Police around the world define serial killers as criminals who have killed three or more people over a long period of time. As a rule, these are men who, in everyday life, emphasize their decency in every possible way. True, there are women among them.
We invite you to “admire” the ten most terrible maniac killers who were caught at different times.
1. John Wayne Gacy
Known in the US as the "Killer Clown". As a child, he suffered from his father's alcoholism and aggressiveness. At the age of 9 he became a victim of a pedophile. Before his first arrest in 1968 (for the rape of a teenager) he was known as an exemplary family man and workaholic. He spent 18 months in prison instead of 10 years (exemplary behavior). Having been released and married a second time, he began to participate in various holidays and festivals in a clown costume. Strangled 33 people to death between 1972 and 1978. As a rule, in the evenings he drove his car to places of entertainment, looking for a sexy guy. Then he got acquainted with him, brought him to his home, tortured and raped him for a long time. Torture was accompanied by reading passages from the Bible for the dying. The victims were buried in the basement of the house and in the river nearby. Executed May 10, 1994.
2. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
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One of the most brutal and savage serial killers in US history. For 13 years (1978-1991), this maniac, who defended his doctoral dissertation in chemistry, killed 17 young men and teenagers. He found his victims in bars and invited them to pose in the nude. When they, having agreed, came to his house, Dahmer drugged them, had sex with them, and then strangled them. He continued to have sex with dead bodies, dismembered them, and ate some parts of the bodies. He loved to drill a hole in the head with an electric drill while still alive. He was arrested quite by accident. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by his cellmate.
3. Theodore Robert Bundy
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American serial killer, known by the nickname "Nylon Killer". He always looked like a needle, was friendly with everyone. But under the guise of a charismatic gentleman, the face of a cruel beast was hidden. From 1974 to 1978 he kidnapped and killed 30 young women. Experts argued that he had many more victims on his conscience. Enticing the unfortunate, he often pretended to be an invalid and asked them for a little help. He often entered houses at night and killed sleeping women. Then he had sex with them, dismembered their bodies. He took with him "souvenirs" - the heads of the dead. Executed in the electric chair in January 1989.
4. Gary Ridgway
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The Green River Killer strangled at least 71 women in the 1980s and 1990s. He was arrested after the investigation was able to prove, using DNA analysis, his sexual relationship with the bodies found. Most of his victims were prostitutes. The preferred method of killing is strangulation. Arrested in 1997. In 2003 he was sentenced to 48 life terms. He is currently serving the first of them in one of the American prisons.
5 Ed Gein
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This maniac committed only two murders of women. However, their cruelty, as well as the sadistic inclinations of the fanatic, shocked all of America. He dismembered the corpses, gutted them like animal carcasses, and then used them as a kind of “decor” in the house. When the police broke into Gein's home, a terrible collection was discovered there - a maniac secretly dug up the graves of recently deceased young women for several years, brought the bodies home. There he skinned them and sewed clothes from them, and hung the cut off heads on the walls. Since the court found the killer insane, Gein spent the rest of his days in a mental hospital, where he died on July 26, 1984.
6. Henry Lee Lucas
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This American serial killer has 11 proven victims. However, the criminal himself boasted that he actually committed 350 (!) murders. This subhuman began his bloody "activity" with the murder of his own mother. In 1998, he was sentenced to death in Texas, but George W. Bush, then governor of the state, canceled the execution. After a second trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison on March 13, 2001.
7. Eileen Carol Warnes
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The only female killer in this top ten. Many experts call her the first female maniac in the United States. This prostitute led a promiscuous sex life with both men and women. She did not shun incest with her own brother. In 1989-1990, she killed seven men in Florida. As she later explained to the investigators, they all wanted to injure her during sex. She was arrested in 1991. On October 9, 2002, a lethal injection stopped her heart.
8. Richard Trenton Chase
Today I want to tell you about mentally ill criminals, who can easily be called the most terrible maniacs of all time. In the continuation of the post you will learn Interesting Facts about the killers, to call them "man" - even the tongue does not turn.
John Wayne Gacy. Raped and killed 33 people, including teenagers. Nickname "Killer Clown". At the age of 9 he became a victim of a pedophile. He was known to society as an exemplary family man and workaholic. Worked as a clown on holidays.
A dozen films have been made about him, including To Catch a Killer and Gacy the Gravedigger. Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson dedicated songs to him. He became the prototype for the clown Pennywise in King's novel It.
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer. Its victims between 1978 and 1991 were 17 boys and men. Their corpses he raped and ate. The court sentenced him to fifteen life terms.
About Dahmer filmed a number of documentaries and feature films. Mentioned in many songs, including "Brainless" by Eminem and "Dark Horse" by Katy Perry.
Theodore Robert Bundy. Confessed to 30 murders. Kidnapped people, killed and then raped. He collected the heads of the victims as souvenirs. He graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology.
Many films have been made about him, including The Green River Murders, The Ripper, and others. He is a frequent character in South Park.
Gary Ridgway. Killed a huge number of women from the 1980s to the 1990s. After 20 years, his guilt was proven through DNA analysis. He is one of America's most notorious serial killers.
Ridgway's IQ is 83. At school he was one of the weakest students.
In the early 1980s, the police wanted to catch Gary with the help of Ted Bundy. He made a psychological portrait, but no one listened to him. This situation was taken as a basis in the books about Hannibal Lecter.
Ed Gein. He committed only two murders, but went down in history as one of the worst maniacs. He independently exhumed the bodies of young women and sewed costumes from them. The idea is taken as a basis in the book “Silence of the Lambs”.
It is the prototype for several more characters. For example, in the films The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Necromantic.
Henry Lee Lucas. Proved by the investigation of 11 murders committed by him, the maniac himself confessed to more than 300. His first victim was his own mother.
By personal decree of President Bush, Lucas was commuted from the death penalty to life imprisonment.
Eileen Karol Wuornos. Considered the first female maniac. Worked as a prostitute, killed several of her clients. As she later explained to the investigators, they all wanted to injure her during sex.
Police around the world define serial killers as criminals who have killed three or more people over a long period of time. As a rule, these are men who, in everyday life, emphasize their decency in every possible way. True, there are women among them.
We invite you to “admire” the ten most terrible maniac killers who were caught at different times.
1. John Wayne Gacy
Known in the US as the "Killer Clown". As a child, he suffered from his father's alcoholism and aggressiveness. At the age of 9 he became a victim of a pedophile. Before his first arrest in 1968 (for the rape of a teenager) he was known as an exemplary family man and workaholic. He spent 18 months in prison instead of 10 years (exemplary behavior). Having been released and married a second time, he began to participate in various holidays and festivals in a clown costume. Strangled 33 people to death between 1972 and 1978. As a rule, in the evenings he drove his car to places of entertainment, looking for a sexy guy. Then he got acquainted with him, brought him to his home, tortured and raped him for a long time. Torture was accompanied by reading passages from the Bible for the dying. The victims were buried in the basement of the house and in the river nearby. Executed May 10, 1994.
2. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
Source: media-3.web.britannica.com
One of the most brutal and savage serial killers in US history. For 13 years (1978-1991), this maniac, who defended his doctoral dissertation in chemistry, killed 17 young men and teenagers. He found his victims in bars and invited them to pose in the nude. When they, having agreed, came to his house, Dahmer drugged them, had sex with them, and then strangled them. He continued to have sex with dead bodies, dismembered them, and ate some parts of the bodies. He loved to drill a hole in the head with an electric drill while still alive. He was arrested quite by accident. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by his cellmate.
3. Theodore Robert Bundy
Source: clarkprosecutor.org
American serial killer, known by the nickname "Nylon Killer". He always looked like a needle, was friendly with everyone. But under the guise of a charismatic gentleman, the face of a cruel beast was hidden. From 1974 to 1978 he kidnapped and killed 30 young women. Experts argued that he had many more victims on his conscience. Enticing the unfortunate, he often pretended to be an invalid and asked them for a little help. He often entered houses at night and killed sleeping women. Then he had sex with them, dismembered their bodies. He took with him "souvenirs" - the heads of the dead. Executed in the electric chair in January 1989.
4. Gary Ridgway
Source: ongo.com
The Green River Killer strangled at least 71 women in the 1980s and 1990s. He was arrested after the investigation was able to prove, using DNA analysis, his sexual relationship with the bodies found. Most of his victims were prostitutes. The preferred method of killing is strangulation. Arrested in 1997. In 2003 he was sentenced to 48 life terms. He is currently serving the first of them in one of the American prisons.
5 Ed Gein
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This maniac committed only two murders of women. However, their cruelty, as well as the sadistic inclinations of the fanatic, shocked all of America. He dismembered the corpses, gutted them like animal carcasses, and then used them as a kind of “decor” in the house. When the police broke into Gein's home, a terrible collection was discovered there - a maniac secretly dug up the graves of recently deceased young women for several years, brought the bodies home. There he skinned them and sewed clothes from them, and hung the cut off heads on the walls. Since the court found the killer insane, Gein spent the rest of his days in a mental hospital, where he died on July 26, 1984.
6. Henry Lee Lucas
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This American serial killer has 11 proven victims. However, the criminal himself boasted that he actually committed 350 (!) murders. This subhuman began his bloody "activity" with the murder of his own mother. In 1998, he was sentenced to death in Texas, but George W. Bush, then governor of the state, canceled the execution. After a second trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison on March 13, 2001.
7. Eileen Carol Warnes
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The only female killer in this top ten. Many experts call her the first female maniac in the United States. This prostitute led a promiscuous sex life with both men and women. She did not shun incest with her own brother. In 1989-1990, she killed seven men in Florida. As she later explained to the investigators, they all wanted to injure her during sex. She was arrested in 1991. On October 9, 2002, a lethal injection stopped her heart.
8. Richard Trenton Chase
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10th John Wayne Gacy
Known in the US as the "Killer Clown". As a child, he suffered from his father's alcoholism and aggressiveness. At the age of 9 he became a victim of a pedophile. Before his first arrest in 1968 (for the rape of a teenager) he was known as an exemplary family man and workaholic. He spent 18 months in prison instead of 10 years (exemplary behavior). Having been released and married a second time, he began to participate in various holidays and festivals in a clown costume. Strangled 33 people to death between 1972 and 1978. As a rule, in the evenings he drove his car to places of entertainment, looking for a sexy guy. Then he got acquainted with him, brought him to his home, tortured and raped him for a long time. Torture was accompanied by reading passages from the Bible for the dying. The victims were buried in the basement of the house and in the river nearby. Executed May 10, 1994.
9th place Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
One of the most brutal and savage serial killers in US history. For 13 years (1978-1991), this maniac, who defended his doctoral dissertation in chemistry, killed 17 young men and teenagers. He found his victims in bars and invited them to pose in the nude. When they, having agreed, came to his house, Dahmer drugged them, had sex with them, and then strangled them. He continued to have sex with dead bodies, dismembered them, and ate some parts of the bodies. He loved to drill a hole in the head with an electric drill while still alive. He was arrested quite by accident. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by his cellmate.
8th Theodore Robert Bundy
American serial killer, known by the nickname "Nylon Killer". He always looked like a needle, was friendly with everyone. But under the guise of a charismatic gentleman, the face of a cruel beast was hidden. From 1974 to 1978 he kidnapped and killed 30 young women. Experts argued that he had many more victims on his conscience. Enticing the unfortunate, he often pretended to be an invalid and asked them for a little help. He often entered houses at night and killed sleeping women. Then he had sex with them, dismembered their bodies. He took with him "souvenirs" - the heads of the dead. Executed in the electric chair in January 1989.
7th Gary Ridgway
The Green River Killer strangled at least 71 women in the 1980s and 1990s. He was arrested after the investigation was able to prove, using DNA analysis, his sexual relationship with the bodies found. Most of his victims were prostitutes. The preferred method of killing is strangulation. Arrested in 1997. In 2003 he was sentenced to 48 life terms. He is currently serving the first of them in one of the American prisons.
6th Ed Gein
This maniac committed only two murders of women. However, their cruelty, as well as the sadistic inclinations of the fanatic, shocked all of America. He dismembered the corpses, gutted them like animal carcasses, and then used them as a kind of “decor” in the house. When the police broke into Gein's home, a terrible collection was discovered there - a maniac secretly dug up the graves of recently deceased young women for several years, bringing the bodies home. There he skinned them and sewed clothes from them, and hung the cut off heads on the walls. Since the court found the killer insane, Gein spent the rest of his days in a mental hospital, where he died on July 26, 1984.
5th place Henry Lee Lucas
This American serial killer has 11 proven victims. However, the criminal himself boasted that he actually committed 350 (!) murders. This subhuman began his bloody "activity" with the murder of his own mother. In 1998, he was sentenced to death in Texas, but George W. Bush, then governor of the state, canceled the execution. After a second trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison on March 13, 2001.
4th Eileen Carol Warnes
The only female killer in this top ten. Many experts call her the first female maniac in the United States. This prostitute led a promiscuous sex life with both men and women. She did not shun incest with her own brother. In 1989-1990, she killed seven men in Florida. As she later explained to the investigators, they all wanted to injure her during sex. She was arrested in 1991. On October 9, 2002, a lethal injection stopped her heart.
3rd place Richard Trenton Chase
Nicknamed "Vampire from Sacramento" - he drank the blood of his victims, washed himself with it and ate parts of the bodies of those killed. Necrophilia. Within just one month in 1977, seven people were killed in northern California. He suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, incredible and painful visions. After the murder with corpses, among which were the corpses of two children, he had sex. As a murder weapon, he preferred a .22 semi-automatic pistol. Was identified by a former classmate. In 1979 he was sentenced to death penalty in the gas chamber. However, the execution did not take place - Chase committed suicide on December 26, 1980.
2nd place went to Andrey Chikatilo
Perhaps the most famous of the serial killers Soviet Union. In 1978-1990, he committed 53 proven murders in the Rostov region. The maniac himself claimed to have committed 56 murders; operational data indicate 65 murders. His victims were mostly young people of both sexes and very young children. Moreover, he did not kill because of sexual intemperance (according to some reports, he was impotent), but being a very emotional sadist. For a long time deftly evaded the investigation. In the case of the Rostov Ripper, one person was mistakenly shot. Captured as a result complex operation The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB of the USSR in November 1990. He was shot on February 14, 1994 by court verdict.
1st place went to Denis Ryder
Received the nickname "BTK-killer" in the USA. This abbreviation refers to the way he killed his victims ("bind-torture-kill"). From 1974 to 1981 he killed ten people. After each murder, he sent letters to the police and newspapers, mocking the helplessness of the detectives. As a rule, he did not kill the victims immediately: he strangled related people, until they lost consciousness, then brought them to their senses and again repeated his terrible "experiments" over and over again. The suffering of people gave him, as he himself admitted during the investigation, a pleasure comparable to an orgasm. A Kansas court in 2005 sentenced him to 10 life terms.
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If you believe they are evil, heartless, or simply mentally ill, then you are still part of a society that both repels and attracts the lives and minds of serial killers.
Who are they and what drives them ?
Below are the most horrifying serial killers of the 20th century.
25. David Berkowitz
Known as the Son of Sam or the .44 killer, David Berkowitz carried out a series of murders in the summer of 1976. Using a 44 caliber Bulldog revolver, he killed 6 people and injured 7 more. Berkowitz also sent a number of letters to the police and the press with stories of his further murders. for the purpose of teasing.
He terrorized New Yorkers for almost a year. He was eventually captured in August 1977. Berkowitz confessed to all of the murders and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for each.
24. Edmund Kemper
Edmund Kemper is an American Serial killer and a necrophile who carried out a brutal serial killing spree in California in the 1970s. At the age of 15, he killed his grandparents, and later killed and dismembered six hitchhiking women in the Santa Cruz area.
The most cruel prisons in the worldHe later killed his mother and one of her friends, and turned himself in to the police a few days later. In November 1973, he was found guilty of 8 murders. He asked for the death penalty for himself, but instead received a life sentence without parole.
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23. Larry Bittaker and Roy Norris
Together, these two American serial killers took the lives of five young women in California in 1979. They lured the victims into their van drove off to secluded places and then both raped and tortured the unfortunate with a series of tools.
In 1981, the maniacs were charged with murder, kidnapping and rape. Bittaker was sentenced to death and remains on death row to this day. Norris, however, was spared in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
22. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
These people killed five children between 1963 and 1965 in Greater Manchester, England. Their victims were between 10 and 17 years old. Before being brutally murdered, the unfortunate were subjected to sexual violence.
Three of those killed were found in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor, the body of the last victim was found in the Brady home. The whereabouts of the fourth child, Keith Bennett, is unknown to this day.
Both Brady and Hindley were later sentenced to life in prison. Hindley died in prison in 2002. Brady has since been moved to the Ashworth Maximum Security Hospital, where he remains to this day, periodically on hunger strikes.
21. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono
Between late 1977 and early 1978, cousins Kenneth and Angelo kept California at bay by kidnapping, raping and killing 10 girls aged 12 to 28. Each of their victims ended up in the mountains above Los Angeles where they strangled them.
Bianchi tried to plead innocence, citing insanity, but it was later found that the documents confirming his mental illness were fake. He pleaded guilty and began to testify against Buono.
Both were sentenced to life imprisonment. Buono died of a heart attack in his cell in 2002.
20. Dennis Rader
Dennis Rader killed 10 people in Sedgwick County, Kansas between 1974 and 1991. Obsessed with popularity, Rader sent teasing letters to the police, signing himself "SPU", which stood for "Bondage, torture, murder."
The most luxurious prisons in the worldThe raider pursued his victims before breaking into their homes, tied them up and tortured them. After disappearing in 1988, Rader reappeared in 2005, sending a floppy disk to the media, which helped expose him. He was arrested and charged with the murders, to which he immediately confessed.
He is serving 10 life sentences with the earliest possible release date being February 26, 2180.
19. Donald Henry Gaskins
In 1969, Gaskins begins killing hitchhikers he picks up as he drives around the US South, torturing and maiming his victims. He claimed to have killed 80 to 90 people.
He was arrested in 1975, when a well-known crime boss confessed to the police that he had witnessed the murder of two young people by Gaskinson. He was found guilty of killing 8 people and sentenced to death, however, the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment without parole.
Notably, Gaskins continued to commit murders while in a maximum security prison, killing an inmate. He is the only person to kill an inmate on death row.
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18. Peter Manuel
The American-born Scottish serial killer is known to have killed 9 people in Southern Scotland from 1956-1958. He was suspected of killing 18 people.
The police could not prove his guilt until it was confirmed that some of the banknotes with which Manuel paid for drinks in Glasgow pubs belonged to one of his victims.
He confessed to his crime in front of his mother while at the police station where he was being held. In July 1958, Manuel was hanged for his crimes at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison. He was one of the last prisoners in Scotland to be hanged before the death penalty was abolished in the country.
17 John George Haigh
This man was an English serial killer in the 1940s. He was admitted to killing 6 people, although he claimed to have killed 9. John was a professional con man, met rich people and made them believe that he was a successful businessman.
He lured his victims to an abandoned warehouse, where he shot them. After that, he dissolved their bodies in sulfuric acid, then forged documents to get his hands on all their property and savings.
He was identified from human remains, and the police were able to gather enough evidence to convict Haig. In 1949 he was sentenced to death and hanged at Wandsworth Prison.
16 Fred & Rose West
Between 1967 and 1987, Fred West and his wife Rose tortured, raped and murdered at least 10 young women and girls, most in their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, which was later called a house of horrors.
The couple was finally apprehended and charged with the murders in 1994 after police obtained a search warrant. They found human bones buried in the garden and hidden under the floorboards.
Arrested in the courtroom, Fred hung himself in his cell before he was convicted. Rose was jailed for life in 1995 after being found guilty of 10 murders.
Their home on Cromwell Street was demolished in 1996 to discourage souvenir hunters.
15 Arthur Shawcross
Known as the "Genesee River Killer," Shawcross committed his first murder in 1972, raping and brutalizing a 10-year-old boy he lured into a wooded area in Watertown, New York.
10 most incredible prison escapesHe then raped and killed an 8-year-old girl, for which he was captured and charged with manslaughter. After serving 14 years in prison, in 1988 he was released and brutally cracks down on 12 prostitutes aged 22 to 59 years.
In the end, he was caught at the scene of the last crime. He confessed to all 12 murders and was sentenced to 250 years in prison, but died in prison of a heart attack in 2008.
14. Peter Sutcliffe
Peter William Sutcliffe is a British serial killer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper". In 1981, Sutcliffe was convicted of the murder of 13 women and the attempted murder of 7 others.
He killed prostitutes in Leeds and Bradford, creating a climate of fear throughout northern England. During his arrest in 1981 for driving a car with fake license plates, the police interrogated him about these murders, and he confessed.
At his trial, he pleaded not guilty to insanity murder, but the cause of self-defense was also rejected by the jury. He was sentenced to life in prison, and to this day he is in the Broadmoor Maximum Security Mental Hospital.
13. Richard Ramirez
Ricardo Ramirez Leyva Munoz was an American serial killer who worshiped Satan and terrorized Los Angeles from 1984-1985. Nicknamed "The Night Stalker", Ramirez would break into the homes of his victims, shot, beat, maimed, raped and killed.
He did not choose his victims according to any special parameters, they ranged from a 9-year-old girl to an elderly married couple over the age of 60. Ramirez was distinguished by the fact that he painted pentagrams on the walls in the homes of his victims.
He was captured in 1985 and sentenced to life imprisonment. For 23 years he was on death row in a California prison, and in June 2013 Ramirez died.
12. Jeffrey Dahmer
Known as the "Milwaukee Cannibal", Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer who raped, murdered and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He was also a necrophile and ate his latest victims by cooking them into a meal in his backyard.
Dahmer was caught after his potential victims were able to overcome him and went to the police. In 1992 Dahmer was found guilty of 15 murders and was sentenced to 15 life terms.
However, just two years after being in a Colombian penitentiary, he was beaten to death by a cellmate.
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11. Dennis Nilsen
The British equivalent of Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nielsen was a homosexual killer who massacred 15 gay men in his London home between 1978 and 1983.
He kept the bodies of his victims for some time, then the decaying remains were burned or flushed down the toilet. This helped to catch him when human flesh was found in his sewers.
Nielsen was convicted in 1983 on six counts of murder and two attempts. The sentence is life imprisonment. He is to this day serving his sentence in Yorkshire, England, with no chance of parole.
10. Ted Bundy
This is one of the most famous killers of the 20th century. He kidnapped, raped and killed young women and girls in the 1970s. Bundy usually approached his victims in public places, took them to secluded corners, raped and killed them.
5 most successful thieves of all timeHe beheaded at least 12 victims, and he kept the severed heads in his apartment as trophies. He was repeatedly detained by the police, but twice he managed to escape. He was accused of numerous murders and sentenced to death. Bundy was executed in the electric chair in 1989.
9. Charles Ng and Leonard Lake (Charles Ng and Leonard Lake)
Chinese-American serial killer Charles Ng is believed to have raped, tortured and killed 11-25 people along with his accomplice Leonard Lake at the latter's ranch in Calaveras County, California.
They filmed how they raped and tortured their victims. Their crimes were publicized in 1985 after Lake committed suicide when he learned that Ng had been caught stealing from a hardware store.
The police searched Lake's ranch and found human remains there. Ng was identified as Lake's accomplice in the crimes, but he tried to evade charges by fleeing to Canada. After a lengthy extradition to the United States, he stood trial in 1998 and was found guilty of 12 murders.
Ng is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison.
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8 John Wayne Gacy
Gacy raped and murdered 33 teenagers and young adults between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. He lured the victim to his home, promising money or work, then strangled him with a tourniquet. 26 people he buried in his yard, he disposed of the bodies of the next killed by dumping them into the Des Plaines River.
Convicted of 33 murders, Gacy was sentenced to death. He spent 14 years on death row before being lethally injected on May 10, 1994.
7. Andrei Chikatilo
Andrei Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed "the Rostov butcher". Between 1978 and 1990, he raped and killed at least 52 people, including women and children.
Suspecting Chikatilo of the murders, the police kept him under surveillance, the results of which provided sufficient grounds for his arrest. He confessed to a total of 56 murders, and in April 1992 was convicted of committing 53 of them.
Relatives of the victims demanded his release from custody to commit lynching. Chikatilo was sentenced to death and shot in February 1994.
6 Tommy Lynn Sells
Claiming to have killed at least 70 people, Tommy Lynn Sals was considered one of the most dangerous criminals in the United States. He was found guilty of several brutal murders between 1985 and 1999. Among his victims was also a 13-year-old girl whom he stabbed 16 times.
He was captured after The 10-year-old victim of the maniac, whom he left to die, was able to get out and warn the neighbors. She described the criminal in detail, which ultimately contributed to his arrest.
Sells is sentenced to death. To this day, he is on death row in a maximum security prison in Livingston, Texas.
5. Gary Ridgway
One of the most "prolific" serial killers, Gary Ridgway was arrested in 2001 for 4 murders, although he confessed to committing at least 70 murders of women in Washington state in the 1980s and 1990s.
10 crimes of the centuryHe escaped the death penalty by telling the police in detail about the murders and bringing authorities to the burial sites. He threw five women into the Green River, for which he was nicknamed the "Green River Killer" in the press. He was convicted of 49 murders and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
4. Pedro Rodrigues Filho
Filho is a Brazilian serial killer arrested in 1973 and convicted in 2003 of killing at least 71 people. Sentenced to 128 years in prison.
He committed his first murder at the age of 14. He went against local drug dealers who killed his girlfriend while he was in jail for a series of thefts. At the age of 18, he already had 10 murders on his account.
While in prison, he killed his father, who was also serving time for murder. While in prison he killed 47 prisoners. Initially sentenced to 30 years in prison, Pedro extended his own term with his own hands, as amid constant murders, his sentence was increased to 400 years in prison.
3. Daniel Camargo Barbosa
The man was a Colombian serial killer who is believed to have raped and murdered over 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador in the 1970s and 1980s. He calmly confessed to killing 71 girls in Ecuador after escaping from a Colombian prison.
He led the police to the place where he collected the bodies of the victims. After raping the girls, he killed them with a machete. Barbosa was convicted in 1989 and sentenced to 16 years in prison, the maximum sentence in Ecuador. In November 1994, he was killed in prison by the cousin of one of the dead girls.
Harold Shipman was an English physician and also the most "prolific" serial killer in human history, who was proven to have been 250 kills.
Being a professional, he was respected in his circle, however, colleagues and locals began to express concern about the high mortality rate in the area, and a large number signed cremation forms for older women.
Some of the bodies were later exhumed and examination of the corpses showed the presence of diamorphine in them. Later it was established that Shipman deliberately administered lethal doses of the drug to a huge number of patients.
Then he forged documents under the will, thereby inheriting large sums of money. He also forged cremation documents to completely cover his tracks. The judge sentenced him to 15 life terms without parole.
In January 2004, Shipman hanged himself in his cell at Wakefield Prison.
1. Pedro Alonso Lopez
Lopez is a Colombian serial killer accused of raping and killing over 300 girls in South America. He was believed to prey on young and vulnerable teenage girls in Peru. He lured them to secluded places, raped them, and then killed them, most often by suffocation.
Lopez was arrested when another attempt to kidnap a girl failed, and he was caught by market workers. He confessed to killing over 300 people.
The police only believed him when a flash flood uncovered a mass grave of many of his victims. In the end, 53 bodies were found. Detained in 1980, he spent only 18 years in prison, then he was released from an Ecuadorian prison and deported to Colombia, where he was arrested again in 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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