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This list shows all known serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of victims, then possible victims, then date. For those from previous centuries, see List of serial killers before 1900 .
- Harold Shipman, Aka 'Dr. Death,' Killed 218 Patients
- Belle Gunness Married to Kill
- Ed Gein: The Inspiration Behind 'Psycho'
- John Wayne Gacy Performed as A Clown at Children's Parties
- Jeffrey Dahmer Committed His First Murder at 18
- Ted Bundy: The First Televised Murder Trial
- Jack The Ripper: There Are Over 100 Possible Suspects
- H.H. Holmes: A Pharmacist Who Built A 'Murder Castle'
One of history’s deadliest serial killers was a married family man who managed to squeeze in 218 credited murders (and as many as 250) while working as a popular British physician. Harold Shipman began his murderous spree in 1972, and it’s believed he killed at least 71 patients while working at his first practice, and doubled that number at a seco...
The woman who became known as the “Lady Bluebeard” immigrated to America from Norway in 1881, settling in Chicagowhere she married a fellow Norwegian immigrant. The couple had four children (two of whom died young) and ran a candy store. By 1900 the store had mysteriously burned down, and Gunness’ husband was dead. Although both happened under susp...
The man whose macabre and horrific acts helped inspire Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre grew up in an isolated area of Wisconsin. He was an abused child of an alcoholic father and a puritanical and domineering mother who instilled in her son a pathological fear of both women and sex. When his father, brother and mother ...
To most of his suburban Chicago neighbors, John Wayne Gacy was a friendly man who threw popular block parties, volunteered in local Democratic politics and often performed as a clown at local children’s parties. But Gacy, who had already served a stint in prison for sexually assaulting a teenage boy, was hiding a horrific secret right beneath his n...
Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in 1978 when he was just 18. He would go on killing until his arrest in 1991, after an African American man escaped his clutches and hailed down police near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When the victim led police back to his captor’s apartment, they discovered photographs of dismembered bodies, the severed heads a...
Handsome, well-educated and brimming with charm, Ted Bundyseemed the unlikeliest of serial killers. Which made his decade-long, multi-state killing spree all the more surprising—and to some, appealing. Born to an unwed, teenage mother, Bundy never learned his father’s identity and was raised believing that his grandmother was actually his mother (a...
In 1888, London’s Whitechapel district was gripped by reports of a vicious serial killer stalking the city streets. The unidentified madman lured prostitutes into darkened squares and side streets before slitting their throats and sadistically mutilating their bodies with a carving knife. That summer and fall, five victims were found butchered in t...
H.H. Holmes spent his early career as an insurance scammer before moving to Illinois in advance of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair to work as a pharmacist. It was there that Holmes built what he referred to as his murder “castle”—a three-story inn that he secretly turned into a macabre torture chamber. Some rooms were equipped with hidden peepholes, ...
One of the world’s most prolific serial killers might still be out there. Pedro Lopez is linked to more than 300 murders in his native Colombia and in Ecuador and Peru. At least one-third of those murders were tribal women.
May 15, 2024 · Born Herman Webster Mudgett in New Hampshire, H.H. Holmes became known as one of America’s first serial killers—responsible for anywhere from 20 to 200 deaths. He admitted to 27 in...
- The Brooklyn Vampire. Albert Fish was a serial killer that was active in the early 1900s. He was prosecuted on the charges of rape, murder, and cannibalism.
- Jack The Ripper. This one does not need much introduction or explanation. Jack the Ripper is notoriously famous for his serial killings of prostitutes in London during the year of 1888.
- Monster Of The Andes. Pedro Alonso López claims to have raped and murdered more than 300 women during his killing sprees along Southern America. More than 50 of his victims were no older than twelve years old.
- Dr. Death. Harold Shipman was an English doctor, and a serial killer with one of the highest numbers of victims ever recorded. This evil doctor was quite busy with his practice between the years of 1972 and 1998, during which he killed almost 250 of his patients by injecting lethal doses of medicine.
Dr Harold Shipman. Confirmed number of victims: 218. We start with a name that, unlike the others here, is very well known indeed. Nottingham-born ‘Dr. Death’ killed well over 200 patients in his care between 1975 and 1998, the majority of whom were elderly women.
Oct 4, 2022 · Below are 10 of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history and the people they killed. 1. Dennis Rader, AKA the BTK Killer. Dennis Rader was a serial killer in Kansas who murdered 10...
