- Charles Milles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American convict and career criminal, most known for his participation in the Tate-LaBianca murders of the late 1960s. Manson had spent most of his adult life in prison, initially for offenses such as car theft, forgery and credit card fraud. He also worked some time as a pimp. - Zacarias Moussaoui
Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen of Moroccan descent who was convicted of conspiring to kill Americans as part of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. As a result of his conviction, he is serving a life sentence at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. - Susan Atkins
Susan Denise Atkins (born May 7, 1948) is an American murderer who has been imprisoned in the State of California in punishment for her conviction along with Charles Manson and several others for a series of murders often called the "Manson murders", among which the most notorious are the "Tate/LaBianca" murders. In the space of five weeks in the summer of 1969, nine people were murdered at four locations. She was convicted of involvement in eight of these killings. - Terry Nichols
Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is a U.S. Army veteran who was convicted of being an accomplice of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, April 19, 1995), which claimed 168 lives. Nichols was convicted of eight counts of manslaughter in a United States District Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment in ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. - Jonathan Pollard
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7 1954 in South Bend, Indiana) is a convicted Israeli spy and a former United States Naval civilian intelligence analyst. Pollard waived the right to trial in return for restrictions on sentencing, pleaded guilty and was convicted on one count of spying for Israel, receiving a life sentence in 1986 with a recommendation against parole. Israel publicly denied that Pollard was an Israeli spy until 1998, … - Kenny Kimes
Kenny Kimes (born March 31, 1975) is an American con artist serving a life sentence for murder. Born Kennedy Kimes, Jr., the son of an alcoholic motel tycoon and Sante Kimes, who from childhood had a long history of shoplifting, petty theft, forgery, embezzlement, arson, and insurance fraud, Kimes was groomed for a life of crime by his mother when her son from an earlier marriage, Kent Walker, refused to continue to cooperate with her illegal schemes. - Omar Abdel-Rahman
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman is a blind Egyptian Muslim cleric who is currently serving a life sentence at the Federal Administrative Maximum Penitentiary hospital in Florence, Colorado, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of "Seditious Conspiracy," which requires only that a crime be planned, not that it necessarily be attempted. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. - Ramzi Yousef
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef or Ramzi Mohammed Yousef, birth name possibly Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim and also known by dozens of aliases, is a Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent who was one of the planners of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was arrested at an al-Qaeda safe house in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1995 and was extradited to the United States. - Sante Kimes
Sante Kimes (born July 24 1934) is an American woman infamous for the murder of Irene Silverman, an 82-year-old New York City socialite. She also was convicted of killing David Kazdin in early 1998, a business associate of her husband, in California. Born Sante Louise Singhrs in Oklahoma City, possibly to a Dutch mother and East Indian father (she reinvented herself so often even her children were unsure of the facts), … - Yigal Amir
Yigal Amir (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. The assassination took place November 4, 1995 at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv. Amir is currently serving a life sentence for murder plus 14 years for conspiracy to murder Yitzhak Rabin on different occasions and for injuring Rabin's bodyguard, Yoram Rubin. - Carlos The Jackal
Vladimir Ilich Ramírez Sánchez is a Venezuelan-born self-proclaimed leftist revolutionary and mercenary. He was given the "nom de guerre" Carlos the Jackal when he became a member of the leftist Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). After several bungled bombings, Ramírez Sánchez obtained notoriety for a 1975 raid on the OPEC headquarters, resulting in the deaths of three people. - Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for murdering two FBI Agents who died during a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There has been considerable debate over Peltier’s guilt and the fairness of his trial. Some supporters and organizations, including Amnesty International, consider him to be a political prisoner. - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook April 24, 1954) is an African-American journalist, political activist, and former militant leader from Philadelphia. An early member of the Black Panther Party, Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner. Originally sentenced to death, Abu-Jamal's sentence, but not his conviction, was overturned in December 2001 by Judge William H. Yohn, Jr. - Andrew Luster
Andrew Stuart Luster (b. December 15, 1963) is an heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune who was convicted of a series of rapes in 2003. Luster is the great-grandson of cosmetics giant Max Factor. He had spent much of his life living off a $3.1 million trust fund as he traveled and surfed at various beaches. In 1996, 1997 and 2000 Luster gave three women GHB, a known date rape drug, and raped them while they were unconscious. Luster was brought to trial in 2002. - 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. - 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, … - 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. - 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. - Lee Boyd Malvo
Lee Boyd Malvo (alias John Lee Malvo or Malik Malvo) (born February 18, 1985), is an American serial killer. He, along with John Allen Muhammed, was arrested on October 24, 2002 in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks. A jury in Virginia convicted Malvo of capital murder on December 18, 2003, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on March 10, 2004. He has since pleaded guilty to six additional murders in Maryland, … - Eric Robert Rudolph
Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American anti-abortion and anti-gay extremist and domestic terrorist who committed a series of bombings across the southern United States, which killed three people and injured at least 150 others. He declared that his bombings were part of a guerrilla campaign against abortion, … - Abdul Majid
Abdul Majid, also known as Anthony LaBorde, was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. Majid was convicted of the murder of New York City police officer John Scarangella, and the attempted murder of Scarangella's partner, Officer Richard Rainey. Officer Scarangella was murdered on 16 April 1981, after he and his partner pulled over a van carrying Majid and Bashir Hameed. - Abimael Guzmán
Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, also known by the nom de guerre Presidente Gonzalo, a former professor of philosophy, was the leader of the Shining Path during the Maoist insurgency known as the internal conflict in Peru. Shining Path has been active in Peru since the late 1970s and began what it calls "the armed struggle" on 17 March 1980. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Robert Black
Robert Black (born April 21, 1947) is a serial killer and child molester from Scotland. He kidnapped, raped and murdered three girls during the 1980s, kidnapped a fourth girl who survived, attempted to kidnap a fifth, and is suspected of a number of unsolved child murders dating back to the 1970s throughout Europe. - Diane Zamora
Diane Michelle Zamora (born January 21, 1978), is a former US Navy midshipman who is serving a life sentence for her role in the December 3, 1995 murder of Adrianne Jones, a woman Zamora believed was a romantic rival to her boyfriend, David Graham. - Pamela Smart
Pamela Ann Smart (née Wojas, is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and witness tampering in New Hampshire. Smart was convicted for conspiring with her 16-year-old lover and his three friends to kill her 24-year-old husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry, New Hampshire. She was convicted in March 1991, largely as a result of the testimony of her conspirators and secretly-taped conversations with them. - Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes (born 1965) is a convicted child murderer. - Paul Kenneth Bernardo
Paul Kenneth Bernardo, (he later assumed the name Paul Teale) (born August 27, 1964 in Scarborough, Ontario), is a Canadian serial killer, known for the murders he committed with his wife Karla Homolka. - 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. - Salvatore Riina
Salvatore Riina, also known as Totò Riina is a member of the Sicilian Mafia who became the most powerful member of the criminal organisation in the early 1980s. Fellow mobsters nicknamed him The Beast due to his violent nature, or sometimes The Short One due to his diminutive height ("La Belva" and "U curtu" in Sicilian respectively) although apparently they never called him these nicknames to his face. - Leslie van Houten
Leslie Louise Van Houten (born August 23 1949 in Altadena, California, USA) is a former member of the Charles Manson "Family" who was convicted of the murders of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca. Van Houten was described by the prosecution as an indulged child who had a happy childhood. However, when she was 14 years old, her parents divorced and she began to experiment with LSD. Before she turned 17 she became pregnant and had an abortion. - Joel Rifkin
Joel David Rifkin (born January 20, 1959) is an American serial killer who murdered 18 women, mostly drug addicts or prostitutes, between 1989 and 1993 in New York City. Although Rifkin often hired prostitutes in Brooklyn and Manhattan, he lived in East Meadow, a suburban town on Long Island. During his trial, Rifkin was represented by Mineola-based attorney John Lawrence. - 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, … - Aaron McKinney
Along with Russell Henderson, Aaron McKinney was one of the two attackers and murderers of Matthew Shepard on the night of October 6-7, 1998. Faced with the possibility of death by lethal injection, a deal was reached with the state in which McKinney would serve two consecutive life sentences. McKinney contends that he did not kill Matthew Shepard because of his homosexuality, but instead picked him out because he thought he would be an easy target due to his small build. - Russell Henderson
Along with Aaron McKinney, Russell Henderson was one of the two attackers and murderers of Matthew Shepard on the night of October 6-7, 1998. He is currently serving a sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole. - Lynette Fromme
Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is a former member of Charles Manson's "Family", convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. The nickname "Squeaky" was reportedly given to her by Charles Manson in reference to the squeak noise she'd make when George Spahn would playfully grab her leg at their Spahn Ranch commune. She is serving life in prison.
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