Shockingly Infamous British Serial Killers Shockingly Infamous British Serial Killers

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.
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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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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    Serial killer Male
  • Robert Black
    Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of three murders, suspected of far more killings
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1829-05-14 Journalist,Writer London England,United Kingdom Male May 14 1829
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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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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1938 Serial killer Scotland Male
  • Myra Hindley
    Partner of Ian as "Moors Murderers". What a couple!
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1942-07-23 Female Jul 23 1942
  • William Burke
    notorious body snatcher (Edinburgh in the 19th century)
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1792 Male
  • William Hare
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1944-02-07 Male Feb 7 1944 University of London
  • George Chapman
    poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1865-12-14 Physician,Serial killer Poland Male Dec 14 1865
  • 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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    1898-04-08 Serial killer United Kingdom Male Apr 8 1898
  • Mary Ann Cotton
    British Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims
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    1832-10 Serial killer England Female
  • 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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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1850-05-27 Physician,Serial killer United States Male May 27 1850
  • John Duffy and David Mulcahy
    AKA the "Railway Killers"; killed three women near railway stations in the 1980s
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1959 United Kingdom
  • Amelia Dyer
    murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1829 Serial killer Female
  • Kenneth Erskine
    AKA "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners
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    1962 Serial killer England
  • Steven Grieveson
    AKA "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered three teenage boys in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in 1993 and 1994
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    Serial killer
  • 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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    1909-07-24 Serial killer Male Jul 24 1909
  • Archibald Hall
    AKA the "Monster Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael Kitto
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1924 Male
  • Anthony Hardy
    AKA the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1951 Serial killer
  • Trevor Hardy
    AKA "The Beast in the Night"; killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1947 Serial killer United Kingdom
  • Colin Ireland
    AKA "Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1954-03-16 Serial killer Male Mar 16 1954
  • Michael Lupo
    AKA "Wolf Man"; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1953 Serial killer Male
  • Bruce George Peter Lee
    serial arsonist and killer
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1960-07-31 Serial killer Manchester Male Jul 31 1960
  • Patrick Mackay
    charged with the murders of five individuals, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1952-09-25 Serial killer Male Sep 25 1952
  • Peter Manuel
    Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1927-03-01 Serial killer New York United States Male Mar 1 1927
  • Mark Martin
    AKA "The Sneinton Strangler"; killed three prostitutes in Nottingham from December 2004 to January 2005.
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1959 Racecar driver Batesville United States Male
  • Robert Maudsley
    killer of four; killed three in prison
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    1953-06 Serial killer Male
  • Peter Moore
    businessman who killed four men at random in Wales
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    1955 Male Electronic Arts,Microsoft,EA Sports President, EA SPORTS
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    Robert Napper
    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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    1936 Serial killer Bradford United Kingdom Male
  • Dennis Nilsen
    killer of 15 (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983
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    1945-11-23 Serial killer Fraserburgh United Kingdom Male Nov 23 1945
  • Colin Norris
    nurse convicted of killing four patients in Leeds hospitals
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    Serial killer
  • William Palmer
    AKA "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; hanged on June 14, 1856
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    1824-08-06 Physician,Serial killer Rugeley United Kingdom Male Aug 6 1824
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    Amelia Sach
    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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    United Kingdom
  • 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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    1946-01-14 Physician,Serial killer Nottingham Male Jan 14 1946
  • George Joseph Smith
    AKA "The Brides in the Bath"; killer of three women
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    1872-01-11 Serial killer Jan 11 1872
  • John Straffen
    child killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner until his death on November 19, 2007
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1930-02-27 Serial killer Male Feb 27 1930
  • 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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    1946-06-02 Serial killer Bingley United Kingdom Male Jun 2 1946
  • Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
    artist considered to have poisoned four people
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    1794-10 Journalist England Male
  • 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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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1941-09-29 Serial killer Much Marcle Male Fred West,Rosemary West Sep 29 1941
  • 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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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1953 Barnstaple England Female Fred West,Rosemary West
  • Catherine Wilson
    nurse considered to have poisoned seven people in the 19th century
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    date_of_birth profession place_of_birth nationality gender spouse children parents Date Born Height (m) Weight (kg) institution degree major_field_of_study end_date company title
    1951
  • 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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    1958 Serial killer Erpingham
  • Graham Young
    AKA "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971
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by Web Infoguy at December 19, 2009 21:44
Brutal List of serial killers! Thanks for proving that even racecar drivers can be the most evil of humans.
 

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