|
name |
country |
details |
videos |
Ahmad Suradji |
Indonesia |
Ahmad Suradji (10 January 1949 – 10
July 2008) was a admitted to killing 42 girls and women over a period of
11 years. His victims ranged in age from 11 to 30, and were strangled with
a cable after being buried up to their waists in the ground as part of a
ritual |
Sorceror
from Hell
|
Aileen Wournos |
USA |
Aileen Carol Wuornos (February 29,
1956 – October 9, 2002) killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and
1990. Wuornos claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to
rape her and that all of the
homicides were committed in self-defense. |
Damsel of Death
Monster (movie)
The Real Monster
|
Albert DeSalvo |
USA |
Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3,
1931 – November 25, 1973) was a criminal in Boston,
Massachusetts, who confessed to being the "Boston
Strangler", the murderer of thirteen women in the Boston area. |
The
Boston Strangler
2008 Movie
|
Alexander Pichushchin |
Russia |
Alexander Yuryevich "Sasha"
Pichushkin (born 9 April 1974 in Mytishchi,),
also known as The Chessboard Killer, is believed to have killed at least 49
people and up to 61–63 people in southwest Moscow's Bitsa
Park, where several of the victims' bodies were found. |
The
Chessboard Killer
|
Allan Legere |
Canada |
Allan Legere (born February 13, 1948)
is a serial killer and arsonist, also known as the Monster of
the Miramichi, in reference to a reign of terror he inflicted upon
residents of the Miramichi
River valley of New Brunswick in 1989. |
Monster
of the Miramichi
|
Anatoly Onoprienko |
Ukraine |
Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko (born
July 25, 1959) is a serial killer and mass murderer. After police arrested the
37-year-old former forestry student on April 16, 1996, Onoprienko
confessed to killing 52 people. |
Serial
Killer
The Beast Of Ukraine
|
Andrei Chikatilo |
Russia |
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (16
October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed The
Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper, and The Rostov Ripper,
who committed the sexual assault, murder and mutilation of a minimum of 52
women and children between 1978 and 1990 |
Serial
Killer
|
Arthur Bishop |
USA |
Arthur Gary Bishop (September 29, 1952
– June 10, 1988) was a child molester and serial killer. He confessed to
the murders of five young boys in 1983, as a result of a routine police
investigation. |
Serial
Killer
|
Bobby Joe Long |
|
Bobby Joe Long (born
October 14, 1953), abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered at least 10
women in the Tampa
Bay Area during an eight-month period in 1984. |
America's
Most Savage Serial Killer
|
Beverley Allitt |
UK |
Beverley Gail Allitt (born 4 October
1968) was convicted of murdering four children,
attempting to murder three other children, and causing grievous bodily
harm to a further six children. The crimes were committed over a period of
59 days between February and April 1991 at Grantham
and Kesteven Hospital |
Born
To Kill?
|
Charles Manson |
USA |
Charles Milles Manson (born November
12, 1934) led what became known as the Manson Family, in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy
to commit the murders of Sharon
Tate and Leno
and Rosemary LaBianca carried out by members of the group at his
instruction |
Tom Snyder interview
Journey Into Evil
Helter Skelter
(movie)
|
Danny Rolling |
USA |
Daniel Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954
– October 25, 2006), also known as The Gainesville Ripper, was an
American serial killer who murdered five students in Gainesville,
Florida. Rolling later confessed to raping several of his victims,
committing an additional November 4, 1989 triple homicide in Shreveport,
Louisiana, and attempting to murder his father in May 1990. In total,
Rolling confessed to killing eight people. |
The
Gainesville Ripper
|
David Berkowitz |
USA |
David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard
David Falco; June 1, 1953), also known as the Son of Sam and
the .44 Caliber Killer, was convicted of a series of shooting
attacks that began in the summer of 1976. Perpetrated with a .44
caliber Bulldog revolver, the shootings continued for over a year,
leaving six victims dead and seven others wounded. As the toll mounted,
Berkowitz eluded a massive police manhunt while leaving brazen letters
which promised further murders. |
Son
of Sam
Born to Kill?
|
Dean Corll |
USA |
Dean Arnold Corll
(December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) was a serial
killer who (with two young accomplices named David Brooks and Elmer
Wayne Henley) abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered a minimum of 28
boys in a series of killings spanning from 1970 to 1973 in Houston, Texas. The
crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, came to
light only after Henley fatally shot Corll. |
The
Houston Mass Murders
|
Dennis Lynn Rader |
USA |
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945)
murdered ten people in and around Wichita,
Kansas), between 1974 and 1991. He is known as the BTK killer
(or the BTK strangler). "BTK" stands for "Bind,
Torture, Kill," which was his infamous signature. |
The
BTK Killer
Killers - BTK
|
Dennis Nilsen |
UK |
Dennis Andrew Nilsen (born 23
November 1945), also known as the Muswell Hill Murderer and the Kindly
Killer, committed the murders of 15 young men in London, England,
between 1978 and 1983. |
Born
To Kill?
Muswell Hill
Murderer
|
Donald Gaskins |
USA |
Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins,
Jr. (March 13, 1933 – September 6, 1991) In September 1969, Gaskins
began killing a series of hitchhikers he picked up while driving around
the highways of the American
South. He tortured and mutilated his
victims, while attempting to keep them alive for as long as possible. |
Serial
Killer
|
Edmund Kemper |
USA |
Edmund Emil "Big Ed" Kemper III
(born December 18, 1948),
also known as "The Co-ed Killer" is a serial
killer and necrophile
who was active in California in the early 1970s. He started his criminal
life by murdering his grandparents when he was 15 years old. Kemper later
killed and dismembered six female hitchhikers in the Santa
Cruz area. |
The
Co-Ed Killer
1991 Interview
|
Faryion Wardrip |
USA |
Faryion Edward Wardrip (born 6 Mar
1959) is a serial killer who raped and murdered five women in Wichita
Falls, Texas and the surrounding counties from 1984 to 1986 |
The
Body Hunter
|
Fred West |
UK |
Frederick Walter Stephen West
(29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995), was an English serial killer.
Between 1967 and 1987, he alone, and later, he and his wife Rosemary,
tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at
the couple's homes 25 Midland Road and later 25 Cromwell Street. |
The Unseen Confessions
Fred
and Rose - The West Murders
Born to Kill?
Police interview
|
Fritz Honka |
Germany |
Fritz Friedrich Paul Honka (31 July
1935 – 19 October 1998) killed at least four prostitutes from Hamburg's
red light district, keeping the bodies in his flat. |
German
Serial Killer
|
Gary Ridgway |
USA |
Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18,
1949), a serial killer known as the Green River Killer, was
initially convicted of 48 separate murders and later confessed to nearly
twice that number. He murdered the women and girls in Washington
state during the 1980s and 1990s. |
The
Green River Killer
Interview
|
Gerard Schaefer |
USA |
Gerard John Schaefer (March 25, 1946
– December 3, 1995, Florida). He was
imprisoned in 1973 for murders he committed as a Martin
County, Florida Sheriff's deputy. While he was convicted of two
murders, he was suspected of many others. Schaefer frequently appealed
against his conviction, yet privately boasted of having murdered over 30 women and girls. |
Serial
Killer
|
Glen Rogers |
USA |
Glen Edward Rogers (born July 15,
1962), also known as "The Cross Country Killer" or "The
Casanova Killer," was convicted of a series of murders
and arsons
throughout the United States that began on September 28, 1995. |
The
Casanova Killer
|
Guy Georges |
France |
Guy Georges (born Guy Rampillon,
October 15, 1962, in Vitry-le-François,
France)
is a serial killer, dubbed "The Beast of the Bastille", from
1991 to 1997, he assaulted, tortured, raped and killed seven women in the
neighbourhood of the famed Revolutionary-era Parisian
prison, the Bastille |
The
Beast of Bastille
|
Harold Shipman |
UK |
Harold Fredrick Shipman (14 January
1946 – 13 January 2004) was a doctor and one of the most
prolific serial killers in recorded history with 250+ murders.. Shipman died on 13 January
2004, after hanging himself in his cell at Wakefield
Prison |
Doctor
Death
Born
To Kill? (HQ)
|
Henry Lee Lucas |
USA |
Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936
– March 13, 2001) was convicted of murder in 11 different cases. He had
claimed to have committed a large number of other murders although he later recanted the confessions. |
The Confession Killer
|
H.H. Holmes |
USA |
Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861
– May 7, 1896), better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard
Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the
modern sense of the term. In Chicago
at the time of the 1893
World's Fair, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built
for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location
of many of his murders. |
America's
First Serial Killer
|
Ivan Milat |
Australia |
The Backpacker Murders is a name given
to serial killings that occurred in New
South Wales, Australia
during the 1990s. The bodies of seven missing young people aged 19 to 22
were discovered partly buried in the Belanglo
State Forest |
The
Backpacker Killer
|
Jack Unterweger |
Austria |
Johann "Jack" Unterweger (16
August 1950 – 29 June 1994) murdered prostitutes in several
countries. First convicted of a 1974 murder, he was released in 1990 as an
example of rehabilitation. He became a journalist and minor celebrity, but
within months started killing again. |
Poet
of Death
|
James Hicks |
USA |
James R. Hicks (born 1951)
James
Hicks, 49, confessed to the murders of Jerilyn Towers and Lynn Willette.
Hicks had previously served six years of a 10-year prison sentence for
killing his first wife, 23-year-old Jennie Hicks, |
Serial
Killer
|
Jeffrey Dahmer |
USA |
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21,
1960 – November 28, 1994), known as the Milwaukee Cannibal,
committed the rape, murder and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between
1978 and 1991, with many of his later murders also involving necrophilia
and cannibalism. |
The
Monster Within
Stone Phillips
interview
The Trial
Dahmer (movie)
|
Jerry Brudos |
USA |
Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos
(January 31, 1939 – March 28, 2006) was a serial killer and
necrophiliac, also known as "The Lust Killer" and "The Shoe
Fetish Slayer". Between 1968 and 1969, Brudos bludgeoned and
strangled four young women. The only initial evidence were witness
sightings of a large man dressed in women's clothing. |
The
Lust Killer
|
Joe Ball |
USA |
Joseph D. (Joe) Ball (January 6, 1892
– September 24, 1938) is said to have killed at
least 20 women in the 1930s. His existence was long believed to be
apocryphal, but he is a familiar figure in Texas
folklore. |
Butcher
of Elmendorf
|
Joseph Ture |
USA |
Joseph Ture (February 7 1951) - killed
a mother and her four children |
Serial
Killer
|
John Wayne Gacy |
USA |
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17,
1942 – May 10, 1994),
also known as the Killer Clown, was convicted of the sexual
assault and murder
of a minimum of 33 teenage boys and young men in a series of killings
committed between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago,
Illinois. |
Serial Killer
To Catch A Killer
(movie) |
John Wayne Glover |
Australia |
John Wayne Glover (26 November 1932
– 9 September 2005) was a British-born Australian serial killer,
convicted for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North
Shore. |
The
Granny Killer
|
Joseph E. Duncan III |
USA |
Joseph Edward Duncan III (born
February 25, 1963) is a serial killer and sex offender who is on death row
because of the 2005 kidnappings and murders of
members of the Groene family of Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho. Duncan has confessed but not been charged with the 1996
murder of two girls in Seattle, Washington |
Serial
Killer
|
Keith Jesperson |
Canada |
Keith Hunter Jesperson (born April 6,
1955) is a serial killer known as the "Happy Face Killer" for
the smiley face he drew on his many letters to the media and prosecutors. Jesperson is known to have killed eight women over the course of
five years. |
Serial
Killer
|
Kendall Francois |
USA |
Kendall Francois (born July 26, 1971)
is a serial killer from Poughkeepsie,
New York, convicted of killing eight women, from 1996 to 1998. He is
currently serving life in prison for his crimes. |
Poughkeepsie
Killer
|
Kenneth McDuff |
USA |
Kenneth Allen McDuff (March 21, 1946
– November 17, 1998), also known as The Broomstick Murderer, was an
American serial killer who was suspected of at least 14 murders. |
Free
to Murder Again
|
Leonard Fraser |
Australia |
Leonard John Fraser (27 June 1951 –
1 January 2007), also known as "The Rockhampton Rapist". Before
a life sentence on 7 September 2000 for the abduction, rape
and murder of a 9-year-old girl, Leonard Fraser had spent almost 20 of the preceding 22
years behind bars for the rape of other women. He was subsequently charged
with four murders
|
The
Predator
|
Levi Bellfield |
UK |
Levi Bellfield (born 17 May 1968), a
former nightclub bouncer and manager of a car clamping business, he was
convicted on 25 February 2008 of murdering Marsha McDonnell and Amelie
Delagrange. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of Kate
Sheedy. On the 23rd of June 2011, Bellfield was found guilty of the murder
of Milly Dowler. |
The Bus Stop Killer
His Name is Evil
|
| Long-Island Killer |
USA |
The Long Island Serial Killer (also
referred to as the Gilgo Killer) is an unidentified suspected
serial killer who is believed to have murdered 10 to 14 people associated
with the sex trade over a period of 15 years and then dumped their bodies
along the Ocean
Parkway |
Bodies
on the Beach
|
Luis Garavito |
Colombia |
Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, (born 25
January 1957 in Génova,
Quindío, Colombia) is a rapist and serial killer. In 1999, he
admitted to the rape and murder of 147 young boys. The number of his
victims could eventually exceed 300. |
The Beast
|
Marc Dutroux |
Belgium |
Marc Dutroux (born 6 November 1956) is
a serial killer and child molester, convicted of having kidnapped,
tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 to 1996, 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. |
Perverted World
|
Michael Ross |
USA |
Michael Bruce Ross (July 26, 1959 –
May 13, 2005). Between 1981 and 1984, Ross murdered eight girls and women
aged between 14 and 25 in Connecticut and New
York. In 2005, he was executed by the state of Connecticut. |
Roadside
Strangler
|
Morris Solomon Jr |
USA |
Morris Solomon Jr
(born March 15, 1944 in Albany, Georgia) is currently on death-row after
being found guilty of the murders of 7 young women. |
Sacramento
Slayer
|
Moses Sithole |
South Africa |
Moses Sithole (born 17 November 1964)
committed the "ABC Murders", so named because they began in Atteridgeville,
continued in Boksburg
and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg.
By 1995, he had claimed over 30 victims, igniting a nationwide panic. |
Serial
Killer
|
Myra Hindley |
UK |
The Moors murders were carried out by
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and
around what is now Greater
Manchester, England. The victims were five children aged between 10
and 17 - at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. |
Born
To Kill? (HQ)
See
No Evil (drama)
|
Ottis Toole |
USA |
Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947 –
September 15, 1996) (sometimes misspelled Otis) was convicted of six
counts of murder and at one time admitted to four more murder charges.
However, he recanted and restated a number of confessions during his time
in prison. |
Jacksonville Cannibal
|
Paul
Bernardo |
Canada |
Paul Kenneth Bernardo (born 27 August
1964), is a serial killer and rapist, known for the sexual assaults and
murders he committed with his wife Karla
Homolka and the serial rapes he committed in Scarborough. |
Ken
and Barbie Killers
|
Paul Durousseau |
USA |
Paul Durousseau (born August 11, 1970)
murdered seven young women in the
southeast United States between 1997 and 2003. German authorities suspect
he may have killed several local women when he was stationed there with
the Army during the early 1990s. Durousseau would gain the
victim’s trust, enter the victim’s home, tie their hands, rape, then
strangle them to death. |
Serial
Killer
|
Peter Dupas |
Australia |
Peter Norris Dupas (born 6 July 1953)
is currently serving three consecutive life sentences for murder. His criminal history spans more than three decades, and with every
release from prison has been known to commit further crimes against women
with increasing levels of violence. His criminal signature is to remove
the breasts of his female victims |
Torture Doctor
|
Peter Sutcliffe |
UK |
Peter William Sutcliffe (born 2
June 1946) is a British serial killer known as "The Yorkshire
Ripper". In 1981 Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women
and attempting to murder seven others. |
Yorkshire
Ripper
Hoax Killer
Manhunt
|
Rex Allen Krebs |
USA |
Rex Allen Krebs (born 28 January 1966)
raped, tortured and killed two young women between 1998 and 1999. |
Serial
Killer
|
| Richard
Trenton Chase |
USA |
Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950
– December 26, 1980) killed six people in a span of a month in Sacramento,
California.
He was nicknamed "The Vampire of Sacramento" because he drank
his victims's blood and cannibalised their remains. |
Born
To Kill?
|
Richard Cottingham |
USA |
Richard Francis Cottingham (born 25
November 1946) is from New
Jersey, operating in New
York between 1967 and 1980. He was nicknamed "the torso
killer" due to his habit of dismembering his victims, usually leaving
nothing but a torso
behind. Officially Cottingham killed six people but he claims between 95
and 100 murders. |
Interview
|
Richard Kuklinski |
USA |
Richard Leonard "The
Iceman" Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was an
American contract killer who worked for Newark's DeCavalcante
crime family and New York City's Five
Families of the American Mafia. Kuklinski claimed to have murdered
over 100, or possibly 250 men (his recollections varied) between 1948 and
1986 |
Iceman
Interviews
|
Richard Ramirez |
USA |
Ricardo Leyva "Richard" Muñoz
Ramírez (February 29, 1960 – June 6, 2013) died while awaiting
execution on California's
death row. His highly publicised home invasion crime spree terrorized the
residents of the greater Los
Angeles area from April 1984 until August 1985. Prior to his capture,
Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" |
Born
To Kill?
Most Shocking Murders
|
Richard Rogers |
USA |
Richard W. Rogers (born 1951)
was convicted of murdering two gay men. Both men had been carefully
dismembered and wrapped in plastic bags. |
Serial
Killer
|
Richard Speck |
USA |
Richard Franklin Speck (December
6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who
systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses from
South Chicago Community Hospital on July 14, 1966. |
The Nurse Killer
|
Robert Black |
UK |
Robert Black (born 21 April 1947) was
convicted of the kidnapping and murder of four girls between the ages of 5
and 11 between 1981 and 1986. He was convicted of
sexually assaulting one of the girls and of raping the other three. Black
was also convicted of the kidnapping of a fifth girl and the attempted
kidnapping of a sixth. |
Robert
Black
|
Robert Hansen |
USA |
Robert Christian Hansen (born February
15, 1939). Between 1980 and 1983, Hansen murdered between 17 and 21 women
near Anchorage,
Alaska. He was convicted in 1983 and is currently serving 461 years. |
Hunting
Humans
|
Robert Lee Yates |
USA |
Robert Lee Yates, Jr. (born May 27,
1952) is from Spokane,
Washington. From 1996 to 1998, Yates is known to have murdered at
least 13 women, all of whom were prostitutes working on Spokane's
"Skid Row". Yates also confessed to two murders committed in Walla
Walla in 1975 and a 1988 murder committed in Skagit
County. |
Smiley Face Killer
|
Robert Pickton |
Canada |
Robert William "Willie" Pickton
(born October 24, 1949) of Port
Coquitlam, British
Columbia, Canada
is a former pig farmer who was convicted in 2007 of the second-degree
murders of six women. He is also charged in the deaths of an additional
twenty women. |
Pig
Farm Killer
|
Robert Rhoades |
USA |
Robert Ben Rhoades
was an es-soldier who became a trucker. His truck was his torture chamber,
and he roamed Southern America looking for female victims who were
hitch-hiking. |
Serial
Killer
|
| Shankill Butchers |
Ireland |
The Shankill Butchers is the name
given to an Ulster
loyalist gang, many of whom were members of the Ulster
Volunteer Force (UVF). The gang conducted paramilitary activities
during the 1970s in Belfast.
It was most notorious for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder
(by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians |
Shankill
Butchers
|
Steve Wright |
UK |
Steven Gerald James Wright (born 24
April 1958) is also known as the Suffolk Strangler.
He is currently serving life for the murder of five women in Ipswich,
Suffolk. |
Suffolk Strangler
|
Ted Bundy |
USA |
Theodore Robert "Ted"
Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell; November 24, 1946 –
January 24, 1989) was a serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile
who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s
and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed
shortly before his execution to 30 homicides committed in seven states
between 1974 and 1978 |
Final Interview
Ted Bundy (movie)
Natural Porn Killer
|
Timothy Krajcir |
USA |
Timothy Wayne Krajcir (born November
28, 1944) is from West
Mahanoy Township, Pennsylvania and has confessed to killing over nine
women, five in Missouri
and four others in Illinois
and Pennsylvania. |
Very Bad Men
|
Timothy
Spencer |
USA |
Timothy Wilson Spencer (March 17, 1962
– April 27, 1994), also known as the "Southside Strangler,"
committed four rape/murders in Richmond,
Virginia in the fall of 1987. Spencer became the first murderer in the
United States to be convicted on the basis of DNA evidence. |
Southside
Strangler
|
Vlado Taneski |
Macedonia |
Vlado Taneski (1952 – June 23, 2008) was
arrested in June 2008 for the murder of two women on whose death he had
also written articles. These articles on the murders had aroused the
suspicion of the police, since they contained information which was not
released to the public. |
Psycho
Killer
|
William
Fyfe |
Canada |
William Patrick Fyfe (born 27
February 1955) was convicted of killing five women in the Montreal
area of Quebec,
although he claims to have killed four others. He allegedly killed his
first victim in 1979 at the age of 24. |
Killer
Handyman
|