Serial killers

An Egyptian-born chemist, Abdul Latif Sharif (born 1947) is the chief suspect in the Juárez killings, a decade-long serial-killing spree that began in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez in the early 1990s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abdul Latif Sharif"

Adolfo Constanzo ( September 11, 1923–1968) was a serial killer in Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adolfo Constanzo"

Ahmad Suradji was a serial killer in Indonesia. Suradji, a cattle-breeder born in 1949, was also known as Nasib Kelewang, or by his alias Datuk. He admitted to killing 42 girls and women over a period of 11 years. His victims ranged in age from 11 to 30, and were strangled with a cable after being buried up to their waists in the ground as part of a ritual. Suradji was arrested on May 2, 1997, after bodies were discovered near his home on the outskirts of Medan, the capital of North Sumatra. He buried his victims in a sugarcane plantation near his home, with heads of the victims facing his house, which he believed would give him extra power. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ahmad Suradji"

Albert H. Fish ( May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer and cannibal. He was also known as the Moon Maniac, the Gray Man, and the Brooklyn Vampire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Fish"

Alexander "Sawney" Bean (or Beane), Sawny is Scots for Sandy - was the legendary patron head of a cannibalistic family in Scotland in the 15th century. It is claimed that he, his wife, and their 46 children and grandchildren killed and fed on over a thousand people before they were captured and brutally executed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander "Sawney" Bean"

Allan Legere ( 1948 - ) is a Canadian serial killer, also known as the Monster of the Miramichi (not "of Miramichi": at the time this nickname was first applied to him, the City of Miramichi proper did not exist, and so it referred to the region along the Miramichi River). ...more on Wikipedia about "Allan Legere"

Anatoly Onoprienko ( , born 1959) is a Ukrainian serial killer. He is also known by the nicknames "The Terminator" and "Citizen O." When police arrested the 37-year-old former forestry student on April 16, 1996, they finally ended Ukraine's worst killing spree. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anatoly Onoprienko"

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Андре́й Рома́нович Чикати́ло) ( October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994) was a Ukrainian serial killer. He was convicted of the murder of fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrei Chikatilo"

Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, aka The Railway Killer, (born 1960) is a serial killer awaiting execution on death row in Texas, United States. An illegal immigrant from Mexico, he wandered the country on trains to commit his crimes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ángel Maturino Reséndiz"

Angelo Buono, Jr. ( October 5, 1934 - September 21, 2002) was, along with cousin Kenneth Bianchi, one of the Hillside Stranglers. Born in Rochester, New York. Buono was found dead on September 21 2002 at Calipatria State Prison while serving a life sentence. Buono, who was alone in his cell at the time of his death, died of a heart attack. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angelo Buono, Jr."

Anthony Hardy (born 1951) is a British serial killer who was convicted of murdering three women in London. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anthony Hardy"

Gary Arthur Bishop ( 1951- 1988) was an excommunicated former Mormon from Hinckley, Utah who was executed by lethal injection on June 10, 1988 at the Utah state prison at Point of the Mountain, for five counts of capital murder, five counts of aggravated kidnapping, and one count of sexually abusing a minor. He had confessed to the murders of five young boys for sexual motives in 1983, as a result of a routine police investigation, and led the police to three skeletons near Cedar Fort and two more recent corpses near Big Cottonwood Creek. Bishop was an Eagle Scout. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Gary Bishop"

Arthur Shawcross (born June 6, 1945) is an American serial killer, also known as The Genesee River Killer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Shawcross"

The Austin Axe Murderer or The Servant Girl Annihilator was the name given by newspapers in Austin, Texas to a serial killer in 1885. The murderer was never apprehended. ...more on Wikipedia about "Austin Axe Murderer" http://www.shortopedia.com - Xtending Info.

Auto Shankar is the nickname of an Indian auto rickshaw driver who was executed as serial murderer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Auto Shankar"

Béla Kiss (1877-19??) was a Hungarian serial killer. He is thought to have murdered at least 24 young women and attempted to pickle them in giant metal drums that he kept on his property. ...more on Wikipedia about "Béla Kiss"

The Boston Strangler is the pseudonym given to a serial killer active in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1960s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boston Strangler"

Bruce George Peter Lee (born Peter Dinsdale in Manchester, July 1960) became Britain’s most prolific killer when he was convicted of 26 charges of manslaughter in 1981. Yet he had managed to end the lives of 23 of his victims without anyone ever believing the deaths were suspicious. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruce George Peter Lee"

Bruno Ludke ( 1909- 1944) was a German serial killer. He killed at least 80 people, mainly women, in his 15-year killing spree which began in 1928. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruno Ludke"

Carl Panzram ( 1891– 1930) was an American serial killer from the era of the 1920s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Panzram"

Carroll Edward Cole ( May 9, 1938 - December 6, 1985), was a US serial killer who was executed in 1985. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carroll Cole"

Cary Stayner is an American serial killer currently on death row for the 1999 murders of four women in Yosemite, California. Stayner's victims were Carole Sund, her daughter Julie, Argentine exchange student Silvina Pelosso and park employee Joie Armstrong. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cary Stayner"

Charles Albright (born August 10, 1933) is a possible serial killer from Dallas, Texas, convicted of killing Shirley Williams, a known prostitute, in 1991. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Albright"

Charles Cullen (b. 1960) is a former nurse who is the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history. Cullen startled authorities in December 2003 when he admitted to killing as many as 40 patients during the 16 years he worked at ten hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Cullen"

Charles Chitat Ng (born December 24, 1961) is a US Serial killer who committed his crimes with Leonard Lake. His second two names are pronounced 'Cheetah Ing'. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Ng"

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