Serial Killers

An unidentified killer associated with the Whitechapel murders in London. The case remains unsolved and is one of the most famous serial murder investigations in history.

Ted Bundy murdered numerous young women across multiple states and became one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.

Dennis Rader, known as BTK for Bind, Torture, Kill, murdered ten people in Kansas between 1974 and 1991. He was arrested in 2005 after renewed communications with police led investigators to him.

Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven men in Florida. Her case became one of the most widely known female serial killer cases in U.S. history.

Known as the Milwaukee Monster, Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys. His crimes became infamous for cannibalism, necrophilia, and forensic horror.

John Wayne Gacy murdered dozens of young men and boys and buried many of them at his home near Chicago. His case became one of the most notorious serial murder investigations in U.S. history.

Ed Gein is often grouped with serial killers because of grave-robbing and extreme crimes, though he had only two confirmed murder victims.

An unidentified killer in Northern California linked to multiple murders and famous for sending cryptic letters and ciphers to the press.

Harold Shipman, a physician known as Dr. Death, murdered a very large number of patients, primarily elderly women.

Known as The Beast, Luis Garavito targeted young boys and is considered one of the most prolific serial killers in history.

The Monster of the Andes was convicted in connection with numerous murders of girls, while claiming a much higher total.

Javed Iqbal confessed to murdering 100 boys in Lahore and became one of the most infamous serial killer cases in Pakistan.

Samuel Little confessed to dozens of murders across the United States and is widely considered the most prolific confirmed serial killer in U.S. history.

A former policeman known as The Werewolf, Mikhail Popkov murdered women over a span of many years.

Known as the Blood Countess, Elizabeth Báthory is one of the most famous historical female killer figures, though the historical record is heavily debated.

H.H. Holmes became famous for the Murder Castle story tied to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, though aspects of the legend are debated.

A French nobleman and former military figure later accused and convicted in connection with the torture and murder of children.

A figure associated with the Thuggee cult, often cited in extreme historical murder totals, though accounts vary.