- Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 - November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer. Dahmer murdered at least 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1989 and 1991. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving acts of forced sodomy, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism. - Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Carol Wuornos]] (born Aileen Carol Pittman) (February 29 1956 - October 9 2002) was an American prostitute and convicted serial killer who was sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992. She ultimately received five additional death sentences. Wuornos admitted to killing seven men, in separate incidents, all of whom she claimed raped her (or attempted to) while she was working as a prostitute. - Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906 - July 26, 1984), was an American serial killer. Though only two murders on his part were proved, he gained great infamy due to necrophiliac behavior (which involved the skinning of his murder victims and exhumed corpses, the decoration of his home with parts of corpses, and the creation of articles of clothing and furniture from the skin of corpses). Besides the death of his brother in 1944 under mysterious circumstances, … - 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, … - David Berkowitz
David Richard Berkowitz (Born: June 1 1953), better known by his nickname Son of Sam, is an American serial killer who confessed to killing six people and wounding several others in New York City in the late 1970s. Though Berkowitz remains the only person charged or convicted in relation to the case, some law enforcement authorities suspect that there are unresolved questions about the crimes, … - Dennis Rader
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer who murdered at least 10 people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK killer (or the BTK strangler), which stands for Bind, Torture and Kill, an apt description of his "modus operandi." Letters were written soon after the killings to police and to local news outlets, … - Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 - March 13, 2001) was an American criminal, convicted of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer. However, he later recanted his confessions. He once flatly stated "I am not a serial killer" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady. Lucas confessed to involvement in about 3,000 murders, an average of about one murder per day between his release from prison in mid-1975 to his arrest in mid-1983. - Richard Ramirez
Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramirez aka The Nightstalker (born February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas) is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison. Prior to his capture, Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media as he terrorized California with a series of car and home abductions, rapes, and murders during the first half of 1985. - 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. - H. H. Holmes
Herman Webster Mudgett, better known under the alias of "Dr. Harry Howard Holmes," was an American serial killer. Holmes trapped and murdered possibly hundreds of guests at his Chicago hotel, which he opened for the 1893 World's Fair. He confessed to 27 murders, though only nine have been confirmed. The case was notorious in its time, and received wide publicity via a series of articles in William Randolph Hearst's newspapers. - Karla Homolka
Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale, (born May 4, 1970 in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian serial killer who attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of helping her husband, Paul Bernardo, rape and murder teenage girls, including her own sister Tammy Homolka. In return for her confession, she was given a plea bargain whereby she escaped the maximum penalty for her crimes. - Andrei Chikatilo
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (October 16, 1936 - February 14, 1994) was a Russian serial killer of Ukrainian descent, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov and 'The Red Ripper.' He was convicted of the murder of 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990. - Gary Ridgway
Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949), known as the Green River Killer, is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. On November 30, 2001, as he was leaving a Renton, Washington factory where he worked, he was arrested for the murders of seven women whose deaths were attributed to the "Green River Killer". Four murders were linked to him through DNA and three through paint he used at his job. - Harold Shipman
Harold Frederick Shipman (January 14, 1946-January 13, 2004) was an English general practitioner who was one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history. He was better known, before his arrest, as Fred Shipman. He was convicted on 15 sample charges in 2000 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He committed suicide in 2004 at HMP Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, without admitting or explaining his crimes. - Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler is a name attributed to the murderer of several women in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in the early 1960s. Though the crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo, investigators of the case have since suggested the murders (sometimes known as the silk stocking murders) were not the handiwork of one person. - David Parker Ray
David Parker Ray (unknown, 1940 - May 28, 2002) was an American serial killer suspected by police to have slain as many as sixty people in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. He gained notoriety for his brutal sexual torture techniques and methods he used on his victims. - Robert Englund
Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947), is an American actor from Glendale, California. He is best known for playing the fictional serial killer, "Freddy Krueger", in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series and the lovable alien character, "Willie", from the miniseries "V". - Michel Fourniret
Michel Fourniret (born Sedan, France, 4 April 1942) is a French serial killer who confessed, in June and July 2004, to kidnapping, raping and murdering nine girls in a span of fourteen years during the 1980s and the 1990s. He is also suspected of ten additional murders, nine in France and one in Belgium. He is currently detained in Belgium awaiting trial. He is sometimes referred to as the "Ogre of the Ardennes". - Charles Sobhraj
Charles Sobhraj (born April 6, 1944 in Saigon, Vietnam) is a serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese origin, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s. Nicknamed "the Serpent" and "the Bikini killer" for his skills at deception and evasion, he allegedly committed at least 12 murders and was jailed in India from 1976 to 1997, but managed to live a life of leisure in prison. - Tobin Bell
Tobin Bell (born August 7 1942) is an American film and television actor. Bell was born in Queens, New York and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts. His mother, Eileen Bell, is an English-born actress. - Ann Rule
Ann Rule (born October 221935 in Lowell, Michigan) is a popular American true crime writer. She came to prominence with her first book, "The Stranger Beside Me", about the Ted Bundy murders. At the time she started researching the book, the murders were still unsolved. In the course of time, it became clear that the killer was Bundy, her friend and her colleague as a trained volunteer on the suicide hotline at the Seattle, Washington Crisis Clinic, … - Danny Rolling
Danny Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954 - October 25, 2006), "the Gainesville Ripper", was a convicted U.S. serial killer. After confessing to the murder and mutilation of five students in Gainesville, Florida, in August 1990, he was ultimately executed. He also confessed to raping several of his victims, committing an additional 1989 triple homicide in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to murder his father in May 1990. In all, Rolling confessed to killing eight people, … - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
is a Japanese filmmaker best known for his many contributions to the J-horror genre. - 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. - Michael Ross
Michael Bruce Ross (July 26, 1959 - May 13, 2005) was an American serial killer. - 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. - Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley was an English mass murderer, most notably involved in the "Moors murders". - Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 - September 12, 1992) was an Academy Award-nominated American stage and screen actor known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". - Peter Sutcliffe
Peter William Sutcliffe (born June 2, 1946), commonly referred to as the "Yorkshire Ripper", was convicted in 1981 of the murders of thirteen women in the north of England and attacks on seven more from 1975 to 1980. - Dennis Nilsen
Dennis Andrew Nilsen (born November 23, 1945) is a Scottish serial killer who lived in London. During a murderous spree lasting five years, he killed at least 15 men. Nilsen did not fit the standard profile of a serial killer. As a child he was repulsed by cruelty to animals. As an adult he worked to help the downtrodden at his job with the Manpower Service Commission. Even in his murders, Nilsen killed out of a grotesque form of love. He "killed for company." - Edmund Kemper
Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18 1948), also known as "The Co-ed Killer", is an American serial killer who was active in the early 1970s. Kemper killed and dismembered six female hitchhikers in the Santa Cruz, California, area. He then murdered his mother and one of her friends before turning himself in to the authorities. He had previously been incarcerated as a teenager for shooting both his grandparents while staying on their farm in North Fork, … - Albert Desalvo
Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, 1931 - November 25, 1973) was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts, United States who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area. His confession has been disputed. - 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. - Carl Panzram
Carl Panzram (June 28, 1891 - September 5, 1930) was an American serial killer. - Arthur Shawcross
Arthur Shawcross (born June 6, 1945) is an American serial killer, also known as The Genesee River Killer. He claimed most of his victims after being paroled early following a conviction for murdering a child, which led to criticism of the justice system. Early Life of Arthur Shawcross He was born in Maine, but the family moved to Watertown in New York State when he was young. Shawcross dropped out of school in the ninth grade, and when he was 19 he enlisted in the army. - Ted Levine
Ted Levine (born May 29, 1957) is an American actor perhaps best known for playing the serial killer Buffalo Bill in the 1991 blockbuster thriller "The Silence of the Lambs". - Coral Eugene Watts
Carl "Coral" Eugene Watts (born November 7, 1953) is an African American serial killer. He managed to obtain immunity for a dozen murders as a result of a plea bargain with prosecutors in 1982; at one point it appeared that he could be released in 2006 despite possibly having committed as many as 80 murders. However, he is now serving a life sentence. - Ottis Toole
Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5 1947 - September 15, 1996) (sometimes spelled Otis) was an American criminal. Though he claimed to be a serial killer and cannibal, and was the suspect in several unsolved murders, he recanted and restated a number of confessions. Toole was twice convicted of murder, and confessed to four more murder charges before dying in prison. He was perhaps best-known as a suspect in the murder of Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh, … - Ivan Milat
Ivan Robert Marko Milat (born December 27, 1944 in Guildford) is a Croatian-Australian serial killer who murdered several tourists and hitchhikers in the 1980s and 1990s. The killings were dubbed the backpacker murders by the press at the time. Ivan Milat is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of seven hitchhikers, several of whom were international backpackers. Ivan Milat had been acquitted on rape charges in 1971. - John Allen Muhammad
John Allen Muhammad (b. December 31, 1960) is an American serial killer. With his younger partner Lee Boyd Malvo, he carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing 10 people. This was an apparent attempt to extort $10 million. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24, 2002, following tips from alert citizens. His trial for one of the murders (the murder of Dean Harold Meyers in Prince William County, …
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