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This is a list of serial killers, by their country of origin or activity.
List by country
Australia
- Martin Bryant, Port Arthur massacre killed 35 locals and tourists
- Eddie Leonski, the "Brownout Murderer" killed at least 4
- Ivan Milat, the "backpack-murderer" killed at least 7 tourists
Belgium
Brazil
- Francisco de Assis Pereira - Brazilian serial killer, known as the maniaco do parque (the park maniac)
Canada
Colombia
Ecuador
France
Germany
- Karl Denke - cannibal
- Gesche Gottfried - poisoned 15 in Bremen between 1813 and 1827; executed 1831
- Karl Grossmann - killed women and sold their flesh on the blackmarket
- Fritz Haarmann - similar to Grossman, but preyed on boys
- Joachim Georg Kroll - claimed thirteen victims over three-decades
- Peter Kürten - the Vampire of Düsseldorf
- Bruno Ludke - mental defective who claimed to have killed 80 people
Hungary
India
- Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists in Southeast Asia in the 1970s
- Thug Behram, leader of the Thugee cult in India, found guilty of 931 individual murders
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
- Willem van Eijk - "the beast of Harkstede", killed several women.
Pakistan
Poland
Romania
- Vera Renczi - The 35 bodies in her cellar may have influenced the writing of Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace
Russia
South Korea
- Yoo Young-Chul -- killed and ate about 20 people, mainly rich elderly men and prostitutes
Sweden
UK
- Beverley Allitt - The Angel Of Death. Paediatric nurse who killed 13 patients and injured others in 1991
- Robert Black - schoolgirl killer
- Ian Brady - one of the Moors Murderers, with Myra Hindley
- John Childs - burned the bodies of his six victims, jailed 1980
- John Christie - the necrophile, who lived at 10 Rillington Place
- Mary Ann Cotton - British Victorian killer, said to have taken more than 20 victims
- Thomas Neill Cream - the Lambeth Poisoner, began his killing spree in the United States before moving to London
- Peter George Dinsdale - aka Bruce Lee, the prolific Hull arsonist
- Kenneth Erskine - The Stockwell Strangler, jailed in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners
- John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murderer or Vampire of London
- Myra Hindley - (d. 2002) one of the Moors Murderers, with Ian Brady
- Colin Ireland - The Gay Slayer or Fairy Liquidator
- Jack the Ripper - infamous Victorian killer
- Michael Lupo - the so-called Wolfman, originally from Italy
- Patrick Mackay - confessed to killing 11 people
- Robert Mawdsley - serial killer of four. Killed three in prison and dubbed Hannibal the Cannibal
- Peter Moore - businessman who killed men at random in Wales.
- Donald Neilson - The Black Panther
- Dennis Nilsen - British serial killer of 15 (possibly 16)
- Mark Rowntree - 19 year old psychopath who killed 4 people at random
- Harold Frederick Shipman - British 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
- John Straffen - child-killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner.
- Peter Sutcliffe - the Yorkshire Ripper
- Fred and Rose West - the House of Horrors murderers in Gloucester
- Graham Young - The Teacup Poisoner, (1947-1990) who killed three
Ukraine
- Anatoly Onoprienko - Ukrainian serial killer known as "the Terminator." Murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996
USA
- David Berkowitz - known as the "Son of Sam"
- The Boston Strangler - allegedly Albert DeSalvo, though disputed
- Ted Bundy - law student who raped and murdered over 30 women in several states
- Dean Corll - committed the Houston Mass Murders with Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks
- Juan Corona - Mexican immigrant who killed 25 people in the space of just six-weeks
- Jeffrey Dahmer - Milwaukee cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment
- Glennon Engleman - mediocre St. Louis dentist who shot and bombed his way to financial success
- Albert Fish - sadist and pedophile who cannibalised a 12-year-old girl
- John Wayne Gacy - the 'Killer Clown' who kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
- Ed Gein. Elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part The Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Hillside Strangler - actually two men, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr.
- Leonard Lake and Charles Ng - ex-marines and survivalists who collected female slaves
- Derrick Todd Lee - aka the Baton Rouge Serial Killer
- Eddie Leonski - the Brownout Strangler
- Henry Lee Lucas - confessed to hundreds of murders, although most confessions were false
- Herman Mudgett, aka Dr. H. H. Holmes, active 1890-1894, during Chicago's 1893 World Columbian Exposition.
- Herbert Mullin - schizophrenic who killed people to prevent earthquakes
- Earle Nelson - Necrophiliac serial killer dubbed "Gorilla Man"
- Jesse Pomeroy - teenaged psychopath who killed two children
- Dorothea Puente - killed and robbed nine elderly people
- Richard Ramirez - the 'Night Stalker' who terrorized Los Angeles in 1986
- Angel Maturino Resendiz - killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois
- Gary Ridgway - arrested in November, 2001 for The Green River Killer murders
- John Edward Robinson - so-called 'Cyber Sex Killer' who lured victims through the internet
- Danny Rolling - pleaded guilty to butchering five students in Florida
- Arthur Shawcross - the Genesee River Killer
- Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate - "Natural Born Killers"
- Otis Toole - Henry Lee Lucas's accomplice. Convicted of six murders in Florida
- Jane Toppan - 19th Century nurse who killed over thirty patients
- Coral Eugene Watts - killed dozens of women in Texas and Michigan
- Wayne Williams - convicted of the Atlanta Child Murders, disputed
- Aileen Wuornos - rare female serial killer who shot dead six men in Florida
Currently on trial
- Robert Pickton on trial in British Columbia accused in the deaths of 15 women and suspected in up to 54.
- Greg Westann currently on trial in Myanmar for the killing of 14 black women.
Unidentified serial killers
For the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, see List of terrorist incidents.
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