Serial Killer Groups and Couples
| Name | Country | Years active | Proven victims* | Possible victims | Miscellaneous information |
| Delfina & María de Jesús González | Mexico | 1955 to 1964 | 91+ | 91+ | Two sisters who ran a brothel in Mexico, hired numerous prostitutes and murdered at least 80 of them after they were deemed useless during the span of ten years. They also killed 11 men and several fetuses. Probably the work of four of the sisters, sentenced to 40 years in prison. Body count varies due to the combined work of the sisters being impossible to assign to them individually. |
| Susi Olah & Julia Fazekas | Hungary | First World War to 1929 | 0050 !50 | 0300 !300+ | Poisoned their victims in the Tiszaug area. |
| Dean Corll, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley | United States | 1970 to 1973 | 28 | 42+ | Corll was an American serial killer also known as the Candy Man, responsible for the murders of a minimum of 28 teenage boys and young men in Houston between 1970 and 1973. Corll was shot and killed by one of the two teenage accomplices he recruited to assist him in the abductions of the victims on August 8, 1973. This accomplice, Elmer Wayne Henley, informed the police of the trio's murders the same day Corll was murdered. |
| Igor Suprunyuck and Viktor Sayenko | Ukraine | 2007 | 21 | 21 | Also known as the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs. Killed random people over a two month period. Tortured dogs and cats, received lifetime imprisonment. |
| Surender Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher | India | 0019 !19 | 0030 !30+ | Between 2005 and 2006, businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic servant, Surender Koli, kidnapped, raped, murdered, and dismembered 19 people (mostly children). Convicted. | |
| Fred West and Rosemary West | United Kingdom | 1967 to 1987 | 12 | 20 | Mainly targeted young females but were also found guilty of the murder of their own daughter. Also found guilty of raping another daughter. Buried the victims around their house and local area. Shortly before he committed suicide on New Year's Day, 1995, Fred West said there were more victims. |
| Leonard Lake and Charles Ng | United States | 1982 to 1985 | 11 | 25 | Abducted women, used them as sex slaves, and then murdered them, together with any men, women, and children who got in their way. Lake committed suicide upon arrest, but Ng was later convicted of killing 11 people. Between 1982 and 1985, Lake and Ng were believed to have abducted and killed as many as 25 victims, as evidenced by human remains found on Lake's California ranch. |
| Gert van Rooyen and Joey Haarhof | South Africa | 6 | 8 | Their victims were never found; the pair shot dead a police officer and then committed suicide when faced with arrest after the escape of their last kidnap victim. | |
| David and Catherine Birnie | Australia | 4 | 4–8 | Australian couple who raped and murdered four women in their home and attempted to murder a fifth in Perth in 1986. Both were sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole; David Birnie hanged himself in prison on October 7, 2005. | |
| Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck | United States | 1947 to 1949 | 3 | 20 | Known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers", Fernandez and Beck extorted women Fernandez met through lonely hearts advertisements. Both were arrested in Michigan in 1949 for the murders of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter, but Michigan authorities waived prosecution and extradited the pair to New York to face trial for a murder that occurred there because New York had the death penalty while Michigan did not. They were convicted of that murder and executed on March 8, 1951. |
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