- Samir Kuntar
Samir Kuntar (also transcribed "Sameer", "Kantar", "Quntar", "Qantar") (born July 20, 1962 in Aabey, Lebanon), is a Lebanese Druze who belonged to the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), a pro-Palestinian organisation led by Abu Abbas. The PLF is designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States, Canada, the European Union and others. He participated in a terrorist attack. - Peter Kürten
Peter Kürten May 26, 1883-July 2, 1931 was a German serial killer dubbed The Vampire of Düsseldorf by the contemporary media. He committed a series of sex crimes, assaults and murders against adults and children, most notoriously from February to November 1929 in Düsseldorf. - Ted Robert Bundy
Theodore Robert 'Ted' Bundy (November 24, 1946 - January 24, 1989) was one of the most infamous serial killers in U.S. history. Bundy raped and murdered scores of young women across the United States between 1974 and 1978. After more than a decade of vigorous denials, Bundy eventually confessed to thirty murders, although the actual total of victims remains unknown. Typically, Bundy would rape then murder his victims by bludgeoning, and sometimes by strangulation. - Scott Peterson
Scott Lee Peterson (born 24 October, 1972) is a former fertilizer salesman convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and unborn son Conner Peterson. Laci was eight months pregnant at the time of the murder. Peterson's case dominated the American media for many months. On March 16, 2005, Peterson was sentenced to death and currently resides on death row in San Quentin State Prison. Scott Peterson has not admitted any guilt. - Gilles de Rais
Gilles de Rais (also spelled Retz was a French noble, soldier, and one time brother-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He was later accused and ultimately convicted of torturing, raping and murdering dozens, if not hundreds, of young children, mainly boys. Along with Erzsébet Báthory, another sadistic aristocrat acting more than a century later, he is considered by some historians to be a precursor of the modern serial killer. - Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley was an English mass murderer, most notably involved in the "Moors murders". - John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and men, 27 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers, between 1972 and his arrest in 1978. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, … - Albert Hamilton Fish
He was born in Washington, District of Columbia as Hamilton Fish , to Randall Fish (1795-1875) of Kennebec, Maine and his wife, Ellen (1838-?) , of Ireland. His father was 43 years older than his mother. Albert Fish later stated that his family had an extensive history of mental illness. He was the youngest of four, accompanying siblings Walter, Annie and Edwin. - David Westerfield
David Alan Westerfield (born February 25, 1952), of San Diego, California was convicted, in 2002, and sentenced to death for the murder and kidnapping of seven-year-old Danielle Van Dam. He was a successful, self-employed engineer who owned a luxury motor home and lived two houses away from Van Dam. A divorced father of two college students, he is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. - Ian Huntley
Ian Kevin Huntley (born 31 January 1974 in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England) is a convicted murderer, who in 2003 was convicted of murdering two 10-year-old girls - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - in the case known as the Soham murders. He committed the crimes in August 2002 and is now serving life imprisonment; he is expected to remain in prison until at least 2042. - Ian Brady
Ian Brady (born Ian Duncan Stewart on January 2, 1938 in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland) is a notorious Scottish serial killer. Brady is known primarily for his role in a series of murders that took place in Greater Manchester between 1963 and 1965. These were dubbed the Moors murders, as several victims were buried along the Saddleworth Moor near Oldham in Lancashire. - Marc Dutroux
Marc Dutroux (born 6 November 1956 in Brussels) is a Belgian criminal, convicted of having, in 1995 and 1996, kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein. He was arrested in 1996 and has been in prison since then. His widely publicised trial took place in 2004. - Alejandro Avila
Alejandro Avila is a convicted murderer who abducted, sexually assaulted and killed five-year-old Samantha Runnion in California in July 2002. He was sentenced to death and is currently imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison in California. - Perry Smith
Perry Edward Smith was one of two ex-convicts who murdered four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, on November 15, 1959, a crime made infamous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel "In Cold Blood". - Chris Benoit
Christopher Michael Benoit (May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler who wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and World Wrestling Entertainment. A two-time World Heavyweight Champion, he was widely regarded as one of the best technical professional wrestlers of his generation. Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and their 7-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their Fayetteville, Georgia home on June 25, 2007. - Charles Starkweather
Charles Starkweather (November 24, 1938 - June 25, 1959) was a spree killer who murdered 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming during a road trip with his underage girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate. He became a national fascination in the USA, eventually inspiring the films "The Sadist", "Badlands", "Natural Born Killers", "Starkweather" and the Bruce Springsteen song "Nebraska". - Susan Vaughan Smith
Susan Smith (born September 26, 1971 as Susan Leigh Vaughan), of Union, South Carolina, was convicted July 22, 1995, of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith, born October 10, 1991, and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith, born August 5, 1993, and later sentenced to life in prison. According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, Smith will be eligible for parole on November 4, 2024, after serving a minimum of thirty years. - Robert Charles Browne
Robert Charles Browne (born October 31, 1952) is a murderer and possible serial killer currently serving a life sentence in Colorado. Browne was born in Coushatta, Louisiana. He was a high school dropout who joined the Army and served from 1969 to 1976, when he was dishonorably discharged for drug abuse. In confession, authorities say Browne admitted to murdering up to 49 people in a period spanning from 1970 until he was arrested and put in prison in 1995. - Evan Ramsey
Evan Ramsey (b. 1981) is a convicted American murderer, who killed two and wounded two in a school shooting at Bethel High School in Bethel, Alaska on February 19, 1997. Ramsey was a sophomore at the time. - Howard Unruh
Howard Unruh (also spelled Unrah) (born January 21 1921, Camden, New Jersey) is regarded as one of the first of the 'lone gunmen' to go on an indiscriminate shooting spree. On September 6 1949, twenty-eight year old Unruh left his house for a twelve minute walk around his Camden, New Jersey neighborhood, shooting people at random and killing 13. Always a reserved man, he had turned into a recluse in the three months before his spree. - Richard Allen Davis
Richard Allen Davis (born June 2, 1954) is a convicted rapist and murderer, whose criminal record fueled support for passage of California's "Three strikes law" for repeat offenders. He is currently on death row in San Quentin State Prison, California. He was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder and four special circumstances (robbery, burglary, kidnapping and a lewd act on a child) of 12-year-old Polly Klaas. Klaas was abducted October 1, 1993, from her Petaluma, … - Bruno Hauptmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 - April 3, 1936) was a German carpenter and former criminal, sentenced to death and executed for the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh II, the 20-month old son of famous pilots Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping gained international infamy, and has become known as "The Crime of the Century." - Clifford Olson
Clifford Robert Olson Jr (born January 1, 1940 in Vancouver, Canada) is a serial killer who killed two children as well as nine youths in the early 1980s. - Mary Bell
Mary Flora Bell (born on May 26 1957 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) was convicted in December 1968 of the murders of two boys, Martin Brown (four years old) and Brian Howe (three years old). Bell was eleven years old at the time of the murders. - Roy Whiting
Roy William Whiting was born in Horsham, West Sussex, on 26 January 1959. He is a former car mechanic and convicted child killer. Whiting is being held in the maximum security Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire. - Bruce Johnston
Bruce Alfred Johnston Sr (March 27, 1939-August 8, 2002) was the leader of one of the most notorious gangs in the history of Pennsylvania, USA. The gang started in the 1960's and was rounded up in 1978 after his son, Bruce Jr, testified against him. - Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes (born 1965) is a convicted child murderer. - Jeffrey Lundgren
Jeffrey Don Lundgren (May 3, 1950 - October 24, 2006) was a self-proclaimed prophet, former leader of a cult group, and convicted murderer. - Scott Erskine
Scott Thomas Erskine is an American serial killer convicted to death row for the murder of two California boys in 1993. He is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. - Robert Alton Harris
Robert Alton Harris (January 15, 1953-April 21, 1992) was an American career criminal and murderer who was executed in San Quentin's gas chamber in 1992. This marked the first execution in the state of California since 1967. Harris had killed two teenage boys in 1978. Harris' execution is specifically remembered for his peculiar choice of final words (recorded by Warden Daniel Vasquez): "You can be a king or a street sweeper, … - Mack Ray Edwards
Mack Ray Edwards (1918-1971) was an American serial killer. He murdered at least six children in Los Angeles County between 1953 and 1970. - Westley Allan Dodd
Westley Allan Dodd (July 3, 1961-January 5, 1993) was a serial killer and child molester from Richland, Washington. His execution on January 5, 1993, was the first legal hanging in the United States since 1965. Dodd began sexually abusing children when he was 13 years old; his first victims were his own cousins. All his victims (over 50 in all) were children below the age of 12, some of them as young as 2 years old. - John Couey
John Evander Couey (born September 19, 1958) was convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering nine-year old Jessica Lunsford in February 2005, in Florida. Lunsford's disappearance and Couey's subsequent confession and trial received extensive media coverage. A jury recommended that Couey recieve the death penalty. Couey maintains that he is innocent. - Wayne Williams
Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) was identified as the key suspect in the Atlanta Child Murders that occurred between 1979 and 1981. In January 1982, he was found guilty of the murder of two adult men. After his conviction, the Atlanta police declared an additional 22 of the 29 child murders solved. - Mitchell Johnson
Mitchell Johnson (born August 11, 1984) is an American murderer. Johnson (13 years old during the attack) along with middle school classmate Andrew Golden (then 11) ambushed teachers and fellow students in the backyard of Westside Middle School during the Jonesboro massacre in Jonesboro, Arkansas on March 24, 1998, killing five and wounding ten people. Their crime occurred during the rash of schoolyard shooting culminating with the Columbine High School massacre - Peter Kudzinowski
Peter Kudzinowski (1903 - December 21, 1929) was a serial killer who committed his crimes in New Jersey. He was born in Poland. - George Stinney
George Junius Stinney Jr. (born October 21, 1929, died June 16, 1944) was, at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century, and the last under the age of 16 ever. Stinney, who was black, was convicted of murdering two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8, in Clarendon County, South Carolina, on March 24, 1944. Stinney was arrested the next day and charged with first-degree murder. - Rosemary West
Rosemary Pauline West (born November 29, 1953 as Rosemary Letts) is an English serial killer, now an inmate at HMP Bronzefield, Ashford, Middlesex. Together with her husband Fred, she is believed to have tortured and murdered at least 12 young women, many at the couple's home in Gloucester, England. - Jesse Timmendequas
Jesse Timmendequas (born April 15, 1961) was, on May 30, 1997, convicted of murdering his neighbor, seven-year-old Megan Kanka, in 1994. The murder led the Legislature of the U.S. state of New Jersey to pass "Megan's Law", which requires notification when a previously convicted sex offender moves into a neighborhood. He maintains that he is not guilty of the charges for which he was convicted in relation to Kanka's death. - Allen Lee Davis
Allen Lee Davis (July 20, 1944 - July 8, 1999) was a mass murderer executed on July 8, 1999, for the May 11, 1982 Jacksonville, Florida murder of Nancy Weiler, who was three-months pregnant at the time. According to reports, Nancy Weiler, was "beaten almost beyond recognition" by Davis with a .357, and hit over 25 times in the face and head. He was also convicted of killing Nancy Weiler's two daughters, Kristina (10, shot twice in the face) and Katherine (5, …
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