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Famous Serial Killers: a List of Serial Killers in History
Web Infoguy List of famous serial killers in the world. The most notorious serial killers are found on this page. This list of murderers is alphabetical by first name and can be sorted by any column. There's UK serial killers and American serial killers here. This list of the most well-known serial killers can be copied to make your very own list of the most famous serial killers in history, should you be so morbidly inclined.
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1947“ Mexico, Egyptian national alleged to be responsible for dozens of murders in Ciudad Juárez
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1962“ Mexico, AKA "The Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico; committed suicide in 1989
„ - 3 1949“ Indonesia, admitted to killing 42 women; sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on July 10, 2008
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1974“ Russia, AKA "The Chessboard Killer"; convicted of 48 murders; confessed to killing 63
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1948“ Canada, AKA "Monster of the Miramichi"; killer of five individuals
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1838“ UK, murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896
„ - 7 1959“ Ukraine, AKA "The Terminator"; murdered 59 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996
„ - 8 1936“ Russia, AKA "The Rostov Ripper"; killed 52 women and children throughout the Soviet Union; arrested, convicted and executed in 1994
„ - 9 1760“ Germany, Bavarian poisoner; killer of four people; executed in 1811
„ - 10 1951“ UK, AKA the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four
„ - 11 1976“ Finland, poisoner of three men; sentenced to life imprisonment
„ - 12 1924“ UK, AKA the "Monster Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael Kitto
„ - 13 1936“ Norway, geriatric assistant nurse who poisoned 22 dwellers at the Orkdal Alders-Og Sjukeheim institution over a period of years before being convicted in 1984
„ - 14 1954“ India, murdered nine teenage girls in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai during a six-month period in 1988; executed in 1995
„ - 15 1877“ Hungary, murdered at least 24 women; escaped justice in the confusion of World War I
„ - 16 1960“ UK, serial arsonist and killer
„ - 17 “ AKA "Auntie Thally"; serial poisoner of at least four family members
„ - 18 1896“ Australia, AKA "Petiso Orejudo" ("Big Eared Midget"); at 16, killed four children in 1912; died in prison in 1944
„ - 19 1965“ South Africa, AKA the "Wemmer Pan Killer"; serial rapist; murdered at least 27 people
„ - 20 1964“ Ghana, convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women in Accra; suspected of killing 34; sentenced to death in 2003
„ - 21 1944“ India, killed at least 12 Western tourists in Southeast Asia during the 1970s
„ - 22 1970“ France, nurse sentenced for the murders of at least 30 terminally ill patients
„ - 23 1954“ UK, AKA "Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s
„ - 24 “ US, killed four women in the Los Angeles area between 1992 and 1993; charged in 2008 with raping and murdering four additional women between 1986 and 1993
„ - 25 1883“ Denmark, childcare provider who killed between nine and 25 children; sentenced to death in 1921 then reprieved
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