USA

* Charles Albright - killer of three; known for surgically
removing the eyes of victims
* Richard Angelo - aka The Angel of Death; nurse
* Joe Ball - aka The Alligator Man, killed at least 20 women in
the early 20th century in Texas
* Martha Jule Beck - with Raymond Martinez Fernandez aka
"Honeymoon Killers," "Lonely Hearts Slayers," and eventually in the
press simply "Hearts Killers" killed at least three women and one
child in the 1940s.
* David Berkowitz - aka Son of Sam and The .44 Caliber Killer
* Bloody Benders - a family who killed guests of their inn in
Labette County, Kansas, in 1872
* Robert 'Bob' Berdella - convicted of killing six men in 1988 in
Kansas City, Missouri, undoubtedly killed others, sexually tortured
and dismembered his victims
* Kenneth Bianchi - Californian who with his cousin Angelo Buono
were the Hillside Stranglers
* William Bonin - aka The Freeway Killer; with several
accomplices, claimed the lives of 20 boys in California
* Robert Charles Browne - Convicted of two murders in Colorado,
but says he has killed 48, some of which have been corroborated.
* Jerry Brudos - aka The Shoe-Fetish Slayer, killed at least five
women
* Ted Bundy - aka The Campus Killer or Lady Killer; law student
who raped and murdered more than 30 women in several states
* Angelo Buono, Jr. - Californian who with his cousin Kenneth
Bianchi were the Hillside Stranglers
* Dean Carter - murdered at least four women
* Richard Chase - aka the Vampire of Sacramento murdered six
people in the '70s
* Dean Corll - aka The Candy Man; committed the Houston Mass
Murders with Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks
* Juan Vallejo Corona - Killed 25 people in the space of just six
weeks
* Charles Cullen - nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who killed
as many as 40 patients through lethal injection
* Jeffrey Dahmer - Milwaukee cannibal who kept heads, skulls and
body parts in his apartment
* Albert DeSalvo - aka The Boston Strangler
* Westley Allan Dodd - child molester and killer of three young
boys in Vancouver, Washington; hanged on January 5, 1993
* Nannie Doss - aka The Giggling Granny; serial poisoner who
killed four husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a
grandson and a nephew.
* Mack Ray Edwards confessed to the murders of six children in Los
Angeles County between 1953 and 1969.
* Raymond Martinez Fernandez killed at least one woman
indepedently and convicted of killing three with Martha Jule Beck.
* Albert Fish - aka The Cannibal, The Moon Maniac and The Werewolf
of Wisteria; sadist and pedophile who cannibalized several children
* Wayne Adam Ford - aka Wayward Wayne; confessed to murdering four
women, believed to have killed others
* Joseph Paul Franklin - racist serial killer who targeted
interracial couples and attempted to assassinate Larry Flint and
Vernon Jordan
* John Wayne Gacy - aka the Killer Clown; killer of at least 33
men and boys who kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
* Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins - aka the Meanest Man in America;
Gaskins, executed on September 6, 1991, confessed to over 200 murders,
but due to inept police work, this number was never verified.
* Ed Gein - two known victims, one suspected victim, four missing
persons; elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in
part Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
* Kristen Gilbert - Angel of Death serial killer, convicted of
killing four by injection of epinephrine while working as a nurse
* Harvey Murray Glatman - Californian rapist and killer of three
women; lured women to pose for "bondage photographs" and would rape
and murder them.
* Jeffrey Gorton - convicted of two rape-murders in Michigan,
suspected of more
* Belle Gunness - murder-for-profit killer who murdered her
suitors and her own children in Indiana
* Robert Hansen - Alaskan baker who killed prostitutes at his
cabin
* Donald Harvey - aka Angel of Death; hospital orderly, confessed
to more than 80 "mercy killings" with 37 confirmed killings
* Gary M. Heidnik - kept sex slaves in his basement and killed two
of them
* "Wild Bill" Hickman - killed in the name of religion (many of
his alleged exploits are disputed)
* H. H. Holmes - active 1890-1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition
* Waneta Hoyt - murdered her five children
* Philip Carl Jablonski - killed at least four women in Utah
* Vincent Johnson - aka the Brooklyn Strangler; a homeless crack
addict who killed at least five prostitutes
* Genene Jones - Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her
care
* Patrick Kearney - necrophile who killed 28 men in California
* Edmund Kemper - started killing when he was aged fifteen in
Santa Cruz, CA
* Sante Kimes - grifter and murder-for-profit killer who, along
with her son Kenneth Kimes, is believed to have killed upwards of four
people
* Paul John Knowles - raped and murdered 18 people
* Randy Steven Kraft - murdered as many as 68 young men in
California
* Peter Kudzinowski - killed children in New Jersey in the 1920s
* Leonard Lake and Charles Ng - ex-marines and survivalists who
collected female slaves
* Derrick Todd Lee - aka the Baton Rouge Serial Killer
* Eddie Leonski - aka the Brownout Strangler
* Henry Lee Lucas - confessed to hundreds of murders, although
most confessions were false
* Charles Manson - most famous for his participation in the Tate-
LaBianca murders of the late 1960s
* John Allen Muhammad - Washington D.C. area sniper
* Herbert Mullin - schizophrenic in Santa Cruz, CA who killed
people to prevent earthquakes
* Earle Nelson - aka Gorilla Man; necrophiliac serial killer
* Carl Panzram - murderer, rapist, arsonist
* Jesse Pomeroy - teenaged psychopath who killed two children
* Dorothea Puente - killed and robbed nine elderly boarders
* Dennis Rader - aka the BTK Killer; killed 10 people over 20
years
* Richard Ramirez - aka the Night Stalker; terrorized Los Angeles
in 1984 and 1985
* Ángel Maturino Reséndiz - killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky,
and Illinois
* Gary Ridgway - aka The Green River Killer
* Joel Rifkin - murdered 17 women in the New York City and Long
Island area
* John Edward Robinson - aka the Cyber Sex Killer; lured victims
through the internet
* Danny Rolling - pleaded guilty to murdering five students in
Florida
* Michael Ross - raped and murdered seven women in Connecticut
* Efren Saldivar - respiratory therapist who killed six patients,
and possibly as many as 120
* Gerard John Schaefer - aka The Killer Cop and The Florida Sex
Beast; police officer who killed up to 34 women and girls
* Tommy Lynn Sells - admitted to murdering dozens of people from
all over the USA, possibly in excess of 70
* Arthur Shawcross - aka the Genesee River Killer
* Lemuel Smith - confessed to the murders of five people,
including that of an on-duty female prison-guard
* Morris Solomon Jr. - handyman killed six young women between
1986 and 1987 in a Sacramento, California, neighborhood
* Gerald Stano - convicted murderer of 41 women.
* Cary Stayner - aka the Yosemite Murderer who killed four women
* Michael Swango - physician and surgeon who poisoned over 30 of
his patients and colleagues
* William Suff - aka the Riverside Killer who killed up to 19
women near Riverside, California
* Marybeth Tinning - poisoned nine of her children
* Ottis Toole - Henry Lee Lucas's accomplice; convicted of six
murders in Florida
* Chester Dwayne Turner - murderer of women in Los Angeles,
California
* Henry Louis Wallace- Charlotte, North Carolina, serial killer of
at least nine young women over a two year period from 1992 to 1994
* Coral Eugene Watts - aka The Sunday Morning Slasher; killed
dozens of women in Texas and Michigan
* Wayne Williams - aka the Atlanta Child Murderer; convicted of
two (and believed responsible for more) of the murders of more than
twenty children in Atlanta, Georgia
* Randall Woodfield - aka the I-5 Killer
* Aileen Wuornos - female serial killer who shot six men dead in
Florida
* Robert Lee Yates - murdered at least 13 women i