

1 Serial killers with the highest known victim count.This list does not necessarily include war criminals or members of democidal governments, such as Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, Hideki Tojo, Suharto, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, or Pol Pot.

Some of these crimes are unsolved, but were included because they are the work of a serial killer, despite nobody being caught. The fifth column states the number of possible victims the killer could have murdered. The fourth column in the table states the number of victims definitely assigned to that particular serial killer, and thus the table is in order of that figure. This is not a reflection of an individual's overall rank, which may or may not vary depending on personal opinion concerning the nature and circumstances of their crimes. To address this, multiple categories have been provided in order to more accurately describe the nature of certain serial murders.
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Organization and ranking of serial killings is made difficult by the complex nature of serial killers and incomplete knowledge of the full extent of many killers' crimes. In many cases, the exact number of victims assigned to a serial killer is not known, and even if that person is convicted of a few, there can be the possibility that they killed many more. This list shows serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of victims. There are gaps of time between the killings, which may range from a few days to months, or many years.

( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, in two or more separate events over a period of time, for primarily psychological reasons.

When he was caught in 1992, he copped to 56 murders. In the early 1970s, he began sexually assaulting women eventually escalating to murder and finally cannibalism. So I had to run away from there, away from my homeland.” Well, I thought no one would want such a shamed man. My mother and some young neighbours pulled me out of the noose. He later said: “Girls were going behind my back, whispering that I was impotent. Media nicknamed him The Werewolf and the Wednesday Murderer (the day many of his victims were found) and his reign of terror lasted from 1992 to 2000 when the murders suddenly stopped. Many of the women bore a resemblance to the killer’s mother who abused him when he was a child. People described police officer Popkov as a “perfect husband and father,” but he was also leading a secret life as a bloodthirsty serial killer who murdered at least 80 women, usually full-figured, in Siberia. She is locked up indefinitely at an asylum for the criminally insane. Investigators believe she may have murdered upwards of 14 people and may have eaten the body parts of some of her victims. When detectives took a closer look at the woman media called “The Granny Ripper,” they discovered her husband mysteriously vanished in 2005. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
