List of serial killers by country

This is a list of notable serial killers, by the country where most of the murders were committed.

Convicted serial killers by country

Afghanistan

Abdullah Shah: killed at least 20 travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad serving under Zardad Khan; also killed his wife; executed on 20 April 2004
Abul Djabar: killed 65 men and boys by strangling them with turbans while raping them; suspected of over 300 murders; sentenced to death and hanged on 21 October 1970

Argentina

Cayetano Santos Godino: also known as "Petiso Orejudo" ("Big Eared Midget"); at 16, killed four children in 1912; died in prison in 1944
Francisco Antonio Laureana: killed at least 13 women; died in a shootout with police in 1975
Robledo Puch: also known as "The Death Angel" and "The Black Angel" killed 11 people before his arrest in 1972; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980

Australia

David and Catherine Birnie: also known as "Moorhouse murders"; couple from the suburban Perth area responsible for the murders of four women in 1986
Gregory Brazel: shot dead a woman in 1982 armed robbery and murdered two prostitutes in 1990
John Bunting, Robert Wagner and James Vlassakis: also known as "Bodies in the Barrels Murders"; convicted of the Snowtown murders of 12 people between 1992 and 1999
Eric Edgar Cooke: also known as "The Night Caller"; killed at least 8 people, and attempted to kill many more; last person to be hanged in Western Australia
Bandali Debs: convicted of murdering two police officers and two prostitutes in the 1990s
Paul Denyer: also known as "Frankston Killer"; murdered three women in 1993 in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston
Peter Dupas: serving three life sentences for multiple murders and rape charges
Kathleen Folbigg: murdered four of her infants between 1991 and 1999
Eddie Leonski: also known as the "Brownout Strangler"; United States Army soldier who killed three women in Melbourne, Australia; executed in 1942
Leonard Fraser: also known as "The Rockhampton Rapist"; convicted of killing four women in Rockhampton, Queensland
John Wayne Glover: also known as "The Granny Killer"; killed six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore; committed suicide in 2005
Caroline Grills: also known as "Auntie Thally"; serial poisoner of five family members
Paul Steven Haigh: sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murders of seven people in Victoria in the late 1970s
Lindsay Robert Rose: serial killer and contract killer who murdered five people between 1984 and 1994
Matthew James Harris: strangled a friend's brother, a female friend and a male neighbour to death over five weeks in 1998 in Wagga Wagga
Thomas Jeffries: Tasmanian penal colony escapee responsible for the murders of five people; executed in 1826
John Lynch: also known as "The Berrima Axe Murderer"; killed ten people from 1835 to 1841
William MacDonald: also known as "the Mutilator"; killed at least five men between June 1961 and April 1963
John and Sarah Makin: late 19th century baby farmers who killed and buried 12 children at a succession of their homes
Ivan Milat: killed at least seven tourists in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales, which became known as the "Backpacker Murders"; suspected in similar disappearances in Newcastle
Martha Needle: also known as the "Black Widow of Richmond"; poisoner of four family members and boyfriend's brother; executed in 1894
Martha Rendell: killed three stepchildren with hydrochloric acid in 1907-08; last woman to be hanged in Western Australia
Arnold Sodeman: also known as the "School-girl Strangler"; killed four children in Melbourne in the 1930s
Christopher Worrell and James Miller: also known as the "Truro Murderers"; convicted of killing seven victims in 1976-77

Austria

Elfriede Blauensteiner: poisoner of three individuals
Max Gufler: convicted of killing four women; suspected of at least 18 murders
Jack Unterweger: author and sexual sadist; convicted of 10 murders; believed to have killed 12 women
Waltraud Wagner and Irene Leidolf: also known as the "Lainz Angels of Death"; nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in Vienna who admitted to murdering 49 patients

Belarus

Gennady Mikhasevich: police volunteer who investigated his own mission-oriented murders of 36 women between 1971 and 1985; executed in 1987

Belgium

András Pándy: also known as "Vader Blauwbaard" (Father Bluebeard); convicted of the murder and rape of his two wives and four children
Marc Dutroux: convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls ranging in age from 8 to 19, during 1995 to 1996
Ronald Janssen: sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering three people from 2007 to 2010 and suspected of more

Brazil

Francisco de Assis Pereira: rapist and serial killer, known as "O Maníaco do Parque" (The Park Maniac); arrested for the torture, rape and death of 11 women and for assaulting nine in a park in São Paulo during the 1990s
Marcelo Costa de Andrade: also known as "The Vampire of Niterói"; raped and killed 14 children.
Abraão José Bueno: nurse who killed four child patients; sentenced to 110 years imprisonment in 2005
Pedro Rodrigues Filho: also known as "Pedrinho Matador"; convicted and sentenced to 128 years imprisonment for 70 murders; however, the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years; claimed to have killed more than 100 victims, including 40 prison inmates
Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha: security guard who has claimed to have killed 39 people
Sailson Jose das Gracas: claims to have murdered 41 people form 2005 to 2014
Edson Isidoro Guimarães: nurse who killed four patients but suspected of 131 deaths in total
Anísio Ferreira de Sousa: gynaecologist who was convicted of the murder of three children but linked to the disappearance of a total of 19

Canada

Paul Bernardo: also known as "the Scarborough Rapist"; a Toronto man who killed three teenage girls (including his wife's sister) with the aid of his wife Karla Homolka
Wayne Boden: also known as "the Vampire Rapist" killed 4 women between 1968–1971; died in prison 2006
John Martin Crawford: convicted in 1996 for the murders of three women
Léopold Dion: also known as "Monster of Pont-Rouge"; raped and killed four young boys in 1960; murdered in 1972
William Patrick Fyfe: convicted of killing five women in Montreal; suspect in several other murders
Gilbert Paul Jordan: killed between 8 and 10 women by alcohol poisoning; deceased (2006)
Cody Legebokoff: one of Canada's youngest serial killers, convicted of murdering three women and a teenage girl between 2009 and 2010
Allan Legere: also known as "Monster of the Miramichi"; killer of five individuals
Michael Wayne McGray: killed 7 people, including a woman and child and a cellmate, claims to have killed 11 others
Clifford Olson: murdered 11 children in British Columbia; died in prison 2011
Robert Pickton: charged with the first degree murders of 26 women; allegedly confessed to 49 murders; convicted December 9, 2007 of six charges; reduced to second degree murder
Russell Williams: former Colonel in the Canadian Forces convicted in 2010 of two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of forcible confinement, two counts of breaking and entering, and sexual assault,^[1] and another 82 charges relating to breaking and entering.^[2]
Peter Woodcock: murdered three children in 1956–1957 and a fellow psychiatric institute patient in 1991

Chile

Julio Pérez Silva: also known as "Psychopath from Alto Hospicio", sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering fourteen women from 1998 to 2001
Jorge Sagredo and Carlos Topp: also known as the "Viña del Mar Psychopaths"; committed ten murders and four rapes from August 5, 1980 to November 1, 1981 in the city of Viña del Mar; executed by firing squad on January 29, 1985; they were the last people executed in Chile

People's Republic of China

Bai Baoshan: sentenced to 13 years in prison in 1983 for a murder he committed during a failed robbery; later killed 14 people from 1996 to 1997 and executed on 6 May 1998
Li Wenxian: killed 13 female prostitutes; executed in 1996
Liu Pengli: 2nd century BC Han prince; one of the earliest serial killers attested by historical sources
Gong Runbo: found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers aged between nine and 16 from 2005 to 2006; executed 2007
Huang Yong: between September 2001 and 2003 killed at least 17 teenage boys; executed in 2003
Shen Changyin and Shen Changping: found guilty of the murders of 11 prostitutes
Wang Qiang: 45 murder victims and 10 rapes; executed on 17 November 2005
Hua Ruizhou: killed 14 female prostitutes from 1998 to 2001
Yang Xinhai: confessed to killing 65 people between 2000 and 2003; executed in 2004
Zhang Yongming: between March 2008 and April 2012 killed 11; executed in 2013
Zhou Kehua: former soldier who targeted ATM users; killed 10 people and evaded the law for 8 years, before being killed in 2012 in a shootout with police after a year-long manhunt

Colombia

Daniel Camargo Barbosa: also known as "The Sadist of El Charquito", who is believed to have raped and killed over 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s
Luis Garavito: also known as "The Beast" admitted to murder and rape of 140 young boys
Pedro López: also known as "The Monster of the Andes"; accused of raping and killing more than 300 girls across South America
Manuel Octavio Bermúdez: also known as "El Monstruo de los Cañaduzales" (The Monster of the Cane Fields); confessed to raping and killing at least 21 children in remote areas of Colombia

Croatia

Vinko Pintarić: murdered five people, including his wife between 1973 and 1990; escaped from custody three times, killed in a 1991 shootout with the police

Czech Republic

Martin Lecián: responsible for killing 10 policemen and 1 prison officer; executed in 1927
Marie Fikáčková: female nurse who was executed by hanging in 1961 for the murders of 10 babies
Václav Mrázek: convicted of the murders of seven women; executed in 1957
Hubert Pilčík: killed at least five people whom he had to get across the border from Czechoslovakia into Germany; committed suicide in prison in 1951
Petr Zelenka: male nurse convicted of murdering seven patients by lethal injections to "test" doctors

Denmark

Peter Lundin: killed his mother in 1991, then killed his mistress and her two children 9 years later; sentenced to life imprisonment
Dagmar Overbye: childcare provider who killed between nine and 25 children; sentenced to death in 1921 then reprieved; died in prison on 6 May 1929

Ecuador

Gilberto Chamba: also known as the "Monster of Machala"; murdered 8 people in Ecuador and one in Spain; sentenced to 45 years in prison in Spain on 5 November 2006

Egypt

Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour: also known as "Al-Tourbini"; gang leader who raped and murdered homeless children by throwing them off trains in the 2000s, sometimes burying them alive
Raya and Sakina: Egypt's most famous serial killers and the first Egyptian women to be executed by the modern state of Egypt

Estonia

Aleksandr Rubel: convicted murderer of six people in Tallinn

Finland

Matti Haapoja: convicted murderer of three people, admitted to the murders of 18; possibly killed 22–25; sentenced to life imprisonment, hanged himself in a prison cell
Aino Nykopp-Koski: first Finnish female serial killer, convicted of five murders and five attempted murders; sentenced to life in prison

France

Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers: French poisoner; executed in 1676
Pierre Chanal: serial killer of 17 boys between 1980 and 1987 who committed suicide in 2003
Martin Dumollard: condemned to the guillotine after having been arrested and charged with the deaths of maids from 1855 to 1861.
Michel Fourniret: also known as "Ogre of Ardennes"; confessed to nine murders of young girls; allegedly killed 10 more between 1987 and 2001
Guy Georges: also known as the "Beast of the Bastille"; serving a life sentence for seven murders between 1991 and 1997
Francis Heaulme: serving a life sentence for 20 murders between 1984 and 1992
Hélène Jégado: domestic servant who poisoned at least 23 people between 1833 and 1851; executed in 1852
Henri Désiré Landru: killed 11 people; inspired the character of Monsieur Verdoux played by Charlie Chaplin; executed by guillotine on 25 February 1922
Claude Lastennet: convicted of murdering 5 old women between August 1993 and January 1994; sentenced to life in prison
Émile Louis: preyed on young handicapped women (seven murders) in the 1970s
Christine Malèvre: nurse sentenced for the murders of at least 30 terminally ill patients
Thierry Paulin: also known as the "Beast of Montmartre"; preyed on the elderly in the 1980s and murderer of 21 old women
Marcel Petiot: doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the Nazis; executed in 1946
Gilles de Rais: 15th century satanist and child killer who is reputed to have killed 400; executed on 23 October 1440
Joseph Vacher: also known as "The French Ripper"; 19th century serial killer of 11 people; executed by guillotine on 31 December 1898
Jeanne Weber: convicted of the murders of 10 children; committed suicide in custody in 1918
Eugen Weidmann: German who strangled and robbed American dancer Jean de Koven, shot a former accomplice, and shot dead and robbed four other people around Paris in 1937

Germany

Jürgen Bartsch: killed four, one escaped; died by wrongful overdose during castration surgery
Olaf Däter: also known as the "Granny-Killer"; killed five elderly women; sentenced to life in prison
Karl Denke: cannibal; allegedly killed up to 42 people between 1914 and 1918; committed suicide in police custody
Volker Eckert: trucker who abducted, tortured and killed prostitutes along his route; accused of 19 murders in Germany, France and Spain between 1974 and 2006; committed suicide in police custody
Christman Genipperteinga kept registry of the 964 persons he claimed to have murdered from 1568-1581
Gesche Gottfried: serial poisoner who murdered 15 people in Hanover and Bremen; publicly executed in 1831
Karl Grossmann: killed women and sold their flesh on the black market; committed suicide in police custody
Frank Gust: also known as the "Rhein-Ruhr-Ripper"; killed four women from 1994 to 1998
Fritz Haarmann: preyed on young men and boys; executed in 1925
Erwin Hagedorn: killed three boys in the late 1960s and early 1970s; was the last civilian to be executed in the German Democratic Republic in 1972
Fritz Honka: murdered four women in Hamburg and kept the bodies in his apartment
Joachim Kroll: also known as the "Ruhr Cannibal" and the "Ruhr Hunter"; claimed 13 victims over three decades; died in prison in 1991
Peter Kürten: also known as the "Vampire of Düsseldorf"; executed in 1932
Stephan Letter: male nurse who killed 29 patients; arrested in 2006
Martin Ney: Wore a mask while killing 3 and sexually assaulting at least 40 children
Marianne Nölle: female nurse who was convicted of killing seven patients between 1984 and 1992; suspected of killing 17; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993
Paul Ogorzow: also known as the "S-Bahn murderer"; SA sergeant convicted of raping and murdering eight women by throwing them off trains in Berlin during blackouts in 1941 and 1942
Norbert Poehlke, also known as "The Hammer-Killer"; police officer, bank robber and serial killer; committed suicide in 1985
Heinrich Pommerenke: confessed to four murders
Friedrich Schumann: also known as the "Terror of Falkenhagen Lake"; killed six people and was executed in 1921
Peter Stumpp: self-proclaimed werewolf who killed 16 people during the 16th century
Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus: Berlin aristocrat convicted of poisoning her aunt with arsenic at the turn of the 19th century; boyfriend and husband died similarly
Elisabeth Wiese: also known as the "Angel Maker of St. Pauli"; baby farmer who poisoned her grandchild and four others with morphine and burned their bodies in a stove in 1902 and 1903
Anna Maria Zwanziger: Bavarian poisoner; killer of four people; executed in 1811
Rudolf Pleil: also known as "The Deathmaker"; convicted of killing salesman and nine women and claimed to have killed 25; committed suicide in police custody
Wolfgang Schmidt: also known as the "Beast of Beelitz"; killed five women and a 3 month old baby from 1989 to 1991; currently in a psychiatric hospital

Ghana

Charles Quansah: convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women in Accra; suspected of killing 34; sentenced to death in 2003

Greece

Hermann Duft and Hans Wilhelm Bassenauer: Germans who murdered six persons in Greece, within a short period in 1969, were captured, tried, sentenced to death and executed in 1969
Antonis Daglis: also known as the "Athens Ripper"; convicted in 1997 of the strangulation murder and dismemberment of three women and the attempted murder of six others; committed suicide in police custody in 1997

Guatemala

José Miculax Bux: also known as "The Monster of Guatemala"; killed 15 boys in 1946 along with cousin Mariano Macú Miculax; publicly executed by firing squad in 1946

Hong Kong

Lam Kor-wan: sexual sadist who murdered and dismembered four women in the 1980s; sentenced to death (commuted to life imprisonment as per tradition at that time)
Lam Kwok-wai: murdered three women, sentenced to life imprisonment (capital punishment already abolished)

Hungary

Erzsébet Báthory: countess who killed servant girls; rumored to have killed more than 600
Béla Kiss: murdered at least 24 women, escaped justice in the confusion of World War I

India

Thug Behram (ca 1765–1840): alleged to have killed over 900 people; executed in 1840
M. Jaishankar (born 1977): involved in about 30 rapes, murders and robbery cases
Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders: series of 10 murders committed by four art students in Pune; all were executed on 27 November 1983
Surender Koli (born 1970-71): convicted of raping and murdering four children in Delhi in 2005 and 2006 with another 12 cases pending
Mohan Kumar (born 1963): also known as "Cyanide Mohan"; killed 20 female victims with cynanide, claiming they were contraceptive pills; sentenced to death in 2013
Motta Navas (born 1966): killed pavement dwellers in their sleep during a three-month period in 2012
Raman Raghav (1929-1995): killed homeless people and others in their sleep
Umesh Reddy alias BA Umesh (born 1969): confessed to 18 rapes and murders, convicted in nine cases
Ripper Jayanandan (born 1968): also known as the "Singing Serial Killer"; killed seven people during robberies
Satish (born c. 1973): also known as the "Bahadurgarh Baby Killer"; confessed to and convicted for 10 murders; sentenced to life imprisonment
Auto Shankar (1954-1995): murdered nine teenage girls in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai during a six-month period in 1988; executed in 1995
Kampatimar Shankariya (1952-1979): sentenced to death for the hammer murders of at least 70 people; hung on May 16, 1979
Darbara Singh (born 1952): convicted for two murders, 17 suspected victims
Charles Sobhraj (born 1944): killed at least 12 Western tourists in Southeast Asia during the 1970s; imprisoned in India (released) and Nepal (in prison)
Akku Yadav (died 2004): murdered at least three people and dumped their bodies on the railroad tracks; lynched by a mob of around 200 women

Indonesia

Verry Idham Henyansyah: convicted and sentenced to death for the killing of 11 people
Ahmad Suradji: admitted to killing 42 women; sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on 10 July 2008
Siswanto: killed and mutilated twelve boys; died in police custody of natural causes in 2007
Baekuni: killed at least four boys and sentenced to life in prison on 5 October 2010

Iraq

Ali Asghar Borujerdi: also known as "Asghar the Murderer"; killed 33 young adults in Iraq and Iran; executed on 26 June 1934
Louay Omar Mohammed al-Taei: medical doctor found to have killed 43 wounded policemen, soldiers and officials in Kirkuk; was a member of an insurgent cell

Iran

Mohammed Bijeh: also known as the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran; executed in 2005
Saeed Hanaei: also known as "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around Mashhad; executed in 2002

Israel

Nicolai Bonner: killed four people in 2005 in Haifa, three of them homeless; sentenced to life imprisonment

Italy

Wolfgang Abel and Mario Furlan: German-Italian duo found guilty of 10 of 27 counts of murder in 1987
Beasts of Satan: Satanic cult members who committed three notorious ritual murders from 1998 to 2004
Donato Bilancia: also known as the "Monster of Liguria" murdered 17 people in seven months between 1997 and 1998
Leonarda Cianciulli: also known as "Soap-Maker of Correggio"; murderess of three women
Daniela Poggiali: nurse who is suspected of killing 38 patients
Roberto Succo: murdered at least five people, including his parents, committed suicide while in prison in 1988

Jamaica

Lewis Hutchinson: Scottish immigrant convicted of shooting dozens of people in the 18th century; executed in 1773

Japan

Sataro Fukiage: raped and killed at least seven girls in the early 20th century; executed 2 July 1926
Hiroaki Hidaka: killed four prostitutes in 1996; executed 25 December 2006
Miyuki Ishikawa: murdered an estimated 103, but could have been up to 169 infants in the 1940s
Kiyotaka Katsuta: firefighter who shot and strangled at least eight people, some during robberies, between 1972 and 1982
Yoshio Kodaira: rapist thought to have killed 11 people in Japan and China as a soldier; executed on 5 October 1949
Genzo Kurita: killed six women and two children and engaged in rape and necrophilia; executed on 16 January 1952
Hiroshi Maeue: also known as "Suicide Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims
Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata: also known as "House of Horror"; tortured and killed at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Ogata's family
Tsutomu Miyazaki: also known as "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer" and "Dracula"; killed four preschool-age girls and ate the hand of a victim; executed in 2008
Seisaku Nakamura: also known as the "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer", murdered at least nine people; executed in 1943
Akira Nishiguchi: killed five people and engaged in fraud; executed on 11 December 1970
Kiyoshi Ōkubo: raped and murdered eight young women over a period of 41 days in 1971
Yukio Yamaji: murdered his own mother in 2000, and then murdered a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister in 2005

Kazakhstan

Nikolai Dzhumagaliev: also known as "Metal Fang"; raped and hacked seven women to death with an axe in Almaty in 1980, then cannibalised them using his unusual false teeth

Latvia

Kaspars Petrovs: convicted of murdering 13 elderly Riga women in 2005; confessed to killing 38

Macedonia

Vlado Taneski: crime reporter arrested in June 2008 for the murder of three elderly women on whose deaths he had written articles; committed suicide in police custody; suspected of killing another woman

Mexico

Macario Alcala Canchola: named "Jack Mexicano" ("Mexican Jack"), was a Jack the Ripper´copycat activated in the 1960s.^[3]
Sara Aldrete: also known as "La Madrina"; cult follower of Adolfo Constanzo; convicted in 1994 of murdering several individuals during her association with Constanzo
Juana Barraza: also known as "Mataviejitas" ("Old Lady Killer"); operated within the metropolitan area of Mexico City until January 25, 2006
José Luis Calva: cannibal; police found the remains of multiple female victims in his house; committed suicide on December 11, 2007
Adolfo Constanzo: also known as "The Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico; committed suicide in 1989
Gabriel Garza Hoth: named "The Black Widower", killed 3 women between 1991 and 1998, his victims were wives and lovers.^[4]
Delfina and María de Jesús González: also known as "Las Poquianchis"; killed a total of 91; arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1964.
Francisco Guerrero: also known as "El Chalequero" ("The man of the vests"); the first documented serial killer in Mexico; committed approximately 20 murders between 1880 and 1888 plus one more in 1908.^[5]^[6]
Fernando Hernández Leyva: convicted of 33 murders in 1986, suspected of killing 137 persons.^[7]
Rudolfo Infante and Anna Villeda: pair by Matamoros responsible for 8 murders.^[8]
Abdul Latif Sharif: also known as "The Ciudad Juárez`Predator"; a migrant responsible for murdering an unknown number of women in Ciudad Juárez,^[9] maybe 15 murders but only he was convicted by one; died in prison
Daniel Audiel López Martínez: killed 5 women in Ciudad Juarez between 2007 and 2010, also two men
Raúl Osiel Marroquín: also known as "El Gato Imperial"; killed four gay men in Mexico City
Filiberto Hernández Martínez: killed six people between 2010 and 2013
Guadalupe Martínez de Bejarano: murdered three girls
Alejandro Máynez: may have killed over 50 women with accomplices
Tadeo Fulgencío Mejía: responsible for several murders during the 1890s and 1900s, motivated by delirious idea of contacting his deceased wife. Now the house in Guanajuato, where he committed the crimes, is known as "The House of laments" (Casa de los lamentos), and according to legend is haunted.^[10]
Silvia Meraz: involved in an occult sect, killed 3 persons
Felícitas Sánchez Aguillón: named "The Ogress of Roma neighborhood" was a nurse, midwife and baby farmer responsible for an unknown number of murders during the 1930s, possibly 50 victims, in Mexico City^[11]
Magdalena Solis: religious fanatic, proclaimed "The High Blood's Priestess", killed 8 persons in ritual sacrifices^[12]
Mario Alberto Sulú Canché: killed three young girls between 2007 and 2008, in Mérida, Yucatán; later died in prison

Morocco

Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi: responsible for the murders of at least 36 women; executed by immurement in 1906

Netherlands

Willem van Eijk: Also known as the "Beast of Harkstede"; convicted of the murders of five women between 1971 and 2001
Koos Hertogs: convicted of the murders of three women between 1979 and 1980
Maria Swanenburg: suspected of killing more than 90 with arsenic in the 1880s

New Zealand

Minnie Dean: Scottish immigrant baby farmer who killed at least three children by laudanum poisoning and suffocation in the 1890s

Norway

Arnfinn Nesset: manager of a geriatric nursing home who poisoned 22 dwellers at the Orkdal Alders- og Sjukeheim institution over a period of years before being convicted in 1983

Pakistan

Javed Iqbal: believed to have killed 100 boys, committed suicide while in prison in 1991
Amir Qayyum: also known as the "Brick Killer"; murdered 14 homeless men with rocks or bricks when they were asleep and was sentenced to death in May 2006

Panama

William Dathan Holbert: also known as "Wild Bill"; American expatriate who had the bodies of five other Americans buried on his property; he would kill people to get their money and properties; his wife, Laura Michelle Reese, was also arrested

Peru

Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña: also known as "The Apostle of Death" ;convicted of 17 murders and claimed 25; sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Poland

Joachim Knychała: also known as "The Vampire of Bytom" or "Frankenstein", who murdered five women between 1975 and 1982
Zdzisław Marchwicki: also known as "Zagłębie Vampire"; convicted of murdering 14 women; executed in 1976
Władysław Mazurkiewicz: also known as "The Gentleman Killer"; killed up to 30 women
Stanisław Modzelewski: murdered seven women in Łódź during the 1960s; executed in 1970
Leszek Pękalski: also known as the "Vampire of Bytów"; killed up to 17 women
Skin Hunters: Karol Banaś, Andrzej Nowocień, Dr. Janusz Kuliński and Dr Paweł Wasilewski, paramedicas and doctors in Łódź who killed patients for profit; all four were convicted and officials are investigating possible accomplices

Portugal

Diogo Alves: robber suspected of over 70 murders and executed on 19 February 1841
António Luís Costa: ex-GNR officer who murdered three women between 2005 and 2006. Sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Romania

Vera Renczi: poisoned two husbands, one son and 32 of her suitors in the 1920s and 1930s
Ion Rîmaru: murdered and raped young women in Bucharest from 1970 to 1971; executed in 1971
Vasile Tcaciuc: also known as "The Butcher of Iași": murdered victims with an axe and confessed to have committed at least 26 murders; shot dead by a policeman while trying to escape from prison.
Romulus Vereş: convicted of five murders, sent to a mental institution

Russia

Artyom Anoufriev and Nikita Lytkin: also known as "Academy maniacs"; two teenagers, killed 6 people in Irkutsk from 2010-2011
Valeriy Asratyan: arrested in 1990 and convicted of three murders and dozens of cases of sexual abuse; executed in 1992
Anatoly Biryukov: also known as "The Hunter of Babies", responsible for the kidnappings and subsequent murders of five infants from Moscow in the fall of 1977; executed in 1979
Alexander Bychkov: also known as "Belinsky Cannibal", suspected cannibal; Found guilty of 9 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment
Andrei Chikatilo: also known as "The Rostov Ripper"; killed 52 women and children throughout the Soviet Union; arrested, convicted and executed in 1994
Irina Gaidamachuk: also known as "Satan in a skirt"; killed 17 elderly women between 2002 and 2010; sentenced to 20 years in prison
Sergey Golovkin: also known as "The Fisher" killed 11 boys between 1986 and 1992, executed 1996
Boris Gusakov: also known as "Student Hunter"; committed 15 sexual assaults, including 5 murders, on girls and young women from 1964 to 1968; executed in 1970
Vasili Komaroff: also known as "The Wolf of Moscow"; horse trader who killed 33 men; executed in 1923
Vasiliy Kulik: killed 13 people aged between seven months and 75 years; executed in 1989
Oleg Kuznetsov: killed 10 women and girls from 1991 to 1992
Sergei Martynov: accused of murdering as many as nine women between 1992 and 2010
Vladimir Mirgorod: sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 for strangling 15 women and one teenage boy to death
Vladimir Mukhankin: also known as "The pupil of Chikatilo"; he killed 8 women
Maxim Petrov: also known as "Doctor Killer" and "Doctor Death"; doctor who killed 12 patients
Alexander Pichushkin: also known as "Bitsa Maniac", "The Chessboard Killer"; convicted of 48 murders; confessed to killing 63
Mikhail Popkov: also known as the "Wednesday Murderer" and the "Werewolf"; former policeman who was convicted or killing 22 women in 2012 and sentenced to life in prison
Sergei Ryakhovsky: also known as "The Hippopotamus"; convicted of the murders of 19 people aged between 14 and 78
Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova: 18th century noblewoman who tortured and killed serfs on her estate
Anatoly Slivko: convicted of killing seven young boys in and around Nevinnomyssk between 1964 and 1985; executed in 1989
Alexander Spesivtsev: cannibal convicted of the murders of 19 women
Aleksey Sukletin: also known as "The Alligator"; killed and cannibalized at least 7 girl and women from 1979 to 1985; executed 1987
Alexander Tchayka: also known as "The Fur Coats Hunter"; Ukrainian man who killed 4 women dressed in fur coats in Moscow; sentenced to life imprisonment
Anatoly Utkin: also known as "Ulyanovsky Maniac"; killed 8 girls and 1 man from 1968 to 1973; executed 1975

Slovakia

Ondrej Rigo: killed, raped and mutilated 9 women in Amsterdam, Munich and Bratislava, always wearing socks on his hands; he remains the Slovak murderer with the highest number of victims and he is also the most prolific serial killer in modern Slovak history.
Jozef Slovák: after serving just 8 years for his first murder from 1978, Slovák killed at least 4 other women in Slovakia and Czech Republic in the early 1990s; highly intelligent, holder of numerous patents in electronics.

Slovenia

Silvo Plut: killed three women; committed suicide in prison in 2007
Metod Trobec: raped and killed at least five women; committed suicide in prison in 2006

South Africa

As of October 2014 South Africa had 160 recorded serial killers since 1950. A disproportionately large number of whom were white males whilst no racial group were more likely to be victims.^[13]

Sibusiso Duma: murdered 7 people in the Pietermaritzburg area of KwaZulu Natal in 2007
Cedric Maake: also known as the "Wemmer Pan Killer"; serial rapist; murdered at least 27 people from 1996–1997
Bulelani Mabhayi: also known as the "Monster of Thuleni"; killed 20 women and children from 2007 to 2012; sentenced to 25 life sentences on September 3, 2013
Jimmy Maketta: also known as "Jesus Killer" convicted on 16 counts of murder, 19 counts of rape from 1996–1999
Johannes Mashiane: also known as "The Beast of Atteridgeville" 13 counts of murder, 12 counts of sodomy from 1982–1989
Daisy de Melker: poisoner; killed two husbands and one son between 1923–1932; executed in 1932
Samuel Bongani Mfeka: killed 6 women from 1993 to 1996; sentenced to life imprisonment
Jack Mogale: also known as the "West-End serial killer"; convicted of raping and murdering 16 women in Johannesburg in 2008 and 2009
Elifasi Msomi: also known as "The Axe Killer" murdered 15 people under the influence of the Tokoloshe from 1953–1955
Nicholas Lungisa Ncama: murdered 6 people in the Eastern Cape in 1997; sentenced to life in prison
David Randitsheni: also known as "Modimolle Serial Killer" raped and murdered 10 children (kidnapped and raped more) from 2004–2008
Gert van Rooyen: allegedly abducted and murdered at least six girls from across South Africa from 1988–1989
Samuel Sidyno: also known as "Capital Hill Serial Killer" murdered 7 people in Pretoria from 1998–1999
Norman Afzal Simons: also known as "Station Strangler" raped, sodomised and murder 22 children on the Cape Flats from 1986–1994
Moses Sithole: also known as "ABC Killer"and The South African Strangler raped and killed at least 38 young women in Atteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland from 1994 - 1995
Thozamile Taki also known as the "Sugarcane Serial Killer"; robbed and killed 10 women in KwaZulu Natal and three in Eastern Cape, dumping their bodies in sugarcane and tea plantations
Sipho Thwala: also known as the "Phoenix Strangler"; raped and murdered 19 women in the sugarcane fields of KwaZulu Natal from 1996 to 1997
Stewart Wilken: also known as "Boetie Boer"; raped, sodomised and murdered at least 7 victims from 1990–1997
Elias Xitavhudzi: also known as "Pangaman" murdered 16 people in Atteridgeville in the 1960s
Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode: also known as "Donnybrook Serial Killer" murdered 18 people in Donnybrook KwaZulu Natal from 1994–1995

South Korea

Chijon family: gang of cannibals that was sentenced to death for killing five people; sentenced to death in 1994
Yoo Young-chul: cannibal; killed 21 people from September 2003 to July 2004, mainly young women and rich men
Kang Ho Sun: sentenced to death in 2010 for killing 10 women, including his wife and mother-in-law

Spain

Francisca Ballesteros: known as La Viuda Negra^[14] ("The Black Widow"), poisoned her husband and three children in Valencia between 1990 and 2004 (one survived), sentenced to 84 years in prison in 2005
Manuel Blanco Romasanta: travelling salesman who claimed to be a werewolf, confessed to 13 murders and was convicted of eight in 1853; his initial death sentence commuted in order to make a study in clinical lycanthropy, died in prison ten years later
Manuel Delgado Villegas: El Arropiero^[14] ("The Arrope Trader"), wandering criminal with XYY syndrome that confessed to 48 murders in Spain, France and Italy, including his girlfriend; considered guilty of seven and interned in a mental institution until his death in 1998
Juan Diaz de Garayo: "The Sacamantecas". Killed 6 people from 1870 to 1879. Executed by garrote in 1881
Alfredo Galán: "The Playing Card Killer", killed 6 and wounded 3 in 2003; left playing cards by victims' bodies
Francisco Garcia Escalero: El Mendigo Asesino^[14] ("The Killer Beggar"), schizophrenic beggar convicted of 11 murders, confined to a psychiatric hospital since 1995
Enriqueta Martí: self-proclaimed witch who kidnapped, prostituted, murdered and made potions with the remains of small children in early 20th century Barcelona (12 bodies were identified in her home); murdered in prison while awaiting trial in 1913
Dámaso Rodríguez Martín: El Brujo ("The Warlock"), serial rapist and voyeur imprisoned in 1981 after attacking a couple, killing the man and raping the woman. Escaped from prison to the Anaga mountains in 1991, where he killed two German hikers (one of them was raped). Cornered in an abandoned house, he shot himself unsuccessfully, only to be shot dead in turn by law enforcement.
José Antonio Rodriguez Vega: El Mataviejas^[14] ("The Old Lady Killer"), raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, sentenced to 440 years in prison in 1995, murdered by fellow inmates in 2002
Gustavo Romero Tercero: "The Valdepeñas Killer", killed 3 people from 1993 to 1998
Joan Vila: killed 11 elderly patients from 2009 to 2010 and sentenced to 127 years in prison.

Swaziland

David Thabo Simelane: convicted of 28 murders; 45 bodies were found in shallow graves in the woods outside of Manzini; sentenced to hang on 1 April 2011

Sweden

Anders Hansson: hospital orderly who poisoned his victims with detergents Gevisol and Ivisol between October 1978 and January 1979. His actions were called "The Hospital Murders" (Swedish: Sjukhusmorden).
John Ingvar Lövgren: confessed to four murders committed between 1958 and 1963 in the Stockholm region.

Turkey

Süleyman Aktaş: also known as the "Nailing Killer"; killed five people and nailed them in the eyes and head; he is kept in a psychiatric hospital.
Adnan Çolak: also known as "The Beast of Artvin"; killed 17 elderly women in Artvin, Turkey from 1992 to 1995; in 2000 he was sentenced to death six times, and 40 years in prison. However, since October 1984, Turkey has not executed any prisoners, and as of 2004, Turkey does not have capital punishment
Özgür Dengiz: serial killer from Ankara, who killed four people and cannibalized at least one
Ali Kaya: also known as "The Babyface Killer"; responsible for 10 murders
Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu: also known as "The Screwdriver Killer"; responsible for at least 18 murders

Ukraine

Anatoly Onoprienko: also known as "The Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996
Serhiy Tkach: convicted of raping and murdering 36 women, but claims the total is 100
Vladislav Volkovich and Vladimir Kondratenko: also known as the "Nighttime Killers"; charged with shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning 16 victims to death in Kiev between 1991 and 1997; Kondratenko committed suicide in prison during the trial; Volkovich was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment

United Kingdom

England

Stephen Akinmurele: also known as the "Cul-de-sac killer"; committed suicide in Strangeways while awaiting trial for the murders of five elderly people in Blackpool and the Isle of Man
Beverley Allitt: also known as "Angel of Death"; paediatric nurse who killed four babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991
Levi Bellfield: also known as the "Bus Stop Stalker"; convicted of the 2002 murder of Amanda Dowler and two fatal hammer attacks on young women in South West London in 2003 and 2004
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: also known as "Moors Murderers"; murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17, and buried them on Saddleworth Moor
Mary Ann Britland: poisoned her daughter, husband, and the wife of her lover in 1886; executed in 1886
Peter Bryan: institutionalized for fatal hammer attack on woman in 1993; re-apprehended for cannibalizing a friend in 2004 but able to batter a fellow patient to death months later
George Chapman: poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper
John Childs: known as the most prolific hit man in the United Kingdom, he was convicted in 1979 of six contract killings, though none of the bodies have been found
John Christie: gassed, raped and strangled at least five women from 1943 to 1953, hiding the bodies at his house 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London; also strangled his wife Ethel, as well as the wife and baby daughter of neighbour Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully executed for their murders
Robert George Clements: doctor who committed suicide when due to be arrested for poisoning his fourth wife; his other three wives all died suspiciously during the interwar period
Mary Ann Cotton: British Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims; hanged in 1873
Thomas Neill Cream: also known as "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United States then moved to London; hanged in 1892
Dale Cregan: sentenced to a whole life order in prison for four counts of homicide involving the use of firearms—including killing two police officers—and three separate counts of attempted murder
Frederick Bailey Deeming: in 1891 killed his wife and four children in Britain; remarried and moved to Australia, and then murdered his new wife
Joanna Dennehy: stabbed three men to death and tried to kill two others selected at random in what would become known as the "Peterborough ditch murders" in 2013; sentenced to life in prison
John Duffy and David Mulcahy: also known as the "Railway Killers"; killed three women near railway stations in the 1980s
Amelia Dyer: murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896
Kenneth Erskine: also known as "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners
Catherine Flannigan and Margaret Higgins: Two Irish women known as The Black Widows of Liverpool, they killed at least 4 people by poisoning in the 1880s in order to obtain insurance money
Steven Grieveson: also known as "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered four teenage boys in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear between 1990 and 1994
Stephen Griffiths: also known as the "Crossbow Cannibal"; convicted of murdering three prostitutes in Bradford, England in 2009 and 2010
John George Haigh: also known as 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
Anthony Hardy: also known as the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four
Trevor Hardy: also known as "The Beast of Manchester"; killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976
Philip Herbert: also known as the "Infamous Earl of Pembroke"; 17th century nobleman convicted of manslaughter but discharged; later killed the prosecutor and pardoned for a third murder
Colin Ireland: also known as "The Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s
Robin Ligus: drug addict convicted of robbing and bludgeoning three men to death with an iron bar in Shropshire in 1994
Michael Lupo: also known as "Wolf Man"; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders
Patrick Mackay: charged with the murders of five individuals, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people
Robert Maudsley: also known as "Hannibal The Cannibal"; killer of four; killed three in prison
Raymond Morris: also known as the "A34 Killer"; convicted of one murder, considered to have committed at least two more
Robert Napper: also known as the "Green Chain Rapist"; killed two women and a child in the 1990s
Donald Neilson: also known as "Black Panther"; killed four people, including heiress Lesley Whittle
Dennis Nilsen: killer of 15 (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983
Colin Norris: nurse convicted of killing four patients in Leeds hospitals
William Palmer: also known as "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; hanged on June 14, 1856
Harold Shipman: also known as "Dr. Death"; 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
George Joseph Smith: also known as "The Brides in the Bath" killer who murdered three women
John Straffen: child killer and Britain's longest-serving prisoner until his death on November 19, 2007
Peter Sutcliffe: also known as the "Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright: artist considered to have poisoned four people
Margaret Waters: baby farmer executed on October 11, 1870
Fred West and Rosemary West: also known as "House of Horrors" murderers; 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
Catherine Wilson: nurse considered to have poisoned seven people in the 19th century
Mary Elizabeth Wilson: also known as the "Merry Widow of Windy Nook"; convicted of murdering two husbands by poisoning and considered to have killed two others
Steve Wright: also known as "The Suffolk Strangler"; killed five women in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006
Graham Young: also known as "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971

Scotland

Robert Black: Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of four murders, suspected of many more
William Burke and William Hare: notorious body snatchers in Edinburgh in the 19th century
Archibald Hall: also known as the "Monster Butler"; killed five in the 1970s, three with accomplice Michael Kitto
Peter Manuel: Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958
Edward William Pritchard: English doctor who poisoned his wife and her mother in 1865; two years earlier their maid had died in a mysterious fire
Angus Sinclair: convicted of the murders of four females, including the "World's End Murders"; believed to have murdered eight
Peter Tobin: killer of three women between 1991 and 2006; sentenced to life in prison

Wales

John Cooper: also known as "The Wildman"; and "The Bullseye Killer" Pembrokeshire burglar responsible for the robbery and shotgun double-murders of a brother and sister in 1985 and a couple in 1989
Peter Moore: businessman who killed four men at random in Wales

United States

Main article: List of serial killers in the United States

Venezuela

Dorangel Vargas: killed and cannibalized at least 10 men

Yemen

Zu Shenatir: 5th-century Yemeni serial killer

Zambia

Mailoni Brothers: three brothers who killed at least 12 people from 2007 to 2013.

Unidentified serial killers

This is a list of unidentified serial killers. It includes circumstances where a suspect has been arrested, but not convicted.