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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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1886“ South Africa, poisoner; killed two husbands and one son; executed in 1932
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1730“ Russia, 18th century countess who tortured and killed serfs on her estate
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1951“ AKA "Moorhouse murders"; couple from the suburban Perth area responsible for the murders of four women
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1931“ poisoner of three individuals
„ - 32 1934“ France, preyed on young handicapped women
„ - 33 1931“ killed at least seven people; last person to be hanged in Western Australia
„ - 34 1941“ UK, AKA "House of Horrors"; she was convicted of 10 murders; both are believed to have tortured and murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987, many at the couple's home in Gloucester; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial
„ - 35 1935“ Germany, murdered four women in Hamburg and kept the bodies in his apartment
„ - 36 1865“ UK, poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper
„ - 37 1872“ UK, AKA "The Brides in the Bath"; killer of three women
„ - 38 1404“ France, 15th century satanist and child killer
„ - 39 1946“ UK, doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25-year period
„ - 40 1869“ France, killed 11 people; inspired the character of Monsieur Verdoux played by Charlie Chaplin
„ - 41 1968“ Japan, AKA "Suicide Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims
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1960“ nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in Vienna who admitted to murdering 49 patients
„ - 43 1944“ killed at least seven tourists in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales; suspected in similar disappearances in Newcastle
„ - 44 1950“ author and sexual sadist; convicted of 10 murders; believed to have killed 12 women
„ - 45 1956“ Pakistan, believed to have killed 100 boys
„ - 46 1874“ France, convicted of the murders of 10 children
„ - 47 1962“ US, convicted of two rape-murders in Michigan, suspected of more
„ - 48 1933“ Germany, claimed 13 victims over three decades
„ - 49 1909“ UK, AKA the "Acid Bath Murderer" and the "Vampire of London"; active in England during the 1940s; convicted of six murders, but claimed to have killed nine; executed in 1949
„ - 50 1930“ UK, child killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner until his death on November 19, 2007
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