the murders of five individuals, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people
  • Peter Manuel – Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958
  • Robert Maudsley – killer of four; killed three in prison
  • Peter Moore – businessman who killed four men at random in Wales
  • Donald Neilson – aka "Black Panther; killed four people, including heiress Lesley Whittle
  • Dennis Nilsen – killer of 15 (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983
  • Colin Norris – nurse convicted of killing four patients in Leeds hospitals
  • William Palmer – aka "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; hanged on June 14, 1856
  • Mark Rowntree – 19 year old who killed four people at random
  • Amelia Sach and Annie Walters – murdered an unknown number of babies put up for adoption
  • Harold Shipman – doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25-year period
  • George Joseph Smith – aka "The Brides in the Bath"; killer of three women
  • John Straffen – child killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner until his death on November 19, 2007
  • Peter Sutcliffe – aka the "Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980
  • Fred West and Rosemary West – aka "House of Horrors"; she was convicted of 10 murders; both are believed to have tortured and murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987, many at the couple's home in Gloucester; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial
  • Steve Wright – aka "The Suffolk Strangler" or "The Ipswich Ripper"; killed 5 women in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006
  • Graham Frederick Young – aka "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971

[edit] United States of America

  • Howard Allen – convicted of one murder and suspected of two others carried out between 1974 and 1987 in Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Joe Ball – aka "The Alligator Man"; killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas
  • Herb Baumeister – suspected of killing 20+ men along I-70; fled and committed suicide after remains of eleven were found on his Westfield, Indiana property
  • David Berkowitz – aka "Son of Sam" and "The .44 Caliber Killer"; convicted of six murders in New York
  • Bloody Benders – family who killed guests at their inn in Labette County, Kansas in 1872
  • Robert Berdella – convicted of killing six men in 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri; sexually tortured and dismembered his victims
  • Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr. – aka the "Hillside Strangler"; killers of 13 women and possibly involved in three other killings
  • Richard Biegenwald – convicted of killing five people in the early 1980s in the Asbury Park, New Jersey area; suspected in at least six other murders
  • Arthur Gary Bishop – Utah man who murdered five young boys; executed in 1988
  • Terry Blair – Kansas City serial killer and rapist; active 1982–2004
  • William Bonin – aka "The Freeway Killer"; with several accomplices, claimed the lives of 20 boys in California
  • Robert Charles Browne – convicted of two murders in Colorado; confessed to 48 murders
  • Jerry Brudos – aka "The Lust Killer" and "Shoe Fetish Slayer"; killed at least five women in Oregon
  • Ted Bundy – law student who raped and murdered more than 35 women in six states; executed in Florida State Prison on January 24, 1989
  • David Carpenter – aka the "Trailside Killer"; murdered five women on San Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981
  • Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson – nomadic hippie killers involved in the counter-culture movement; suspects in 12 homicides; sentenced to life imprisonment for three San Francisco Bay Area murders in 1983
  • Dean Carter – murdered at least four women
  • Richard Chase – aka "The Vampire of Sacramento"; murdered six people in California the 1970s
  • Carroll Cole – killed 16 people between 1948 and 1980; executed in 1985
  • Alton Coleman – multi-state killer whose killings took place during two months in 1984 aided by Debra Denise Brown; was convicted of murder in three states
  • Ray Copeland and Faye Copeland – oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States at the ages of 75 and 69; convicted of killing five men; modus operandi was to hire unskilled drifters as farm hands and later kill them
  • Dean Corll, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks – committed the Houston Mass Murders in the 1970s
  • Juan Corona – California killer convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971
  • Andrew Cunanan – murdered five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, in a cross-country journey during a three-month period in 1997, ending with Cunanan's suicide, at the age of 27
  • Charles Cullen – nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who killed as many as 40 patients through lethal injection
  • Jeffrey Dahmer – Milwaukee, Wisconsin cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment for sexual gratification; convicted of 15 murders, but believed responsible for at least two others
  • Albert DeSalvo – aka "The Boston Strangler"; convicted of unrelated rapes. DeSalvo was never indicted for the Strangler murders, although he did confess to them.
  • Nannie Doss – aka "The Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow"; serial poisoner who killed 11 family members
  • Paul Durousseau – murdered 7 in southeast United States between 1997 and 2003; may have killed while stationed in Germany with the Army
  • Mack Ray Edwards – convicted of murdering three children after confessing to the murders of six in Los Angeles County between 1953 and 1969; claimed at one point to have killed as many as 18
  • Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck – the "Lonely Hearts Killers"; killed at least three women and one child in the 1940s but suspected in up to 20 murders in New York and Michigan
  • Albert Fish – aka the "Werewolf of Wisteria"; sadist and pedophile who cannibalized several children; convicted of one murder, confessed to two others
  • Wayne Adam Ford – aka "Wayward Wayne"; confessed to murdering four women; believed to have killed others
  • Kendall Francois – serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York who targeted prostitutes; after strangling the women, he would store them in various crawl spaces in and around his home
  • Joseph Paul Franklin – racist serial killer who targeted interracial couples and attempted to assassinate Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordan; convicted of 11 murders and confessed to nine others
  • John Wayne Gacy – aka "Killer Clown"; killer of at least 33 men and boys; kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
  • Gerald Gallego Jr. and Charlene Williams – aka the "Gallego Sex Slaves Killers"; kidnapped, raped and killed victims in the late 1970s; most of them were teenagers
  • Carlton Gary – convicted of the murders of seven elderly women in Georgia
  • Donald Henry Gaskins – aka "Meanest Man in America"; convicted of nine murders; confessed to more than 200; executed on September 6, 1991
  • Ed Gein – two known victims, one suspected victim, four missing persons; elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part, the films Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and the novel/movie The Silence of the Lambs
  • Janie Lou Gibbs – Georgia poisoner who killed five family members
  • Kristen Gilbert – aka the "Angel of Death"; nurse convicted of killing four by epinephrine injection
  • Lorenzo Gilyard – killed up to 13 prostitutes in the Kansas City area 1977 to 1993
  • Harvey Glatman – Californian rapist and killer of three women; lured women to pose for "bondage photographs"; executed September 18, 1959
  • Jeffrey Gorton – convicted of two rape-murders in Michigan, suspected of more
  • Dana Sue Gray – convicted of murder of three elderly women and attempted murder of a fourth in California
  • Belle Gunness – murder-for-profit killer who murdered her suitors and children in Indiana
  • Robert Hansen – Alaskan baker who killed prostitutes at his cabin; convicted of four murders but admitted to 11 others
  • Donald Harvey – aka "Angel of Death"; hospital orderly; confessed to more than 80 "mercy killings" with 37 confirmed killings
  • William Heirens – aka "The Lipstick Killer"; confessed to three murders spanning from June 1945 to January 1946
  • Waneta Hoyt – New York woman who murdered her five children
  • Michael Hughes – killed four women in the Los Angeles area between 1992 and 1993; charged in 2008 with raping and murdering four additional women between 1986 and 1993
  • Leslie Irvin – aka "Mad Dog"; convicted of killing six people in Indiana in the mid-1950s; his Supreme Court case set a precedent for fair trials of highly publicized defendants
  • Phillip Carl Jablonski – killed at least four women in California and Utah
  • Keith Hunter Jesperson – Canadian serial killer convicted in the United States
  • Vincent Johnson – aka the "Brooklyn Strangler"; a homeless crack addict who killed at least five prostitutes
  • Genene Jones – Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care. Convicted of only one murder but suspected of 10 or more others
  • Patrick Kearney – necrophiliac convicted of 21 murders in California and admitted to seven other murders
  • Edmund Kemper – started killing when he was 15 years old in Santa Cruz, California; convicted of six murders and implicated in four others
  • Tillie Klimek – Chicago woman who poisoned five husbands; sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Paul John Knowles – raped and murdered 18 people
  • Randy Kraft – convicted of the murders of 16 young men and boys; suspected of 51 others in California
  • Timothy Krajcir – confessed to killing more than nine women—five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania
  • Peter Kudzinowski – killed children in New Jersey in the 1920s
  • Leonard Lake and Charles Ng – ex-Marines and survivalists; killed at least 11 people and suspected of 25; collected and murdered female sex slaves
  • Derrick Todd Lee – aka the "Baton Rouge Serial Killer"; convicted of two murders; linked by DNA evidence to five others
  • Henry Lee Lucas – convicted of 11 murders and confessed to approximately 3000 others, although most of his confessions are considered outlandish; a task force set up to investigate his claims suggested that the true number of his murders may be as high as 213
  • Rhonda Belle Martin – Alabama poisoner who murdered six family members; suspected of poisoning at least nine; executed in 1957
  • Michigan murders (John Norman Collins and Gary Leiterman) – committed separately in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor between 1967 and 1969
  • Frederick Mors - Austrian who killed seventeen elderly patients by poisoning in New York
  • Herman Mudgett – better known as H.H. Holmes; active from 1890 to 1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; convicted of only one murder but definitively tied to at least 8 more and confessed to a total of 27
  • John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo – aka "Beltway Snipers"; Muhammad is convicted of seven murders so far and awaiting prosecution for nine others; Malvo was convicted of, plead guilty to, or confessed to at least nine murders
  • Herbert Mullin – schizophrenic in Santa Cruz, California who killed people to prevent earthquakes; convicted of 10 murders and confessed to three others
  • Earle Nelson – aka "Gorilla Man"; necrophiliac convicted and hanged for one murder; implicated in about 20 others
  • Marie Noe – murdered eight of her children between 1949 and 1968
  • Gordon Stewart Northcott – aka the "Wineville Chicken Coop Murders"; California man who confessed to kidnapping, raping and murdering nine young boys with the aid of his mother, Sarah Louise Northcott in the 1920s; suspected of the murder of nearly 30, executed in 1930
  • Carl Panzram – murderer, rapist and arsonist; convicted of two murders; confessed to 19 others; executed in 1930
  • Christopher Peterson – aka the "Shotgun Killer", confessed to shooting seven people with a shotgun in a killing spree spanning from October 30, 1990 to December 18, 1990 in Indiana.
  • Dorothea Puente – convicted of three killings in Sacramento, California during the 80's; suspected of six others
  • Dennis Rader – aka the "BTK Killer"; killed ten people between 1974 and 1991
  • Richard Ramirez – aka the "Night Stalker"; terrorized Los Angeles in 1984 and 1985; convicted of 14 murders
  • David Parker Ray – convicted of rape and torture and sentenced to 224 years in prison; FBI believes he was responsible for the deaths of 60 women in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
  • Paul Dennis Reid – killed seven people during armed robberies between February and April 1997
  • Ángel Maturino Reséndiz – killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois
  • Gary Ridgway – aka the "Green River Killer"; convicted of murdering 48 women in Washington state
  • Joel Rifkin – murdered 17 women in the New York City and Long Island areas
  • John Edward Robinson – aka the "Cyber Sex Killer"; lured victims through the internet; convicted of murdering six women in Missouri and Kansas
  • Danny Rolling – pleaded guilty to murdering five students in Florida; executed in 2006
  • Michael Bruce Ross – raped and murdered seven women in Connecticut
  • Efren Saldivar – respiratory therapist who killed six patients, possibly as many as 120
  • Altemio Sanchez – aka the "Bike Path Rapist"; responsible for three murders and numerous rapes spanning over a 25-year period in Buffalo, New York; currently serving three consecutive 75 years-to-life sentences for the murders
  • Heriberto Seda – New York City copycat killer of the "Zodiac Killer" active from 1990 to 1994; convicted of shooting eight indivuals, killing three; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998
  • Gerard John Schaefer – Florida police officer who killed up to 34 women and girls
  • Tommy Lynn Sells – convicted of only one murder; admitted to murdering dozens of people across the United States, possibly in excess of 70 although only six are confirmed
  • Arthur Shawcross – aka "The Genesee River Killer"; convicted of 12 murders; confessed to one more
  • Robert Shulman – convicted of murdering five prostitutes between 1991 and 1996
  • Lemuel Smith – confessed to the murders of five people, including an on-duty female prison guard
  • Morris Solomon Jr. – handyman who killed six young women between 1986 and 1987 in Sacramento, California
  • Gerald Stano – convicted murderer of 41 women; executed in 1998
  • Cary Stayner – killed four women in Yosemite, California
  • Michael Swango – physician and surgeon who poisoned over 30 of his patients and colleagues
  • William Suff – aka the "Riverside Killer"; killed up to 19 women near Riverside, California
  • Marybeth Tinning – New York woman who smothered nine of her children to death
  • Ottis Toole – Henry Lee Lucas' accomplice; convicted of six murders in Florida; confessed to but never tried for Adam Walsh's murder
  • Maury Travis – St. Louis area torture killer of 12-17 prostitutes from 2000 to 2002
  • Chester Turner – murderer of women in Los Angeles, California; convicted of 12 murders and linked through DNA evidence to another
  • Henry Louis Wallace – Charlotte, North Carolina killer of at least nine young women from 1992 to 1994
  • Coral Eugene Watts – convicted of two murders; admitted to killing 80 people in Texas and Michigan; possibly guilty of 100 murders
  • Nathaniel White – convicted of stabbing to death six women in the Hudson Valley, New York area from 1991 to 1992
  • Wayne Williams – convicted of two murders; police claim his arrest solved 23 others in a string of 29
  • Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood – Michigan duo who murdered five elderly nursing home residents in their care and claimed to have killed another
  • Randall Woodfield – aka the "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5 Bandit"; convicted of four murders; believed responsible for 14 others
  • Aileen Wuornos – shot six men dead in Florida; executed in 2002
  • Robert Lee Yates – murdered at least 13 women in Spokane County, Washington

[edit] Venezuela

[edit] Unidentified serial killers

[edit] See also

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