Serial Killers With Fewer Than 15 Proven Victims
This part of the list contains all serial killers with less than 15 proven victims that acted alone and were neither medical professionals nor contract killers.
| Name | Country | Years active | Proven victims* | Possible victims | Miscellaneous information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vampire of Silesia | Poland | 1964 to 1970 | 14 | 21+ | Killed 14 women in 1964–1970 in Poland's region of Upper Silesia. Zdzisław Marchwicki (executed in 1977) was most likely the man responsible for the killings; however, his guilt remains in dispute. |
| Arthur Shawcross | United States | 1972 to 1989 | 14 | 14 | After being arrested in 1972 for the rape and murder of two children, he was able to plead down to a sentence for manslaughter. After 14½ years of incarceration, he began targeting prostitutes. Strangled and battered his victims. Known as the "Genesee River Killer", "Genesee River Strangler", "Rochester Strangler", and "Monster of the Rivers". |
| Cleveland Torso Murderer | United States | 1934 to 1938 | 13 | 40+ | Unidentified serial killer, also known as The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, who targeted drifters and derelicts, of whom only two were identified, between 1934 and 1938 in Cleveland, Ohio. |
| Kaspars Petrovs | Latvia | 2003 | 13 | 38+ | Confessed to strangling 38 elderly residents of Riga, Latvia, in 2003. Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the robbery and murder of 13. |
| Richard Ramirez | United States | 1984 to 1985 | 13 | 20 | Killed 13 people between June 28, 1984, and August 24, 1985, in Los Angeles. Known as the "Night Stalker". |
| Peter Sutcliffe | United Kingdom | 1975 to 1980 | 13 | 15 | Killed 13 women between October 30, 1975, and November 17, 1980, mainly in Yorkshire. Was known as the "Yorkshire Ripper". |
| Herbert Mullin | United States | 1972 to 1973 | 13 | 13 | Despite detailed confessions, prosecutors decided not to try him for the first three crimes, instead focusing on crimes that conflicted with his insanity plea. |
| Boston Strangler | United States | 1962 to 1964 | 13 | Although Albert DeSalvo was widely thought to be the Boston Strangler, police and others analysing the case have long doubted the truth of his confession. | |
| Vasiliy Kulik | Soviet Union | 1984 to 1986 | 13 | Known as the Irkutsk Monster. | |
| Thozamile Taki | South Africa | 2007 | 13 | Known as the "Sugar cane serial killer". | |
| William Suff | United States | 1986to 1992 | 12 | 22 | County store clerk who raped, stabbed, strangled, and sometimes mutilated 12 or more prostitutes in Riverside County. Known as the "Riverside Prostitute Killer" and the "Lake Elsinore Killer". |
| Maury Travis | United States | 2000 to 2002 | 12 | 17 | Killed prostitutes in the St. Louis area from 2000 to 2002. Caught when he mailed an Expedia.com map showing where to find a body to a St. Louis newspaper. Committed suicide in prison. |
| Kenneth Alessio Bianchi | United States | 1977 to 1978 | 12 | 15 | Convicted of strangling twelve females between ages 12 and 28 and suspected in another three cases. One of the "Hillside Stranglers". |
| Herb Baumeister | United States | 1990 to 1996 | 11–16 | 25+ | Strangled gay men and buried their bodies in his backyard in Indiana and Ohio; 11 men were found in the yard but only 5 were identified. Committed suicide when faced with arrest. |
| Sergey Golovkin | Soviet Union/ Russia | 1986 to 1992 | 11 | 40+ | |
| Jack Unterweger | Austria, United States, Czech Republic | 1974 to 1992 | 11 | 15 | Served 14 years in Austrian prison because of a murder in 1974; killed at least 9 prostitutes after his release. Was a small media star in Austrian media in the early 1990s and was arrested in the United States, where he may have killed another 3 prostitutes, on behalf of Austrian police. Hanged himself in 1994 after being sentenced to life in prison. |
| Benjamin Atkins | United States | 11 | 11 | Raped and strangled his victims before abandoning their bodies in vacant buildings. | |
| John Justin Bunting | Australia | 1992 to 1999 | 11 | 11 | Ringleader in the Snowtown murders (aka Bodies in the Barrels Murders); sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. |
| Nannie Doss | United States | 1927 and 1954 | 11 | 11 | Responsible for 11 deaths between 1927 and 1954. Known as the "Giggling Nanny", the "Giggling Granny", and the "Jolly Black Widow". |
| Clifford Olson | Canada | 1980 to 1981 | 11 | 11 | Considered a dangerous offender, meaning that Olson may never be released from prison. Has had three parole applications rejected. Died September 30, 2011 |
| Martin Lecián | Czech Republic | 1927 | 11 | 11 | Responsible for killing 10 policemen and 1 prison officer. Executed in 1927. |
| Henri Désiré Landru | France | 1914 to 1918 | 11 | Unknown | Active 1914–1918. Beheaded. |
| Anthony Sowell | United States | 11 | Unknown | ||
| Francisco Garcia Escalero | Spain | 1987 to 1994 | 11 | ||
| Edmund Kemper | United States | 1964 to 1973 | 10 | 10 | A victim of Herbert Mullin was attributed to him originally. |
| Dennis Rader | United States | 1974 to 2004 | 10 | 10 | Known as the BTK Killer. Murdered ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. |
| Lonnie David Franklin, Jr. | United States | 1985 to 2007 | 10 | 11 | Known as the Grim Sleeper for the alleged 14 year hiatus he took from murdering between 1988 and 2002. Shot and strangled his victims, mostly women, around South Los Angeles. |
| Robert Joe Wagner | Australia | 1992 to 1999 | 10 | 10 | Secondary ringleader in the Snowtown murders and best friend of John Justin Bunting; sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. |
| Henry Louis Wallace | United States | 10 | 10 | Confessed to 10 murders in Charlotte, North Carolina, between 1990 and 1994. | |
| Angelo Buono | United States | 10 | 10 | Convicted of strangling ten females. One of the "Hillside Stranglers". | |
| Charlene Gallego | United States | 10 | 10 | Killed ten victims in Sacramento, California, between 1978 and 1980 together with her husband, Gerald Gallego. | |
| David Randitsheni | South Africa | 2004 to 2008 | 10 | 10+ | Kidnapped 19 people, raped 17, and murdered 10 from 2004 to 2008. Sentenced to 16 consecutive life sentences plus 220 years in prison; hanged himself three weeks after conviction. |
| Peter Kürten | Germany | 9 | 79 | Charged with nine murders and seven attempted murders. Dubbed "The Vampire of Düsseldorf" by the contemporary media. Executed by guillotine in 1931 (age 48). | |
| Francis Heaulme | France | 1984 to 1992 | 9 | 20 | |
| Dagmar Overbye | Denmark | 1913 to 1920 | 9 | 15 | She murdered between 9 and 25 children – of which one was her own – during a seven-year period. On March 3, 1921, she was sentenced to death in one of the most talked about trials in Danish history, that changed legislation on childcare. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison. Overbye was working as a professional child caretaker, caring for babies born outside of marriage, murdering her own charges. She strangled them, drowned them or burned them to death in her masonry heater. The corpses were either cremated, buried or hidden in the loft. |
| Ondrej Rigo | Slovakia | 9 | 9 | Slovak serial killer and necrophile, who committed his murders during the early 1990s in Slovakia, Germany and Netherlands. He was arrested in 1992 and received a life sentence in 1994. He remains the murderer with the biggest number of victims in the modern history of Slovakia. | |
| Timothy Krajcir | United States | 9 | 9 | Confessed to killing nine women, five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania. | |
| Keith Hunter Jesperson | United States | 1990 to 1995 | 8 | 160 | Dubbed the "Happy Face Killer", Jesperson was convicted of killing 8 women by strangulation. |
| Norman Afzal Simons | South Africa | 1986 to 1994 | 9 | 22 | Station Strangler, convicted of only one of 22 cases of murder and sodomy of young children near Cape Town. |
| Rodney Alcala | United States | 1977-1979 | 8 | 8-100+ | Known as the "Dating Game Killer" for appearing on the game show The Dating Game in the middle of his killing years. Was convicted of at least five murders, though his actual total is estimated to be much higher. Had a locker filled with thousands of photographs of women and children, most in sexually explicit poses, and it is suspected that some of the women photographed may be among Alcala's additional victims. |
| Joseph Paul Franklin | United States | 8–15 | 20 | Confessed to 20 murders and several attempted murders. Still awaiting trial for most of these crimes. | |
| Peter Manuel | United Kingdom | 8 | 18 | A USA-born Scottish burglar and serial killer who is known to have killed eight people across Lanarkshire between 1956 and 1958 but was believed to have killed up to eighteen. Manuel was the third-last prisoner to be hanged in Scotland. | |
| Christopher Wilder | United States | 8 | 13+ | Killed eight women during a spree in April 1984 before accidentally killing himself; suspected in the disappearance and murder of more than 5 more. | |
| Kendall Francois | United States | 8 | 9 | From 1996 to 1998, he admitted to killing eight prostitutes in Poughkeepsie, New York, but denies involvement with the disappearance of a ninth prostitute. | |
| Eric Edgar Cooke | Australia | 8 | 8 | Nicknamed "The Night Caller", he terrorized the city of Perth from 1959 to 1963 by assaulting 22 people at random with various means, killing eight of them. Hanged on October 26, 1964. | |
| Gary C. Evans | United States | 1985 to 1998 | 8 | Murdered eight victims. Met and befriended the Son of Sam killer while incarcerated. Released in 1984, proceeded to burgralize and kill while in and out of jails over 13 years. Aided investigators in a high profile murder case before dodging parole and being chased. The manhunt finally ended when he jumped to his death off a bridge. | |
| Michael Bruce Ross | United States | 8 | 8 | Ross confessed to all of the murders, and was convicted of four of them. He was executed by the state of Connecticut on May 13, 2005 by lethal injection, making it the first execution in Connecticut and the whole of New England since 1960. | |
| Marybeth Tinning | United States | 8 | 8 | She suffocated eight of her nine children during the 1970s. One daughter died of natural causes shortly after birth, the first of the Tinning children to die. | |
| Sean Vincent Gillis | United States | 1994 to 2004 | 8 | Gillis kidnapped, raped, and mutilated the corpses of his victims. Between 1994 and 2003, he was killing Louisiana women at the same time as Derrick Todd Lee, though neither the public nor law enforcement were aware that there was a possible serial killer on the loose. In the end, tire tracks – from a unique brand of tire – at the scene where Donna Bennett Johnston were found ended his career as a serial killer. He was arrested without incident at home on April 29, 2004 and currently resides in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola serving life in prison without the possibility of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. In August 2008, in the penalty phase of his first-degree murder trial, the jury was deadlocked over whether to sentence him to death or life for his crimes. The deadlock meant he was given an automatic life sentence. It was, however, a death sentence of sorts since Louisiana is the only state that does not have parole for lifers; Gillis will die in prison. He was so good at hiding his secret life and covering his tracks, his live-in girlfriend of 8 years, Terri Lemoine had no idea of what Gillis was doing until the day police came to arrest him. | |
| Ivan Milat | Australia | 1990s | 7 | 23–37 | Convicted of the Backpacker murders; sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences plus 18 years without the possibility of parole. May have had accomplices. |
| Michael Wayne McGray | Canada | 1980s-2010s | 7 | 18 | Convicted of the murder of 6 people in the late 1990s, including a woman and her 11 year old daughter. Claims to have killed 11 others. In 2010, killed a cellmate. |
| Derrick Todd Lee | United States | 7 | 10 | Known as the "Baton Rouge or South Louisiana Serial Killer" convicted of three murders, sentenced to death by lethal injection. Believed to have murdered several other women in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. | |
| Doug Clark | United States | 7 | 8+ | Boiler operator who killed prostitutes in Los Angeles during 1980. One of the "Sunset Strip Killers". | |
| Václav Mrázek | Czech Republic | 1951–1956 | 7 | 7 | He killed 7 women in Chomutov. Executed in 1957. |
| Paul Dennis Reid | United States | 1997 | 7 | 7 | Reid killed the employees of restaurants he targeted for a series of robberies. |
| John Wayne Glover | Australia | 6 | 13 | British ex-pat living in Australia. Known by the media as "The Granny Killer" as he targeted elderly women; committed suicide in 2005. | |
| Aileen Carol Wuornos | United States | 1989 to 1990 | 6 | 8+ | Killed strangers, all men, along Florida highways over 13 months while working as a prostitute. |
| Jack the Stripper | United Kingdom | 1964 to 1965 | 6 | 8 | Murdered at least six prostitutes in London and may have been responsible for the deaths of two others before that. Remains unidentified. |
| James Miller | Australia | 6 | 7 | Sentenced to six consecutive terms of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 35 years. Died of cancer in 2008. | |
| Giovanna Bonanno | Italy | 17th century | 6 | 6+ | |
| Richard Trenton Chase | United States | 6 | 6 | The "Vampire of Sacramento", he was convicted of six murders. In addition to killing his victims, he often raped the women's bodies and drank their blood, or took their organs home and ate them. | |
| David Berkowitz | United States | 6 | 6 | The "Son of Sam", he would shoot couples in their cars, killing six and wounding seven. | |
| Aleksandr Rubel | Estonia | 6 | 6 | He was intoxicated on gasoline vapour during his murders. Sentenced as a minor to the maximum punishment allowed by law — eight years imprisonment — he was released on 8 June 2006. | |
| András Pándy | Belgium | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002. | |
| Dayton Leroy Rogers | United States | 1983–1987 | 6 | 6 | Killed street women, usually addicts, prostitutes and runaways where he would tie them, rape and kill them in a forest. |
| Carl Panzram | United States | 1915 to 1929 | 5 | 22 | From 1920 to 1928, he claimed in a posthumous autobiography to have committed over 22 killings, and sodomy of more than 1,000 young men. Hanged on September 5, 1930. |
| Thomas Dillon | United States | 1950 to 2011 | 5 | 5 | Shot and killed five men in southeastern Ohio, beginning April 1, 1989 and continuing until April 1992. |
| Richard Cottingham | United States | 1977 to 1980 | 5 | 85–100 | Killer operating in New York and New Jersey who often targeted prostitutes and utilized mutilation as well as dismemberment in his killings. Known as the "Torso Killer", convicted of five murders. He made claims of victim count as up to a hundred, however, there was no evidence to support this and is considered unsubstantiated. |
| Joe Ball | United States | 5 | 5–20 | Bootlegger who is said to have been responsible for up to 20 deaths in South Texas between 1936 and 1938. Known as the "Alligator Man", the "Butcher of Elmendorf" and the "Bluebeard of South Texas". | |
| John Floyd Thomas | United States | 5 | 17–25 | Murderer and serial killer suspect. | |
| Hubert Pilčík | Czech Republic | 1948–1951 | 5 | 10+ | Serial killer who after World War II started smuggling people across the border from Czechoslovakia into Germany, but he killed most of his customers. |
| William Patrick Fyfe | Canada | 5 | 9 | Convicted of killing five women in the Montreal area of Quebec, although he claims to have killed four others. Serving a life sentence in West Canada. | |
| David Maust | United States | 5 | 9 | Killed teenage boys; caught when bodies of three boys were found in the concrete floor of his basement in Hammond, Indiana. Committed suicide in prison in 2006. | |
| Danny Rolling | United States | 5 | 8 | Known as the "Gainesville Ripper"; murdered five students in August 1990. Executed on October 6, 2006. Shortly before his execution, he gave a handwritten confession to authorities for a triple homicide of an elderly man, his adult daughter, and young grandson that occurred years earlier in Rolling's hometown of Shreveport, LA. Although Rolling was never officially charged or extradicted to LA to stand trial for the "Grissom Murders", Shreveport Police had confirmed even before the confession that Rolling had long been considered the lone suspect and the case was closed. | |
| Joseph E. Duncan III | United States | 1996 to 2005 | 5 | 7 | Convicted of killing a California boy in 1997 and 4 members of an Idaho family in 2005. Confessed to two 1996 murders in Washington state, but has not been formally charged. Currently on U.S. federal death row. |
| Vincent Johnson | United States | 5 | 6 | The Brooklyn Strangler. | |
| Steve Wright | United Kingdom | 5 | 5–22 | Referred to as "Suffolk murders", "Ipswich murders", "Ipswich Ripper", "Suffolk Ripper", "Suffolk Strangler", "East Anglia Ripper", "Red Light Ripper" and "the Suffolkator". Murdered five prostitutes, all of whom worked in Ipswich in 2006. There are possible links to previous Suffolk prostitute killings. | |
| Ian Brady and Myra Hindley | United Kingdom | 5 | 5+ | The "Moors Murderers". Abducted children in northern England. They were found guilty of two and three murders respectively. | |
| William MacDonald | Australia | 5 | 5 | Murdered derelicts in Sydney and Brisbane between 1960 and 1962; sentenced to five consecutive life sentences. | |
| Marc Dutroux | Belgium | 5 | 5 | Serial killer convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 and 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered; also tortured and murdered his accomplice, Bernard Weinstein. | |
| Andrew Cunanan | United States | 5 | 5 | Murdered five people including Gianni Versace between April 1997 and July 1997 ending with his suicide. | |
| Harry Powers | United States | 5 | 2 | Lonely hearts swindler and conman. Killed two women and three children in Quiet Dell, West Virginia. Arrested 1931 after bodies of victims found buried near his garage. Hanged March 28, 1932. | |
| Jack The Ripper | United Kingdom | 1891 | 5 | ? | Notorious serial killer who murdered prostitutes in Victorian London. He was never apprehended, nor formerly identified. Despite having fewer confirmed victims then many other serial killers, his enduring anonymity and the unusually gruesome manner in which he mutilated the bodies of his victims has held the public imagination and made him one of the world's most infamous serial killers. Even more than a century after the fact, there is still lively speculation about his true identity and attempts to deduce it by both amateur and professional investigators. Theories about his possible identity range from poor working class suspects to a member of the British Royal Family. Since the end of his spree, many following serial killers around the world have been nicknamed "Ripper." |
| Leonard Fraser | Australia | 4 | 7 | Serial rapist and pedophile who murdered four women in Rockhampton between 1998–1999. Sentenced to five consecutive life sentences plus 25 years without the possibility of parole; died in prison of a heart attack on January 1, 2007. | |
| Jozef Slovák | Slovakia | 4 | 4+ | A Slovak serial killer active in Czechoslovakia from 1978 to 1991. He was suspected by investigators of more murders, but only four could be proven. | |
| Caroline Grills | Australia | 4 | 4 | Poisoned four people (most of them relatives) with thallium hidden in tea and scones she had given them in Sydney between 1947 and 1953. Sentenced to five consecutive life sentences (including one for attempting to poison another family member); died from peritonitis on October 6, 1960. | |
| Arnold Sodeman | Australia | 4 | 4 | The "Schoolgirl Strangler", hanged in 1936. | |
| Gordon Cummins | United Kingdom | 4 | 4 | Active 1942. Raped three of his victims and robbed the remaining one. Also attacked two other women. Sentenced to death by hanging. | |
| Marc Sappington | United States | 4 | 4 | Schizophrenic serial killer who heard voices telling him to kill after extended daily PCP use. He cannibalized part of his last victim. | |
| James Vlassakis | Australia | 4 | 4 | Snowtown murderer and stepson of John Justin Bunting; sentenced to four consecutive life sentences with a non-parole period of 26 years. | |
| Peter Woodcock | Canada | 4 | 4 | Sexual sadist and child rapist. Killed three young children in Toronto in the 1950s. Sentenced to a psychiatric facility, where he murdered a fellow inmate in 1991. | |
| Lam Kor-wan | Hong Kong | 4 | 4 | Taxi driver and one of Hong Kong's only serial killers. Famous for keeping body parts in his parents' home. | |
| Kathleen Folbigg | Australia | 4 | 4 | Mother convicted of murdering her three infant children and the manslaughter of a fourth child between 1991 and 1999. Sentenced to 30 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 25 years. | |
| Jerry Brudos | United States | 4 | 4 | Electronics technician who bludgeoned and strangled four young women between 1968 and 1969 dressed up in women's clothing. Known as the "Lust Killer" and "Shoe Fetish Slayer". | |
| Miguel Rivera | United States | 4 | 4 | Stabbed young boys and cut off their genitals in attempt to transform them into girls in East Harlem and on the Upper West Side of New York between March 1972 and August 1973. Known as "Charlie Chop-Off". | |
| Tsutomu Miyazaki | Japan | 4 | 4 | Mutilated and killed four girls, aged between four and seven, and sexually molested their corpses. He drank the blood of one victim and ate her hands. | |
| Gordon Northcott | United States | 3 | 17 | 1928 murderer with his mother in the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. | |
| Stephen Griffiths | United Kingdom | 3 | 14 | Known to have killed 3 prostitutes, but claims to have killed 14 to beat "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe. Dubbed himself the "Crossbow Cannibal" as he killed his victims with a hammer and crossbow and then later ate parts of them. | |
| Peter Tobin | United Kingdom | 3 | 13+ | Scottish rapist and serial killer known to have killed at least three young women between 1991 and 2006. Currently a suspect in the Bible John murders, committed in Glasgow during the late 1960s. | |
| Koos Hertogs | Netherlands | 3 | 12 | Dutch serial killer convicted of abducting, torturing, raping and killing three girls between 1979 and 1980. Suspected of killing a further 3 to 9 girls and young women in the 1970s. | |
| Dorothea Montalvo Puente | United States | 3 | 9–25 | Ran a boarding house in Sacramento where she poisoned tenants and buried them in the yard in order to steal their social security checks. | |
| Theodore Kaczynski | United States | 3 | 8 | Also known as the Unabomber, Kaczynski lived isolated in Montana before his arrest in 1998, sending mail bombs and reactive bombs all over the country to anyone who had a pro-technological stance. Federal authorities were informed of Kaczynski's possible involvement by his brother when he recognized the writing of the Unabomber Manifesto in the New York Times. | |
| Michael Gargiulo | United States | 3 | 6 | Dubbed the "Chiller Killer" and AKA the "Hollywood Ripper" whose killing spree spanned from 1993–2000 in Chicago and 2001–2008 in Santa Monica, CA and Los Angeles, CA area. Notable for killing Ashton Kutcher's former girlfriend Ashley Ellerin | |
| Peter Dupas | Australia | 3 | 6 | Sexual sadist from Melbourne, who murdered three women and is suspected of at least three further killings. Was convicted of 16 separate acts of sexual violence before his first murder charge. Is serving three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. | |
| Paul Kenneth Bernardo | Canada | 3 | 5 | The "Scarborough Rapist" later gained national infamy when he moved into torturing and killing teenage girls, assisted by his wife, Karla Homolka. | |
| Paul Denyer | Australia | 3 | 5 | "Frankston Killer", murdered three women in 1993; sentenced to three consecutive life sentences with a non-parole period of 30 years. | |
| Bendali Debs | Australia | 3 | 5 | Convicted of the murder of Kirsty Harty at Upper Beaconsfield in 1997, and of the Moorabbin Police murders 14 months later to avoid arrest for a string of armed robberies; sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 27 years without the possibility of parole. | |
| Westley Allan Dodd | United States | 3 | 3+ | Dodd had an extensive arrest record for molesting children by the time his behavior escalated to include murder. Refusing to appeal his death sentence, he stated that he "should be punished to the full extent of the law, as should all sex offenders and murderers", and that if he ever escaped, he would immediately return to "killing and raping kids". Executed in 1993; his hanging was the first in the United States in 28 years. | |
| Robert Napper | United Kingdom | 3 | 3 | Rapist and murderer who mutilated one of his victims so badly that the policeman who found her was put into therapy for two years. | |
| Charles Albright | United States | 3 | 3 | The trophies this seemingly well-adjusted former teacher took from his victims led the press to dub him the "Texas Eyeball Killer". | |
| Bible John | United Kingdom | 3 | 3 | Unidentified strangler and rapist of young women active in Glasgow between 1968 and 1969. | |
| Leonarda Cianciulli | Italy | 1940 | 3 | Killed three women and turned them into soap and biscuits; also known as The Soapymaker of Correggio. | |
| William Heirens | United States | 3 | 3 | Burglar who stabbed three females between 1945 and 1946. Known as the "Lipstick Killer". | |
| John Joubert | United States | 3 | 3 | "The Nebraska Boy Snatcher", Joubert was enlisted in Air Force when he was arrested for the murders of two children. Later linked to another killing previous to his military service, of an 11-year-old boy in Maine. Joubert's criminal behavior began at the age of 13, with a series of random attacks on strangers that went unsolved until his arrest in Nebraska. | |
| Altemio Sanchez | United States | 3 | 3 | Known as the Bike Path Rapist for murdering three women and raping at least 14 others in and around the Buffalo, New York area over a span of 25 years (1981–2006). Sentenced to 75 years in prison without the possibility of parole. | |
| Karl F. Warner | United States | 3 | 3 | Convicted of murdering three teenage girls, in two separate incidents (between 1969–1971), in the San Francisco Bay Area communities of San Jose and Saratoga, he was briefly suspected of being the notorious Zodiac Killer, but was soon ruled out as a suspect in that case. | |
| Eddie Leonski | Australia | 3 | 3 | Confessed to three murders after being picked out of a line of American servicemen by witnesses. Was sentenced to death, and hanged in 1942. | |
| Raman Raghav | India | 1966-68 | 2 | 23+ | Psychopathic serial killer who killed slum dwellers by bludgeoning them when they were asleep. Was charged with 2 murders and sentenced to death, which was later reduced to life in prison. |
| Ed Gein | United States | 2 | 8 | Famous for his necrophiliac behaviours, as well as using/storing body parts of his victims to make household furniture, clothing and other miscellaneous household items. | |
| Gary M. Heidnik | United States | 1986-87 | 2 | Kidnapped, tortured, raped and imprisoned six women in his Philadelphia, Pennsylvania basement, killing two. | |
| Shirley Winters | United States | 2 | 7 | Confessed in 2008 to killing 2 children (including her 5-month old son), 27 years apart. Plea agreement for those murders included clause stopping investigation of her role in a fire that killed 2 previous children in 1979. Is also a suspect in a separate fire that killed 3 children of a friend in 1979. | |
| Billy Gohl | United States | 2–40 | 140+ | Between 1901 and 1913 alleged to have killed from 40 to 140 seamen in Aberdeen, Washington | |
| Glen Rogers | United States | 2 | 5 | His capture in Kentucky ended a nationwide manhunt that began with the "Cross-Country Killer's" crime spree that stretched from coast to coast and left four women and one man from five different states dead. Rogers was convicted and sentenced to death by electric chair in Florida on July 11, 1997 for the stabbing death of Tina Marie Cribbs. He was later convicted and given a second death penalty in California for the September 1995 murder of Sandra Gallagher. Also known as the "Casanova Killer", Rogers is the lone suspect in the stabbing deaths of two other women (one in Jackson, Mississippi and another in Bossier City, Louisiana), both of whom—like Cribbs and Gallagher—he'd met and befriended in bars. The earliest homicide Rogers is suspected of is that of an elderly Ohio man, Mark Peters, with whom Rogers had lived for a short time. In 1994, Peters' remains were discovered in a Rogers "family cabin" in Kentucky. | |
| John Norman Collins | United States | 1 | 6 | Convicted of the 1969 murder of Karen Sue Beineman, suspected in the murder of at least five other young women in the vicinity of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. | |
| Sergei Martynov | Russia | 1992-2010 | 1 | 9 | Convicted of raping and murdering a woman in 1992. Currently on trial for killing eight more women during a violent crime spree between 2005 and 2010. |
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