Shockingly Infamous British Serial Killers By Web Infoguy [110 more lists]

Every famous British serial killer listed by number of murders. Famous English serial killers - and some foreign-born - top our list of infamous killers in the UK. Shocking murders, infamous crimes, famous victims -- these cases have it all. These British murderers have many victims to their name and have done monstrous crimes that's even hard to imagine.

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Beverley Allitt

AKA "Angel of Death"; paediatric nurse who killed four babies and wounded nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991

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Leslie Bailey

known to have killed at least three young boys near London in the 1980s

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Robert Black

Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of three murders, suspected of far more killings

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Ian Brady

AKA "Moors Murderers"

Murdered five kids, aged btw 10 and 17, then buried them in Saddleworth Moor

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Myra Hindley

Partner of Ian as "Moors Murderers". What a couple!

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William Burke

notorious body snatcher

(Edinburgh in the 19th century)

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William Hare

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George Chapman

poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper

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John Reginald Halliday Christie

killed at least six women (including his wife) between 1943 and 1953 and hid the bodies in his house. He has been implicated in the murders of one other woman and her infant child, of which Christie's fellow tenant, Timothy Evans, was convicted in 1950.

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Mary Ann Cotton

British Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims

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Thomas Neill Cream

AKA "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United States then moved to London; hanged in 1892

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John Duffy and David Mulcahy

AKA the "Railway Killers"; killed three women near railway stations in the 1980s

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Amelia Dyer

murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896

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Kenneth Erskine

AKA "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners

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Steven Grieveson

AKA "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered three teenage boys in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in 1993 and 1994

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John George Haigh

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

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Archibald Hall

AKA the "Monster Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael Kitto

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Anthony Hardy

AKA the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four

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Trevor Hardy

AKA "The Beast in the Night"; killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976

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Colin Ireland

AKA "Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s

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Michael Lupo

AKA "Wolf Man"; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders

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Bruce George Peter Lee

serial arsonist and killer

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Patrick Mackay

charged with the murders of five individuals, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people

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Peter Manuel

Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958

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Mark Martin

AKA "The Sneinton Strangler"; killed three prostitutes in Nottingham from December 2004 to January 2005.

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Robert Maudsley

killer of four; killed three in prison

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Peter Moore

businessman who killed four men at random in Wales

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Robert Napper

AKA the "Green Chain Rapist"; killed two women and a child in the 1990s

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Donald Neilson

AKA "Black Panther"; killed four people, including heiress Lesley Whittle

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Dennis Nilsen

killer of 15 (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983

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Colin Norris

nurse convicted of killing four patients in Leeds hospitals

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William Palmer

AKA "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; hanged on June 14, 1856

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Amelia Sach

murdered an unknown number of babies put up for adoption

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Annie Walters

AKA "The Brides in the Bath"; killer of three women

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Harold Shipman

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

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George Joseph Smith

AKA "The Brides in the Bath"; killer of three women

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John Straffen

child killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner until his death on November 19, 2007

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Peter Sutcliffe

AKA the "Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980

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Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

artist considered to have poisoned four people

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Fred West

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

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Rosemary West

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

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Catherine Wilson

nurse considered to have poisoned seven people in the 19th century

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Steve Wright

AKA "The Suffolk Strangler" or "The Ipswich Ripper"; killed five women in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006

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Graham Young

AKA "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971

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Beverley Allitt

Robert Napper

Amelia Sach